MULE COUNTRY: Stampeding bison in a lightning storm! - Custer State Park (S1 EP2)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Join us as we head out on the French Creek Trail of Custer State Park.
Know for it's 30+ creek crossings, French Creek trail is beautiful. The weather threatened to storm as we left the campground and within a couple hours we found ourselves in one heck of a thunderstorm. Deciding it was too dangerous to stay up on the ridge tops with all the lightning, we cut across to ride in the lower draws. When out of nowhere a stampeding herd of cow and calf bison came running up over the ridge, trying to get out of the storm. Getting by them, we continued on, encountering multiple other herds of bison and two large bulls who were contently grazing on the side of the road. All in all our ride was 16 miles long, we were soaked from head to toe and we crossed French creek 35 times.
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All I can say is Wow! Such a beautiful ride. I don’t think there would be a better way to experience such beautiful country than on a mule!
It was an amazing trip for sure!! Thank you so much for watching ☺️
Perfect fishing holes,beautiful streams, the best way to fish for trout ,yeah!!!!!
Yeah! We didn’t get to fish on this trip but have a video on our channel, riding up to a high lake and fishing ☺️
Getting baptized! Today was excellent practice.
So glad y’all are sharing videos like this giving me places to want to go with my horses!
So glad you’re enjoying them!! Thank you for watching! ☺️☺️
Thank you for sharing, beautiful ride made us feel that we were right there too. Beautiful mules and horse.
Awesome! Thank you so much for taking time to watch! We had fun making the video and we’re excited to get some more published 😊
Thanks for sharing your beautiful ride!! What a great state park!!
We’re so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for taking time to watch it- we’ve been having so much fun putting these together 😊 And it really is an amazing place for horse people!
The ride is beautiful. You are living the Dream
It was a pretty one! We’re excited to go back one of these days! 😊
Beautiful country!!!
It really is a special place ☺️
We rode through Custer on a trike. Had to stop, Bull in middle hwy. I ride mules have three. My 2 yr old Molly line back Dunn looks much like one of yours. Thank you for shariing
That’s awesome! That country over there is so pretty 😊 We’re excited to go back some day soon.
That’s really cool that you have a dun mule like ours… I always thought duns were beautiful, so it’s pretty cool to have one of our own 😊
Thanks for watching and leaving a nice comment!
Awesome day..
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The first view of your account. I really enjoy your style of photography and the beautiful scenery. I follow you from Saudi Arabia🙂
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Love the ride we took with you. Great video
Thank you so much for taking time to watch! We’re glad you enjoyed it 😊
Really like your videos highlighting the beautiful scenery and your explanation about what is going on.
Thank you so much for watching! We’re glad you enjoyed it 😊 And thank you for taking time to leave a nice comment!
Concrete basement of the cabin might have been a cistern to hold water.
Black Hills, sacred land of the americans natives, He Sapa, tutanka, tashunka, lakotas... Amazing 🔥 Congrats from Brasil 🇧🇷💝
I can definitely see why it’s sacred… it’s beautiful, amazing country 😊😊
First time watching!! Enjoyed ! New subscriber! Beautiful scenery!Nice looking mules! This Oklahoma girl loved it!
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Wow, nice job. Though the rain and storm made your task as a videographer more difficult, it made your story that much better. I love your technique of switching back and forth between two camera operators, gives your film more perspective. Keep it up..
The realty of the island mountain ranges on the plains are those storms. Some of the worst rain and hail I’ve ever been in were in the black hills. You guys and your ponies handled it like champs.
Those bison in Custer were and are part of the survivors from the true wild buffalo herds of the past..The gene pool has know cattle in them, unlike most other commercially raised bison you see in other places. Many spirits ride with you in that place..
Thank you so much for the kind comment! The rain definitely made for a challenge, but the experience of riding in that weather was so worth it! 😊 That country is definitely special and we’re already planning a trip back there next year. We can’t wait!
Beautiful ride, I totally enjoyed it with my morning coffee. Custer State Park is beautiful. When I was there in 2016 they had herds of mules that came right up to my pickup, I heard they were all lost during one of the fires. Is that correct?
Thank you!! Custer state park is an amazing place! It’s a great place to ride! There are still wild donkeys but they had them penned up. I’m not sure about loosing them in a fire but there were definitely burns we rode through.
I look forward to more videos
Thank you for watching! We really appreciate it 😊
So funny, that bull seemed to say "Go ahead make my day"!
Love the bison and so good to see True wildlife Savvy riders.
Great video.
Reminds me of getting caught in bad storm in the Gila Wilderness here in NM few yrs back. I was sweating bullets. Stayed down near a creek cause I had to cross a ridge to get back to trailer. Thankfully it moved thru shortly. Pays to carry a poncho in monsoon season
here.
Thank you for the nice comment! It was so fun to see them 😊
That’s so cool that you get to ride in the Gila! We’re dying to get down there some day… it looks like amazing country.
The Gila has over 750 miles of trails and free corrals w water near the Cliff Dwellings. Come on Down! Would love to meet ya guys! And mules too.
I use to go on some of the lesser used trails for 8 hrs and never see another human. Justa bout right!
Our equine dentist Bert use to come down from Coeur d'Alene, ID. Just a short jaunt!
Beautiful state park. I follow Cross Timbers Bison here in southern Oklahoma. He participates in the yearly Bison roundup at this park, so that makes your video double interesting. 😘 You took us through absolutely gorgeous country. Thanks for sharing 🥰
Awesome! We would love to do the bison roundup some day! That looks so fun 😊😊😊
Love the video! My daughter and I have gone out to the badlands riding a couple of times and we loved it. Haven’t made it to the black hills though looks like something we should try. We love the off trail riding that is available and the wildlife.
Oh that’s so cool! We wanted to do the badlands too, but we ran out of time. We definitely will be back to SD though 😊😊 And I definitely recommend Custer… I bet it gets crowded in the summer, but we hit it just before the crowds and it was amazing 😊
😊hello from Arkansas
Hello! You’re right in mule skinner country! 🙌🏼 thank you for watching! 😊
cool trip, enjoy you videos alot, yes Custer State park is such an awesome place. Did alot of forestry work back in the day on the Wyoming side and have spent time on the SD side too. Did you see any of the burrows or mules in the park or just lots of buffalos, happy trails!!
Awesome! If we ever moved somewhere besides Idaho, we’d want it to be the black hills of Wyoming 😊 We saw four burros, but they were in a corral for some reason… they’re SO CUTE! We’re excited to go back again in the future 😊
Pretty cool
Thank you! It was such a fun trip! We’re already excited to go back one of these days 😊
Just signed on. Love your video and I love mules!
Awesome!! Thank you for taking time to watch! Aren’t mules just the coolest?!? We’re so thankful we have them 😊😊
LOVE the videos thank you so much for sharing! I cant wait to take my mule on fun adventures like you guys one day!
Thank you so much!! We’re having a blast sharing our little adventures 😊 Mules are so much fun… I’m sure you’ll make some fun memories with yours too! 😊
Great video really enjoyed it. Dream ride for wife and I.
Thank you! I definitely recommend it… I hope you can go some day! 😊
Cool area love the black hill. I have heard Muller State park in Divide CO
Oh cool! we'll have to look into that one... Thank you :)
Shout out from down here in Boise, love the videos keep em’ comin!
Thank you so much! We’re having a blast sharing our little adventures. We’re heading to the high desert country of eastern Oregon next 😊
Wow how do you have so few subscribers? Nice video, well edited . Please keep it up.
That’s so nice! Lol we’re just getting started, so hopefully we’ll grow… slowly but surely! And we’re enjoying the process 😊 Thanks so much for the nice comment!
Those mules look so steady and easy going. What age are they and we’re they always that way? Looks like such a peaceful and uneventful ride. Not what I grew up with😂
Lol they are NOT always that way 😂 But in general they’re great mules and they are awesome to be around. The white one just turned 6 and the buckskin just turned seven, so hopefully they have a lot of good years left. They’ve come a long way in the 2 years we’ve had them, and we’re so thankful for them 😊😊😊
I noticed the stumps of trees that look like they were cut down with a saw/ If you know, why were they removed?
@@todd1808 fires and beetles can cause trees to die. Eventually they fall over, if they get hung up in another tree posing danger, or fall across the trail they are removed for safety reasons ☺️👍🏼
16 miles, how meany hours?
About 8 hours. We stopped to watch the bison and talked with some folks for a while. The trail was slow going with the mud.
My mule would probably go plum stupid around those Buffalo
We don't have them in East Tennessee
😂 We thought ours would be pretty scared, but they did great!
Where's your fishing poles !!!!?
We should have brought them! ☺️
Hey a quick tip. If you upload your videos in 4k resolution they will get more views because of the little 4k symbol on the thumbnail of the video!
Sweet! Thank you… we’ll try on the next video! 😊
Come to paradise camp ground in the Selway and stop in at Running Creek Ranch
We would love that! The Selway has been calling our names for quite a while now- we need to make it happen 😊
Would guided trail riding be in the future????
Oh gosh, we would LOVE that! One of our long term goals is to be able to take people on rides 😊
I'm interested!
Is there a limit of how many days you could stay there?
Yes, and I think it’s 7 days, but I don’t remember for sure. It was a super cool place to ride though- I definitely recommend it! 😊
They have an online reservation system if you’re looking to go. It’s on the Custer State park website 😊👍🏼
Sorry I know nothing about this but it was nice watching you all
That’s so nice! Thank you for taking time to watch our video 😊 I’m really glad you enjoyed it!
@@MTN_BUILT nice of you to answer back
We really appreciate people taking time to watch our videos, so we try to respond when we can. 😊😊
I do like those tshirts maybe early Christmas shopping lol
@@kraymississippi4388 haha thank you! Alyssa designed them herself! That’s been a fun project too :)
Man I just love your videos so much and also what you post on instagram. I would say within the past year and a half I have tried to take riding horses as serious as I can without owning one and ride once a week just so I can keep learning and training. With that being said if y’all ever get the opportunity I would love to see an in depth video about factors that got you into mules and horses, your background, and how you became educated on taking care of them and knowing what the best equipment to buy would be for the mules and horses as well as for yourselves (chinks and hats and riding gear). Also last two questions I was hoping to have answered is what type of trailer do y’all have and how much was it? And what do y’all do for your careers. I’m a pilot who lives in southern Utah so I know this lifestyle will be very possible hopefully soon some day. Cheers and thanks for what you do!
Thank you so much for the kind words! That really means a lot to us 😊 We definitely want to make a video sharing our backgrounds, and why we chose to buy our mules, so that is in the works.
As far as gear, we kept it minimal because we keep our budget pretty tight… we do taxidermy for a living, and want to make sure we’re setting ourselves up for the future as well as enjoying ourselves right now lol So we started with mid quality used saddles (it’s most important that they fit your horse/mule), Alyssa traded work for her chinks and I built a pair 😊 but they’re not necessary unless you’re riding in a lot of gnarly oak rush or something like that 😊
We bought a used 4 horse trails west trailer with some rust, but it has a good floor and it’s 100% safe for our equines and it was $11k. We’re fixing it up so we can camp in the gooseneck portion. 😊
Don’t ever hesitate to reach out if you have more questions!
PS. I (Jason) didn’t start riding or get my first horse until after graduate school, so I can tell you from experience, it’s an amazing hobby to get into, and it can become a passion pretty quick. 😊 When I started, I was overwhelmed with information, so I chose to just pay attention to one horseman. I chose to dive into Buck Brannaman’s resources and I’m glad I did 😊