Sightseeing: Fort Churchill NV

I think it's pretty evident that I live my life in the hopes that I'll only regret things I've done, not regret the things I didn't do. To further that goal, I'm going to try to do the day-trip rides I haven't gotten around to yet. First up: Fort Churchill. It's a Pony Express fort with cool ruins and it's on the river so there are Proper Huge Trees.

Back in January, pre-clipping, I rode "the gym" near Ft Churchill with C and S. You park across the road from the fort and there's a big network of nice hilly trails to trot up and down. It's a good workout, but it looks exactly like the rest of Nevada and there's not much water. Not what I wanted today.

I loaded up some lunch, a horse, and a dog, and we went to the actual park at the fort. Dixie was skeptical.


Look at all these trees!


They're just starting to get haloes of chartreuse. In a week they'll be properly springlike.


Cersei approved of the river.


OMG HUMANS! Two ladies (the only other people I saw all day) were coming down the hill to the right and Dixie could not take her eyes off them.


We just plonked around for about two hours total. We rode on all the no-horses trails, circled back to the trailer and I ate lunch, then rode up and down the river. Cersei had The Best Day Of Her Entire Life! (I think every day for her is TBDOHEL, but today was bester than usual.) Dixie was appalled that we were totally alone but she did everything I asked - go slow, go fast, step over branches, walk in the river, etc.

On the way out I got a couple pics of the historic stuff, but I didn't have a lot of luck taking pictures from horseback.

The blacksmith's shop (repurposed as the tool shop, but with the original building/walkway).


It was a beautiful day. Adobe fort buildings in the distance:


Buildings:


The "gym" is in the hills behind the buildings.


The cemetery. It's got a proper fence around it to keep the spirits in!


And I saw mustangs! They were on 95 between Silver Springs and Fallon - a little band of about 8, napping. Three sleeping standing up on guard duty, and the rest curled up like dogs snoozing in the sun. When I came back, the band had gone and one was grazing in about the same place.

When I got home, the cats went into full-on Stranger Danger Attack Cat Mode about the strange new dog I brought with me. Apparently Cersei didn't smell right anymore. The kitten GROWLED at her and Banders was pretty close to crackninja-ing her.