This week is shaping up to be a lot of "mustering". The gathering or rounding up of stock. We've done two days so far with at least another day tomorrow. 3-4 of us head out and climb up the mountain and bring the sheep down to the valley floor. No 4-wheelers or horses. All on foot. Which I quite enjoy. Tomorrow we are going to bring a bunch of cattle down as well. Will bring them back to headquarters to drench and vaccinate. From the area where we were today back to Headquarters is about 6 miles. In the first and fourth photo you can see Mt.Sugarloaf very prominently. It's the big hill that sits out by itself. Remember that Station headquarters is right at the base of it. The picture of all the sheep with their heads down in a line are eating barley that I fed out to them. The last photo is of Sam. A young guy who comes up to help out here from time to time. He has 4 dogs. Today Angel had her 3, Sam 4, and Anne 1 for a total of 8. Neat to have so many around and it is really cool watching them work. Mustering would be impossible without them.
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