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thank you he keeps getting them in and get him I mean Julie you cannot eat this stuff you know what the best thing to do if you can get in there just pull it out like a comb oh foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] I think I think maybe we should pick out 20 that we most like and then take the 10 out of those for 12. yeah yeah I like some of this much the bigger one what's going on here is for taking each of these pins has about 30 horses we're bringing them into an alley and analyzing them looking at their feet looking at their back looking at their heads then we're going to take them into a separate pin then do our final cut to get our string three years ago a couple of friends and I rode through several states in the West we were on a budget and we needed horses so we went and adopted some wild mustangs from the Bureau of Land Management the Mustangs we adopted were pretty cheap but they outperformed our domestic courses in every way is that a ride I couldn't stop thinking about all those horses still in the holding pins and I wanted to do something about it I wanted to prove the worth of these Mustangs my idea was a much more difficult Journey this time using only Mustangs that my three friends and I would adopt and train we're gonna take these horses and we're gonna ride them from Mexico to Canada through the wildest Terrain in Arizona Utah Idaho Wyoming and Montana [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] Tire life I've always heard negative things about mustangs I really considered that to be our largest liability as far as taking this trip on foreign stepping into a round pen a very small area with a wild animal it's almost crazy take the right rope you gotta just keep your head on a swivel keep keep your your awareness about them and and never get complacent because you know as soon as you get calm and comfortable around them that's when they'll turn around and kick you or bite you don't release when he's kicking out we have 13 Wild Horses for this trip and it's going to take us four months to train them two professional trainers Jerry Jones and Lanny Leach are going to take him for the first 30 days after that we're gonna train the horses for another three months and get them ready for the trip [Music] the word that many people use for wild horses is Mustangs and that's not a particular breed or a species that's just uh a folksy word for the wild horses we have in on the western landscape not even to take on the whole are they native or are they feral but the question of you know do these do these horses have a right to be here yeah absolutely they do [Music] foreign Johnny and I all went to school together at Texas A M University we just graduated and it is the perfect time in our lives to go on a big adventure like this I knew being in high school a little bit in band moved San Angelo but we kind of stayed in touch and Ben was always doing stuff and I was like well I should be doing that you know what this is I mean I was doing what Mom and Dad might say or what society would say is like well that's good that's going to help you get another step ahead when you go look for a job and all that stuff well and while I'm doing all that I'm looking over and Ben's like well I'm riding from Mexico to Canada I'm gonna skip school and guide Elkins and I'm thinking the whole time I'm like man if I was honest with myself that's what I'd want to do for the next 60 days they're a loaded gun with the safety off so yeah all right buddy here it comes oh oh oh keep that left foot forward my dad's very excited about the trip um he thinks we're crazy for using Mustangs one of his great passions in life is breeding and raising horses you know there's no selection other than natural selection that goes into Mustang breeding it's good for us in the sense that these are very Hardy animals it's bad and that they all have a very deep rooted Wild Streak God I feel like we have a lot in common with these horses there's not enough room out there for them and sometimes I feel like there's not enough room out there for us I'm not 100 confident these horses are ready to be really honest a vacillate between being scared to death and absolutely thrilled for them but I've decided the way I'm going to approach it is every day that we don't hear something tragic or negative will be the great day let's move on to the next I'm excited but I'm scared to death and you will hold it in your hand there's a lot of unknown you know you wake up at three o'clock in the morning as a parent you're laying there in bed and something wakes you up and and you're just kind of okay what's going on you know when we talk about the horses are the horses ready I'm worried about the horses flipping out on a narrow Trail and them going down so that's my fear don't do anything stupid I love you I love you too boys are probably a little overconfident but if they weren't they wouldn't try it I'd rather them be that than scared to do it [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] Canada I'm in Mexico you just push the button that has the camera on it right I got one too what do you think Johnny it's time to go past six months we've been planning to do it let's do it I've been waiting for this for a long time it's hard to believe we're here good luck buddy see you at the trail yes sir yeah foreign [Music] [Music] I don't think there's enough quid in any of us that we're not going to make it if we didn't make it it darn sure wouldn't be for a stupid reason it wouldn't be because you know I just couldn't get over Tom's smelly feet it's not going to be because of that kind of stuff if we don't finish I'd like to see what it is that makes us not finish which maybe that's the whole point of the whole trip [Music] [Music] come on not a boy no we're we're definitely not lost but it is very dark the entrances oh you're only as good as the tools you have and in my case I'm only as good as the maps that I have what I read is a 30 mile day which is listed inside of the guidebook turned into a 40 mile day that took us into two o'clock in the morning I just wanted to get somewhere where I can lay down and sleep I don't really care about eating never do that [Music] okay off to the next stop and meet the boys for the night my name is is Val Geisler I come from Cody Wyoming how to make sure there's water at the next trail head I'm primarily here to help the boys out in the state of Arizona because it's real rugged country a little water and it takes a fair amount of logistical support and planning that adequately Supply the horses and to make sure that that portion of the trip goes smooth I gotta have somebody who will shuttle there's an old saying good judgment comes from experience experience comes from bad judgment sometimes that bad judgment can be pretty horrific I first met Ben in a pack trip he was doing and he had Mustangs with them and I have a long background with mustangs I think they're great horses and well adapted for this sort of situation and that's where this whole thing kind of got started out are the horses up what's up one thing about today worked out smooth is not was them coming in as we got here cordial and all your help thank you I think we're fooling ourselves because we have Val was that more this is gonna become a whole different trip after we lose Val I grew up in the suburbs of Houston we had horses out at our family farm and that's where I really learned how to ride and really fell in love with with riding horses and uh we I tried to get out there as much as I could and then the whole time I was there I was riding bareback uh falling off and giving my mom a heart attack how much I fell off those horses but really learned you know just just to enjoy riding 60 miles away from us is a Superstition Mountains which I've heard are just incredible but between here and there is a flat Cactus infested apparently it's just big big choice of flats which is a cactus that has little segments and you go buy it and they break off and just attach to you attach to the horses and once we get past this next 60 miles I'll feel a lot better about getting it to Canada yeah it'll be a test man this is gonna be a freaking bear he's got this crap all in it very good so how are you gonna get these off Ben 's eyes are all over his ass I mean they're they're everywhere you can't get them you can't stand you can't get those without standing back there all right let's uh get the hell out of here [Music] took a few days to get the cactus out of the horses but after that we were all wondering what the hell we gotten ourselves into [Music] it if they're reproducing at 20 a year then obviously we can all do the math and we're going to have too many wild horses on the Range I think it's completely irresponsible to say let them run and let them self-regulate a lot of people will say why don't you just let nature take its course and I always like to say we can't do that because of man's influence wild populations now don't have the ability to migrate hundreds and hundreds of miles because of railroads and highways and fences there's a term in acronym it's AML and you will hear that if you're on the blind you'll hear it all the time and what AML is is appropriate management level and what that appropriate management level is is the number of animals that that land can handle and and support foreign [Applause] [Music] solution that BLM has come up with that's been somewhat socially acceptable is to take those horses put them in captivity for the rest of their lives well it's a no rules trip when I have a down day do whatever the hell I want you aren't just know how to take turns I like that I'm maybe the only one on patrol says but there are times doing this this sucks it's miserable as far as the horses go every one of them has a little weird cork to them where it's a they're just a pain to deal with on some level they're your partners on this thing you have to get used to what the just like with the other guys on the trail s something I learned about myself on the trail because I'm kind of I've known this for a long time but I'm either really in a good mood and want to have fun and whatever or I'm just a grouchy negative bastard and my horses Gill and Simi kind of you know the horse is the mirror to your Solitude Gil is very much like happy-go-lucky Ben he is kind of the trip dog I let him run loose most of the time if I'm not riding him then Sammy simmy's business been like he's grouchy doesn't put up with much this guy he's not a morning horse he's lazy he complains a lot more it's definitely me so Violet was the worst that at the beginning of this trip I thought wouldn't make it he was skinny he wouldn't know bang very well and since we've begun he has muscled up he's gained probably 100 pounds he's still stepping out strong and he is he's the perfect Trail horse and that is fastly becoming my favorite horse let me hold this you see the big muscle right here see you don't see it there oh yeah so what he's done is that's basically a Popeye muscle that muscle's been torn into so this horse is done oh man and uh uh I'll talk to Ben about what we do I mean to put it real blunt I could have killed violet I'll never leave a altar on a horse again good I just wish it wasn't my best horse are you certain that there's no there's no going back I mean he's he's done he's done for this ride I'll let you read this there's no doubt about it I put it in a position where it could have gotten hurt and all it did was reach up to scratch its face and a shoe that I put on there caught it by the halter and towards leg and you know fortunately the halter broke but if it hadn't that horse would have killed himself I got the trailer I got in any problem for me to pack them back home for you before Violet got injured Johnny came to me and he said listen that horse can get injured with that halter I just said you know I kind of blew him off thinking this is the way that I've seen it done in the back country he said all right you know I'm just going to warn you that that horse could get hurt and he was he was right my grandfather Jonathan Calvert who I'm named after was a Marine he's always been a big inspiration in addition to being a marine he's also a big adventurer he climbed the tallest mountain in every continent except for Everest he made it halfway up Everest and had to turn around because of weather when he was 73 years old people have said that I'm like him and that we're both born with G on one foot no on the other [Music] we both like to cover country [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] leading up to the Grand Canyon I was a little nervous about it we we couldn't find anyone who had taken horses running around oh we don't die oh dear God man if there's a snake or a loose rock or a plastic bag or anything we're all dead [Music] foreign [Music] Canyon so wait had to be doing oh God send me no don't look down for Molly oh my gosh [Applause] now I understand why nobody takes horses through the Grand Canyon it's bad it was real bad we did it yeah yeah we're proud of you guys it took us two days how long did it take you guys six and a half hour oh yeah go on get your fill Ed [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] I am surrounded by but you know you do get bored sitting on the horse I mean I'll be honest you get bored and we all have books in our saddle bags and it's pretty funny looking back and seeing everybody sitting on their horse the rains Around the Horn just reading a book Fifty Shades of Gray I'm not really sure why I'm reading yet but I'm kind of sucked in so gotta finish it I think Tom's got it next and then Ben's gonna read it after him so he's kind of holding his gut up a little bit yeah I mean we can all tell that he's not certainly not normal I I think that's the first thing I better do is run by Kevin's and make let him make an evaluation and go from there came down here this morning and um Molly is lame we're gonna take him into the vet and Kanab see what it is and hopefully it's not too bad and we'll get my buddy back in a couple days it's been great being with my boys for this period of time and I need to get back up into Wyoming Cindy and I take care of a forest service cabin in the mountains I look forward to see him in a couple of months when they ride through you guys do great you got off to a great start you've done a great job and I uh huh I can't tell you what it's meant to me and and that and okay thanks so much for everything I love you too we'll see you well see you on the other side love you love you too here I go getting soft again boy okay well we'll we'll be in touch Bell oh yeah a little bit we'll be in touch see you later drive safe all right okay he had mentioned to us he was picturing his son doing what we were doing is if he was alive you know got really emotional and teary and all that stuff and you just see his love for what we're doing and for us 40 some odd years ago my four-year-old boy was uh kicked and killed by a horse I see I see in the boys maybe what uh foreign what my boy might have been sounds good Val well thank you very much it's my only Birds attendant blue attendant bowed so I'm sorry he's out is Hope and keep the rest of the horses healthy and don't have any more injuries because Devlin breaks your heart to see one of these guys go after they've pulled through so far [Laughter] [Music] oh here's the 700 miles completed and only 2 300 left to go one state down [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] don't know [Music] without Val our main concern is finding water in this arid landscape in southern Utah [Music] and there will be days where we're gonna have to go 20 miles just to go from one water source to the next we have a lot of public land in the west and and that public land seems Limitless when you drive across it but it is limited [Music] people don't understand hard it is to make a living here and just how much space it takes for a thousand pound animal to make a living when you look out across the dry lake there's a dry lake there's no forage out there whatsoever so along the edges of this we had some green up and through management practices of the BLM we've concentrated livestock both domestic and the wild horses in these areas here you see that this plant is eat out and the crown is completely exposed there's another one here and here these are going to die about all we have left plants like this which is halogen highly toxic to domestic livestock this is a prime example of a poisonous noxious weed that comes in in Disturbed surfaces that's very appetizing to a cow a couple plants of that and she'll go to water and be dead livestock can be managed by the season of use that they grazing area and if we have an area where there's not enough forage or not enough water the livestock are going to be removed immediately wild horses on the other hand you know that's a challenge because they graze 24 7 365 days a year these cattle are going to go home for the winter they're not going to be here but the horses in the diamond complex will be here trying to Winter they will eat Sage when they're starved and as you can see there's absolutely no forage value in this and when horses are hungry and they chew this up and eat it it'll literally make a crow's nest in their intestines and when it does there they will call it and they will die [Music] cornbread and yellow rice jambalaya with our sea monkeys rather skeptical because I'm not the biggest fan of peeled shrimp to begin with much less dehydrated peeled shrimp when you're in college I feel like you're always dreading the day you graduated and actually had to actually get a real job and start your adult life if you will clean that off pretty good yeah so I feel like this trip is the perfect thing to kind of hold on to that freedom a little bit more [Music] personal hygiene gone it's gotten to the point where I stink so bad that there is no point in even trying to contain it smell that stuff first man nope my sleeping bag I mean you could clear a street with it [Music] this is a good meal to put lots of hot sauce on thank you if I settle down after this but as of now look at that so wrong I'm not quite ready to do that yet no I'm not ready to buy a house and get married and have kids yet you know I want to have fun and do some crazy adventure like this while I can [Music] Phil say it three two one go [Music] ES [Music] keep your eyes on the tracks through the field somewhere there's no guns Simmy likes to complain he's figured out he can groan [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] unfortunately in Arizona we lost two good horses the good news is both of those horses are going to be fine in the long run we got in touch with Keith Weber who's a very fine Mustang trainer here in Utah works for the BLM really a wealth of knowledge he really helped us out a lot across three really good horses you guys are still cool with me riding I was just gonna ride him tomorrow for sure man yeah and then we love the heavy the Trail's awesome love Mustangs first day with our three new horses Heath Weber brought us uh so far they're doing really well this whole Bay that I'm on right now he's really been mothering all day on pretty steep Rocky Trail and they're keeping up we have Heath here who brought us three Mustangs and then we've got West and his eight-year-old son coming along with us for the ride today oh we took this according to the map four-wheel drive road which a vehicle has never been up and now we just got cliffed out a lot of these Maps show roads that have been around for 20 30 years and the Ford service closes them occasionally so I figured you know it'll be fine the country we've been going through was really rough High Desert not much water up above was a plateau the plateaus are heavily wooded and have a lot of streams and springs and have a lot of water was already about four or five o'clock in the afternoon the horses hadn't drank all day if we're going to backtrack and go around we had no idea when we'd find water again or how long it would take us so we had to make a decision [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] so good to go get up get up oh just take a break [Music] for that and get around the tree saddle [Music] [Music] boards those guys moving all right holy holy smokes [Music] [Applause] girls [Music] oh my God [Music] [Music] we got burned right here on the shoulder too yesterday was a pretty prime example of why we're using Mustangs out of all 14 horses we only really had trouble with one of them Crossing that ledge and this guy he took a pretty good tumble off of it but take a lot to break these bones these pre-step well well built Mustang yeah we're definitely learning from our mistakes and you know it's a trip of self-discovery if you think about these horses in the wild sometimes they're traveling 15 20 miles a day easy or more between water and forage that's typical what you guys are doing on your horses in this trip so it's not unnatural for these horses to travel this many miles you know this isn't an undue hardship on these horses by any means in fact I think they're bred for this exact type of you know of activity foreign okay well have a good day no you can't go through my property this is the perfect example of public private land in the west you have this beautiful nice Valley that's private and then we got a bunch of steep hill sides and Cliff faces that's public on the sides this quarter mile of private land that we can't go through is it's gonna cost us about 2 000 feet of elevation gain and half a day's worth of travel this trip wouldn't be possible without public land lucky for us there's over 600 million Acres of it in the United States including a continuous stretch north to south to the West East in the mountains the Canyons deserts the gnarly country took over two years to plan her out but sometimes the trails on maps don't exist in real life and sometimes Mother Nature just doesn't give a damn how well we plan so we're going across dead horse Ridge beautiful dead horse Ridge huh yep challenge accepted I wonder if there's a we're Falls hey you sure it's a good idea going up to 11 000 feet this early definitely a gamble going this high Line Road offered over 100 miles of dead straight North travel and it was just beautiful on the map I mean we were going to cover so much ground so fast it was just gonna be awesome [Music] but in reality it was a snowy wet muddy mess we were loose herding five of the horses as we'd been doing for a while when we got down off the snow there was a group of four-wheelers and dirt bikers that we're kind of off in the distance but that hum wrong wrong room and these courses are rounded up by helicopter so that low that low throbbing sound of an engine so they immediately Associated the sound of that four-wheeler with fear or just looked to me and just turned around and just big guys going right to where all those horses just spooked out of there I did what I thought was best and I was get the horses that I could get them tied up to trees make sure that we didn't lose all of our horses and they ran off about 3 15. I took off after him on Cricket and Tom started following not too far behind me unfortunately on Mad Dash on Cricket he threw his shoe so I ended up having to continue on foot it's now about 6 15. got a ride about two miles down the road or probably three miles down the road from a guy on a four-wheeler was able to catch the horses tracks again there you can see their tracks they're still going down this road really hope they didn't go all the way back to our campsite on I-70 because then it will be a very long night Tom and I were behind Johnny we could follow his tracks and knowing that Johnny was ahead of us out there somewhere by himself that really kept me moving I feel worthless just sitting here especially if they have to spend the entire night outside without sleeping bags and Tents if I was in their shoes what I would want me to do right now just stay put it's uh almost 11 o'clock I've tracked the horses all the way down to where we camped and they kept on going down the road I'm kind of at a loss right now as to what to do so I'm going to turn in for the night and uh try and find them first thing in the morning we didn't think we were probably gonna find Johnny that night and so we just stopped and made a big fire Faber tell me the news why don't y'all just push the horses back up and we just go on to Manny from here so you guys are just not gonna ride the 30 miles and do Mexico to Canada except for 30 miles oh you're the man we track these guys all the way back to that power line that's where we felt we found that baby out yeah and only took us 27 hours Masters is calling all we gotta get back and then we'll chat so let me chill up there what's he winning the funny thing that's trailering the horses yeah well he can lick on my by the end of it when we caught those last two horses and got them all back together I looked down in my GPS and there's a green line that tracks where the GPS goes and tracks where we go and yeah it looked like a four-year-old playing on an Etch A Sketch to get those horses under control they took him to a ranch which was driving about 40 miles per hour is that but on the north side all right Masters you got all three of us well it was looking the best is right down [Music] um so to Palisade Lake and we'll ride down there and meet you so you guys don't want to ride with us or or come up here and ride down y'all don't want to do entirely border to border well I mean we couldn't really get a trailer up there no but we've got enough we have enough horses where if you all brought your Saddles we could send uh all the pack saddles with John down to the bottom we could just ride the horses that we have to have up here down I mean if someone wants to say I do border to border they can say whatever they want but I've walked and rode 40 damn miles in the past 26 hours so I don't really give uh flying all right man if you're sure about it yeah yeah um I just wanted to finish border to border with everybody foreign y'all did it in a vehicle though not on horseback yeah you did it on a vehicle I don't want to hear your lip about us not doing the real deal right now because I'm not giving you lip Johnny all I'm saying is no no no no it's a done it's a done deal it's just really important for me to finish as a group all the way from the Mexican border to the Canadian border and to miss 30 miles there's just no point in it they were going to have to come back and get me and then just ride the horses that I have here North it would be the same amount of time well I guess the perfectly Simple Plan just never occurred to them like he was trying to create drama which is what what you said earlier is so true like it just drives them nuts when you can't you can't out of control I ended up hitching a ride up to where I was at so with the horses that I had contained we were able to continue on the ride so that we did every single mile together so I missed that windy blowy weather when everything went right [Music] a couple days after a 40 mile Epic Journey [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign just engaged another game of who's got the bigger dick when it comes to choosing the route Johnny or Ben every single day I'm stuck on the GPS I'm looking at the maps you know I don't know where we are I've never been here before but from the information that I have this is the best route that I think we can take and then you got Johnny in the back with the freaking iPhone saying no we need we need to take this road oh I think I'm not a drone I mean not fall Masters every day and he's usually pretty spot on with that GPS but my GPS is wrong and we have to bushwhack you know if I see a better route I'm going to take it I'm not going to just follow someone blind came down it's not a little too steep uh we thought we were on the right side of the creek we weren't me and Johnny just kind of bushwicked down had to do equine self arrest their little equine skiing if you will how's your route worked out real good just followed the creek bottom and It looks interesting it's not worth stressing about because you're not gonna change how those guys operate so might as well just relax have a good time how long you've been out driving around I think leadner's gonna be this did you bring us some Bruno Sarape she made her entrance [Music] ah a [Music] yay I'm so happy finally get a little fun when I dropped off the three horses a couple weeks ago Famer asked me about the Burrows and if I had a burrow to bring him and I just happened to have one oh that's perfect take that bike branded man what donkey Whisperer the donkey I definitely adds a little flavor to our outfit little Salvador flavor that's pretty good she has no idea what she just got herself into though [Music] now I like donkeys but I think it's going to be a complete disaster I just don't think donkey can do 20 miles a day over rough terrain keeping up with full-size horses it's just not big enough foreign [Music] maybe you'll just follow along peacefully maybe we'll be minus a donkey come on donkey [Music] thank you [Music] have a lot of time to think by yourself find yourself thinking much more deeply [Music] probably already mapped out my life about a hundred times [Music] think about what makes the world go around and whether you're gonna help keep it spinning so in June we in the cloud Foundation filed a petition with the U.S fish and wildlife service to list North American Wild Horses on public lands as threatened or endangered Under The Endangered Species Act the argument that we're managing them to Extinction you know it the data and the experts that look very carefully at that data that are indeed experts say just the opposite [Music] and that report says we have more horses now on a rangeland than we've ever had before and that the population has done nothing but grow even though we've tried to reduce it because of the limitations on the tools and the money we have I have seen the horses starve to death with my own eyes I've watched them eat each other's manes and Tails I have seen a full nursing its dead mother and I would much rather see these horses managed so we did not get to that point they're not in danger of becoming extinct in the diamond mountains of Nevada for sure I can promise you that oh [Music] um yeah let's do the show first I'm nervous about it okay I want it to be a typical business haircut the business in the front leave the party in the back the party in the back she's got she's got it down and this is the only Barber Shop we've been in that lousy to drink beer while you get your haircut that's right [Music] [Music] come to celebrate America I got a phone call yesterday from Katie Bischoff which is Tom's girlfriend telling me that she's going to be here at 6 45. Tom doesn't know it but Tom being Fourth of July is extremely drunk and I don't even know if you can be able to speak words to her well July here in Jackson Wyoming we're gonna have us a good time did you win [Laughter] oh my God let's hear it one time for our great nation of the United States [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Killzone [Music] [Music] the best price best fourth ever so much fun [Music] Jackson was a nice break but I was ready to get out of there [Music] worried about my dumper right over the stop that was graceful Cricket's dead what what happened I don't know man he's dead we're now cooking dinner all of a sudden the horses took off and so I had mine tied up so I saddled him up started thamer and Masters and went to go look for him found some of them found one down very Not Dead really good broken his neck severed his esophagus or his uh one pipe or something and Missy bird a little piece of crickets going to Canada so hopefully wherever horses go you'll know that we don't know how Cricket died I think in a way it was fitting of a Mustang not to die in somebody's stall or in a holding facility you know he was in the back country he was 15 miles from the nearest Road he was living with other Mustangs eating good mountain grass and it was just his time but you know I like to think that he died a happy horse not in a pen somewhere [Music] the whole issue of gathering wild horses or boroughs is is very controversial it's very emotional but it's a necessity for managing the resource we have a number of people that show up to these gathers and they all have their point of view and I've seen where we've had screaming matches we've had people that are just trying to do whatever they can to shut down the other operation because they don't like what's going on in these places where wild horses are allowed to be our government has a mandate to protect wild horses private ranching actually is a privilege which is allowed when drought conditions or something happens that we lose the capability to offer that grazing on public lands it's the private ranchers that should be backing off where you start to see the pushback from the Ranchers is when there are so many horses and the BLM comes out in the spring and they tell you the range doesn't look very good we're not going to allow you to put all your cows out there this year or any of your cows out there and the reason why is you had horses on it for 12 months already and they've eaten everything as it came up you know if there was a more fair allocation of resources that left some room for wild horses we'd have a more balanced you know system I'm not asking us to give to a point where we're not financially and economically viable do we as a people really only care about things that make money the bank to be quite honest doesn't care that you can't turn your cows out on that permit if you owe them several million dollars they're expecting several hundred thousand dollars every six or every 12 months however you happen to have it written up our adoption demand used to be eight or nine thousand a year nationally we recently adopted less than three thousand what do we do with the excess wild horses that we have to remove when we've only been adopting less than three thousand that means five or six thousand horses a year are not being adopted which are being added to our short-term and long-term pastures putting them in holding facilities is a temporary fix but then those get overcrowded so we definitely need to figure out something to do with all these horses it's just not possible to adopt enough of these horses out to really be a viable solution to the problem but they're still multiplying at a huge rate in the wild and those holding facilities are all full and all the long-term holding facilities full I mean there's got to be a point where we quit you know pansying around and just do something about it [Music] [Music] [Music] oh there's a man with no man is mounted I'm gonna stand on repeat no time for founders [Music] [Music] follow me [Music] it's not all about reaching goal it's not about getting this big list of things that you've accomplished that goal of reaching the Canadian line isn't as powerful as you know the impact going through this land is made on me it's made me kind of realize that more important than the accumulating of stuff is you know conserving what we have right now oh my God stay on stay on oh crap oh man oh there it is oh my God it's another huge fish I think I got this one set a little later there's been a lot of times in my life where fly fishing has kind of gotten me into some binds skipped a lot of school that that's good see you buddy wow look at these guys this is one of the coolest songs I've ever had As Good As It Gets [Music] I I just couldn't stop fishing I mean there was clouds and building up the risk of getting hit by lightning was worth the reward of catching 20 inch Cutthroats this is just the best day fishing I've ever had yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] there's a lot of work to be done to ensure that the wildlands of America have a viable future the opportunities we have are just unreal compared to people in other parts of the world I don't think everyone realizes that look at that guy running hey good to see you good to see you ready [Music] good to see you see you goodbye Jolly all right okay got me a new haircut oh yeah all right I know what horses look they look good they look excellent yeah yes they have by golly okay same here son same here how's your summer going summer is going great Violet's doing good good Johnny where are you son right here okay thank you bro that'll knock out that last piece of bacon we can cut it in uh what six or seven pieces and I'm tickling up my boys are here and we have big end this is a little bit more of the upbeat well bordered a border from Old Mexico They Ride foreign [Music] to Ben's Tom and Johnny towards a Canadian sky while horses moving easy young Cowboys riding free yeah it's a bordered a border cause that's the way they planned it to be oh yeah Yellowstone Park here we are finally made it to Yellowstone well okay so keep them on their toes you good love ya there buddy love you you're good son yeah you guys be safe and uh be thinking about you thanks again for everything that you've done for us and the song we've seen a couple months after we get to the Border all right we're out of here all right Val see you buddy I love you Val love you too son we'll see you in a couple months yep [Music] [Music] you know over a hundred years ago Teddy Roosevelt came and visited this exact area and he camped just right up the river and uh it was part of the inspiration that made him as president enact hundreds of thousands of Acres of national forests and National Park and it's pretty cool to think that what we see today that's exactly what he saw 100 years ago and 100 years from now it's going to be exactly the same as what we're looking at today that's pretty neat all right how beautiful the country is at some point it becomes a test of endurance that's where we're at let's get through it man I can go that's disgusting yum foreign on the trail close to four months and I'd say I just really started having fun say my only regrets so far is at my buddy's tamale and Cricket aren't still with me of what tomorrow is ready to meet back up with us last couple weeks when Violet got hurt I sent him back with Val to Cody because we were going to be Crossing through the same country and thinking you know he's gonna have three month break and let's see how his leg heals and make an assessment after three months and hopefully if he's doing well bring him on board through the state of Montana and I felt that you possibly could bring him back but he definitely need reconditioning and stuff before they did that the difference between a healthy horse going in to what we're doing and a horse is coming off an injury is very very different very different I'm all started when we poured Jim Beam into plastic bottles oh I'm trying well you is is bringing a horse was the result of your own negligent action back on the trail after not conditioning him not having seen him according to Val who knows a whole those two are like oil and water at this point it seems like about money so we're talking about money you're gonna risk a horse's health because you're worried about how much he's gonna bring you I don't know and no no no no shut the up and I'm gonna throw the gauntlet down right now I don't know why y'all are attacking me so hard to convince Ben something's a bad idea unless you just really get after him and that's just kind of how you have to communicate with Masters if you want anything to sink in we've done this entire thing as a team if you guys truly believe that he's gonna be a hindrance on us getting through Montana and that's not taking I don't think tamale should come back hey and if tamale goes lame I'll be the first one to admit is a bad decision [Music] [Music] and one thing it's another out here hanging out Heat I can't feel my hands [Music] that come and go with every Mile and structure for all the lights are out but it's all right we're gonna make it home tonight another chance to sing a song in hopes to keep your words [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] No One's Gonna Top This in our posterity I don't think maybe but I doubt it you can run a marathon you can hike across the Great Wall you can do a lot of things but you can't do this and this is for crazy people oh really but as long as our wind doesn't pick up too bad we should be okay going through these fires but we're cutting it close my dad just rolled up with tamale good to have him back on the trail after three months of having him gone we just keep focuses on him colterson once a day oh it looks good old back fat how's Molly doing he's traveling a little bit better see how much heat he has in it earlier it was pretty hot I can as you feel heat through that bandage I'll probably just soak him in the creek for an hour or two and then I'm gonna pull this Johnny decided to bring his horse into the largest Wilderness complex in the lower 48 with no Exit Plan while there's a bunch of raging fires going on just talked to some factors and found out that the pass that we wanted to take is engulfed in flames yeah that right there is the pass damn that is new my route was to go right along through here because you've got the entire Chinese wall blocking it off but now this is burning and I don't have a rock face for this six miles so theoretically it could jump I don't think it would but if it could but if it does your you don't have an escape he's got the wall on one side of the fire on the other so we can go up South Fork to the sun take that trail I feel more comfortable doing that not much room for air and just hope the wind doesn't pick up [Music] I don't mind doing what needs to be done the reach exit more valuable and more air on the side of some [Music] there is nothing that I could have said that would have made him feel any worse than him listening to his own lecture that he gave me laughs what good would it have done if I was like Johnny you idiot sure 5870 Chrome on that deal we would have made sure to be like oh yeah I told you there's a masters did a good job of staying humble through that I I don't think I'd been able to resist that opportunity it's been a couple days I started this thing with one mission that's to get my entire crew it's that Canadian border to get all these horses to that Canadian border when I failed like getting all the horses there but I want to get my entire crew there and does that means sucking a little pride I can suck some pride [Music] like to see as many Mustangs adopted as possible if it's done responsibly but the fact of the matter is when you adopt one of those horses more often than not you're gonna have to spend 90 to 100 days working with the animal every day and there aren't very many people that have that kind of time to commit to it adopting Mustang is a big responsibility if we took the appropriate management level that's defined now 25 28 000 and we aggressively use the contraceptive tools that are available we could reduce the growth rate of that base population to the point that that Surplus that we need to take off of the landscape would meet the adoption demand and that would be totally sustainable so there is a solution we want to coexist we strongly believe in the multiple use concept Recreation Wildlife Wild Horses livestock everybody gets to share in these lands but it is share in these lands I think we should look at how many horses need to have there to have viable Wild Horse herds there will be groups on both sides that will never be happy with anything in the middle if there's no compromise and we throw up our hands and stop managing then that's the worst case scenario for horses for wildlife public lands and everybody that cares about them we're almost to Glacier National Park and park regulations we can only take eight horses through so we're gonna have to leave five of them behind in uh East Glacier and pick them up on our way on our way home so for a lot of these horses it's their last day you ready to be done your duties as protector of the herd are Rover oh yeah that feels good yeah shake your tongue you definitely get used to this way of life and it's a hard way of life you know I don't care what Master says this isn't easy people like to think that oh we're just going for a walk in the park on these horses it's a lot of work it's been fun but it's the same I'm over living in the woods damn are you feeling all right anybody that says like oh I want to be a cowboy and live out in the woods my whole life and blah blah except Ben Masters I think he could happily do it we're four days from being done but we're a long ways from the border we have got some brutal days through Glacier National Park where you can smell the Finish Line I'm sure it'll take a couple weeks or maybe a couple months and then we'll wish we were right back out here we realize how dull and boring normal life is compared to this [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign that's pretty cool there's two big boys right here just behind camp I'm glad we came through here yeah not on the stinking Highway this pizza Road any day foreign that's got to be Canada it's only 10 miles straight line the drainage were going up right there huh yeah that's the belly River oh you finally see it really guys up yet Johnny is that's it it's all right no hurry on the last morning we all know it's the last morning and you know looking forward to being done but at least for me didn't really feel like I thought it would you know I don't think it in any way compares to the feeling we all had when we're leaving the Border I'm not getting to the end I guess with as strong a sense of accomplishment is I was expecting looking back on the trip so far I'd probably say things that stick in my mind the most are those times where it was extremely difficult it almost by myself we're there we got sound horses and 10 miles 10 easy Mouse if something goes bad now it'll be a freaky event oh my God I should not say something I don't like this talk blow this taco stand [Music] yeah go ahead what's up okay everything okay [Music] let me go back it's just down a little bit do we know that's Blue Ridge [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] my dad's meet me at the Lee Ridge um Trailhead just right up the hill he's gonna pick me up there and I'm gonna meet y'all at the border um I might be a little hard to understand but uh part of me just kind of feels like leaving The Last Mile and done so we've come this entire way as a team and you want to finish by yourself well I'm finishing them off from the border what I got a million reasons which we don't have the time and y'all probably don't have the patience to hear me enumerate but this is something I I want to do let's think sometimes there's Beauty and leaving some things undone I just don't I can't put it together in a way it kind of hurts I mean makes you wonder why he would want to leave us and he just eccentrics all it is [Music] they had it howdy howdy buddy boy congratulations man thank you great congratulations buddy yeah that's it [Music] leaving a mile what okay leaving the mile for good luck you got to leave them all for good luck [Music] I was Furious man I'm not throwing a good show but like nice work babe I feel like I failed because I didn't meet the goal that I had set for myself he realized how important it was for me to finish as a unit like we had done every single inch all the way from Mexico to Canada and that was the success it was us finishing in my mind he stripped me of that success by quitting foreign [Music] I still don't understand why Johnny quit with just a mile left to go [Music] but in the end in spite of everything I believed this journey to be the mile doesn't really matter what matters is the land and these horses that have proven themselves time and time again there's an honesty in their actions that I really admire and I'm grateful the future of our Wild Horses wildlife and US depend on the management choices that we make today and I hope to God that in a hundred years there's still a Backcountry route to ride from Mexico to Canada and that'll require sacrifice in a society willing to face difficult decisions [Music] and a really good horse [Music] yeah right you young Cowboys right on your legs [Music] well it's a border the border from Old Mexico [Applause] [Music] while horses moving easy young Cowboys riding free yeah it border to border that's the way they plan on young Cowboys [Music] this is what you get right here for filming on the lake Little League leech action now you've gathered up these Mustangs broken for they are the kind who crossed the white deserts deep Canyons climb mountains High ER rattlesnakes and Cactus far speed short Waters there's gives me flowers in my life through the snow covered mountains tall grass and clear flow is now breaking these Mustangs hey it sure tests but you hung in there cause you knew they were the kind for this trip they've proven their medals and boy you sure proven yours in hot days [Applause] step down foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music]

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Id: 4sIsASY2GjU

Length: 105min 33sec (6333 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 17 2022