Out Our Way: Charlie on the ridge - John 14:6

Out our way there is a lot of open country and to the greenhorn cowhand like me, it all looks pretty much the same. More than once I have gotten turned around and had no idea which way was which. Back in the day when I first started riding in open country, Elsie - the ranch lady who gave lessons to us tenderfeet in Wyoming - told me that you need to look back the way you came from time to time so as to see the "other side of the hills" and so recognize them when it came time to head back.

Great advice, which I promptly forgot while riding with Charlie up in the Tiger Ridge.

It had been a long...