Excitement fills the air at Red Canyon Ranch! We’re heading to Ogden, Utah, for our annual pilgrimage to the Western Bison Association winter meetings and the Wild West Buffalo Stampede Show and Sale. For four days we will wander around the buffalo pens at the Golden Spike Center during the day, and hob-knob, pal around, and generally party with our good friends in the buffalo industry. What can we say about these characters? All originals cast from broken molds! Can’t wait to spend time with John Painter–one of only two Democrats in the industry. (There used to be three, but Scott Peterson switched.) And there’s Susan Maas, without whom there wouldn’t be a Western Bison Association. Crazy old Vaughn Scott will be there. Jake Weirich will want to know how his cow Fran is doing. She lives on our place. We’ll try to stay one beer ahead of Rex and Rhonda Snyder–but that never works! And we have to give a lecture to 92 school kids on buffalo before we take them on a tour through the pens. Buffalo are easier to herd! In short, for four blissful days, we don’t have to be Michael and Kathleen Gear, famous authors. We just get to be ourselves in a social circumstance where no one cares what facade you carry around in real life, but who you really are. That’s the magic of the buffalo people. It’s the one place in the world where Kathy and I can just be ourselves. So, if you’re in Ogden between November 30 and December 3, stop by the Golden Spike between ten am and four pm and we’ll show you some spectacular buffalo. And we’re hoping that when we fight our way back over icy, slick, snow-blown South Pass, we’ll have a stunning new herd bull riding back in that stock trailer!