Los Vaqueros de Las Montanas

Los Vaqueros de Las Montanas Keeping The Western Heritage of The Bear Valley Community alive.

Happy Saturday! I’m not sure about all of you, but I am looking forward to Spring. Until then, enjoy the snow which...
02/15/2025

Happy Saturday! I’m not sure about all of you, but I am looking forward to Spring.
Until then, enjoy the snow which we so badly needed. Here is a wonderful picture from Kasey Powderly, and her husband at the arena. We are working on our calendar and I promise you by the end of this month we will be able to post some of the events we already have scheduled.
Thank you to our sponsors, Interiors (Patti Dokter) congratulations on your retirement and thank you for supporting our club. We love you for that.
Thank you to Karen and Josh and the girls from Shay Meadow Feed! I do not know what we would do without your sponsorship and support you guys are amazing!
Thank you to the Big Bear Moose
Lodge (Dave Emig), we appreciate you and all your support. Would love to have you come out and watch us on a Saturday evening this year.
We had an amazing Christmas party, were able to award buckles out to the kids who participated in our fall classic! Also Ashley Maitland who was not able to attend, but I made sure she got her buckles shipped.
Looking forward to doing that again with Suzanne Hodges. It will be a buckle series. Suzanne will also be doing one day clinics, we will give you the dates of those here real soon.
We have our Cowboy Challenge with Mary Rose Anderson, and a clinic with Paul Dietz. His clinic will be the first event of the season. Contact myself or Suzanne Hodges for more information on that.
We also will be having sorting on Saturday nights, and hopefully we will be doing something during the week with the cows as well. The board will be getting together to make some final decisions on our events.
Cheyenne Price did a first aid class with us last year, which was a big success, we are hoping we can put something together again with her this year. If you are interested, please reach out to me.
We’ve also had some people interested in goat tying, play days, and barrel races. These are all things that we need to have our members help us with.
We are a small club and our board is small, so if any of you have ideas and would like to help with any events, please reach out and let us know.
Have a wonderful Presidents’ Day
weekend.


01/24/2025

Happy Friday all you Cowboys and Cowgirls! We will be gearing up here pretty quickly for our 2025 season. We are starting to work on our calendar. I am looking forward to being your President for my fifth and final year in 2025. I’m looking forward to seeing what this year brings. Last year ended with quite the Christmas party, and awards for our Fall Classic. I’m hoping we can put together some new events and clinics this year. I would like everyone’s input on what they would like to see at the arena. Please reach out to me with any new ideas, and let’s see if we can get some new events on the calendar. Our first clinic will be with Paul Dietz on May 17, 18, and 19. Our Mountain Classic with Suzanne will be a buckle series this year, with two different competitions. We will also have our Cowboy Challenge with Mary Rose on July 11,12 and 13.
There has been some interest in a goat tying clinic as well. Is this something our members would be interested in!
Our cows should be arriving a little earlier this year, but that depends on our weather. 
We have our first three sponsors for 2025. Shay Meadow Feed, The Moose Lodge 2085, and Interiors. Thank you to everyone who helps support our club. Without all of you, we would not be able to do what we do.
We are so excited to see what 2025 brings. Again, please reach out to me, or any of our board members, or officers with questions or suggestions for Los Vaqueros. If you need any membership or sponsorship forms, please email Donna Samuelson @gmail.com
We will be looking forward to seeing all of you at the arena.

12/14/2024

Christmas Party fun! What a wonderful night! Thank you to everyone who came out! Thank you Donna Samuelson for the video.

12/07/2024

We hope to see all of you there on Wednesday! Dessert will be provided. The kitchen will be open at Wyatt’s! There will be music and dancing. Also a short meeting to present our winners of the Fall Classic with their belt buckles. We would also take a little time to announce our new board, and give thanks to everyone who has helped us throughout the year. We will also have forms for people to fill out on ideas, and events you would like to have us include next year at Los Vaqueros. We definitely need some input, and can use all the help we can get from our General members.

11/26/2024

Thank you to everyone who has been part of Los Vaqueros this past year. Our volunteers, sponsors, riders, clinicians, spectators, are so greatly appreciated. We would not be able to continue on this road if it wasn’t for all of you. We will be having our Christmas Party on December 11 at Wyatt’s. We hope you all received your invitations, and we will be awarding the belt buckles to our riders from the Fall Classic.
Thank you Suzanne Hodges for your hard work, you are the best. Looking forward to next years event.
Paul Dietz will be here in May 2025, the perfect beginning to our 2025 season. I hope you will join us. He has helped me through many issues with my horse. I can’t say enough about him.
Let me know if you have any questions or want to get involved with Los Vaqueros. Just DM me.

11/09/2024

I’m hoping for all the parents that had their children ride in our fall classic you will contact Brady! He has more photos, and I think you will be pleasantly surprised about how beautiful all of them are. Next year we’re going to have more events, and in order to have a photographer we need to definitely support him. 

11/08/2024

We have some amazing photos, from Bending Energy Photography! Most of the photographs are from in hand and youth divisions. Brady Enger does such amazing work. And if you want to purchase any of the photos, contact me and let me know and I will give you his contact information. He works hard at what he does, and in order for him to continue coming out and photographing our events we need to support, his business.

This weeks paper! Congratulations to all our winners and participants. What a fun day! Suzanne Hodges you did a great jo...
11/01/2024

This weeks paper! Congratulations to all our winners and participants. What a fun day! Suzanne Hodges you did a great job with this event, here is to next year! Christmas Party will be December 11, details to follow!

10/27/2024

What an amazing day we had yesterday at the arena! Congratulations to all the winners, I will be posting all of the winners names and photos. Thank you so much to Brady Enger for coming out and taking photos, as well as the Grizzly newspaper. It was a beautiful fall, classic, and here’s to our second annual fall classic next year!

Happy Fall Classic Day! Hoping everyone has a perfect day, and see you at the arena! 8:00 am registration, 8:30 walk thr...
10/26/2024

Happy Fall Classic Day! Hoping everyone has a perfect day, and see you at the arena! 8:00 am registration, 8:30 walk thru!

10/25/2024

Good morning! We are so excited for our 1st Annual Fall Classic tomorrow!
Just a reminder, the arena will be closed today. We have things that need to be done out there, and grading.
Make sure you’re at the arena tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock to sign up and pay registration fees. If you have already filled out all the paperwork and paid your fees we will see you at 8:30 for the walk-thru. We are looking forward to an amazing day at Los Vaqueros. Lunch will be available, and we will be having our Halloween costume contest. Looking forward to seeing all of you for our last arena event of the season.
We will keep you posted on the date of our Christmas party! 

10/23/2024

Anyone that needs the form for registration emailed to them to save them time on Saturday morning, message me and I will get it to you. We will not be doing sign-ups after 8:30 so you have to be there at 8 o’clock to make sure you get registered to ride.

Come and join us on Saturday for our fall classic! We are looking so forward to this event! Just as a reminder, no one w...
10/23/2024

Come and join us on Saturday for our fall classic! We are looking so forward to this event! Just as a reminder, no one will be able to use the arena after Thursday. We will be doing set up, and preparing the Arena for Saturday.

Please let us know if you need this emailed to you!
10/21/2024

Please let us know if you need this emailed to you!

830am course walk-through. 9:00am start. Pre-registration preferred. Last minute registration between 745-830am day of e...
10/21/2024

830am course walk-through.
9:00am start.

Pre-registration preferred. Last minute registration between 745-830am day of event.

Division order:
In hand - 8 obstacles - one attempt per horse/rider - walk/trot
Youth - 10 obstacles - two attempts per horse/rider - walk/trot/canter
Amateur - 10 obstacles - two attempts per horse/rider - walk/trot/canter
Open - 10 obstacles - two attempts per horse/rider - walk/trot/canter

Obstacles will be judged by 2 judges and scores averaged for both runs*
*In-hand will be one run, with 2 judge scorecards averaged

Time will be a tiebreaker

I want to make sure that all the kids that are in the youth division know they need to wear a helmet. It’s very importan...
10/17/2024

I want to make sure that all the kids that are in the youth division know they need to wear a helmet. It’s very important, to keep them safe and due to our insurance at the arena this is something that we have to enforce!

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Christmas Party fun! What a wonderful night! Thank you to everyone who came out! Thank you Donna Samuelson for the video.

Our new water truck for the arena! Thank you to some amazing people, and donations! Our non profit organization is doing our best to keep the arena, and our Western Heritage going in our mountain community!

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