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Higher Trails is a family-run organization dedicated to the physical and emotional health of both horse and human.

All our horses come from a background of either rescue, rehabilitation. We provide an environment for those with anxieties, fears, PTSD, and other life challenges to experience the healing and changes horses can bring to them. Those who come to Higher Trails consider us a family, providing support and encouragement to each other.

14/06/2024

Higher Trails ranch is closing July 1,2024. Ross and Dee will continue to be involved with horses. We thank everyone for the 20 years of meeting new friends, new horses, and too many memories to mention. It has been an amazing journey.

I should add, Higher Trails (Ross and Dee) will exist as long as we do. The concept is eternal. Remember to always take the higher trail.

18/07/2023

If you know of people who would like to take our EAPD Course, please share. There are 2 courses in Ontario in September and one in St Albert, Alberta in October.

Changing Lives Through Horses

19/05/2023

05/11/2022

A glimpse of horses during the war. Man and horse, a special bond.

16/07/2022

Best thing to do in summer heat, play in the creek, race boats, splash, swim (and roll in the dirt after).

Summer fun.

06/06/2022

Spring Time means riding time, horses and green leaves on the trees.
Our wonderful friend/photographer Jody took these amazing photos yesterday. So awesome to have her talent capturing our beautiful horses and people.

02/05/2022

A beautiful spring day to train.

15/03/2022

We are excited to share this new poster from EAL Canada.

They have extended their special reduced price to the end of April!

04/02/2022

Excited to share this this!

21/12/2021

The best of the season.

01/12/2021

Hey, it is almost December. Let me whisper what I want this year.

28/10/2021

Our Young Riders and some of our adults have been working very diligently on drill patterns. Here is a video (until the cell phone died). Great job everyone.

25/10/2021

I can hardly wait for Daylight Saving Time to end! Need my sleep. (At 26 years of age - coming 27) - we all need more snoozes.

Caddie says "End of daylight saving, turned my clock back, does that mean I can sleep longer"
(thanks to Jody Reid Latta for this amazing photo).

01/09/2021

It is that time of year again. Brought in our hay and now it is fencing on the job list. Think autumn must be close.

31/07/2021

Dry smoky days, but the pasture is still green and our horses are happy to share with the wildlife.

01/07/2021

In the midst of a heatwave horses love cooling in the creek. Some even like a swim and roll.

22/05/2021

A new book by Ross MacInnes. "Shadows Come at Midnight... from PTSD to purpose"

Ross shared: "The back-story to the book is that at the start of the COVID pandemic in March 2020, I had a long look at my policing career and the effect it had on me at various times through my years with the department, and into retirement. I was able to look dispassionately at various “turning points” that happened and my responses to them. Who it was that helped me along the journey, and how I became the way I am today – good or bad. It was a tough write at times – reliving the incidents and bringing back all the little details that occurred."

Check out the website to learn more, and watch the video trailer.

www.rossamacinnes.com

"Some books teach us, some books entertain us, and some books transform us. Shadows Come At Midnight is one of the latter. A life told as is: raw, and real. Ross' dance between the darkness and the light is captivating. His own healing journey is a testimony to his resilience and the goodness

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Higher Trails Drill Team

Our Young Riders and some of our adults have been working very diligently on drill patterns. Here is a video (until the cell phone died). Great job everyone.

NiChi loving the water.

In the midst of a heatwave horses love cooling in the creek. Some even like a swim and roll.

Did someone say breakfast!

And we are all moved. We did some unpacking today then a group of our riders headed out to explore! First ride across the creek.

There has to be one more little bit of food in this pan.

Tonight we had a very interesting and somewhat tense (at times) veterinary procedure done on my Canadian mare - Uma. She has been having respiratory problems for quite a while now, and to date, we have not been successful with various medications. So we decided to go the next step - a Transtracheal Wash Procedure. An incision is made directly into the trachea and a catheter inserted. The goal is to obtain an aseptically-collected diagnostic specimen from the lower trachea for:  Gram stain  Bacterial culture  Virus isolation  Some Viral Fluorescent Antibody (FA) tests  PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests  Parasitology (Lungworms)  Cytology We had a couple tense moments, but Dr. Lawler was able to secure the samples needed and they will be sent to the lab tomorrow. This is the first such procedure done at Higher Trails, and, while the humans may have been stressed at times, Uma (being a tough Canadian) took it all in stride. A big thanks to Dee and to Madi T and Michelle for helping. Madi T handled Uma the entire time.

Clearing the hay yard.

Max's favorite job - getting the horses out of the hay yard. Love the wise old horses, Heat ran to the top and just stayed behind to graze while the others ran out!

Max takes his job seriously. Chasing the horse's out of the hay yard. His favorite thing. Notice Heat, hiding at the top. Wise old guy.

Young Riders coming back from a ride led by a 71 year old teenager. Great day and the smoke had cleared so the mountains filled the background.

Shower Time

Nothing like a good gallop to de-stress after a thunderstorm.

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Higher Trails is a family dedicated to the physical and emotional health of both horse and human. All our horses come from a background of either rescue, rehabilitation, rehome or retraining. All horses are paired with one person who becomes their trainer, rider and human friend. Those who ride at Higher Trails consider it a family, providing support and encouragement to each other.