Riders of The Lost Sierra

06/03/2026

Holy cow! How is it June already? I hope everyone's riding season is going great so far. I spent the weekend on the endurance ride route again. The new stuff is pretty nice in my opinion. One loop on private property has already been approved, still waiting on an answer from the Forest Service about the other new loop. Thanks Britteny for joining me on Sunday to be a guinea pig on the new stuff, it was fun 😄
-Amie

05/06/2026

I had a wonderful weekend riding many miles on the new planned route of the endurance ride. I'm anxiously waiting to hear if the Forest Service will give us permission to use everything I have planned, I sure hope they do because I think it's pretty amazing.
-Amie

04/29/2026

NorCal has had some interesting weather this month. Some snow and rain in the high country. Unfortunately not enough to increase the snowpack by much, but we'll take what we can get. Here's a few recent pictures from the outskirts of the Lost Sierra and surrounding areas.
How's the weather been where you are?
I'm sure looking forward to the nice weather this weekend to hit the trails.

04/01/2026

For those who like updates on progress with the endurance ride, here you go. For the first time this year I got to ride part of the route this weekend. I've been out there on foot a few times, but it's now dry enough to ride. Typically the snow and mud are not gone until late spring or early summer, but this year is an exception. It was a lovely Sunday stroll on our new and improved loop. The "Sugar Daddy" loop (yes there's a story to that silly name) is about 95% ready for the ride, it just needs a little branch trimming.

I love this beautiful loop and I hope our riders will too. And wonderful news! On Friday we had a meeting with the owner of the largest sections of private land we use, and we were granted permission to put in some new trails. 😃 This was especially important for this particular loop because I wanted to bypass a steep rocky section. Now we have a gorgeous singletrack section made just for our riders to avoid a tricky spot. The Sugar Daddy is pretty sweet 😋 in my opinion anyway 😁

One loop checked and nearly ready to go, and soon we'll be hitting all the other sections of the route. We've got a little storm happening right now, but unfortunately it's not expected to bring much precipitation. Good for trail work and riding, bad for overall forest conditions.

Enjoy the pictures. Sorry that the seasonal creeks will be dry by summer.

03/18/2026

Oh boy!! Spring is in the air 😁 This Friday is the first day of spring, and on Saturday the West Region has our first endurance ride of the year. We had such a mild winter for the most part, and I had been able to do a lot of conditioning rides on my horses, so I was excited to kick off the endurance ride season this weekend at Rides of March. But alas...my horses had other ideas and we've now had some minor setbacks. I plan to be at ROM as a volunteer, so hopefully I'll see some of you there.

All that snow we got from the one significant storm last month is quickly disappearing. In the lower elevations it's long gone, and at this rate it won't be long until we can ride in the high country.

On Sunday, Britteny and I, and our mutts went for a hike in the ride area. I'm pleased to say we finally found an alternate route around a very steep part on one of the loops. This is on private property so hopefully it will be easier than working with the Forest Service to get permission to make a new trail.

There's still a little snow and mud out there, but it won't be long until it's dry enough to hit the hills with the horses. I can't wait.

Enjoy these springtime photos. The ones labeled LSER are on the ride route, all others are from the surrounding area.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day ☘️

-Amie

03/06/2026

Looking forward to the Lost Sierra Ride on Saturday, August 29th. Check us out on the AERC ride calendar, or our website for more information.

We're a couple weeks earlier this year, and we're hoping that will work better for everyone's schedules. This year is going to be awesome!

-The LSR management team

www.riderslostsierra.com

02/26/2026

We have set our date for The Lost Sierra Endurance Ride this year: Saturday, August 29th, 2026. Visit our website for more information and to get on our email list for ride registration. We are looking forward to seeing you all again!

02/16/2026

Since we finally have a significant snowstorm bearing down on us, I thought it would be appropriate to share this old photo from the Plumas County Museum. We desperately need the snow, but I sure hope we don't end up looking and feeling like the people and horse in this picture. Does anyone have experience putting snowshoes on horses? 😬

Feel free to share your favorite winter horse pictures and stories.

Fun Photo Friday! 📸
Today we have a man named Bob Cook holding Star, the "Veteran Snow Horse" for La Porte Stage Co.
Star is wearing snow shoes. 🐎❄️👟
This photo was taken at La Porte, CA in 1906 by the photographer, Gustave H. Schubert, who was out of Nelson Point, CA. They didn't let snow get in their way.
There is no information on where exactly Star is coming out of.

02/12/2026

How's everyone doing? Overall it's been a very mild and mostly dry winter here in the Lost Sierra. We're finally getting a little precipitation right now, but we need a lot more to get the snowpack where it needs to be. I can't complain about the wonderful riding weather though. It's still too muddy and snowy in some spots to ride in the mountains, but the desert riding has been phenomenal. I'll share some pictures of some of my recent high desert adventures in another post. These are some pictures I took a few days ago from the endurance ride route, as I was once again searching for new possible routes.

And in case you're wondering what the deal is with the endurance ride this year. We just wanted to thank all of you who participated in the survey we sent out after the ride last year. Because of all of the positive feedback and suggestions we got, and your continued support. We are still trying to do the ride this year. Putting on events of any kind is very hard, and endurance rides have their own sets of complications. Currently we're still pending approval. Thank you for your patience, I just wanted to give a little update since some of you have been asking. Hopefully everything works out and we'll see you the last weekend of August.

-Amie

01/02/2026

Happy new year from the Lost Sierra. We hope you've all had a wonderful holiday season, and we hope you're excited for some fun adventures in 2026. Bring on the year of the horse. The "Fire Horse" I guess is what they call it. I think a fire horse sounds like a good strong mountain pony. So let's get out there in the hills with our fire horses this year.

To get us dreaming about riding and camping season, here's some pictures I snapped along the ride route and camp of the 2025 endurance ride. There's also a couple of current snow pictures from today in case you were wondering what it looks like in the high country right now.