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John and Brio at the Gab Creek old mill site waterfall. Photo by Laura Behning.
Welcome to Gab Creek Farm!
Home of PKR Primavera Brio and Gab Creek Golden Vaquero
Gab Creek Farm lies at the foot of Springer Mountain, southern terminus for the Appalachian Trail. By landmark it is four miles east of Amicalola Falls State Park, the highest waterfall east of the Mississippi. It is a 200 acre fifth generation farm.
Forty acres are under cultivation and the remainder is a mixed pine and hardwood forest. Bridle paths include a 3/4 mile section along Gab Creek. Wild
azaleas, mountain laurel, rhododendron, wild hollies, white pines,
over 60 species of hardwoods, small springs, and an old mill site with a 12' waterfall are all to be found on the farm.
We are working carefully to line breed toward the old families by close breeding (without inbreeding). In this way we are attempting to
balance size, bone and substance with refinement, and to follow the "cattleman's approach" to consistency of conformation.
We invite you to visit us and meet our Morgans! - John and Joyce Hutcheson
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Gab Creek Farm News
Gab Creek Gay Mashanta (left) and Althea Moro grazing, early morning,
September 7. This was taken in the Shoshone Nat'l Forest, southeast of Yellowstone,
by John as he continues his trip out west. Stay tuned for more updates!
Here is one of the pictures that John sent us from his trip out west. We don't know if they made it through this
tunnel, or where exactly it is, but I'm sure we'll hear all about it when he returns! The sign says "Falling Rock" by the way! I'm sure there's a story here!
Update 9/8: He did make it through he tunnel, scraping a bit even
with all the mirrors folded in and holding his breath, and when he
arrived on the other side, some man was there and said, "Guess what?
There's another one just like it right up the road!"
John is shown shortly before loading up on Tuesday Aug 19th on his 30 day 3,000 mile solo "busman's holiday" to the "Black Elk Wilderness" via Custer, SD; the "Cloud Peak Wilderness" in the Big Horn National Forest, WY; the "Shoshone National Forest" via Yellowstone; and the "Platte River Wilderness" in Colorado. He is taking two 12/13 year old mares,
Gab Creek Gay Mashanta and Althea Moro (both can be seen on our Mares page) and will horse pack solo and will link up with a high school classmate,
Jim Hallman, in Basin, WY, who has pack stock, for the trip through Yellowstone and with Jim White, Ft. Collins, CO, brother of John's sister battalion commander from Berlin, GE 1986,
to pack the "Platte River".
John says there was a good reason why the Arabs used mares as their "war horses". John has delivered two foals a piece from each of these
mares, has trained or retrained them himself in the hackamore, can ride or pack on either (but says Althea is the dream pack horse). He has kept them together for the
last five months, legged them up riding one and ponying the other on Jake and Bull Mtn in Georgia, loads, bathes,
and feeds them together. They are shod all way around
with borium calks for the Wyoming shale rock. John is very "untechnical" but will try to take a digital pic or two and have someone email them to Joyce when he can.
This is a "cowboy" trip with no living quarters trailers but everything necessary to care for horses... from Lidocaine and suture material to IVs. Sleeping in
the goose neck and on the ground except when someone is kind to him.
Q. What is the most important thing to take with you?
A. The coffee pot.
Q. Why are you doing this at age 62?
A. "I love to feel the rain on a sun drenched plain with a good horse between my knees" (from a cowboy song... and if I don't hurry up I won't be able to do it :0)
-John
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