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My friends and I ride Missouri Foxtrotters, most of them barefoot, though the desert and mountains of Utah and Wyoming.

My horses are beginning their 3rd summer barefoot, and we used the boots a lot in the first year, but only use them occasionally now. Usually if we are riding 2-4 days straight and the horses don’t get a day off to recover.

It’s not uncommon for us to cover 20-30 miles a day when riding some of the areas in the photos.

— John Tanner

Friends riding down some ledges on the San Rafael Mesquite Canyon

My daughter Darcy riding along some cliffs in Eastern Utah near Duchsene Utah

Riding the Thunder Mountain Trail near Bryce Canyon

The Swift Creek trail. Very rocky!

My daughter Darcy riding into Red Castle on the North Slope of the Uinta Wilderness

Friends crossing the Bechler River in Yellowstone Park