*They even provide babysitters for cowbabies. Rinse, repeat, werewolf love at Salt Creek. Eventually, the night must end and guests will be guests and staff will be staff again. The Salt allows you to be yourself because there is so much love in the air that you couldn’t possibly be afraid to let yourself go. It is one of those places where everyone sings each song at the top of their lungs in unison even if they don’t know the words. It’s a room near the staff village that is meant for one thing, and one thing only: full contact and without inhibitions release of energy through dancing, yelling and general uncontrolled jumping. Perched on the banks of Wyomings Rock Creek, one can watch trout rise from a bar stool. Salt Creek is both where the night ends and truly begins. fly shop/saloon on the property of the historic HF Bar Ranch. Just when the entire group is dancing and having the best night of their lives, it’s time for Salt Creek Country Club. Each evening it’s one big happy family enjoying the western stars the way they were intended and then each morning it is back to the whole staff / guest dynamic.īut you don’t make eye contact so it’s cool. There is no class separation or guests-versus-staff highbrow baloney. The best part is that everyone at the ranch joins in. If you fail – which you always do – the entire crowd yells, “YOU GOT COWBOYED!” Soon after, crowds of people line up one after another to attempt the Cowboy Challenge, where an individual attempts to drink a full beer waterfalling off another cowboy’s hat. It starts outside the Rod & Gun where the Rock Creek Angler band plays your favorite jig. It’s some sort of werewolf syndrome.Įach evening every person on the property turns from being a guest, staff member, cook, and guide into one equivalent type of creature. There is a unique thing that happens when the sun goes down at HF Bar that is hard to describe. Even if you miss the fish, which most newbs often will, the hit is the drug.Īfter fishing and riding, there is biking, skeet shooting, river dunking, hiking, and so much more.īut all that is not even the most important part. A wild trout on a dry fly delivers an energetic euphoria unlike much else. H F Bar Ranch, Buffalo, Wyoming, in the Heart of the Big Horns. It is exhilarating.Īlongside miles of trails is a stable of world-class fly fishing guides. This is ain’t no city boy pony ride either.Īs soon as you’re out of the holding area, the wrangler pushes each guest to open up into a trot or lope. And each morning, after hefty serving of eggs, bacon, fruit and fixins, you are greeted by over two hundred horses ready for a ride. It is not a dude ranch, and it doesn’t desire to be either. The HF Bar Ranch is old, historic, classic, iconic, rustic, western and great in all the ways an authentic cowboy would want it.
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