Sunday, after breakfast, we shuttle to our 2900-acre Twin Peaks Ranch four miles up river. First thing, everyone is matched to their horse and stirrups adjusted. Wranglers provide pointers on how to best manage your horse in this mountainous terrain. This includes things like mounting from the uphill side when on the trail and when to ease up on the reins. After you have ridden around the arena sufficiently to feel confident with your horse, we will head out for a trail ride in the surrounding open range, along streams and up into the wooded foothills. Lunch in the lodge provides a welcome stretch before the afternoon ride which goes higher up into the surrounding peaks to provide a panoramic view of the nearby sawtooth Continental Divide where Lewis & Clark cut their trail in 1805. We invariably see big game from the trail.

In the mid afternoon, we usually return to the lake early enough to get in some fishing before the social hour. Entertainment tonight is professional line dance instruction.

Mondays and Tuesdays, it’s all day on the lake -- dawn to dusk if you so choose. The basics of fly casting are briefly demonstrated. You can brown bag your lunch if you plan to be on the water during the noon lunch.

Wednesday, we strike off down river for the first day of floating the white water. Here it’s learning on the job as the basics of team paddling and maneuvering two-man inflatable kayaks is demonstrated and practiced as we pass through its clear turbulent tumbling waters. Lunch is taken on one of the rivers many sandbars. After several more hours, we pull out in time to get to our overnight quarters at Ram’s Head where we can change and familiarize ourselves with this river camp before the social hour.

Dinner is your choice from this "centennial" cafe menu as is breakfast on Thursday. We are in the 2.4 million acre Frank Church Wilderness area where there is no power and we are on our own except for a phone. We generate our own power which goes off at 11 P.M.

Today, we put into the more active rapids where your skills will be put to the test. You will also find that choosing the best course down the river is also tricky — especially if you’re in a kayak. Everyone will be getting soaked more than once, so be sure your cameras are protected. Lunch is again river-side.

After lunch, we continue on through a number of rapids. We pull out in time to have a chance to change before the social hour.. The universal topic of discussion is always the vivid recounting of the day’s many surprises.

Friday, it’s back to the open range at Twin Peaks for the roundup and cattle drive. We grab a roll and cup of coffee before heading up river to Twin Peaks where a chuck wagon breakfast, on the trail over a campfire, is waiting for us. It’s country viddles -- bacon and eggs, country fried potatoes, pancakes and all the fixins’ for a cowpoke’s day in the saddle.

Over coffee, the wranglers will explain how we go about a roundup and cattle drive. There are several different jobs and they will explain what each will have to do. It’s a team effort and everyone is important in keeping it moving.

The longhorns must be first scouted out of the brush and brought together — rounded up. Then the point man sets the direction, the side riders keep the herd tightly bunched and the drag riders keep the drive moving. Everyone will have to watch that the cattle they are tending do not wander off as they often try to do.

Wranglers will assign everyone a position based on their knowledge of what skills are needed and who is best able to perform them. The younger new cowpokes invariably work as drag riders where they can be more easily supervised. The horses are now awaiting everyone and after a few adjustments it’s time to head out. The drive will end up in the corrals at the arena by everyone’s persistence.

The wranglers will then choose team penning members so every team has a nearly equal chance in the competition. In this competition, each team pits its collective skills to drive several of these longhorns into a pen as quickly as possible. In matching your wits against a half ton on the hoof you may begin to wonder if a herd of cats could be more obstinate.

Lunch follows in the lodge dining room. After lunch, the ranch range is opened for marksmen target and clay competition. Everyone qualified to shoot can enter this competition or simply shoot for the fun of it.

This afternoon everyone has the opportunity to take a short jet boat ride on the river. You can get a taste of what river travel going upstream is like through its twists and turns. 

The social and dinner hour are at their usual times in the Twin Peaks lodge. While dessert is being served the recognition plaques for achievements are awarded.

After dinner, a guitarist leads a sing-along of favorite country songs around a campfire. After singing Good Night Ladies, about 9 P.M. shuttles depart to the lake.