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ENGL 6750, Summer 2017: Jackson Hole Dude Ranching Tradition: Triangle X Ranch: Meet the Guests
Meet the Guests
Guests at Triangle X Ranch enjoy a variety of activities during their stay, including daily horseback rides, pack trips, hiking, fishing, communal meals, cookouts, float trips, square dancing, and other evening entertainment. Staying at least a week during the summer, guests have the opportunity to form relationships with one another, the Turners, and other employees on the ranch. A family-friendly vacation spot, the Triangle X offers programs for children, teens, and adults.
Similar to historic dude ranching, many guests come “from away” and return to the ranch year after year.
We invite you to meet a few guests who were interviewed in August 2017 and learn about their experiences at Triangle X Ranch!
Lynette and Jim Blake have been coming to the Triangle X Ranch as guests their entire married life. Ms. Lynette Blake began coming to the ranch as a guest when she was young and brought her husband to Triangle X the year after they were married. Over the years, they have brought their children to the ranch and were joined in 2017 by their step-granddaughter.
Ms. Nada Coussmaker, of London, England, has been a guest at Triangle X for twenty-two years. She is a schoolteacher and spends five weeks of her summer holidays at the ranch. While she has been a guest at other dude ranches, Nada says that the scenery is one of the reasons she continues to come to Triangle X. She also notes that she has made several good friends in her time as a guest at the ranch. Nada started riding at a very young age and enjoys the emphasis that Triangle X places on horses and riding.
Janet Osborn, of Virginia, and her two children have been guests at the Triangle X Ranch since 2003. She says they were drawn to a dude ranch by the emphasis on horseback riding, singing around the campfire, and the educational float trips. She hopes that the trips to the ranch will become a family tradition.
Bob and Alice Durkin live in Vermont and travel to Wyoming with their granddaughter to spend two weeks each summer at Triangle X Ranch. They value their friendships with other ranch guests and the Turner family and enjoy the daily horseback rides. Their granddaughter hopes to work on the ranch someday and continue the tradition of guests becoming employees at Triangle X.