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for an adventure in the Santa Barbara Back Country on Horse Back.

We're looking forward to another great spring and summer. Openings start in March. Two night and three day fully catered all inclusive horse and mule pack trips in to the Sespe Wilderness, to the hotsprings and throughout the Los Padres National Forest including The Sisqcoc River.

Private Groups of five or more, 50% deposit to reserve dates, no experience nessesary, just a sence of adventure.

See website and BLOG For more Info.

Book before the first of next year to get this years rates!

No time for a pack trip??

How about a day adventure in the back country with your group of family or friends?

Spend the day in the saddle and relax at one of our day camps where we'll have a BBQ lunch and dutch oven cookout.

All trips including location are customized to suit your group.

We've been enjoying great weather and beautifull sunsets here on the coast too.

Daily Beach and Trail Rides always available.

Two hour Rides at Rincon Beach and Summerland. Trail Rides in Montecito.

Wine and Cheese Rides too.

www.LosPadresOutfitters.com

BIO

Graham Goodfield, Born 1978. Son of Llew and Marilyn Goodfield
Owner /Operator of Los Padres Outfitters.com
Back Country Guide and Packer. Specializing in fully catered pack trip adventures, permitted for the entire Los Padres National Forest.
Graham’s a 6th Generation Santa Barbara Native.
Worked for outfitter and artist Tony Alvis until his death 5 years ago, and the outfit was left to me.
Mule Packer for the Forest Service here in The Los Padres. I pack all of the tools and food provisions for the forest service with my mules, even pack dynamite. When packing for the forest service, I travel on my horse with 10 pack mules in tow, loaded with 150 to 200 pounds a piece.

Guided on Santa Cruz Island, before the Park Service got it.
Was a packer and hunting guide in Montana and Idaho.
Played football out in Missouri at Southeast Missouri State on an athletic scholarship and graduated from that school with a degree in Outdoor Recreation.

I’ve spent my days here in Santa Barbara County packing and guiding in the mountains, working cattle ranches and guiding on Santa Cruz Island, trying to hang on to the history of the good ol’ days. When cattle ranching on our Channel Islands and throughout the hills here on the coast were a general way of life.

Like a lot of cowboys I’ve turned to wrangling more “dudes” rather than cows finding it more profitable. Through outfitting I find it most rewarding to be able to show people the back country and let them discover what they’re missing. With horses, mules and good food, my clients get a taste of what it used to be like here in California. I’m lucky enough to meet people from all over the world and from all walks of life. I’ve never had a bad trip. It can be hot, it can cold, it can be wet and right now it’s a bit dry but it’s always beautiful on horseback and an adventure with Los Padres Outfitters. “You can see what man has made from an automobile, but you can see what God has made from the back of a horse.” C.M. Russell

Each trip whether it’s a two hour ride, all day adventure or week long pack trip is customized to suit the group. I do this because I thoroughly enjoy it. I want my clients to have a great experience that is safe and most of all have fun.

To list some of the services we provide: we do horse drawn wagon trips through the Los Padres National Forest, for those who would rather ride in a wagon than on horseback, fully catered horse and mule pack trips, hiking trips where our customers hike between camps with a light pack while there gear is packed, camp is set up for them and food is prepared when they stroll in to camp after a day of exploring, fly fishing trips, where you can hook a native rainbow trout for dinner. We take painting groups, where we will pack in to an area then drop out clients off with their easel so the can have a peaceful day of painting the country side. Also do photo trips with photographers attempting to photo wildlife such as black tail deer, California black bears, silver foxes, grey foxes, and red foxes, also a huge array of birdlife including golden eagles and the occasional condor.

Beach rides, trail rides, wine and cheese rides, riding lessons, packing instruction cattle drives, birthday parties, carriages for weddings and other events.

Santa Barbara is such a great place to visit, a place where you look one direction and see the Pacific with Santa Cruz Island just 26 miles from the coast and the other direction we have the Los Padres National forest that is 2 million acres big. Lots of our visitors will spend the day sailing or taking the Condor Express out to visit the island then join us for a ride in the back country on a mountain adventure or a quick sunset beach ride before they return to "The Grind”.

A new thing that I have started to do more of is instructional pack trips for those that are interested in learning about horsemanship and packing in the mountains with horses and mules. The experience is combined with a pack trip so its hands on. We’ll even cover safe trailering and traveling with your horses. You not only get the benefit of instruction, you get the fun pack trip experience as well. We cover all the basics of horsemanship and packing so that a person can be a confident rider, horse handler and potentially do something like this on their own. Lots of people that have horses get board of them because they just don’t get out and do stuff with them. It’s amazing what you can find when you get out there on horseback and discover new things, some people discover themselves. This is a nice experience for couples to enjoy.

I do back country pack trips all year but the favored time to go is definitely spring,

March, April and May. When it’s really green, lots of water, just getting warm enough to swim, we ride to the hot springs in the Sespe, which is a natural flowing creek with a series of hot pools, not like you normal sulfur, stagnate hot spring.

We always take our time on the ride in to camp, stopping to swim and to have our lunch and of course a cold beverage. Best time for wildflowers too.
No one has ever been attacked, by a wild animal. We do see an occasional mountain lion though and must be careful. Lots of rattle snakes, everyone wants to try them, I make Dutch oven rattle snake ordourves that are good after shooting them off my horse. Also we pack things in to camp like live lobsters and sometime we make ice cream in camp in the winter and pack it in during the summer.

I packed live lobsters in for a group, we were camping in the snow, we turned all of the lobsters loose and they were crawling around in the snow, the group thought that was great, they all got to pick their own lobster out of the snow.

I keep thirty head of horses about ten of them mules. The horses that I use in my operation are quarter horses.

My horses get rotated on a grass pasture; they have hundreds of acres to browse on Rincon Mountain overlooking the famous surf break Rincon Point, also known as The Queen of The Coast. When they are on the ranch, they get fed oat hay that we grow and bale in Upper Ojai. Hannah and I were married at the Historic Santa Barbara Mission on July 11, 09. We spent ten days sailing throughout our channel islands for our honeymoon. Our families Ranch where we live in Carpinteria just South of Santa Barbara is called Ivy Oaks, we grow avocados here and I keep some horses as well. The barn where I grow up is over 100 years old and the main Craftsmen house where my parents live now was built in 1909.

MULA

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Testimonials

Hi Guys & Gals,

I am not too sure who will open this.
Our group (from Isagenix - Beyond Courage Course) went for the horseback riding on the Beach. We all thought it was absolutely fantastic!!! If our course is offered on an annual basis (which it has been for its first 3 years), I know I for one (and most of the other riders & more as well) would love to do it again.

I am taking this opportunity to thank Marilyn, Graham, Tom & Sara (Sarah) for the fantastic time I had - I talked to everyone in our whole group & so many were very envious!
If Beyond Courage continues on an annual basis, I am personally looking forward to next year's & will endeavour to go horseback riding again!

Thanks so very much!

Eileen Ahearn

Health & Wellness Coach

World Leader in Nutritional Cleansing and Replenishment

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Dave Stamey Concert for Bruce Sandifer

If we missed you at The Santa Barbara Fiesta RODEO, it's not too late to get your SHIRT

We have limited colors and sizes, but we do have in stock:

MENS, green, black, white.  larges and XL's

Womens V-Necks, blue and grey. mediums and smalls.

$18, call (805)331-5252

free shipping for two or more.

Viva La Fiesta!!

CASA MAGAZINE COVER, www.CasaSB.com 

photo by Priscilla@SantaBarbaraSeen.com

Horses Provided by Graham Goodfield

Sheila Busch (First Lady)

Erika Martin del Campo (Spirit of Fiesta)

and 2010

El Presidente, Micheal Dominguez

Riding three of our horses down to the beach at Loons Point.

We are honored for them ride our horses in the parade on Friday as well.

(one of the largest horse parades in the country) 

Los Padres Outfitters provides nearly thirty horses and mules for participants in The Fiesta Parade every year.

Please join us for Santa Barbara's Old Spanish Days FIESTA August 4th-8th

Don't forget to get to the Fiesta Stock Horse Show and Rodeo either! 

RODEO Schedule is here  www.sbfiestarodeo.com

WAGON TO BIG PINE

A recent "Blurb" in 805 Living Magazine, join us for a beach ride!

Sarah's Rescue

This Guy got lucky.
"Top Guide" Sarah Moore was riding down the beach with three guest riders and noticed this man floating out in the water.
She got off her horse, swam out in her boots and chaps, drug him in and gave him CPR, saving his life!

Billiard Flats

My dad found this image of a gentleman taking a nap on his mule in 1918 at Billiard Flats.

Notice his Montana Peak Hat, the billiard ball and the amount of brush that isn't in the back ground.

Does anyone know the story on "the billiard ball"?

Pendola

The LPO Herd overnighting @ Pendola Station.

C.C.C. of Camarillo

The Camarillo Trail Crew, CA Conservation Corps.
Getting ready for a hard days work in the back country.
Want a good job? and learn how to work in the outdoors? Join the California Conservation Corps.
GO to: http://www.ccc.ca.gov/JOBS/jobs.htm
Los Padres Outfitters does all their mule packing and re-supply here locally, we pack tools, their provisions and whatever else they need while in camp.
Here they are teaching the mules how to strech properly before hitting the trail.

"The First Camera"

A great lady with an old fashion camera took these shots the other morning at the trailhead before we rode out. It was quite a process, 30 min per shot.
For hire, She does family portraits for people and shots of whatever you'd like, her name's:
                                      Lisa Dodge 805 643-3667

                                                                  Here's Lisa with here great assistants doing the "process".

            Allmost finished!

Amazing..Just like Ansel Adams...

Packing for The "C.R.E.W."

The Crew is a unique non-profit organization providing paid employment opportunities that develop character and leadership skills in youth ages 14-21 while improving our public and private wildlands. They work hard in the back country, this is their camp that I'm packing out from Twin Fork via the Piedra Blanca Trail.

THE CREW has a great event coming up in Ojai on April 17th, join them for a fun day with a ride/hike, music and BBQ, go to the website to contact and for more information website.
There is also an auction to benifet the CREW with many exciting items. Bring your family and friends! You can hike or bring your own horses and meet other equestrians that enjoy trail riding in the area.
If you would like to rent a horse for the trail ride, contact Los Padres Outfitters 805.331-5961
We also have horses available for kids ages 12 and older if they would like to join the ride.
$150 per horse, $25 bucks goes back to the THE CREW.

Hannah and Quinn checking out the bear's remodel.

Reilly Goodfield on her favorite horse "Suger".

EASTER FAMILY PACK TRIP TO THE OGILVY

Llewellyn Goodfield, on "Chino"The Gang

Arlene, Kerry and MarilynLlew, Bruce and Quinn Goodfield, riding Rocco. See the Video

"The Remuda"

Los Padres Outfitters Brochure

Kayak The Sespe

We Made it Oak Flats where i lost my paddle a few months ago, the water was high then. The boats just came out yesterday.

Surfers Journal article by Brad Monsma

Double Click an image to see it bigger so you can read.

Click here to see more articles about Los Padres Outfitters: www.LosPadresOutfitters.com/press.html

Looking forward to a great Spring, although we squeezed in several trips between storms this winter.