About Us

Mountain View Ranch and Arena training and educating horses and individuals on creating an ideal horse that is obedient, responsive, well balanced and a pleasure to ride in a non-confrontational manner.

Mountain View Ranch and Arena producing sound, well-trained haflingers and/or domestic stock to be safe and ready to use in various areas within the industry; Outfitting Businesses, private individuals, Forest Service and the National Park Service. And training individuals on the art of passive/natural horse training techniques.

The goal being to understand horses and mules and how they learn, so they can feel comfortable and confident in training them. By teaching people how to build trust with the horse, they will get a gentler animal that is willingly obedient rather than obeying out of fear. The result being a trained, safe, gentle animal in a shorter time.

If we understand how our horses think and learn, then we can understand why it is possible to teach a horse a particular behavior in different ways and have each way be successful. We can also understand why attempting to teach a behavior in a way that goes against how a horse naturally learns and understands may be unsuccessful.