Category: Access Adventure

  • Muir, his horses provide outdoor adventures for disabled

    Muir, his horses provide outdoor adventures for disabled

    Michael Muir has not let a diagnoses of multiple sclerosis stop him from enjoying the outdoors, even if it is from his wheelchair.

  • In Memory of Stonewall Blanche

    In Memory of Stonewall Blanche

    March 1, 1992-December 29, December 29, 2018 STONEWALL SPORTHORSE CHAMPION (COMBINED DRIVING, LONG DISTANCE DRIVING) 1992 Black Leopard Mare Charlie Degas x Stonewall Crystal by Prince Talisheek Bred by Stonewall Stud, Winters, California Owned by Cheri’ Smith, Titusville, Florida Bingo! It was obvious when the peacock spotted black leopard filly…

  • Harnessing Hope and Healing

    Harnessing Hope and Healing

    Michael Muir has always been fascinated with genetics and breeding. As a child, he bred mice for different coat colors. By the age of nine, a family friend helped him start a small flock of sheep that he bred and raised for the local 4H in his hometown of Dixon,…

  • Rush Ranch provides a new lease on life

    Rush Ranch provides a new lease on life

    It wasn’t the sight of the horses that triggered something inside Brent Satterlee’s brain.  It was the smell of manure and earth that started to bring back memories, says his wife, Kristi Satterlee.  “It was like a fog lifted, and he just woke up.” Brent spent 20 years in the…

  • BARN RAISING

    BARN RAISING

    Our friends at Lighthouse for the Blind have an AmeriCorps Team helping to rebuild their Enchanted Hills Camp damaged in the devastating Wine Country fire. The team had a free day and volunteered to help with a stable construction project at Rush Ranch. The awesome crew accomplished a great deal.…

  • JUDY WAELBROCK IS SOLANO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR

    Beyond our program partnership with the Solano Land Trust, our longest collaboration (spanning more than a decade) is with the students and teachers of Golden Hills School. On Fridays during the school year, Golden Hills teacher Judy Waelbrock brings a group of special needs students to volunteer at our Rush…

  • TRAINING FOR DRIVERS WITH DISABILITIES

    TRAINING FOR DRIVERS WITH DISABILITIES

    United States Driving for the Disabled sponsored a training clinic for carriage drivers with disabilities on March 31 and April 1 at Clay Station Horse Park near Wilton, California. Marcie Quist, Committee Chair for Team USA to international driving competitions, and USDFD President Diane Kastama hosted the event, featuring renowned…

  • STEFANIE PUTNAM WINS PEGASUS AWARD

    We often meet people profoundly struggling with the shattering experiences of a crippling injury or a devastating diagnosis of disease that will alter the course of their life. We teach them to focus on what is possible to do, rather than lament what they have lost. It doesn’t have to…

  • BERKELEY NONPROFIT HELPS DISABLED PEOPLE

    BERKELEY NONPROFIT HELPS DISABLED PEOPLE

    Access Adventure has a long history with Bay Area Outreach Recreation Program. We are delighted to see them several times a year. Activities and Outreach Director, Lori Gray attends every event and serves Access Adventure by providing our volunteers training in service to people with disabilities.

  • OAKLAND DANCE COMPANY REACHES OUT TO VETERANS

    OAKLAND DANCE COMPANY REACHES OUT TO VETERANS

    Judy Smith is the Artistic Director of AxisDance Company and an avid horsewoman. Judy thought her active life with horses was over when she became a quadriplegic at the age of seventeen. After we met, she became a successful student of Access Adventure and learned the exciting sport of carriage…