Character

The West was built by the determination of men & women with strong character.  Among those men were Theodore Roosevelt. During his Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt used his authority to protect wildlife and public lands lands by creating the United States Forest Service (USFS) and establishing 150 national forests. He protected approximately 230 million acres of public land between 1901 and 1909.

One of - and the finest of only a handful of private ranches inside of the Gunnison National forest makes this property unique - and the experiences it offers makes it a life experience with each visit. Families are still grateful today for the forethought of the decree.

Roosevelt summed up the character of the men and women that pioneered the west in a speech at Sarbone, France after they started to undertake the hard work of rebuilding France and the greater Europe. The men and women invited to the Double H strongly subscribe to this perspective still today. Roosevelt captured this in the following words:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." 

-Theodore Roosevelt