SAD NEWS: Porteus died in Summer 2010. We will miss him greatly. His offspring will have a lasting impact on our herd for years to come. We'll leave his listing up as a lasting tribute to this extraordinary stud. We are pleased to announce our partnership with Dusty Creek and Reiling Ranch in ownership of this extraordinary herdsire. He is one of the most outstanding colored herdsires we have ever seen. If your goal is to breed to the ULTIMATE™, please consider Porteus. We cannot describe him better than Snowmass Alpacas so here are their words: "Named after the best Port we have ever tasted… And a toast to the very best XXXTREME production son ever to be born. The entire Alpaca breeding world knows who Snowmass XXXtreme is after taking herdsire of the year 2 years running 2006 & 2007. This particular son, Snowmass Porteus was the Ultimate reason why. Porteus in our opinion is the ULTIMATE™ in COLORED ALPACA production and why he has been staged in the Snowmass publication of The Making of Champions Part II as having the ultimate colored alpaca fleece.(A LONG, FINE, XXXtremely BRIGHT, staple and incredibly consistent through the entire body, from head to chest to toe) Snowmass Porteus simply stated has the “LOOK”, strong, upstanding, and extremely well balanced in his frame added to his ELITE FIBER he has INCREDIBLE POTENTIAL to raise the bar in ALPACA COLOR FIBER. Snowmass Porteus, as well his sire, has taken our COLOR breeding program to the top level of SUPERIORITY equal to the most ELITE whites. Porteus was shown at the highest level show, The Futurity, and took first place both as a Juvenile and Yearling and moved victoriously into the CHAMPION CIRCLE. Many Juveniles place well the first year but the real test is if they can stand in the same position the next year. His 1st yr AFD of 15.1 and 2nd year of 16.5. HE IS THE ULTIMATE™ of Snowmass XXXtreme’s production and he will take your breeding program to the highest levels of excellence because that’s exactly what these genetics have done for us!"

Blue Gate Golden Valkyrie is our first daughter by our elite Peruvian herdsire, Golden One. Valkyrie is carrying a beautiful dark fawn fleece that is very bright, silky, and crimpy. She has her dam's fineness and her sire's density - she is one very special female. Valkyrie's dam Valorie has produced our color champion Benito Juarez who has a gorgeous high frequency crimp in this fine fleece. Benito was also a 2nd place winner at the AOBA National Fleece Show. We know Valorie can impart her rich color genetics and fine fleece to her offspring. Valorie carries Accoyo and Sollocota genetics from her sire AFA Royal Peruvian Valor (a Royal Fawn son), and rich color genetics from her black dam Lucita ALOA. Valkyrie's sire is our own Golden One - an intensely dense and fine Macusani/Sollocota Peruvian herdsire that we were fortunate to acquire from the elite herd at Snowmass Alpacas. Golden One is a vicuna type alpaca who we believe will move our breeding program towards our goal of re-creating the Incan alpaca in the North American herd. His offspring to date are showing great promise in the high degree of brightness and fineness in their fleece. From what we can see in young Valkyrie's fleece, Golden One appears to have done his job. She did well in her first and only show - 3rd place in a very competitive fawn class. With all of the health issues surrounding shows we decided not to show our females for the rest of the season. However, Valkyrie's fleece was entered in two shows and she won the blue ribbon both times.