Overview of Salinas Rodeo and Big Week

Hello everybody! Hope your having a great week so far! We enjoyed the California Rodeo Salinas and Big week. It was a fun filled, action packed 5 days. The PBR was definetly the highlight for me. Getting to see my bullriding buddies from all around the country, my stock contractor friends, met with photogrophers, and saw all my home town friends. What a blast!

Salinas PBR Arena view

Before the PBR kicked off

It was a beautiful night, but a bit chilly. Welcome to Salinas where you wear a jacket in the middle of July!! haha

This is me, Austin Whitmore, with the Salinas Rodeo arena in the backround.

This was too funny. He definitely wins the goofiest dressed cowboy award!! 

We had a great time with sponsor tent passes, private bars, arena passes, front row seats to the bullfights etc. It was for sure one of the best Big Weeks ever. 

Another highlight of the week was the California Rodeo Museum. We learned a ton about the history of Salinas and Big Week. If only we lived 50-100 years ago. The whole town came!

This is a poster from the 1983 Salinas Rodeo. Pretty cool colors!

Jeff Davis of 4 Star Rodeo unloads his bulls on Wednesday before the rodeo kicks off!

Cool shot of some Rafter G bucking horses

Salinas is famous for it's freestyle bullfights. The winner of this event in Salinas is known to be that years world champion. There are only a few rodeos that feature the bullfights these days. 

Enjoying free cocktails in the sponsor tent! Right to left, Me(Austin Whitmore), Bullrider Mike VanBlarcom, and Team Roper Josh Johnson

The Freestyle match feautures a great introduction with pyrotecnics! 

Well over all it was a BIG Week and GREAT time once again. Hope you are enjoying the Blog so far!

Big Week and The California Rodeo Salinas

Welcome to all of our new followers! We here at Cowboy Fresh are very excited to be introducing a Blog. We are going to be combining our passion of Photogrophy, writing, western culture, and fashion and put it into a very active blog! This week is pretty much a holiday here in Salinas California. It is the 102nd Annual California Rodeo Salinas. Big Week in Salinas started this past weekend with The Kiddie Kappers parade. The Professional Bull Riding cranks off the Rodeo week on Wednesday Night, followed by four days of P.R.C.A action! Even an Alan Jackson Concert to boot! We will take lots of pictures, hope you enjoy!

                               This is a picture of the Bucking Chutes at Salinas I(Austin) took a few years ago

Old Salinas program that has been hanging up in the house since I was a kid

I was featured in the newspaper when I was 4 years old. Pretty cool Salinas History right here!

Hope you enjoyed our first post. This first post and several others are written by the founder of Cowboy Fresh, Austin Whitmore. We will have several designers also posting as time goes on. Cheers to big week! Be blessed!