3equines
03-18-2010, 05:10 PM
Spring break began at 0900 today when I finished my final exam for the quarter. I rushed home, tacked up Peach and Gibson, and headed out on a 10-mile ride. I retraced the route I took over the weekend, finishing at my friend's farm after literally riding over the river and through the woods.
I am super excited because on Saturday I will be riding with a couple friends from my friend's farm to Lake Crescent, and around the lake on the old Spruce Railroad Trail. There are some tricky bridges on S RR trail, I am looking forward to seeing how my horses handle them.
The Saturday ride will involve two friends from nursing college, one has her own horse and has shown up in pics of recent rides and the other has not been on a horse for over 10 years but is willing to sacrifice comfort for the sake of adventure. She will ride Peach, my good reliable Haflinger mare.
Three videos from today, link to my favorite one first - just showing off a little, these are crazy switchbacks and I was riding Gibson one-handed, ponying Peach, and shooting video! Poor Gibson is pretty green still and started to get pretty frustrated at the bottom, where the switchbacks were barely the length of a single horse. But he handled it!
Second video is gorgeous fern forest, third is actually the first one I shot.... the film quality is pretty rotten, someday I will have a much nicer camera for my TrailCam!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103677692
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103677597
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103678013
I am super excited because on Saturday I will be riding with a couple friends from my friend's farm to Lake Crescent, and around the lake on the old Spruce Railroad Trail. There are some tricky bridges on S RR trail, I am looking forward to seeing how my horses handle them.
The Saturday ride will involve two friends from nursing college, one has her own horse and has shown up in pics of recent rides and the other has not been on a horse for over 10 years but is willing to sacrifice comfort for the sake of adventure. She will ride Peach, my good reliable Haflinger mare.
Three videos from today, link to my favorite one first - just showing off a little, these are crazy switchbacks and I was riding Gibson one-handed, ponying Peach, and shooting video! Poor Gibson is pretty green still and started to get pretty frustrated at the bottom, where the switchbacks were barely the length of a single horse. But he handled it!
Second video is gorgeous fern forest, third is actually the first one I shot.... the film quality is pretty rotten, someday I will have a much nicer camera for my TrailCam!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103677692
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103677597
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103678013