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I ride all year in FL but in the summer only ride in the morning. In the 
CO mountains, the rule of thumb in the summer is to be over any passes 
you need to be over by noon. The last thing you want to do is get stuck 
on a pass in an afternoon storm - and they can  come up fast. We were 
backpacking near Darango many years back. We came over the pass coming 
out of Chicago Basin heading south. We were on a 12,000 foot plateau 
when a thunderstorm hit. All there was to take cover was boulders. Here 
we were hail crashing down, lightning crashing down and on a 12,000 flat 
plateau. Not a good feeling. As long as you are not on top of a pass - 
or mesa - when a thunderstorm hits in the CO mountains you should be fine.

Truman

Anita Messenger wrote:

> As far as Aspen, which of course is internationally
> known, well, the 
> more
> beautiful side of the mountains is on the "other
> side."
>
> Carla Richardson
> Colorado>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> My sister and I got to ride the Colorado mountains
> just north of there (approx) a year ago July on the
> Arapaho Ranch (not too far from Steamboat Springs).
> The ranch houses are sitting at over 8,000' elevation,
> and our ride took us up over 9,000 while we helped to
> move cattle, etc. This ranch only uses Morgan horses
> for their stock horses. They seem to handle the high
> elevations pretty well. My sister ended up buying the
> gelding that she rode, and even took her husband back
> up there a couple of months later to ride again. We
> got some really beautiful pictures, and it's something
> we will treasure doing for the rest of our lives. 
>
> On another Colorado trip the year before, though, we
> kept running into horse people who were telling us
> that they don't ride in the afternoons during the late
> spring/summer due to too much chance of lightning
> strikes. I have an endurance friend in Florida who
> tells me the same thing about riding down there in the
> summers. She rides mostly in the fall/winter, but what
> do the Colorado people do when their winters are hip
> deep in snow? :-) 
>
> Here in Arkansas, fall/winter/early spring can be
> truly wonderful for riding, and summers can be pretty
> good, too, if we aren't having one that is too hot and
> humid. The summer of 2004 was very nice with one cool
> front after another coming in. Don't ask me about this
> past summer, though. LOL! 
>
> Anita in Arkansas 
>
>  


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