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LOL, last weekend, my grandson and I went ouit for a ride in the rain... I figured if we don't ride in the rain, we won't ride at all... and he wants to start distance riding, so I figured he needs to learn to ride in the rain too.. he was quite a trooper and never whined once!  (except about his new saddle which is a bit hard on his tush, I guess..._

 

chris

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > That's pretty much the way I'm approaching it here in Kansas. Even if I
> > could get my trailer out of the mud to go somewhere, the trails are so
> > bad they are almost impassible... so we do 4 to 6 mile workouts on our
> > gravel roads. Right now the roads are pretty wet, so they aren't too
> > hard on the horses' bare feet. No point in putting shoes on them in this
> > mud, sigh..... this just sucks!
>
> I guess I should quit beefing about our frozen ground with just enough goo
> on top on the south slopes to be slick, and just enough ice on the north
> slopes to be slick... So yes, we are utilizing the county roads a lot
> more than our imagination prefers here as well....
>
> We did manage a 20-mile ride last Sunday, in pretty good time despite the
> footing (or maybe I already said that), so even though Zeffer's feet went
> out from under him
>  in the snow and mud on one stretch, it was at a walk
> and we did it in slomo, so no harm, no foul...
>
> (Maybe this is why they call us "endurance" riders, and everyone else in
> the county thinks we're nuts?? The only other folks horseback in this
> neck of the woods this time of year are the cowboys who still prefer to
> ride the calving pens--and their horses are all sharp-shod and going at a
> walk...)
>
> Heidi
>
>
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