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I've finally gotten broadband here after a year of using a mobile phone connection that sometimes took a day to send one email. Looking at the photos of the snow and the little band of Forecastfox at the bottom of my browser that says we have nice weather (about 35 C) for two days and then 42 C for Sunday!? is pretty weird. I'm still struggling to find people in Egypt who just want to travel through whatever we have and not race in the desert.

ma

On 6/7/07, Karen <kchaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here are photos from today's ride, the third
day:  http://xprides.com/Schellbourne_Photo_album/Schellbourne_Day3.html

I'm uploading the first two days of photos now.  They are more like
'ordinary' rides though, so not all that interesting.  :-)  Today was
a great day. We got to ride in snow and it was just gorgeous!  It was
a pretty tough day with lots of climbing, then of course the snow
storm and winds made it more of a challenge.  So we rode up and down
mountains in either snow, or mud.

I think I probably had one of the best rides I've ever had in my life
(which is saying a LOT).  Chief was so awesome.  I wouldn't have
wanted to have been out there on an inexperienced horse that is for
sure!  I'll post some video I took of us going through the snow and
mud in various sections later.  It was so fantastic to just cover my
face with my hands or arm, drop the reins, lean sideways and let
Chief get us where we needed to go, even if we were being blown
sideways in a whiteout.

Nothing Adventured, Nothing Attained.  (great quote!)  We did an
enormous amount of both today.  This is why I do this.  I do need to
stop smiling so much, as in such adverse conditions it causes ones
gums to freeze.

I'll start uploading days 1 and 2, and also some of the video into my
blog:   http://easycareinc.typepad.com/karen/  So check later, it'll
take awhile as I took a lot of photos.  Way cool, I also have had
Bares foamed (no gaiters) onto all four of Chief's feet and they
stayed on.  I am impressed.   He is so Mr. All-terrain-vehicle - just
motors through everything and never slips.  Glad to be on him today,
the new guy really still has so much to learn still.  Won't he have
an adventure tomorrow.  Then Chief will get to hopefully do the
Ranger Trail (if there isn't too much snow) on the last day.  I love
that day of the ride, and the weather is going to clear, yay!

Looking forward to the 4th day tomorrow!

K


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