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Re: [RC] CTR, end, LD - Carolyn Loedeman

Hey Jeanie,
Remember the Elk tree we saw up at the Region 13 CTR that year, You, me and Mary Belle!!  What a great ride, me and my sponsors!!!  looking forward to doing it again.  Carolyn
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:58 PM
Subject: [RC] CTR, end, LD

Bottom line, no matter what discipline one rides, successfully completing the ride or rides sure does improve one's horsemanship.  If distance riding had not come into my life, I would not be as good a horseperson as I am today.  That doesn't mean I can't improve, but I would not have near the knowledge that floats in my brain.  If we want to keep our trails, I figure all of us, including those slow pleasure riders, better stick together.
This past weekend I did not go to a ride.  Instead I went into the gorgeous Pigeon River country in northern Michigan with other distance riders as well as pleasure riders.  We rode 4 days, explored every day, and we mostly walked.  It was hard but not as hard as I thought it would be.  We saw elk (I didn't), saw elk scrapes, saw elk wallows, saw bear signs, got into arguments while using the GPS units as to what direction we needed to go to get back to camp, ate like pigs with meals cooked over an open fire, told ghost stories (the dogman being one of them), had squirt gun fights, watched the kids and Walt (over 40) stand on their horses, and just had a good time.  The result?  We all want to do this again.  If you have never eaten a dump cake made in a dutch oven over an open fire, you don't know what you are missing.  I didn't even eat ice cream and I gained weight!  Jeanie

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