Epic Trail Ride

It’s been an exciting time with lots of visitors! I went to Pullman to get some down time (not really) and when I came back I had the farm to myself for just a day.

I learned that there won’t actually be another person joining me, so I have the farm to myself. Saturday a previous working student came to see the horses and ride. It was nice to have someone to do trot sets with, it made me really wish someone else was going to be here this summer. Kari, one of my other roommates from Pullman, joined me Saturday and stayed the night, and stayed most of Monday. It’s nice to have someone to do the work and riding with, but then that means things get done sooner and the afternoon has more down time.

On Sunday Kari and I took Ami and Dolly and got so, so, lost in the woods on the logging trails. At the start of the ride Kari said "Did you hear that? It sounded like a bear" which was sort of unnerving. The idea was to ride around and learn about the trails, but we were mostly thrilled to stumble through a new forest planting into a field. Luckily at that point we were about ten minutes from the barn. Also good that all of us have some cross country experience, because we needed it! Other than that it was for the most part trouble free. We ran into a few spots where some horses would have lost their minds if they didn’t know about jumping ditches.

Monday we each took a lesson, Kari on Dolly and I on Runoff. I had some trouble with right canter with Runoff, getting it and keeping it, but we got there and then went for a hack. I know my left leg is weaker than my right leg, which would explain right canter trouble from my perspective. Kari seemed to have fun and was doing a good job at keeping Big Dolly going, and had some nice walk-canter-walk transitions. After Runoff and Dolly were done we took Ami and Peggy for a walk in the woods, and managed to not get lost!

Kari took some pictures, I don’t have them yet, but hopefully I can add them next time.