What we Wished For!

Two GPS tracks of two rides!

Don't ask me how I did it, but this time I managed to overlay our ride route today onto the top of the route from the 17th!  As you can tell, we got MUCH farther!  When we woke up to gray skies, mist & fresher air it was a hallelujah moment!  A perfect riding day & we were riding! 

A "where are we moment"  :-)

When we came out of a large stand of trees to this clear-cut, we had an idea that Hwy 9 was below us.  We pushed on & entered another large stand of timber, it was like riding through Narnia!  Moss hanging from the trees & so quiet.

Gray green in the timber~

 Some of these trails were heavily overgrown, so we had to pick our way - but we never did get stopped!  Linda recognized where we were, I did too eventually :-)  By the time we looked to see how long we'd been riding - we'd been out over three hours!  We circled back & onto the "fun" trails through the trees!  Yippee!  

Same picture, different day & With Lynn!

 We worked our way back & up the ridge - to find ourselves back in the clouds, it was still misting & by the time we reached the overlook to the lake, it was actually RAIN!  Not much, but we'll take anything we can get!  That fresh, clean air was a true gift!

Linda, Dawn & Lynn

 I had to lighten this up, but you get the idea.  :-)  This time Farah "rubbed" my right 1/2 chap on a couple trees - so this tells me that she is trying to make adjustments!  We did have to go back & do a section where she let her need for speed get ahead of her brain - but the second time through it was perfect.  We did have one very large spook at a rock...  it seems that Farah heard somewhere that rocks have eaten horses...  When we came to the last rock she had spooked at, we went right by.

By the time we got back, we'd been out almost five hours & it didn't feel like enough~  More exploring to do too!