Another 30+ Mile Week~

Smooth, fast ride~

As usual, I'm in awe of Joyce's natural innate ability to lay out a ride.  This one was smooth, gave us a couple really nice trotting loops on good footing & kept us off the wet & muddy trails most of the route.

We left after 11 a.m.  with only two other trailers in the parking area.  Never did run into anyone out there - but the area can easily hide many, many riders :-)  Once the worst of the competitive edge was worked off with what uphill trotting we could find, our two horses settled down & impressed us with their steady over 10+ mph. trot. 

Farah has taken to trying to intimidate geldings - if I bring her behind them, she tries to nip them on the butt.  If she's with another mare, such as Dena's Bella & snarls at her...  Bella just snarls back!  :-)  Today Jesse just did his level best to ignore her!  Just as we were heading back, the first of the sprinkles hit - by the time we were at the trailer parking, the wind came up in a rush & the rain hit sideways!  Perfect timing!