We’ve been getting a good amount of snow with this storm. It’s great! The horses are total characters. Whenever they see me they come running for the barn. The funny part is that they are all coated in ice. Their backs, rumps, manes and faces are layered in ice and icicles! What if the wind [...]
I took this video at the High Desert ride in October. I rode Bo both days there and this was some of the trail on the second day. We finished in the top ten that day and were 1st in our weight division, so there aren’t a lot of tracks ahead of us – I [...]
Click on each day in the list below to see a separate photo album. I have previously posted the 3rd days photos, but the rest were all just put up this morning.
This year, on day 1 we had a light rain in the morning followed by some snow flurries after lunch. After that, it cleared [...]
and this…is what it looked like before the mud…
The High Desert endurance ride this year was especially colorful. The fall colors were really nice this year – we rode through tons of yellow and orange cottonwoods. What a great ride!
I decided to take only Bo to this ride. Chief had just done four days at the Grand Canyon XP he needed [...]
Here is a list of the XP Medal horses for 2009.
Photo of each of the Gold Medal horses with their barn names and riders are above. Thanks to Steve Bradley for the use of the photos!
In order to qualify for Gold, Silver or Bronze level the same horse and rider must complete the following at [...]
It’s always good to get back home after a long ride. Yet, it’s also kind of sad that it’s over already. It seems like the multidays just fly by sometimes and this one was no exception. I always like riding at the Grand Canyon even in the years when the weather doesn’t cooperate. This year [...]
Another great day. I ended up riding Bo one day – the fourth day, and Chief the other four days, days 1-2-3 and 5 for a total of 250 miles between them. The weather ended up cooperating very nicely for us. Steve Bradley got some great photos. I also have quite [...]
I didn’t know it yet, but this part coming up was going to be the best part of the ride, and the worst part of the ride for us. I always try to look at everything as positively as possible. For example, I knew that we had 22 mile left to go. Why, that’s not [...]
We left Washoe and the 39 mile vetcheck and got onto the nice singletrack trail. Tigger saw Jerry and Erasmo ahead of us and thought it would be fun to catch up to them. They were stopping for something and we went on by then started climbing up. Some of this trail was supposedly new [...]
Click here to download the PDF file of the five day ride results. Sorry it took me so long to get it posted – had a lot going on the last couple of weeks. If somebody has a correction or spots any errors, please let me know
To learn more about XP rides or [...]
I was on…the horse. We were trotting down the trail! The sun was coming up and I had a big grin. Tigger did too, I could tell. We were on our way. I was getting excited. This was for real and I was able to breath a sigh of relief that I was on the [...]
I went to the ride not knowing if I was really going to get to ride or not. It’s complicated. You see, Dave Rabe was supposed to ride White Cloud at the AERC NC 100 the week before. Turned out that White Cloud had other ideas and the day before that ride he got sweaty [...]
The AERC National Championship ride for 2009 is being held in beautiful Greenville, California at a privately owned summer camp called Copper Creek.
The ride is 2 hours from Lake Tahoe, 30 minutes from Lassen National Park, and about 5 hours from the San Francisco Bay Area. Camp will be in a large meadow with plenty [...]
Heading up to Robie Park for the start of Tevis and getting the webcast started. I’m posting a twitter feed below, hope it works. To view the Tevis Cup 100 Mile Ride webcast click here. Photos will be added here starting tomorrow evening. If you have a Twitter account you can sign up to receive [...]
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