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The next ride – a 100 miler

I have a feeling that for this upcoming ride I’ll be the weak link.  I managed to get through four days of the Mojave ride, but just barely.  I made it home then went to the orthopedist right away.  The xrays showed that I have calcified tendonitis in my shoulder.  So I got a steroid [...]

Death Valley Warmup RIDE Report (part 4)

I decided to ride Bo the first day.  I’m not sure why, maybe because Chief did more miles trail marking so I figured he could use the extra day break he’d get before going on day 2?  In either case, there wasn’t any real definite reason for picking which horse to ride which day.  Sometimes [...]

Barefoot transitioning: Hoof Boot Q & A

Now that more and more people are reading my blog, I get a lot of feedback and requests from people about topics that they would like to see covered.  I’m definitely not running short on ideas anytime soon, which is great!
At any given time I’ve got at least a dozen or more posts in draft [...]

Grand Canyon Day 5: It’s over already, wow!

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 [...]

Getting ready to ride – Grand Canyon XP

The Grand Canyon XP ride starts tomorrow.  I think I’m ready, or as ready as I’m going to be.  I rode Chief yesterday to get the edge off, and also to help mark another section of trail.  He is such a character, that horse – he definitely doesn’t need to be entered in an endurance [...]

Karen and Tigger’s Virginia City 100 Endurance Ride Story, Pt 1

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 [...]

Eastern High Sierra Classic Endurance Ride Photos 2009

I put up a huge album of photos from the ride yesterday. There are photos from three of us – two riders. Mine are bay colored ears and Sue’s photos grey colored. Here are a few of the photos. To see the entire album, click here.
This was Jackie’s 24th year for [...]

The myths and realities of barefoot hooves

Rather than writing this all out myself, I’m going to share a bit here from Kim Cassidy’s website.  She wrote a piece called: Barefoot: The Myth and the Reality.  There are some good bits of information in there.  I think that this journey we are all taking with our horses has many routes and paths.  [...]

The Honest Scrap Award

Crysta at Go Diego Go was kind enough to bestow the “Honest Scrap” award to my blog!   I’ve been reading Go Diego Go since it was started and can totally relate to what Crysta has gone through in getting a new endurance horse started.  The injuries – oh my!  Ouch.  She recently did a great [...]

More on the glue, boots and endurance horse topic

Bet you thought I covered everything there was to cover on this topic, eh?  Well, almost.
I want to talk a bit about the glues that we are using to glue hoof boots on horses.  I think that there is a lot of concern regarding the use of polyurethane glue and horse hooves.  The [...]

Glues, hoof boots and endurance horses

Here are a couple of photos of Chief’s hooves following the Schellbourne ride.  I removed his glue on boots immediately after finishing the 5th day of Fort Schellbourne – in fact, the boots came off before the saddle did!  Chief had the hind boots glued on for just under a week and he had the [...]

Schellbourne Day 1

Here are a few photos from today.  The ride went well with more than 70 riders.  I had a really super ride on Chief, one of the best I’ve ever had.  I say that a lot!  We were fortunate to have cloudcover in the morning which kept things cooled down.  Lunch was in a beautiful [...]

Some reasons why I like and don’t like glue on hoof boots

The first time I left boots glued on Chief for longer than a couple of weeks was earlier this year and I left them on him for three weeks.  When I took them off I wasn’t really particularly happy with how much hoof growth he had and that his feet hadn’t been able to self-wear.
I [...]

Hell’s Kitchen Canyon Ride Report & Photos

May 16, 2009 was the 29th consecutive running of the Hell’s Kitchen Canyon endurance ride in Gunnison, Utah.  For the last 13 years Dr. Bruce Burnham has managed the ride.  A total of 27 riders started the 50 with 25 completions.  Two pulls were for lameness.  On the 25 mile LD ride there were 16 [...]

Back from Utah

It’s hard to believe that I rode 50 miles yesterday in Gunnison, Utah — and now I’m home, almost 600 miles away. I had a really great time and will do a more thorough ride report complete with an album of photos. Hell’s Kitchen Canyon is a really nice ride.  This was the [...]