Karen's Musings & Endurance Ride Stuff » ride report http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog miscellaneous musings about horses, health and life in general Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:55:40 +0000 en hourly 1 2012 Cuyama Oaks XP Ride http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/04/2012-cuyama-oaks-xp-ride/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/04/2012-cuyama-oaks-xp-ride/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:53:37 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=9008 [[Show as slideshow]] I know I’ve been a bit behind on my blog.  I did finally manage to put together some photos from the ride.  I’ll post another album below from a previous year.  The ride was nice this time, but it was certainly lacking color (compared to other years).  The ride went fairly well overall – I rode Chief on days 1 and 3, and Bo on the middle day.  I’m trying to

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/04/2012-cuyama-oaks-xp-ride/feed/ 1 Bar H 2012 Ride Report http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/03/bar-2012-ride-report/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/03/bar-2012-ride-report/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:05:52 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8950 I’ve been behind on blogging due to being at rides for the last three weeks.  I rode Bo and Chief both two days at Eastern Mojave, then from there we moved over to the Bar H ride in Perris, CA.

It was a great trip overall and I was happy to get back home.  It was quite a change going from 80 degree temps on Sunday to being home where it’s 20 degrees and

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/03/bar-2012-ride-report/feed/ 0 Death Valley Warmup, December 10 & 11, 2011 http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/12/death-valley-warmup-december-10-11-2011/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/12/death-valley-warmup-december-10-11-2011/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:04:17 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8589 We had a pretty good time last weekend.  I rode Chief on Friday to mark trail along with Sue Wilkie and her horse Rocky.  Then, I rode Bo on the first day of the ride in the 50, and Chief in the 50 on the 2nd day.  The weather turned out great, and all things considered the turnout was decent – though still down over the previous year.  I think that may just be

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/12/death-valley-warmup-december-10-11-2011/feed/ 0 Bill Thornburgh Family & Friends Endurance Ride 50/50 2011 Ride Report & Photos http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/11/bill-thornburgh-family-friends-endurance-ride-5050/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/11/bill-thornburgh-family-friends-endurance-ride-5050/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:35:34 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8353

A photo of my ride photo from day 2.

This past weekend was the 2-day Bill Thornburg endurance ride.  I rode both days of it on Pro Bono (“Bo”).  The weather was perfect, though a bit warm for those of us with horses that already have winter coats.

Ride entries have been down a lot this season and this was a fairly small ride.  The first day there were 28 or 29

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/11/bill-thornburgh-family-friends-endurance-ride-5050/feed/ 3 2011 Grand Canyon XP – Photos & Ride Report http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/10/2011-grand-canyon-xp-photos-ride-report/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/10/2011-grand-canyon-xp-photos-ride-report/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:17:22 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8337 Karen and Bo, Grand Canyon XP 2011. Photo by Steve Bradley.

Karen and Bo, Grand Canyon XP 2011. Photo by Steve Bradley.

I’ve been trying to get these photos posted for the last couple of weeks!  The first two at the top were taken by Steve Bradley.

You can see we had a really gorgeous ride this year.  The fall colors were spectacular and as an added bonus we even got to

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/10/2011-grand-canyon-xp-photos-ride-report/feed/ 2 Bryce 2011 XP – 2 days made for 16,000 miles, yay Bo and Cheefy! http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/09/bryce-2011-xp/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/09/bryce-2011-xp/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:28:26 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8278 We had a most excellent ride this year at the 5 day Bryce XP.  We headed down early to help with trail, as there was a severe blow-down of trees on the trail.  It took a lot of work to get everything cleared and the trail marked so that horse’s could get through.  The FS, Dave Rabe and Dwight, Ann and Dave Nicholson all really worked hard chainsawing and clearing trails.  Kerry Redente and

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/09/bryce-2011-xp/feed/ 3 So you want to be an endurance rider? http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/08/endurance-rider/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/08/endurance-rider/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:45:34 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8269 I wrote this many years ago and thought it was worth sharing.  To learn more about endurance riding, visit www.aerc.org    Karen

Since I began endurance riding about 10 years ago I have been asked many questions. Many of these questions had to do with which rides do I like best, how to do something and in general things you could find in a book or by trial and error. Recently, I had the

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/08/eastern-high-sierra-classic-26th-year-2011-ride-report/feed/ 5 What I did this summer (so far) http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/07/summer/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/07/summer/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:54:57 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=7987 I haven’t had time to devote much time to this blog.  I had a great time on the 2011 XP this summer.

I wrote a journal during the trip, which is here (from that link, click on my name – Karen Chaton).

I had the most amazing trip riding Granite Chief and Pro Bono 2040 miles on the Pony Express trail, from St. Joseph, MO to Virginia City, NV.

It was some adventure.  We

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/07/summer/feed/ 9 Cuyama Oaks XP 2011 Ride Photos http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/04/cuyama-oaks-xp-2011-ride-photos/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/04/cuyama-oaks-xp-2011-ride-photos/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:48:14 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=7819 This is a mix of photos (at bottom of this post) from before the ride and during the ride.  There are trail marking photos as well as photos from all three days of the actual Cuyama ride.

The week before the scheduled date of the Cuyama ride, it rained…and rained, and rained!  Fortunately we were able to reschedule the ride to the following weekend.

Had we not been able to reschedule we would have

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