Off the Road!

We had such a good ride today! I couldn’t believe how warm it was, so even though the sky was dreary, I certainly didn’t feel that way, and neither did my beloved pony! The trails have packed snow about knee high, so we headed up Back Street. I led Didder back and forth around the “trouble area” from last week, but it didn’t really seem to be a problem. About a mile up the road, I noticed an old county road was cleared out, so we headed up that way, and then I was astonished to see that someone had PLOWED it!!! “???” is what I was thinking but I said a little prayer of thanks. Once we got a ways in, I had an “aha” moment because I spied two skidders and a log loader. So did AhD, and he didn’t like them much. We pranced by them, and headed on. We kept going and going, picking our way very carefully, and, wow, was I ever happy to see the loggers had created us a nice new trail! I did not have the camera today (it was home, needed for the results of an 8^th grade science experiment), but I will take pictures to share tomorrow. It was beautiful! We turned around when we hit a serious sucky mud patch, and then enjoyed ourselves practicing gaiting on Back Street. I love it! He’s gaining! I researched AhD’s pedigree to see that his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather did a running walk, so combined with his fox-trotting sire, who knows what will turn up in his repertoire.

We did try a regular trail today, and trudged up a few hundred feet, but it was really hard work for Didder, so we will try for that next weekend.