Ridecamp:
Storm coming in. This is like the worst picture ever, because you (the reader) don't know that you're barely seeing a huge range of mountains behind that storm front.
From 2010, same general view, with huge mountain range visible:
Cersei:
:P
DEATH TO STICKS!
Ride meeting:
One of the ride photos:
Vet check:
Standing around that fire - that is what you call endurance!! Beautiful pics!
ReplyDeleteI'd say "it looks cold" but I don't want to take my hands out of my gloves to type that...oh, hold on, wait a sec... >g<
ReplyDeleteBrrr... cold just looking at it!
ReplyDeleteBrrrr - I agree with Tammy, it gives new meaning to the word endurance!
ReplyDeleteBrrrrr!!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the picture of you on Dixie in the frost. Looks like something out of a magazine.
I love the photo of you all bundled up and riding Dixie through the frozen landscape--though it makes me shiver--sitting here at my desk (!)
ReplyDeleteLiar, liar. I know you've got more pictures--I saw them in your scrapbook!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm not sure that qualifies as a "huge range of mountains" to anybody from the west, unless the whole Sierra Nevada is hiding back there somewhere. (when I was living back east, my ex used to call the local ranges (we were between the Catskills and the Poconos) the "Pennsylvania Pimples."
Congratulations on a great rides, a great trailer-camper conversion, and a super purple hoofpick!
LOL, the ones in the scrapbook are just more official ride photos - same place on the trail with slightly different views. And the Petersens aren't huge (7800', ridecamp is at 5500 or so) but they're long and continuous - they take up the whole horizon. They run for 10-12 miles north-south along the CA/NV border.
DeleteGood gods, it looks COLD. Really, really cold.
ReplyDeleteI thought eventers and foxhunters were crazy, but man, you endurance riders are in a league of your own. That pic of you coming into your vet check just looks... brrrr!
OMG I'm so glad I'm didn't go. I would never have come out of my sleeping bag.
ReplyDeleteAwesome pics :)!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks so cold!! It also looks fun, though, and Dixie looks beautiful as always!
ReplyDeletewas it cold? : P
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Yay, Funder and Dixie! Good job, you guys! You get gold stars for getting out there in that cold weather. I never would have made it out of camp. I am a hot weather desert rat...that kind of cold is torture. But the bright orange jacket is awesome.
ReplyDeleteLOL, Ashley, that's my S&R jacket - so the search and rescue dudes can find me after my horse ditches me in the desert and runs off!
DeleteIt's cold! You guys are crazy, lol!
ReplyDeleteFark. That ride photo - too cold for me!!!
ReplyDeleteHuddled around a fire, a been there done that ride meeting! :-) Great ride photo! Dixie looks like she's wearing the perfect "camo" for the country you're riding through! Now as for the bright orange coat? That's so you can be found! :-)
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