Monday, March 19, 2012

Rides of March pictures

A couple of people asked for pictures, so here's all I've got. I think I only took the one picture on Saturday at the vet check, the one of Dixie at the trailer in the snow. It was too cold to take my gloves off, and my gloves were too damp to work the iPhone.

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:
Sunset 2

Cersei:
:P

DEATH TO STICKS!


Ride meeting:



One of the ride photos:


Vet check:



18 comments:

  1. Standing around that fire - that is what you call endurance!! Beautiful pics!

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  2. I'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<

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  3. Brrr... cold just looking at it!

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  4. Brrrr - I agree with Tammy, it gives new meaning to the word endurance!

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  5. Brrrrr!!!
    LOVE the picture of you on Dixie in the frost. Looks like something out of a magazine.

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  6. 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 (!)

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  7. Liar, liar. I know you've got more pictures--I saw them in your scrapbook!
    And 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!

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    1. 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.

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  8. Good gods, it looks COLD. Really, really cold.

    I 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!

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  9. OMG I'm so glad I'm didn't go. I would never have come out of my sleeping bag.

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  10. It looks so cold!! It also looks fun, though, and Dixie looks beautiful as always!

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  11. 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.

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    1. LOL, 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!

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  12. It's cold! You guys are crazy, lol!

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  13. Fark. That ride photo - too cold for me!!!

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  14. Huddled 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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