West Bowdoin Ride

My friend Joanie and I made plans to ride this morning. The day started off a bit foggy and over cast but the forecast called for good weather so we decided to go. Joanie picked me up at about 9:15 am and we headed over to ride in West Bowdoin. We parked on the gas line as we usually do. The black flies are out and were quite annoying while we were tacking up but once we got going, they were not an issue. And there weren't many deer fly today! Hooray!!!!! Luke and I took the lead as Joanie is not familiar with the West Bowdoin trails. Luke was full of energy today and moving out very nicely. We started out by doing a few loop that all lead back to the gas line. We then did the loop that goes through the trailer park which we've done many times. But, this time we were asked not to ride though there anymore. Oh, well, not a real loss of any good trail. We then did the loop that goes into the gravel pit with the two ponds and up to the Witches House trail and looped back around to the West Rd, back onto the trails at the day care home and back to the pipe line. We decided to do some exploring of some trail out though the old tire dump. We came to several dead ends out there so didn't find anything great but still very nice riding. All in all it was a great ride and it turned out to be a very lovely day. Luke and Frannie were very good sports about all our riding in circles and in and out of dead ends. Such good equines!