Ok, the ride story is going to be a bit sparse. I'm way behind on my ride blogging for good reasons. For once I've been too busy riding to fit in much else!
This day I rode with Loretta, Diane and Theresa. We decided to head south of camp in to less ridden areas to try to get out of all the churned up mud between the two camps. It was a good plan. Believe we did around 23 miles. I trailered Lily over to Double M. Even though I live so close. I knew we'd be out on a long ride and didn't want the extra ride home alone late and tired. It was a good call.
We rode south and crossed Karber's Ridge Rd. We stopped for lunch at the stone cabin. Then rode by Blue Hole. We kept going until we came to the R2R trail and we followed that into Camp Cadiz. I know that trail was worked on last year as there is a plan to make it all passable by wagon. But, some of it is already getting grown back in. We stopped for a long break at Camp Cadiz. We watered the horses and Lily there with my portable camp bucket I keep in my saddle bag. It was there I noticed Lily had LOTS of ticks on her legs. The other horses did as well. We picked a bunch off, mounted up and rode out. We rode along a gravel road past a cemetery then picked up the Beaver Trail. Some of that trail was grown up bad. We had to hack our way though a wall of briar bushes in one spot. Thankfully Loretta had a folding saw in her saddle bag. Then we got into a spot and lost the trail altogether. We wandered around though the woods and finally found our way though. Mostly because Loretta is familiar with the area. From there we rode by the A Frame Cabin. Kind of a spooky spot. From there it was back over Karber's Ridge and mud running back to camp. It was a great ride even if I spent and hour picking ticks off Lily when I got back to the barn.
