Hitching Post to Double M

Today Loretta and I came up with a plan to do a point to point ride. Hoping to avoid some of the muddy trails around the camps. Diane was able to join us today. I trailered over to Double M. When Diane arrived, she has a 3 horse trailer so we loaded Lady and Lily into her trailer. Loretta's husband Terry then drove us over to the Hitching Post trail head and dropped us off. The first part of this ride was going to be new territory for me. And it was beautiful with some lovely overlooks. Then we dropped into the H Rock canyon where I have ridden and again, just a beautiful spot. The trails to this point were pretty good. But, the closer we got to Garden of the Gods, the muddier the trails were. We had lunch at the Garden of the Gods tie area. We knew we still had a lot of riding ahead of us. We took 108J and then the R2R trail and stopped for a break at Buzzard's Roost. From there we stayed on R2R riding through High Knob and out to Karber's Ridge Rd. We then took the Wagon trail back to Double M thinking this trail might not be so muddy. It was muddy. But, we had a wonderful ride. We rode almost 19 miles.