Some of these trails weren't even trails. Just us tromping through the woods. I rode down and up super steep hills, and going down them was awful. Going up was the best, especially when I was told by my instructor to let the horse I was on go at the pace he wanted up the more challenging ones. Never thought I'd canter through the woods lol. The whole thing reminded me of where I grew up. My mom would tell me to go outside and play until dinner and I'd just go off into the woods and be feral for a while. I felt a wonderful nostalgia the whole ride today.

I'm absolutely exhausted now. My thighs are bruised too lol. So worth the pain though. It was absolutely gorgeous.

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[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sandy must be very jealous.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sandy doesn't know. 👀

This was at a different farm lol. My instructor has her own huge property and access to many of the neighboring properties. I planned on going to see Sandy tomorrow, but I don't think that I'm going to be able to move around real well lol. Now I understand why cowboys in cartoons walked all weird lmao

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol. Sandy is going to have questions about why you're walking so weird. Please let let down easy.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I will make sure she knows she's the best horse on the farm.

The farm hands at the barn walked past me and Sandy the other day and were like, "Oh we love Sandy! She's so smart and pretty!"

Sandy immediately perked up as if she wanted to say, "Hell yeah I am!"

When she exited the trailer the day we moved her, the owner of the farm whistled and said, "That's a fine looking animal for her age!"

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For my grandparents’ 50th anniversary a huge group of the family spent a week at a dude ranch in central Oregon. They had a cattle ranch when my dad was a kid and always kind of scoffed at the idea of a dude ranch but everyone had a great time. My mom wanted me to know what I was doing so I had riding lessons for months before we went, and kept it up for a while after. I loved trail riding the most of all of it. It was fun on the East Coast but riding through the desert, canyons, and lava walls on the east side of the Cascade Mountains was really special. That was over 30 years ago but I miss it every time I’m around horses.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

That sounds like an awesome time! I'd love to be able to do that someday.