Had a nice ride yesterday at the Willamette Mission State Park just north of Salem, OR on the Willamette river. The park has 7 miles of horse trails, a HUGE parking area for stock trucks, plus 4 horse campsites with corrals. It is a multi-use park with ...

Planning a horse camping trip in S. Oregon, near Medford, in the Sky Lakes Wilderness area. Anybody been there?
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Anybody rode either of these? West of Portland in the foothills of Columbia County.

Camp Wilkerson has stock corrals and some trails

http://www.freeguidetonwcamping.com/Oregon_Washington_Main/Oregon/Portland_Area/Camp_Wilkerson_County_Park ...

There is a brand new section of Olympic Discovery Trail just opened up, that takes the trail system off of about 4 miles of logging road that it used to follow, linking 2 other sections of trail to create a 10-mile continuous trail through the foothills ...

We had a fantastic weekend and all sunshine!!Got to ride Sat Sun and Mon over at Cuivre River St Park!!Great trails, great horse, sunshine! Life is good!!!!















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Yesteday: 14 miles, 3200 foot elevation gain, 3-mile ridgeline, and 3200 foot descent back to the valley floor. Weather was damp but not pouring, mostly misty and wet from brush. Mounted on 4 wonderful Halfingers, 3 of whom are related, and in the company ...

I finally got Photobucket!


A walk down memory lane..... pack trips past.

In '08 I packed 91-year-old Grandpa Jack 17 miles into the Olympic National Park.

Me on Taz, Grandpa Jack on Sweet P, Peach is in the rear, she was the ...

It ended up being a great weekend. Yea! To bad that about half of the riders who were going with us originally, backed out because of the weather forecast. They really missed some good riding! We camped at Slabtown Horse Camp and rode in the Paddy Creek ...

David and I went riding again today at Bar K.

This is what the view looked like on March 7, the last time we rode there.


The following pictures were taken today. This is almost the same view as the above picture. Spring is finally here ...

I've been working with a Haflinger gelding, Gibson, since late December. His owner is training my Haflinger mare to drive while I put saddle miles on Gibson and train him to pack. We have done lots of ponying with a couple of truck tires hanging from ...

Been out putting in long miles this week. Spring break from nursing college, warm weather, what more can you ask for? Pics from a ride to Lake Crescent, I am on Gibson, a classmate of mine is riding Peach, two more friends on the bay Arabians.

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Got a ton of pics from a ride yesterday. The horse with the tires on is Gibson, whom I am training to pack, he's a little green under saddle, too so I swap out gear with Peach (other Haflinger) partway through the ride, theat way they both get packed ...

I haven't been her for..... almost 2 years? So, not many folks will remember me. Been havin' a good lol time on another forum, but its gettin a little quiet around there in the trails department.

Gosh, a lot can go on in a few years. I've ...

We finally had a nice weekend and got a chance to do some trail riding. Sat afternoon, we just messed with the horses and took a ride around our place. The horses hadn't been ridden in a while, so were kind of wound tight. Then Sunday we went to Bar ...

We are again planning for our summer trip. Any suggestions for a good base camp with enough trails for 4-5 days? We want to be able to ride out and back to camp everyday. I think there will be 4 couples traveling together in our group this year. We are ...

We left home on Oct 1 and headed to Cross Country Trail Ride in Eminence, MO. This was our 15th year to camp and ride along the Ozark National Scenic Riverways during the first week of Oct.

Our trailer all decked out with fall decor. I love fall ...

We decided to go back to a place we hadnt been since about 12 yrs ago. Had a beautiful weekend and camp ground all to ourselves! Lots of great trails have been added and same wonderful couple( Chuck and Kay Golden) own and run it. Lots of steep up and ...

The notorious Phantom Terrace. Do we really have to ride across that?!


So far the trail doesn't look too bad.


But now the trail gets narrow and rocky, with steep drop-offs. The girls decide to dismount and send the horses ahead ...

Left Friday morning about 7 and drove down to Bay Creek Campground in Shawnee National Forest. I really like that camp ground, its quiet and clean and the owners are pretty nice compared to some down there. Had some great weather and NO BEES!!!! I was ...

We had a wonderful trail riding/camping trip in Colorado during the first two weeks of July '09. We spent the first week in the Silver Jack area of the Uncompahgre Wilderness, which is located southwest of Gunnison. On our first night there, we had ...

My daughter and I took a day trip into one of my favorite Lakes, pretty steep climb ,but well worth it..Didn't catch a fish, losin the touch I guess. Plenty of snow up high, but nice and warm.perrrfect..needed some weight to put on my colt, so we ...

It took forever for Zag to catch me this morning. How smart was I to take Dani down there to keep Bully company while Zag was gone. She's in season. [:@] Plus she's the only one Zag can be the boss of so he was NOT going to demonstrate submission ...

A couple weekends ago (before it got to hot to breath[8D] )
Christy & I found a really neat new place to ride called Little Lost Creek Conservation Area. http://www.mdc.mo.gov/cgi-bin/atlas/search.cgi?cgistate=1&area=8030

It's near ...

Actually, a whole lot of the hunt club folks weren't there and there were some kiddo's who were. It was very easy going, slow paced. That was frustrating at first but, by the end, Zag and I were just as glad it was slow! I think it was a great ...

My daughter, Kelly rode Tahoe, my daughter, Shaylea and our neighbor's daughter, Hannah rode Spirit double and I rode Cody. We went over to where they are building the new middle school Shaylea will go to next year, a couple miles away. It's looking ...