Tom Vicky and Gaitways trail adventures

Happy 2010!!!!!

 

This page will go oldest to newest so ya'll don't have to always go to the bottom.

Well it rained a bit last week and messed up our ranch for playing,

but that don't stop my mama and me!

 

So, I said, "Momma, go get Auntie Netty and take me for a run where I can chase rabbits and jump over rattle snakes".

 

And we did just that! Auntie Lanette and Mom took me to Lange Ranch on Saturday. What a way to end the month! It was beautiful weather.

 

 And I lead the way, scaring off dangerous rabbits and mountain bikers. Those girls were goofy, so I tried to stay far ahead (so no one would know I was with them). We only got a few shots but it was a great day.

 

Auntie Lanette and her Abba G roupie, Dolly..

 Here I am making sure everyone moved for the crazy girls.

 

Sunday, oooh Sunday..

We all went to a place called Paramount Ranch. I guess they filmed lots of movies there. I got stuck in the truck but Mom, Dad and Adrienne took off for a while to ride.

 

I guess they rode right next to a highway with lots of motorcycles and than through town with lots of old buildings, kids and flying things. Mom said the horses did great!! Especially Vievo, who got to experience Harley Davidsons and Race bikes buzzing past his head for the first time..

Here are a couple of pics of them out in the park..

This was Adrienne... there were kids swarming the horses so she and Joker were the bait!

 

And then they went back into town before coming to rescue me. I guess they had a pretty good laugh when Vievo decided to hop down a hill out of  sinking dirt.

 

 

OOHHH What a fun day in Palmdale! We spent the day with Bill Cameron, our own California's kicking star of the Extreme Horse Race! He was a great guy, with a wonderful ability of making this simple and easy to understand, no matter how naughty the horse was (Schnapps was the worst). We took Vievo, Schnapps and Pal. This was Vievos first big outting. Nothing like throwing him into an arena with a bunch of hot horses, trains near bye and obstacles to maneuver around.

Thank you so much Bill and your team. You're a great group and it's really nice to see some able to teach that isn't biased toward a specific breed of horse, and so darned down to earth!

 

Lisa and Pal went first, they were an excellent model to start with. Pal stayed nice and calm.

The obstacles were as follows: Key hole pattern, side pass the mail box, back through the boots, step over and through the silver spinny things, back through the barrels, trot the barrel circle, and if you got far enough, walk over the tube and lope the poles

It finally came to be Vievo's turn. It wa amazing, he actually took a sidestep, was able to back through the barrels, and even stepped over the tubing! What a great day it was for our youngster. He was totally relaxed the whole time.

Birthday Adventures in Norco

Mom spent her birthday with her gal pals, Denise and Debi.

They had a great weekend riding Lake Paris and Gavlin Hills. So, here's moms tail..

Hi all! What a great birthday weekend with my crazy gal pals, Denise and Debi. I drove out and picked Deb up from her ranch in Sylmar and we headed off to Denise's. We got there a bit early, so Denise tacked up and through Dallas into our trailer and we took off for our Saturday adventure, Lake Perris. It was really pretty. Mostly flat with only one real climb but really fun. We did alot of long trotting. Schnapps paced at almost 9mph an hour.. do we see an Endurance horse in the making??

Here's an overview of the area and some of us heading out..

Than, we came across this CRAZY site. We actually had to ride, right beneath some mountain climbers. That was some good spook proofing for the ponies.

But we made it through and climbed our only real hill.

At the end we played around on some obstacles and took pictures. We rode around 15 miles that day.

Sunday, Ms. Denise and her wonderful hubby Steve, treated us to a yummy breakfast. Deb and I loaded up in my trailer and Steve and Denise loaded up in theirs.

We headed out to Gavlin Hills. This was a great area.. it started out flat.. But it got hilly quickly. REAL hilly. Steve questioned my sanity because I follow his wife without any questions asked..

After we went down this one, I started asking a bit more about where we were headed. Yup, this was one steeeeeeeppppp and deeeeeep rut. Schnapps almost couldn't see over the top. We just kind of slid on down.

The rest was mildly steep, with a few narrow areas and some good crosses.. another solid 3 hour ride. Woo HOO!!

This trail dropped down into the valley on the right and we climbed the face on the other side.

It was a great weekend! Even dinner at the Spunky Monkey, or cow or whatever is was called was a hoot.

Thanks for being such a fine darned tootin Hostess with the mostest Denise. And thanks for being such a wonderful map gal Deb, even if we do get to Big Bear by accident!