Autumn Ride

I managed to get away yesterday afternoon for a short ride on my older Arabian gelding.  He's not the smoothest ride, but I like to ride him anyway because he's got a good head.  I never have to worry about him doing some thing stupid, he's just plain solid.

Taro is starting to show his age.  At 20, he's the equivalent of 60 horse years.  That makes him the same age as me.  He was excited to get out yesterday.  Moved out with his big walk, ears forward, checking out the surroundings.  It was a nice ride.

I can rely on Taro to go places the others will argue with me about.  Whether it's pushing through brush, downed trees, creeks, lakes, Taro will try.  So we did a little exploring on Wright Butte.  I was sure that there should be a road on the back side that would connect to another road I occasionally ride.  We found it.

We took this photo of the South Sister along the way.  It was a nice ride, though, I'm not wearing that pair of jeans again.  Ouch!