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One in the saddle, one on the ground
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Tevis 2024
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Santiam Cascade Ride Report
The transition back to the home front after an endurance ride is often the bumpiest part, life narrows to the essentials at ride camp and…
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Supplements
I do enjoy being an active AERC member for many reasons, chief among them the subscription to Endurance News. There was a recent interview with…
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Still Prineville Ride Report
Well, for a ride that wasn’t even on my radar until about mid-April, our first expedition to Still Prineville definitely qualified as endurance! I’m super…
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Grizzly Ride Report, LD Edition
I was at my happiest today in a gravel parking lot. We were in our way home from a fantastic weekend at the Grizzly Mountain…
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Tarma’s Specialties
I realized in the shower yesterday I’ve never really written in depth about Tarma’s quirks, her likes and dislikes, what makes her tick and what…
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Endurance Troubles
I’m going to write my own version of the vents from last summer’s Santiam Cascade ride. I was a volunteer and eyewitness for both events…
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Couch Potato
I track Tarma’s progress so carefully, but I’ve yet again fallen into the classic mistake of ignoring the rider. In my case, I’ve let winter…
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January roundup
January was a bit of a wild month here, trapped in our homes for almost a week due to an ice storm. These level of…
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Equine Ethics
As the ice outside my front door is almost an inch thick and I haven’t seen my horse in five damn days, why not wade…
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Shaping 2024
When trying to distill my hopes, dreams, and work ahead for a year (though no hard and fast goals this year), the thesaurus is my…
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Testing to building
To say that 2023 was a banner year for me seems wrong somehow, in the face of…*gestures at everything else*. Though to look back and…