Ride on Horse Trail, Pt Reyes

Sunday we headed to Pt Reyes to try Horse Trail, which we haven't ridden this year. It was a perfect day--we were worried about it being too cold (not something you usually worry about in August but this is a weird year!), but it turned out to be just right, although I kept my fleece jacket on most of the ride. Started off lively with Cowboy having the vapors for the first hour or so--everything was scary. We're trying to convince him that we're riding through the happy forest with the friendly fairies but he's pretty sure there are flying monkeys out there somewhere! After a few climbs he finally decided to conserve his energy and settled down.

One exciting note--we are always the slowest riders on the trail, but we PASSED a family on horseback! Very exciting! And we are not making any allowances for the fact that one of the horses was actually a Shetland pony being ridden by a girl probably under ten years old. We are still faster than SOMEBODY!

At lunch, Dexter is begging for Laura's apple. Don't worry, he got it at the end. Cowboy got mine, too.

After lunch, we headed for Sky Trail. Usually there are great views from this trail but the fog was so thick that the big vistas were obscured. Luckily, the fog makes for some nice scenery in it's own way.

Sky Trail.

We rode out to a meadow that always makes a good turnaround spot.

Cowboy at the meadow, wondering why we can't just stay there while he grazes.

Had an uneventful ride back, but we like uneventful rides. The "eventful" rides are often bad news! Dull is good, that's our motto.

Foggy scene from Sky Trail. Usually you can see the ocean from here.

Back home, we finally got a picture of Dexter giving us his opinion of backing out of the trailer. Dexter exhibits the flehmen response when he doesn't like something. If you don't know what the flehmen response is, see below! Guess it's time for a horse-y toothbrush from the look of things...

Dexter gives us a little lip while backing out of the trailer.

This coming weekend we will be heading to Fresno for a Parelli event, so no riding. The week after that we are planning to check out Tolay Lake outside of Petaluma. We went to the required orientation back in January but this will be the first time we'll actually visit the park.