Off To Yellow River....... & Back.

[baileyholc]

Well, I am off to met Boyd and the others for the Yellow river reopening? I will try to get pictures. As some of you know, I am good at bringing a camera but not good at taking the pictures. I get distracted and end up not getting any. :oops: Well, Later gaters. :rearing

[JennLM]

Have fun and can't wait to see the pics!

[Pasogirlz]

lol I do the same thing w/the pix bailey. ;-) But we hope you have fun anyway. 8-)

[baileyholc]

I did have fun. It was hot. So hot. But still fun for me. I took pictures for boyd and sue but like always my camera was in the car. :oops: Sorry yall, no pictures from me this time. But, I do have some memorys to share.

Well, we got their I guess around 11 or so. Would have been their earlier but got lost in Lawrenceville. Well, not exactly lost just a little turned around. :lol: But got through it. Finaly got to the park. Said hello to Sue introduced Tina found Boyd at the grill said hello and intoduce Tina. Then this lady get on the bull horn and starts talking to us then introduces a few bicycle riders and we listened and watch a deminstation then we eat Boyds cookin. Boyd saddles up Purcy we put Tina on her and walk while Sue rides Two to the cycle parking lot. Poor Noche gets left behind. Boyd maid a point to tell me that Noche was being a Knothead yesterday. :lol: We stand around for at least and hour listening to dedications and anouncements untill finaly the ribben cutting. Boyd has those pictures. We go back to the parking area were we are parked. Boyd proceds to saddle Noche and Sue suggest I ride Two so I do. So I untie Two and lead him away. Well guess who doesn't want to be left behind again. :eek: You got it. :lol: Noche breaks loose and trots :horsey: himself over to were we are. :lol: Sue takes him and leads him off to a shadded area, I leave Tina with Sue and Noche. Then off we go. We are just taca taca tacaing along and Boyd stops and I get to ride Purcy. OH what a ride. :D Ill stop here and let yall take this in.

I'll let Boyd tell you the story on Tina and Purcy. :lol:

[Pasogirlz]

Awesome story. Glad you are having such fun taca taca tacaing along. It's so great that you are getting to ride so many pasos thanks to the folks on this bb before you actually purchase your own. 8-) I bet you are learning tons! Thanks Boyd and Sue! Some real Paso Ambassadors!

[baileyholc]

Tina loves Sue. All she talked about on the way back to Hartwell was how nice Sue was to her and how much she really likes her. And she brings Sue up again this morning.

Boyd Give your wife a big hug and tell her how greatfull I am to her for taking care of my baby for me.

Lori, I am extremly greatful for all the rides I have had on ALL these wonderful horse that Boyd and Sue, Nancy and Kyle, and Mel and Stella have let me ride. I have enjoyed every ride, good and bad, that I have been on so far. And I have learned alot. Now, if I can just get my husband on the back of one. :question

I asked him this morning if he would go on a wagon train with me. I even suggested that he could ride in the wagon if he didn't want to ride a horse. He said, and I quote "What is that?" :lol: I have got to get this man out into the world. :roll:

[Boyd R]

1st thank you to Baily and all of the Paso people that came to support this event and show how important that horse trails are. I know I will forget names but a few that were there were. Eileen Podraky, Ed and Suzy Varner, Gail Guthrie, Dean and Carol Burns, Gary? and his wife, (I am so bad with names), Cecilia Harris and her husband, and by the time they showed up I was over the grill so some other may have snuck in and out without me knowing.

We cooked up over 120 burgers and dogs and had plenty for all to eat. Plenty of horsy info for all to get involved with. Eileen took Maggie out for a few solo rides and was just giddy about her wonderful new life with her horse. All of my horses were acting like the world was coming to an end. Noche refused to get caught (never an issue), Then Porcy refused to load, Then Noche thought decided that the trailer was for sitting breaking to leads. We got to the park and tied the kids to the trailer and Noche immediatly broke a third lead and later broke his halter off even with a stallion lead on.

I rode Noche first to make sure he would ride Ok for Baily and we had a momentary buck. But then he settled down and rode good but not perfect. As Ed, Suzy and I went out we met Su, Gary and his wife on their way in and they turned and rode back out with us.

We got back and cooked up luch while the horse and biker demo went on. And after lunch it was time to go down for the Ceremonies. We put Tina up on Porcy and walked beside her. She was quite nervous but I believe she enjoyed it a little. We let her Corto into the Ceremony area.

I got to hold one end of the ribbon for the cutting of the ribbon and Porcy behaved like an angle.

We went back to our area and since Su was tired and did not ride I figured Two would be a much better choice for Baily. Nah really it was hot and I just didn't want to change saddles around.

Half way along I let Baily get on Porcy when we got onto the flood plain. I had her take the lead and it was not long and she was motoring along through the woods like a pro. Grinning from ear to ear. And shut of the voice box and ears so she could enjoy that tic a tacca to its fullest.

Here are some pics sorry non of the trail ride.
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http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/BoydRuss/YellowrivergrandopeningThepledgeint.jpg
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[DebbieS]

Sounds like a great weekend! Was the trailride for horses and bikes? I've never thought of that before. We always see bikers/hikers on the trails, but never thought of an event that would include everyone.

Very cool!

[Boyd R]

This is a multi use county park that has been divided up into bike, horse, and hicker trails. this event was the grand reopening.

[baileyholc]

Hey, Boyd. I have a question I wanted to ask you before we left on Saterday.

Do you know anything about a Wagon Trail ride to Stone Mountain? I can't remember were it is from but I know it is to Stone Mountain. Thats what I was told.

[Boyd R]

I don't know of any and I highly dought it. I know that I have heard of one that is done yearly here in Ga. but I am not sure when or where

[baileyholc]

Thanks. It was just something I heard about while I was down in GA.

[Mellifluous]

ASB was just on a wagontrain this weekend in the Cohutta Wilderness, the group camped at Jacks River Fields. I think they will be doing another one Labor Day weekend. I am going to get Phoebe some tennis shoes and we will try to go to that one. LOTS of fun.

She should be posting pics soon.

[SandyMM]

There are several wagon train rides here in GA. One is in Rome in October. Lots of people camp-out for several days before the actual ride. The day of the ride, they cover about 20-25 miles - lots of asphalt - but some grassy shoulders available throughout until the last few miles, mules w/jingling trace chains, once-a-year backyard riders and pasture ornament horses running/being runaway with, and although they aren't 'supposed' to - there is constant heavy drinking which has caused some near misses in the critical to serious accident categories....

I finished the ride one year on a 16 year old mare who was so frustrated by the excruciatingly slow pace (no pun intended!), that we/she walked/gaited from the back to the front and back again of the mile long train so many times I lost track... She probably covered closer to 35 miles that day... barefoot with no apparent problems of any kind - other than being so irritated at the slow pace...

At the end of the day, there is an hour clean-up time before everybody parades through town on the main street.... quite a sight...

Seven-eight years ago, we took my dad - a farmer's son - to see all the mules and wagons camping out the night before the ride. He couldn't walk among the campsites, so I drove slowly down the road between them... My dad's eyes lit up with old memories. It was his last trip out before he died a few weeks later. I am so glad he was able to see the mules and wagons once last time.

[baileyholc]

My next goal is to ride in a wagon train. I still like the trails and want to continue with them. But I think it would be interesting to see what a wagon train is like as well.

Sandy, were you the only Paso ride on that train?