My World with a horse

The Saturday before Easter was a Scheduled CTRF trail ride. CTRF stands for "Christian Trail Riders Fellowship" It is a group of folks that vary in age and in number of riders from year to year- and- even in individual rides. They wish to promote the Gospel on horses and being available for service to it's members or those they know of that are in need in the community.

My very first trial rides were with this group and also my first horse camping trips.
Milo McIver State Park was our destination today. It has 951 acres of lawns and wooded areas open for dogs, bicycles, hikers, campers, rafters, kayakers and equines. It also has a 27 hole "Disc Golf Course" on site, as well!
All in their respective area's.
This is an old Historic farmstead Barn, on the State owned property...they keep it for owls to roost in. The property also has many bat houses with a "bat trail" for those interested.

Another Equestrian group, O.E.T. "Oregon Equestrian Trail riders" does much of the trail maintenance at this park. I plan on joining them this year to volunteer . I ride so many of the wonderful trail systems they service.

We members of CTRF get to where we are scheduled to ride and it's "Foot In The Stirrup" by 10am , always.

This time, we arrived, set up our sign in the back of my truck, and were very surprised to find no one else was arriving! I thought it may be like this for the day before a holiday.

We did have our feet in the stirrups by 10am and I have new ones, to boot!

I found them online at "Easycare". They are like riding on platforms...and my feet never got burning hot, like they used to with a normal sized English iron.

When you trail ride as much as I do, this is the best alternative to traditional.

As we went along..the horses refreshed at the watering holes. This particular ride has many opportunities for this with the Clackamas River close by and many various creeks, as seen above.

I found a tree stump to prop my little camera on this time...set the timer and-there we all are- the group of 3 for the days ride!

We ended with a nice little picnic lunch in the park, as the horses did the same at the trailer~

I have The My World Tuesday Team of- KLAUS , SANDY , IVAR , WREN ,

FISHING GUY and LOUISE to thank for hosting such fun . For more views please click this logo and go around the world!