These may not exactly be Man From Snowy River trails, but they aren't > easy/beginner trails either. Oh, I guess some places are pretty easy, but > there are some pretty darned steep climbs on some of them. The elevation > isn't nearly as high as, say, the Appalachians, but some grades are still > fairly steep. I remember one trail where we had to walk beside a drop into > a creek, with a fence on the other side - I'm pretty sure we didn't have > more than 3-4 feet of trail. Sure, it wasn't exactly a Grand Canyon drop, > but maybe - what, Anneliese? 10 feet? More than I'd want to fall anyway! > (for some reason, I actually enjoyed that part - probably because I was > riding Anneliese's dear old Venus, whom she sadly lost a couple of years > ago.)
> Karen Thomas, NC Hi Karen: Thank you! You do this so well. I am wondering about the drop-off. Was that on the neighbors (the Jarboes) place - the ones who have the dressage place? There is a washout just as you come through the gate. We actually used to ride the horses through bottom of the gully when the gate was closed. They never close that gate anymore and their horses never go into the woods. That is something I don't understand. If that were our horses, they'd be all over the woods, exploring. On our place I find horse poop in the most inaccessible places, they go everywhere. But their horses are most quarter horses; maybe they are afraid to go into the woods alone. Anneliese
