Paradise was Palos Verdes, just an easy drive south of
Los Angeles. I was very fortunate to grow up there. Trails all over the
place between the lovely homes and beautiful estates. Several public outdoor
rings with jumps that ANYONE can ride to and ride in. Cross country jumps even
way up in the hills that Pony Club owned. The well-maintained trails were very
good trails for conditioning. Lots of hills. We would trail ride all day between
riding rings that we would go and play in. (Of course I had arabs so I could
ride all day:-) Big tunnels under the busier streets made for horses to ride
thru that were fun to swin in with horses when it rained enough. Of course you
kind of had to be a bit weathy to live there (my parents bought property when it
was cheap. You could ride off into the canyons, ride to horse shows or even
McDonalds. Tank top, shorts, bareback pad, gosh even barefoot and I was off on
the wonderful dry, sunny trails as a kid!! Pure paradise!! Sadly.....I hear they
are currently removing the rings and trails......
Subject: Re: [RC] Southern California -
picking up horse poop
In a message dated 1/7/2004 4:52:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, anyone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Suffering, uh, enjoying 300 riding days of sunshine a year (when
it ain't windy, quaking--oh yeah, you have those too, mudsliding or
burning),
What Lynne said! I rode in 70 degree weather out my back gate today. Down
here in San Diego they are working on the "Sea to Sea" trail...from Del Mar to
Salton Sea. I believe it is an 80 mile something trail. I've ridden some miles
of it...the trail isn't all connected yet but they are working on it. It will
be open to EQUESTRIANS as are most of the public trails in North San Diego
county. And we don't have to pick up poop. (We do have to pay a huge
ammount ofr our land though). Wouldn't live anywhere else...this "is" paradise
as far as i'm concerned.
