The San Lorenzo River can be a deep as
belly-deep on an average horse. It depends on the winter rains and how it
left the river bed and rocks. I've crossed it when it was fairly shallow,
and I've heard of people crossing it when it was belly-deep. The banks are
safe and there's nothing tricky about the crossing. There are large rocks
at times, but I haven't seen it this year.
Need to send in my entry to Fireworks and I know
there are people on here that can answer this question ... how deep a crossing
is the river at Fireworks? I need to take the green horse to this ride and
he's only done one 30 and one 50 and even though he made a lot of crossings of
one stream going down the mountain on Day 2 at Cold Springs, if I remember
correctly from past descriptions, the river at Fireworks is a RIVER. My other
guy Tank could do it blindfolded, I'm sure but I'm taking him to EHSC the next
weekend and would rather take the new guy to Firworks. James was not
particularly fond of the stream but finally got used to it by the time we made
it down the mountain. However, I don't think I could get him to even consider
a rushing river type situation at this point in his career. If it's what I
think it is, I think I'll opt to just do the 25 on him. He needs more
conditioning rides anyway!
