We have a large wooden block in our yard;
Lud uses it to chop kindling for starting the fire in the stove and I use it for
mounting my horse. I am training him to walk up next to it and stand still
while I mount. On the trail I use road berms, large rocks, the uphill side
of the horse, whatever is available. The most humorous incident involving
my trying to mount my horse at a ride occurred three years ago at Death
Valley. I tried to use the trailer upon which were mounted two
porta-potties. Someone had forgotten to put down the stabilizing foot, and
someone else was using one of the units. When I stepped up on the trailer
deck, the whole thing tipped like a teeter-totter, and a loud scream came from
inside the occupied unit. OOOOPS!!! I hastily apologized,
found another way to mount my horse and took off on the second leg of the day's
ride......
I need a good rock, stump, hillside to get on
but once up things go fine.
I climb up on the trailer fender and Liya
just comes right up and stands still for me. It is pretty good for a
horse to do that cause they don't like things above them that could jump on
them and kill them......
