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RE: [RC] hills in Florida? - Susan & Jerry MilamActually when I used to live in the Panhandle area of NW FL, we had 200ft elevation changes that were pretty difficult in that deep sand. Yes, there are hills in FL! Susan and her arabs now in IL, Merry Christmas! -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 5:51 PM To: Jonni Cc: Ridecamp Subject: Re: [RC] hills in Florida? The Fl peninsula - particularly from Tampa bay North - is actually a limestone plateau. There are more caves in FL than any other state - except KY. There are several areas in the state where the limestone has uplifted. This results to the long string of lakes in the center of the state forming the Kissimmie river basin which feeds the Everglades. In places near Ocala the limestone is only about 4 feet under the surface. The drillers hit limestone at about 20 feet at my place and water right after drilling though 10 to 15 feet of limestone at about 40 feet. These limestone uplifts are also the cause of the large number of sinkholes in FL. The major uplift area is in West Centeral Eastward to Central FL, running North to South from Just north of Tampa bay to just North of Gainsville. One of the main spurs of this up lift is the "Brooksville Plateau" (or that's at least what the rangers call it) which is where many of the endurance riders in FL live. It runs just North of Tampa starting about 15 miles from the Gulf northward. In between the this uplift and the one in the center of the state is an area know as the "Green Swamp" which gets it name because the headwaters for all the rivers in the peninsula start here. We are lucky to have many riding areas on this plateau and these areas do have hills. Some are steep in stretches - but most are not that steep. Many are a couple miles long. But what makes them unique is they are named "sand hills" for a reason. They are all sugar sand, some very deep sugar sand but all loose very fine sugar sand. It is no problem to ramp up the heart rate to 200 on these hills in a short sprint. Most people that come to FL, that have not been here before, absolutely under estimate the toll these hills take on the horse. Because of the sand the finishing time for the Far Out Forest (Ocala NF) last year was probably about the same as that for the Tevis or OD - especially if there hasn't been much rain before the ride. If you want to bring your horse down, I can show you a few hills that will very quickly bring your horse to its knees all within a few miles of my horse ;-) . Not a good picture but you can see the limestone uplifts on the following map. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/seg/topo/state2.pl?fl.jpg Aren't you glad you asked? Truman Jonni wrote: Truman posted : >>>On all my conditioning rides I gallop the uphills and walk down the downhills to recover. Of course my horse is older and used to it. Sometimes at rides he will prefer to canter a hill over trotting it and normally he knows what he is doing so I let him make the decision.<<< Truman, WHERE did you find hills out on that sand bar you live on??? Isn't your base elevation about 100' ??? What'cya doing, running that horse up and down the court house stairs to condition him??? <wink> Jonni =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= __________ NOD32 1.1338 (20051223) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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