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Re: [RC] hills in Florida? - Sisu West RanchLike much in life, a "hill" is relative.When I lived in WI I had two hills that I used for training. One was a nearby field road. It was about 1/4 mile long and had 90' rise. The other was at a nearby state park, about 1000' long with a 100 ft rise. I just looked up on my topo maps a couple of forest roads I use for hill training. The one from my house is about 8 miles long and goes up 2596 ft and down 505 ft for a net of 2091. Note that the 8 miles is one way. Another at Bass Creek is 7.5 miles, and has a similar 2975 ft rise. These forest roads have about 3-4% grades, so they really are not "steep" hills. When I am not hill training my 8 mile loop at Larry Creek has about 800 ft difference between lowest and highest points. Our forest rangers frown on horses going up "steep" hills, it makes for erosion. Unfortunately, I do not have any sand here in the Bitterroot. Sand is a definite problem for horses that are not used to it. One year my ride in MN was at a completely flat (probably less than 25' total elevation change) sandy park in MN. Rides at that park always had lots of lameness pulls. Wendy bowed a tendon on Raj there one year (he recovered and went on to do a thousand distance miles after). Ed Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower Road Victor, MT 59875 (406) 642-9640 ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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