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[RC] Colorado riding and lightning - Anita Messenger

As far as Aspen, which of course is internationally
known, well, the 
more
beautiful side of the mountains is on the "other
side."

Carla Richardson
Colorado>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

My sister and I got to ride the Colorado mountains
just north of there (approx) a year ago July on the
Arapaho Ranch (not too far from Steamboat Springs).
The ranch houses are sitting at over 8,000' elevation,
and our ride took us up over 9,000 while we helped to
move cattle, etc. This ranch only uses Morgan horses
for their stock horses. They seem to handle the high
elevations pretty well. My sister ended up buying the
gelding that she rode, and even took her husband back
up there a couple of months later to ride again. We
got some really beautiful pictures, and it's something
we will treasure doing for the rest of our lives. 

On another Colorado trip the year before, though, we
kept running into horse people who were telling us
that they don't ride in the afternoons during the late
spring/summer due to too much chance of lightning
strikes. I have an endurance friend in Florida who
tells me the same thing about riding down there in the
summers. She rides mostly in the fall/winter, but what
do the Colorado people do when their winters are hip
deep in snow? :-) 

Here in Arkansas, fall/winter/early spring can be
truly wonderful for riding, and summers can be pretty
good, too, if we aren't having one that is too hot and
humid. The summer of 2004 was very nice with one cool
front after another coming in. Don't ask me about this
past summer, though. LOL! 

Anita in Arkansas 





               
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