Here is an experiment to test whether it is
safe to ride your horses on the ice. Try this at your own risk. Make sure your
health insurance is still in force. Go walk up and down the
hills yourself. Now put on a backpack of about 20-25% of your personal
body weight and walk those same hills again. See the difference?
Harder to keep from falling wasn't it? Now repeat this at a trot and
see what happens.
Snow doesn't bother me to drive a vehicle or ride a
horseon. Ice is a different and scarier matter. Spring is coming.
We had a major ice storm here in the Missouri
Ozarks too. It is mostly gone now. I rode the other day, and when we hit slab
ice on the northern facing slopes, I got off and led him down the slippery
parts. He walked slow and carefull on the icy parts. He knows what it is, and
what can happen.
