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Re: [RC] riding in the UK - Esther YoungAnn, You can have some of our 'wet stuff' - I've certainly had enough of it now. We've got a really wide variety of terrain in Yorkshire - steep rocky hills, heather moors, grassy chalk wolds, flatlands, green lanes, ancient packhorse trails, country bridleways, and man made trails through more industrial areas. Ideal endurance riding country, but I guess the problem we have is getting people to come to the more 'difficult' rides. They'll come to the faster or 'easier' ones, but tend to shy away from the hills and then we end up losing the rides through lack of entries. I would imagine that's a problem with the sport in general these days, though, so we'd be grateful for any ideas you guys can give us on marketing the 'challenge' of the more testing rides. That was part of the reason for getting the hat-cam, too, as a marketing tool. Our hillier rides aren't impossibly difficult, by any means, but you do have to ride to the terrain and if you're expecting to get round at 10+mph on a regular basis then you're going to end up with a lame horse. I'm on the bay, by the way. He's Harry, aged 22, and he'd be most put out to be called cute. He's hard, he is. We 'just' do the shorter stuff these days as he has delusions of indestructibility and I'm trying to preserve those old joints. http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w258/EstherYoung/Harry/?action=view¤t=HarryBakewell3smaller.jpg The grey ears are our other horse, Spider (Spud), who was screwed up by the in hand show world before we got him. He's much happier now: http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w258/EstherYoung/Spud/?action=view¤t=SpiderBakewell1smaller.jpg Cheers, Esther ......................... From: "Ann Blankenship" <greenwoodann@xxxxxxx> Subject: [RC] riding in the UK Esther, I really enjoyed the clips of your rides. It was fun to see what your trails are like. I love all the stone fences! But what was that 'wet stuff' on the trail? We haven't seen anything like that here in California for months and months! That little horse in front of you was a cute mover. I'd liked to have seen pics of your horse and that horse from the side instead of just that cute little rump bouncing down the trail.. the horse's, not the riders, although.. er, I'm getting into trouble with this. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Ann Blankenship =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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