[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

He did really well for a 2yr old out on the trails. He wouldn't get in the creek tho. I tried ponying him from Rock but he just would come, and i didn't want to land up in the creek. She decided to come back to it later, not sure that was a good move on her part. We came to a spot that had a tiny bit of water and very muddy all around it. I got him to pony thru that, then we came back to it later and he went by himself. But he wasn't afraid of anything, we passed the burned truck, Grizzly was with us. We even came across a skunk,,,ack:), Grizzly chased it off and it never sprayed him.

Here she is trying to back him into the muddy puddle spot. It didn't work.

Coming up a hill.

And that is all I took.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Your creek is a pretty deep water crossing.... I can imagine having a little trouble with a young one there. I'd love to get ours in that deep of water.

Lucky indeed that grizzly didn't get sprayed! Gadz that would be awful. We used to have skunks here we'd catch a whiff of, but it's been years now since I've smelled one.

[HairOfTheDog]

Speaking of mud.... Boy was yesterday a trial by fire for Cyn. There were low parts of the trail that were worse than I've ever seen it. I should have taken pictures, don't know how well I could have shown it. You know how in mud clay where lots of horses have been through they'll all step in the same spot and it turns the trail into moguls? Some of the places were just awful with suck mud. These are places that were muddy but not too bad a month ago when we last went. There have been several organized rides with a couple hundred riders through there now and they are hell on trails.

But Cyn trucked right through... she hated it... The very first one was bad with a muddy big puddle she had to cross, they were sinking a foot into the mud. She balked at that and I stopped and backed up to let her follow me but after several bad sections, she would just trudge forward by the end of the ride.... too tired to fight about trying to go around, probably.

[FrogInABlender]

I somehow missed a page and missed your pictures until now. Looks like you had a good ride after the trailer loading problem. It's so weird how they'll just suddenly, with no apparent reason, decide that they're not gonna get in the trailer anymore. Sounds like you handled it well though. Hopefully it's an isolated incident.

The algae in the creek water sounds strange. I wonder if something upstream is causing it, like run off from a farm or something, but like you say, it might just be the heat. I wouldn't let them drink it either.