Ever since I've been out at the barn I keep hearing people talk about going riding out at Miguiver park. People have even said "oh, you should come with me next time I go down." Well it all just came together now. The title of the post ruins the punchline but its McIver state park. And its a 15 minute drive from the barn right down the highway. Its right along the river and it has horse trails. I think I'm going to add to my list of goals, for both Star and Colonel (and maybe Lady) we need to take them to the park and bring them back alive and sound, etc.
We'll need to practice loading Star. I'm going to take Robert's advice and just bring some food into the trailer, tie her to the trailer, sit down with a good book and wait for her to get hungry enough to walk in. I think I'll work with her first though. Get her stepping through the water, stepping over the bridge (preferably without lots of balking and head shaking) walking through those giant scary hay bales, etc. I wonder if Colonel loads well already. He probably hasnt been loaded into a trailer in years. Same goes for Papillon and Lady. I think the thing to do for the first trip is to take papillon out with one of them at a time. She's reasonably calm around strange stuff like this. She might get a little hyped up but by the time we're attempting all this hopefully she will have figured out that she gets to work after, and not before, warming up. Maybe we should take Papillon and Keno out first to scout the trails so we have a better idea what we're dealing with. Actually its only 7 miles of trail, we could do it on foot too. Anyway, its another project I'm exited about.
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