Some friends and I went camping with our families at Elk Rock May 18-20th. I had planned to take Jake, Satin, Levi and Jackie so Marty and the kids could ride with me. Well Miss Satin came up limping a couple days before hand, checked her out and she had an abcess in her foot :( . Josie rode Jake, I rode Levi and Nate rode Jackie in the morning and Marty rode her in the evening. Levi did great her first day out on the trails. She was leading, following and riding in the middle. We went thru some crazy thick brush on one trail which caused Marty to lose his hat and I have to climb off to retrieve it. Well as I did Marty and Josie rode on!! Now I am thinking what is Levi going to do with them riding off and we are in this thick brush?!
Well to my surprise she did not flinch, holler or get upset and we easily caught them with her long legs lol.
On the 20th Marty and Nate went home to go fishing so Josie and I were going to ride with friends, we had kept it smaller family rides the day before since Levi was green and one of my friends had a green horse as well. Well since both girls did so well the day before we decided to ride together. We were doing great and again we did the lead, middle and follow as its good for horses to learn to ride in different areas of the crowd.
We decided to head back for a bite to eat at lunch and on our way back we saw a young buck just off the trail, like 2 horse lengths away or so! Well as we were riding past and were almost all of us were by the deer decided to leave, when he did, I guess he had some friends that were bedded down in the grass that we couldn't see and it cause a big spook and stampede. 4 of us in our group of 6 came off our horses and 3 of the horses got away. Yep the 2 green ones and Jackie :( I stayed on the longest trying to pull my big mare up but she was just too big and too strong for me as I didn't have all my core strength back from my December surgery. I am sure if you have kids you will also understand when I say I was freaked out more by the fact that the horse my daughter was on ran past without my daughter on board than I was about my runaway horse. I knew I wasn't going to get this mare stopped and I sure as hell wasn't leaving my daughter back there not knowing if she was ok. So I bailed off my speeding bullet and, I would like to think I did a graceful tuck and roll, but considering the condition I was in afterward I am going to say it wasn't entirely graceful ;)
Well luckily when I "dismounted" I didn't break anything and my phone was right next to me on the ground. I started running back to check on the others, it felt like I was running forever when I met up with them heading my way. I was so happy to see everyone was basically ok, that was when they told me I was bleeding :( I had a large goose egg and short laceration on my forehead.. as we all know head wounds bleed terribly.
I am going to just say here to shorten this up that one horse made it back to camp, the other 2 we found almost 3 hrs later bogged in the mud behind the park. I was very grateful that day for my friends, the people that helped us look for and find the horses and that none of us were too seriously injured.
I got checked out by the Dr and while no concussion I did have a badly bruised tailbone, bruised shoulder, bruised hip, bruised ribs and a knot on my head.
This kept me from blogging for awhile then my grandmother passed away and one of my uncles passed away and I just let the blog slide a bit. Hopefully I will get back into a routine of writing some as I am riding more now :)
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Glad you are finally back in the saddle. ;)
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