My horse, the bloodhound

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Annual Trail Rides: 117/200 (Bareback 5/12)

Some nice weather here these last few days ... a bit cool for June but Ill take it. We finished the month with temps in the teens, which is more like a September day. Q was feeling fit and fine, so we mostly did solo rides at a pretty good clip and Im taking advantage of our ravines to do trot and canter work and build up that booty.

We are still gathering clues for our local treasure hunt. But we have one clue that has totally stumped us. We need to track down a volunteer crew in our club's quad on trail, take a picture and identify the volunteer. Well, I can not seem to find the crew at all.

Lately Ive been tapping into my partner's extrasensory perceptions (a.k.a. prey animal) so he identifies far away sounds and then we gallop off to chase them down. We've still been unsuccessful in finding the volunteer crew, but there are several dog walkers and joggers that we spooked along the way.

Clearly I have not leveraged Q's amazing search and rescue skills to their fullest ability. He's ready, I'm ready ... now let's hunt something down.

Today we will have another go at it, fingers crossed!











Comments

  1. DomJuly 6, 2021 at 8:24 PM

    What a fun game to play! Glad you're having nice weather. Send some my way, would ya?

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    1. Nat DJuly 10, 2021 at 1:48 PM

      Mucho fun! Like a self paced hunt event 😁

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