The bareback trials

Last Thursday I brought my friend to the new stable where I ride at for fun. She also rides horses to, so she decided to ride Western for the first time in three years and I did English for the first 15 minutes until I said screw this and took the saddle off and went bareback. Afterwards we decided to go on a trail ride down t the lake, 20 minutes away.

Since I knew that Chloe liked the water, I didn't put her saddle back on scared it would get wet. So, I went on a trail, bareback that I've never been on before. It all went smooth until it was time to go back up the steep (in my mind) hills we went down. Nervous, I urged her to trot, which ended up in an almost gallop canter, but it was the rush of my life. I'd never done that before.

So that was my story of lets canter uphill bareback for the first time....