ClobellsandBaubles
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This thread has made me decide to choice where to live in the future based purely on the quality and variety of hacking available
Sorry everyone I have the best hacking in the whole world I live in the new forest I havn't ridden on a road in over a year
This is a video which shows some of my hacking. It's pictures taken from a sponsoured ride I did on Lucy in 2010. That was before I lived in the forest but now this is where I hack all the time
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I feel so lucky to live where I do
Oh Laura, what a lovely video of you on your girl, that is lovely, and what a clever girl with gates she was, Seren was the same, a pro with gates
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Mine live in the grounds of a castle. My gates open up on to the forest, and once in there I can ride for hours without going on a road. I'm also only about 40 mins walk from the beach, although to get there I do have to cross a road, but then its bridle ways all the way. I sacrifice schools, stables and even electricity in order to keep mine there. Its totally worth it!
Looks lovely. I don't mind living in England but would love to live near the beach.
The horses don't bat an eyelid and we find the more of the road we take up the more people slow down. In fairness, considering they're city folk, people are very good. We get the odd person who shouts we shouldn't be on the road but lots more smile and wave
Agreed. It helps that mine are turned out by the A14 so when they have to cross it (which is what the big roundabout is in my pics, one of the main roads into the city of the dual carriageway ) they don't give a monkeys. We ride along the bus route too so they're completely unfazed by buses, lorries, cars, motorbikes, kids on bikes the works. The only thing BH doesn't much like is pheasants!To be fair I think it does the horses good to have a balance between off road and roadwork, in Devon we have loads of rolling countryside, forests and beaches, but I always try to do some roadwork before offroad, you get a horse who isn't fazed by anything! XX
so jealous of the hacking on here, would love nothing more than to go hacking in a wood or endless moorlands.
theres absolutely no hacking around here unless you can box & travel
so jealous of the hacking on here, would love nothing more than to go hacking in a wood or endless moorlands.
theres absolutely no hacking around here unless you can box & travel
Our hacking is fairly naff - far too much roadwork!
Best thing we have is this.....
although our rides involve lots of riding on country lanes to reach the bridleways, they are generally quiet and very pretty....plus the bridleways are worth it too
p.s - I live in Lancashire, in the Ribble Valley which is between Pendle hill, the Trough of Bowland and the Yorkshire dales, all of which are areas of outstanding natural beauty!