What is your hacking like ??

[Gentle_Warrior]

Just out of interest really.......

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

I personally have the choice of 6 routes. ranging from roadwork only routes to 5 mind road work before into woods

Could not be anywhere with no hacking !!

 

[zigzag]

I am minutes from beaches, common land, forests and roadwork

I can actually go out for 4 hours and not touch a road, apart from the 100 yards of lane

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

i am soo jealous, so badly want to take h to a beach

 

[Chex]

In the middle of nowhere, but surrounded by only fields! Farmer owns 700 acres, but we can ride on surrounding land too. In about 50 years there'll be a forest near us, but the trees are only 6ft tall just now

. There's lots of tracks and trails, but I prefer being on grass so don't use them very often.

 

[Selkie]

Single track roads and not very good tracks,

but only 4 miles from nearest beach for riding on

 

[scrat]

In the New Forest so fantastic hacking if your horse can tolerate pigs,donkeys, other ponies, cows, sheep and other assorted farmyard critters that have the right to wander around. Would'nt want it any other way!! We still have to be cautious on the roads though as some motorists drive far to fast for that enviroment.

 

[WelshRareBit]

We have a quiet country lane round route, then we have a choice of two ways up on to different mountains, both you could ride on for hours.

 

[MillionDollar]

The roads are fine around here for hacking, lots of villages to visit, and there are quite a few bridleways plus a HUGE wood, which is fab.

Then I'm very lucky living on a farm where I have 800 acres to ride round. When the livery yard is open there will be a 5 mile farm ride and a 1 mile XC course.

 

[Tinkerbee]

We have direct access onto a bridleway after about 30 secs on the road

Across the moors

Live in Peak District so nice scenery

and hack around local villages

also a short drive/okish hack to Chatsworth House

 

[TGM]

Choice of several routes - very little roadwork and what there is is mostly quiet lanes. Access to private woodlands and also very close to a round reservoir route.

 

[Hemirjtm]

I live in a small village, but can go for hours and hours!! Have so many ahcks it's unreal!!

And when we move there will be even more - 6 houses in the hamlet and were in the middle of nowhere!!

 

[only_me]

lots of routes, (can mix) but mainly on country roads with seasonal option of cantering in fields- also depending wether the farmer left the gates open!

 

[Tia]

I am so so lucky. We have our own glorious trails on our farm and we have direct access to literally miles and miles of trails; all in fantastically pretty countryside with rivers, forests and swimming holes. There are absolutely tonnes of trails here and I don't have to go on a road unless I want to - amazing considering we are only a mile to the centre of town.

 

[Blackhawk]

We have hacking, you just have to go on busy roads to get there

 

[Orangehorse]

Quietish lanes, although becoming busier. One one bridlepath and that isn't very nice and means lots of roadwork to get to. About 6 possible slightly different rides.

One TROT ride within hacking distance, although a long ride to do there and back. Other TROT routes if I take trailer. Can trailer to a FC wood 12 miles away.

 

[pottamus]

We have a couple of bridleways but they are full of crap gates and cow slurry and lead onto B roads. The rest is roadwork on country lanes, which is fine but it is noce to get off road at times and saves on shoes! In the summer months I struggle to do enough miles to keep his weight off without needing them doing every 3 or 4 weeks!!!

 

[Ottinmeg]

we can also go for a couple of hours without seeing a road if we choose, out YO has also got permission off the local landowners for her liveries to ride on there land.

 

[amandaco2]

ive got loads.
busy roads,quiet ones,bridle paths some surfaced some not, woodlands and a great big beach!!!

 

[burtie]

I have the whole of the New Forest and no roadwork!

 

[dieseldog]

Pretty rubbish. 1 route really. But if I really want to I can ride round the Royal Crescent in Bath and the park.

 

[Haniki]

amandaco2, how do you have a beach in Sheffield?

 

[Lozz1uk]

Lanes only - rubbish

 

[derbydevil]

A few different routes but ALL roadwork. One bridleway about a mile from field.

Currently one route only as to get anywhere else we have to cross the very scarey road bridge over A50!!!

 

[Tia]

Maybe she is near a lake with a beach? We have loads of beaches around where I live however I am at least a thousand miles from the nearest sea.

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

All sorts, lanes, tracks, moorland, woods, reservoirs (well, not in them, otherwise you would get Harley hair in your coffee!!). Shortest route is 20 minutes, half of which is byway. Can easily ride for an hour on the rods and not see any vehicles.

 

[vieshot]

THE NEW FOREST! Hundreds of routes.

 

[Patches]

We have loads of routes. Very quiet country lanes where you rarely meet anything but the odd farm tractor. Some routes have busier roads and I have a route where I pass under the M6 twice and another where I cross over the M6 twice. Horses aren't bothered by the bridges be they the underpasses or travelling over them.

We also have bridlepaths and, of course, I can ride on our own 230 acre farm.

 

[Madam_max]

Loads, spoilt for choice really. It's a BIG priority when looking at yards. I have a track through the yard which takes you round miles of set asides with long gallops and canters, rivers, old railway line which is 12 miles long, loads and loads of hill work with canters and the roads are good where I am.

 

[Honeypots]

I'm lucky for hacking too. I have Exmoor not far away or I can just hack round where my horses are kept like this: