Adopt a Horse Week Four: Continued

It's been another stupendous week up on the Ridge. We kicked off our first Adopt-a-Horse week of the summer and it was a huge success. The campers all had a blast doing their usual activities like Arts & Crafts, Sports and Nature, not to mention all their unmounted horse activities like Horse Fun and Horse Science. Best of all though was when they got to spend time with their group's adopted horse practicing everything from saddling to leading during their unmounted lessons. 

All of camp showed marked improvement on their riding skills as the week progressed and we were very happy with how participatory everyone was. Although we did have a minor set-back on Tuesday due to poor weather that caused us to cancel our usual Friday parent-visit, we still managed to squeeze in all our other super exciting activities. Below are a few images from this week of the campers living the dream here on the Ridge. Enjoy!

We were gifted another gorgeous day 

Funny faces were all the rage throughout camp, but of course Arts & Crafts really brought out their wild sides

Some of our campers practicing their half circle and reverse during an afternoon lesson

Some of our talented horses getting a little novice schooling from our devoted campers

The Morgans having a great time making pine cone bird feeders in Nature

The Arabians having a great time learning all about tie dye

Thursday was trail and bareback day, so we braved the bugs with our layers of bug block and sunscreen and enjoyed a leisurely trail ride across Cowskull trail

Zeke held up the caboose position for most of the trail rides

While half the riders were on trail for part of each lesson, the other half of the group spent their time improving their bareback skills in Roadside arena

Once the first half of the lesson was up, the group switched so everyone got a chance to try bareback and trail

Our instructors did a great job explaining bareback/trail day, and since the campers were all such well behaved and skilled riders, they got to choose their horses most of the time

The Fallabellas had some downtime before Horse Science, so we took a few silly pictures in the Upper Barn Lounge. On the left is their best Taco the Mule impressions, and on the right they all decided to just rock out a silly pose

Thanks for a great week at camp everyone and we hope you all had as much fun as we did this marvelous week! For more pictures, including individual shots with their adopted horses, please go to and "like" our facebook page! Hope to see you all again soon and have a splendid summer!