Olympic Trail Ride
September 13, 2008
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The first fall ride for the Altoona Trail Riders was held last Saturday with about two dozen riders participating.  We rode for 1 ½ hours out from the 110^th Street Trail Head in the area known as “Spider Kingdom”.  It did live up to its name as we had a bunch of spiders to knock down.  We then came back for a picnic lunch of Publix ring subs and salads and chips and tons of desserts.  The theme for the ride was the Olympics and the riders were challenged to dress up in red, white, blue after their favorite team or Olympian.  Several folks took the idea to heart.  The most unusual outfit was worn by our president Sue Rogers who wore a blue bathing suit top and white riding pants, boots and carried a red mallet.  The team she was representing was “water polo”.  Her top half represented water (swimming suit) and the bottom half represented a polo player.  It was rather clever.   The gold medal went to Jordan Rogers and her horse “Pretty Boy”.  Jordan was dressed as a soccer player and her horse was painted as a soccer ball.  They were adorable.  The silver medal went to Lynn Patterson who was dressed as the Olympic show jumper Beezie Madden.  Beezie did win Olympic Gold in China riding her 17 hand warmblood.  Lynn however, was riding CeeCee the pony.  She did look “authentic”.  The bronze medal went to Traci Crumbaker who was dressed as a gold medal winning basket player.  I think everyone had a great time with this theme and overall enjoyed the ride. 

Our 3 Medal Winners on the Olympic Ride!