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Ramona Trail Ride Sept. 2011
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| It was a picture-perfect day! And all the riders were on-time, including two Backcountry Horse ladies from Norco and Nuevo. We left the Ramona trailhead in Garner Valley at 9:05, not bad for a scheduled 9AM departure. The trail was in amazingly good shape, considering it had endured three days of earlier heavy thunderstorms.
When Sandy and I had pre-rode the intended ride, we found that the normally-reliable Tool Box Springs had NO WATER! So we sweet-talked Gretchen and Jack Peckham to haul horse water by car up to the Tool Box Springs campground, which is (seemingly) 3 million miles on USFS road 6S13 from Garner Valley. Not only did they bring water, they brought apples for the horses, and fresh-baked cookies for the riders...what a treat! When all the goodies were gone, and the subsequent discussions solved "all the problems of the world"; we got back in the saddles, and headed west on Thomas Mountain to the single-track loop trail that offered some "interesting" challenges (like a saddle horn- high fallen tree). Amazingly, we ended the ride with the same number of people we started with-and all were vertical! Sandy and Ron Korman |