Clint's Well

AzBCR POST FROM LINDA:

This is Madeline at Clint's Well North (No. East) of Lake Mary Rd the weekend of 6/12/2010 and 6/13/2010.



On Saturday's ride she went out with all the gang in the Lone Rangers and as we started out, it was a beautiful blue sky day with clouds passing by. But just after lunch the clouds got low, and dark and it poured like cats and dogs on us, we were about 2 1/2 hours from camp. Then about 1 hour before we hit camp it hailed like the dickens on us........and yes, Ms. Madeline and her Mule Brothers were not thrilled about the pea size hail hitting us for that hour. It covered the ground very quickly, blanketing it in white. Madeline and her brothers when you looked at them their ears were laid out flat to the sides like a Helicopter. She wore hail down her back but just kept jogging along like a real trooper. She was not thrilled about ANY of the water crossings, but being hitched up with her big brother mule "Earl"........she rather did not have a choice but to get her feet wet!!



On Sundays ride, she usually stays back in camp and is just a plain o donkey.......but not this trip, she was looking to go, so we took her along on the ride. This was the first time she boogied down the trail two days in a row. She did fantastic. This was a much nicer day, cool, and overcast but no rain. Was a nice weekend ride even with the hail as it gave you something besides the heat we had had in the valley before the weekend.




In all this weekend, little Ms. Madeline boogied down the trail in the two days a total of 24 miles .... As some from the AZBCR like "joeroadapple" said whom was with us on this ride, she is one in shape little girl going down that trail.

In case you were wondering, she still when not out on the trail during the daytime wears her hobble/surcingle contraption on her one leg during the week. It is really helping her to remember to pick up an bend her leg. It should be just a matter of time and she should not have to wear it anymore, so it is working!!! She has little to no lock anymore, just and occassional funky walk now and then, but goes away in seconds, so it is working. The turn and burn trail riding mountain terrain is surely helping her in making those legiments shrink.

Till next time..........


David and Linda