Tuesday, October 2, 2007

HONEY CREEK HORSE CAMP

Pete & Guinness at the Double Arches

Sept. 13 – 17
Honey Creek Horse Camp in the Big South Fork National Park is located in the northeast section of Tennessee. This is trail riding heaven! It’s all about horses here and getting on the trails. We arrived on Thursday after a five-hour haul from Many Cedars. The barn is built on a hillside and kind of stair-steps down the hill. Maggie and Guinness bedded down well. Stalls are small but the horses seem fine. We had some company at this campground; a group of 21 horses was in for the long weekend and they partied it up a bit! Friday it rained most of the early morning to early afternoon, but as soon as it cleared up we saddled up and hit the trails for a quick 2 ½ hour ride to the Double Arches and back. The trails here are spectacular. There are destinations of phenomenal rock formations, overlooks and a railroad bed that parallels a beautiful creek. We climbed trails that had stair steps of sandstone. The horses did great. The sandstone has a surface much like sandpaper, so not slippery at all. We rode up to about 1500-foot elevation to an overlook that gifted us with a gorgeous view of the mountain valley, rock wall and creek below. To get out to the overlook, we tied the horses to a picket line – first time ever for that! They did great, of course. We road to the Needles’ Eye on Saturday and what a kick that was. We tied the horses and hiked a short trail to the rock formation then climbed down a ladder to walk through to the other side. On Sunday we took a trail that took us down the mountain side to the creek and rode a very scenic railroad bed along the river. It was a lot of fun to trot the horses out with the creek alongside – exhilarating is an understatement. The trail demanded that we cross this creek twice. It was fantastic! The water was a foot or more deep in parts and the horses had to navigate dangerously wobbly rock under hoof. Maggie has a few wounds on the back of her leg and fetlock to show for it but doing fine. Bad thing about coming down the mountain is that you have to go back up to get back to camp, but as usual, the horses got us there. There were so many more trails to explore that we hated to pull out on Monday. But, we will be back! – The Girls

One of my major accomplishments this stop was finally winning Kim over to realizing that Wal-Mart is cool. I’ve been preaching this for years but she has failed to listen – till now. Now, granted I’m biased being a major stockholder (100 shares has got to make me almost on the Board), but the organic vegetables and the bakery fresh semolina rolls pushed her over the edge. We went there twice! Our campground was rockin’. The 21-horse brigade with their beers-on-the-trail approach to trail riding were loud, raucous and entertaining. In their “trailer huddle” on the other side of the campground, they had a campfire the size of Mt. Saint Helens in its eruptive days, and college football on Friday and Saturday nights at a volume only heard at the Rolling Stones’ stadium concerts in the 1980s. Did I tell you that “FOOTBALL IS EVERYTHING!” It may have been a Big Screen TV. I couldn’t get that close because I was afraid to be singed by the flames. Credit to the horses for keeping us alive on this one. Maggie especially gets a thumbs-up for her performance as team leader. For a horse that could not successfully navigate our blacktop driveway at home, where she slipped and fell and struggled to stand back up (this is all true!) to see her leaping up and down wet rock staircases after a rainstorm was almost incomprehensible. You may be asking, “Pete, where are the pictures of these situations you talk about?” My answer is: My white knuckles that were clutching reins, mane, horn or whatever were frozen in fear and not capable of snapping a photo of my upcoming tumble down the rocky ravines of death I was staring into. Finally, our last day at the campground, where the deer (no antelope) played...constantly, consisting of an early morning runaway by both dogs pursuing two young deer. They vanished into the woods, and I took off after them – after I put my pants on. Well, they came back to the campsite after 15 minutes while yours truly got turned around a bit (after all, I didn’t even have a cup of coffee yet!), and was gone for over an hour. And to make it worse, I didn’t even have my tags on! The great American poet Robert Frost wrote “The woods are lovely, dark and deep”, but they really suck when you’re lost. (I added that last part). I’m sure that will never happen again! (right). -- Later, Pete


Our campsite tucked into the trees

The deer would visit each morning and evening


Dinner time!

Tacking up

We loved the creek crossings!


OK -- This one is for Danielle (Ugh!)
The Needle's Eye -- standing out front

Climbing the ladder down was pretty cool!

Making our way back to the top

Maggie & Guinness (in background) tied to picket line



View of river (the one Maggie & I crossed earlier) from trail lookout


Go ahead, see if you can get the girth any tighter!


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