shelterwood
Well-Known Member
As promised, here are a few shots of my coming 4 year old mare Sasha pulling me around on a trial run of skijoring. This was just on our property, and only for short distances. It was a real challenge to turn smoothly, and since I had a bitless bridle on her, I was lacking some overall control. She doesn't actually go well in this bridle, but I feared tugging on her mouth (wasn't sure how much balance I would have without poles). I did OK, so next time I will try with a normal jointed snaffle as she usually wears. I actually found stopping in time before I ran over lines to be a bigger challenge than forward balance. The harness I am wearing has a break away mechanism that is velcro, which we use with our dogs, so safety seemed reasonable. Probably could have had a helmet on! All in all she did great, and I'm looking forward to trying this with a bit and perhaps on a long, straight stretch of trail some day. It would be interesting to try some kind of set up with rigid shafts that allowed for brakes, but I'm not sure how safe that would be to get out of. Have to come up with something with a similar break away mechanism just in case. We have literally hundreds of snowmobile trails, but the problem is there is always snowmobiles!