Riding with Highlands Unbridled

The most beautiful days ride ever! So perfect! More picture to follow when I download from my camera. Graham was driving over to meet us at the Crask Inn, so he kindly took my tent and things in the trailer, leaving Cognac and myself with just our front saddle bags so that we could keep up the others (I don't normally canter him with all the equipment on). Cognac was very happy to receive a morning feed curtesy of Jan and Graham and I was given a lunch box for me and a lunch bag for himself! We cantered along sandy tracks and then rode alongside loch Choire, riding in the edge of the lochs water to avoid dodgy bridges. The while area is peat bogs and the track we follow was made up of gravel on top of a wooden 'board- walk' you could see the ground spring under the horses hooves in front! We then climbed out way to the top of the mountain pass to turn back and look down on the loch- absolutely stunning! We then jumped off and walked, ran, skidded and leapt our way over and through the peat bogs down the other side of the mountain. We got back oo board and criss cross the river to avoid anymore bogs. A beautiful days ride in the wilderness with great company... Even so The Crask Inn, a white dot on the horizon was a welcome view after a days ride! We settled the horses and then it was time for bar, shower and dinner. Dinner was accompanied by stories of spending all night on the mountain side holding horses, helicopter rescues, lice infestations, and banks! After dinner Jan gave me tonnes of advice for the best ridingroutes down to Fort William and a magic forestry commission key.