2023 11 Locura Chile
We drive the truck up the mining road to our first camp in the mountains. Since we have to bring water and feed for the horses up anyway, we decide to take our luggage also. So, we can ride the horses to the camp without extra weight, later in the day. On the way up we hit a washed-out ravine crossing the dirt road, which to me means from here on we are walking, but not for the Chilene who grew up in these mountains. He gets out and logs havy rocks into the ravine, so the wheel of his truck will have something to rest on. We get back into the truck and he carefully maneuvers his 4-wheel drive through the ravine getting back on the road. We reach our camp and unload water, hay and our luggage. Returning on a different mining road we reach Seron again in time to feed the three horses that will not ride with us.
2023 12 Locura Chile 1 getting going
We shoe the 2 horses that have not been shoed the day prior and at 1pm we are ready to start our trail. We are riding up a dirt road that leads to an old mine. Passing it, it is a small trail in a dried-out creek that leads us up the mountain. We reach another mining road and ride it out till the trail follows the elevation line again across the mountain side. The maps I got for Chile are extremely accurate, so it's easy to find the hidden trails. we follow the trail up the mountain and soon we see the trees where our camp is in the distance. We ride cross country on the mountain side on sandy and rocky Mountain slope with lots of tall cactee and brush till we hit the road again that we drove on this morning. There's a spring that was dough out, so there is a little basin, where we let the horses drink, before we tye them up to some bushes feeding them the alfalfa we brought up in the truck. We make a small fire and cook our water for the freeze-dried meal and Thea. At 8 pm we are figuring out if our sleeping arrangement is good enough for the cold of the night.
We drive the truck up the mining road to our first camp in the mountains. Since we have to bring water and feed for the horses up anyway, we decide to take our luggage also. So, we can ride the horses to the camp without extra weight, later in the day. On the way up we hit a washed-out ravine crossing the dirt road, which to me means from here on we are walking, but not for the Chilene who grew up in these mountains. He gets out and logs havy rocks into the ravine, so the wheel of his truck will have something to rest on. We get back into the truck and he carefully maneuvers his 4-wheel drive through the ravine getting back on the road. We reach our camp and unload water, hay and our luggage. Returning on a different mining road we reach Seron again in time to feed the three horses that will not ride with us.
2023 12 Locura Chile 1 getting going
We shoe the 2 horses that have not been shoed the day prior and at 1pm we are ready to start our trail. We are riding up a dirt road that leads to an old mine. Passing it, it is a small trail in a dried-out creek that leads us up the mountain. We reach another mining road and ride it out till the trail follows the elevation line again across the mountain side. The maps I got for Chile are extremely accurate, so it's easy to find the hidden trails. we follow the trail up the mountain and soon we see the trees where our camp is in the distance. We ride cross country on the mountain side on sandy and rocky Mountain slope with lots of tall cactee and brush till we hit the road again that we drove on this morning. There's a spring that was dough out, so there is a little basin, where we let the horses drink, before we tye them up to some bushes feeding them the alfalfa we brought up in the truck. We make a small fire and cook our water for the freeze-dried meal and Thea. At 8 pm we are figuring out if our sleeping arrangement is good enough for the cold of the night.