Equestrian activities and communities have always been a big part of the Bolero Group’s cause. For more than year we’ve continued to offer engaging events and beautiful riding sims.
The SL Riding Club, founded by Cindy Bolero in 2006, has provided adventurous group trail rides by skilled guides (also SL pilots, so they excel at communications, navigation, and tracking), large-scale horse shows and rodeos, colorguard units, an equestrian mall, and more.
Below are reports on some recent trail rides::
Cindy announced a group trail ride starting at the SL Riding Club Stables. As the ride got under way, LL network servers on the west coast went down, Cindy gets logged off abandoning the group. SLRC Trail Guide Lisamarie comes to the rescue and leads the group through the forest and on towards the volcano.
Cindy is able to log back in and finds late addition rider at the stables.
She coordinates with Lisamarie to meet up at the base of the volcano
The Volcano Trail Ride usually ends up at Tiki Bar Beach. The horses are cooled and watered then the party breaks out! Wooo hooo! The bar serves fruity blended drinks, and thanks to Azure Islands management, we have a cool music stream to dance to.
Cindy assembles a group ride at Wild Mustang Horse Park. They head for the trail then an RL emergency makes her log off. Riders report back later that the bridle paths under development are awesome!
Cindy and Dusty take a small group on the Volcano Trail Ride.
Two new riders on young fillies do their first climb up to the caldera.
As the group arrives at Tiki Bar Beach after the climb, one of the fillies rolls in the sand and takes a rest. It was a hot dry day and the horses were pretty thirsty. Dusty the Vet examines the horse for exhaustion, but finds she’s just tired after the long ride, and after resting, the young filly is fine.
After making sure the horses were watered, it was time for some cold beverages.
Dusty cools off in the water trough! Or did the girls toss him in it?
Below are some pics Moto submitted from other group rides:
Lisa, Moto, Johnnie, and Liz explore a gorgeous openspace sim
Exploring Acropolis, a large group of garden sims with miles of trails
Moto also reports on a group ride he led in northern Azure Islands. An area that was once snowbound that is now much warmer. The head count may have been about 7 riders starting out, but only the sturdiest riders and horses completed the whole ride. Johnnie had to log off to go flip pizzas or something.
FYI: Moto will take you through some pretty rough country, so beware when you sign up! It’s best if you’re good with SL maps to keep track of the group, or to catch up them with after crashing.
Moto says, “Keep up! Lots of land to cover”.
Riders make it over the rocky summit
The group comes down the mountain into green hillside pastures
A rest stop by the lake. Some of the riders are getting tired due
to time zones, so a few call it a day and log off.
Remaining riders Lorianna and Elisabethh, make it out of the hills,
through a neighhorhood, and across the big bridge into town.
Last stop to water horses in the city park before heading home
Thank you Moto for providing pics and story of the ride. Wooo hooo!
More Blogs and Stories about the SL Riding Club
by Members, Visitors, and Reporters
The Volcano Trail Ride by Malu Zhao translated from Spanish. Its very nicely done. Thank you Malu!
Tamies Adventure’s in SL Yay Tamie! Thanks
CNN Blogwriter January Darkstone covers Barrel Racing at Wild Mustang Horse Park
Taku Raymaker tells about winter at the SL Riding Club – translated from Japanese (clik on pics!) Woooo Hooooo Taku!!!!
Caissa Amat submits to the The SL Looking Glass
Arya McLeod records the very first Sl Riding Club Volcano Ride – Coolness!
Apryll Miles writes about SLRC trails in her blog!
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