My ride... 30" of snow, 1.93 miles, 48 minutes, Snow drifts coming in through the stirrups :). I overestimated what my little Poptart could do when I asked him to plow through a snow bank back to the road. He fell forward all the way down onto his side, I slid down his neck and off his head onto our snowy road. He then promptly galloped the 1/4 mile back to the barn... Another unplanned dismount and no injuries! We are improving :) After reuniting we proceeded to ride to our friend's house (which was the original goal..) and snow tubed for a few hours. Poptart chilled eating hay in the run-in with her horses. When I got him out for the ride home he had about 1" of his upper lip hanging off. I think the horses had too much fun playing "lip-bitey" with each other. Luckily he was a good boy and with some sedation we got it cleaned up and skin-stapled back together. May it heal fast without infection :)
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