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Friday
Arrival at Kalvefall during the day. You will be arriving with train
to Tranås Station and there catch a bus towards Österbymo
where we will pick you up at the bus stop in Sund. When you come to
our place you have time to get acquainted with the surroundings, the
other riders, the horses and your room.
Leave information on your arrival by telephone/fax or E-mail. If you
come by car, maps and road descriptions are available on our Webpage
www.sagaadventures.com .
Lunch and dinner will be served in coordination with when guests are
arriving. In the evening our farm house pub is open, like every night.
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Saturday
After breakfast we have a thorough briefing about how we handle and ride our horses. Our horses are trained and handled with Natural Horsemanship as a basis. This means that we base our training and handling of horses on their natural way of communicating and reacting. We use release of preassure in all riding and handling of our horses. During these sessions we also show some of our training methods. Appreciated is the part when we show how to make a horse accept a noisy tarp so it is quite safe to put raincoats on while still in the saddle. Or we can show when we ride in full gallop with a rain poncho whipping about.
After having lunch it is time to go get the horses, but before mounting you will get the chance to try some of the things we have been doing in the morning. We want everyone to be in control of their horse from the ground with lateral movements, backing, stopping, and giving both head and neck without resistance. This is fun and fairly easy to do, and above all you present yourself as the leader of the horse.
After this, we mount at the arena and you get the chance to show the horse your leadership also on the back of the horse. Then as we ride into the forest we have one simple security rule. We do not trot until everybody has full control of the horse at a walk. We do not canter until everybody has full control of the horse at a trot. And do not worry, as there is plenty of time to both trot and gallop, we just want everybody to feel secure so we can enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
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Sunday
In the morning we ride along winding country dirt roads and beaten tracks
in the wonderful fully grown forest every now and then taking in bubbling
foaming streams and shining, black lakes. This is the country of moose,
lynx and the Golden Eagle. But these are horses of the forest and they
feel both secure and full of energy as they take us through the landscape
they have been working in since hundreds of years.
Lunch will be eaten in a very old communal building where village people
still gather for festivities and meetings. In the afternoon we ride
up on a majestic mountain ridge, into the deep forest letting the horse
find its own way among the trees on the soft green moss.
Dinner is served in the pub and stories are shared till our eyelids
start to drop.
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Monday
After breakfast we take a trip to some local craftsmen doing traditional
handicraft in the region. These are people that have it in their genes
to produce artefacts and more from wood.
Lunch is served back at the farm. The ride in the afternoon ends by
one of our many lakes. If you want you can swim in the lake or in our
large heated wooden tub seating 8-9 people.
Together we cook a wilderness dinner under open skies using techniques
from the Stone Age. Fish will be cooked in a hole in the ground, bread
will be baked over the fire, and the dessert will be flambéed
in a great big frying pan. If the weather is bad we can raise a traditional
Sámi tepee, and sit down for dinner inside.
In the soft Nordic summer night we ride home, the horses secure and
with better eye sight than a cat.
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Tuesday
Today the ride heads through the forests to a rocky hill with spectacular
views. We eat lunch we brought along and rest in the grass, stretching
our legs while the horses will graze by our side.
On the way home we pass by an old wolf trap in the shape of a hole in
the ground. We also ride over moorland dotted with crooked small pine
trees. Here we ride slalom between the trees practicing the use of indirect
reins which makes the horse bend along the track.
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Wednesday
Now that we have gotten to know our horses better, maybe even changing
horse to get the best one for us, and we can now ride long, rocking
canters. We have lunch by the ruins of an old farmstead. It is quite
a special place and you can almost hear the old inhabitants going about
their business, even though nobody has lived here for a hundred years.
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Thursday
This is the day of departure. Lunch will of course be served those who
leave later in the day.
Booking
code SR7 06:1