With our return to campus came the return to the Horse Program for a good many of our students. After riding our horses back from Pasture (an area on the other side of the valley) on Wednesday and getting out to the Gymkhana Field to practice our skills on Thursday and Friday, it was time […]
Author Archives: Peter Sawyer
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This!
Having just spent five nights and six days with six girls (three seniors, a sophomore, and two freshmen) horse camping in the Sespe, and then coming back to say goodbye to them, put the year “to bed” and then hanging around for the Thacher Reunion (classes ending in “2” or “7”), I have to say […]
A Little Extra Effort
A short time ago I was asked to recount a recent experience that might have impacted my work at Thacher. I hope you enjoy what I’ve written here: On the third night of my fall Extra-Day Trip, I invited the students on my trip to take a short hike/climb after dinner to a rock outcropping […]
The Better Alternative
The other day, as I was getting ready to ride with my new student riding group, I went up to “Gelding Turnout” to catch my horse, Little Man. As it was a Thursday, all of the students had turned out their horses earlier in the day, so there were probably forty horses in the turn-out […]