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EVENTS 2009 |
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UPCOMING EVENTS - Please watch this section for additional
happenings! Contact
abbie@goleatherwood
for more information or to make a suggestion. |
April
11th 2009 - 25 & 50 mile Leatherwood Mountain
Endurance Challenge
Click here to download the
ride application
CLICK HERE TO VIEW 2009
ENDURANCE RIDE PHOTOS |
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June
16th & 17th - Horsemanship Clinic With Brent Graef -
Leatherwood Equine Center
www.BrentGraef.com
Click
Here to View a Clinic Flyer |
July 4th
- POA Independence Day Celebration - Pot Luck with
Hot Dogs & hamburgers. Games, Parade and fun
for the kids. Everyone is welcome!! RSVP -
abbie@leatherwoodmountains.com
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August
27th- 30th - PAP-SE - Painters Workshop & Painters
Forum - art sale & festivities. TBA
Click here to read the event
Flyer |
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October 23-25th 2009 - 1st Annual Best of America by
Horseback Fall Colors Ride at Leatherwood Mountains,
North Carolina
Click here to download ride
details & fees
Click here to download
registration form
Click here to register on-line
October
25th - Super Equine Trail Challenge - Sponsored by
Hero Equine Rescue, BOABH & Leatherwood Mountians -
Click here to download
Competition Details & Registration Form
October
21st, 22nd & 24TH - STEVE EDWARDS - Trail
Riding with Confidence Clinic &
7 Communication Skills
with your Equine-
Private Lessons available. Registration & Details to
follow
www.muleranch.com
steve@muleranch.com
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November 19th - 22nd - Wrangler Ultimate Trail Horse
Challenge Sweepstakes - Details TBA - Open
registration coming soon - Open to 55 riders.
Food, Entertainment & organized riding in the works. |
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NEWS |
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Click Here to read "Star of the South" - a 6 page
article in the April 2009 edition of Trail Rider
Magazine!! |
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 Leatherwood
Mountains is proud of our friends at
Stallion to Gelding Support
Click the link below to learn more about their
worthy cause
SGS Mission Statement
To end the suffering of innocent horses
by reducing the number of unwanted births.
http://stalliontogeldingsupport.org/index.html |
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Click
here to read about an exciting announcement about
our new relationship with the award winning
television series
Best of America by Horseback
with Tom Seay |
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Click Here to read a link to a wonderful article
about Ruth Anne Everett & the 2008 Biltmore article |
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Click Here to read the
December 2007 issue of Hoofbeats - our newsletter |
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Click Here to read the May
issue of Hoofbeats - our newsletter |
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5th Grader Ashley Broome’s
description of her perfect vacation destination
- Leatherwood Mountains |
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David & Anita
Hasbury-Snogles from England paid
Leatherwood a visit as their North Carolina
destination in their year long quest to ride
every state in America. You can follow
their travels through their website.
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Mary Lew Johnston -
Featured Graduate of Meredith
Manor Equine Program |
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Seeing sights on back of a horse –
A
wonderful News Paper Article about our own Ruth Anne
Everett |
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An
article about the 2006 NCHC Trail Ride & Meeting
www.nchorsecouncil.com/trail_ride_2006.htm |
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"A Turtle Guide to Completing
the Leatherwood Mountains Challenge" - by
Jim Holland for Endurance News and Southeast Equine
Monthly (PDF file) |
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Endurance race 2004 - pictures |
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Endurance race 2003 - pictures |
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My
Leatherwood Quest - by Howard Bramhall -
We left town in the middle of the night... Somehow, I
had convinced the wife that this was a prudent
course of action ... |
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The Challenge trail ride lives up to its name
Gossip being
what it is and the undercurrents of false
information all flowing strong to tantalize the
mind, body, and soul of any rider who dared to
challenge ... |
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Fun
Show
- pictures |
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My name is Amy and I'm 9 and I
love Leatherwood Mountains ...
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Sandhills Endurance Horse Race Winners from
Leatherwood |
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The Case of the Disappearing Horse
- She dismounted and held on to him as long
as she could, but he bolted and disappeared ... |
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Slide
at home definitely not "safe" - It had
sleeted about 4 inches, and ... |
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25
cents a question about Jeep - Paul lives
right beside highway 268, so he has to put up with a
lot of traffic, and sometimes that traffic stops and
he has visitors ... |
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Coonwatch, Bear sighted, Bear sunglasses, Let's play
"Chicken," Nearby spots of interest (Laura Foster’s
grave, Whipporwhill Academy), Holly’s fleet-footed
chicken, Skinny Dipping |
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July
fourth done right - pictures |
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HELPFUL LINKS |
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HORSE CAROLINA - a
horse marketplace for North and South Carolina |
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EQUINET - Horses,
products, etc. |
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NORTH CAROLINA HORSE NEWS |
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EQUIWORLD.NET -
Worldwide equine resources |
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PINNACLE LIVING -
Information on mountain living in the South |
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APPALACHIAN TRAIL |
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NC NATURAL - "North
Carolina's #1 Outdoor Adventure Resource" |
