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Crest Ridge Saddlery- Saddles for Mules and Gaited Horses http://www.crestridgesaddlery.com/

it's as easy as it looks!

Fording creeks and rivers is a common event on my rides. We'll cross little creeks only a few feet wide, and we'll cross some much larger. Most of my guests who have never been to the Ozark Mountains marvel at the clear water. Unlike many regions of America, Ozark waterways do not flow through areas of loose top soil. Water flowing into creeks and rivers filters through limestone and sandstone rock and gravel. The result is some of the clearest water you'll ever see.

natural land bridge (photo by Helen Elsners

Another example of karst geology, this natural land bridge is a favorite with many of my guest riders. Note the gravel bottom. This is an old stream bed that still flows after a heavy rain. It is said that in the early 1900's when this area was logged that the trucks backed up to this rock to be loaded.

a high bluff

A wide canyon lined with rock bluffs borders the White River. All along this area, which we ride over, you'll enjoy wide open vistas. On the other side of the river you'll see the classic bottomland farm fields so famous to the Ozarks. On the bluff itself you'll see ripples in the stone that look like petrified water waves. Many times over the last 500 millions years the Ozarks were covered with seas. Much of the limestone was formed by deposits of dead sea life.

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