Triple Bounce Grid

With the impressive snow storm we experienced last week, and the following day's ground blizzard, we have had immense snow drifts all over the place.  I still can't get my tractor to the arena by the usual route without getting it stuck, and the drift between the barn and house was larger than my four horse trailer.  However, we are fortunate to have the covered portion of the arena, and so in that half we set up a bounce grid for some fancy footwork. 

So far I've taken Raven through it as cross rails in a figure eight pattern working on lead changes, and I was impressed all over again with how handy and maneuverable this little mare is.

Highboy went through as cross rails to start, and he was so quiet and well behaved that he was then allowed to do the exercise with the middle fence quite large. 

This is how I regularly need to do Highboy's jumping training.  Since he loves it so much his reward for doing it quietly and in a civilized manner is to to go over something bigger.  The pole coming down was my fault - he's just too big to get that distance and can't get his front feet out of the way quickly enough.

Silver and Gillian also schooled the exercise today, and did it quite well!