Fox Hunts, Harvest Classics and Fall Colors

This fall, trot off to Ireland, Utah, North Carolina, Vermont or Alberta to view the changing leaves from on horseback, attend a world-class equestrian event or the longtime tradition of participating in an Irish Hunt. The follow are upcoming fall and winter equestrian vacations that incorporate the spirit of the… Read more »

Vermont Summer Festival

The Vermont Summer Festival is back with six week of horse events in East Dorset, only about an hour from the Mountain Top Inn and two hours and twenty minutes from the Vermont Icelandic Horse Farm. On my visit to Vermont to film for Equitrekking Vermont, part of Equitrekking's first… Read more »

Vermont Icelandic Inn to Inn Ride

  By Ed Machak Photos by Ed Machak and Chip Ward A novice dressage rider with no real trail riding experience, mounted on a strange horse, in the pouring rain, with water already trickling into my boots before we've left the paddock I began to question the wisdom of this… Read more »

Vermont Icelandic Inn Ride, Day One

We were troopers today, riding on our first day of the Icelandic inn-to-inn ride in buckets of rain. I rode Kristall, a well trained and super fun Icelandic. We had a lot of fun, even in the rain. The Icelandic Horse Farm is located in Fayston, Vermont, in the Mad… Read more »

Vermont Icelandic Inn Ride, Day Two

Thank goodness we had a beautiful day of sunshine today. I spent the day riding with the same group plus a few other riders who joined us in the morning and afternoon. I am now writing at the Mad River Inn, the inn owned by Karen Winhold, who runs the Icelandic… Read more »