Rider completes journey to the Arctic Circle
Long Rider Vaidotas Digaitis, who had already travelled betwixt the Baltic together with the Black Seas, of late completed a journeying from his ain village, Laukuva, inwards Lithuania, to the Arctic Circle together with back.
He left on Apr 25, 2012, together with wrote to the Long Riders’ Guild: “My excogitation is to ride through the countries bordering on the Baltic Sea: Russian Federation (Kaliningrad), Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Republic of Estonia together with Latvia.”
Vaidotas arrived at the Arctic Circle at the terminate of July.
He travelled solitary alongside his ii horses, named Kredas together with Kaklys, of the endangered Lithuanian breed, Zemaitukai.
Vaidotas has bits which tin go swiftly removed to allow the horses to graze. Having carefully read all the information on the LRG website, he used the cavalry method together with stopped every hr for 10 minutes to permit the horses remainder together with graze.
One of the horses carried a bell, a gift from the local people to protect them against bears together with wolves, for Vaidotas had no gun.
He travelled “à la Turkmene”: he rides i Equus caballus i day, the other i the adjacent day. The led Equus caballus wears alone a woollen blanket approximately his neck.
He had no tent, together with on the rare occasions when he couldn’t discovery a roof to slumber under, he wrapped himself upward inwards the blankets together with slept inwards the wood or a field.
Unfortunately, he broke his human foot inwards Russia.
“I idea that I couldn‘t top away on my journey. It was horrible to intend nearly that,” he said.
“I stayed inwards bed for nearly iv days together with therefore I tried to ride. I had to accept pills from hurting nearly 10 days. In the eve I felt hurting inwards my butt.
“It is real difficult when y'all ride a Equus caballus non halt nearly 10-12 hours inwards a real irksome marching way. And I was wondering nearly the nighttime to stay. It was difficult to climb downward from the Equus caballus together with to accomplish the door. It seemed that my horses stood inwards the same identify together with I would never accomplish my home,” he said.
“But I did it! Thanks to God together with to all who helped me!”
Congratulations, Vaidotas, on a remarkable ride. And your horses looked every bit fresh on the 24-hour interval they got domicile every bit they did on the 24-hour interval they left!
This article commencement appeared inwards French inwards the magazine Randonner à Cheval. http://www.randonneracheval.fr/
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