The first Rockbridge Hunt Mid-Summer Hunter Pace on June 30th was a great success. Most of the participants come to every pace that we put on but there were a few people who had never ridden in a pace before. Everyone seemed to have a good ride.

The volunteers were great. Lee and Laura Jarvis did loads of work serving up lunch which went very smoothly. Blair Jones and Wilson Shepherd handled the check point and dished out water bottles to appreciative riders. Katharine Conner acted as starter. Jake and Beverly Burks did the finish line timing. Barbara Burks helped with entries and scoring. Carter Drake also helped at the secretary's table. Eddie Snider and David Hinty (two of our landowner members) helped with parking. We also had the Boy Scouts and landowners to watch gates over the course of the ride. Some of these were well prepared with umbrellas, much to the envy of some of the participants.

No battling drizzle and hail this day! The sun was bright but the temperatures were certainly tolerable. For those of you who did not ride this day, you missed a really nice route, impeccably marked and laid out by Fred and Barbara Burks. I sure saw some territory I'd never seen hunting up to now.