Wheeler Stables: What We Do |
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| We provide our members and their families with a safe high-quality equine facility, one of the best in the state with many equine recreational opportunities. | |
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| The club has two pasture areas one small area and a larger area (shown) for grazing, turn out, light jumping, and riding lessons. |  |
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| The club has a large round pen for use in Natural Horsemanship Training. |  |
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| The round pen is located in the large back pasture area where at times 18 horses have been turned out. |  |
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| The club has several acres of land with riding trails throughout the area. |  |
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| The club has a new arena which is open for riding. |  |
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| Popular riding trails include the Arena, Flats, Turn Around, Pineapple, Water Pump and Bridge Trails. Shown is a section of the Arena Trail heading up and south. Photo taken September 2004. |  |
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| Same area as above after a Saturday workday. Saddle club SOP requires members to perform four work hours per month to ensure adequate maintenance of the club area and equipment. Photo taken April 2005. |  |
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| Arena trail road heading west into the Saddle Club proper. |  |
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| The turn around trail is almost a half a mile round trip with a stream at the turn around end. |  |
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| Aerial view looking west towards the pineapple fields with the closed fuel depot (left) and arena (right) in the foreground. |  |
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| The pineapple fields looking northeast toward the club proper. |  |
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| The pineapple fields are a great riding experience with great views, great smells, and miles of pineapples with flat easy riding and cool trade winds. |  |
| The Del Monte Company will soon end pineapple operations in Hawaii. This will end over 100 years of pineapple operations... |  |
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| ...the last Del Monte pineapple plantings were in March 2006 and won't be harvested till sometime in 2008. |  |
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| The other major pineapple operator in Hawaii, Dole, will continue with their pineapple operations. This all means that trail riding through the pineapple fields may be coming to an end. |  |
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| While the pineapple fields offer horse and rider flat easy riding... |  |
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| ...the trip from the Saddle Club to the fields requires some riding experience with it's two short, but steep climbs... |  |
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| ...the final part of the pineapple trail from the Saddle Club to the pineapple fields. |  |
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