more bareback

I tried again riding bareback for a short time. The snow is still ridiculously deep, and there is a crust in some places that makes it very unpleasant, and the road is hemmed in by high snowdrifts and she is wearing studs, so there aren't many places to go. We went up and down the driveway with great success and then I thought we would go in the woods, and she thought we wouldn't, but then when we did, I saw why she didn't want to. The footing was totally unpredictable and unpleasant, so we walked out in the deeper nicer snow behind the paddocks and then the driveway again. We tried trotting, which is the hardest gait for me bareback, and I sat it much better than usual, but found I had no leverage to slow her down if she didn't want to. If I actually pulled on the reins, it just slid me forward.