Trails and Tails

I went w/​my friends here who were visiting from Mass. It was hard to make a reservations and the directions weren’t anywhere to be found. The horses were plain and super boring. The guide was decent, but had this weird bird on his shoulder & reminded me of a pirate! On are ride the bird took off and started screaming. Before we knew it the horses were calling for the bird, or who knows what! Scared the holly crap out if everyone. Then the horses got really fired up and wanted to run, buck and act super crazy. I jumped off my horse and walked back.
Luckily we found a much better place to ride before we left because my friends are so horse crazy. That place was so understanding of my experience that they put a guide w/​me the entire time! Wow what a difference in outfitters!!! Not sure I should mention them in this review, but send me a note if you want the name!

My family and I love to ride in the hills of Malibu, so we tried this place. «Trails and Tails»
It is small and cozy! But, it is not exactly what we had hoped for as far as size. The horses are all of one color black and white, I believe you call them a painted pony horse? It is a new place and it offers riding lessons and trail rides.
The first trail ride was on the side of a steep cliff, but then evened out. I was not afraid but my daughter, Jenna Lee was almost in tears as it went so close to the side. The horse in front of us was feeling super frisky and he started whining as we went down the hills, he wouldn’t stop all his noise. Then once he started they all started screaming like banchies. we thought maybe it was an earthquake or something starting to scare them and proceeded to jump off.
Well, that is one easy way to figure out not to get down fast. Once we were down, it was so hard to remount. The guide, Leigh got down and helped us back on. We proceeded down the trail, not too much scenery as far as the ocean, you couldn’t see it. but it was okay.
The rates were $ 100.00 per hour and the ride was actually only about 45 minutes. So, they include all the getting on and off as part of the trail. The horses were friendly and the people were nice, but the man who owned the stable looked more like a pirate, he even had a bird on his shoulder off and on. He truly seemed to be very experienced = as a rider, but did not seem to want to take out strangers, I am not really sure what the deal was, it seemed like we stumbled upon the place and they just let us ride, after we paid of course.
I do believe they offer many programs such as therapy for children and PTSD Adults. I am going to get some more info such as the address and repost as we had another appt. to get to, so wehad to leave right after the ride.
It was still fun, but other places are closer and not as pricey, maybe this place is just starting out.
Theodore L.