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©MY HIGH COUNTRY RIDE©

I had an early Christmas Present in 2006…a fantastic horse ride in the Australian Alps! The family and I spent a day on horseback riding through some of Australia's most spectacular mountain scenery. And to fit in with the Christmas feel there was even some snow on the higher peaks after a crazy-out-of-season storm three days before.

Fiona Lowe

Outback Romance

Ever seen the Man From Snowy River when Jim and Jessica gallop across the top of a ridge surrounded by rippling, blue mountains? Well, I did that. Not actually gallop but I trotted :-) We had lunch at Craig's Hut. The façade of this hut was built for the movie and was representative of the horsemen's huts of the 1900s. A local four-wheel drive club have maintained it and made it into a real hut.

We rode through arches of snow gums, over tufts of emerald green grass..the only green grass in the state due to the drought.. and across rocky terrain above the tree line. And the sun shone from cloudless blue skies.

If you want to live vicariously and enjoy the flavour of the glorious Australian High Country with its towering mountain ash trees, its rugged winter snow-capped peaks and the Southern Cross constellation sparkling in clear starry night, skies then read HER MIRACLE BABY:-)

So why did I want to do a horse ride in the high country? Because while I was researching for HER MIRACLE BABY, which was set in the high country,

Will and Meg take a horse ride in winter in the snow. By the time I had talked to the horsemen of the high country and written Will and Meg's ride, I desperately wanted to go myself!