may seem obvious to some people, but I didn’t realize until I was recently told just that. I was always like, yeah but where on which horizon will the moon rise, how doyou know? Heh. In the west, just like the sun.
This is so silly I’ll assume you’re kidding right? The sun & the moon rise in the east. Always have, always will. Otherwise, dawn would come earlier on the west coast than the east. Doesn’t happen.
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I was hoping they would stop it with the daylight saving time changes and just leave the time how it was, but I guess I need to move to Arizona for that![/QUOTE]
You have it backward. Arizona is ALWAYS on “standard time” (which we are all on now) and NEVER on “Daylight Saving Time” (which is what the rest of us are on in the summer)
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You have it backward. Arizona is ALWAYS on “standard time” (which we are all on now) and NEVER on “Daylight Saving Time” (which is what the rest of us are on in the summer)[/QUOTE]
as you can see, I’m time zone/time change/sun up/sun down illiterate.
I’m in the same boat. No lights and I can’t ride in the morning. I could, but I refuse to get up before 5:00am when I can barely make it to bed around 11pm. 
I like the shining the car headlights on your riding area, and to ensure the battery doesn’t die of this, leave the car on. Won’t this use up a lot of gas??
For now, I’m doing what you all are doing, riding with the moon. I may even try strapping a head light over my helmet!
kudos to all for not making excuses and getting out there to ride anyway! It’s you who I look up to! :winkgrin:
Yes, both the sun and moon rise in the EAST and set in the WEST.
The moon happens to rise in a place that lines right up with a nice up hill gallop section of our trails around the ranch 
Sun up and sun down are easy to notice - but the moon will rise during the day sometimes (and hardly noticeable due to the day light!), like I mentioned, the rise time can jump as much as 45 mins between days.
And rise time is just that - when it crests the horizon. If using moon light for riding, its best when the moon rises a few hours before you are going to be out (as its then high in the sky).
And I much prefer riding in the dark - rather than using headlamps. I find the headlamps really make it so my eyes can’t adjust, and I can’t SEE. I also wonder how it messes with the horse’s vision - their eyes being to the sides and all - seems like it would be easy to blind them with the beam.
This week I have been trail riding before the moon as risen - Once my eyes adjust I am fine - and horse is 100% just fine in the dark.
SIGH. So. The farm is out in the country, away from any “light pollution” of the town. At this point if I speed to the barn, jump out of my car, power walk to the tack room grab my crap and drag my horse out, insult her by not having a nice grooming session, and get on, I can get a 20 minute ride on her before the sun is gone. Fast forward 15 minutes post sunset when I need to start turning out horses, and HOLY SH*T its so dark. I’ve lost hope in ever thinking I can ride in the dark. Me and the BO were cleaning a few stalls, and literally 100 feet past the barn, pure black, (with scary animal noises)…
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