Swimming in February?

Today was a beautiful 40º day and the snowmobiles had made some good footing in the woods so Chris and I ventured out on our (not so) trusty steeds. Seeker was super pumped up, wanted to just explode as I led him about a mile down to the trails. he was very naughty bouncing around, spooking, prancing, biting and hopping. Socks was the opposite and thought he'd rather just hang out in the pasture today. Once we got to the trail, socks decided that yes, he really did want to be out and run through the woods. Seek was very hard to lead in the snow and I was just drenched with sweat walking with him. at one point we were right beside horse shoe pond, I was still leading him, he was not listening and he jumped in front of me and went right into the pond! he couldn't tell it was water/ice as it was covered in snow, but he went in to his hips, and leapt back out. the water smelled like a sewer for some reason, it was disgusting. he seemed ok, but we were both covered in black stinking chuncky water. after that he actually settled down some. I was able to get on him after a little tight circling and he scooted up the main trail, went up the ledge trail with socks behind us sounding like a freight train. seeker did very very well. he did throw his head and bounce around a bit, but not as bad as last time. he wanted to run and I let him jog just a bit. he would walk so nicely then suddenly have a little tantrum but not bad at all. I rode all the way to Mt pisquah's parking area, our longest ride so far! a think almost a whole mile and a half :). chris did a really good job keeping Socks from running us over, THANK-YOU! 95.5 miles to go...