A little background on Spirit...
I got her in June, she was green broke and hadn't been ridden in a year. We've been working almost every day since then, and she's come a long way. She's a great horse and we've developed a really good bond, I believe that she trusts me a lot and I hope that will be a good thing for the trail. She is rather spooky, spooks at shadows, mailboxes etc., but once she is given a chance to calmly approach an object she never spooks again. Today I introduced her to a wooden "bridge" (just a board on the ground in the arena), which she initially didn't even want to walk near while I was leading her, but 15 minutes later she was being ridden over it and was completely unphased.