Re: PAC/Concussion from Angie

["Dorothy J. Miller" <dmiller@countyofplumas.com>]

Thanks for the explanation.  I thought from the way you put it that it was
paved or something.  Definitely a smart call on your part!!

Dorothy

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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:27 AM
Subject: RC: PAC/Concussion from Angie


> Angie McGhee Rides2far@juno.com
> You asked what's the deal with the concussion the last 4 miles?
>   Not much difference than the other 56 miles of hardpacked dirt
>  road...I just felt like I'd pushed my luck as far as I could
>  stand to.  It was dark. The road was sooo hardpacked you could
>  just *hear* the concussion, and feel your horse backing off from
>  it.  During the day we could ride the very edge of the shoulder
>  and it was slightly softer, but it was slanted so there was
>  torque on the joints.  At 96 miles my horse trotted sound.
> I wanted to keep it that way.  There was also one more looong
>  (about a mile) downhill. There were culverts on the edge of the road that
> the grass might hide in the dark...and I go by the motto
>  I saw on a drink holder this weekend: "Only the Paranoid
>  Survive".
>
> Angie
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