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    Re: [RC] Tevis - Barbara McCrary


    I feel the same way.....I'm absolutely terrified of falling, whether it be
    off a trail or off a cliff (without a horse, even), or into a river, or
    whatever.  As for horses walking too close to the edge, I've noticed horses
    like to do that, for some reason.  A horse that stays to the inside of a
    trail on a mountainside wins my undying gratitude.
    
    Barbara
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Lif Strand" <lif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    To: "RIDECAMP" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:47 AM
    Subject: Re: [RC] Tevis
    
    
    > At 07:30 PM 7/22/02, Barbara McCrary wrote:
    > >I would love to know why a trail dangerous enough for horses to fall off
    of
    > >is presented to the public for a competitive event.
    >
    > Actually the places I *personally* know of where horses have fallen off
    the
    > trail aren't all that dangerous in themselves - they're not necessarily
    > narrow or rocky or steep.  However, each time a horse has gone off a trail
    > *in my presence* it's been on trails that are traversing very steep
    > hillsides.  These trails don't have any place to go but down if a horse
    > steps off the side of the trail.
    >
    > One year I actually saw a horse go off a trail I'd just ridden over.  I'm
    > guessing the trail, which was flat at that point, was 4' wide, but it also
    > zigg-zagged around to follow the contours of the hill it was
    > traversing.  The horse no doubt went straight when it should have zigged
    or
    > zagged.  It only fell about 15' but it was still scary.
    >
    > I myself am so scared of doing just that - having my horse step too close
    > to the edge or off the edge and falling all the way down to the bottom -
    > that I hug the inside of the trails.  One year, in the dark, this caused
    me
    > to be caught on the neck by a really thick tree limb that wouldn't have
    > touched me if I'd been anywhere near the middle of the trail where I
    should
    > have been.  I had to bend back over the cantle of the saddle to avoid
    being
    > decapitated and had a really bad bruise on my spine from that - but better
    > a bruise on my back than fall down to the river!
    >
    > Anyway, my point is that if you look at any horse trail, you'll almost
    > always see some hoof prints where horses do step off the edges.  A trail
    > can be flat, wide and solid but if that trail is going across the face of
    a
    > hill, a horse can still fall off of it if the horse is stepping on the
    edge.
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