You mean 12 x30 feet of 2 ft. deep four wheeler ruts in the trail, vines you have to duck under ,1 foot trails between the tree and the ditch filled with mud, and regularly snaping branches off , during the growing season, and 2' to 12' rocks going downhill, while ducking the branches, (as he tries to trot it, the idiot) is not safe trail conditions? !!??**Not to mention the vinal (sp)siding in the middle of the trail,(pray that isn't windshield glass under it, ya know, next to the bedspring) and he is green. I guess the spent shells and beer bottles count too towards making it a "difficult" or "unsafe" trail. . . . (Gosh a real trail marked in a state forest will be like heaven **!!! laurie an Rascal ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed and Wendy Hauser Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 4:33 PM To: Linda B. Merims; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Trail conditions (was Re: [RC] Need Bail, quick) I first heard this BS about "safe trtails" in a publication by the MN Horse
Council. They had graded the trails from Easy to difficult. The "easy
trails", in addition to being flat, with no water crossings, had these (or
similar )width, line of sight requirements.
Even though state horse councils are supposed to represent and lobby for all
horse groups, they are often dominated by show interests. some of the influential show people never take a horse out of a
ring and have no concept of trails and riding in the open. They probably
tried it once, found that their "perfect" horse paniced, and concluded
that it is a strange and risky thing to do with a horse.
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