Ridecamp: [RC] [RC] Trail Etiquette - Advice

If you do something out of the ordinary, people are going to notice and
comment. I don't think you will be able to get away from the unsolicited
advice. Heck, I don't do anything out of the ordinary and I've gotten
unsolicited advice on everything from my crated or leashed dogs to being
warned against doing too much too fast after completing a 15 mile CTR on a
(horrors!) coming 5YO. (Sometimes ya just gotta laugh about it.)

As long as long as everyone and every horse around you is safe, why not just
keep on doing your own thing? If the unsolicited advice is never-ending or
seems to build as time goes on, then maybe it needs to dealt with -- either
by taking a hard look in the mirror or by asking the advisors what their big
beef is.

My favorite non-written trail etiquette thing is people who stop around a
blind corner and then act indignant when the next horse runs up on them. Of
course, trail etiquette dictates they shouldn't be run up on, but duh! And,
when the person comes up upon them from behind and still manages to stop 10
to 20 feet away, I don't see any reason why the person who stopped in the
blind spot needs to be indignant.

Horse people are opnionated. Fact of life. The one time I saw a bareback
entrant in a CTR, I asked him how in the heck he was going to keep his
sponge with him. ;-)

Deanna



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