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As are fly fishermen fully laden with gear, LOL!

chris
--- Barbara McCrary <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Backpackers are dangerous horse-eaters.  I've had
> otherwise sensible horses
> come unglued over the sight of a backpacker.  They
> just don't look normal to
> a horse.
>
> Barbara
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dyane Smith" <sunibey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [RC] Spike in Heart Rate
>
>
> > Actually, I'm in the process of trying to find an
> available fully-loaded
> > backpacker to come walk through my pasture a few
> times.
> > I have llamas and deer down.  Bear, well harder to
> arrange--at least hard
> to
> > arrange temporary stays, but I'm going to guess it
> will be all right since
> > one did visit the neighbors trash cans and the
> horses did not indicate
> > concern when I saw them the following morning.j
> >
> > Dyane
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karen Sullivan" <greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <kramspott@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: [RC] Spike in Heart Rate
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <rides2far@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > For my horse there's 2 possibilities:
> > >
> > > A deer
> > > B: loss of contact on electrodes.
> > >
> > > If it's deer you might want to ride by them
> often and hope for a
> training
> > > effect. :-)
> > >
> > > Angie
> > >
> > >
> > > *last weekend my friend who was riding with a
> heart monitor saw a huge
> > jump
> > > when they
> > > happened across some bears.....
> > >
> > > My horse had the same reaction to a bunch of
> backpackers hiking
> > > out....despite one of them
> > > giving her carrots, she needs more backpacker
> work.....
> > >
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> night after being on
> the
> > > trail all day on a long 100 with miles left to
> go.
> > > ~  Tom Noll
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> > > At the end of the day maybe the definition of
> endurance isn't the length
> > of
> > > the ride but rather the spirit in which it is
> ridden.
> > > ~  Maryanne Stroud Gabani
> > >
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> > The very essence of our sport is doing the trail
> as quickly as
> practicable,
> > while keeping one's horse fit to continue.  Taking
> the clock out of the
> > equation makes it another sport altogether.  The
> challenge is how to keep
> > the sport what it is while honing our skills (both
> as riders and as those
> > in control roles) in detecting where "the edge" is
> for each horse so that
> > we don't cross it.
> > ~  Heidi Smith
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> You don't have to be a 100-mile rider or a multi-day
> rider to be an
> endurance rider, but if you want to experience the
> finest challenges our
> sport has to offer, you need to do both of those.
> ~ Joe Long
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