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Re: [RC] Spike in Heart Rate/Backpackers - RDCARRIE

In a message dated 5/20/2004 2:10:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
amber@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


MtnRondi@xxxxxxx wrote:


I encountered a backpacker on a very narrow switchback trail on the 
side of a mountain. My horse went into reverse, I kept screaming to 
the backpacker to say something to let my horse know he 

was human, but 

the backpacker was scared and froze


Ok, I've gotta tell one...this past winter my friends and I were doing a 
conditioning ride at Lake Somerville State Park.  We encountered a couple of 
backpackers...the horses slid to a halt, ears up, really to explode.  I was 
just opening my mouth to speak to the hikers, who were politely standing very 
quietly off at the side of the road so as not to spook the horses (LOL), when, 
in unison, all of our horses whirled and bolted back down the road at a dead 
run.  I kept yelling, "say something, say something!", and my friends, thinking 
I was talking to them, starting saying, "whoa! whoa!"  <VBG>  We all got a good 
laugh out of it later, and we subsequently passed a bunch of other backpackers 
during that ride, giving the horses lots of time to get used to them.  I 
usually just start a conversation with "scary people," but all I could think of 
to say during the "group spook" was "say something!"  

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