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Great story, Karen.  Definitely beats my experience of coming upon a group
of boy scouts all trotting along with their arms on each others shoulders, a
line of maybe ten kids long and four wide (Jim probably knows what this
military style "troop movement" thing is called).  Sun stopped and kept
moving his head up and down trying to focus on what that thing could be.
When I asked the boys to stop until the horses passed, the kids all broke
rank and went yelling and jumping around.  Sun immediately relaxed because
now he could see they were just boys and not some amazing monster.

Dyane


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Sullivan" <greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Dyane Smith"
<sunibey@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Spike in Heart Rate


> Worst sight ever was going up out of Rancho del Oso on Swanton-to-sea
trail,
> about to take a cutoff
> trail.....on the two most bomproof horses I have ever had.  Unfortunately,
a
> camping group was hiking
> out.....people each wearing a backpack and carrying one in between each
> other by the shoulder straps....
> ....horses were truly horrified
> and both did an immediate spin and bolt.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Dyane Smith" <sunibey@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [RC] Spike in Heart Rate
>
>
> 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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> > > At the end of the day maybe the definition of endurance isn't the
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> > of
> > > the ride but rather the spirit in which it is ridden.
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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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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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