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I personally prefer to ride alone.  Have had much less
things happen, fewer accidents etc when alone.

I DO look like I am packing for a week when I leave
for the trail as I have six small containers on my
breast plate all full of stuff I may need including
gps,hrm .  I have an easy boot bag on one side with
(easy boot,duck tape, electric tape, knife, hoof pick,
washcloth for cushining foot), a water bottle on the
other side , a banana bag full of medical stuff
(including salve, clotting powder, vetwrap, huge pad
for compression bangage, polo wrap, ace bandage , bug
repellant,sun screen, baby wipes,toilet paper,
banimine paste, asprin, grain and dengie, food bars,
electrolite paste, camping tool, matches, benedrill
for bee stings),in back of the saddle. I hang my
sponge and if I am going where I think there will be
no reachable water from the trail I hang a colapsable
water bucket.

Of course if I am on the ground that won't help me
much but my horse so far has only headed for home once
and only because our companion horse left the scene of
the crime. 

I have had really strange things happen to me on trail
before I carried all the stuff (such as my horse
severing an artery on a ride at a water stop in the
brook, slicing the corony band while riding  through
the woods, falling on ledges and banging up his knees,
doing the split on a slippery trail with ruts under
the water,all while riding with other people) now that
I carry all this stuff and ride alone most of the time
we have been accident free (knock on wood).  My
husband knows where I am going if I am going for the
whole day, and will come looking for me if I am not
home in a resonable time.

My horse pays better attention when we are alone and
we can change our minds if we want to take a differant
trail than we had origially planned, or go faster or
slower than planned.

At rides people know I have just about everything
anyone could want (you should see my vet stop box) and
it is nice if I can help someone with what I have.

Hope this helps.



--- Barbara McCrary <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I leave a note on my kitchen table saying I left at
> such and such at time,
> riding which horse, taking which trail system, point
> to point.  All our
> trails are named so that my husband could find me
> somehow by following my
> itinerary.  If I'm riding a horse I'm uncertain of,
> a green one for
> instance, I call him first and let know where I'm
> going and that I will call
> him when I return.  If I don't return at a suitable
> time and call him back,
> he will come looking for me.  We do this for each
> other, and we both
> consider this an act of loving consideration for
> each other.
>
> Barbara
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nina Vasiliev" <rides4fun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 8:06 PM
> Subject: [RC] safety and riding alone.
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > My riding partner is not able to ride very often
> now, and so I am facing
> the
> > need to ride alone to condition.  I'm having
> trouble figuring out how to
> do
> > this safely.
> >
> > How do you all condition alone?  What do you do to
> make it safer?
> > Nina Vasiliev
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