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In a message dated 2/21/2004 3:48:50 PM Central Standard Time, tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> As I was driving home yesterday I, once again, drooled over the power line
> trail at the end of the neighborhood. It goes straight up a mountain that
> would just do a horse's heart good :). Conveniently, there's a church with
> a big parking lot right at the base of it. The easement to the trail goes
> behind 3 or 4 houses before it hits the mountain. Almost everyday I think
> "wonder if they'd let me park in the parking lot so I could ride that
> mountain" which is almost always followed by "wonder what would happen to
> me if I just parked there and rode up that mountain" :)
>
> And that made me think about other ridecampers and what means you've gone
> to in order to get a good ride in. I don't mean anything as mundane as
> riding around some traffic <g> - I think most of us have to suffer through
> that. I'm wondering about parking in parking lots in a populated area to
> get to power line (or other) trails, riding through neighborhoods to get
> to the riding behind it, etc....
>
> If you have access to millions of miles of trail from your backyard, I 
> don't want to hear from you :). 


Ok, guilty of having the "millions of miles of trail" (162,000 ac National Forest 3 miles from the house), but always looking for more, especially areas to ride when half of Houston is in the Forest during deer season.  There's a huge tract of private forest down the road 1 mile from our house...my husband knows the timber company who owns/manages it.  Well, they called him for business purposes (he's a forestry/wildlife consultant).  He met them for the business meeting yesterday, and then casually mentioned we lived near that tract and asked if they'd mind if we rode our horses there...they said no problem.  So, we now have 17,000 ac. that we can ride to from the house.  :)  So don't be afraid to ask...you might be surprised how easy "yes" comes!  

Dawn in East Texas