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[RC] Pigs & Endurance - rides2farthey would explode from the brush squealing as they ran. The pot bellied pig at my neighbor's place burrows under a big pile of hay...and then yes, *explode* is the perfect description of how it comes out if you walk by too close. FAR more exciting than a woman popping out of a cake! If any of you have read the book by Beryl Markham West With the Night, or maybe it was in her biography, she talks about her youth in Africa hunting with native friends. The wild pigs would burst from a pile of leaves and the natives would jump STRAIGHT UP to keep their legs from getting slashed, then drive a spear downwards. She claimed some could jump their own height...and that she almost could. I guess slashing pig tusks could do a lot for you motivation to develop a vertical jump. By the way, Beryl was a great race horse trainer (her secret was to get many hired workers to walk the trail daily and remove all stones) and the first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic in that direction. It's a good book. Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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