Endurance.Net Ridecamp Archives

Hi Linda,

  I noted your advice about situating one's tent and think that it makes eminently
good sense.  Prudence is a desirable commodity and taking precautions that cost 
nothing and might save a lot of pain is always prudent.  Nevertheless, the tone of 
the original poster was, in my opinion, unduly alarmist and I believe your experience 
of encountering one instance of this problem in "21+ years" demonstrates my point.
Be prudent, be reasonably careful, but I think juxtaposing "a severely lacerated 
liver" and "all snug in your sleeping bag, in your ultra-lite tent" in the same post 
is over the top.  I was at a Swanton ride when a tired rider put a sheet on her horse 
who was standing right next to its portable corral and inadvertently the cinches went 
over both horse and panel.  She attached the cinches and as soon as the horse took a 
step, it realized that the corral was coming with.  The horse panicked, bolted and 
dragging several sections of corral, desperately tried to get away.  I was parked at 
a 90 degree right angle to someone else's trailer and this horse came through, lept 
the trailer's tongue and leaving the remaining panels wedged thereon, continued off 
stage right.  Is this tale a caution against porta-panels or sheets?  Of course not, 
and I would never post it as a warning against using either.  I use it here as an 
example of something that CAN happen but doesn't usually and therefore no more 
warrants serious consideration as a reason not to use a portable corral than a loose 
horse stepping on you in your tent warrants serious consideration as a reason not to 
use a tent.

PS:  I am very glad you weren't in your tent when it got nailed.


Linda S. Flemmer wrote:
> Diane,
>
> Mike & I have camped in a tent at rides for the last 21+ years.  Fortunately
> we weren't in the tent at the time, but a lose horse DID run over our tent
> some years ago.  Our only casualty was the tent and my overnight bag, thank
> goodness.


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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!!

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=