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Gotta agree with Joe.  Not only is it wide, it is flat and has relatively good footing.  A great place to make up some time.  Unfortunately you usually get behind some nervous person that takes it a crawl and although it is wide, it is not wide enough to pass an unfamiliar horse with a nervous rider.

And Jim wondered why everyone is leaning to the left.  This ride is in California remember.

 

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Joe Long <jlong@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:20:27 -0400, "Jim Holland" wrote:

>Hmmm...why is everyone leaning to the left? :)

>Dr. Quackenbush posted: >>>There is a famous place on the Tevis trail known
>affectionately as "Pucker Point," and it ain't a place for kissin'.<<<
>
>Hey Bruce, look familiar? Here is a link of photos of Pucker Point. Yes, I
>was "crazy" enough to have my camera out as we rode over this section of
>trail. Click link below, then over on the right, click next for the series
>of the next 5 photos of the trail.

>http://community.webshots.com/photo/407955341/1407999795049327220UgkyGJ

>Jonni

????? That's a wide trail. Try some of the trails at Tellico Plains, Tennessee
sometime. Or parts of the Keyhole route (hikers only, no horses) up Long's Peak
in Colorado. http://www.rnbw.com/LongsPeak.html for some photos. Note the
red-and-yellow bulls-eyes you can see on the rocks in some of the photos; that's
what marks the trail.

The narrowest and scariest horse trail I ever rode was in Idaho, riding in a
line of about five or six of us, when we came out on this "scratch" in the
rockface and trotted across, with a sheer drop below. I just gave Kahlil slack
rein and held on!
--

Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxx
http://www.rnbw.com

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