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So, Gary, what would you recommend for the nervous Nellie who is terrified of falling off a cliff?  Can't close the eyes because one looses one's balance.  Not supposed to look down....supposed to look where you want to go so the horse will follow where you are looking.  What if the place you want to look at has nothing beyond the trail but SPACE....(shudder)

Maybe look to the left so one cannot see the SPACE 1,000 feet down to the canyon.  If YOU aren't afraid, it's no big deal, but some of us ARE afraid.  So what do you think would work for us?

 

Barbara

----- Original Message -----

From: Gary Fend

To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:55 PM

Subject: Re: [RC] Nervous or Crazy

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.

 

G

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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