Ridecamp: Re: [RC] electrolyte recipe

ROFL! Whuff! I DID that...on Sunny's first ride! That's why I now use
paste electrolytes! I can even GIVE them at a trot...well, at least a
SLOW trot! :) I lost so much salt the grass probably won't grow on that
trail for 2 years! Had to borrow electrolytes to finish the ride.

See, Angie, if you had used one of those spring loaded dog leashs on
your sponge like I recommended, it would have automatically retracted
when you let go of it ! <grin>

Jim, Sun of Dimanche, and Mahada Magic

Rides 2 Far wrote:
> 
> But then again I'm not anywhere near competitive
> > enough to  try it at the trot!  :-)
> >
> 
> Is "competitive" another word for brain damaged?  I was at Big South Fork
> a couple of years ago and traveling at a nice steady trot in a pretty
> tight string of horses and thought I'd try loading dry electrolytes while
> going down the trail. I was about third in line and they were all
> traveling nice and steady so I stuffed my sponge under the front of my
> saddle, took the canister of dry electrolytes out of my zippered pocket.
> Sort of dropped the reins while I held the syringe in one hand (plugging
> the bottom with a finger since I'd lost the cap) and the plunger &
> electrolytes in the other. Then I took out a waterbottle to pour water
> down into the top of the syringe.  About that time the Yahoo who was 2nd
> in line (who I had never seen before ...no helmet, long hair blowing in
> the breeze, and a big western show saddle on her Arab) decided to pass
> the leader and take off downhill at a gallop.  Kaboot bolted after
> her...my finger came off the bottom of the syringe as I grabbed for the
> reins. The dry electrolyes drained out like sand through an hour glass
> all over my horse...while I tried to haul Kaboot down from a mad gallop
> on a downhill with pieces of the syringe in both hands the sponge came
> out from under the front of my saddle and was dragging by the wrist loop
> and snapping at his heels.  I thought I did pretty well. I only dropped
> the film canister and I lived.
> 
> That's the long version of. "I don't recommend mixing at a trot".
> 
> Angie
> 
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The Fall Pig is September 21st, 2002


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