Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Tevis

I've wanted to go there, but I'm going on my own two feet, thank you.
Thanks for the advance tip!

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Typef" <typef@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Tevis


> My husband and I took the Sliding Sands trail down to the bottom of
> Haleakala Crater on Maui in January on rental horses and my husband spent
> the whole time trying to get his horse away from the edge. If you can
> imagine riding down the inside of a slippery cone of sand with this narrow
> single track zig-zagging down it and every step you take, the sand is
> avalanching down into this big hole. Scared the you-know-what out of him.
> One step over and that horse would have just slid down to the bottom. The
> guide kept telling him not to worry about it and we knew the horse had
been
> down there a million times, but you can't help thinking about it! My horse
> was a good girl and stayed right in the middle.
>
> :) Jackie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Lif Strand" <lif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "RIDECAMP" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [RC] Tevis
>
>
> > I feel the same way.....I'm absolutely terrified of falling, whether it
be
> > off a trail or off a cliff (without a horse, even), or into a river, or
> > whatever.  As for horses walking too close to the edge, I've noticed
> horses
> > like to do that, for some reason.  A horse that stays to the inside of a
> > trail on a mountainside wins my undying gratitude.
> >
> > Barbara
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lif Strand" <lif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "RIDECAMP" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: [RC] Tevis
> >
> >
> > > At 07:30 PM 7/22/02, Barbara McCrary wrote:
> > > >I would love to know why a trail dangerous enough for horses to fall
> off
> > of
> > > >is presented to the public for a competitive event.
> > >
> > > Actually the places I *personally* know of where horses have fallen
off
> > the
> > > trail aren't all that dangerous in themselves - they're not
necessarily
> > > narrow or rocky or steep.  However, each time a horse has gone off a
> trail
> > > *in my presence* it's been on trails that are traversing very steep
> > > hillsides.  These trails don't have any place to go but down if a
horse
> > > steps off the side of the trail.
> > >
> > > One year I actually saw a horse go off a trail I'd just ridden over.
> I'm
> > > guessing the trail, which was flat at that point, was 4' wide, but it
> also
> > > zigg-zagged around to follow the contours of the hill it was
> > > traversing.  The horse no doubt went straight when it should have
zigged
> > or
> > > zagged.  It only fell about 15' but it was still scary.
> > >
> > > I myself am so scared of doing just that - having my horse step too
> close
> > > to the edge or off the edge and falling all the way down to the
bottom -
> > > that I hug the inside of the trails.  One year, in the dark, this
caused
> > me
> > > to be caught on the neck by a really thick tree limb that wouldn't
have
> > > touched me if I'd been anywhere near the middle of the trail where I
> > should
> > > have been.  I had to bend back over the cantle of the saddle to avoid
> > being
> > > decapitated and had a really bad bruise on my spine from that - but
> better
> > > a bruise on my back than fall down to the river!
> > >
> > > Anyway, my point is that if you look at any horse trail, you'll almost
> > > always see some hoof prints where horses do step off the edges.  A
trail
> > > can be flat, wide and solid but if that trail is going across the face
> of
> > a
> > > hill, a horse can still fall off of it if the horse is stepping on the
> > edge.
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