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Re: [RC] Setting Fire to Tents a/k/a Cut-throat Competition - Joe LongOn Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:56:19 -0800, "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Vandalizing of ribbons is fairly common and has been going on for a LONG time. On my first endurance ride, in 1971, someone not only removed ribbons from the correct trail, but re-hung them on trees going up a mountain. After I had gone some distance (and following the tracks of other riders who had been fooled), the ribbons stopped and I was hopelessly confused. It was in an area that just led me around in circles. Finally, the drag riders came along and helped me get straightened out. I was flagging a trail for one of my rides one day, and when finished was riding back along part of the trail I'd just flagged on my way back to the trailer. I came to a fork in the trail and the ribbons had already been moved, to the wrong fork! Then I came upon a couple of guys in a pickup truck, and there were some of my ribbons in the bed. I said to them, "Say, if you see anyone pulling down ribbons from the trees along here, could you ask them not to do that? I'm marking the trail for a trail ride here next weekend ... I'll take them down after the ride." They then admitted they'd been pulling ribbons down, and re-marked the fork, because they thought they were ribbons put up by rival hunters leading to a hunting spot! At the Race of Champions one year, a resident near the trail kept pulling down ribbons. When ride management talked to her about it, she indignantly told them that she paid a lot of money to live out there and wasn't going to tolerate ribbons spoiling the view. Ride management had to send someone out just ahead of the riders to re-mark the trail. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com ============================================================ Just because someone tells you that your horse isn't "fit" for endurance...doesn't mean it isn't, it just means your horse isn't fit to be "their" endurance horse! Go for it, you never know what you'll accomplish with that "saddle horse" or "trail horse" of YOURS! ~ Darlene Anderson - DPD Endurance ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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