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Wow, Sandy, that's quite the blanket-statement, " the folks in Southern 
California REALLY have a challenge to do endurance".

**Orange County** and the coastal LA and San Diego counties, where the 
land value and population density is highest--there I'd agree with your 
statements.  If I remember right, you asked about Orange County, and 
Carlsbad (north San Diego county).  The horse poop conundrum is about 
the water runoff into the OCEAN, they say--in any event, it's high 
dollar property close to the coast.

Inland, there is considerable horse property and certainly considerable 
trails too.  Take a look at the PS ride schedule--how could we put on 
so many rides if there wasn't terrain for it?   We *don't* have a 
challenge here to do endurance.  We DO often have more of a challenge 
in terms of commuting distance to work, and we pay more for our land 
than folks in many other parts of the country.  Not many of us 
endurance riders live within commuting distance to Aliso Viejo (I have 
a 700 rider database).  There's a reason!

People manage, though.  Up in Malibu there is a considerable contingent 
of endurance riders who might choose to trailer a short distance to one 
of the Santa Monica mountains trailheads, home of 30 years of the 
Malibu endurance ride, and hundreds of miles of trail--some don't have 
to trailer at all, for some of the best conditioning terrain in the 
world.

Suffering, uh, enjoying 300 riding days of sunshine a year (when it 
ain't windy, quaking--oh yeah, you have those too, mudsliding or 
burning),

Lynne
(and boarding for the last dozen years where there are 85 miles out the 
front gate, and moving to zoned agricultural acreage where 50 miles 
ridden in a day is eminently practical, though like everywhere else 
where the weather is nice, developers could overrun it too).

On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:28 AM, sandy.l.holder@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> With regards to the Newport Beach, CA and So Cal in generally, my 
> husband was recently offered a wonderful job in Orange County (Aliso 
> Viejo). ?After traveling down and spending a weekend looking for horse 
> property, we learned an awful lot. ?#1). ?We're not moving down there. 
> ?Terrific horse people sent all kinds of great info to me, connected 
> us with great real estate folks (Laura - THANKS!) but it was a no go. 
> ?Why? ?There are VERY FEW places to have horses and NO AVAILABILITY of 
> property (one place in Rancho Carrillo I'd love to retire to but not 
> practical otherwise for us). ?#2). Trails are a challenge (there are 
> some wonderful places if for the most part you want to trailer to 
> them).
>
> All I can say is, the folks in Southern California REALLY have a 
> challenge to do endurance. . . so, even though the horse friendly's 
> welcomed us very warmly, we're going to stay put where we're spoiled 
> in Northern California (and can still ride on trails from our 
> property).
>
> Good luck with the whole pick up your poop as you ride thing. . .
>
> Sandy 

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