In a message dated 5/18/2004 8:19:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Your hill advice is right on the money. I've heard it said that whether you are going up or down, you should be in a position more or less perpendicular to what flat would be--so that if the horse magically disappeared out from under you, you would land on your feet.
This is really true. One time I took photos of several people coming down the hill to No Hands Bridge in Auburn, on their way to the fairgrounds. When I took the photos and turned them so the horse looked like it was on level ground, the excellent riders all were in a perfectly normal riding position. On the photos of the poor riders, they were all leaning back with feet forward when it appeared the horse was on level ground.
