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Good post-- I too ride alone, but right out the back door. Rascal would 
probably go home or find the nearest grass :0)--But I made a map too, and 
color coded the trails as I gps them. I tell my sons or husband  where I am 
going,what loop(say "I think I am going to ride the yellow loop", I give a 
time and add an hour or so. I usually tell them , about 1.5 or 2 hours -- 
don't get worried  till I am overdo say an hour and a half (I actually got 
semi lost, 2 years ago , thinking I could shortcut while exploring trails) . 
 I also tell my sons who to call that are horsey people or friends who 
could aactually search. Luckily my husband has been a volunteer firemand for 
20 years and the boys are Scouts.:0). I also have a tag on the saddle and 
reflective tape on my Easy ride stirrups, a cell phone,first aid kit  on me. 
I am within  a couple of miles from houses whereever I ride so ,if I can 
walk out I am ok. The reason for the "overkill" is I was allergic to bees 
and wasps and just finished 5 years of shots.I am supposed to be ok, now, 
but I still carry an epiphene.I also had an accident last yar and have a 1.5 
' scar on my hand from a crush injury from a gate, glad I had my fanny pack 
on and a clean bandanna to wrap it with  even though I was almost home.....
 But there are times coming I intend to trailer to new trails and find some 
riding buddies as soon as MY truck is  wired.Then it is a bit more 
complicated. I had thought of leaving notes in my truck /trailer . Guess I 
will have to plan that when I hook up with other riders .
   At rides I would think it doubly important as your horse is in a strange 
place, over excited , maybe frightened. .....



> From: "A. Perez" <walkergirl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <walkergirl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   [RC] Horse ID / Great idea: only half the solution
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:23:23 -0400
>
>   I have posted this here before a few years ago, but since this
> thread is current I'll tell the story again.
>
> A friend got separated from her horse, who had no ID, and had a
> scary few hours until he was found.  To avoid this problem, I
> put a luggage tag on my saddle.  As luck would have it, just a
> few days later, my horse slipped and fell, and took off before I
> could grab him.  I hiked to a nearby stable and used their phone
> to call home.  Got the voice mail, as the line was busy.  Left a
> message for my husband saying I was OK and would call back asap.
>  Unfortunately my husband was on the phone to the people who had
> found my horse, and did not think to check for phone messages.
> Not knowing what else to do, he went to the horse.  So he knew
> were the ehorse was, but I could no reach him, and I DIDN'T know
> where my horse was and had no way to reach my husband.  So I
> bummed I ride back to my truck, hoping my horse had gone back to
> his farm.  Nope. So I drove back to the trails to start looking
> again, and fortunately saw a man and a boy walking the bridle
> paths: they were looking for the rider of the horse that had
> showed up in their yard - BINGO!  By the time my husband got to
> the horse, I was there.  Now my husband is not horsey, and I had
> just switche dbaording stables, so he would have had no idea
> where to take my horse home to (not to mention he does not ride
> and I did not have a trailer then).
>
> So, I wrote up an instruction sheet on what to do when the 'I
> found your horse' call comes.  It includes a description of the
> trails I most commonly ride, my vets phone numbers, names of
> peole with trailers, and people to call to mount a search party,
> and, most importantly, the command "STAY BY THE PHONE and CHECK
> VOICE MAIL". It is in flow chart form: "Ask if the horse is OK:
> No?  call the vet.  Yes?: ask if the horse can stay there for
> awhile.  If not, here are the number numbers of folks with
> trailers and the address of the boarding stable.... and so
> forth.
>
> The moral of the story is, if you have non-horsey family members
> who will be the ones getting the call, make sure they no what to
> do in different scenarios.
>
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> available. It makes us better horseman and women, it benefits our horses
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> ~ Lisa Salas - The Odd Farm
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