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In response to " The ride is held on public trails and this 
rider came upon some trail riders and rode with them for 
awhile. He was telling them about endurance riding, and was 
making some converts who wanted to give it a shot. "

The is no way to stop someone on a public trail from riding 
with you.  The difficulty comes when it's  a family member 
or crew or a rider/horse from ride camp that's not entered 
in the ride. In my view - the RM was incorrect in the trail 
rider case above.

OTOH, I've seen one instance where the ride manager talked 
the winner into withdrawing from the ride rather than be DQ 
when their spouse rode out to meet the rider and came into 
camp at the finish with them.

As far as enforcement - many of our rules really depend on 
the honesty of the rider.  I believe most riders would 
understand "prompting" by cellphone with the simple 
explanation that I posted.  When the rule was first made - 
I'm sure cell phones didn't exist.

I don't see a problem with GPS enabled phones because that 
info isn't available to anyone other than emergency.  In 
general - I don't see a problem in any GPS use anyway.

Mike

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