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There is a trail, next to the Silver Comet in Ga. in my county that is 
supposed to be a horse trail, (heard they won't maintain the horse part or 
let others as the county dot wants to use  that as some kind of leverage to 
get more workers--sigh--it is  10 minutes from my house,and I used to have 
other trails--- But I digress--and the rules posted say, you have to remove 
any manure your horse deposits--which means I guess, you have to dismount 
and kick it off, the bike/people  part. You also have to dismount when you 
cross the bridges that are being built over roadways and the trestle(like 
50+ feet up). I rode part of it once, before theypaved 4" down the middle(of 
course)--they then put a horse part below it I think--I hadn't checked it 
out, as no one seems to want to ride it--heard bikers were trying to ram 
someone once--That and the other horse trail (11) miles nearby, a 
battlefield, you have to cross a very heavily trafficked road if you wnat to 
rid emore than 5 miles of it, and you share that with subdivision people 
with strollers, joggers, bikes and dogs.

> From: Vallonelee@xxxxxxx
> To: Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC]   LTE - Tucson Citizen this morning
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:51:13 EST
>
> >From a Tucson, Arizona paper.  Boy this one could be a problem.........
> Riders should clean up after horses
> Generally, I am all for multiuse of our beautiful mountain trails. But as a
> cyclist, I have one gripe about horses. It is what they leave behind.We all
> must leave only footprints (or tire tracks) and take only pictures.Even dog
> owners clean up after their pets. Why is it OK for a horse to make a pile 
> on a
> trail and the owner leave it? Horse riders should be required to clean up 
> messes
> their animals make.- GREGG HLAVACEK
>
>
> Lee
> ".......and God sought to bestow upon man a supreme mark of his blessing. 
> God
> created the horse. The horse could run faster than the deer, jump higher 
> than
> the goat, and endure longer than the wolf. Man, being encompassed by 
> elements
> that sought to destroy him, would have been a slave, had the horse not made
> him king."



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