RE: [RC] re: age per miles - ft bragg nc area - Ranelle Rubin
Don't let anyone make you feel bad for not wanting to ride alone. I, too had an incident once that caused me to avoid riding alone if at all possible. I ran into a bear while on a very rarely used trail. My horse spun back up a very steep hill, I ended up doing an unplanned flying dismount, landed on my water bottle that was on my waist. I could not get back on my horse. There is a suture in your pelvis that had "slipped"..I could not stand on one leg, could not raise my other leg. Thankfully my horse stayed with me, and also knew how to tail. He pulled me out of a canyon in 105 degree heat on August 25th.
When I got to civilization, I flagged down a passerby. She later said that as soon as I handed her the horse's reins, I passed out.
I only ride alone when I can tell someone where I am going and when I will be back. Then I stay on the Tevis trail, or the Folsom Lake trail where there is a reasonable amount of recreational use.
It takes a bit of work to build a network of local riders, but it is worth it, IMO..
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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 06:39:38 -0800 From: grace_herself@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] re: age per miles - ft bragg nc area To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
i do need a buddy, i don't ride alone. i had a VERY serious accident about 4 years ago, as in ambulance, life flight, lucky to be alive, accident, while working with my horse alone, now i wont go out by myself, and will barely handle them if im home myself, unless its an emrgency.
Chrystal Woodhouse <Chrystal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That sounds awesome!!!!!:-) But don't wait for a buddy to ride with ....just go out and ride and then come to an endurance ride!!!!!!! It is the MOST fun you will ever have!!!!!!:-) And on the subject of age, Nancy Beacon one of our great riders in Ontario did the last Pan Am games in North America ( so 100 miles) at 69!!:-) Chrystal
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Re: [RC] re: age per miles - ft bragg nc area
i rent from a very close friend :) i live in the middle of nowhere, at the end of a dirt road, with my horses litterly in my front
yard :) kramspott@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: How DO you all find these amazing places where you can ride from your door to miles of trails and not have to trailer every time you want to ride? Seriously, I'm ready to move if I found something like that!
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-------------- Original message -------------- From: Someone Somewhere <grace_herself@xxxxxxxxx> well, seeing as how 41 is apparently not too old ;) who's in the ft bragg nc area to buddy up with? i have MILES of trailes to ride around my house, i could leave out in the am, and come home after dark, and i have a nice 13 yo arab mare i could try out endurancewise :)
