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My husband and I took two geldings on a pack trip into the Sierras many 
years ago.  We rode with packers' saddle bags hung behind the cantles of our 
saddles and made the 20 miles into a canyon (where we camped for several 
days) in one day. On our way out, we met a mother bear with two cubs and our 
two geldings couldn't have cared less.  Neither one spooked or paid much 
attention.  Mama bear was pushing the kids to climb a tree before those two 
strange-looking creatures pursued them.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Bears on the trail


> Several years ago we were CO at a ride and went out to loosen up the 
> horses. We went out and on the way back, the mare was in front of my wife 
> and her friend. We come around a bend and there is a lot of thrashing in 
> the brush ahead. I pulled the mare to a stop and we watched as a mother 
> bare and two cubs came out of the brush about 50 meters in front of us. 
> The mare stood there staring at them. The mama bear looked at her and 
> didn't seem to have a problem and just crossed the trail - with the cubs 
> behind. About that time the two Arabs gelding came around the corner. You 
> would have thought their world had come to an end. The stalling, spinning, 
> prancing was comical to watch.
>
> After the bear and cubs got into the brush on the other side of the trail 
> and were a respectable distance away, the mare picked it up and we went on 
> in - or tried to. I heard a scream from my wife about how her horse was 
> not going to go. I had to turn around, go back and head the two Arab 
> geldings past where the bear crossed. I suspect if I had not have gone 
> back they might still be there.
>
> Sometimes it is better to ride mares.
>
> Truman
>
> Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > However on the trail I am very grateful for my "mare that stares down
> > bears."   That is her trail darn it and she isn't going move for no
> > stinkin' bear.
> >
> >
> > Horses lend us the wings we lack.  Author Unknown
>
>
> --
>
> "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we 
> are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." Bertrand 
> Russell
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