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Re: [RC] Horse with a bleeding mouth - trail - Elizabeth Walker

Yeah - it is interesting. I read the part about the three riders stopping, and 4 riders going on, and just assumed that there was room to stop and get off the trail. Assuming there was, I certainly would have stopped also.


On Apr 22, 2009, at 6:47 AM, Rae Callaway wrote:

Interesting how differently people can view the trail based on their own
location. I read "Million Pines ride" and pictured it to be similar to the
forests that I ride in, which are mostly single track, but moving off the
trail into the woods is an easy thing to do. Kat - you ride in a more
mountainous area, right? So, your view of single track trail would consist
of drop offs on the sides?

Rae


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Subject: [RC] Horse with a bleeding mouth


Molly said:

40 miles out, one of the girls I was riding with pointed
 out that my horse's mouth was bleeding.  Of course
 I freaked out and dismounted to find out what was
 wrong.  Because we were on a single-track trail, I
 pulled over and announced to the folks behind me
 that they could pass.  Three or four riders went around,
 but the two girls that I had ridden with all day stayed
 with me.  As these other riders were passing, one of
 them commented that, "There's nothing you can do
 about it now, anyway"-

For me, a telling part of this story is the"we were on a single- track trail"
and "two girls...stayed with me."

If I were in a situation where somebody pointed out that my horse's mouth
was bleeding, before I stopped and had another two riders stop with me, I
would make sure that it was a safe and convenient place to stop and that my
stopping wasn't likely to cause more problems on the trail than blood coming
from my horse's mouth might.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)


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[RC] Horse with a bleeding mouth, k s swigart
RE: [RC] Horse with a bleeding mouth - trail, Rae Callaway