I guess you feel pretty safe on your own land now and you must have felt
safe before riding until midnight. Did you have light, or did you ride in
the dark? I haven't done any of that lately. My mare is not good at dark.
>Now that I have leased a place of my own. I have 800 acres that backs up
>to the hundreds of thousands of acres of the Cleveland National Forrest,
>which is closed to the public during fire season (June to Dec). I rarely
>ever see another person. (Occassionally, one of the property owners of
>property I ride across, a CDF fireman, etc.)
That's interesting. I never thought about cleveland having a problem with
forest fires. If closed to the public is it technically closed to you too?
Not that it would stop me from riding anyway. I guess in jumping and
dressage riding for so long, I've gotten convinced that you shouldn't ride
alone.
>I bought a cell phone to take with me when I ride, but it's a pain in the
>ass to carry so I never do. Instead I use it to take phone calls from a
>late vet, farrier, e
Plus, if you fell off on the phone, or fell and got hurt, you wouldn't be
able to use it anyway. (I'm sure you'd never get hurt though)
>I have heard that, but for me it just isn't practical. I spend as much
>as 90% of my time alone with the horses (I am behind a very big, very
>locked gate and then up a 2 mile, 1000ft climb private dirt road). Even
>when I ride to the park (down the 2 mile dirt road, through the golf
>course, to aAliso Canyon) I rarely see anybody (except in the golf course).
I used to ride alone when I lived in Iowa. then one day my walker, Rebel,
took off running for no apparent reason, in the middle of Jan. I couldn't
stop him till he got home--several hundred acres--at that point it scared
me. I was home alone and if I'd gotten hurt I'd have frozen before someone
found me. I quit riding alone much after that. I do ride in the ring
alone, but somehow it seems safer-it's probably not.
>Nobody around to get on me. But even when I was in a boarding stable
>where there was other people, everybody just knew that I was crazy.
>Nobody ever said anything to my face (I have no idea what they were
>saying behind my back).
I'll guess I'll have to try this again. How far do you ride in one outing?
I mean is it five miles, or 10, or 25 for conditioning and daily riding.
Isn't it hard in the dark.
>You may find, if you decide to ride endurance, that unless there are
>other people in the area to train with, you will have to ride alone
>(because nobody wants to go out on the trail with you, 'cuz you want to
>go for a long trot...not most people's idea of a fun trail ride). People
>will get used to it and stop saying anything.
I suspect you're right. If I want to get serious about it, I know that I'll
have to go out alone to condition. I just haven't made that step yet.
>Going out alone is more dangerous than going with someone...but
>then...riding horses is inherently dangerous.
This is true, but you probably have more chance of dying in a car wreck.
thanks for info
alice
>kat
>Orange County, Calif.
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