Re: Klickitat Trek

["spencer" <spencer@inu.net>]

Are you in WA State?  I used to live there.  Hate to think people have
gotten to that point!! It is shocking.  Too much like the NYC thing where
not one person tried to help someone being murdered.  I did notice a trend
that way back in Olympia in mid70s.  One of the reasons I stayed in Tx
after my divorce was people here help each other.  One early am I had
stopped along a road to 'take a nature break' and someone stopped by to see
if I needed help.  But back in Oly, I asked someone to jump start my
battery at a shopping center(I had the cable) and they said they couldn't. 
There will always be those that are self absorbed, but that is way too
much!!  Sorry to hear about it.  BUT I have a suggestion, and that is to
practice riding without stirrups.  My dressage instructors have made me and
it can be done, even at the trot.  I had a tree snag and break a stirrup
leather while I was riding a green stallion on 30 miler several yrs
ago....People stopped to help.  Had to finish the ride with VERY short
stirrups!!  
Here's hoping those selfish riders are very few.  Mary Ann, Tx

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From: MCShasa <mcshasa@email.msn.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: Klickitat Trek
Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 5:01 PM

Just finished a slow 25 at Klickitat Trek and had a wonderful time.  Good
trails, nice scenery, well organized, etc.  My partner didn't have such a
good time.  This was his first endurance race, he was riding one of my
horses and really looking forward to it.  He does a lot of walk-gallop and
I
do a lot of trotting so we weren't riding together.  At about 22 miles he
lost a stirrup at a gallop and went sailing off the horse.  Landed on his
head and rolled, cracking a rib and getting fairly well banged up.  He
hobbled down the trail about 1.5 miles until he hit a creek and a road.  He
was getting dizzy by then and it looked like a good place to wait for help.
During this time he was passed by over a dozen riders, headed back into
camp.  Half the riders asked how he was and promised to send help back and
half the riders shouted "get out of the way".  He doesn't know how long he
sat there until a pickup came down the road and stopped.  He asked for help
and they drove him back to camp.  One of them led his horse in also.  Very
nice people.  I was waiting at the finish line, getting anxious when he
came
driving in.  Not one of the riders that had passed him had notified anyone
that there was an injured rider on the trail!!

His injuries were not real serious and he is recovering fine.  But he sure
isn't impressed with endurance riders.  I am disappointed also.  I know we
can get competitive as the finish gets near but to leave an injured rider
alone and fail to notify anyone to get help is inexcusable.

I thought we were better people than this.

Barb (& Mac, whjo waited patiently with Wm)