Re: RC: Re: Re: Walk the walk

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In a message dated 12/28/99 1:37:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
superpat@gateway.net writes:

<< My selection criteria
 is based on their knowledge and skill (and bedside manner) and I do not care
 a wit whether they ride or have ever ridden, a trail, arena or endurance. I
 for one would like to see officials and judges learning about the sport and
 it's attendant problems and I do not think that riding two 25 milers, or
 fifty or 100,  will make them a better judge or a better vet >>

Very true, Pat.  Many vets have gained needed perspective by riding, but many 
others have been able to gain the same level of skill without competing.  By 
the same token, riding alone does not make one a talented ride vet.

While it has to do with ride managers and not vets, I can remember an 
acquaintance bragging to me once that she and two other people had marked a 
trail, and that since between the three of them, they had over 30,000 
endurance miles, that should be one of the best marked trails ever.  I told 
her that that was the equivalent of saying that the two people in this sport 
most qualified to be ride managers are Les Carr and Trilby Pedersen!

Although I value my own mileage (and would be "grandfathered" in by Steve's 
system), I'll be the first to say that some of my most capable colleagues who 
vet rides have either never ridden a ride or have ridden very few.

Heidi


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