RE: Darolyn and barefoot

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LuAnn Rod louie@gomontana.com
	I'm following this barefoot thread with interest, but I have one request.
It would be immensely helpful to know what area of the country barefoot
proponents and opponents are riding in.

	I know that in the area of Minnesota where I grew up, the idea of riding
barefoot all the time, even endurance, doesn't seem impossible, not easy,
but not impossible. But after living in the West for 20 years, riding
endurance barefoot here in my part of Montana where they gravel the roads
with boulders over ground so hard that riding on asphalt is a forgiving
surface, seems foolhardy. And these horses live 24/7 on rock strewn
pasture.

	This discussion, for the sake of newbies to the sport and to horses in
general, could use that extra information.

	Just a lurker,

	Louie
	Bozeman, Montana