[at-l] Good trail movies

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

One other horse point - hiking staffs and especially metal "Leki-type"
poles can scare/spook even seasoned trail horses; I don't like them out
there, but they are there in places, and it is generally considered good
ettiquete to stand aside and let them pass; if you are on the side of a
hill, stand to the inside [i.e., up a bit on the hillside] of the trail,
stay quiet, and soon it will be over . . . [except for then having to
smell the piss and crap if you are headed the same direction, but then
again I've got enough farm exposure where that does not bother me too
much - except where it comes in spades, like on a couple of trails in
the Grand Canyon!)

hike on, and smell the horses! :)

thru-thinker

Shane Steinkamp wrote:
> 
> > Great, but most of those characters in those
> > movies rode horses.  Now,
> > haven't you been told, if you haven't learned it
> > first hand, that horses and
> > hikers don't do well on the same trail?  <G> anklebear
> 
> I've noticed.  It's usually because hikers are irritable,
> and horsemen (and women) are arrogant.
> 
> A horseman once hollered at me on a trail because I was
> spooking his horse.  He told me to get off the trail.
> Arrogant bastard.  I hollered back, "If your horse is
> spooked by hikers, why did you bring him to a hiking trail?"
> He hollered, I hollered, he hollered, I waved at him...
> Well, I was irritable...  I didn't bother to get off the
> trail either.  I figured if he wanted to pass, he could go
> around.  Guess that makes me arrogant too...
> 
> I later learned that you're supposed to give a horse the
> right of way.  I don't know if that's a written rule, and
> I've still not seen it written anywhere.  I would have
> gladly given him the right of way if he hadn't hollered at
> me, but asked nicely...
> 
> I like horses, mind you, and horses like me - but to me,
> riding a horse and riding a motorcycle are little different.
> I don't want to go riding.  I want to go walking.
> 
> Now I've probably managed to irritate the horse people
> here...
> 
> Shane
> 
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