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  • From: Shannon Williams <skwilliam_2000@yahoo.com>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] from Spain: what I do when riding on snow
  • Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:57:11 -0800 (PST)

Hello all. A thin coat of vaseline on the inside of
the hooves generally keeps the snow from sticking.
--- carlos velasco <carlosvelascosan@yahoo.es> wrote:
> Hi, every body. First of all, sorry for my english,
> I'll try to do my best. Here where i live, there is
> snow most days in winter. Some time ago, while
> riding
> with a friend on the mountains we got a lots of snow
> when we got to tha top. Since we were unprepared to
> that situation and had to ride still some hours to
> get
> home, those annoing snow-balls began to appear. My
> friend is a Survival Trainer in Madrid, and riding
> teacher. He went off his mare, took some old cloth
> from the back pac and rriped it off in four parts.
> He
> tied them on the mare (hoofs?) and the problem was
> solved. I did the same and worked for my horse too.
> Some times we had to remove and tie again, but it
> worked for a long time. While you don't step in a
> no
> -snow ground the cloth won't break. After that, I
> though about at home and made a kind of shoes using
> old tires, and I had the problem gone. Now I ride
> almost every day and mi horse "oscar" got used to
> wear
> those shoes. If you want, I can send a picture. My
> E-mail adress: carlosvelascosan@yahoo.es
>
>
>
>
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