Mounted search and rescue

[Una Smith <una@lanl.gov>]

Chris quoted an MSAR riding class instructor:
>"If I was a bystander in charge of making the decision who to call,
>after seeing you all in the arena I would be AFRAID to call you because
>you are a danger to yourselves and possibly others."  That should give
>you a pretty good idea how the training went. <G>

That gives me a good idea of the caliber of many of the students
who participated in the training.  The training itself sounds
okay.  The preliminary arena work was along the lines of basic
"stressful" riding.  Mostly despooking for riders, eh?

I get real tired of hearing would-be MSAR volunteers say "I just
want to have fun".  That's not the primary purpose of MSAR.

        Una Smith
        Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse, in New Mexico