Mounted search and rescue

["philip easley" <easleyranch@foothill.net>]

In October, I was in the Mt. Zerkel Wilderness Area in Colorado.  Beautiful
country and yes we did get our elk.  We were about nine miles from the trail
head at about 9,100 feet.  There were not many people that high that were
not horseback.  There was another horse camp about a mile from us and they
lost three of their five horses that had untied themselves (on different
dates) during the night.  It took them one day to find each of them.  They
ran screaming through the mountains lost and deeper into the mountains
before they were located and caught.  I suppose they do not always go back
home.  Sometimes they become frightened and rely on calling out to friends
hoping they will call back while running blindly.  That can be a real pain.
Fortunately the mules like to stay together.  I usually will hobble one or
two out at a time leaving the rest tied up.
Philip Easley
NCSSAR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "irvin lichtenstein" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Hobbles


> Yanking on  rope attached to a fetlock could be called tripping, so be
> careful where you do it.
> I have had horses decide not to load for home, or untie themselves from
> trailers, and the usual run of luck. Typically he goes just far enough to
> show who he thinks is boss and find some grass to munch. Then it is back
to
> the trailer and home. The worst was at an event where he decided to visit
> every trailer in the field when he untied himself-- you can imagine what
> others thought as this 17 Hand monster quietly thuds along to say hello...
>
> Irv Lichtenstein
>
>
>


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