Mounted search and rescue

[Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>]

Prairie dog holes
Gopher galleries
Vertical mine shafts, concealed
Barbed wire on the ground
Fence gates on the ground
Brush hog stubble (puncture risk for fetlocks)
Around buidings, septic tanks w concealed plywood covers
Hazard trees
Falling rocks
Bears
Illegal shooting ranges
Hunters
Quicksand
Mudslicks
Concealed ice
Soft shoulders on trails crossing steep slopes
Other trail users (speeding bike riders, hostile loose dogs, hikers who hide 
from horses)

        Una Smith
        New Mexico