Trail building equestrians of New Mexico

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

A little bit about me.  I live in Los Alamos, where I keep one horse in
the county stable lots here on North Mesa.  Los Alamos has incredible 
trails on mesa tops and canyon bottoms, but the downside is that although
my horse lives a mere 1/4 mile away, as the bird flies, driving there
takes most residents about 15 minutes.  We all dream of bridges across
the canyons.  Ha ha.

I am a volunteer search and rescue (SAR) responder with New Mexico State
Police.  Currently I am not a member of a SAR team, but I am a Planning
Section Chief (an individual resource;  I get called directly instead of
through a recognized SAR team).  I am also an officer and occasional
meet director and course designer for New Mexico Orienteers, which hosts
public field navigation meets at a growing number of locations in New
Mexico.  Starting this year, I write a monthly column for The Horsemen's
Voice about trail news.  Trail news is distinct from ride reports and
other kinds of equestrian travel stories.  Trail news is about anything
to do with advocating, planning, building, and maintaining trails.  As 
I write the column each month I have been amazed at how much there is to
write about, news to me and almost everyone else too.  Equestrian trail
riders in New Mexico clearly need better networking with each other.  So
I started TREQ-NM to help us do that.

New Mexico is a wonderful place for trail riding now, but imagine what 
it could be 100 years from now.  It could be horrible, or fabulous.  We
have the opportunity *right now* to help determine which it will be.  I
am doing what I can to make it fabulous.  World class fabulous, in fact.

You can help by spreading the word about TREQ-NM.  TREQ-NM is open to 
all.  To subscribe, just e-mail treq-nm-request AT lists.ibiblio.org with
the Subject subscribe.  Or you can subscribe on the web, and check our
our archive too:  http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/treq-nm

Cheers,

        Una Smith