To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [MSAR] MSAR Rider skills
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:58:57 -0700
From: "Una Smith" <una@lanl.gov>
> Don't you wish we could get everyone on MSAR-Riders to read
> rec.equestrian for a few years? That would address most of
> the basic horsemanship issues that come up here.
Better still, go find a QUALIFIED instructor and spend *at least* a year
with riding lessons. Rider control is a big issue to be successful in MSAR.
But what Chris reported seeing in Barstow isn't uncommon - sometimes you
feel safer NOT riding with the group. Lots of fundamental horsemanship
errors in MSAR that can qualify as safety issues.