Militant Hikers...WTF

we have those types here in Philly, but luckily, they're mostly in the suburbs. i did some riding last weekend in Fredericksburg, MD, and someone sabotaged the backside of an obstacle, removing a bunch of rocks, causing the guy in front of me to eat shit and go OTB. he could have gotten really hurt, but luckily, he wasn't.

 

i'm a team leader with 3 Philadelphia trail groups, at one trail, it's about 85% mountain bikers that show up, the others, 50/50 hikers & mtb-ers. in 3 years of doing trail work, i've never seen an equestrian, but they're the loudest at public meetings, usually advocating against mountain bikers, who do most of the work. The equestrian users here, have no compunction about riding wet trails and hands down cause the most damage from hooves and feces, yet pedestrians rally to their cause because horses are a quaint, romantic anachronism and are somehow more "natural" than the cyclists who build most of the trails. it is infuriating.

 

Yup. I get really angry at the lack of logic.

Horses are dumbass animals anyhow.

 

We have 3, I find them to be Intelligent actually... how did you arrive at your opinion?

 

Time spent around horses. By dumbass, I mean low-utility and extremely high maintenance.

 

LOL, there are some exceptionally dumb horses in the world. The worst are the smart, mean, stubborn ones, though.

I'll murder me a Shetland pony some day just to get back at Dusty.

Eff that damn pony.

 

LOL, i knew there was a back story....I am the same...I know a Shetland Pony that needed an attitude adjustment, fkker ran over the top of me..HoofPrint Bruise in thigh".."You ain't putting no damn saddle on my back asshole"..

 

This one's favorite trick was to use every tree and branch in all of Montana to try to knock you out of the saddle.

If that didn't work he'd get up to a nice trot and just when you thought everything was going to be OK he would mash the brakes with all four and pretend... effing PRETEND to eat some bush or some shit.

Damn, I'm getting mad all over again just thinking about him.

 

If I were a horse and Mongo were on my back, I'd use everything short of the nuculer option to get rid of him.

 

Thats when you get back to the barn, show him a bottle of,elmers glue or a bag of dog food.

My niece hates it when I call her horse "glue stick".

 

Fucking horses are as miserable as cats. They just want to hurt you. We used to round up cattle with the dirt bikes. Less fuss and bother that way.

 

Horses, at a young age, are why I started riding dirt bikes. Thanks horses! (and FU at the same time)

 

About 2 years ago, one of my wife's friends was holding a horse when it stomped her down her shin and onto her foot. She ended up having the leg amputated below the knee a few months later.
There was too much damage to the blood supply to allow it to heal.
She is no longer a fan of horses.