Trail Etiquette
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Some things to avoid when riding with other people
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No matter where your trail leads you - whether through the back country on a horse, your local lake or through Walmart - make it a little better because you were there. Good advice for all walks of life.
Cowboy... I watched your stuff for a bit. I first started expecting to see the regular, big hat, silver buckle "cowboy" BS.
I gotta say you have pleasantly surprised me.
I grew up amongst the last of the "Old Time" hands. Genuine, double rectified, un-adulterated Cowboys.
Those were the boys that bowed their heads, gritted their teeth and Rode in to the wind.
I am an OLD buster now, and I can tell you; you would fit right in with those old time hands.
It is a refreshing breath to listen to your words... and KNOW... cowboy wisdom has not perished from the earth... I am Not alone.
I want to learn from you experienced cowboys.. ive always rode horses and gone on trail rides.. but i dont really consider myself a cowboy because i dont feel like ive earned the title yet.. im only 17 years old and dont have much cowboys in my area but i love this way of life..
@@jadarichristian6554 That's how you learn. In the Bible, many wisemen we're on that "trail" alone many times,... needed to be to hear better.
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You are spot on with the radio. I hate when I’ve been on the trail for less than a minute and someone kicks on their music for everyone to hear. People can’t just enjoy being outdoors, much less out in nature on horseback, without bringing the very thing most of us are there to get away from. I appreciate all your videos and hope you never stop. Thank you for all you do, sir.
Suprising how the ethics of a western cowboy parallels a southern country boy raised on a farm.. Would love to share a campfire and listen to your knowledge and wisdom that you have acquired through trial and error. A good cigar and Kentucky's finest at the end of the work day is really satisfying. Enjoying your short videos. Thanx.
That part about the radio! I rode with some folks once and one gal was playing music on her phone. Wasn't bad music, but I'd a whole lot rather listen to the wind and the horses hooves. I'll listen to music when I get back in the truck. Any more, I just ride with a small core group of people who I know and we're all on the same wavelength. Getting strangers in the mix, about half the time you get people who just spoil the day.
Nothing quite like the sound of horse hooves and creaking saddle leather.
I never play music when I'm hiking or riding. I was taught to be aware of my surroundings.
Thank you, that needed said. Particularly rights v.s. right to do. Two things get me that you didn't mention. Ear buds - leave them home and be situationally aware. Also, how can you have a pleasant "Good morning" exchange with ear buds? Second - tailgating or following too close. I stepped aside on a trail and watched a couple wranglers bringing a string of tourists in Wyoming. There was a log on the trail causing everyone to bunch up. The wrangler in the rear had to stop. Two tourists hiking on foot behind him were gabbing so much they didn't see him stop. One fellow was turned talking to the other. He turned back around in time to bury his nose in the tail of the wrangler's stopped horse. He's lucky he didn't get kicked! I saw it and the wrangler saw it at the last second. We looked at each other and about died laughing. Leave space.
Glad you added about having a rider stay back with anyone who has to stop or dismount for a reason. Very good rule.
My uncle use to say, “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. But bare in mind fly swatters exist for a purpose.” You are right that some folks simply don’t know any different. I have a friend who does trail rides to Wheeler Peak from Red River. This is a 8 hour round trip ride and hikers don’t always yield the right away. He finally talked the Forest Service into installing signs showing trail rules and it helped a lot. The point is guidance is important. Great video and thank you.
Likewise, hikers don’t like picking through horse manure - which smells disgusting these days, not like it used to (what the heck are they feeding!). We always took our horses off the trail the minute they stopped to do their business. Today’s riders are generally rude. Leaving piles of manure in the parking lot was considered a big no-no.
Likewise, hikers don’t like picking through horse manure - which smells disgusting these days, not like it used to (what the heck are they feeding!). We always took our horses off the trail the minute they stopped to do their business. Today’s riders are generally rude. Leaving piles of manure in the parking lot was considered a big no-no.
@@lrg613 I’ve had those experiences, but if I did I would certainly say something.
All good advice. My father had six of us kids. If we were walking anywhere and a piece of trash was on the ground, somebody better pick it up. Didn't matter who, but somebody better pick it up. Now we are in our 50,s and 60,s and if we are together and a piece of trash blows by, somebody is going to pick it up.
I learned something that should have been common sense to me (but wasn't, duh!) ... if someone in the group gets off to open/close the gate, do NOT go off & leave him w/the gate before he re-mounts. Even the most experienced horse/horseman can/will have an issue if the whole group goes running through the gate & leaves the gate handler. (think: snow/rain storm, gate gets opened, everyone rushes through & continues going because they want to get back to camp, gate handler now has a gate to close in sideways weather & has to re-mount a horse that definitely doesn't want to be left behind.) I'll never forget that lesson. Should have been common sense but I didn't have it that day.
in general, people born and raised in the Countryside alongside animals and birds and nature, have a naturally born sense of honour and respect and etiquette that many people raised in cities lack…
Great words of wisdom towards the end when you said "We need to get away from saying, (I have the right to do something), and go by (is this the right thing to do)". Amen!
"What you have the right to do is not always the right thing to do." THANK YOU! So good to hear this. Keep up the good work and great videos, Sir. Hopefully the right people will see these and learn from them.
Thank you for another lesson. And I like that, just cause you can do something doesn't always mean you should.
"No body told 'em, no body taught 'em". A wise realization and important for us all to consider.
Good tips for trail etiquette, I also smoke a pipe but only smoke when I am riding alone or with a few people who don't mind the smell of pipe tobacco. If with large groups, no pipe. Agree 100% about music to, I don't want to hear that on the trails, I want to hear the sound of nature.
I really enjoy your videos. They are very helpful, and informative. The country needs more people with your same attitude.
Agree 100% on the radio. I am all for having some good music in camp, but out on the trail I want to hear the trail.
Excellent advice on trail riding etiquette and thoughtfulness towards other riders.
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Excellent. Every word is true. Being old and a Boy Scout I could write a book about it. As a Soldier, Helicopter Pilot, Logger jack of all trades. I learned that when you move out we check each others gear. I found that part of that gear is attitude. The last thing we should check is our attitude. When we move out as a Group/Team we must recognize and understand this. Inherited a program doing construction work with helicopters in a large large town. Working around tall building's. It was a mad house. And highly dangerous. Started stopping everything. Had everyone come together. Brief inspect. And then have a minute to contemplate (maybe pray, if you wish ) and go back over everything. I feel it worked. 25 years of slinging gear around downtown Houston and NEVER had accident or hurt anyone. Love your post. Keep it up.
Good on you Daniel! One of the very first things we learned as small kids was "safety first". My daddy was our main teacher and he was a very patient man. However, the one thing you'd get instantly smacked for was being the least bit careless with a gun. I thank him for that every time I hear of ppl's guns going off unexpectedly in the house, or vehicle, or even while hunting. Whether it killed someone, or not, is such a stupid, careless, thing. So choose your hunting party carefully and don't mix booze and guns.
I’m a wrangler for badlands horse camp in the Tennessee mountain and have been riding horses all my life and I agree 110% with everything single word of that. It’s just like you said if people would think and just use common sense there would be a lot less problems
Love to see you make a video about trail riding in bear/ big cat/ moose country, what you do for precautions etc. I’m betting you’ve got some great stories and advice!
I feel the things you have said in this video can also apply to everyday life as well! 🙂
Enjoy your content, though not a rider myself.
Dwayne you so bull's eye on the "radio message".
Exactly the point - why bring the noise with you when one of the reasons of the trail ride is to get away from it?
Most cellphone use is instigated by the devil. There are legitimate uses for them, but to be talking just because you can is just plain rude
I really like what you had to say. I would add one more important thing. Alcohol and riding don't mix. I'm not talking about having a glass of wine here I am talking about people who drink to drunk and then ride with those of us who don't find it at All amusing. I went out on a Sunday ride with about 20 people. The majority of people weren't imbibing but there was a group of women who were drinking a lot. As we neared the end of the ride they came galloping out of the woods and one of the horses hit the pavement and fell. The woman hit her head and was knocked unconscious. I got on my horse, rode to the nearest home and called an ambulance (b4 the days of cell phones). She was very obnoxious with the ambulance driver and with me for calling emergency services. Ruined a perfectly good ride.Fortunately no horses were hurt! Drinking and riding don't mix!
On the trail leave the cigar bands at home , wrappers etcetera at home. Get your self a pipe, crush up butts and nothing to take home. Yea frugal but easier then get an air drop for more. Riding drag is not always punishment.
Thanks again and great message. I have stage 4 cancer and really enjoy your videos. I’m currently doing great but appreciate things a bit more. Let me know if you ever get a chance to try Cuban Cofee with a cigar.
I'm sorry for what you're going through. Just wanted to let you know that I said a prayer for you.
@@stephenqueen6211 I appreciate but I feel pretty good as I have been taken off of chemo and will follow up with scans every 4 months. Thanks again it has been difficult.
God bless you and good luck with everything .
Carlos, ánimo, amigo. Que le sea leve y que tenga la fuerza cargar con todo. Un abrazo.
Thank you for these video's great advice the simple stuff matters I know to Many riders who don't think before they do it's always the simply stuff.
“Usually they’re Mares” Ha! So true. Makes me miss my old Palio Chex, he was cool as the back side of the pillow, unless that old brangus bull was near by, then he’d pin his ears and get a little sprightly.
Thank you so much Dewayne for sharing your philosophies. Well said - not "scratchy" at all :-). They apply to horseman and non-horseman alike. The world would be a far better place if more people were of a like mind. I just came to your channel for a sanity check after watching some political viewpoints on all the BS going on in the world. I told my husband the world has truly gone to hell in a hand basket. So for a breath of fresh air, logic and excellent horsemanship advice, I went to your channel. You absolutely nailed most of my pet peeves. Particularly the one about studs on trail rides. And, it's not just the mix of mares with a stud. A friend's sister convinced everyone to let her bring her 3 year old stud on a trail ride on the condition she kept him back and away from the group. Well, you know how that went and the unfortunate recipient of his wrath was a novice rider on one of the sweetest, gentlest geldings I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. That stallion came up broadside to them and reared over them. The gelding had the presence of mind to spin and meet him with his own rear which protected him and his rider and gave the stud's rider a chance to pull him in and control him. Novice rider on the gelding had some good instincts and managed to stay on. Same ride - after all the drama one of the mares was all twitchy and kicked out at another horse hitting the rider in the foot - she was riding bareback, wearing a bathing suit and barefoot because she wanted to swim in the canal we were going to cross. There's one you can add to Trail Etiquette 2! Thank you again. Keep them coming!
New to your channel. Just subscribed. Love your attitude & philosophies. My one suggestion is for you to never apologize for what you say. You’re an honest, respectable & Godly man. If some people don’t like what you say, they can go elsewhere. Looking forward to more of your videos. Thank you for what you do.
The terminology my friend is ‘Leave no trace’. At all, ever! Take only photographs, leave only footprints, if you must? Toilet paper? Simple, dig a hole and bury the mess, all of it. You can always dig a hole , take a tool for the job. A small trowel? This beautiful countryside (wherever that might be) will be your legacy to the next generations. Enjoy your time in the countryside, enjoy the company you’re with and leave it spotless! As you’d like to find it.
What kind of tool are u gonna bring to dig a hole on a trail ride?
@@jadarichristian6554 Duh!
A stick
@@jimbojet8728 lol
You did here what many parents don’t do, for either they are ignorants, or part of a rotting generation.
I hope you can revive it, god bless and thank you!!
Like you said after many years of giving attitude adjustments I'm trying my best like you said, avoid those problem areas. I'm 50 now and trying my dambest. Good vid
Man between the pipe and the cigars your like the cowboy Jesus. New most interesting man in the world.
This is my favourite video so far! Thank you!
Love this intro to trail etiquette. Would you be interested in doing another that goes a little deeper? For example, I’m new to “trail” riding but not riding. Went on a horse camping trip with some folks. Was having a hard time maintaining a consistent speed on a new to me mount. The gal behind me eventually announced she was going to pass me, which was perfectly fine. But she apologized for it again later as well, as though passing was truly something that was “not done” in trail etiquette. To me, it made perfect and logical sense that she would announce, and then pass. I’d like to hear more about the nuances of trail etiquette like that.
I’m glad you liked the video. One of these days, I will make a Part 2, and try to cover some more. There were some things I thought of, after I had posted this one, that I had forgotten to address.
Passing on the left works for me.
Your channel is an answer to my prayers. God Bless you sir!
Arkansas ploughboy and woods runner here. I've only been on the back of a horse two times in my life, loved it both times. I agree with what you say, respect goes a long way whether on or off the trail. I know we could be friends.
Im also an arkansas woods runner🤙
GRATITUDE for the “quiet”, no iPod/radio on trails. I’d like to add having the Cell Phone on silent/vibrate. I do not want to hear a phone conversation either, but the phone is good for emergencies.
Like you said, I want to hear and see God’s creation, not human and City noise.
And yup- a stud is a no-go in my idea, and a mare in heat in the back yep.
Thanks for reiterating so much common sense, courtesy for others…appreciated.
Thank you again Dwayne! Solid advice
I just put in my 2nd order from Cigar place! I got a free lighter. Thanks Dwayne they ship fast and the prices are good
Never road a horse but a lot of this applies to trails of every day life.
PLEASE put a few of your vids on DVD's and offer them for sale. I (and doubtless many others) would buy them in a heartbeat. Wisdom, common sense, common courtesy. So welcome in these contentious times. Thank you!
I agree on all fronts. I loved what you said about radio.
I recently went camping recently and there was some people not too far away with music blaring and yelling and carrying on.
I packed up my camp at 9pm and went home. I wanted to be one with nature and enjoy Gods creation
6:32 Totally agree. I live close to a National Park in Wales, United Kingdom, and it really irks me when people visit and bring their phones and radios with them to play music, totally disregarding the peace of others, blaring out their music for everyone to hear. I've seen examples of people putting out their cigarette buts on old oak trees in nature reserves as well. Such crude behaviour and lack of manners.
The voice of reason. I've been dealing with a new neighbor who refuses to stay off of my property even put a deer feeder on my property and it took the fish and wildlife to come out here to get him to move it. Somewhere in the back of my head there are many things I want to do. The voice of reason...
Don't do anything just put up a better fence.
Sound fences make good neighbors..
Perfect. I agree 100 % with you. Be one with nature and your horse. And do not leave any mark of that you have been there. Simple rules.
Thank you for the radio remark.
Once again, absolutely spot on ... especially appreciate what you say at the 13:11 mark ... "We need to have less of the philosophy where we ask the question, What are my rights?" ... 100% agree. You may have already read this wonderful book, but if not, here's the title: "Cowboy Ethics--What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West" by James P. Owen. We ALL can benefit by reading this one. You appear to already know all those lessons, but it's still a great, short read. Keep up the great work!! As an aside ... I always hate it when I'm the one on the ground, opening/closing a fence, and the others go through and keep going. I'm often tasked with the fences, since I'm the only one that can still mount from the ground at age 65. !!
Yes, completely agree with the radio on a trail point.
I will a lot more people would take care of there cigarette butts than just throwing them on the ground or out of there car windows. I don't smoke but a lot of the people I am around every day just are messy people. Very nice video
If that isn't everything right there that's been spinning in my head since last March:
"What you have the right to do isn't always the right thing to do"
I wish ever trail rider would watch this and take the intent to heart. Good stuff
One of my pet peeves is being left behind after opening the gate for everybody. Just rude.
'I'm wound a little tight...'
Yeah, been there. Yelled about that. Excessively. A little.
Dale, you and I are both in Washington, I'm on the wet side just outside of Ft. Lewis. We got a lot of folks here in town who've 'done seen the elephant' and I've gotten into the habit of checking postures and tension levels when I'm behind someone. It's amazing how far a polite 'Behind you, 'pard, pardon me' will get you. It tells them I understand and I'm purposefully trying to stay off their trigger. As they say, 'Courtesy costs a man nothing'.
I really appreciate your videos.
All of them.
Keep up the good work
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Good video I'm enjoyed it I wished you would have covered going down in a hills in a group it seems to be the hardest lesson for folks to learn
Yes. What is the right thing to do? 100%!
Hi, Dwayne
Good riding / people etiquete while on the trail. Certainly worth keeping safety, manners, and kindness in mind.
Good day!
Dwayne, just found your videos, a cowboy at heart here, love em, the traffic could be heard but it wasn’t loud, I actually enjoyed the “real” backdrop, looking forward to more videos
Traffic is usually the sound of commerce happening. People working and trying to make a living.
Your videos make my day a little bit better.
"Ride with those around you." Plain English always gets to the heart of the matter.
This guy should teach everybody.
I really like everything you had to say, I'm your newest subscriber now!
Thanks.... Been talking trail rides out for a few years....like your channel would like to hear some of your blogs....I'm 76 can still mount from the ground....
Dwayne.my third Re watch.i love this episode especially.i had a FAST little 12 hand Shetland mare.my hay string hackamore and was like 13.i Should Not have been riding with the 'Big Boy's.'
Why/WHAT could Possibly make that FOOL think that was POSSIBLE ?My Lord Dwayne.and YES you are a Vry good Teacher.i thank you.i have owned my own till McGee Passed.i am 65 now and started when lessons were 3$ an hour at 7.i still ride but slow.i Always liked slow. Kat,ct
i never rode a horse but i still find this video very good life advice, thanks for sharing
A lot of outfits in Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming have rules to what kind of horse you can bring to various forms of work on the ranch. I know most sortings and brandings here in Montana where I live have a "geldings only" policy. No, dogs, no mares, no studs. Pushing cows up to summer range some places allow mares, others have a no mares no studs policy no matter what you are doing. Solo day riders can usually bring whatever but if they are riding in groups or being trailered in groups then it's usually a no mares no studs type of deal too. Trail rides that are a function like a BCH ride etc. usually just say no studs, no dogs, and horses must be shod.
The biggest lesson I learned was when a guy showed up to a branding. He pulls in a little fast, let his dog out who then runs amuck. While unloading his horse, the horse explodes out of the trailer. The horse is really wound up, he treats it harshly.
The Old Man goes over and has a word. He throws a fit, then after a rodeo gets his horse loaded. Leaves.
That always stuck with me. My horses load, stand & tie calm.
Leave Nothing but good thoughts!
As to "Rights" with other people I agree with you! When it comes to Government I am VERY Protective of my "Rights"... I don't need or want a Nanny!
The Government is never a solution to a problem or any help when you need it. That is when you turn to Family & Faith!
Amen to what you said good words.
But I do have a stud he's a good horse trained well and I always let people know.
And he's never been a problem I have shown him, and I'm going to start roping off of him as soon as I get him lined out but all the rest of stuff I agree 100% music smoke alcohol I despise.
I have had a stud horse go nuts with me. Luckily we both survived.
My friend has a stud that has permission to be in parades.
On a trail ride it isn't just your stud. Someone with a mare coming into season may not have noticed, and now your stud and the mare could become a problem for the fellow trail riders.
@@judithbeers7598 that’s with any animal. It’s the training. To use an excuse is just that, an excuse.
He’s an Arab.
She’s a mare.
He’s a mustang.
Not buying it!
Most horses I’ve seen is a reflection of its owner.
@@judithbeers7598 that’s where we differ. I don’t ride with strangers. Especially big groups, it’s usually the nuttiest person on a nutty horse that sets the pace and tone. (You can identify them by the control devices on their horses head)
Plus there’s the neediest that have to be babysat.
And too slow, I worked too hard to get a good walk on my horses, I’m not slowing for a peanut roller.
Great advice!
Similar philosophy I go by is: 'Just because you can doesn't mean you should.'
Ah yes, the Chad red wing black bird enjoyer.
Absolutely solid content, and a treasure of a person.
People ask my if I can ride a horse. I tell them yeah but I was never that good at it. But I did Develope some novel ways to get off one.
I live in California, and so I'm very aware that one reason smoking might be banned is because of wildfire risk. It takes one person to be irresponsible or accidentally mindless to ruin it for everyone else.
Great outlook and advice for life in general.
Remember: There is a time and place, don't be a 'pusher' that forces everybody to listen to your h8r$hit - be considerate!
Good advice.
Exactly! More folks should know this....Studs and mares!!!!!
Hi Dewayne! I really appreciate your work on this channel. Could you please record a video for young ladies on courtship? Maybe some advice on how to determine if a man is seriously interested and would be a good husband? I'm 24 y.o. and was ghosted by a guy who seemed to like me after I reached out to him. This online world makes behaving in a weird and disrespectful way much easier. After that situation I'm kind of afraid of men and reluctant to go on the dates so maybe you have an advice?
love these! thanks a lot!
A good horse is one that respects and likes you, even if that horse doesnt respect other riders, most of the time that horse is just afraid, and it got that way from other riders. Spending some time calmly talking and walking a horse before you ever mount him/her does wonders with a fidgety horse. I spent a whole day on just a horse, and just an hour or so me and that horse were pals. I will never forget that horse, while working him at a dog field trial, that horse did everything I asked, all but one thing, he didnt want to be a quarter horse. When I asked him to be a quarter horse he came to a dead stop from a full run chasing a run away dog I almost went over his head onto the ground. Did I beat him?
No I just said ok, your not a quarter horse, and the rest of the day I didnt ask him to be one...............Horses depend on you to be in control of both of you while riding, sometimes that means letting the horse do its thing, like telling the horse I want to go over there at a walk, once that horse respects you and knows what you want he will do it without you forcing it. Just let him free to do what you want. Of course be ready at all times to correct, but if that horse respects you and knows what you want that horse you are riding will be the best horse you ever rode, even if people that rode that horse before, hated him. What a grand horse he was............Michael
For those of us who have ridden a long time, we are just dumbfounded when others are selfish and rude, not realizing there is etiquette everywhere we go, from the barn to the trail. This isn’t new. I recall 20 years ago, a small group of women went on a trail ride on their thoroughbreds (very popular at the time) with English saddles. They didn’t practice trail etiquette and TWO ended up with broken pelvises and legs!! I did more than several “false hunts” (English trail rides, jumping fences) in Virginia and it can be dangerous! You are on the backs of thousand plus pound prey animals. They can see a snake in the grass and literally jump sideways! People relax too much on a trail ride and suffer the consequences. Awareness of your horse’s demeanor and your surroundings is essential!
If I was riding with someone that listened to that Garbage (Luke Bryan, FGL, bro-country) Its the last time. No room for that on my decompression time
Your comment about “What are my rights” hit the nail on the head. It’s the number one thing that is ruining our country. Priority should be what are my responsibilities.
Great lesson on trail ride etiquette.
Lol…that Walmart shudder. I couldn’t identify more.
I have no problem with cigars (I used to smoke them) but I don’t understand guys that smoke cigars on the shooting range. I go to the shooting range to shoot. It’s complicated enough. I just can’t see adding a cigar into the mix there.
Everybody has the right to be amicable and respectful
13:02 some wise words right there.
That last bit....amen! 👍
Thank you sir
Could you do a video on care of horse before a days work and after a days work. Would your schedule change if you had a string of dude or pack animals to get ready for the day.?
ending with some very timely wisdom!
Another great video Thanks Dwayne.
Love good cherry blend pipe tobacco.
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Amazing. Totally 💯 agree!
yep i just cant understand when somone pulls up at the gas pump with all there windows down and the radio wide open loud enough to hear from 5 blocks away just a bit of total nonsense to me