Trail Tips

Learn how to prepare for a pack trip into the backcountry.

Discover history and beauty in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.

Learn how to avoid four hot-weather trail hazards, and what to do should a heat-related emergency arise.

Clinician Steve Stevens offers six checkpoints to test before you embark on any trail ride.

Here’s how to take charge and build a better, more responsive trail partner for safety and control.

Get your mount in shape for trail rides this spring and summer.

Is your horse a stumblebum? Here’s what you need to know to address dangerous stumbling.

Keep your equine Houdini safely in camp with these handy containment options.

Watch as Julie Goodnight shows you how to teach your horse the drop-head cue from the saddle.

Be sure that when you go up a hill on a trail ride that you Pick a safe path.

Julie Goodnight helps a reader quiet her jigging trail horse.