Front country and backcountry riding differ regarding the scenery of each, as front country riding refers to parks and pastures while backcountry riding incorporates trails deep in the forest or higher up hills. Compare front and backcountry trails with helpful advice from an experienced trail boss in this video on horseback riding.
Hi I'm Judy Smith, I'm a trail riding enthusiast, been at it for many years, and I am here to talk to you about the difference between front country, and back country riding. Front country is your state parks, your county parks, or your local parks, your backyard riding, the local neighborhood, your rural and urban areas. Usually they are very easy trails, and you just hop on your horse, take off, and go. And wonderful for afternoon rides, late evening rides, whatever. Your back country riding that is where you get into some really wonderful scenery, more difficult riding. It can be more difficult it doesn't have to be. You need to contact your local forest service, DLM, Department of Land Management, DNR in order to find out what condition the trails are in before you head out that way. But that is where you get to see your deer, and your elk, and your grouse, and bear, and all sorts of different things. So as you can tell back country is my favorite part of riding, but you work up to that. First you start out in the front country. Get your horses use to the trails, trail riding, get use to all the different things, and then you just gradually work up to back country. And there is a lot of back country trails that are not hard you just have to know the people to contact to find out what your riding level ability is. And again back country horseman is another good group to get a whole of, because they are usually well aware of what the trails, what shape the trails are in. They are out there working on the trails in the back country.
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