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The third and last positive response I got from my summer queries came from Greg "CHOPPER" Moreno the Manager at Mt. Hood Adventure. Starting his e-mail with: "Wow that sounds
crazy," he went on to say that he had seen dogs pulling people on skis,
but not horses. His e-mail was promising though as he said that he could most
likely could get a few horses, even though he was not really sure how he would
get them hooked up.
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He also made the point that the Forest Service might have
regulations about horses on multi use trails. I had not thought of this, so I gave the Zig Zag Ranger Station another call. This time a man answered my call.
Again I was told that he had not heard of such a thing, and again I was put on
hold so that he could ask his collegues.
The answer that came back was not promising. His conclusion
is that I probably would not be able to take a horse on most of the trails.
Some of them do not allow horses and others would probably not be found by a
person behind a horse. He said that he really had a hard time visualizing it on
the snow trails in his district.