Difference between revisions of "2023-10-08 39 -119"

Revision as of 03:02, 9 October 2023

Location

In the southern suburbs of Reno.

Participants

Expedition

After the early morning expedition at 2023-10-08 40 -120, I continued south towards my business conference but also towards this Reno hashpoint.

This neighborhood at the south end of Reno looked like a lot of the American suburbs built in the last 30 or 40 years, but with one really significant difference: there were horses all over the place. And I don't mean that people had large backyards with stables or anything; these horses were just hanging out in the streets, chilling under shade trees, nibbling on curbside plants, and leaving copious mounds of horse poop everywhere. I wondered if this might be some kind of communal horse-ownership scheme run by a neighborhood association or something. That wouldn't be something I'd want in my own neighborhood, but I figured that if that's the way they roll in South Reno, who am I to judge?

After planting my feet on the hashpoint, I noticed a friendly looking woman working in her yard nearby and decided to see if I could find out what was up with the horses. "What's up with the horses?" I asked. She told me all about it: they are actually wild horses that come down from the surrounding mountains to enjoy the good suburban grazing, to bum food from the kind of people who think it's a good idea to provide food to wild animals, and to get hit by cars on the nearby Veteran's Parkway. Apparently she has had to come up with a variety of strategies to keep the wild horses off her lawn. I could tell it was both a genuine frustration for her, but also a really fun frustration to talk about.

Photos

Wild horses could not keep me from the hashpoint
looking south from the hashpoint
looking east from the hashpoint
looking north from the hashpoint, with horses in background
Giddyup!

Achievements

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-[[User:Michael5000|Michael5000]] ([[User talk:Michael5000|talk]]) 02:44, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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+After the early morning expedition at [[2023-10-08 40 -120]], I continued south towards my business conference but also towards this Reno hashpoint.
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+This neighborhood at the south end of Reno looked like a lot of the American suburbs built in the last 30 or 40 years, but with one really significant difference: there were horses all over the place.  And I don't mean that people had large backyards with stables or anything; these horses were just hanging out in the streets, chilling under shade trees, nibbling on curbside plants, and leaving copious mounds of horse poop everywhere.  I wondered if this might be some kind of communal horse-ownership scheme run by a neighborhood association or something.  That wouldn't be something I'd want in my own neighborhood, but I figured that if that's the way they roll in South Reno, who am I to judge?
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+After planting my feet on the hashpoint, I noticed a friendly looking woman working in her yard nearby and decided to see if I could find out what was up with the horses.  "What's up with the horses?" I asked.  She told me all about it: they are actually ''wild'' horses that come down from the surrounding mountains to enjoy the good suburban grazing, to bum food from the kind of people who think it's a good idea to provide food to wild animals, and to get hit by cars on the nearby Veteran's Parkway.  Apparently she has had to come up with a variety of strategies to keep the wild horses off her lawn.  I could tell it was both a genuine frustration for her, but also a really fun frustration to talk about.
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