Trail Riders of Today; Horseback riding on trails in Maryland

the great Little Marco, may he RIP.

TROT BOARD Meeting
DATE/TIME: First Tuesday of the month unless otherwise noted - 6:15 for pot luck, 7:00 for meeting - Call Ron Macnab 301.622.4157 or email him for location and Conference call attendance.

Latest Newsletter (also available is an archive of past issues)
The January 2012 TROT Newsletter is online. The newsletter needs YOUR contributions. And all TROT members can have a free ad in every issue! Check the ads in this month's issue. Please send Nancy Osgood your ad or your article.

Don't miss the TROT Annual Meeting – Potluck Dinner and Silent Auction – February 11, 6:00 pm at the Mt. Airy Fairgrounds. Read the details in the January newsletter. We have a lot of fun; you will meet other people that share your equestrian passion! There is great food and great deals at our Silent Auction! Please consider donating to the auction. If you can email Chris Ritcher.

RENEW YOUR TROT MEMBERSHIP. Dues remain an incredibly low $20 per year for an individual or a family. Show your support for preservation of equestrian trails. You can renew your membership online using PayPal or your credit card. See the membership page.

One feature of our website that may be little known and little used is our park map coverage. Our park mapping project has .gpx and .kmz files on about a dozen parks. That means you can google earth these trails. There are more traditional trail maps for another dozen parks. For instance we just added maps and information links for West Friendship Park. We invite your contributions to our archives; either gps files or plain maps are welcome. Just email them over.

Not only that but many club members who are knowledgable about specific parks have volunteered to serve as park guides if you'd like to ride these parks. See out park guide list for what is available. What a great resource for our club!!

The 2012 Ride Schedule is being developed. Why don't YOU plan on leading a ride this year. Please email Lisa Troutman, our Trail Ride Coordinator and she'll tell you what you need. 

Search Our Website: Enter search terms in the yellow box on the upper right of this and all pages. Note that our old newsletters are part of the search database. Looking for a tack shop near Highland? Search for 'Highland tack'. Remember an old article about hay? What about an 'equine dentist'? Before googling for horsey stuff, try TROT Search

Playing in the Patapsco River on horseback If you enjoy riding horses on trails in Maryland, want to learn about great places to ride and would like to see these trails remain open to all riders, then you'll want to join TROT, the Trail Riders of Today. To see the scope of our activites, please see our 2009 Accomplishments.

We have a balanced calendar filled with interesting rides and other activities all over the state. We are developing an information resource about equestrian trails; to include directions, maps and resource guides. We maintain awareness of and educate our members to active trail issues since there always seems to be threats to the equestrian way of life.

If you wish to comment on the site or problems with it, report broken links or just make a suggestion, then please contact our webmaster. And do consider joining TROT; membership information is online.

TROT participates in and encourages you to join these YAHOO mail groups:

  • The Maryland Trail Riders group is for equestrians who want to share information and news about Maryland trails, find a trail riding buddy, arrange transportation to a trail ride or other horse miscellania relating to trail riding in the state.
  • The TROT members group is for TROT members to share information about upcoming events, the preservation of equestrian trails and general horse talk.

To join just enter your email address in the appropriate box and then click the link below.


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