TRAILS SAFE PASSING PLAN (TSPP) STOP! SPEAK and STAND BACK -
All your resources on this page.This educational resource has been published by the Equine Land Conservation
Resource (ELCR) ELCR is working with the Trails are Common Ground (TaCG) campaign.
The Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back is a safety action plan for ALL trail users on what to do when meeting people with horses on the trails and allows you to safely share the trails and is helpful for all trail users, including horses and dogs.
Please join us for an American Trails webinar on March 30, 2023 on American Trails and learn how practicing, promoting, and sharing the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) of Stop! Speak and Stand Back can help our trails be safer and more inclusive for everyone. REGISTER HERE FOR OUR AMERICAN TRAILS ONE HOUR MARCH 30, 2023 WEBINAR. If you are unavailable on Thursday, American Trails will send you a link to the webinar.
Please join us for an American Trails webinar on March 30, 2023 on American Trails and learn how practicing, promoting, and sharing the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) of Stop! Speak and Stand Back can help our trails be safer and more inclusive for everyone. REGISTER HERE FOR OUR AMERICAN TRAILS ONE HOUR MARCH 30, 2023 WEBINAR. If you are unavailable on Thursday, American Trails will send you a link to the webinar.
IT'S FREE TO USE OUR EDUCATIONAL SIGNS, AND QR CODES The trail sign is copyrighted so we can follow its' use across the United States and Europe
We are asking trail users and student groups, equine clubs, trail associations & land management teams to help us keep track of the use of the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP).
Please fill out Trail Sign Registration Form. This form will give you permission to use the copyrighted sign, the QR Code, and PDF's.
The reason the sign is copyrighted is because we want to watch the Trails Safe Passing Plan grow and spread safe trail etiquette for all user groupsand equestrians across the United States. We are thrilled for your help and interest in the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back
Trail Sign Registration Form to use all the artwork:
https://www.rfvhorsecouncil.org/trailassociatelandmanagementteam-trailsignuse-form.html
WE WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR BECOMING A RFVHC MEMBER
https://www.rfvhorsecouncil.org/membership-page.html
We are asking trail users and student groups, equine clubs, trail associations & land management teams to help us keep track of the use of the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP).
Please fill out Trail Sign Registration Form. This form will give you permission to use the copyrighted sign, the QR Code, and PDF's.
The reason the sign is copyrighted is because we want to watch the Trails Safe Passing Plan grow and spread safe trail etiquette for all user groupsand equestrians across the United States. We are thrilled for your help and interest in the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back
Trail Sign Registration Form to use all the artwork:
https://www.rfvhorsecouncil.org/trailassociatelandmanagementteam-trailsignuse-form.html
WE WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR BECOMING A RFVHC MEMBER
https://www.rfvhorsecouncil.org/membership-page.html
HERE BELOW ARE THE PDF's, ARTWORK and Video 1-6
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6. The RFVHC Presents…..on it’s brand new You Tube Channel…..a 1 minute 35 second video entitled Stop, Speak, Smile: that we feels best represents our Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP). We feel this film best represents our Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) STOP! SPEAK AND STAND BACK
The film is brought to you by Central Oregon Chapter of Oregon Equestrian Trails and a coalition of partners: Central Oregon Trail Alliance, East Cascades Chapter of Back Country, Horsemen of Oregon, Sister Trails Alliance, Deschutes Trails Coalition and filmmaker Wahoo Films. |
4. Scalable Vector Files that link to Passing Plan
4a. Download PERSONALIZABLE QR (SVG) - CLICK HERE 4b. Download PERSONALIZABLE QR (PDF) - CLICK HERE See the example below to the left: Attention Users: Ask your graphic or tech guy to help you...you can slide your logo onto the QR code like the sample on the left...help sponsor the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) and promote YOUR brand! WE INSERTED A LOGO FOR A LOCAL STABLE - USE YOUR OWN LOGO'S ON THE QR CODE TO SPONSOR A TRAIL NEAR YOU. 5. Click here to download a PDF of this Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back PDF Please Remember Card. This is a perfect educational choice for placing at trail heads and kiosk's along the trails. Let us know if this image works for you. 6. Here is the LINK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-nmrS9yuig Stop, Speak, Smile: The Key to Sharing the Trails Safely, hosted on the RFVHC You Tube Channel |
About the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back
The Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) STOP! SPEAK and STAND BACK is a safety action plan for ALL trail users on what to do when meeting people with horses on the trails.The Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back allows you to safely share the trails and is helpful for all trail users, including horses and dogs.
Many trail users may not know what to do when meeting horses on the trails. Anecdotal evidence suggests trail users are not interested in making a passing plan with strangers, or they don’t want to wait until a horseback rider is near enough to communicate instructions.
It is best to know what to do, BEFORE you encounter other trail users. The TSPP sign, the QR Code, thePowerPoint, and PDF of the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back have been produced as educational resources for trail users to navigate our trails safely and efficiently.
The webinar provides information about yielding on trails, trail communication, and facts about horses to help all trail users and land management teams understand the importance of having a trails safe passing plan in place at trailheads and kiosks.
Trails are Common Ground * and we all have the opportunity to help make the trails enjoyable and safe foreveryone. Our goal is to show how learning and performing these actions can inform trail users on what to dowhen meeting horses on the trail.
When a trails safe passing plan is posted, every trail user can discover how to become a safer trail user. When a trail safe passing plan is not posted, many trail users are not comfortable on shared trails. People with horses often choose not to use the trails, due to possible injury risk.
In recreational land use, as stakeholders, we must encourage land management teams and trail groups to participate in inclusive recreation opportunities. We believe that the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back and our new TSPP Sign with a QR Code (that can include a local sponsor logo) will be a win-win for recreational land management teams and all trail user groups.
THE BACK STORY: The "Trails are Common Ground Initiative" (TaCG), Equine Land Conservation Resource (ELCR) in Lexington Ky. and Michigan Equine Trail Representative, Jenny Cook, collaborated with the RFVHC on a new educational resource entitled "Trails Safe Passing Plan: Stop! Speak and Stand Back" to help both equestrian and other trail users better understand how the horse has evolved to use its extraordinary senses to understand the world around them and how the horses react to perceived threats in their environment.
The Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council is proud to have built this new trail sign, now ABA & ADA Accessibility Approved. We are asking for participation here in the RFV and beyond to share the Trails Safe Passing ACTION Plan Stop! Speak and Stand Back (TSPP) to help make us all better trail partners. Happy, happy trail going, for all of us….and please Leave No Trace!
Most importantly, our Trails Safe Passing Plan Stop! Speak Stand Back is different because we are teaching users to Stop! first when they encounter horses. No using bells, or the advice to slowly pass - our action plan is safer for equestrians because we ask people meeting horses on the trail to first Stop!
The Trails Safe Passing Plan: Stop, Speak and Stand Back is not just about etiquette. The Plan is a SAFETY ACTION PLAN - a guide to the rule of thumb for multiple trail users. This action plan has been a collaboration of user groups, hearing from and learning from many trail users. A workshop in Michigan with all trail partners February 2020 began the conversation. The equestrian trail leadership wrote the TSPP Action Plan, an 18 card PowerPoint and now works with all public land managers and trail user groups with the help of the Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council that built the new sign.
If trail users read the Plan, and see our sign – equestrians will be safer - bottom line. There is not another recreationalist that carries the same amount of personal risk, when out on the trail, as equestrians do. The horses “fight & flight” instincts create fear, and horses then become unreliable. We also found the phrase “yield” was unclear and not understood by some people. For example, trail users from other countries do not understand the word YIELD. This can be a global action trail safety plan.
Here's a personal story about a boarder at my horse stable. An older guy and his horse went out for an afternoon trail ride and met a hiking neighbor on the trail. Our neighbor was carrying some equipment and was standing behind a couple trees when my trail rider approached. Instead of speaking up right away and saying hello to the horseback rider, he stayed hidden until the horse suddenly spied him, whirled away, and dumped my guy. The rest of his summer was ruined convalescing, and we had to locate the horse. So, it is stories like these that can be avoided, if we are educated. Written by Karin Reid Offield, Brek-n-Ridge Farm.
The Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council is proud to have built this new trail sign, now ABA & ADA Accessibility Approved. We are asking for participation here in the RFV and beyond to share the Trails Safe Passing ACTION Plan Stop! Speak and Stand Back (TSPP) to help make us all better trail partners. Happy, happy trail going, for all of us….and please Leave No Trace!
Most importantly, our Trails Safe Passing Plan Stop! Speak Stand Back is different because we are teaching users to Stop! first when they encounter horses. No using bells, or the advice to slowly pass - our action plan is safer for equestrians because we ask people meeting horses on the trail to first Stop!
The Trails Safe Passing Plan: Stop, Speak and Stand Back is not just about etiquette. The Plan is a SAFETY ACTION PLAN - a guide to the rule of thumb for multiple trail users. This action plan has been a collaboration of user groups, hearing from and learning from many trail users. A workshop in Michigan with all trail partners February 2020 began the conversation. The equestrian trail leadership wrote the TSPP Action Plan, an 18 card PowerPoint and now works with all public land managers and trail user groups with the help of the Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council that built the new sign.
If trail users read the Plan, and see our sign – equestrians will be safer - bottom line. There is not another recreationalist that carries the same amount of personal risk, when out on the trail, as equestrians do. The horses “fight & flight” instincts create fear, and horses then become unreliable. We also found the phrase “yield” was unclear and not understood by some people. For example, trail users from other countries do not understand the word YIELD. This can be a global action trail safety plan.
Here's a personal story about a boarder at my horse stable. An older guy and his horse went out for an afternoon trail ride and met a hiking neighbor on the trail. Our neighbor was carrying some equipment and was standing behind a couple trees when my trail rider approached. Instead of speaking up right away and saying hello to the horseback rider, he stayed hidden until the horse suddenly spied him, whirled away, and dumped my guy. The rest of his summer was ruined convalescing, and we had to locate the horse. So, it is stories like these that can be avoided, if we are educated. Written by Karin Reid Offield, Brek-n-Ridge Farm.