{"id":1142,"date":"2013-09-19T05:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T12:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:31","slug":"the-future-of-backcountry-horsemen-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"The future of Backcountry Horsemen of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/LEGD01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1143\" alt=\"LEGD01\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/LEGD01.jpg\" width=\"921\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/LEGD01.jpg 921w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/LEGD01-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere\u2019s more to backcountry horseman than a bunch of old people running around in the woods clearing trail. We are also concerned with fostering relationships with the future of our organization \u2013 the youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>The average age for a SBBCHI member is somewhere around 62 years of age. Most of us are pretty tough and I suspect most will be running around in the woods sawing trees well into our 90\u2019s \u2013 however, nature being what it is, we won\u2019t live forever. It is a solemn fact that if we do not recruit the younger generation \u2013 the Backcountry Horsemen of America will eventually die off\u2026or if you\u2019d rather; ride the final trail into the great backcountry wilderness in the sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theauthorsweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sage Writer Blog<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theauthorsweb.com\/files\/1\/1\/9\/1\/0\/309392-301911\/The_Future_of_Backcountry_Horseman_of_America_PDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read rest of this story<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/105398823184352273996\/albums\/5924800587518678481?authkey=CKvG_YLH3emnCw\" target=\"_blank\">More Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s more to backcountry horseman than a bunch of old people running around in the woods clearing trail. We are also concerned with fostering relationships with the future of our organization \u2013 the youngsters. The average age for a SBBCHI member is somewhere around 62 years of age. Most of us are pretty tough and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-parties-and-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}