03/14/2024
🎉🎉 Seasonal Job Opportunity 🎉🎉
Horseback Trail Guides needed for a small operation located in Troutdale, Va. We are looking for candidates who have availability weekdays and weekends.
You MUST be an experienced rider (English or Western) who has current riding experience and confident horsemanship skills. You must be able to: walk, trot and canter with a balanced seat, be able to ground-mount, pony other horses, and handle general horse herd idiosyncrasies (under saddle and on the ground) - all while leading a group of inexperienced riders while turned facing your adoring crowd!
You must like not only horses, but people too and be ready and willing to chat them up. They are here for their riding adventure and we want them to have a safe, and enjoyable, experience with horses. If this still sounds fun and you love horses and hard work, please read on!
REQUIREMENTS:
You must meet all of the following requirements:
• You MUST be an advanced rider with at least two years of recent trail riding experience.
• Be able to co-lead groups 4-10 on 1+ hour trail rides with varying terrain.
• Be confident enough to ride and instruct at the same time.
• Be able turn around easily and face your customers while guiding your own horse.
• Be able to ground mount any size horse without assistance.
• Be able pony another horse with or without a rider.
• Have customer service experience or aptitude.
• Know how to: tie a slip knot, properly brush and pick feet, know how to tack up and how to put together (or take apart) each element of your tack.
• Have basic horse health knowledge and know how to identify lameness, colic, thrush, rain rot, dehydration etc.
• You must be 18 or older and able to drive yourself to and from the barn.
• You must be very safety oriented and observant of both people and horses.
DUTIES:
• Catch the trail horses from the fields, brush and a tack up.
• Greet customers, sign waivers and get helmets fitted.
• Adjust tack, mount, safety check each customer and provide a short introductory lesson.
• Co-lead 1+ hour rides either riding as the lead or tail.
• Ensure the safety and comfort level of the customers by engaging them in conversation and keeping a watchful eye on the group.
• Untack clean, wash and turn out the trail horses.
PLEASE if you are interested contact
Doug Cregger - 276-783-4136
Brandi Davis Uhl - 276-284-0079
