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weathertop
Nargothrond
Nov 19 2016, 2:19am
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i never really thought about it
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while i was in AUS, i seemed to know which way was which...but thinking back on it (granted that was 20+ years ago, so memory is a bit thin) -- all that was locally isolated.
what i mean by that is: i didn't really think in the cardinal directions, more like 'where am i related to where i got dropped off and where i need to get back to for pick up?' and this was for both while i was in Sydney and in the Blue 'Mountains' near Katumba (sp?) Falls -- which by the way is just a forested Grand Canyon, beautiful, but not mountains!
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Elizabeth
Gondolin
Nov 21 2016, 7:26am
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How to tell port from starboard:
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(at least, how I remember)
You always mount a horse from the port side.
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swordwhale
Dor-Lomin
Nov 21 2016, 4:00pm
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...that came from largely right handed people wearing swords on the left, so they could draw them with the right hand, which made mounting from the right inconvenient (you'd smack your horse with the scabbard at least).
(living history survivor)
Then they standardized that in the cavalry, so everybody looked all nice and neat and the same.
Most horse trainers teach horses to deal with handling and mounting from both sides.
I still can't mount properly from the "wrong" side. 
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ah yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassss
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