What on Earth is Top Trail?
Top Trail is multi-faceted, all-breed online riding program for the equestrian and open to all equine breeds. We have been online doing our thing since 2014. It’s been fun, but, drum roll please…
Effective January 1st we are excited to launch of our brand new and much improved website located here: www.toptrailhorse.com. Only full members have access to all features of the program so we offer a 30 day free trial just so you can check it out and even get some trail miles under your belt!
When you join us, you’ll see just how easy it is to build Lifetime Miles, Annual Miles, and see your name in lights on the monthly and quarterly Top Trail Challenge Leaderboards. Who wouldn’t want to know how they stack up across the U.S. with other riders? It’s always fun to check the leaderboards to see where you and your equine rank throughout the challenge periods! If you ride just enough you could even win some cool stuff!!
Are you a (Top) Trail Rider?
Have you ever said, thought, or posted with a great sense of accomplishment: “...rode ‘X’ miles today!”? If you have, that’s a good indication that YOU are a Top Trail Rider because you ride with a GPS and you measure your mileage. Top Trail keeps all those rides for you on your account Ride Log, and keeps a running total of miles on the trail for both you and your equines.
In a nutshell, Top Trail Riders use their favorite phone app or handheld GPS to track miles as they ride. When they’re finished riding they simply upload the ride file to their account, designate which equine was ridden, and we take it from there.
What else do I get?
Well for starters, when you join us for one year you get a cool “Ride and Shine” iron-on patch. At the end of the year we grab those miles you have logged and generate beautiful printed certificates with your Lifetime Mileage (to date) and your annual mileage for the year. If you have reached any milestone of 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 and beyond you also get a mileage rocker patch to go with your membership patch.
And if that’s not enough, our members are recognized and rewarded for their mileage with “Milestone Certificates” generated twice each year. Milestone certificates are earned when members reach and/or exceed a milestone (250, 500, 750, 1000, and every 500 miles thereafter).
D'Anna Miller pictured with Maverick
Photo submitted by Beth Colla, taken in the Paria Canyon the last week of September this year (2018). It is part of the Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah. We are a wide range of ages, come from all walks of life, have many different professions, but horses brought us together 20 years ago and again this year.
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