I don’t make it a crusade – despite lengthy arguments with my husband about why a medieval battle helm is not appropriate headgear on horseback – but I do my best to always wear a helmet when I’m on horseback. Obviously, situations like “going on a trail ride while on vacation” can and do happen, but… I’d rather protect my head than not.

Part of it is that as a kid, we always had to wear a helmet.

The rest of it is that of the three falls I’ve had, my helmet saved me a nasty blow to the head in one of them and may have saved me.

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