How old is the average person on Horses-Answers? A thread came up...about a cross the U.S., country ride...?

Try Len Brown... I didn't have time to elaborate the other day...anyway, he rode cross country back in the seventies, had serious issues with the backs of his horses, switched to mules. Then developed a saddle to address these issues of saddle fit that sored his horse's backs. Back in the early eighties this line cost upwards of fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars each. English and Western makes, plus Outback and Pack. They had floating panels and a special type of tree. He went on the road giving saddle fitting clinics, with the intent of selling his product, but also imparted a good deal of sound knowledge in general, sold special shims to help make the average saddle fit better. We met him at a clinic he gave and I got to "test drive" my dream saddle. Like riding in a Mercedes...just smooth as silk. He has been written up in many publications, both the saddle biz and his ride. I think he is based in either Tennessee or Kentucky. He is now promoting a special kind of saddle pad that is exotic looking to say the least, but is supposed to make any saddle fit the horse so well it is pressure free. I never got one of his saddles, being always just out of reach financially.