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Bryce Canyon XP 2010 – Ride Results & Ride Photos

Karen and Granite Chief @ Bryce!

Click here for the 2010 Bryce Canyon XP Daily Ride Results and here for the Overall results for both 5 day horses and 5 day riders.

I will get a report on the actual ride done in the next couple of days.  Till then, check my previous blog post on a writeup about marking trail prior to the ride.

Fastest overall time for the 5 days on

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Adventures in trail marking

I have so much to blog about and can’t seem to narrow it down at any one time and focus on just one topic.  I haven’t even finished writing up about my ride at Tevis this year!

For this post I’ll just stick with writing about the pre-ride trail marking and such from the Bryce Canyon 5 day XP ride that was the first week of September.

I left for the ride a week

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Another spiral galaxy: Andromeda

M31: Andromeda Galaxy. Photo by Dave Chaton.

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2,500,000 light-years away] in the constellation Andromeda. It is also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, and is often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. Andromeda is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way, but not the closest galaxy overall. As it is visible as a faint smudge on

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Bryce XP – boy do I have an adventure to share!

The 5 day Bryce XP ride this year was great.  It was a lot of up and downs, and I’m not referring to the trail!  The hardest and most challenging parts were all things that happened prior to the ride starting.  I was never so relieved for the ride to actually start.  Sometimes things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right.

As soon as I get caught up I’ll write more

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