This year was the 25th anniversary of one of the most popular rides in the West region. This ride is very popular for good reason too – it’s in incredibly beautiful country (the Sierra’s) plus it’s got a lot of fun technical trails. The 50 mile ride consists of two loops. The first one is [...]
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I rode Bo today, maybe 10 to 12 miles with Jackie and her horse Tank. We had a really great ride. I still have not managed to find the time to finish writing up about our Tevis adventures. Though, suffice it to say we had a really great ride and since then Bo has been [...] Oh man, the anticipation and thrill of getting to go over Cougar Rock was one of the highlights of riding the Tevis for me this year. I so enjoyed getting to go up and over Cougar Rock with Bo! I felt safe, secure and knew he was going to be sensible and that he would [...] One of the most useful pieces of advice I was given prior to riding the Tevis this year was to make sure I got in line to vet as soon as I got my horse’s pulse timed in. This is good advice. If you stop for even a minute after getting your pulse and in-time [...] My actual “moving” average speed on the Tevis was 6.07 mph. During the 24 hours of the Tevis Cup there were 2 one-hour holds (vet checks), and eight vet checks total. The majority of the vet checks do not have hold times so you have to ride so that you have time to allow for [...] Here is my rider query report from the Tevis Webcast. I was rider #49 – it was a lucky number I think! We kept a fairly steady pace throughout the ride and lucked out getting through the vet checks without ever having to wait. It may look like we spent more time getting short distances [...] I took a lot of photos and video and will get them posted soon. The videos are already up on YouTube. Bo and I finished 32nd at 3:33 a.m. and had a really terrific ride at the 2010 Tevis Cup ride! I’ll write more about it in another post. For now, enjoy these photos taken [...] new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: ‘profile’, rpp: 10, interval: 6000, width: ‘auto’, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: ‘#333333′, color: ‘#ffffff’ }, tweets: { background: ‘#000000′, color: ‘#ffffff’, links: ‘#4aed05′ } }, features: { scrollbar: true, loop: false, live: false, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: false, behavior: ‘all’ } }).render().setUser(‘tevisnews’).start(); This will likely be [...] I took Bo out for a ride yesterday evening to do a final check on our tack and hoof boots. The first photo is of Bo just before we left to head out for the trail. I think everything is good to go – after our ride I put most of the tack in the [...] The ride went really well yesterday. I decided to take Bo. He’d been feeling a bit left out when I ended up riding Chief all 4 days of the Strawberry Fields ride. Granted, Bo did get to mark trail and has been getting in a lot of additional riding — he is the kind of [...] Heading over to Washoe State Park for the Washoo 50 tomorrow. I’m taking Bo! I am looking forward to trying the new alpaca saddle pad that I got. It’s beautiful. I can’t wait to see if it stays as cool on the horse as the Toklat Woolback pads do. Enjoy this video – it’s from [...] It took me awhile to get these posted, because I had to go through a lot of photos. I have narrowed them down to only 265 in the album. There are a lot of photos here – from all four days of the ride plus trail marking and trail work. Rider photos were taken by [...] I’ve been offline for awhile – no internet or cell service at Strawberry Fields in Utah. I turned everything electronic off, except for the GPS – what a great time! I would have gotten home sooner but decided to stay in Winnemucca last night after getting a blow-out on the right hind trailer tire (right [...] |
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