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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 Continue reading Bryce Canyon XP 2010 – Ride Results & Ride Photos 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 Continue reading Adventures in trail marking 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 Continue reading Bryce XP – boy do I have an adventure to share! 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 slightly over 20 miles and has the technical terrain on it that includes a lot of boulders, narrow singletrack Continue reading 2010 Eastern High Sierra Classic 50 Ride Photos & Report – My 500th Ride Completion! 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 a superstar. Bo has been extremely friendly, even leaving food to come over and say hi and get petted Continue reading Riding, riding, riding! 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 get us both over it in good order. It is hard to describe the feeling of the satisfaction Continue reading Having the privilege of riding over Cougar Rock 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 the time spent in those checks. My ride numbers: 5:15 start, 3:33 finish. That left me with 1:42 time Continue reading Moving average versus total time and figuring out how to ride the Tevis! 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 midway through the ride – that was mainly due to staying and sponging Bo to cool him down or Continue reading Tevis Trail Videos 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(); Karen and Weaver going over Cougar Rock This will likely be my last post before heading off to Robie Park. I Continue reading Tevis Twitter News! |
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