Re: Re:Valley Fire Ride

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

They shot the grizzly night before last..Boy..the politics on that little
deal were absurd (to say the least!)...Drin and her group stayed Saturday
night after the ride...I hadn't mentioned anything about the Grizzly...not
wanting a bunch of hysterical riders out on the trail!..anyway...they tied
their horses to the trailers and went down the valley to eat at our little
Nine Mile Bar and Restaurant...Where they learned of the Grizzly who had
been getting way tooo friendly.  They cut their meal short and raced back to
ride camp expecting to find empty halters hanging off the trailers! That
bear was much more interested in full garbage cans then smelly horses.
His presence did manage to thin out some of the mushroom hunters...which is
a good thing!




----- Original Message -----
From: Drin Becker <rainbow@montana.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:07 PM
Subject: RC: Re:Valley Fire Ride


> Boy anyone in the Mtn./NW region who missed the Valley Fire Ride that
Sandy
> Bolinger managed really missed one heck of a nice ride . Our "little
group"
> from SW Montana all met up in Butte  to caravan over to the ride site , we
> were short one of our riders as Ellen Snoeyenbos from Gardiner mt. had
been
> up in alaska about 10 days before and her and a friend had been hiking and
> were attacked by a grizzley protecting her cubs ! Lucky for Ellen she was
> not permanately injured but it still managed to do a number on her foot
> which is still healing . Anyway back to the ride ! Camping at the Valley
> Fire Ride was in a huge grassy meadow with lots of water tanks and
> porta-potties everywhere a person looked .We also were awakened both
> mornings by howling wolves as there is a native pack in the area .
Excellent
> vets with ridecamps Heidi Smith being one of them as she is now in this
area
> , vet checks were all out on the trail as it was one 50 mile loop which is
> rare these days .Water was hauled in and was everywhere along the trail ,
> the trail was really really well marked . I believe Sandy must of had Jim
> (her husband) out on that trail for weeks putting flags around all the
holes
> and iffy footing :-) I have never seen a ride marked quite as well as this
> one was .Awards were very nice with T-shirts,buckets,halters,handmade
> horseshoe items ....just lots of stuff for everyone .Everybody in our
group
> that had travelled over together all completed the ride and had a great
time
> and can't wait to go back next year . Of course by next year Sandy will of
> done something about that displaced grizzley that was causing a commotion
> with the mushroom hunters in the area............right Sandy ?????? So if
> any of you missed this ride this year try to get to it next year , you
will
> not be sorry !
>                                                           Drin Becker
>                                                           Mtn. Region
>
>
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