RE: RC: DVE Ride - response to Nick

["Rebecca Hackworth" <bechack@sierratel.com>]

If this is how you feel about rides in the desert and Jackies' rides
in general, then WHY DID YOU COME..... With this sort of attitude,
you should have saved your money and stayed home!  

Sorry the LD riders had such a lousy trail for day 2.  If you don't
like it....ride the 50 and go up the mountain where the real sights
are....oh, wait, you don't like Jackies' rides....

---- Original Message ----
From: guest@endurance.net
To: ridecamp@endurance.net, 
Subject: RE: RC:  DVE Ride - response to Nick
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:14:47 -0800

>David Putnam david@noblehorse.com
>Hi all,
>
>Nick, knock off fluffing our pillows and yank your head out of the 
>sand.
>You can save the chocolate kisses for somebody else. #1, impeccable
>weather? how about cold and overcast the entire time we were there, 
>didn't
>miss my sunblock at all.
>#2, and most importantly: my 25 on the second day was pretty much 
>what I'd
>call an airport ride circumnavigating a dried up piece of lake bed, 
>pretty
>much a yawner no matter what the weather. What made it fun was 
>plenty of
>great conversations with my riding partners. The four lead riders cut
>trail and didn't mind blowing off the vet check. Back at the finish, 
>I
>announced this to Jackie, backed up by my riding partners and 
>witnesses:
>Eric Thompson, Julie Suhr and family. We had all agreed that we 
>missed 4
>sets of tracks and the vet confirmed with us not vetting them 
>through.
>When I announced this to Jackie, she gave me a very firm "DAVID IT 
>JUST
>DOESN'T MATTER!"
>
>Only because I threatened an official protest to Maryben Stover who 
>was
>present at a private meeting with the witnesses, did the results get
>changed. Without the kind and concerned ear of Julie Suhr, the 
>revision of
>the results would not have taken place, based on previous 
>experiences at
>other rides of Jackie's that I won't get into here. I found out that
>numerous other riders have had similar experiences with Jackie's 
>rides.
>Email me privately if you want details.
>
>Glitchy? corrupt? you make your own judjement. Ride Managers who 
>sanction
>through the AERC have an obligation to uphold the rules that are 
>provided
>for us all for the safety, pleasure and equality for all. Anything 
>else is
>unacceptable.
>
>If "It doesn't matter", then don't give us a map, no time limit, no 
>AERC
>sanction, just point out there onto the horizon and say "You guys 
>get lost
>for a few hours and have a nice day"
>
>
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