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[RC] Jeremy's crew mistake - Ranelle Rubin

What they did specifically violated the rules in the crew guidelines, caused a safety issue, the Forest Service to get involved, (which by the way jeapordizes all of our right to participate in this awesome ride) and from what I hear they were pretty nasty to the folks who called them on the violation. The Cup Committee did the right thing by adhering to the rules, and acting accordingly. When you drive into Robinson as a crew member, you have a pass on the vehicle with your rider's # posted. This insures that violators are identified. When you crew, it is your responsibility to know the rules and abide by them and any request of the ride officials and volunteers.

If any of you have not been to the Robinson Flat vet check, the road in there is narrow with a steep drop off into a deep canyon on the right side. In order to accommodate crews into this place, they have a "drop off and go" situation where you follow a pace car in, quickly drop of your gear, then go back and park your vehicle on the uphill side of the road. It is one way traffic just like a construction zone. They went around the pace car, and caused the shuttle bus to have to stop, and the Forest Service got involved in the mess. FWIW, the WSTF has to pay $10K for a permit to even go through this area, so the Forest Service watches us like a hawk. To my knowledge, The Western States Ride is the only ride who still can go through a Wilderness area like this.

Jeremy's apologetic and humble attitude is what allowed him to keep his well-deserved win. He is a gentleman and a horseman. His crew should be ashamed of themselves.



Ranelle Rubin, Business Consultant
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From: "Carla Richardson" <richardson.carla@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Becki Jackson" <beckij@xxxxxxx>
CC: "Ridecamp@Endurance. Net" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, horsesctr <horsesctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC] [CTR] Tevis articles in Auburn Journal
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:51:09 -0600

I don't know what they did specifically, I'm sure they're feeling pretty
badly right now.  Could have been a simple mistake, but the Committee takes
the rules violations very seriously, as they really have to do in a ride of
this size, and with the really crowded access roads.  I think the road into
Robinson is one of the worst in terms of traffic and manuverability, so the
crew may not have had to do "much" to violate the traffic rules.

I thought Jeremy Reynolds was very gracious in what he said, and he thanked
the Committee for allowing his win to stand.  I gather they could have
stripped him of his win also.  That would have really been sad!

Carla Richardson
Colorado


On 7/30/07, Becki Jackson <beckij@xxxxxxx> wrote:



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