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Moab was great and Sheri did a mahvelous job of organizing. Lots of 
riders for both the 25's and 50's. She had some amazing sponsers, and 
the completion prize for every one of the riders on the second day was 
even a grill! The temp was perfect in the desert with just enough cloud 
cover. The red rock was beautiful.There were some great costumes as the 
second day was Halloween. MJ was "udderly" cool dressed head to toe as a 
Jersey cow, with the bell, teats and all. Even the camp dogs were in 
costume. Candy bags were given out to all of us so "trick-or-treaters" 
could visit your camp sight if you left your light on. There were huge 
nightly bonfires too.I pulled into camp in the dark and immediately 
heard the bray of a mule so started looking all over camp and asking if 
Noodle was there for the ride. I was hoping we could team up with you 
two again, Mari Rose. You know how Cabo started to get a likin for them 
long ears of Noodles at the Big Horn 100. I DID come to the conclusion 
that the tiny feet that mules and paso finos have, (those double ot and 
triple ot shoes), just sink deeper into the sand. You need a big ol' 
snowshoe kinda hoof to make less work of that deep deep sand. The 
terrain was great and the biggest challenge for us was the sand. There 
was this very steep slick rock area on 50 miler of the third day, where 
it was recommended that you get off and hand walk your horse down. When 
we got to that spot, I thought "Geeze Louise! Ya think?!!" You had to 
traverse it so you wouldn't slip down the cliff and when we had gotten 
there, sure enough, some people were smack in the middle of it trying to 
winch up an atv that had tumbled off and down the rock. So I had to get 
the horse to step over the winch line and past the various atv's, all 
with there engines running, while I led him across the slick rock back 
and forth till we zig-zagged down. There were a few riders who had to 
wait until the whole process was over and the atv was recovered and had 
moved on. Gotta love all these different rides with different challenges 
though. Missed ya there and would have loved to have joined you drinking 
one of those famous strawberry mudslide thingies of yours out in the 
desert! That was, unfortunately, our last ride of the season as the snow 
has moved in, will soon bury the trailer and we won't see bare ground 
again till May. If you have a chance to get down to do the Moab 
Canyonlands ride next year, do it and we'll see ya there.
Melissa Margetts

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