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Wow, your rides definitely sound worth making a long drive for, Steph!
Laney

stephanie teeter wrote:

> Truman - I am with you on this! And this is one of the primary reasons 
> I'm not doing FEI rides any more.  It's a lot of work doing big loop 
> rides, dealing with water sets, moving staff and vets and gear to 
> various vetchecks, and hauling lame horses back into camp. And to add 
> the additional work and hassle and frustration and expense of dealing 
> with FEI, as well as the need for speed, makes it prohibitive to do a 
> 'real' ride. 
>
> We have TONS of country here in the Owyhee's - trails and roads and 
> endless places to ride, and I've been wanting to do a big loop 100 again 
> for a while. When I hosted the National Championship I had a 55 mile 
> loop into the mountains, and then a 45 mile loop into the Snake River 
> desert area. It was fun to put the ride together, and I saw some amazing 
> horsemanship. (unfortunately I also saw a lot of 'pull happy' vets, 
> which is part of my issue with FEI - for some reason ordinary people get 
> together and put on FEI hats and get really uptight and lose the spirit 
> of the sport ). 
>
> I'm going to put together a 'real' 100 next spring for the Fandango. 
> I've scoped a lot of country in a new direction and I think I can hook 
> it together with some of the trail I already know. It's awesome country 
> - big and untouched. And there is some fantastic scenery out there. (not 
> quite Bighorn or Tevis, but pretty impressive).  I too like to feel that 
> I'm 'going somewhere' rather than just clocking the miles.  I've made 
> some changes in this years Canyonlands ride to that purpose as well. The 
> LD's present a bit of a challenge in designing big loop 50's, but I 
> think I've got it worked out so that everybody gets out and covers some 
> new country every day, and only comes back to camp when the day is done. 
>
> It really is about moving on down that trail.
>
> Steph

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