Ridecamp: [RC] S2S water

Lynne, as for water being provided on the S2S, it was.  Every night at camp,
the generator was turned on and water flowed from the wells to fill up folks
buckets, jugs, tanks, whatever.  Moving camp everyday makes it near
impossible for ride management to move stock tanks and fill up tanks at
every vet check.  So one goes and finds out the game plan and then lives
with it.  The S2S has gone on for many years and this is the first time I
have ever heard complaints about RM providing water.  At the half way, there
were pumps for folks to pump their own water.  All participants are willing
to haul whatever for riders that aren't even their own.  I have had vets
haul my water and hay to the next checks.  If I didn't have a crew, then I
went to the vets truck and grabbed my stuff. Also wonderful Ray had big
buckets of water on trail for the horses.  Also Mary wrote me and I told her
to get a collapsible bucket so she could get water whenever she saw it and
whenever she could.  She did. RM had enough to do with getting to the
checks, doing the timing, providing P/Rs, and keeping up with the front
runners.  We are so lucky to have a 5 day ride in the midwest that I figure
we ought to support it to the best of our ability.  Wayne does a terrific
job for the amount of help he has.  Can you imagine trying to mark a 250
mile trail and make it so folks can follow it?  Thanks to the Michigan Trail
RIde Organization, the trail is permanently marked.  But one has to keep
one's eyes open and be smart not to miss a turn.  Can you imagine the cost
of providing vets and food for the help for a ride like this that changes
location every night?  None of us are rich and we do what we can.  Sure it
is an efffort to do all 5 days, but what a sense of accomplishment when it
is done.  One exists in a time warp and it is one hell of a neat experience.
No radios, no TVs, just good friends, one's horse, and the making of more
good friends.  And one can do this ride without a crew but will have to pay
about 25 bucks to have the rig moved.  If one has to do this, then one
better be well organized.  Amy and I did 2 days with no crew and we survived
just fine.  We got our buckets with water and hay to someone at every vet
check to be dropped off at the next vet check.  At night, others would throw
our buckets on their truck and help us fill them up.  It is harder to do
this when one is older, but then that is why I rode with Amy who is in her
20s while I am in my 60s!!!   Jeanie in Michigan and yes, I used to ride
with you in Ohio and PA.


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