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Applegate Lassen



OK, who all wants to see this ride happen again.  ?  I guess the big question is when would it happen, and Miranda and I will be there...Miranda can move up to 6 rigs per day.  :-))
Anyone else????
 
Becky and the gang.
----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara McCrary
To: mike@grizzlyanalytical.com
Cc: RIDECAMP
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:21 AM
Subject: RC: Re: FW: Re: Death Valley Rant

Day 2, from Rabbit Hole Springs to Gerlach.  The "trail" is on road the whole way and is pretty much flat, with only slight variations.  Day 3, from Gerlach to Mud Meadows is also fairly flat, but with luck we have been able to allow 7 miles on the Black Rock Desert itself, which is an amazing experience.  It is dead flat, the bottom of an ancient sea; cracked mud and not a bush to be seen.  Yet, the rider can see the mountains, the playa with its brush, the Black Rock itself, some 25 miles across the desert to the east.  Days 1, 4, & 5 offer elevations changes, challenges, and great beauty, as well as history.  And then there are the hot springs at Trego, the vet check site for Day 2.  We go hot-tubbing during the vet check!
 
Barbara McCrary
Ride manager, Swanton Pacific 75/100
(and sometimes Applegate-Lassen, located in the NW corner of Nevada)
 
We used to attend this ride regularly when Lavone Booth managed it.  She stopped doing it after 8
 years, and we asked her permission to re-instate it.  We did it for 3 years.  The 4th year we cancelled because it drew only 5 entries.  When there is commitment to this ride, we will do it again, as we love this part of the country.  But riders need crews/drivers;  we cannot provide them, and there has to be a level of commitment from the riders, as there was on the 2001 XP.  We can't manage it this year, as we're taking a study-tour to Ireland and the Isle of Man, but maybe 2003?  Show us your interest and commitment and we'll put on the ride.  I know this is backwards, but we have no other choice.  It is an 8-hour drive from our home to the ride start and it takes us 4 days to drive there, flag the trail, and drive home.  Add this to all the other details, such as BLM permit, gasoline, arrangements for the awards dinner, and the awards themselves and it does add up to be a rather large effort and expense for just 5 riders.  For a minimum of 10, we would do it; 25 would be wonderful.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Sherrell
To: 'Ridecamp'
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: RC: FW: Re: Death Valley Rant

I'm into flat rides and live in N. Calif. Could you pinpoint that flat section of the Applegate-Lassen ride a little more closely?
 

Regards,

Michael Sherrell
Grizzly Analytical (USA)
www.grizzlyanalytical.com
707 887 2919/fax 707 887 9834

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara McCrary [mailto:bigcreekranch@cruzio.com]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:32 AM
To: Dbeverly4@aol.com
Cc: RIDECAMP
Subject: RC: Re: Death Valley Rant

The issue of David's LD ride being entirely flat across the desert reminds me of a day on Applegate-Lassen ride when a rider came into the vet check halfway through and said, "BORRRING!"  Yes, the day's trail (actually a road) was flat all the way, but I believe boring is in the mind.  I've ridden that stretch of trail (road) about 10 times and I've never found it boring.  How can anything be boring with all that scenery around?  I just put my horse on auto-pilot and trot along looking at mountains, gulches, vegetation, looking for animals, thinking about the pioneers who endured such terrible hardships on that trail.  Never boring!  And the area around Ballarat on DVE is highly variable, even on the flat stretches.  It's all in a person's perspective, isn't it?
 
Barbara
----- Original Message -----
From: Dbeverly4@aol.com
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: RC: Death Valley Rant


<<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.>>


This seems a little bit uncalled for.  Even if your rant about people cutting trail and missing vet checks IS true, why does Nick have to pull his head out of a pillow and quit eating chocolate kisses (or whatever)? He had a great ride on a great horse!  If you have a problem with the ride, file a formal protest. Basically put up or shut up!

Also, if you want scenery, ride the 50.

Sylvia



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