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Well, after receiving a wonderful amount of interest of prospective riders, 
and us having been prepared for quite a while now, I had to make a difficult 
decision today and cancel the first annual DCC.

After an attempt to pre-ride all the approved trails after the recent rain 
storms, we found that most trails designated for the ride were either washed 
away, or had transformed into unsafe conditions with an overwhelming amount 
of exposed rocks and dangerous drop-offs, making endurance riding conditions 
for both horse and rider very unsafe.  About 80% of the trails that were 
permitted for the ride were to be ridden on the beautiful Pipes Canyon 
Wildlands Conservancy - a private, open space sanctuary designated solely 
for hiking and riding.  At present, most of these trails are non-existent 
anymore.

With the wonderful help of individuals of the local Horsemen's Association 
as well as other volunteers, we have tried to substitute these trails with 
nearby dirt roads private land parcels, and other less damaged trails.  
Despite our efforts, however, it was impossible to tie these sections into 
30 and 50 mile loops - and at the very best, it definitely would not have 
turned out to be the beautiful ride that it was advertised to be.

Your response was wonderful.  I thank all of you volunteers who assisted me 
in having met almost all of my volunteer needs just shortly after my initial 
announcement of this ride.  And those of you who came out and rode with me 
the last few days in hopes to come up with some alternative routes.  Thanks 
to all the prospective ride participants who wanted to support my new ride.  
It was great to see the downloaded entries come in before I ever got the 
chance to send out the actual entry forms.

I'm encouranged that when Mother Nature decides and allows us to play on 
this part of her domain, the DCC will indeed be a great, fun, and memorable 
event.  Let's hope to have it on the 2006 schedule.

All checks will be mailed back to you this coming week.  I have also learned 
by lurking on ridecamp, that many of you have been out, or come out to 
Pioneer Town periodically.  Perhaps some of you would be interested in doing 
some training rides out there periodically.  More on that a bit later.

Catfish



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