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Hello Lynne,

I'm glad you enjoyed the story about Charlie and his first horse. It 
was a real hoot at the time.

I would love to be able to give you the full scoop on Manzanita but I 
had a hard drive failure last year and some files were recovered and 
some were lost. A lot of my GPS files were lost including all 3 
Manzanita 50's. This year I only rode & GPS'd the 25 because my 
busted shoulder was not ready for 50. Here are 2 links to my GPS track.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6922582
or
http://tinyurl.com/Manzanita-LD-2008

If those links don't work here are some numbers from the GPS data.
Elevation gain 3133ft.
Elevation loss 3128ft.
Base camp elevation 3854ft.
Lowest elevation 3273ft.
Highest elevation 4188ft.

The second half is a little longer and has more gain than the first 
half. I remember seeing the elevation gain at about 6800ft for the 
50. This is definitely not a flat ride but the hills are not long and 
the footing is great. Overall a very nice ride.

Don Huston


At 11:05 AM 12/10/2008 Wednesday, you wrote:
> We can check with Don Huston, but the altitude gain from mile 20 to 21
> if I recall correctly is substantial, first down then up.  There are a
> lot more hills in Manzanita than you think.  Leaving basecamp after
> the lunch check (on the 50), leaving vet 2 for the 8 mile loop, etc.
>
> Unless you're talking just LD?  I think when you drag ride, and pull
> ribbons, you are excruciatingly aware of elevation gain and loss.  And
> since it's chaparral, those ribbons are very low to the ground a lot!
> Kat and I drag rode the last 25 miles in 2005, I think, she rode her
> nearly 16.2hh Anglo stallion--it was a long way down, but she pulled
> more ribbons than I did on my 15.2hh boy. ;-)
>
> Don, give us the scoop!  A flatter desert ride is of course Git 'Er
> Done.  Even Fire Mountain has elevation, tricky since it's so subtle.
>
> Lynne
> <http://www.photo.lynnesite.com>
> <http://lynnesite.blogspot.com/>
>
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Elizabeth Walker wrote:
>
> > No, no.  "Virtually Flat" is the Manzanita ride -- nice, flat
> > desert :).  Maybe one hill.  :)  I don't know what the elevation
> > change is, but I'd be surprised if it was much more than 100 feet.  :)
> >
> > On Dec 9, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Diane Trefethen wrote:
> >
> > > > My handy conversion program translated this to 500 meters = 1, 640
> > > > feet, and 99 km = 61.5 miles.  If the poster was talking about
> > > > altitude change, 1600 feet of change is - while perhaps not "great
> > > > difficulty", I wouldn't say it is "virtually flat", either.
> > >
> > > I would.  Reduce that down and you get about 27 feet of "climbing"
> > > for each mile or 3.5 feet in a city block.  With 1 tree root, 1
> > > curb, 2 buckled sidewalk sections, that leaves about 12" of
> > > elevation.  LOL!
>
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