Distance Riding Horses : Mud Run-LD, Stanley, May 19th

Monday, May 21, 2012

Mud Run-LD, Stanley, May 19th

TT riders!

Lynn and Spirit.

Pam and Summer.

Tammy and HER horse, Wind.

And they are off to start their 30 mile ride!

Riding along the train tracks.

Todd and Troy, part of the pit crew team. Troy is giving Todd directions to the ravine. :)

Marie, Carrilee, and Kathleen, another part of the pit crew team for the day. They are showing the Tidal Treasure team braclets that Kathleen made for the ladies in our group. She wants Gary, Troy and Todd not to worry, their's are coming soon!

Todd heading to the Ravine- poor Todd got lost and drove around for an hour or so trying to find it. No reception on the cell phones left him in quite a spot. He saw some people on 4 wheelers and asked them, but they had never heard of the place, so he knew at that point he was no where near where he needed to be. In the end, despite his efforts, he missed the girls at that spot. Even though he missed out on seeing a lot of the riders that day, he returned to us with a smile, and kept helping out where needed!

Kathleen and Marie, heading to another spot on the trail to offer water and to sponge off horses as they come through.

Elwood and the girls at the Half -way point. He was telling them to watch out that the tadpoles here have big teeth and bite! :)

The girls worked hard, but they did find time to chill out a bit and have fun. Kathleen tried to convince Marie that maybe if she kissed the tadpole eggs, they'd all turn into princes someday!

Getting ready to get lots of water for the horses at the half-way point. They didn't know at the time that these buckets are stuck for life and don't come apart! :)

Hauling water from the lake. (by the way-I was part of the pit crew too, I was just behind the camera a lot-we worked too didn't we Carrilee? :)

We all were waiting for the first glimpse of our riders at the half-way point, and then we could see them coming off in the distance-and we were ready for them!