This morning I loaded up a bag of hay, some salt, minerals and grain for the mare, Chevy, and since Dirk is a vegetarian- information I found on his website- I made him a cheese, tomato and lettuce sandwich, some hard boiled eggs, a bag of nuts and a lemonade. I headed up the pass till I found them, then visited while Chevy contentedly munched hay, right on the shoulder of the road with traffic whizzing by at 6o MPH. I found out that she is 15 years old, a registered quarter horse, and that after this ride is complete she will be for sale as Dirk lives in Toronto. This is a seriously nice mare folks, tall, sound, and really good minded. She is sired by a grandson of Impressive and Two Eyed Jack, with a little Jet Deck thrown in. The ride should be about over in two weeks.
After visiting a bit, I found out that they were intending to camp at the summit, 20 km. up the road, a steep 8% grade on the last 6 miles of it. I took the horse feed up and left it in the camping area by the lake for them- on the way back I stopped to let them know where it was.
If you want to check out the website, it's called Go West Young Men.
Dirk plans to avoid the highway between Salmo and Christina Lake by taking a backroad that parallels the US border. I know that there is some lovely country down there along the PendOrielle River.
Hope they ride safe and sound!
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This is so great. I will have to tell Zoe and Gerry that one of the riders has almost made it!
Thats so nice of you to bring him some food, Im sure he really appreciated that, and the mare sounds like shes really nice, and she should be super broke too!
Aw, you are just so sweet. I'll make sure when I'm riding through to give you a call so you can come and feed me too ;)
So nice. And that mare! wow,very nice! horses that good are worth their weight in gold!A very cool thing this guy id doing , I will have to check out the website.
I have to say that is pretty darn nice of you, (as I have repeated myself again from the last post:)
I bet he was sure happy to run into you yesterday! What a nice thing you did for him and Chevy. And what an adventure!
I wonder if I counted the miles I've ridden in the last ten years how far I've gone. Across Canada, what a long way! I don't like traffic good enough to do that but it would be quite the adventure. That mare has serious butt muscles.
I'm just got caught up on your posts. That would be a lonely trek ...he doesn't even have a dog along.
How very nice of you to make sure that he was well stocked.
How sweet of you...but I would have expected nothing less! I'm sure he'll make his journey. Funny how he said he'd never do it again...but I'm sure he'll have stories to tell for a lifetime.
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