Start: Cypress Hills
Date: Wild Pink Fandango, August 10, 2012
Ride: First day on the trail, August 11, 2012
End: City of Edmonton, Whitemud Equine Learning Centre
Date: September 1 and 2, 2012
Distance: approximately riding miles
Timing: 23 days
Okay, that's the when and where. Now here's the scoop:
The cost per day is $200 for one horse and rider or one wagon with any number of family members. This can be paid by your own personal cheque (in which case you get a tax receipt at the end of the year). However, most riders choose to raise pledges and find that it is not anywhere near as difficult as they thought it would be.
We provide everything but your sleeping quarters and fuel:
- breakfast, lunch and dinner for you
- hay for your horse(s)
- extruded feed for your horse(s)
- a safe place to camp (bring a tent or sleep in your trailer or the back of your truck)
Riders and Wagon Drivers:
If you are bringing a rig, then you will keep your tack in your rig. For nights when we don't have stalls and electric fencing won't work, you'll use your trailer as a stall (or high line your horse). Most days, in the morning, you'll have breakfast and tack up. Then you will move your rig to the next stop, and we will shuttle you back to your horse for the day's ride.
If you and your horse are being dropped off (and picked up at the end), then your tent and duffle bag will be carried forward in one of our chase vehicles. When horses need to be trailered forward, we will find a rig with an open space for you and your horse. For those nights when we don't have stalls or pens provided, your horse will need to know how to spend the night tied to a trailer, on a high line, or how to stay behind an electric fence.
We're going a total of 500-ish kilometers (310 miles), but you do not have to go the entire distance unless you want to. You can join us for a day, a weekend, a week ... whatever.
If you are between 12 and 18, you need a parent or guardian with you on the ride and you MUST wear a helmet. (If you're nice and cooperative, and if no one else can do it for you, I will be your temporary guardian.)
If you are under 12 years of age, you are more than welcome -- as long as you are in a wagon. Because of insurance liability issues, no one under the age of 12 may ride a horse on this trek.
Downloadable forms you will need:
It's more than an adventure.
You'll be doing something great!
Through the pledges you raise,
you'll support breast cancer research
funded by
Alberta Cancer Foundation.
It's going to be legendary ... again!
Let's ride breast cancer into the ground!
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