Christoph and Dian just came back from a successful 5 day ride at Mt Carmel, southern Utah. The Mt. Carmel ride is part of Dave Nicholson XP series. Scenery was beautiful, the weather just about perfect.
Dave, the “Duck” added two days to this years ride, for many years it has been a 3 day ride. This time we went up to over 10.000 ft on two of the days. With the heavy snow Utah experienced last winter, the riders had to negotiate over some snowy patches still left at elevation.
As always, the Nicholson family did a terrific job managing this ride. Everybody was in good spirits and had a lot of fun.
Dian with Pink, aka Jazz Dancer. Warm up ride before day 1
Deb Whorf, a long time friend and former Moab resident, flew in from Maine to attend the ride. She rode Trinity on 3 days and placed two times 3rd and one time 6th. On the last day, her horse GE Trinity, received the BC award. GE Trinity was formerly owned by Garrett Ford and resides now at the GETC facility in Moab.
Christoph placed first on all days, tying for first on 3 days with Dian and one time with Tennessee Mahoney, who rode Just Magnum, a horse formerly owned by GETC.
Dian’s horse Starlit Way and Halyva Night received BC on day 3 and 4 respectively, Christoph’s horse Double Zell earned BC on day one.
Overall, a very successful trip, with GETC horses winning on 5 days and being awarded 4 BCs.
Every afternoon, Christoph and Kevin Meyers, with help from Kevin Waters, glued on EASYCARE glue on boots on over 52 hooves for clients who were eager to either try the boots or had made previous arrangements and scheduled time for the job. A lot of hooves also needed trimming, so Christoph had his work cut out for him after each days ride. Good thing he went fast enough to have the afternoons available for the job.
A lot of 5 day horses finished in boots, and when riders checked some of the boots condition after 250 miles, they were amazed to see how well the seal on the top was holding. No sand or foreign objects had penetrated anywhere. Mt Carmel proved to be another success story for the Glue ons from EasyCare.
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