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Horse Endurance Event Expected to Exceed Record Participants
The 50th annual Big Horn 100 Mile Endurance Ride is expected to be one of the most well attended in the history of the event. The event will take place this Saturday and Sunday in the Bighorn Mountains and encompasses trails and roads in the Horse Creek Mesa, Hunt Mountain, east of Antelope Butte, and Shell Reservoir areas. Officials with the Bighorn National Forest want to remind people who are planning on being in the race area this weekend, that there will be possible high congestion and high usage of the trails.
To avoid conflict, trail ethings dictate that all other trail users yield to horse use. If you have questions please contact the special uses permit administrator on the Medicine Wheel Ranger District in Greybull, Alan Grubb, at 307-765-4435. The office is open Monday- Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Diane Davis
July 29, 2020 at 9:32 pm
100-mile horse endurance, hot summer day, maybe the people should run instead of the horses. They don’t have any say in the matter. This is very inhumane. It’s too bad we don’t have better animal cruelty laws in Wyoming but we don’t so they can have this kind of activity.
Mike
July 30, 2020 at 8:49 am
It’s obvious you have no knowledge of what’s involved (vet checks pre/during/post). I could make an assumption you are also anti-rodeo, anti-ranching, horse racing, and likely a vegetarian. All that is fine. There’s a state about a 1000 mi west of here you might love.
Diane Davis
July 30, 2020 at 3:43 pm
I’m a Wyoming native and I’m against the inhumane treatment of animals. Are you?
Mike
July 31, 2020 at 6:40 am
I think all sane people are against inhumane treatment of anything/anyone. However, as per your opinion, my comment stands.
mike mcLaughlin
July 30, 2020 at 8:55 pm
To mike above…… Note: Never wrestle with a Pig, you get dirty, and the Pig likes it, but i would like her to google “Big Horn Mt. Trail Run”
Ezra petersen
July 31, 2020 at 12:09 am
Why you gotta be so arrogant in your defense of this? I never even knew this was a thing and probably a lot of people did not. A lot of horses I know like to run, they don’t mind doing this, it is simply what they do. And it is not 90 degrees up in the mountains, I was just up today and it was 53 where I was at. Can’t you just use facts instead of telling someone to get out of here to form your rebuttal? I will say though regardless of what a trial “etchings” dictates I may not yield the right of way to a horse, it is just simply out of place up there.