Reports from the Trail
2017
FROM: Sandy Reit
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 7:36pm PDT
STATUS: Mail just left Fairfield Utah at 4:00 right on time.
FROM: DebiLynn Smith
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 4:45pm PDT
STATUS: As of 16:17pm PST, the Nevada section 2 rider is 26 miles west of Shelbourne Rest Area. Mail is about 40 minutes ahead of schedule. GO PONY!
Utah Team #3 Report
FROM: Patrick Hearty
PDT
Utah’s Team #3 may be the smokin’est group on the trail. With 18 riders, we carried the mochila across Utah’s west desert from Simpson Springs, in the dark and through a punishing south wind (some riders had to take creative routes home on Monday, as the winds had blown several semi’s over and I-80 in Skull and Tooele Valleys was closed). We ran 47 2-mile segments, which calculates out at about 94 miles, and did it in 9 hours and 15 minutes. Can’t say enough thanks to the riders, our, Continue Reading
FROM: David Kittle Second Vice President
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 12:58pm PDT
STATUS: On June 12th at 12:28 pm PDT the Pony Rider and mail were at the Schelbourne Rest Area and US 93.
FROM: ka7uis
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 8:08am PDT
STATUS: On June 12 (PEX location 4) Pony @ Whiskey Rd. 17.6 Mi W sect 1 Ibapah
@ 7:42 PDT Pony about 27 min ahead of sched. from tracker
FROM: KA7UIS
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 7:44am PDT
STATUS: On June 12, (PEX location 3) Pony @ Pleasant valley road, 14 miles west of Ibapah section 1
@ 7:28 am PDT. Pony about 10 min ahead of sched info from tracker.
FROM: David Kittle
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 7:12am PDT
STATUS: On June 12th at 6:25 am PST the Pony Rider and the mail crossed into Nevada.
Go Team Nevada, we have 60 hours; let's make the best of it.
Wyoming riders hand off the mail to Utah riders at 3:45am MT, Sun. June 11th
FROM: Ron Atkinson
PDT
What a great ride. received the mail from Sweetwater County 45 minutes late. by the time we reached Fort Bridger at 9:00 pm we had made up 35 minutes. Ride proceeded without any problems but darkness came and slowed us up. When we reached Evanston at 1:00 am we were right on time. The ride through town overwhelmed a first year rider and with horse problems we fell behind but got the mail to Utah state line at 3:45 a.m. Want to thank all our riders for being such a great, Continue Reading
FROM: ka7uis
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 6:54am PDT
STATUS: On June12(PEX pony location 2) Pony @ 8 mile rd 7.4 miles W of ivapah
Section 1 @ 6:40 am
Pony about on schedule info from tracker
FROM: KA7uis
SENT: June 12th, 2017 | 5:50am PDT
STATUS: On June 12 (PEX pony location 1) Pony @ Ibapah 5:38 am PDT Info from tracker