FROM: Patrick Hearty
PST
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 drivers and support groups, and the radio operators who stuck with us through a long and dusty night. But especially, the horses, because they are the ones who make it happen. Trinity Seeley sings a song about “Horses in the Middle of it All,” and that is what we are all about. Pony EXPRESS in capitals. Great run, everyone.