Fifth Annual Monument Valley Ride Photo Gallery

This ride is always a “memory maker."

Verde Valley Horsemen's Council members enjoyed their fifth annual Monument Valley ride, meeting on Sept. 30 at Goulding’s to caravan to the camp site. We rode down on the floor this year. There was adequate parking for rigs and our favorite horse or mule. Stock water was available. Meals were catered starting Thursday evening through Sunday night. We had people in camp, non-riders, keeping an eye on things at camp while we were out riding. It was a wonderful event!

Not overly difficult, the Monument Valley ride featured lots of sand. The ground was very hard, making it challenging to use electric fences-- and trees were in short supply. Wondering sheep often wander into camp and eat any feed left out. Riders could not leave their dogs loose as local Indians' dogs like to wander into camp, sometimes with the sheep and other times on their own.

This year’s ride was enjoyed by 60 riders plus seven non-riders. Bill Dean and Homer Harmon did a wonderful job of organizing this catered event and many riders are already planning on next year’s ride. Thanks goes out to Diane Lovett and Ginny Rench for doing the clerical part of this huge undertaking and sharing their expertise in putting on such events.

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