If you look at horse prices around Spokane or Montana you’ll see that he probably will get at least thousands for them. Depending on how he rolls this out. Not SIXTY grand but a few.
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Update today from mare stare: they’re be looking for someone in/around/near Sanderson County, Montana, to meet the sheriffs and explain show the deterioration of the horses, what is necessary for maintenance and care, and what abuse is and how to recognize it. This sounds like an actual, real live opportunity.
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OK I had to look at this, it’s Sanders County MT or it’s possibly Sanderson WA. Working on it-have my brand inspector friend contacting the state brand inspector and my vet is in Sanders Co. If it’s MT maybe I can get someone there if it’s Washington I can’t do much myself. Can’t figure out why he’s in Sanders County, he would have had to go north of St Regis which if he stays on that course he will go within an hour of me. Which I didn’t really have on my bingo card when this all started.
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OK Yeah it’s Sanders County, he went to Quinn’s Hot Springs down there. I have a horse friend who is friends with a Sanders Co deputy trying to make a call.
He is quite close to Washington… no passes on this route and no interstate, I guess was the draw, but super hot lately. Not hard traveling just hot. I hope he stays on the west side of the river, there are a couple spots on that highway where he absolutely can not ride through without being on the road.
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Oh, lucky you!
Whatever happens… May the Force be with you.
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Marveling We have people EVERYWHERE! COTH Horse Posse is on it.
I hope this ends soon. Nothing worse than nasty stale Cereal with no prize inside. I hope this long ride turns Fruit Loop’s Grapenuts into Alpha-bits.
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I am loving all of the cereal references.
Good job Moonit!
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Ha! I knew CoTH had more brains, resources and downright horse sense than any TikTok rabble rouser!
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So many fingers crossed!! I love COTH.
How sweet would it be if he was less then a day away from his final destination and wasn’t able to finish.
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So he is avoiding I 90 and heading for the Clark River valley which will send him towards Sandpoint Id? If there is any justice he will go down through the appropriately named Athol Idaho
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Why is he going so far north? Can we hope that he is headed for the Canadian border???
Would the route he take be: 200 North because he was in Quinn then 2 west and then south to come from the North side of Spokane? (we are assuming that is his target) Or just cross into Wash at Newport and call it a day?
The highway he is on will (or did?) spit him out in Sandpoint, ID and from there west it’s all a big blend of CDA to Spokane. It’s easy country along the river but there are parts of the road that are very narrow where it’s cliffside, windy road packed with crazy drivers, guardrail, and the lake. I am hoping he’s trailering, and it seems like he might be. I haven’t heard back from anyone so far and it’s been floated that he asked Quinn’s not to post about him until he was long gone. Now someone is saying he is in Idaho along the interstate route so who knows what is going on unless he did a detour north to the hot springs. It’s like a two hour drive from St. Regis to Spokane so he’s really stretching out this last little bit!
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I 90 is not really user friendly for someone without a car. If he is actually going to ride he would have to use the Olympian Trail which is an old rail bed =/- roads with loose gravel footing and tunnels
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None of Missoula to Spokane is user friendly without a car, IMO. 200 wouldn’t be bad to ride except for a handful of places where it would be very very bad unless you knew the side road detours or had traffic stopped so you could get through the gaps. Not to mention a few bridges without ridearounds. Maybe the locals near Quinn’s told him that and he reversed back to the I90 plan? Who knows, I just hope he’s trailering all but the grand entrance to… (drum roll) …Spokane! lol Not exactly the gem of Washington but it will do.
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That’s the problem with the whole idea of this ride. This isn’t the open west any more. It is fenced chunks of private and gov’t land, and roadways designed for vehicle travel, not foot travel.
For foot travel, there really isn’t a direct route between widely-spaced major destinations. Bridges especially. Also some narrow mountainous or other elevation sections.
Rather, you have to find the roads that you can travel, and make your travel plan around those roadways. Pick your starting point, key locations and destination based on the most feasible route. And forget about a hard time limit. Fate isn’t going to be kind to that.
And he chose one of the least likely parts of the country to do this. In parts of the midwest there would be much longer stretches where the biggest challenge would have been just the bridges.
He did ok in west and northwest Texas, where the few major state highways are fairly direct and tend to be built with wide side verges on either side (with ditches). Then he realized his choices between I-25 through the mountains in NM, in many places impassable for foot travel, and a maze of smaller highways that are also not 100% passable on foot … plus terrain and rising elevation generally …
I don’t know what he did about bridges.
Basically, he didn’t plan. Reality met ‘no plan’ and so then, voila, truck & trailer.
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Oh joy. So in essence, he’s prolonging the agony. Maybe he’s having some ambivalence over how to properly end this whole thing.
When he does finally… finally… proclaim it’s done, we should all have a celebratory drink, with a toast to Falcon and Pete. 
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I’m in!
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I’ve driven that route several times, traveling from Schweitzer to Sandpoint to Spokane airport. Once I took a shortcut (thanks GPS) and hit some real sketch, not a good place to travel alone.
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This image was posted on Facebook. One of the replies mentioned that they thought that it looked like Falcons rear fetlocks were collapsing.
Is it just the image, or do you think that’s what it is?
You can’t make a judgement based on the fact this horse is not being stood up, equally , on all 4 feet. He has his weight shifted off the rr
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