I’d be moving heaven and earth to get the horse back, for sure. Even if it meant a bit of public pressure.
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Apparently there’s another guy doing this now, shirtless through the desert lol
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What is with these people?! 
Long distance rides can be done responsibly, but it takes a tremendous amount of planning and support. Gillian Larson (https://www.instagram.com/thru_rider/) is an excellent example of distance riding done right.
This 2Raw2Ride guy is just… ugh. Poor horse.
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Last seen yesterday or the day before in Grape Creek. Heading towards Sterling City.
He’s gone off line and is in more remote areas, so I doubt we hear from him/anything until he hits Sterling City or Big Spring, if he goes directly through those towns.
Rumors were he was taking a 2 week break, but then the sighting in Grape Creek happened so I think he’s just staying offline now.
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Thank you.
Hope the horse never leaves Texas. Maybe someone will buy him. What a knucklehead this guy is. These trips take training, conditioning, planning, and a lot of money. Anyone who’s played Oregon Trail knows more than this fool. His ‘ancestors’ would probably slap him upside the head for not preparing. In the old days, idiots like this typically died in the wilderness. Now, they beg for donations and cash instantly. He has very little in common with the old timers that carefully prepared themselves and their livestock for an arduous journey. In fact, they typically brought more than one horse and all could pack as well as ride. They also did a lot of walking themselves.
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Sounds like someone has watched too many episodes of Naked and Afraid.
Please tell me he’s not trying to do this on a horse.
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Yes he is!
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I can only hope that things will quickly go awry and he’ll change his mind. Or there will be so much social media backlash that he’ll give up.
Why don’t these IDIOTS simply walk on their vision quests? Or dream up some other creative way to garner attention that doesn’t involve a live animal?
Instead, it seems they believe that the use of a horse makes their stunt majickal and romantic.
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Apparently he’s been going since May 2022! However, I get the feeling he didn’t accomplish what he set out to do in 2022 & is now restarting the journey in CA to go back to the east coast.
I don’t know much about his ride, but it seems like he has truck & trailer support with him and he isn’t worried about time. I’m confused about this sudden urge for people without a ton of experience to go on these rides, even for good causes. 
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If he is indeed going Grape Creek to Sterling City, then he’s following Hwy 87. However close or far he is from it.
That does make it seem that he is using highways as a guide. Highways do tend to be more direct than more local roadways. And the terrain directly on either side is often somewhat groomed, compared with the natural terrain.
If he stayed on more natural terrain (which may not be possible due to fencing and smaller roads not connecting or continuing beyond a few miles) it would be very difficult to make 20 to 30 map-miles per day. Too many ravines and other natural obstacles to navigate. Too much elevation change, up and down. And frankly delays figuring out what to do next. And re-routes and backtracks around obstacles.
Significant terrain elevation changes add distance. In hilly and mountainous terrain, ground distance is measured in both in vertical distance and paper-map horizontal. Those can be very different numbers.
Just observations. There are people who are truly experts in such long distance rides, and I’m not one of them.
Someone must have shown him the wisdom of going offline for a week or two to allow social media to calm down and find something else to engage their interest. Which is an interesting contradiction to what seems to be his goal of publicity.
And it is possible that true and motivated efforts to help the horse are still active but also offline at this point. IMO that strategy would have a far better chance of making a difference for the horse.
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I think you’ve hit on another real problem for this guy, planning the route on the small scale. Does the road have a shoulder you can ride on or rideable terrain nearby, are there bridges/overpasses, is there water available in the next so many miles, where do you stop for the night, etc. etc. etc.
Just another obstacle.
I do suspect that there are folks working on the down-low to help that poor horse, but I expect that the obstacles and discomforts encountered on this trip are going to multiply exponentially soon, coupled with a horse in poorer and poorer condition, resulting in an aborted “experience.” It seems not unlikely that the horse will be replaced; he’s going through ranch country, with lots of horses around (relative to the number of people, anyway)…
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As a long time trail and suburban rider, I wouldn’t go on any ride without mapping things out and driving the route, at least from trail head to trail head. Like if I was planning a new ride that involved a bit of a road hack between trail systems I would go out and do reconnaissance first. And have maps of the actual trails.
All my life I have driven on highways and looked longingly out the windows imagining galloping along the verge. So I have observed how fast the verge can disappear into a gully or cliff face or private property. I would never assume being able to hack along a road unless I had driven it first.
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That’s one thing that bothered me, too. Riding along without scouting the route first, or checking out alternate routes to pick the best one. And what if the best route for the next 20 miles turns out to be unusable thereafter? You can get a lot of information from talking to locals, but what if there’s no one to ask, or they forgot about that ravine.
I too would look out the car window and imagine galloping alongside. I’ve been doing this since it was the school bus window I’d look out of.
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This! How many of us horsey people jumped amazing wide creeks, super high fences and hedges and galloped as fast as the car was going along side a road with our imaginary steeds!
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It was the only way to pass time on long car tips while being squished in the back seat with fighting siblings.
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Have had two Walkers in my time and can testify they are the most game horses out there. They will carry on until they literally drop and are stoic to a fault. My gelding had severed a tendon in a fence accident and actually came up for supper - and was heartily eating as we scrambled to get the vet (he recovered but dang).
Sadly, this is a bad thing for that horse as this idiot will just push and push the poor thing when he should have quit long ago. 
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Apparently, there are several tiktok creators who have been gathering information and are going to post an update tomorrow morning.
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I still do this! And all the crosswalks are jumps. Oxers, to be exact.
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The tiktokers that are going to post updates today are foxtrotequine, basicwhitebutch and lelzbequestrian2.
I was talking with two of them yesterday via their comment section and they are going to post all of their info at the same time in several posts.
The posts are already coming in. Foxtrotequine just posted.
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