{"id":4504,"date":"2018-06-09T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:23","slug":"western-trail-rider-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=4504","title":{"rendered":"Western Trail Rider &#8211; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WTR-Blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4505\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WTR-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1213\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WTR-Blog.jpg 1213w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WTR-Blog-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WTR-Blog-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WTR-Blog-1024x549.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1213px) 100vw, 1213px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nABOUT WESTERN TRAIL RIDER<br \/>\nFebruary 2016:<\/p>\n<p>During the summer of 2012, I got together with an old friend I hadn\u2019t seen in a while. As we sat and talked, he mentioned that one day he\u2019d like to ride from Mexico to Canada on the Great Western Trail (GWT). That conversation planted a seed in the back of my mind (very fertile ground, due to a lot of dead and composted ideas back there), which took root and started to grow. I spoke with him several weeks later and together we decided we would give it a shot. As I started looking for information on the GWT, I was surprised at how little there really was. Apparently nobody had made the full trip in one shot before, at least not that I found documented. There were only wildly divergent estimates on the mileage, ranging from 3,000 to 4,500 miles, despite the fact that it\u2019s only about 1,500 miles by roads (Google Maps), so estimating travel time is pretty much a wild guess. In fact, on the GWT website, I was the only registrant on the equine forum, so they made me an administrator. <a href=\"https:\/\/westerntrailrider.com\/wordpress\/about-western-trail-rider\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT WESTERN TRAIL RIDER February 2016: During the summer of 2012, I got together with an old friend I hadn\u2019t seen in a while. As we sat and talked, he mentioned that one day he\u2019d like to ride from Mexico to Canada on the Great Western Trail (GWT). That conversation planted a seed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4506,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}