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Completed Expeditions
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Please click on the names of those whose journeys are of interest to you, and you will be taken to a page with photographs and the latest news.
Bonnie Folkins has completed her third expedition, riding across Kazakhstan with the two Kazakh Long Riders, Norbek and Alpamys. The team is accompanied by Dalaikhan, the famous Kazakh eagle hunter. To learn more about how the Kazakh’s use their eagles to hunt wolves on the steppes, or to see photos from Bonnie’s previous expeditions, visit - www.bonniefolkins-photography.net
Jeannette and Richard McGrath have completed their “ocean to ocean” ride across the United States.
With
their first ride behind them, the hard riding nine Lithuanian Long Riders have
completed their second historic mission. This time they will be riding
along “the road of love.” In the 1551 Lithuania’s most beautiful heroine,
Barbara Radziwill, was married to the King of Poland. Five months after riding
from her homeland, the newly crowned Queen died under mysterious circumstances.
In memory of this tragic love story, the nine member Lithuanian team will
recreate her equestrian journey in late summer, 2011.
http://vilnius-krakow.com/ For more information in English, click here (PDF file).
For more information about the Black Sea ride, visit
www.2000kmistorijos.lt
After completing a ride from Mexico to Canada
along the Continental Divide Trail, Colonel Rocky Woolman was hoping to ride
“ocean to ocean” across the United States. But his trip was halted by record
high temperatures which he believed placed him and his horses in danger.
Tom Fairbank
completed his journey from Washington to Montana. By taking
the equipment through the Rocky Mountains, Tom is field testing one of the two
Canadian adjustable pack saddles donated by Custom Pack Rigging.
http://www.thelongridersguild.com/pack-saddle-test.htm He has also
posted this video on YouTube.
David Wewetzer of Germany has completed one of the most important equestrian
journeys recently undertaken, by setting off to ride along the newly created
Iron Curtain Trail ! The former symbol of oppression has been turned into a new
horse-friendly trail that runs from Turkey to the Arctic Circle and David was the
first to attempt to ride a major portion of this historic new route. David, who
chose the route because of the 20th anniversary of German reunification, set off
from the shores of the Baltic Sea and halted after 500 miles. His horse,
while not being lame, didn't seem 100 sound either and, although the vets could
find nothing wrong, David decided to end the journey. True Long Rider
responsibility! Because of his great care for his mount, we have invited
David to become an Associate Member.
Michel Jacobs and Sander Paul
have completed their journey from Amsterdam to St.
Petersburg.
The famous camel traveller,
Arita Baaijens journeyed to Tuva, to lay the groundwork for her first
equestrian expedition in search of the mystical Shambala, located in the Altai
mountains of Siberia. During this reconnaissance Arita rode with local horsemen
and managed to hand-copy a rare Tuvan equestrian text.
Canadian Long Rider Bonnie Folkins has completed her second
expedition by riding across Kazakhstan. She was accompanied by the Mongolian Bahat Ibrai
and Nurbek Dalikhan and Alpamse Dalaikhan, the first Long Riders from that country.
The historic journey of Argentine
Long Rider
Eduiardo Discoli has apparently been halted. After having ridden from Buenos
Aires to New York, his plan was to ride across Europe, carry on through the
Middle East, cross North Africa and conclude his journey in Morocco. Sadly,
according to sketchy reports, it seems Discoli’s ride has been halted by
political tensions. Having reached Israel by boat from Greece, Discoli now
appears not to have permission to proceed through Jordan or Egypt. At the last
report Discoli was stranded in the small village of Eilat in southern Israel.
Discoli’s horse, Chalchalero, has apparently walked for 35.000 kilometres from
Argentina.
Colleen Hamer
has
completed her thousand mile ride around her native state of Nebraska.
Vaidotas
Digaitis, Gintaras Kaltenis, Giedrius Klimkevicius, Neringa Kulokaite, Ceslovas
Marcinauskas, Algirdas Motiejunas, Skirmante Naglis, Antanas Narmantas, Jonas
Plucas rode from the Baltic Sea in Lithuania to the Black Sea in Ukraine. The highly respected
Scottish Long Rider
Vyv Wood Gee has completed her second journey. Following in the footsteps of
the drovers who for hundreds of years walked cattle south from the Highlands of
Scotland to market in London, Vyv became the first modern Long Rider to follow
the historic trail from her native Scotland to London. During her journey,
Vyv stayed with the noted British Long Rider author, John Labouchere. Phase One of
The Evliya Çelebi Way Project, previously named the Great Anatolian Ride,
has been completed, following in the steps of the 17th century Ottoman Long
Rider Evliya Çelebi Parker Flannery,
Ben Masters and Mike Pinckney successfully completed their journey from Canjilon,
New Mexico to Port of Piegan, Montana, located on the Canadian border.
Steve McCutcheon has had to pause in his journey from Delhi to Beijing,
after being arrested by the Chinese police. But he hopes to complete it later
this year or early next.
Linny Kenney has completed her ride from
the Pacific to the Atlantic.
The distinguished American mountain man and North American Long Rider, Hawk
Hurst, has completed his 2,500 mile equestrian journey from the Texas/Mexico
border to Montana/Canadian border. Hawk, who uses primitive pre-1840s mountain
man equipment, previously rode from the Grand Canyon to Wyoming.
Thierry Posty's journey was tragically ended when he died while riding
through Poland.
Long Rider
Ken Downey, who rode from Louisiana to Canada in 1999, has finished his ride across
the USA.
Kathleen Haynes has reluctantly cancelled her "Journey to the Centre of the
Soul"
Ed Anderson has completed his journey up the Pacific Crest Trail.
Ann Byrns
was walking across the States to California, accompanied by her horse Winnie.
No, she would not qualify to be a Long Rider, but her journey does come under
the umbrella of equestrian travel and all the Long Riders wish her well as an
equestrian "cousin." Update: Ann did the right thing by Winnie and
discontinued journey when the horse went lame. Albert
Knaus and Kerstin Hüllmandel rode
1,500 miles from their home in Mönchsondheim in Germany to Santiago.
Ed Lines, Phil Sutton, and Nick Warner have completed their ride along the
Andes for over 2,000 miles.
John Wayne Haynes has completed his
journey from Hudson, Michigan to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Well done, John!
Long Rider
Ian Robinson, having survived the perils of riding across Tibet and
Mongolia, has survived the even greater perils of an equestrian journey across
Afghanistan.
North American Long Rider
Bernice Ende has completed her fourth journey through the United States,
bringing her total number of miles travelled up to the fifteen thousand mark.
Caitriona O'Leary has completed her ride in India - and sent us a summary of
her journey.
Peter Ritz has made a ride round Germany.
Karen Ekman completed
her ride through her native
Sweden. April Nabholz and Dana Szegedy have
completed the first month of their ride through Montana, Idaho and Oregon. Julian Phillips and Lucinda Munchhausen
have had to halt their ride to Santiago de Compostelle.
Jessica Bigler has completed
her ride - for the time being.
Erin Zweiner
has been forced to halt her ride up the Continental
Divide trail.
Tim Cope has finished his journey from Mongolia to Hungary.
Robin and Louella Hanbury-Tenison have finished their journey
through Albania.
Vyv and Elsa Wood-Gee have completed their ride from John
O'Groats to Land's End.
Antoinetta Spizzo and Dario Masarotti
have returned to their home in Italy from their Long Ride to Moscow!
Andi Mills and Edie New, "The Carolina
Trekkers", have completed their Long Ride.
Jayme Feary has completed his ride along the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico.
Dario
Masarotti and Antonietta Spizzo, Italian veterans of riding in Europe,
have returned home from their journey to the Black Sea!
Harry and Lisa
Adshead have completed their ride from Wales to Jordan!
Babette
Gallard and Paul Chinn have completed their ride from Le Puy en Velay
in France to Santiago de Compostela!
Stan Perdue - has completed his ride from
Georgia to Arizona
Mikael Strandberg has completed his long, dangerous
and arduous journey across Siberia.
David and Arleene Foster have completed a journey
along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Eduardo Caporale has finished a wonderful journey in
Argentina.
Bernie Harberts, his mule Woody and pack-pony
Magnolia completed their journey across the United States.
Edouard Chautard and Carine Thomas have finished
their Long Ride - Down Australia's Bicentennial National Trail - and been given
an unexpected surprise!
Al Williams - completed his ride from Windsor
Ontario to Niagara Falls.
Steven O'Connor - the first Irish Member of The
Guild - was unable to complete his journey in Ireland as planned.
Penny Turner has completed a thousand-mile
equestrian journey through Greece.
Magali Pavin set off to ride from France to China
and back again. We have not heard from her for months, and assume her
journey must have been completed.
Keith Clark's two-year ride in South America is over
- for the time being, at least!
Esther Stein and Horst Hausleitner have survived
(just) their journey from Southern Africa to Kenya!
Marie Denkens and Renzo Martens have finished their
ride from Salta to Mendoza.
Michael Muir and Cindy Goff completed their journey
retracing John Muir's route from Louisville, Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico.
Tracey Elliot-Reep has completed her ride along the
length of Great Britain.
Antonietta Spizzo and Dario Masarotti rode from
their home in Italy to Poland and back.
Howard Wooldridge completed his ride across the
United States. He is now riding back again!
Garry Stauber made a ride along the length of
California.
Carol Barrett and Lesley Channon were trying to make
the first modern from Bath to Eastbourne - and back - in England when Carol had
a terrible accident.
Dan Phegan, Ian James, Yola Cox and Colin Mitchell
completed their ride from Darwin to Corryong in Australia.
Marie-Emmanuelle Tugler and Marc Witz completed
their South American adventure.
Jennifer Delaney made a ride round England,
following in the footsteps of Celia Fiennes' Great Journey.
Mary Pagnamenta answered New Zealand's call to
adventure!
Howard Saether and Janja Kovačič rode from Uruguay
to Bolivia.
Georges Baudraz and Sylviane Gold were forced to
halt their journey from France towards Spain.
Ray Everitt completed a ride from his home in the
South of France to the Swiss city of Berne.
Mike Winter had to postpone his ride across the
United States, from Madison, Virginia, to Portland, Oregon.
Philippe Rustenholz completed a ride in South
America.
Saskia Machaczek finished her ride through
Argentina.
Saan Ecker, Pam Brookman and Angie Grusauskas
finished a ride along Australia's Bicentennial National Trail.
Laura Bougault rode alone from South Africa to
Malawi in 2001-2002.
Katherine Boone rode across Spain during the summer
of 2001.
Eduard Chautard and Carine Thomas made the first
recorded ride around the island of New Caledonia in late 2001.
Tim Myers, Gary Conger, Robert Malone and Fred Bell
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Couy Griffin has completed his ride from San Francisco to Jerusalem.
Renate Larssen has
completed her ride from Syria to Sweden and sent us a very moving thoughts
about her journey.
André Fischer
has completed his Long Ride in South America.
Grant Nicolle has
completed his ride the length of
Britain, from John O'Groats to Land's End.
Peter Ritz has just completed his 3,000 kilometre ride around
Germany.
Hubie MacDermott has finished his Long Ride in Argentina
- and has sent The Guild more fabulous photos.
Kimball Foord has ridden from Guelph, Ontario to Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Hans
Martens and Paul van Rooyen have completed their ride from the south of France to the
Netherlands.
Long Rider
Mefo Phillips, having made a journey from Canterbury to Santiago di
Compostela in 2002, has just completed her Long Ride from Canterbury
to Rome!
Babette Gallard and Paul Chin, who rode from their home
in France to Santiago in 2005, are now back home after their journey to Rome!
Click here to read about Babette's fascinating book about their Long Ride
to Santiago.
Klarien Klingen has just completed her journey
from Portugal
to the Netherlands.
Margriet
Dijkstra and Jeannette van den Eng have just completed their ride from Nijmegen in the
Netherlands to Santiago di Compostela. They met up with Hans
Martens and Paul van Rooven (below) who are riding in the opposite
direction!
Doc Mishler completed an extended journey across
the United States, riding from Montana to Texas to Washington DC.
Adam and
Jeremiah have ridden from Colorado to Arizona and back.
Julie
Broome and her daughters have just finished riding the Tasmanian Trail!
Louis Meunier's journey across Afghanistan ended
when he nearly died!
Linda Losey has finished her ride across the United States!
Howard Wooldridge
FRGS
- has completed his second ride across the United States!
Mary Howe and her
daughter, Hester, have finished their ride.
Bernice Endy is has completed her journey from Trego, Montana to
Albuquerque, New Mexico!
