Region 18 Royalty Poker Ride
Krystlynn Bishop and Calli
Weaver Bally (Trinity Alps Wilderness) in the background

The CSHA State Endurance program is promoting a project to have a horse camp on the Weaver Basin Trail at the foot of the Trinity Alps. This trail system has non wilderness trails available for public events as well as access to the Trinity Alps Wilderness via the East Weaver Lake Trail. The Weaver Basin trail system is located on old mining ditches and wagon roads as well as newly built recreational trails surrounding the Histroic Town of Weaverville in the Community Forest.

We have good support from forest Service employees at Shasta Trinity as well as the Trinity County Resource Conservation District and the Weaver Basin Trail Committee http://www.tcrcd.net/wvrbasin.htm

The idea that is going forward is to add a few fee horse camping sites to East Weaver Creek camp ground and have a group camp area available by reservation behind a locked gate.

We are working on raising money for the East Weaver Creek Campground conversion. The Wilderness Trails manager Mike McFadin (530-623-1760) said that if we start throwing drops into the bucket, he can make it a flood. Next year we will be applying to the AERC (American Endurance Ride Conference) for a trail grant for this project. Currently a private land owner is allowing us to use his land for a staging area for events. We are grateful for him doing this as holding the event and showing need is something the Forest Service says will get us our campground upgrades.

Letters of support stating that you would like to see horse camp sites available in the East Weaver Creek Campgrounds as well as a Group Campground for events there, as you would come to Weaverville and spend a few days or more riding the trails system and enjoying the area, would be greatly appreciated and can be mailed to Solomon Homicz, P.O. Box 581, Weaverville, CA 96093

To start the ball rolling, we are holding a 2 day CSHA Trail Event on June 23rd & 24th! The first day is a multi user 5 mile poker run and the profit will go for the campground upgrade. This event is to promote good will among different users of the trails.

The second day is an Endurance Educational ride of 20 miles. Profit will go to CSHA general fund. This event is for experienced trail riders and horses interested in getting into Endurance and trying a longer distance without paying the full cost of a Limited distance Ride. It is also for experienced e riders to have a fun conditioning ride on a new trail system and weekend camp out and mentor the new people. Experienced trail riders that want to have a good long trail ride on a marked trail they haven't been on before are welcome also.

Any questions you may have, please call Solomon Homicz at 530-739-3467, the State Endurance Vice Chair, best time to call is after 7 p.m. For a copy of the flyer with more information click here.

ENDURANCE

How the program works

2012 Endurance Program Application

American Endurance Ride Conference

In 1971 CSHA recognized the importance of distance riding and horsemanship and formed an Endurance Rides Committee. The purpose of this committee is to promote organized endurance rides and distance riding horsemanship.

Distance riding is not new. It is just newly rediscovered. Since the domestication of the horse thousands of years ago, riding has been man's chief means of land travel. It has only been in the fraction of that time that man has been traveling
with the use of mechanical instead of biological power.

Endurance racing as a sporting event goes back more than 100 years. Then races lasted for many days and distances of a thousand miles and more, such as that from Galveston, Texas to Rutland, Vermont, a distance of 1,799 miles, averaging a distance of 57.7 miles per day (31 days) in 1886.