Here is its attempt! It's so good I had to share it...
Posted on 05/03/2025 4:21:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Backcountry runners are embracing the physical and emotional challenge of racing with pack burros that don't always move at their pace. Burro races honor Old West history and hinge on a delicate partnership between runner and beast of burden. Burros, a Spanish-derived word for donkeys and their wild cousins, must carry a saddle, pick, pan and shovel in homage to a bygone era and the mythical sprint by miners to a land claims office with their pack animal.
Some 70 teams tested their skills Saturday in a race winding through the historic, turquoise-mining town of Cerrillos in northern New Mexico. Runners led burros by rope on 6-mile (10-kilometer) and 3-mile (5-kilometer) courses on unpaved roads and single-track desert trails. More ambitious burro races in Colorado can extend for nearly 30 miles (48 kilometers).
Racers often buy or inherit burros from owners who run out of money, time or patience. Others adopt burros that were corralled by the federal government to prevent overpopulation. Novices easily can rent an ass to try it out for kicks.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbtv.com ...
A picture, but not of the winner.
But they shouldn't envy the other guys' better ones.
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass" is from Exodus 20:17. The tenth of the Ten Commandments đź“–
I guess it would also apply to envying Riley Roberts about AOC.
Renting an ass can get you in trouble in a lot of states.
They have the triple crown in Colorado. Fairplay, Buena Vista and Leadville. In Leadville the race is during Boom Days.
They used to run over Mosquito pass into Fairplay and called it the , “Get your ass over the pass”, race.
Boom days is a hoot if you can go visit. I believe its the first weekend in August.
I don’t want to covet it just try it out for kicks.
First week in August would be quite warm, would it not?
Here is its attempt! It's so good I had to share it...
From a book I still haven’t put out on my grandfather, Jack Bell, a prospector and newspaper writer. So hard to wait for some of his pieces to go out of copyright. Includes a picture of my father on grandfather’s burro, Baldy.
Burros Had Much To Do With Building of the West
Nevada State Journal, November 19, 1922
https://iment.com/maida/family/father/jackbell/Jack-Bell-Prospector-and-Naturalist-39.htm#burros
That’s great! I’m going to read it all.
That ass has five legs!!!!! Lol!
And he’s going right and left at the same time! He’s mainly headed leftward, but pretends to be heading right as election time draws nigh.
That ass has two asses!
He was an amazing man. Won and lost fortunes from Alaska to Central America. In a gunfight at the bottom of a silvermine. Lots of mining analysis articles in journals. Cowrote with a western poet about what to take with you on a prospecting trip. Had the front page of inside sections of newspapers with leadins from famous westerners describing him. Wrote about the new airplanes being used for the airmail service between Reno and Oakland, hanging out at the airport to get to know the pilots. Deputy sheriff multiple times, including in Reno. People still wrote about him 20 years after his death. Used to carry the flag in the Armistice parade until they wouldn’t let him enlist again in the 2nd WW just because he was 78. Spanish American War and WWI. Buddies with Jack Demsey. Known for his stetson and long-barreled, single-action Colt .45.
Never mind the spelling! A five-legged, two-torsoed burro is a sight to see!
“Novices easily can rent an ass to try it out for kicks.”
I did that once when I was young.
Life changing to say the least.
L
If not abused, they are wonderful companions; tough, smart, and incredibly strong. Very interesting animals, and much smarter and more observant than most people give them credit for.
I enjoyed the book Running With Sherman: https://donnerpartymountainrunners.com/2020/06/book-review/
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