Date: February 19, 2025
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Location: Colony High School Library
Description: Packing education plus monthly meeting! Francine and Colleen will bring example 3-night packing list for 2 people and 3 equines including packed panniers.
Draft Meeting Agenda:
Officer’s reports:
Old Business:
New Business:
The KP Chapter had a lot going on in 2024! Read all about it in the 2024 Annual Report!
Congratulations to the 2024 Mileage Challenge winners! These miles were earned from May 1 to October 30, 2024.
1st Place: Stacy Sawyer with 373.3 miles: $50 Riding Warehouse Giftcard
2nd Place: Colleen Fisk with 186.7 miles: $25 Riding Warehouse Giftcard
3rd Place: Allie Schock with 110.6 miles: $25 Riding Warehouse Giftcard
They will each also receive a BCHA baseball cap and sticker.
Congratulations Stacy, Colleen, and Allie!
Post-holiday party! Let’s get together for a post-holiday celebration at Sarah Gotschall’s house. Check your email for the specific address.
We will start with a potluck dinner at 6pm followed by a business meeting around 6:30pm.
Agenda
Officer’s reports:
Old Business:
New Business:
Happy December! This is the first reminder to send in your dues for 2025. Dues have been increased by $5 to reflect that increase in the dues we pay for each member to National BCHA.
Mat-Su dues: You can print and mail this form with a check, or pay via Paypal (with $2 fee) and email Francine the form (mailing information is on the form).
Kenai dues: You can pay and submit membership or renew on their website here.
Dues help support trail work, allow us to have insurance for the board, and support the national organization with their education and policy efforts. It also allows us to host events like the Competitive Trail Ride and mileage challenges, along with prizes. Thank you for your support!
Let’s get together for a winter meal and catch up after a busy summer and fall! Meeting at Conifer Farms, see email for address.
November 24th. Potluck dinner at 6pm with meeting at 6:30pm
Meeting Agenda:
Old Business:
New Business:
Thank you all for helping make the Crevasse Kicker an amazing experience for all this past weekend. With late changes to the trail, an untried campsite, and rough weather to start us off, it was exciting to see excellent teams on the trail and in camp.
A special thank you to our outstanding trail-master Francine and her assistant Sarah G for what can only be described as fool-proof trail marking! And with safety riders Bill and Kaylene, we knew everyone was going to make it back to camp safely. Our ride secretary, Stephanie, put in a lot of effort to ensure that you had everything you needed and you were in the loop. Sarah R designed and ordered the amazing ribbons and solicited awesome prizes. Thank you to Branded Feed and Tack and M Bar D Feed & Tack for your generous donations!
Deanna and the P&R Crew were ahead of schedule and able to handle all the groups with no delays!
Judge and Scribe teams of Susan, Colleen A., Colleen F., and Karol were indispensable with their years of knowledge and I know we are all grateful that they were willing to share their expertise with everyone.
The full results are:
Novice Youth:
Novice Adult:
Competitive Pleasure Youth:
Competitive Pleasure Adult:
Ride Manager’s Sportsmanship Award: Lexi Malone
We are looking for volunteers for the competitive trail ride on the Crevasse-Moraine/Mat-Su Greenbelt Trails July 26-28.
Review the sign up form for jobs and times:
https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C084FABAE28ABFECF8-50173926-2024
Look forward to seeing many of you there!
Much is happening on the Kenai Peninsula. Here’s a snapshot:
The KPBCH gets many questions about what is happening on the Peninsula and around the state. We’re honored to be a search engine for equestrian events! To help us all plan our summer riding season, we’ve put together a Statewide calendar with all the “universal” equestrian events (clinics, rides, camps, rodeos, etc.) that we could find on the internet. Each of those events are links to that organization’s page or the specific event page if we could find it. You can find that calendar at the top our our own Events Page on our website by using the button below. While you’re there, you’ll see that we’ve got some fun things happening as well!
This and more on our Events Page. Check it out!