Tuesday - August 5, 1986 page 4
After traveling about 8-1/2 miles, Dena rounded a corner to a strange sensation of someone
watching her; she just caught a glimpse of Jennie standing in the shadows on a hillside above
the road, fighting flies. Jennie still had hobbles on, but her legs and been chaffed raw from
their rubbing back and forth as she ran. Dena removed the hobbles and sat down beside the road
to rest and wait for help, as well as get ideas on what to do next. Not more than five minutes
later, Debie and Kesi came around the corner and before Dena could finish telling them her
story, Kiki had also arrived on April.
With spirits renewed, Debie mounted Snickers, Dena took April, Kiki got Jennie, and Kesi
remounted Penny and they all started down the road again. Debie and Kiki took the lead, but
the road soon sloped down hill and turned into less gravel and more hard rock, thus making
any tracks difficult to find. After another mile or so, it was decided that Kiki and Kesi
should return to camp, as they were exhausted and could inform Pam as to what was happening,
she was probably very worried.
Debie and Dena countinued on, with Debie continually mentioning how uncomfortable she felt
about not finding clear tracks in the road. Neiher her or Dena had seen any tracks leaving
the road nor had they seen any clear tracks on the road; they had seen scuffs, but could not
readily identify them as horse tracks. The mileage markers showed that they were only a mile
from the end, Dena finally convinced Debie to return to camp while she tried to find help.
Meanwhile, as Kiki and Kesi started back up the hill towards camp, they just happened to
notice Kee-awali standing on a hillside above the road. And sneakily hiding in the brush
behind her were Britt and Echo, both with broken hobbles. Upon discovering the horses, Kiki
came galloping and screaming down the road for Debie and Dena, but they were too far off
and did not hear her. So she removed the broken hobbles from the horses and placed them
upon a wood chunk in the center of the road and made a stick arrow pointed towards camp
as a message that they had the horses.
After leaving Dena, Debie searched the road for tracks other than the ones she and Dena
had made. Upon reaching the message left by the others, she realized that they had found
at least two of the horses, Britt and Echo, because it was their
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