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Monthly Archives: February 2021

Mile 1741: Diamond Springs Station

The station site and the Pony Express Monument are in separate locations. The site is at https://goo.gl/maps/6ecT5eFvKsvLdtXM9. In satellite view, it appears there is a cutoff from the XP Trail…

Mile 1707: Mountain Springs Station

"This station is very well signed, very easy to find and see." Note that this is a short distance off the Pony Express route. Jan reports a cattle trough at…

Mile 1695: Bates’s/ Butte/ Robber’s Roost Station

"While the Shoshonee is tracking and driving the old mare, we will glance around the "Robber's Roost," which will answer for a study of the Western man's home. It is about as civilized…

Mile 1678: Egan’s Station

"In the early part of October [1860] a war party of eighty Pah Utes descended upon Egan's station while Mike Holt station keeper, and a rider by the name of Wilson were…

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Scott AlumbaughIn early March 2020, I decided to bikepack the length of the Pony Express Trail in Summer 2021, following the Pony Express Bikepacking Route, a nearly all off-road route created by Jan Bennett. You can learn more here >

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