Wow! I’m glad I was patient. Finishing a BDR may be more difficult than I thought. I watched some videos on YouTube and guys started with 6 ended with 2 and that didn’t seem too uncommon.Sorry about the tough luck on the first BDR. My first BDR trip was last August, and ended when my buddy’s bike got disabled. Two of us left him and another guy on the trail with instructions to sit tight while we scouted the trail ahead to verify that my pickup could make it back there for the bike rescue. Returned to find my buddy wrecked on the side of the trail 5 miles from where we left him. He had gotten so impatient that he decided he wanted to be towed by strangers in a rzr rather than sit on his hands. So, since he had never been towed, and the rzr driver had never towed a bike, it ended up with a few broken ribs in the absolute middle of nowhere CO. Luckily, the rzr folks were capable of being shamed into hauling him out of there to get checked out (hours away).
Good call on you putting the most experienced riders on the towing job. It’s sketchy as hell in the very best circumstances.
We had 6. 4 finished. I was bike related at 65 miles in, another stopped with about 100 to go due to a hurt leg.