Molly Fletcher and George on their 100 mile hack on Jura in 100 days.
Jura teenager Molly Fletcher has hacked 100.1 miles in 100 days to raise hundreds of pounds for a charity working with horses, donkeys and mules around the world. The 15-year-old signed up for equine charity Brooke’s MyHackathon challenge to keep busy in the summer school holidays. With her Dales pony George, she completed the challenge on August 13 tackling Jura’s tricky wet and boggy terrain full of tussocks, raising £568.
There is only one single track road running the length of the island and Molly’s mum Claire off en cycled ahead to keep her safe from any on-coming cars and wild deer – red deer outnumber people 30 to one. Molly even found herself up against an enormous adder one day out riding. George has been owned by Molly’s family for four years. Before that he had been moved around six other homes and his behaviour had suThered as a result. ‘We turned to Cara Gelati at Wilderways in Argyll, who gave us lots of help and suggested he needed more challenges. He certainly got one this time. ‘Molly’s been incredibly patient and determined, and off en frustrated and tearful, but is now seeing the results, as is George,’ said Claire.