10:17AM We are fired up, we had all the sleds cabled together for
the night.
We have coffee n toast in Choiceland and see
sunny skies.
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We
pull a 45 and hit 'er
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...across the
Stubble fields for Fort a la Corne.
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We cross over Bisset Creek and...
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...wait for everyone to reappear out
of the trees. |
11:32AM Looking for a few more riders...loosing count how many? |
There we are.
We wait for everyone to cross Bisset Creek, and we put the wood
to 'er, I am humming
"RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM!" |
Back on the Hunt for the Whitefox!
-the old farm yard just off the river.
-and this end of the "Lost Highway" from 2010. |
...This is a way to cool! The
Whitefox
border is
fun, but be careful there are all kinds of ravines and drainage
ditches draining the nearby fields to the low lands. |
The snow is just flying along the Fort a la Corne. |
We are following the rivers contours closely,
every nook n cranny. |
Powder next to the forest spraying up! |
Everyone accounted for! |
12:02PM Talk about a nice picture, the sun rising
in the SE and the Fort a la Corne Forest behind us!
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We find it, this is the yard site we pulled into off the river
in
2010
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This building is still standing. |
It had been a goal of mine for many years to rediscover this old
pioneer yard site on the edge of the Whitefox River. |
This side of the barn looks OK but the
roof is caving in. |
Right behind the barn is the Whitefox River. |
I do not remember it being so close, there are
sled tracks down there, maybe a little early in the day to get
trapped down on the ice! |
Hey the accommodations gets a thumbs up... we
will have to register with Trip Advisor to let them know how
good it is!
M_ _ _ o are you checking Trip Advisor LOL!! |
Talk about a nice sunny day out of the wind, next to Pioneer
homesteads that were the homes of our earliest settlers. |
A little
Ski-Doo...
...talk maybe? Yellow Fellows? |
Everyone is enjoying
exceptional snow and weather conditions. |
3 x 700 = FUN!OK,
don't believe me? ...watch the video's! |
Getting food into the
cooker. |
The hoods are going up and we are loading the ovens for lunch. |
Many of us have our hoods up and we put food in our cookers old
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We follow the Whitefox River for a number of
miles...
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The boys are get'n a little
Racy here! |
On our way back we check out a
local lunch counter for patrons! |
It looks to me like the locals
made tracks when they heard us coming! |
Nobody around but with the Whitefox in the background, the
locals have likely gone for a swim! |
...and then for second time in as
many days
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HERE I AM AGAIN!
"LEARNING
TO FLY!" |
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...and after we pull our arms off the bars for a few minutes of
RE flection!!
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this video...
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The boys are get'in a little
Racy
here! |
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Then after watching our videos on the big screen I see
this...this group of trees in the middle of a field,
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...it will turn out to be
the marker for the pioneer grave (s) site that we are looking for.
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Nothing like a little scoot
Formula One
style down the Whitefox to get the food cooking!
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Nice snow and open fields ahead...
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Pounding
Saskatchewan's
Dry Powder
drifts in the cattails like this, I am thinkin'
"FREE FALL'IN"
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We cut across a few fields when we see and
acreage owner plowing snow. |
We stop and ask about the
cemetery that we had been looking for. The acreage owner is not
familiar with a cemetery around here. |
We leave the acreage and within the hour we stop and try our
chow in another old farm yard.
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This house is buckling up from underneath and caving in from the
top.
Debris inside. |
This building is old but has been saved by a modern steel roof.
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We pass another old homestead.
Gas gauges are reading a little
low so we look for Smeaton. |
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