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10AM and...We fill our
Cooker
right up with hot dogs.
All
fired
up
at
-33
!!
YIKES
One sled doesn't fire immediately after a extended 3 hour open
pickup tow.....wind chill minus 100 and counting...once the boys
get the drive rolled back and completely shifted into
neutral...we were away. Big smiles all around! LOL
Minus 30 + and you see big smiles YUP you
sure do!! LOL

Yours
truly
190201V
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VideobySR7KiD
190202V
Leaving Willoughby in
our dust we pick our way across the country looking for
landmarks
"In
the Storm". Often ditch riding.
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video
byClifford!
190202.5V
"Give Me Shelter"
We pull into the shelter of some
homestead trees and have a vote, I am abstaining from voting. To continue or not to continue. In short all I can print here "shut up" and "Get back on that sled!" Oke doke, let's go! |
"Should I Stay
or Should I Go?"
Pulling out of the Caragana trees after our democratic election "Checking on the guides sanity!"

video
byClifford!
190203.5V
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VideobySR7KiD
190203V
You can see
Bulrushes
over every single hill 'n dale!
Just off the Rolling Stubble
fields down to...
...we are cruising thru just fantastic stubble fields
full of
SASKATCHEWAN'S
UNUSUALLY DRY POWDER
Filled rolling hills and sloughs!
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VideobySR7KiD
190204V
arriving at Muskaday a bitter pill

VideobySR7KiD
190205V
GPO 12427
This
is
going
to
be a
"A
LONG
LONG
ROAD!!
"Is
there
one
more
chance
to
save
my
soul?" |
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By 12:12PM, we pull out! Leaving the gas station
and heading NE All
gassed up and no place to go? Hardly! We have a long ways to
go!
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We fuel up and we pull out
headed north back into the bliss! YAHOO!

video
by Clifford!
190205.5V |
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Man, rolling back around to
see who, or how we are stuck now....I am thinking
"Ain't That A Shame!"
Man "I am pretty devastated" when
we turn back and find the young fella with his handle bars in
broken off in his hands
"I am thinking
"It's
All Over Now!"
How in the hell do you fix that in the middle of nowwhere?

VideobySR7KiD
190206V
Welding video

Man it is truly a miracle that
for a "SILVER DOLLAR" we are back on
the trail in less than an hour. The HUMANITY !! |

"Testing test one...two...three calling
flight control we are stuck and the handle bars didn't break
COPY! |
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video
by Clifford!
190206.5V

Yours
truly
190207V
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With the
North Branch
river crossing in our sights, with out stopping
or skipping a beat we keep on a NE heading thru the snowy
"WEATHER"!

...The Old
Cecil
Crossing

VideobySR7KiD
190208V
Still moving north towards correction
line. We are slugging heavy fields from the river crossing to
the back corridors ahead. Crossing the river I can't help but
think about the
"Missouri Boat Ride!" |
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Traveling North,
North-East from the ferry crossing towards the fields.
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VideobySR7KiD
190209V
We ride the correction line
a
Back Road Corridor
our goal,
a sheltered yard site.
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VideobySR7KiD
190210V

We crossed the Whitefox River on the pioneer
crossing riding North.
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Yours
truly
190211V
Stopped just after we rounded the corner
of the
Fort
a la
Corne
Forest we stop to adjust and ... check
fuel...hmm lots of fuel checking going on here. I expropriate my
sons
spare
fuel!!
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VideobySR7KiD
190212V

Yours
truly
190213V
I am looking hard into the horizon for the
pioneer
homestead
that we have stopped at other years for shelter.
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Bingo we pull into the shelter of an old
yard site exactly like the year before! Except one thing!
No
BBQ on
this occasion hell we don't even remove our helmets to eat.
Those hot dogs honestly hit the spot. And at the slower speeds
they really were barely over cooked. Nothing burnt!
With hotdogs down the hatch without even removing our helmets or
gear I see folks hopping from foot to foot...
...and someone says
"I sure wish I had a big Kahuna burger!"
Sometimes you need to travel in a
direction that runs
parallel to
"a roman road!"
This was a long
stretch...I know folks were hopping around to keep the heat at
our pioneer homestead stop, a few km out of this stop and I am
watching for a major road that will take us straight north to
#55 hiway. This will be the most direct way to short stop for
fuel. It is clear the short stop in Smeaton is the best idea,
weather or no weather if you can't ride with the hammer
down....."A
Mans Got To Know His Limitations!" |
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...well I don't see
anyone pussyfooting around on these aggressive overnight rides.
Do you?
We hit
hiway #55 and into Choiceland. Man it was a relief to pull into
town before dark in this weather system !!
It has been one hell of a
ride
"Through the
Storm"! |
We got' a
pour the coal to 'ER when ever we can. IT IS TIME TO
"Go
For Soda!" |