
8:59 AM
We are here ready to unload and suit
up!
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9:43 AM
We are ready to pull out of Duck
Lake.
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9:52 AM
We are headed south on the groomed trail. |

The wind is
picking up out in the open when you look into the distance. |

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10:00 AM
We stop in the shelter of some trees
on the trail to check out every one and their gear. |

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10:08 AM
This is also a good time to wipe the
sleds down after a bit of a wet trailer out to Duck Lake on the
highway. |

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10:32 AM
Stuck and this was just the beginning!!
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Just outside
this field you can see the wind drifting snow in the distance. |

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10:48 AM
We
take a breather out of the wind in the sun by an old
homestead. We have lots of smiles! |

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11:16 AM
Headed back to Duck Lake for lunch. |

At times out
in the open visibility was cut to 10 sled lengths! The groomed
trail and our tracks are completely drifted over and gone out in
the open! Luckily
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Saskatoon Snowmobile
Club
has done a great job of
marking their trail with orange trail markers! This has got to
be
as
spectacular a day as I rode 23 years ago!! |

A blizzard of
drifting snow in the all around us.
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The wind blown
snow was just pounding at our gear our in the open!
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11:25 AM
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/article/nipawin/
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Just 3 feet
off the groomed trail the snow is not wind blown here, soft and
the dry
Saskatchewan
powder
is bottomless! |

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12:13 PM We
fuel up before lunch in Duck Lake.
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1:36 PM
We
head off to the meadows near the road from
Duck Lake to
Prince Albert on the border of Nisbet Forest. |

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Carving the
meadow powder! |

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A close up
reveals.....we might of missed a spot!! |

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3:36 PM
After getting stuck in these deep
meadows, like....15 times?? We are starting to play out!
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4:18 PM
Headed back to Saskatoon in the icy blizzard
conditions
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The trick was
leave the radio off, and listen for the truck tires to break
loose, then you had a chance of CATCHING IT before you
jackknifed completely and unrecoverably! |

5:09 PM
Many vehicles were in the ditch between Duck
Lake and Saskatoon.
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