Freedomflyer

I was wrong I guess. https://www.newsmax.com/politics/canada-truckers-covid-protest/2022/02/05/id/1055642/

Interesting https://www.newsmax.com/ronpaul/berlin-wall-freedom-convoy-trudeau/2022/02/02/id/1055211/

The man reaching down is the average citizen questioning government overreach. The dog is the verbose individual who sees only his view. The chainsaw is the "vaccine" mandate, the accompanying tyranny, and the fallacious arguments associated with it all. The guy talking is anyone who recognizes the futility of trying to reason with the dog.

WOW! Can't control them steal from them! https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1080022827/a-canadian-judge-has-frozen-access-to-donations-for-the-trucker-convoy-protest

LOL

Full version of RCMP officer's statement https://youtu.be/jgxwVSL7xRw

An interesting listen from a RCMP.

Here is the definition of vaccine. a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. Am I wrong, if the vaccine is supposed to prevent, why should those vaccinated be worried about the un Vaccinated? I am asking this question honestly and without sarcasm.

WOW! Yes we're all tested, also gave up our DNA in doing so. Why would I state we had covid if we weren't tested? Dave, you will never change my opinion. Nor I yours. I watched 3 healthy people who got the vaccine die. I also watched 2 Brothers get better from Ivermectin. You and I will have to agree to disagree. There are millions from both camps. I will not judge those that choose to get it, I have other dear friends that have gotten it and have had any effect from it yet and hope they don't. I have yet to contract any of the other variants and hope myself or any in my family do. I do know hundreds of people that have had covid and came through it fine and others was tough on them but they are getting better. We will both argue our points due to our experiences. I just don't want to argue with people anymore and don't want to be mandated to get the jab.

WOW! Yes we're all tested, also gave up our DNA in doing so. Why would I state we had covid if we weren't tested? Dave, you will never change my opinion. Nor I yours. I watched 3 healthy people who got the vaccine die. I also watched 2 Brothers get better from Ivermectin. You and I will have to agree to disagree. There are millions from both camps. I will not judge those that choose to get it, I have other dear friends that have gotten it and have had any effect from it yet and hope they don't. I have yet to contract any of the other variants and hope myself or any in my family do. I do know hundreds of people that have had covid and came through it fine and others was tough on them but they are getting better. We will both argue our points due to our experiences. I just don't want to argue with people anymore and don't want to be mandated to get the jab.

Mech, I guess I think a lot of this whole thing has been fear motivated. I know the survival rate of covid is pretty dang high. Pretty much my whole family has had covid. My experience was worse than my wife's. She was down for 5 days or so, I was in bed for over two weeks, achey, sore, tired, headache. Never lost my sense of taste or smell, appetite was fine just very weak and tired. Finally forced myself to get up and get moving. Was pretty much like any bad case of the flu I've ever had. Went back to work, was miserably tired and weak, wanted to go home after a couple of hours into each day of the first week but forced myself to keep moving and working. Slowly started making it through 8-9 hour days. (Construction) I'm not a young man late 50's, youngest of 6 kids, my 5 siblings are in their 60's and 70's they all got it, my two oldest brothers and their wives figured they had it went the local Ranch supply store bought Ivermectin, took it and immediately started feeling better. Heck my 91 year old Mom got it and survived fine, wasn't concerned at all. Got rest, kept her fluid intake up to stay hydrated. I, my siblings, and mom, feel like our immunities are stronger an more resistant having gone through what we did. I refuse to live in fear, and like I said we should all be able to choose for ourselves whether or not we want to get it, like whether or not we want to get the flu shot.

Mech, I would not try to convince anyone to go against what they believe is best for them. My personal view is that the vaccination is not for me, I think it should be everyone's choice toget it or not get it. I have my own reasons for not wanting it. I knew 3 people who were healthy with no issues of any kind that hadn't had covid that got the vaccination and boosters. Within 1 month were in the hospital with multiple complications fo major organs shutting down. One friend was complaining of pressure in his chest, went in to doctor, they found all the arteries and vessels around his heart were about to burst. He went through a 17 hour, 14 doctor surgery to replace all the vessels to his heart. After surgery kidneys started to fail within 3 days he was on full dialysis, within 2 days his lungs filled with fluids. 10 days after surgery he was dead. The other two, both healthy, started having heart problems after receiving their vaccinations. Then kidney problems, both have passed as well. I have no problem with folks being vaccinated if that's their choice I do however disagree with someone mandating that I shouldn't have a choice to put something I don't want into my body.

Just Randy, Hmmmmmm........imagine that!

I do agree that they are an important part of the food chain. Unfortunately this whole program was horribly mismanaged and the reproduction rate was well above what they expected. There really are too many in the area, I know several ranchers/farmers personally that have been dealing with them for the last 2 decades. They are constantly at watch worried for their livestock, pets, and even their kids at times on these rural farms/ranches and have felt like their hands have been tied, but now in the past couple of years, are able to buy up to 10 tags and start protecting their livelihood. I found out today there was 2 other wolves with this one that was killed, they ran off and another one was killed by another rancher down the road, the 3rd got away.

MGoing to apologize in advance to those that have a soft spot for wolves. They are definitely not my favorite species of animal. They continue to grow bolder and bolder even with the population exploding all around us in this wide open valley floor. This valley is approximately 40 miles long by 35 miles wide. Was once mostly agricultural but over the last 25+ years, the kids of long time property owners have sold to the highest bidder. Developers buying up small farms and ranches for millions of dollars and eating away at the local agricultural way of life, destroying the rural Montana I, and many natives, once knew, covering up perfect farm land with urban sprawl, never again to produce a grain of wheat or barley, potato, canola seed, or any crop of any kind ever again. Lining developers pockets, raping and pillaging another rural area and leaving the infrastructure in a colossal mess and the local cities trying to figure out how to pay for the improvements to move the traffic, overloading an already overloaded tax base. FINALLY, after years of farmers and ranchers lobbying and legislation, they finally opened up a season to hunt the destructive and devastating consequences of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park. These animals have become a huge problem outside of the park boundary. Did the powers that be actually think these killing machines would stay inside the park boundaries? Really? Hmmmmm, not the sharpest tools in the shed. Their population has exploded over their reintroduction into the park in 1995. They released 41 wolves into different areas in Yellowstone Park, then made it illegal to kill any of them that came out of the park boundaries. Pretty much leaving farmers and ranchers defenseless in protecting their livelihood without becoming a criminal. If they did ever shoot one the investigation process has been so stringent and stressful a lot of them have done the 3 S's. Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup! There are now over 1500 wolves in western Montana, over 1100 in Idaho, over 400 in Wyoming, and almost 150 in Eastern Washington. Who knows how many have migrated back into Canada. They finally delisted the wolves and opened up a hunting season on them, something that should have been done years ago before they decimated our elk population. A friend of ours was able procure a tag and was able to fill it yesterday morning. The wolf was down in the middle of the valley floor stalking his cattle on his family ranch, definitely deserved to be taken out. Personally would like to see more taken down, they have gone well beyond repopulation with this program and have spent millions on tracking and thousands of man hours, colossal waste. Glad to see another one gone.

MGoing to apologize in advance to those that have a soft spot for wolves. They are definitely not my favorite species of animal. They continue to grow bolder and bolder even with the population exploding all around us in this wide open valley floor. This valley is approximately 40 miles long by 35 miles wide. Was once mostly agricultural but over the last 25+ years, the kids of long time property owners have sold to the highest bidder. Developers buying up small farms and ranches for millions of dollars and eating away at the local agricultural way of life, destroying the rural Montana I, and many natives, once knew, covering up perfect farm land with urban sprawl, never again to produce a grain of wheat or barley, potato, canola seed, or any crop of any kind ever again. Lining developers pockets, raping and pillaging another rural area and leaving the infrastructure in a colossal mess and the local cities trying to figure out how to pay for the improvements to move the traffic, overloading an already overloaded tax base. FINALLY, after years of farmers and ranchers lobbying and legislation, they finally opened up a season to hunt the destructive and devastating consequences of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park. These animals have become a huge problem outside of the park boundary. Did the powers that be actually think these killing machines would stay inside the park boundaries? Really? Hmmmmm, not the sharpest tools in the shed. Their population has exploded over their reintroduction into the park in 1995. They released 41 wolves into different areas in Yellowstone Park, then made it illegal to kill any of them that came out of the park boundaries. Pretty much leaving farmers and ranchers defenseless in protecting their livelihood without becoming a criminal. If they did ever shoot one the investigation process has been so stringent and stressful a lot of them have done the 3 S's. Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup! There are now over 1500 wolves in western Montana, over 1100 in Idaho, over 400 in Wyoming, and almost 150 in Eastern Washington. Who knows how many have migrated back into Canada. They finally delisted the wolves and opened up a hunting season on them, something that should have been done years ago before they decimated our elk population. A friend of ours was able procure a tag and was able to fill it yesterday morning. The wolf was down in the middle of the valley floor stalking his cattle on his family ranch, definitely deserved to be taken out. Personally would like to see more taken down, they have gone well beyond repopulation with this program and have spent millions on tracking and thousands of man hours, colossal waste. Glad to see another one gone.

I use Onx Offroad maps, download a satellite of the area you're going to ride, then start to record the track when you start your ride. It runs off satellites not cell service.

Boy jamo, I haven't had that issue with any of the machines I've had my plow on. Used a 2013 Honda Rancher, a 2018 Can Am Outlander, and now a 2016 Outlander Max. Never had my battery run down and have done quite a lot of plowing with all 3 machines.

A bit cooler than expected 🥶😕

Getting more snow, supposed to snow all day, not sure how heavy but have about 5 inches of new snow.

Finally got some snow, enough to mount the plow.

8hrs Had the opportunity to get out for a ride yesterday. A friend came for Thanksgiving from North Dakota so since I had a 5 day weekend this weekend, we headed to one of the few trailheads that are still open this time of year about an hour away. Was a fairly blustery day and only 28 degrees when we left the house. Pipestone (our destination) is about the same elevation at we are but for some reason doesn't seem to get the same amount of snow. Always seems to be bare there when we have snow on the ground. We got unloaded and on the trail at roughly 8:45 a.m. was only about 33 degrees, wind was a steady 20mph which makes it feel like it's around 22. I don't think he was too excited as we were unloading as the wind was biting at us in the parking area. I told him it would get better as we got down the trail and into the hills, and it did as we moved on. Took him to one of the places here that is very unique, even by world's standards We have a place called the ringing rocks and it is really strange how it works. It's a huge pile of rocks that are just sitting on one another, they are called sonorous rocks and resonate sound like a bell when struck with a metal object. Very unique areas, and very few places in the world, 4 or so that have these rock fields. There are only 2 areas in the U.S., one here in Montana, an area in Pennsylvania, an area in the United Kingdom, and one in Australia. Although a pretty cold day there were bits of sunshine that showed through throughout the day. Trails were pretty much dry and sandy. We had 3 small water crossings of about 14 or 15" deep where ice has started to dam up small creeks. These are fairly small and only 20' or so across. At 1 point we thought maybe we might have to turn back as skies were getting pretty black and dark but decided to push through and only ended up with a few flurries of snow that disappeared and then followed by patches of sun. We put on about 40 miles and had a great day stopping for lunch with some turkey sandwiches. One of my favorite places to go and would like to do a bit more exploring as there are hundreds of different trails there are hundreds of different trails that crisscross and connect. Lot of history here with mines and trestle bridges, there is also a spot where an airplane crashed and they never did remove the plane, that one I would really like to find. The landscape is just cool as there are huge house sized, and larger, Granite rock slabs throughout the Trees and hills. Another benefit is most of the trails are sandy type soil and pretty smooth. With all of the granite here they actually had a quarry that they cut huge slabs for the court houses in the surrounding counties. Unlike the trails that are close to us that have sharp protruding rocks, in a lot of our area, different type of rock. Was a great day as it always is when you're on the trails