February 14, 2009  Birch Hills Derby
We pull out of MacDowall at about 10 am, heading due east, cross-country for the South Branch River valley.  We had thought that the Birch Hills poker derby would of been nice, but we got pretty casual  and just stopped at a restaurant in town for a nice "sit down meal" and headed towards the Weldon Ferry crossing. With the round trip, fuel was just OK getting back to Birch Hills, to refill a 3rd time for the trip back to Macdowall. To weldon and back to Macdowall we crossed the derby route several times.
Catching site of some snow dust on the horizon, then running down some straggler in the middle of no where............occurred a couple of times. We followed some older tracks along the South Branch and enjoyed an unofficial "tour".

 

Having just crossed

over what seemed like

 a large snow bank......

 

 

 

 

 

Over looking the

 South Branch down

 stream from the

 Weldon crossing.

 

 

 

Doesn't look

15 feet down, does it?

 

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The Fenton Ferry

crossing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A close up reveals a

 large tree laying

in the tree line,

under the snow.

(where else would a tree lay!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nice banks,

hopefully no more

 hidden trees!

 

 

The Weldon Ferry

crossing.

 

 

 

 

Parked next to the cliff

above the South Branch

near St.Louis.

One of those perfect banks

 "in the middle of no where"

 

 

 

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