|  Mid March the days are getting 
				a lot longer. (for you out of Towner's “the sun is higher in the 
				sky at mid day” thus the mornings are lighter earlier and the 
				setting  sun occurs later!)
 |  500 XC SP
 This year by this time the 
				abundance of snow has been moved around gently by the wind, 
				nothing severe, but enough to keep you watching for the 
				directional tree lines and bushes separating all the open farm 
				land property line to property line. It seemed the north, 
				north-west sides of tree lines and bushes had the smoothest 
				powder for an unsurpassed ride!
 |  This gas station just outside 
				Birch Hills was perfect to pull up to all winter long, a one 
				stop gas  
				station and restaurant.
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				|  An abandoned house on an old 
				homestead from the early days.
 |  |  Catching a breather coming off 
				a ridge of hills just about in to St. Louis on the way back from 
				Birch Hills.
 |  I have this 500 XC SP down from 360's to 
				340's
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				|  There’s location, and timing 
				required here,
 
  |  many windrows of THRASHED grain stocks are under the snow,
 
  |  and with the right speed 
				and angle can create 20 or 40 hits and lifts as you crisscross 
				such a Stubble field countless times.
 |  We all get in the action 
				but you know what happens when you hand your camera to someone 
				else....!!
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