Lately the weather has been less than hospitable by Western Canadian standards -40 degrees celsius etc. So getting fed up of being stuck in the house and have sweet FA to do I said to the wife lets go exploring so we drove almost an hour to our starting point a road I've always been curious about as it's the most eastern road you can drive here before Lake of the Woods and the Province of Ontario. Plus there is piece of the U.S. inside Canadian boundaries.....must of been something setup by brain dead politicians. But what happens is basically a good chunk of Lake of the Woods is on the Minnesota side and the rest is on the Canadian side. So for the Americans on this particular piece the only way of crossing back onto American soil without going across the border is by crossing the lake.
I'll let google maps show what I'm talking about.
https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll...=t&lci=weather
So anyway getting back on topic we drove down a mostly gravel bush road and as we got further north closer to a town called 'East Braintree' (yes that's it's name and the end of the drive) we came across several sites where ice roads had been made for either hauling logs (not a lot of that going on anymore except for firewood) or providing access for peat moss harvesting companies to access the bogs and clear the marshy land for harvesting in the spring.
I'll let google maps show what I'm talking about.
https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ll...=t&lci=weather
So anyway getting back on topic we drove down a mostly gravel bush road and as we got further north closer to a town called 'East Braintree' (yes that's it's name and the end of the drive) we came across several sites where ice roads had been made for either hauling logs (not a lot of that going on anymore except for firewood) or providing access for peat moss harvesting companies to access the bogs and clear the marshy land for harvesting in the spring.
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