Montana JEEP TRAIL: New Years day snow wheeling in Pryors 2024

[@Ohmy1956]

Great run you guys

[@JeepAndThings]

Great video as usual brother!

[@prophotos365]

Another great video and I agree most clubs will get rid of the litter bugs and that is a good thing!!!!!!

[@djbox1213]

Looks like fun on that side of the pryors I was in the other group that went up to big pryor mountain on the 1st

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

both were large groups too! I think you guys had 20 rigs in your group as well!

[@matildagreene1744]

The GROUPS of a dozen or more scare the heck out of the wildlife...

[@TheLifeTidy]

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[@wernerboeinck9467]

I like this Kind of winter……

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

It's kind of nice.... but we need more moisture for sure!

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

I went camping, but itchin to do some wheeling....

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

I ended up with funerals and holiday stuff for the last few weeks... I'm still trying to get my camping video in... just keep having unexpected folks ending up in the hospital and such. It will be cold when I finally get to go lol!

[@MontanaDirtRoads]

@TheUncrowdedPATH that's why you have a diesel heater right

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

exactly!

[@suparee]

Hi, great video even like a film shooting. Are you interested in sponsored stuff?

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

Hmmm ... Only if it directly relates to the channel as it is. I have no commercial or income tied to my channel.... Everything on my jeep I've bought. All equipment I use, I've bought. If something doesn't work I don't use it. With that in mind... Do you think you have a product that would fit the channel? It's a small window... Jeep parts, camping parts, and maybe filming stuff...

[@suparee]

@@TheUncrowdedPATH It's likely something lighting setup. would you mind leaving a email and I'll send you more details?

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

@@suparee .... email is [e-mail]

[@matildagreene1744]

The wildlife in the Pryors is thinning out thanks to all the 4x4 clubs...Also it feels quite crowded to the property owners who have land bordering BLM & STATE ..

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

I know of a diease that has moved into the Deer heards of the Pryors... ever hear of CWD? The cases that were first found in this area lead to a hunting season designed to eliminate the heards around the fringe of the mountains. This season was during COVID and many of the animals were killed (I think you could get many tags for deer). CWD is still an issue and if a CWD deer pees in the grass and another deer eats the grass grown in that area 3 years from now...it will get CWD. Chronic wasting disease. The deer have lived just fine with people back there... just like they live along the interstate and highways. (Don't use them either if you want to close all the roads). Then we have the wind farm...some land owners made quite a buck on that! Well, we all know they do take out bats and birds... so that might have reduced some of the populations of animals as well. What they have had recently is an abundance of Mountian lions.... but with the deer population facing die offs- they will likely move on or starve out as well. I think the wild horses still grow every year and have to be managed to not over populate their range. Horses have to be sterilized or a number of them removed all the time- or they will grow in population size to the point of starving themselves out. The fires that burned did kill off a bunch of fish in crooked creek.... they had to build a dam to change the flow of water to help the population come back. I have seen black bears up there on many of my recent trips... and occasionaly a deer. I have been driving up there for 40 years... as well as all of the roads that were there- They used to have many more... about 1/3 of the roads have closed in my life time. My last trip through there- I saw ZERO traffic until I got to the horse range where I meet two other vehicles and we slept outside under the stars (ever do that in Octboer?) on the horse range. The next day going over the top and coming out at bridger, I saw two other trucks. So there are times there is still no one up there if you visit the backcountry. I avoid the weekends in the summer up there- because there can be a lot of sxs traffic and it gets more busy than I like. But it is PUBLIC land... so I get that they have a right to drive the roads too, I just get angry when they leave the trails- fines for that need to be much higher! Anyway, Thanks your input... you can look up all of this information easily... and you will start to understand that the loss of wildlife up there has to do with disease and not the traffic that has been up there for the last 40 years.

[@matildagreene1744]

@@TheUncrowdedPATH Yes..I know all this. I own acreage near the 'wind farm'. You know, the one that was suppose to bring jobs to the area ? LOL THAT joke. Billionaire's tax write off... I'm up there 3 times a week...Things have changed. If you don't see the increase of four wheeler's and campers then you haven't been up there much in the past couple of years. I keep a construction bag in my truck now as the amount of trash along PMR has quadrupled..

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

Don't you think that the disease and possibly the wind farm might have more to do with the loss of you seeing animals than 4x4's? I mean do you think they run over the deer and such and kill them in great numbers? Do you find all of the animals hiding on private land because they have no where to go? (There are miles and miles and miles where they can go with no roads). Because I have never heard of such happening- that animals are being killed by 4x4's? Or that deer and animals are getting ran over? I think the loss of animals might have to do with the other things I mentioned. I pick up trash when I'm up there too... I do think there is a lot of hobby atv riders that don't respect the laws, roads, or enviroment... but the clubs I have been with are made up of mostly middle aged persons and older. Most that never owned any land of their own... and so they come to the mountians as their refuge, and they pay taxes to use the land too. These clubs are not the ones creating the litter... I think if you came and rode with a group, you would find they stay on the trails and pick up trash. I have never seen a 4x4 club drop trash or leave it, but I have seen the other- "ya hoo's" that drive crazy and throw trash. We need to fine the socks off of them. The other issue is the amount of land the goverment keeps shutting down, it forces everybody into the same places... if you are near Billings it leaves only a couple of areas you can visit if you own an ATV. So I get why they are out there... nothing else is open! We also have had a huge influx of out of staters in the last three years. Many have never thought about or understood the rules of the trail or even outdoors. The interstate is filled with trash now- same people! It has never been like this until the last few years. It's not the life long users causing what you see... its the new crowd. I get it- it makes me angry too... I walked back to an overlook that has no open roads going to it- about 2 miles back... in the grass there were atv tracks and a pile of garbage where they ate lunch. If I would have seen them it might have been ugly. Montana is not going to stay the same... all this growth and money coming in from other places. I hope you get to enjoy your land and the public land for years to come. @@matildagreene1744

[@matildagreene1744]

@@TheUncrowdedPATH The NOISE...makes them migrate to different areas. I only know what I've NOT SEEN with my own eyes. I know where I use to see wildlife and see less and less each year. More and more motorized vehicles. More campers. Yes, it's the NEW CROWD. USE TO BE local families with a four wheeler or two. Now it's a dozen at a time...Not the same. Once I tried to explain to an older couple on a four wheeler in a remote campsite that their machine and blasting music was near a wolves den but then kind of laughed and turned the radio back up and took off. P.S. A person could buy their own land with those expensive rigs...LOL..

[@TheUncrowdedPATH]

I do hate the ATV's with no mufflers... it seems like people even modify them to be that way. I was camped this summer and hear one coming for like 10 min... and then passing my camp and for another 10 min. and I don't blast music either when camping. I go up to listen to nothing... and everything! It seems like the campers hang out down at the bottom because they can't get those big trailers up into the hills... I remote camp and almost never have a neighbor that I didn't bring with me. @@matildagreene1744