hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i'm going to be showing you a trip around
the missouri river in 20 below zero with a bunch of snow on the ground in montana
it's going to be super exciting because montana gets crazy snow and crazy weather
all of the time and i show you the smallest river in the world which is actually in giant
springs so that's very exciting as well and stay tuned the video is going to be very interesting
i'm going to take you to giant spring state park on the missouri river
in great falls montana so you can see what it looks like when it's 20 below and very snowy
we're coming up to giant springs right now very beautiful also very snowy and very cool it is
20 below zero oh my gosh it is just freezing here's the steam coming off the water so this
is kind of like a day in the life in montana and what it's like to live in montana in 20 below
i think you can see them they're all right there
this is giant springs right here and here you can see down in the spring and also these are all the
geese the water stays around 45 degrees fahrenheit all year which is why the geese are here and then
also right there is the missouri river right next to it i hope you enjoyed that tidbit
about montana over 150 gallons flow from giant springs to the missouri river every day that's
so much and also as william clark said it's very very pure water the description
that william clark from lewis and clark once gave still stays true today this is the roe river it's
the smallest river in the entire world and it flows from giant springs into the missouri river
right now i'm walking across the roe river the smallest river in the world
wow look at this
now this is the giant springs and this is the missouri river
hey
look at all the rocks these are very very cool bushes and that's
what bushes look like in montana when it's 20 below with lots of snow
this is the missouri river over here if you're ever in montana and get a chance
to come to giant springs the smallest river in the world the roe river you
should definitely come because it's truly a great site to see
here we're driving past the missouri river it's very beautiful i'm also going to show
you the dam up here that has a ton of steam coming off it so that is very exciting
and it is really really cool you can see a bit of the steam coming off the dm up there
i have to get this on video because this is also very beautiful and it's a little bit
of what montana looks like in 20 below montana gets really really cool i don't mind the snow i
actually love the snow but when it's really cold that's when it's not the most fun this is black
eagle dam it's one of the five great falls of the missouri river and it happens to be in great falls
here's a little bit of a better view it's pretty beautiful
and above the dam the river is frozen but i am also frozen so i completely understand
that here we've got the frozen river as you can see it's covered in slight bits of snow
well actually quite a bit of snow i think we're going to get another 14 inches can you believe
that i just hope it warms up a little bit here we have a different angle of the missouri river and
montana is just a really truly beautiful place if you ever have the chance to visit definitely come
because i love montana and i love all the views of montana i just don't like how frozen cold it gets
soon i'm going to be passing by what's called a fishelo it's basically a buffalo and a fish
combined and it's in a buffalo stat fishelo statue i guess you would call it and it's right
by the missouri river i don't know all of the details but there's basically a contest where
artists would design different buffaloes and they made this one into a fishlow so all over
around town there's different buffalos and so here's the fish hello right here
as you can see the fish flow is covered in a little bit of snow so he's a little cold
and now we're about to cross the missouri river right here this is the bridge for the
missouri river i thought that would be very cool to show you the fish hello i thought you
might enjoy that look at the bikes on the lots there you can hardly see them
and all of the geese of course here is the missouri river again we're just taking a
little tour around the missouri river great falls is known for its very large american flag and
i want to take this moment to thank all of our veterans for their service so thank you so much
here are some of the beautiful montana countryside views of the winter and
i thought this would be a great thing to show you because this is farming land here
look at that sky it's truly gorgeous
and snow makes everything beautiful but it also makes everything very very cold now i'm at the
horse stable and i'm going to show you our night routine in 20 below zero at the horse stable so
here i'll introduce you to the horses and trek through this deep deep snow here
it's quite a voyage here we have buffy buffy loves to say hello to me
she's not too fond of kisses all the time but she does like to be pet so that's something to
keep in mind here we have stella she's pretty young she's two she loves kisses see and she
sometimes tries to bite you but not on purpose just to give you more kisses here's katie and
katie's pretty nice as well and then come here goldie i'll show you goldie in a second we have
goldie back here she's my pony i used to show her at the state fair so that's pretty cool
as well i really loved showing goldie here we have lily my dad's old team penny mare
my dad went to nationals on lily so that's pretty fantastic lily's a great horse and i love her and
she's also super calm i stood on the saddle on her back and she's just fabulous to ride
right lily yes oh and here is barbie and barbie looks kind of similar to lily so you only confuse
them if they're really far away in the field but here's barbie and she's just super nice and very
very kind horse and they're all fabulous here we have some the hay we're feeding
are you enjoying dinner goldie i think that was a yes goldie is very photogenic and she just loves
the camera so she's very happy to be on youtube something that happens in montana or if you live
in a place that has a lot of snow and very cold weather in the winters that happens to horses feet
is they get little balls of snow on the bottom and then it turns into ice so then they're
walking around without a flat bottom of their foot it's all rounded and it's hard for them to
walk so as you can see goldie has that here the bottom of goldie's foot here's lily over here
and we'll walk down here here's all the snow and look at all the snow on the pipe fence
okay something really cool about the pipe fence that actually happens is
birds live in here so they will have their nest in there and you'll be i don't know opening the
gate and all of a sudden a bird will fly out the bird's wing or feet will hit your head
or sometimes they just barely miss you but it's pretty crazy and i don't think there's one in here
right now kind of just a cool thing that happens here on the farm and i also love it when the birds
just hang around because of course i love birds i don't see any right now there was one over there
oh oh oh my goodness here they are over here oh and they're flying all over they're very
happy birds but this is like a night routine and a kind of just day and what montana looks like in 20
below snowy weather my hands are completely frozen so i think i have to turn off the camera now
now i'm going to show you a really awesome feature of the horse stable that is really important in 20
below montana weather is heated water so here they are and we have all our waters that are heated but
what happens when one of the horses pulls these plugs here on the water stella pulled the plug
and but they all do it and then you have to put them in the other way it's all completely ice now
this is all ice i'll try and move some away so you can see
so all ice down the whole product because it's all completely flooded these are all
ice chunks here it's completely crazy here's awesome ice chunks all the way down the whole
paddock because it got flooded by the waters but then we found it when we came to feed horses
as you can see it's quite uneven and i'm having a little bit of trouble walking
it's a little bit better now just lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of
snow okay now i'm headed back up the paddocks to the truck on the very very icy paddock run
this is the missouri river and as you can see we have a beautiful sunset as always in montana
and the geese are that black line right there all lined up by the open water to stay warm because
it is super super cold is that cool or what all of those little black dots are different geese
and over there is the railroad bridge that the train crosses on to get across the missouri river
we have some more geese flying in to join the mix and see their friends and if you look closely you
see a couple of ducks it's just a center for all of the wildlife to stay warm in montana
well like the bird type of wildlife and it looks like they're enjoying themselves very much i mean
i even think i see a couple of them with a hot cocoa here are all the little geese with their
hot cocoas and their friends all lined up they're so cute thank you so much for watching i really
hope you enjoyed make sure to like and subscribe and share with everyone you know because it really
helps me my goal is to really teach everyone about how their food gets to their table because farmers
are so important except right now it is so cool that i can not really teach anything
so i'm just taking you around montana to show you a little bit more of the area and i really
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