We spent most of the day discussing my idea and this is the plan we came up with. We have roughly eight to ten weeks of time before the river ice breaks up. This is my time frame to go west. Me and Matt will gear up tomorrow and tuesday and head west on wedsday. One day to lemmon, one day there, one day to lodgepole, one day there (if needed) one day back to lemmon, one day back to mobridge is our minimum time frame. Add a day for problems and you get a week. Maximum is 21 days. After that Jay and Jed would mount a rescue mission and come after us. We worked up a provison load for 14 days. If we needed the full three weeks we'd either be cut down to minimum rations or scavenge food. We would both carry similar weapons so ammo loadout would be compatible and interchangable. We gave Matt a FPW for this. His M4 already used the same magazine and we gave him extra. We also cased and took along a 30-06 bolt action with scope for long range work. We also packed up plenty of camping supplies in case we found no one and had to make do for oursleves.