I just got back to alberta after spending the last couple of weeks in Sask. Went down thru and spent the night in Anaroid and Assinbole and spent about a week in Willow Bunch. The roads really, really, really sucked unless your on a main hwy like #1. I drove from Willow Bunch up thru moose jaw and regina and left Porcipine Plains last night. The roads coming out of Porcipine plains sucked big time with red flagging along the asphalt,stone, pothole voids. Nasty conditions driving. I drove 12 hours yesterday clinching the steering wheel driveing back thru freezing rain, snow, rain and hail and 80 k gust. It seemed like anything that could come out of the sky did, except a 747. I had to pull off at a ranchers property somewhere between Swift current and Medicine Hat and parked my truck and caught some zzz's after nodding off a few times. There is something to be desired with the roads in Sask, but also there is very little money avaliable from ranchers and farmers to show a profit to generate enough taxes to provide enough taxes to fix roads that aren't used that much.
Shed, if you make up somewhere between montana and alberta, pm me and I'll give ya my cell and we'll do some catch up.

Bobby