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wildkat
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
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Location: Somewhere on the Alaska Highway, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: WINTER...yes winter has ARRIVED!!! |
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OMG!!! What a trip!
One week ago I was on NWT Highway #1, gorgeous fall day....
Yesterday this is the same highway!!!
5 1/2 hours to go from High Level to Hay River normally takes 3 hours... Yesterday... welll let's say if you met someone oncoming you pulled over, stopped & let them go by... NASTY!!! |
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Jackrabbit379
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Wichita Falls,Tx
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| That is crazy. Pretty pictures. |
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wildkat
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
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Location: Somewhere on the Alaska Highway, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Jackrabbit379 wrote: That is crazy. Pretty pictures.
Yeah nuts to be on that road with a Rocky Mountain Double...
Actually in is own was it was a stunningly beautiful sight, I just wish I wasn't DRIVING in it!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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Jackrabbit379
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Wichita Falls,Tx
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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I couldnt imagine.
28 foot pups are enough. :P |
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wildkat
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
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Location: Somewhere on the Alaska Highway, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Jackrabbit379 wrote: I couldnt imagine.
28 foot pups are enough. :P
Yup a Rocky... Long Combination Vehicle...so foundly called up here...
48 or 53 Foot lead, 27, 28 or 30 ft pup, single converter in the middle...
overall length 31 metres (ummm 125 ft (?) imperial conversions are a bit fuzzy now) senility settin in... lol
Too funny really, I think the trucking industry is about the only industry left up here that still uses alot of the old imperial system...sort of...
I learned both systems, as we switched when I was in high schoool & have alot of American friends, so I try to remember the conversions, but some are no longer exact, and some on here think nothing of doing the conversions and planting them like you are a big dummy cause you're out a bit, soooo forgive me if I am.... getting old! :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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COLT
Joined: 03 Jan 2006
Posts: 576
Location: FT ST JOHN
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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101 ft. Old Timer :wink:
We've been dodging the white stuff but Ft.Nelson has been hit a few times... |
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wildkat
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
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Location: Somewhere on the Alaska Highway, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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COLT wrote: 101 ft. Old Timer :wink:
We've been dodging the white stuff but Ft.Nelson has been hit a few times...
LMAO!!! Where ya been dude?? Playin in the mud still?? |
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LadyNorthStar
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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Location: Whitehorse, Yukon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Theres something sick inside of me that wishes I was back home in it. |
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COLT
Joined: 03 Jan 2006
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Location: FT ST JOHN
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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I still use a metric conversion calculator :D
Meters to ft. guesstimate would be meters x 3 plus 10% = 102 ft....
Not much mud, for me anyhow, I pick and choose because I am soo heavy. Although just yesterday a water truck watered a hill a bit too much for the grader and I did wipe my feet abit. :wink:
Pics from Thursday, I wouldn't want to be on this road if it was muddy, thats a long way down !
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COLT
Joined: 03 Jan 2006
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Location: FT ST JOHN
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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A "rash" of bad wrecks this week, mostly off road, a bad one near Cleardale on the highway.
I guess a bed truck with a 400 on it was driving slow looking for his left turn and a Gibson's super was passing him when he turned left into the road... 2 dead ?... Still in the rumor faze... And then my buddy ran over a pick up at the top of the m. 86 dip... We flopped a tractor Thursday night on a muddy bush road, dispatch phoned the drilling rig and asked if we should send another truck load of the product... He says, well I don't really need it... :roll: etc. etc. |
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wildkat
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
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Location: Somewhere on the Alaska Highway, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, some pretty bad ones out here too...bad one with LiquidAir truck early in the week...nobody knows what happened with that one...nothing left of the truck...ugly mess.
I don't mind the snow so much, just wasn't prepared for this...came upon it real sudden like, one mile roads were rain wet. next 10" of snow on the road...
Rocky was real light, so was kinda nerve racking...and I'd just spent
125$ washing the last NWT dirt off my truck...THAT pissed me off :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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nickbtubas
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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Location: Kansas Flatlands
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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send some of that snow down south... i can't wait for a nice blizzard!!!!!!
ohh, can you send that snow second day air please :D :D :D |
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wildkat
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
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Location: Somewhere on the Alaska Highway, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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nickbtubas wrote: send some of that snow down south... i can't wait for a nice blizzard!!!!!!
ohh, can you send that snow second day air please :D :D :D
ROFLMAO!!!!
Tell ya what...you send some of that global warming up here & I' make a trade... We are about 2 months early on the snow....It can leave till December so far as I'm concerned.
The north is about a month ahead on winter, they usually don't get snow till Halloween, so needless to say THEY are not happy! Sheesh we got frost in August for cying out loud...We USUALLY don't get frost till OCTOBER!!!!
Did somebody say something about GLOBAL WARMING??? WHERE I can't find it...send some this way PLEASE!!! :D :D :D :D :D |
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joettanne
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Wow nice pics everyone! I never look forward to the snow. Makes for slower rides for sure. By the end of October we can get snow as well, but it does not last. It is the freezing rain that rattles my nerves! (Tanker - half full - freezing rain = yikes!!!!!)
Wildkat, try this site: www.metric-conversions.org 8) |
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wildkat
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
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Location: Somewhere on the Alaska Highway, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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joettanne wrote: Wow nice pics everyone! I never look forward to the snow. Makes for slower rides for sure. By the end of October we can get snow as well, but it does not last. It is the freezing rain that rattles my nerves! (Tanker - half full - freezing rain = yikes!!!!!)
Wildkat, try this site: www.metric-conversions.org 8)
Double thanks joettanne...
Well I think this stuff is here (there) to stay, as there was about a foot of it in the ditches & the days are too short now to melt it all...days are down to less than 8 hours up there now, and will be down to 4 in another month or so...early winter...again :( |
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