The streak is over
#31
01-05-2011, 08:24 AM
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Mannington, WV
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Couldn't see any hole/hill coming out of Butte since it was still dark when I left.
Sitting in Calgary now. Gawd, I hate having to pay for a day's worth of internet, though.
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#32
01-05-2011, 05:46 PM
 Nooo prob, bro. Do you remember the brake dust? You could smell it inside the (old and now gone) TA. The CHP was always busy; easy to make their ticket quotas on both sides of the hill. And then they closed the northbound brake-check area! Still, I preferred going down to going up -- what a slow grind. Seemed to take forever with a heavy load.
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#34
01-06-2011, 09:29 AM
I got out in early 2001 and it'd already been closed for a few years. That rest area was (still is??) a total pickle park. I don't remember the brake-check sign. A few months ago a guy rolled 'er over just north of the escape ramps. Lost his brakes, he said. He was from somewhere south of Florida and I doubt he could even read that sign.
#35
01-07-2011, 10:08 AM
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Just finished my longest deadhead in the past 10.5 years as well: Calgary to Winnipeg - 824 miles. The weather across there was *HORRIBLE*. It wasn't snowing, but the stupid wind was blowing 40+mph broadside to me the entire trip. Add in the blowing snow and cold temps and wow - what a drive.
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#37
01-07-2011, 10:31 AM
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I have to stop in Fargo tomorrow for fuel. Pulled up the weather and started shivering already. The high for tomorrow is +1f. ONE!!! Ich
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#38
01-07-2011, 02:59 PM
Just finished my longest deadhead in the past 10.5 years as well: Calgary to Winnipeg - 824 miles. The weather across there was *HORRIBLE*. It wasn't snowing, but the stupid wind was blowing 40+mph broadside to me the entire trip. Add in the blowing snow and cold temps and wow - what a drive.
#40
01-08-2011, 07:26 AM
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Location: Mannington, WV
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FINALLY back in the USA. Had to stop at the J in Fargo to fuel up. Nothing funner than pumping 150 gallons into the tank when it's -1 and windy, especially when the pumps decide to run s.....l.....o.....w.....
The bad part that at -1f they were within 2 degrees for their high temp of the day.
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