I have backpedaled all the way up the East side of the Kootenay pass in the downhill lane just to get up and over the hill. And that is almost three miles long.

Not recommended to drive that long in anyone else's lane, but at 6 am, I was the only one on the hill, well, the only one out of 8 unites that did not spin out in the same three miles. There was about 15 trucks on the other side ( in a five mile distance) that could not get up and most of them had chains on.

Guy that I passed at the top later told me he spun out at 9 the previous night, and until I made it over, no one else had.

Just luck on my part that I hit when I did, and went up the way I did. I would have been sitting up there like everyone else except for the timing.

 

What road chanel do you guys use down there Rocky ?

We use LADD 1, but I don't have it on unless it's realy bad. I got 155 Chanels.... Radio will hold 396....

 

Colt, I don't have a radio in my trucks. I mostly use a BlackBerry that I have set up to look at the Webcams on the hwys and also the road condition reports. All I have to do is get in Cell range, which is every 20 miles or so and I can actually look at the road. Here is the webcam at the top of Kootenay pass.

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighwaycam/index.aspx?cam=5

By the way, that looks pretty good to me, taking into account on some days you cant even see the bend for the fog or snow.

Mostly I figure, what the hell, the road is open, I go. The road is closed, I don't.