WINTER...yes winter has ARRIVED!!!
 

OMG!!! What a trip!

One week ago I was on NWT Highway #1, gorgeous fall day....


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Yesterday this is the same highway!!!


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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!!!

That is crazy. Pretty pictures.

Yeah nuts to be on that road with a Rocky Mountain Double...

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Actually in is own was it was a stunningly beautiful sight, I just wish I wasn't DRIVING in it!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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:

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??

Theres something sick inside of me that wishes I was back home in it.

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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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.