by "thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
Published 09/19/2017 at 23:46
by "thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
Published 09/19/2017 at 23:46
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There are days when living in Edmonton feels like you live *way* the hell up here. This is about 3 weeks earlier than last year. To be quite fair, I don’t think it’s the accumulation amount, but the fact that it snowed in mid September to be the reason for the warning.
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"BaconSandwich is tasty." (baconsandwich)
09/20/2017 at 00:04, STARS: 0
Yikes. I heard it was snowing up that way earlier today. No snow down here (Lethbridge) yet, but there is a risk of frost tonight. I had to cover our tomato plants. I was hoping to have them in the ground for another week or so, but if trends continue, I might be picking a lot of green tomatoes in the next day or two.
"vicali" (vicali)
09/20/2017 at 00:10, STARS: 0
Passes and ski hills got dusted already around the interior. It’s that time..
"CB" (jrcb)
09/20/2017 at 00:12, STARS: 0
No snow here yet. Feel free to hold onto it for a few weeks.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
09/20/2017 at 08:50, STARS: 0
So happy I’m getting new tires for Saint Jimmy. Currently I’m in Canmore, need to be back in Jasper by Friday. 15+cm of snow over the parkway and bald-ass 11-yr-old tires sounds like a real bad time.
"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
09/20/2017 at 10:59, STARS: 0
The parkway must be the snowiest place in the world, they had a big snow storm in June on it, if I recall last year. I am debating whether to get winter tires for my Mustang or wether to just buy an Acura 1.6El with a large door dent to drive in the winter.
"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
09/20/2017 at 10:59, STARS: 0
Yeah passes were dusted already two weeks back (at least yellowhead anyways). Not sure about Rogers pass, don’t go that way often.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
09/20/2017 at 12:43, STARS: 0
Yeah, radio chatter at the park was salt trucks and plows on Monday, before I headed down. I was a little nervous, truth be told, given that the road conditions sign was “poor” when I left Jasper. Didn’t see a single flake. Drove through some pretty dense cloud at times, but otherwise the road was just wet. But it was still a few degrees above freezing. I bet if I’d been down an hour or so later it would’ve been slick as hell.
"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
09/21/2017 at 00:36, STARS: 0
My first and only time driving on the ice fields, it was late November and after making a stop in Calgary for the night, (I was coming from Ottawa) I was headed to Prince George. The light was saying “poor” as I headed up towards Jasper and I was nervous myself.
But it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day, the road was just hard packed snow. Very very little traffic. Beautiful drive, but I can imagine it’s kind of a dog in summer when it’s all jammed with RV’s.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
09/21/2017 at 09:42, STARS: 0
It wouldn’t surprise me if they rated the road worse than it is because of tourists. But it does seem like Parks takes poor roads much more seriously than the provinces do.
The RV’s usually aren’t too bad. Yeah they’re slow but it’s easier to get around them. I took the road once in July all the way through, and got stuck behind a line of cars. It’d slowed down to 60 or worse on the corners and then accelerated back up for the straights. Couldn’t see the start. After sitting back there for ten minutes (with five more cars behind me) I got fed up and started passing, one or two cars at a time. It took me about 75km to get around the whole line. At the front? Two econoboxes with Quebec plates, obviously travelling together slowing to 60 for every corner whether a sharp it gentle one, and travelling too close together to think you’d fit between and just too far apart to be comfortable passing both in the short passing lanes on the parkway. Plus they accelerated to 95 right away on every straight section, meaning they were making it very difficult to get around them. Honestly behaviour like that is worse than the tourists who peg the brakes (and sometimes then reverse) and come up a complete stop in the driving late to take pictures of an elk... at least you can get around those morons.
"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
09/21/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 0
Jasper is the same. Going towards Edmonton (from Tete Jaune Cache) is not so bad, at least until the National Park, because you get most the passing lanes as your are headed up hill. When I am behind a line of cars that long, I just don’t bother through the Park. It’s pretty busy through there on the 16, there’s lot of cops and it’s just not worth it. Stupid goddamn morons pass on the shoulder there too in the 70 zones. Idiotic clowns.
Side note: Ontario 17 through the Ottawa Valley is like this, I got to a point where I could see really far, I was something like the 53rd car behind a big rig. Took the better part of two hours to finally get up to him as other cars passed or turned off and when I did the stupid Sienna in front of me wasn’t going to pass him or even get close, so I had to mash it to make it in the passing lane.
Oh canada.....
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
09/21/2017 at 17:59, STARS: 0
Yeah there was one point today... Someone doing 60. Pulling a sweet airstream but still doing 60 in a 90, at a spot between sask crossing and the Banff boundary. There’s a downhill rolling into a long straight passing section, about a km long. I could see from the top of the hill all the way down to the other end of it, no one coming at all. Fifteen cars or so between me and the airstream... No one pulled out to pass. Like. Wtf. So as soon as I hit the broken yellow hammer down, passed the whole line with plenty of room to spare. Only two other cars pulled out behind me, neither of them even tried to get around more than one car.
Like, I’m fine if the line of traffic is moving at least at a steady speed reasonably close to the limit. Like, steady 85 I’ll be good. But if you’re slowing to 60 at any point not marked that low... Yeah GTFO.
"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
09/22/2017 at 14:57, STARS: 1
*Stupid tourists. Stupid Elk. Stupid bridge construction* Me going to prince George/ Vancouver every single time.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
09/23/2017 at 14:47, STARS: 0
16 really isn’t that bad compared to 93. Most of the traffic on 16 is just going through like you are. But on 93 it’s 99% tourists. Although I’d have to say Maligne Road is the worst... Couple 99% tourist traffic with a 60km/h limit that most tourists in RV’s are even doing. So frustrating. At least there aren’t usually all that many elk or bears along it...
"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
09/25/2017 at 01:41, STARS: 0
I’ve never really been much around Jasper. Maligne road looks like it goes a fair ways ill have to give it a try in the shoulder season one day.