Ottawa Oppositelock Meetup: Ice Road Adventure Photo Dump

"CB" (jrcb)
02/15/2015 at 18:20 • Filed to: Meetups, Ottawalopnik

Myself, thebigbossyboss, and Zippy met up this morning (when it felt like -36) and drove out to Pointe Fortune, Quebec in order to drive the ice road, then hung out at a Timmies and shot the shit for an hour or so. Here are some photos from the adventure.

The adventure started as we left the St. Laurent Centre where we met up, as it seemed that no one had any idea where they had parked. Clearly a sign of good things to come.

Fun fact: Ottawa is actually Hoth.

Another fun fact: convoy formation with strangers helps solve the problem of Boss' speedometer saying he was only doing 20 km/h (we definitely were not).

Zippy wins points for being the ultimate Jalop, as he always has an OBD scanner plugged in. Plus, it gave live readouts to his phone. So cool.

Driving through lovely Rigaud, Quebec. Notice the grime in the picture? That's because we were running out of wiper fluid.

The Boss, being way too cheerful in the frigid weather. Also, both Boss and Zippy decided it was a good idea to refill on wiper fluid.

Zippy's phone holder, being used as an impromptu dashcam. Spoiled warning: it didn't work.

Studies show that people like blue.

I don't know. It was in the gas station.

How far out in the middle of nowhere were we? Enough that ski-doos were filling up at the gas pumps.

Zippy and I wait as the Boss was figuring out his GPS unit.

Finally getting to the ice road.

I'm surprised these turned out so well, because it was fucking cold .

The guys being good sports while I took this photo. I think they wanted to kill me. It was cold.

Finally, doing what we came here for: sweet drifts. Zippy did a drift so rad I thought we were going to spin around, and his car kept complaining about the hand brake being on. Definitely worth the entry cost. Too bad the impromptu dashcam didn't work.

After all this, we paid our fare, drove to a Timmies to hang out for a bit (none of us won Roll Up The Rim), and then we parted ways. But it was an excellent day and I'm glad I went, and I'm looking forward to next year, where hopefully more people can attend!

DISCUSSION (15)

Thunderface > CB
02/15/2015 at 19:04

Looks like hella fun!

desertdog5051 > CB
02/15/2015 at 19:34

I have some of Tim's coffee. Courtesy of a great Canadian.

CB > Thunderface
02/15/2015 at 20:28

It was! If only the video had worked.

Thunderface > CB
02/15/2015 at 20:46

I hope I can go one year

thebigbossyboss > CB
02/15/2015 at 21:51

Oh my god, I'm drifting!!!!!!

There are so many photo's of my car!!!!!

Nice hanging out with you guys today, hopefully next year we'll get a few more out. I didn't repost enough last week, was too sick/busy...d"oh!

thebigbossyboss > CB
02/15/2015 at 21:51

Also....it was the coldest cold that ever had colded.

CB > thebigbossyboss
02/15/2015 at 21:56

Next year if I have money I'll get a quadrocopter so we can have more photos of other cars. It's difficult to take photos of the Jetta when you're inside it.

And yeah, you did some pretty sweet drifts. And definitely looking forward to next year.

CB > Thunderface
02/15/2015 at 21:57

Hey, next year it'll happen for sure.

Thunderface > CB
02/15/2015 at 22:02

By then I'll have my G2, so fingers crossed!