"TheStiggyOne" (thestiggyone)
07/11/2018 at 15:31 • Filed to: None
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"TheStiggyOne" (thestiggyone)
07/11/2018 at 15:31 • Filed to: None | 1
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Here are the driving footage from the Pacific Rim Highway trip I took in the past weekend. The picture post is here:
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As usual, all videos are Unlisted and thus not monetised in any way.
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The exhaust and supercharger jobs do make me look forward to every passing opportunity :-)
Driving through Cathedral Grove, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
Climbing Alberni Summit from Cathedral Grove, going westbound.
After !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the road tightens up a LOT. Actual passing zones are rare, and even these “slow vehicle pull-outs” are few and far between. And then in this case, an extremely late decision by the garbage truck to let me go by meant everything was a lot closer than it should be. As usual, though, the mid-range of the supercharged Small Block Chevy pulled me through ;-)
(A s to why there are garbage trucks... and even semi-trailers... on this tight and winding !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ? Well, i t is the only road link to a famous !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , so a lot more things compared to the normal remote communities do need to be transported there.)
Here is the Kennedy Lake road improvements that was taking place between 2018-07-04 to 2018-07-12, seen in both directions. It is a treacherous stretch, with trailer containers often bashing the overhanging cliff sides ( which I have witnessed even on the few times I have been here), so I am glad that they are working on it. A pity about my own drive, though :-(
Back up Alberni Summit, this time Eastbound from the City of Port Alberni.
Malahat Drive, a section of the the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that is so notorious that it has its own !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
Finally, I had to get to the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to meet the BMW guys coming off the boat, which I wrote up here:
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I decided to cut through the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , which is simultaneously the best idea ever (the roads are really tight and really twisty) and the worst idea ever (no, really, the roads are REALLY TIGHT and REALLY TWISTY).
After emerging unscathed, I always thought that perhaps I should never do it again. And then, next time I am in the area, off I go again....
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> TheStiggyOne
07/11/2018 at 15:39 |
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I’d love to see a video of you running Chuckanut drive early in the morning or something. I bet you’d have a blast in that thing there.
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> TheStiggyOne
12/25/2018 at 18:33 |
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Hey, sorry to bug you, but do you have a map link to where the roads you went on in the highlands are?
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TheStiggyOne
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/25/2018 at 20:56 |
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The road names are in the Youtube video names!
Finlayson Arm Road -> Millstream Road -> Millstream Lake Road
Here is a Google Maps link for the route, that I just drew: https://goo.gl/maps/9szabozd8Qk
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> TheStiggyOne
12/25/2018 at 22:54 |
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Thanks! I figured that out after posting. I kinda want to do it in the ST
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TheStiggyOne
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
12/26/2018 at 02:01 |
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Good idea. T hat will probably be more suitable, than my ~2000kg ~1.85m wide behemoth.
Even going through it for the first few times with my E90 M3 was... uncomfortable. Yet, so thrilling that I kept doing it :-P
Just remember that the trees are close, and oncoming traffic are even closer... so keep the speed down, and absolutely no “yumping”!