A few more images from our trip.
[ 22 November 2001: Message edited by: poSSum ]
Glad you made it back safely.
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Originally posted by JohnS:
Sort of like Winnipeg in winter - with mountains.
Actually, very different than winter in Winnipeg. I have gained a whole new appreciation for the changing conditions the folks in the mountains deal with. The elevation changes and road grades change all the rules
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Originally posted by Hawkeye:
WOW - sure was beautiful - bet you wish you had the blizzaks on for that!
Yes ... it would have been a great test for the winter skinnies ... I suspect they would have performed very well ... but I think they would have failed miserably at Bragg-Smith ... I knew we were taking a chance when we left home on the KD's
[ 23 November 2001: Message edited by: DanA_F99_1977 ]
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Originally posted by DanA_F99_1977:
Wow, KD's bad in snow!! I can't believe that you even tried it!
It wasn't so much "we tried" ... we were looking for a clear spot to turn around to get back to rain elevations. I'll say it again ... I have a whole new appreciation for the weather "mountain folks" encounter
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Originally posted by poSSum:
Actually, very different than winter in Winnipeg. I have gained a whole new appreciation for the changing conditions the folks in the mountains deal with. The elevation changes and road grades change all the rules
"Yes, but it's a wet snow".....kind of like what you hear about the temperature in the desert being a "dry heat". Somehow that's supposed to make it different.
What, do you only have flat land up there in Winterpeg? You get the "dry" snow up there.
Welcome to the mountains..........that's what we get to deal with when we want to go visit family in Southern Oregon in the winter. It's really fun when a semi-truck is coming at you around a corner and there's no guardrail, but there is a several hundred foot drop off and huge trees all the way.
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Originally posted by HTWLSS:
What, do you only have flat land up there in Winterpeg?
Pretty much ... the worst grades we encounter are bridges ... and they have guardrails
I wouldn't know where to look around here for tire chains .... if anyone even stocks them. In the area we drove through they seemed to have them at every service station and convenience store.
I don't remember the numbers, but ice at 32° is supposedly at lot slippery than ice at 0°.
I used to hate driving in the snow until I spent a winter in Alaska. There I learned how to drive in the "dry" snow. It's definitely different than driving in our "wet" snow. The temp really does make a difference. What's even more fun is when we get some snow that melts just enough to form a sheet of ice during the next day's freeze. It turns into a skating rink around here for a few days.
We also get freezing rain. If we have a cold spell and then rain, it freezes as soon as it hits the ground - ala skating rink again.
I'd much rather live where the temp goes closer to 0 and stays there rather than oscillating back & forth from 30 to 40 daily.
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Originally posted by HTWLSS:
. What's even more fun is when we get some snow that melts just enough to form a sheet of ice during the next day's freeze. It turns into a skating rink around here for a few days.
A little snow can shutdown Portland. I was there a couple of years ago, when it snowed about 3". Cars couldn't make it up the many hills around town due to the ice, so people just left their cars where they were, in the middle of the streets. A major problem for the snow removal crews and commuters the next morning. The snow melted the next day and everthing went back to normal. What a difference a couple of days made.
Up here in the Great White North, once the snow comes, it usually stays - too long. 
GREAT PICS! The pewter looks great against the desert scenery. Sorry to hear about the slippin' and slidin', but glad you and the car got out OK.
Why would you let Scott drive your car in a mountain snowstorm in the first place?!? 
- John
