Driving through the Rocky Mountains in winter

colin · Post by **colin** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:34 pm

I've made that drive over the Rockies quite a few times myself, though never in winter. There really is a lot of beautiful scenery for sure!

The Okanagan is one of my favourite places for sure, my fiancee and I have talked about the idea of moving there one day. We're also considering moving to Saltspring Island, a couple of our friends are moving there soon so we'll visit and decide then.

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:10 am

Great road trip pics Ryan! Disappointed not to see the Field pizzas, but I assume they were awesome. The Banff pics reminded me a lot of watching my folks slides when I was little from their trip through Banff in ... 1976 I think? Haha. In fact I reckon they may have done the same road trip - they were at the University of Alberta.
Lake pics remind me of home - but our mountains are nowhere near as awesome as your ones. Norway got all the cool geological features, and Sweden got flattened when the glacier made it's slow way eastward - the Bothnian sea is just a bunch of glacial runoff. Wonder if we have any Norwegian ILFers??

Anyways, this is all to say that the Nature Elements finish is rad

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:12 am

The lake that you can crash into is just off to the left...

Hyphen Nation · Post by **Hyphen Nation** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:26 am

Ryan wrote:I get terrified on these roads too haha!…there's lots of places that have 1000 ft drops off the side with just a tiny guard rail or just a few metal bars spaced out.. freaks me out!

YES. There are two passes on the drive to Montana we make to visit my wife's family that are just insane. 4 lane highway. 1000 foot+ droop offs. Metal guard rail. Lots of semi trucks. It can be terrifying. They can also have snow on them literally any month out of the year. We were literally the LAST car to get over a pass once before they shut it down because of the snow.

I like the elements paint that Goroth just posted…maybe you need to make a pedal and call it the "mountain pass"…it would have to have some kind of steep drop off of some value...

excane · Post by **excane** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:27 pm

Awesome photos :joy:

I wonder how my p.o.s. Jeep would make it on a stretch like that. :idea:

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:54 pm

Depends on how much Slayer you jammed on the stereo.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 12:14 am

Jeeps don't need roads to get through mountains, you just pop 'er into 4-low and crawl right over the tops! We're in an old 4x4 Yukon, it's a pretty capable winter vehicle but you actually see lots of small cars through the mountains too, Canadians don't give a F about winter conditions. (so the government frequently closes the roads in large sections to prevent stupid deaths)

Chankgeez wrote:
Ryan wrote:... you could drive straight into all kinds of lakes and rivers through the mountains and Okanagan...

... and directly into the gaping maw of Ogopogo, eh?

haha you know it buddy! I'm sorry I missed your first Ogopogo comment cause you're bang on, that beast has captured my imagination for decades! I could see myself getting heavily involved with lake monster hunting, although I'll try to make friends and not hurt it.

goroth wrote:Great road trip pics Ryan! Disappointed not to see the Field pizzas, but I assume they were awesome.

I've been thinking a lot about them too.. what's a mountain pizza like? I think it might be worth the drive to find out...

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:12 am

I'll just leave this right here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfhI93rh5Y[/youtube]

Ryan, if you and Tanya move out there, I expect a Dr. Scientist Ogopogo pedal. (I have no idea what kind of pedal it would be though.)

Bartimaeus · Post by **Bartimaeus** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:34 pm

Look absolutely lovely! Though driving through in darkness definitely sounds a bit scary.

Makes me miss Vermont/New Hampshire in the winter.

double_fat · Post by **double_fat** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:59 am

Cosmichorus #52 spent many nights at band practice in a basement in Field!

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:02 pm

Chankgeez wrote::thumb:

I'll just leave this right here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfhI93rh5Y[/youtube]

Ryan, if you and Tanya move out there, I expect a Dr. Scientist Ogopogo pedal. (I have no idea what kind of pedal it would be though.)

Haha that's pretty cool! Doesn't seem like there's any real recent sightings, I get a bad feeling for ol' Ogie.. Love the lake monster theme idea, that would rule! Around the Okanagan you see a lot of Ogopogo kinda artwork and installations etc like sculptures around town and people's yards, it's really fun and cool.

double_fat wrote:Cosmichorus #52 spent many nights at band practice in a basement in Field!

*falls off chair*

No way! Man that's wild! I'm blown away by that.. you gotta tell us more about life in Field! How's the pizza? If you don't mind, are you there for work? How many people are there? I think Field is maybe the most interesting and unique feeling little town I've ever been too, we both were really taken by it. You still there? And thanks for picking up a Cosmi!

AxAxSxS · Post by **AxAxSxS** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:14 pm

Beautiful pics man! Living in Wa if we want to visit Cali or head east, it's a very similar drive. the mountains are amazing and beautiful and sometimes terrifying. Looks like you had a great road trip :thumb"

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:42 pm

We'd love to make the drive down the coast to CA, that must be one of the best road trips ever. We're gonna mess around in WA lots when we move so get ready for a pizza-tour of your loverly state! *smile*

Hyphen Nation · Post by **Hyphen Nation** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 1:11 am

A cool trip, but one you'd need some serious time for…drive west to BC. Take a ferry out to Victoria, and then take that down to the San Juans. That whole Island cluster is ridiculously awesome. Spend a few days there, then head on down to Seattle for a day. Drive down to Portland for a day or two [I think it's a two day city, and there is some serious Dr Scientist love in our music shops/tax write off]. From there head out to the coast and drive down through Cali. Oregon Coast is awesome [Goonies filmed there]. You could get from Portland to the Redwoods in a day, easily, and head on south as far as you felt like going...

rustywire · Post by **rustywire** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 1:26 am

goroth wrote:
The lake that you can crash into is just off to the left...

I thought of that too when I saw this pic in particular:

Also I'm jealous of that "traffic" and how everything resembles the mental picture I have of Northern NJ, from my old man's stories of growing up in the 1950s.
You lucky bastids can also drink out of streams. In 2014. That's unheard of here. :no:

Thanks for sharing these photos.

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