Where is Spring?

Spring seems to have arrived at last. Driving from Calgary to Quebec.

Between Calgary and Saskatoon, beautiful clouds.

Did i speak too soon? Northern Ontario, the snow returns...

...but the sun return in Nipigon, and the ice on Lake Nipigon starts to melt...

The sun comes and goes, along HWY 11.

Cochrane, Ontario. Winter never left. What is spring?, they ask around here...

Their dictionaries do not contain the words "spring", "summer" or "thaw"!

Hit the ditch, eh?

How Canadians drive in the winter.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Practice your skid-parking.

Rubber side up...

Blend in, Canadian camouflage.

Edmonton drivers out for a spin.

Manitoban ice-skating.

"The ditch". Trans-X favorite truck stop.

Mini jack-knife.

Old Ford Crown Victoria. Red on white.

I go "Ice Road Trucking"!

I mean the real deal, where it's real dangerous, unpredictable. No TV series on, that means no husky voice in the background predicting imminent doom.
What happens When you get rain over frozen? Look and see.

Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario. Hwy 11. All looks well.

Manitoban Trans-Canada. That's where the fun begins. The trailer would slip and drag the whole unit into the ditch. Careful slow drivers like this one avoided the ditch, but got stuck on the ice when the trailer got into the inclined shoulder.

Slow motion jack-knife. Even at slow speeds like 30km/h.

This Trans-X truck even had chains on!

Ice is not the only danger. Whiteout conditions will get you into trouble too. Nice to have soft snow to land on. This one was on Hwy 11 between Hearst and Longlac, Ontario. I was westbound here.

Something nice about Canada.

More snow, but yet interesting.

As usual, I had my share of snow while at home in Ottawa. It snowed slow, but 24 hours non stop, so it got really covered. After plowing the street and the parking lots (the condo corporation takes care of that), I caught a fleet of dumper trucks with drawbar trailers lining up, and the CATERPILLAR bulldozer was shoveling up the mountains of snow into the waiting trucks. I took these pictures just as I was leaving for a trip, off to get my truck.

Tridem for a change

The winter is raging, and for a change I was given a load on a tri-axle trailer. Buisness as usual, except for the extra weight.

Scaling in Belleville, Ontario.

Longlac, Ontario. Coffee stop.

Canadian winter roads.

The weekend Javi arrived in Canada ( www.doingmyway.blogspot.com ), as expected we got hit by a snow storm. Because of an accident on the main route, I got detoured, lost my way (there were no signs), and got stuck. In an unplowed road.






After being rescued by the snow plow...