We attempted the drive from Invermere back to Calgary yesterday morning. I kept checking DriveBC's map and their twitter account and everything made it appear like business as usual for the 93 in the winter. So we went for it, get to Radium to gas up and it's raining. No signage as you entered the park that maybe this wasn't a great idea. Come down into the first valley slowly as you see semi's chained up heading towards Radium. Then we end up in the giant standstill about 2km past Dolly Varden. Of course with no cell coverage you had no idea what was up, luckily a guy in a truck heading towards Radium had a two way radio and said we were looking at at least 5-6 hours to get through.
We are fortunate and had a place to spend the night, so we turned around and went back. That is about as perfect a storm you could get for 93. Challenging conditions, and then through in all the truck traffic from highway 1 and people that have never driven it going for it. No way it was going to end well. I wonder if this will at least lead to some cell coverage on it.
Hit the road at 5:45 this morning and came back via Crowsnest pass. Rain for most of the drive and warm, like 10 degrees in Fernie. That little closure they have on the highway for flooding was a quick detour onto a parallel road.
Listening to the radio on the whole drive, it's like the whole province is under a coordinated weather attack. Unreal.
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