[Canadian_Mind]

Jesus, don't go off the edge eh?

I've found the McBride - Prince George run is relatively busy now, both summer and winter. Not quite 4 lane worthy yet, but they could probably justify 3-laning the whole way with the 3rd passing lane alternating for each direction.

[herbie]

To tell the truth, last time I drove it was Labour Day weekend 2003.
I used to have a photo of me leaning on a BC Hwy20 sign and pointing down the cliff.
Promised to go up to Germansen Landing too this summer (she's never been there), was shown a map with roads that go all the way into the lava beds in Spatzisi (they're not shown anymore).

[Hyack]

Ya got me.....ain't never been to Germansen although was in Spatzisi back in about 1983-4 or there abouts.

[Jabberwalker]

Hyack Hyack:

That was about the time we were up there, "The Hill" was quite a job of work eh.....It is my understanding the road is called "The Freedom Road" and that most of the work on the hill was done by the locals.

Where do you go when that big truck full of huge logs comes at you?

[Hyack]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Where do you go when that big truck full of huge logs comes at you?

They don't, the turns are so fucking tight on that hill a logging truck would never make it. Everything doing that hill has to have a very tight turning radius.

[Tyler_1]

One time The Wife drove me up a *edit* not road with no sides and really high up there and that was the eleveteenth time that my brain snapped in half.

[andyt]

Hyack Hyack:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Where do you go when that big truck full of huge logs comes at you?

They don't, the turns are so fucking tight on that hill a logging truck would never make it. Everything doing that hill has to have a very tight turning radius.

A logging truck could easily do that road. Spur 100 off the Squamish mainline for instance. They may ban logging trucks from the road tho, because it's deemed a 2 way road, not just a logging road. But the turns don't look particularly tight compared to a logging spur.

And to back that up, I found this:

$1:

The Hill is a series of switchbacks & has grades of up to 18 percent. The road handles all traffic year-round, including semi-trailer trucks & large recreational vehicles.

http://bellacoola.ca/getting-here/by-land/

Wow year round, when the road apparently climbs 5000 feet. That's gotta be some snow removal costs. Hat to come down that hill in ice conditions.

It also says that uphill traffic has the right of way. I'd hate to argue that with a loaded logging truck coming downhill.

[Canadian_Mind]

good lord. How many people have died on that road? There is no way people don't go off the edge.

[martin14]

Hyack Hyack:

I've never driven the Trans Labrador highway but I have done the Southern Yellowhead highway (Hwy 5) from Kamloops to McBride and then the Yellowhead highway (Hwy 16) itself through to Edmonton.

I did that once, thought it would be a faster way from the coast to Edmonton.

Talk about the middle of nowhere.

That scenery can't be beat, nowhere in the world was as good.

[andyt]

Did that in the 70's. Saw a cop car way up on a bluff, wondered what that was about, thought I'd stop and think about it for a bit, then kept driving and waved to the second cop car a mile down the road. Guess they couldn't afford radar in those days.

[herbie]

martin14 martin14:

Hyack Hyack:

I've never driven the Trans Labrador highway but I have done the Southern Yellowhead highway (Hwy 5) from Kamloops to McBride and then the Yellowhead highway (Hwy 16) itself through to Edmonton.

I did that once, thought it would be a faster way from the coast to Edmonton.

Talk about the middle of nowhere.

That scenery can't be beat, nowhere in the world was as good.

Take a drive out to Prince Rupert. Smithers to Rupert is absolutely spectacular scenery and the highway is excellent.

[Hyack]

martin14 martin14:

I did that once, thought it would be a faster way from the coast to Edmonton.

Talk about the middle of nowhere.

That scenery can't be beat, nowhere in the world was as good.

All of the routes I've mentioned here have nothing less the fantastic scenery, and there is even better we haven't got around to yet...