Roads of Ice

[hollyking]

Last night hollyqueen, cheesentoast and I watched the first episode of Ice Road Truckers on the History Channel. I found it pretty interesting. So far we’ve watched one truck go into a ditch and one driver encountered white out conditions on his first trip.

I wondered why someone would spend $10M to build a road on top of frozen lakes that melts in two months. After a bit of rearch they do use aircraft to deliver supplies. It’s the largest and heaviest of loads that can not be transported by air that wait for the winter months to be hauled along the ice road.

Browsing the forums for the show I see I’m not the only one who thinks it would be an interesting challenge to drive a truck along that road. Most of the other posters are currently drivers though. ;)

Comments

[gfish.livejournal.com]

You could drive to Tuktoyaktuk in the winter like this guy. (Hopefully you'll be a little be better prepared.)

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

...i'm too much!... :P

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Couldn't PAY ME ENOUGH!

But I'm a wuss.