FernieHawk
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Just a reminder to call your Km's every two Km's...Even numbers going up and Odd numbers coming down so there is never more than 1 Km between the last radio transmission before you encounter on-coming traffic. The handheld radios suck for transmission range if land features interfere with the line of sight.
My friends had a minor indecent on the Lodgepole road on Sunday afternoon...they met an on coming pickup and both trucks involved were at a good clip apparently. My friend was coming down and moved a little to far right and got sucked into the berm, he kept it pinned and managed to stay out of the ditch but snow was flying everywhere and they couldn't see ****.
Anyway, to make a short story long, they had been calling odd km on the way down the Lodgepole but since they had not heard any traffic for quite a while they stopped calling the numbers at km 25 down, I guess they figured someone else would be calling the numbers on the way up and they would hear the transmissions. Well at Km 20.5 they encountered the oncoming truck and only then did they hear that truck make a radio call to the truck behind him that there was a truck on the road without a radio. My friends assumed that the other two trucks were not calling their Km's because they did not hear any transmissions. Well, I was on the valley floor with my radio on and I could hear both of the inbound trucks, that were separated by two km, calling the km's at the 16 km start point as well as 18 km and 20 km marks...then I heard the truck that had just called Km 20 tell the guy behind him about the truck without a radio. Then I heard my friends calling Km 20, 19, 18,17,16.
When we got together in town they told me about the ditch incident and the other truck not calling their Km's...I then informed them that the two trucks were in fact calling their Km's and the nature of the terrain as well as the low performance of the handhelds needs to be kept in mind. Anyway...a good lesson learned without any damage.
My friends had a minor indecent on the Lodgepole road on Sunday afternoon...they met an on coming pickup and both trucks involved were at a good clip apparently. My friend was coming down and moved a little to far right and got sucked into the berm, he kept it pinned and managed to stay out of the ditch but snow was flying everywhere and they couldn't see ****.
Anyway, to make a short story long, they had been calling odd km on the way down the Lodgepole but since they had not heard any traffic for quite a while they stopped calling the numbers at km 25 down, I guess they figured someone else would be calling the numbers on the way up and they would hear the transmissions. Well at Km 20.5 they encountered the oncoming truck and only then did they hear that truck make a radio call to the truck behind him that there was a truck on the road without a radio. My friends assumed that the other two trucks were not calling their Km's because they did not hear any transmissions. Well, I was on the valley floor with my radio on and I could hear both of the inbound trucks, that were separated by two km, calling the km's at the 16 km start point as well as 18 km and 20 km marks...then I heard the truck that had just called Km 20 tell the guy behind him about the truck without a radio. Then I heard my friends calling Km 20, 19, 18,17,16.
When we got together in town they told me about the ditch incident and the other truck not calling their Km's...I then informed them that the two trucks were in fact calling their Km's and the nature of the terrain as well as the low performance of the handhelds needs to be kept in mind. Anyway...a good lesson learned without any damage.
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