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Work in Banchory at 8am this morning so I, as usual, decided to go over the Cairn o Mount in the Trusty Subaru. By the time I'd gone 4 miles from home I was thinking the snow gates would be closed due to, well, all the snow, ice and heavy frost which lay around the approaching roads and fields. They weren't :twisted:
A couple of cars came the other way, flagged me down and spewed out tales of woe involving great slippiness, sideways motion and sliding down hill. A Weegie Van Driver said "it's pure ice man, yer aff yer heid if ye even try :twisted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-n ... d-30411416
Sat at the bottom of the hill for a minute watching a Scottish Power LR trundle slowly upwards, passing a transit van which for some reason was parked sideways on LH verge. Waited a wee bit for all the other cars to slide slowly down the hill, then set off.
About 5 minutes later I was at the summit, having passed the Scottish Power guys who'd pulled into a layby.
I parked at the top, phoned Banchory and said I might be a few minutes late, and phoned the roads manager to say the road was effin mental and should really have been shut. Passed a gritting lorry about 20 mins later coming the other way and got to Banchory at 8:15 only to find all my guys were out emergency gritting as procedure dictates
Loving this car.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el1LUsYdy7s
.....apart from the fuel and oil consumption but hey ho :xmas-big-grin:
EDIT - one of the highlights of course was the 2014 Audi Quattro driver who failed miserably to get up the first 100 yards or so and gave up after repeatedly slip sliding away :facepalm:
Sometimes commuting can be fun.
Work in Banchory at 8am this morning so I, as usual, decided to go over the Cairn o Mount in the Trusty Subaru. By the time I'd gone 4 miles from home I was thinking the snow gates would be closed due to, well, all the snow, ice and heavy frost which lay around the approaching roads and fields. They weren't :twisted:
A couple of cars came the other way, flagged me down and spewed out tales of woe involving great slippiness, sideways motion and sliding down hill. A Weegie Van Driver said "it's pure ice man, yer aff yer heid if ye even try :twisted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-n ... d-30411416
Sat at the bottom of the hill for a minute watching a Scottish Power LR trundle slowly upwards, passing a transit van which for some reason was parked sideways on LH verge. Waited a wee bit for all the other cars to slide slowly down the hill, then set off.
About 5 minutes later I was at the summit, having passed the Scottish Power guys who'd pulled into a layby.
I parked at the top, phoned Banchory and said I might be a few minutes late, and phoned the roads manager to say the road was effin mental and should really have been shut. Passed a gritting lorry about 20 mins later coming the other way and got to Banchory at 8:15 only to find all my guys were out emergency gritting as procedure dictates
Loving this car.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el1LUsYdy7s
.....apart from the fuel and oil consumption but hey ho :xmas-big-grin:
EDIT - one of the highlights of course was the 2014 Audi Quattro driver who failed miserably to get up the first 100 yards or so and gave up after repeatedly slip sliding away :facepalm:
Sometimes commuting can be fun.