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Winter Driving Tips


When I got my learner's license up here in Northern Alberta, the first thing I was taught was how to drift... it's saved my ass quite a few times (and I have also done a lot of drifting when I didnt need to ;) ) But safety definitely comes first. It doesn't matter how good of a winter driver you think you are, things can go very wrong, very fast.
I was driving down the highway a few days ago, when I ended up being behind someone driving very slow and who kept braking, hard, at random times. I knew it was a little slippery out and I didnt want to rear-end the guy, so I pulled out to pass him. As soon as I started accelerating in my '86 2.9 ranger 4x4 (I was in 2wd though), I broke loose and ended up skidding into the oncoming lane... thankfully no-one was coming. Regardless, I hit the ditch doing 90km/h (55mph or something like that). Fortunately, my Ranger is a tank. I threw it into 4wd, accelerated in the ditch to 100km/h (60mph) so that I could break through the deep-ish snow by the side of the highway without getting stuck, and popped right back out onto the highway.
I was really lucky I didnt lose control in the ditch, or hit a fencepost, or there wasnt a vehicle in the oncoming lane. I got a little over-confident and had to learn the hard way (or, at least, a kind of hard way. It would have been a lot harder if something went wrong :P)
Nothing beats safe driving, not even good drifting.
 
Yeah driving here in CO in the winter is fun! Ive found that tires and adequate weight over your rear tires are the most important thing! But the most important thing is speed! Dont go faster than you feel comfortable and dont worry about people passing you.. Most of the time the people who pass you will be the ones in the ditch around the next turn!
 

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