A Story Around the Red Flag
About at the same time a year earlier I had stopped right where this flag stands. There was no flag there then, but a washout of the bank that reached a couple feet into the highway.
With that gap right in front of the van, I stepped out and immersed myself into photographing the scenery.
After that, me and my son stepped in the van and I had completely forgotten about the washout and drove right into it.
The front of the van was bottomed and trying to move it would likely have resulted in rolling down the bank.
I think it took us two hours if not more to slowly jack the vehicle to level and simultaneously rebuild the washout with boulders and dirt. Two of my sons did most of the rebuilding and we got some help from some tourist passersby.
It was a rather embarrassing event.
Here a year later, our repair looks washed out again, but the stonewall is still visible and holding.
Highway Maintenance just stuck a flag into the washout.
I'm looking forward to see if they'll have fixed it next time I come along this stretch.
At times there are hundreds of these flags on our highways and there is probably one department just dedicated to bulk-ordering them annually.
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
A Story Around the Red Flag
About at the same time a year earlier I had stopped right where this flag stands. There was no flag there then, but a washout of the bank that reached a couple feet into the highway.
With that gap right in front of the van, I stepped out and immersed myself into photographing the scenery.
After that, me and my son stepped in the van and I had completely forgotten about the washout and drove right into it.
The front of the van was bottomed and trying to move it would likely have resulted in rolling down the bank.
I think it took us two hours if not more to slowly jack the vehicle to level and simultaneously rebuild the washout with boulders and dirt. Two of my sons did most of the rebuilding and we got some help from some tourist passersby.
It was a rather embarrassing event.
Here a year later, our repair looks washed out again, but the stonewall is still visible and holding.
Highway Maintenance just stuck a flag into the washout.
I'm looking forward to see if they'll have fixed it next time I come along this stretch.
At times there are hundreds of these flags on our highways and there is probably one department just dedicated to bulk-ordering them annually.
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).