28 December 2007

 

Elevation

Here, this afternoon, is what Kingsway in Vancouver looked like just as we were driving up the long, slow hill into Burnaby—notice there is no snow at all:

Kingsway near Victoria Drive - no snow

Mere minutes later we near the crest of the hill near our house in Burnaby, and it looked this way:

Burnaby near Metrotown - lots of snow

We needed the extra grip from the snow tires to get up our steep driveway. In Greater Vancouver, a few metres of extra elevation make all the difference.

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Comments:

what's the elevation map look like for your drive? You can use mapmydrive.com to get a graph displaying elevation compared to distance. It's a neat feature I use now and then.
 
Randy, that site looks like a generic link farm -- is there another URL?
 
Hey Derek nice chatting with you briefly on Twitter other day @bbluesman. Admire your music and style-just refered you to another friend on Twitter who is also battling cancer and getting ready to do podcast @preppydude. Will be adding more penmachine music shortly and hope to see you on Twitter. Wishing you a healthier new year by the year!