Jeff,
Last year, on July 25th, (my Birthday) we were coming down the Cassier just south of the Alcan turnoff in pretty much the same conditions as you did. We were following a 40'+/- DP with a very impatient driver. He was following an older pickup truck which was wisely driving in the center of the road when not dodging potholes and washouts. The MH driver made several attempts to get the truck driver to make room for him to pass without success. I doubt that the truck driver could even see him through all the mud.
The result was that the MH driver finally made an attempt to pass the truck (on the right) and caused the edge of the road to give way and over he went. It wasn't quite fully wheels-up but we got our first ever look at the bottom of and RV with toad attached. The road actually gave way so slowly that the whole process was in slow motion.
The truck driver (a local) called the authorities and they were there in less that ten minutes. It seems they were assisting a logging truck that had left the road near by. I was prepared to inform them that I thought it was the MH drivers fault but his own wife beat me to it. She was not a happy camper. Thank God, no one was hurt.
We were so shaken that we stopped in Dease Lake for the night and made no attempt to clean the MH or our toad. We joked that it was the first time we had stayed in a CG where our Bounder looked as good as all the other MHs. That section of NEW pavement that you experienced south of Dease Lake was still mud back then also. More fun on day two.
BTW - we also traveled the TOTW during rain/mud and I think (except for the fact that the 24/26 wheelers drove faster and crowded you off the road) that the Cassier was the worse (worst?) of the two.
I enjoyed every white knuckle second of it though. lou
Last year, on July 25th, (my Birthday) we were coming down the Cassier just south of the Alcan turnoff in pretty much the same conditions as you did. We were following a 40'+/- DP with a very impatient driver. He was following an older pickup truck which was wisely driving in the center of the road when not dodging potholes and washouts. The MH driver made several attempts to get the truck driver to make room for him to pass without success. I doubt that the truck driver could even see him through all the mud.
The result was that the MH driver finally made an attempt to pass the truck (on the right) and caused the edge of the road to give way and over he went. It wasn't quite fully wheels-up but we got our first ever look at the bottom of and RV with toad attached. The road actually gave way so slowly that the whole process was in slow motion.
The truck driver (a local) called the authorities and they were there in less that ten minutes. It seems they were assisting a logging truck that had left the road near by. I was prepared to inform them that I thought it was the MH drivers fault but his own wife beat me to it. She was not a happy camper. Thank God, no one was hurt.
We were so shaken that we stopped in Dease Lake for the night and made no attempt to clean the MH or our toad. We joked that it was the first time we had stayed in a CG where our Bounder looked as good as all the other MHs. That section of NEW pavement that you experienced south of Dease Lake was still mud back then also. More fun on day two.
BTW - we also traveled the TOTW during rain/mud and I think (except for the fact that the 24/26 wheelers drove faster and crowded you off the road) that the Cassier was the worse (worst?) of the two.
I enjoyed every white knuckle second of it though. lou