New Coquihalla Hwy Cam: Portia

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They've added a couple new highway cams up the Coq.  Box Canyon which is 10 km north of Shylock, and Portia at 1 km north of Shylock.

images.drivebc.ca/bchighwaycam/pub/html/www/667.html
 
The map position on that BC hwy's link is quite off for Portia (it's placed way too close to Hope) but the elevation and view match that of the Portia interchange.

These don't show much if any of the sky conditions but will be great for determining snow conditions at our observing site.  They were long needed for driving conditions beyond the chain up areas.


DSD.

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This is good for us grey zone observers, gives us a chance to make to decision to go up a little easier.
Thanks, DSD!

[craig]

someone need to tell them to tilt it up a little bit get a bit more of the sky in their for us

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I tried that on a cam on the Connector a few years back.  No response.  No change.  Things there have really improved now with the Aspen Grove South Cam for conditions that we need for the pit.


But the new Box Canyon South Cam has a nice little bit of sky for us to check for the Shylock area.  Otherwise it's the Othello, Bear Snowshed, Hwy 3 Junction and Hope Slide cams that give us the general idea for clouds.


Actually there's a NavCan cam at the Hope Airport that is quite useful too:  www.metcam.navcanada.ca/hb/player.jsp?id=96&cam=217&lang=e

DSD.

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Hey take a look at the Elkhart camera... it just got turned to point West towards the Pit!
You can see the profile of the hills just beyond. Now we have a chance to look before
we go. Or the family can see what we are doing.
While i am on cam thing... Mission Raceway has improved the quality of the view
of the staging cam, now you can watch me go down the strip! Oh, it's about
10 seconds off real time so you might hear me first. Vrroom vvroom!
MMc