So I don't tow heavy but I do love how my truck pulls a load. Went up to canada last weekend for some houseboating with 15 of my best friends. We had four people in the truck and a ski boat behind us, 90 degree+ ambient temperatures and an 8% grade climb for about 2 hours. AC blowing at full blast and the dmax just chugged along up the hill at 70mph without a problem. My buddies civic was having a hard time keeping up! :ro) I really do need to get a pyro before i fry something though.

Good to hear that you didn't have the overheat problem. Thats some climb!!! 8% for two hours!!!

O my!!!

wow!!! thats a 140 mile high mountain,could you see the space station from the top???

Remember he is in Canada and everything is bigger!

Were you at Shuswap?

I bet he was on the coke. Ya it's big, gasser killer big. Old worn out engines need not apply...it eats em for lunch.

Max, you hit the nail on the head. took highway 5 up there and man that's a climb. although it was for sure not 140 miles up the only sign I saw said 8% and the grade didn't really level out much for any significant time. Maybe the canucks are on crack?

The craziest part is when you're heading north on 5 there is a part that gets super steep, the truck down shifted and blew black smoke all over every one oops ;) as I passed by semi trucks that were stopped in their tracks literally hundreds of feet from the top.

edit: upon further investigation (looked at a map :D ) I found that the hill was actually only 90km long or so. I guess it just seemed like a long time.

That's probably the climb from Hope through the snow sheds to the summit (actually heading Northeast on 5, but I know to you Americans everything here is North..gg). It is a wicked climb. Can't remember anything longer at that grade. It's dmax country. I almost buried my 5.7gasser inches from the top, overheating and begging for mercy. If you have the right tow vehical (or a car not towing)the coquahalla is a great road in summer...4lanes and cuts the trip to van from the interior in half. In winter its scarry ...blizzards, white out, fog, hail. You are driving on mountain tops up there. Did you stay at Scotch Creek in the Shuswap? (our favorite). My brother drives a semi for UPS everynight over the coke...brave dude.

yeah, it's the climb through hope. I can imagine that road would get pretty gnarly in the winter time.

We stayed, well, I'm not sure where we stayed on schuswap as I wasn't driving the boat. I know the first day we went up the lake to the floating stores and through the narrows then continued just a little further up the lake that direction where we beached with about 35 other houseboats. Talk about a party!

For most of us that was their first time to schuswap and my second time there. Probably one of the best trips I've ever gone on to get the old highschool crew back together and just party for a long weekend. we'll for sure be doing that again.