Yellowknife Drive

[Duluth07]

I'd like to come there this summer to run the Yellowknife Overland Marathon..other than airfare, is it an expensive trip? Is it worth it to take the bus from Edmonton? It looks like a very interesting city to visit!

[TheKenfig]

Is it cold here ?

[Dosai99]

@TheKenfig Yellowknife is the capital of the North West Terrotories. (North Canada) so yes in the winter it gets really cold.

[entthelanninja]

quite possibly the shittest driving video ive seen, you have parkinsons.

[mentallarry]

Nice dashboard Jesus Christ.

[bosquedehormas]

Summer of 69!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!jajaajaja­j

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

Notice that everyone has satellite radios? I did some studying and found out that almost all of the radio stations in Yellowknife are owned by the CBC, some of them broadcasting in French.

[davidrodgersNJ]

@MIKON8ERISBACK I live in the States, and I like to listen to the CBC from Yellowknife on the internet. To me, there's something romantic about listening to the same thing as they are "way up there.'

[blacov89]

I didnt know that you guys have the speedometer in km/h in Canada o,o

[OttovonEarth]

I guess Randy from the "Trailer Park Boys" would be unhappy at the place..

[TheButcher123001]

@OttovonEarth He came there at a festival. And J rock came there to. I met him in my gym at school there and years later I met him again and he remebered me.

[ledavidwaits]

I am really impressed! I didn't know Polar Bears could drive cars. :)

[darhoade]

he needs gas better not run out in the cold..he filed the gage for gas

[blacksultan85]

it must be sort of 5 to 10 degrees below zero in the YK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ShowtekGER]

looks like a really comfy place when you're inside your car or living room with something hot to drink

[MrPhooey]

I miss my hometown :( Moved to Manitoba in 2004 with my family, but I'll never forget the good times and the memories of growing up in YK :)

[oceanic16]

Where are all the igloos and snowmobiles?

[shoshoandfriends]

@oceanic16 up your ass

[ph1sts]

One thing that you obviously better not be, if living in northern Canada is homeless during the winter months. Even here in Detroit during the winter, there are some homeless who will commit a petty crime or two, in order to get jailed for several months and so receive three meals, shower, a bed, and warmth (and Bubba for a cellmate)..heh!!.

Lots more homeless than ever before here, and many will resort to squatting in foreclosed or abandoned homes that have no heat, water or electricity.

[scrm1]

@ph1sts Can't they come to your house to shower and poop?

[ph1sts]

@scrm1 Hmm..nah they might prefer to remain stinky and just poop in an alley here, but would YOU let the homeless come to your house to shower and poop?

[scrm1]

@ph1sts WWJD??

[radiocristianawdc]

you livin in yellowknife?

[Newfieguy89]

Purple Rain....nice!!

[jsuswaram]

i mean Damn...you canadian folks really know how to drive in the snow..

BTW do you have Indian Cabbie drivers :)))

love from USodA

[zzXXChillXXzz]

@jsuswaram haha. we have indian cabbie drivers down in big cities like toronto and vancouver.

[cme98]

better to have a traffic jam caused by wildlife acting as they do than humans acting as they do. i see no bison on their cell phone.

[mentallarry]

Fuck I can't believe some of the retards that post here.

Good vid.

[canada193827]

how r there so many cars out for yellowknife

[Explorer007]

Britain would be at a standstill in those conditions and temperatures!

[mysteriousimport]

Cool! Thanks for the ride.  How do you drive on ice? I am clueless from Florida.

[jakylili]

they salt the icy roads to melt the ice

[stcywll]

Salt doesnt work in -40

[TerrenceIII]

to drive on ice u need winter tires that grip the ice better , and you have to be gentle on the gas and brakes and steering, u get used to it, i drive like 90 mph on snowy and icy roads

[benchod94]

@mysteriousimport just gotta take it easy

if you have winter tires its not bad at all

[xxxnaorxxx]

how do you deal with the cold?

[14jstorm]

DUDE keep ur cam strait ...i want to see the yellowknife not the ice on ur window screen

[aktjmiller]

Look how fast there driving on the snowy, icy road! Here in NoVa everyone goes like 2 mph when it rains or snows!

[TerrenceIII]

u should see us here in saskatchewan we go like 140 in the ice and snow

[Skitziod]

Thats not a reason to brag.

[shad00flol]

I love this town♥

[madstanwan]

im from Scotland, dieing to go there.

[My0wnRoom]

I am going to live here when I am 18 :)

[madstanwan]

can i go too? lol

[Zorica12]

Diamond mines....lol.  Lots of jobs for that!

[BLUDDYknucklez]

That video gave me a fucking headache.

[TrandomnesstwO]

That looks to be around 10C subtracted by itself four times.

[es0999999]

0:04------0:24 whats the song?????????

[globebug]

I'd love to move there, what are the job prospects like?

[eagles08052]

I thought it was dark almost the whole time in January. What time is it you were driving home? And was it the beginning or end of January?

[mralanv]

I wanna leave Leeds-england do you think yellowknife would be a nice choice?

[sdcam101]

yellowknife is a great to live yes

[MGPictures1]

WOW that's a big rush hour there, havn't expect that.

I just love that City

[dartanya2]

Purple Rain!

[gord1986]

that looks sooooooooooo cold! and thats way more traffic then i'd expect in yellowknife

[My0wnRoom]

I am going to live there :)

[duckfan814]

thats a surprising amount of traffic considering its yellowknife.

[Rusfi16]

I always thought Yellownife should have been renamed Ragged Ass City,not just one road named Ragged Ass.

[marlaypk]

I'd love to visit the Gold Range pub! I heard lots about it.

[HughJass99]

I drove up to Yellowknife on April 1, 2008 but it was only -10 then!! Ha

[pureinsanity1991]

i lived here it was nice now im in alert nunavut working at a base i miss yellowknife

[turbomaxim2]

esti slab

[50Crusader50]

i live here!

[scotstownque]

Lived there from '92-95. Should've done my homework first. If you don't have a gov't job, forget it.

It wasn't the climate that got to me. It was the general bitchiness of the place, and creeping socialism. A welfare wasteland if there ever was one. Only God knows how many thousands of my tax dollars went down the urinals in the Gold Range.

I HATE YELLOWKNIFE! HOW DO YOU PEOPLE PUT UP WITH IT?

[medusalis]

How is the weather there? Is that bad?

[MeTaLbLaDzDRUMS]

ur right, yellowknife SUCKS!

[jasminedalevogt]

pffffffffffft

[towelboy12]

So, like, what if you guys have a power outage in the winter? Are you totally screwed?

[rugermkiii]

Naw, it happens sometimes. Just don't open the doors for more than a few seconds or it turns into a freaking fridge inside. I really wish I could go back, once you live there once it's like it's engraved in your soul or something deep like that haha!

[craig9843]

Wow I'd like to visit yellowknife just one time. Seems the cold would be so harsh on anyones vehicle.

[Mutilly]

I have a knife with a yellow handle. ouch.

[craig9843]

someone just being smart here it seems.

[Mutilly]

I also have a yellow frying pan-nut

[craig9843]

excuse me?

[Mutilly]

I even had a yellow crayon once, when I was like 9-- then there is the "Big Bird" factor. Oh, and I saw a yellow cat down at the laundrymat-nut. Thinx~ But the "Green Giant", he's green... sorry I can't help on that one.

[rugermkiii]

Wow, haha growing up in YK, I have heard so many of those jokes.

[Mutilly]

LOL-- CRAIG IS MY FRIEND... I ONLY SAID THIS TO AGGRAVATE HIM. WE HAVE BEEN BEST FRIENDS SINCE 9TH GRADE-- 24 YEARS. i LOVE TO TORMENT HIM.

[scotstownque]

Oh no you don't. Overpriced, drunk and bitchy. A nest of drunks and socialist queers.

Avoid this mosquito infested shithole.

Try Whitehorse. MUCH more friendly. Prettier, too. You'll probably end up wanting to live there. Most people who try Yellowknife can't wait to get the hell out. Don't believe me? Ask around.

You've been warned.

[eagles08052]

to each their own. If you want socialism, try the U.S. after Obama takes office.

[tigerprince]

Have to say your correct man. Well in most points anyways. The drunk thing is PERFECTLY accurate. Drunk natives are the most annoying thing in the world. But I like it here cause of the longass sledding winters :) Also I alwaya wanted to try whitehorse. Hows the winter there and hows work for heavy equipment?

[joemyster04]

yay thats a good song

[srdale17]

The stoplights are sideways. That's whack.

[Seeks62]

Well yeah we have to drive big trucks and SUV's becasue there is so much rocks in areas but it fun living there !!!

[nowaterforhim]

If it weren't for the government, Yellowknife would be just another mining camp.

[joemyster04]

aw... we should get rid of them :D

[cammy676]

Watch out for those wack cabbies there in YK!

[ivangrozny27]

I'd love it in YK...cant stand hot climates tbh. Is it an expensive city to live in? Seems like everyone drives big SUVs and 4x4s.

[joemyster04]

everything here is overpriced

[XoNinetailedFoxoX]

Hey just think about this, we don't have a provincial tax to pay. It may be expensive here for food and other things we cant get here. But it's a lot better priced than other provinces

[Bojaxs]

Whats gas costing up there these days?

[VideoWizard2006]

The great thing about this? Even at 3PM in -24 (C?) degree temperatures, Yellowknifers go on their business at the supermarket like it were nothing.

As I type this, it is 80 degrees out with 90% humidity (yes, at 2 AM) Tampa, Florida summers are not nice! But, we do many of the same things! We just buy more cold foods and drink.

[kinkyleona]

keegan u liittle nigger wat up it malcolm lol

[BanjoBoy123]

Summer of '69

[kinkymalcolm]

yo nukka

[kinkymalcolm]

keegan u little whore wats crakilakin

[Bozewani]

Oh, so I was close, if I know Yellowknife, Franklin Avenue ends at Old Airport Road

Oh, so you live in the hole in Yellowknife?

All of those meandering streets at the edge of town.

[drdoey]

You live in a grocery store?

[gladhand78]

hey !!!! you shop at extra foods to...lol

[Bozewani]

Is that Franklin Ave?

[k8lyn55555]

Old Airport Road.

[veldman37]

Cool, you live at the Extra Foods!! Jk. Good vid.

[luke456111]

I live in Yellowknife the winter sometimes go up to -40 damn thats cold

[Zorica12]

Goes 'up to' -40? Wait, that would suggest that it's 'coming' from lower temps, lol. Well I've never experienced -40 before...I think I've experienced -20, but it's quite rare, and I never know what is 'windchill' or air temp...but I know for SURE I've experienced -15 though! Brrr...

[pchapman905]

@Zorica12 The higher the wind, the more it strips the heat off you. So -40 with still air is one thing, -40 with a high wind can be lethal. The 'windchill' is the still-air temperature that would strip the heat as fast.

[bigchief05]

You will like the cold lol not

[Seth38101]

i could never live in a place that gets that cold and stays that way as long as it does there, BUT its very interesting and I would visit for the experience

[k8lyn55555]

That's what everyone says, you get used to it though.

[denovoeuai]

^^^~~~

[kelford10]

Just watched the video and wanted to say ty for posting it. My husband is running the iceroads this winter and it was nice to see some of the area that he will be in.

[BeatDemon08]

i knew you were going to extra foods..cause you were turning. cause Usually people go to extra foods when there turning left..or the hospitol. but i guessed right. Gee that was just action packed!