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Wetum Road is a Winter road servicing the Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario. The road is named for local councillors Peter Wesley (We) and Robert Echum or Robert Tum (tum). [1] The road is approximately 170 kilometres (110 mi) long from Otter Rapids, Ontario to Moose Factory 68 just outside Moose Factory. [2]
Both link several winter roads and ice roads that serve communities in extreme Northern Ontario with the provincial highway system. The first 60 kilometres (37 mi) of the Pickle Lake–Windigo Lake Road, as far as the Otoskwin River, also held the tertiary highway designation of Highway 808 within the provincial highway system from 1966 to 1983.
A winter road is a seasonal road only usable during the winter, i.e. it has to be re-built every year. This road typically runs over land and over frozen lakes, rivers, swamps, and sea ice . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Segments of a winter road that cross an expanse of floating ice are also referred to as an ice road or an ice bridge .
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King's Highway 11, commonly referred to as Highway 11, is a provincially-maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.At 1,784.9 kilometres (1,109.1 mi), it is the second-longest highway in the province, after Highway 17.
The Lansdowne House is linked to the rest of Ontario by the Lansdowne House Airport, and by winter roads and ice roads to points south, via the Northern Ontario Resource Trail. As of November 2011, there is a total registered population of 414 people, of whom 304 people live on their own reserve.
Some areas of the Sierra saw more than 7 feet of snow in a 72-hour period, according to the National Weather Service, including Sugar Bowl, California, which received 89 inches (7.42 feet) and ...
On Jan. 31, snowpack in Central Sierra was 53% of normal, while Southern Sierra was at 36%, data from the California Department of Water Resources shows. As of Feb. 14, those numbers are at 70% ...