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Before leaving in Winter driving
Before leaving in Winter driving
Read the previous article on Tips for road trips. Everything that applies to fair weather, applies even more so to inclement weather.
Consider taking an advanced drivers education course, especially if you have no/little experience driving on snow or never learned how to recover from a skid or similar conditions.
GPS navigation units (Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, etc.) for road travel have become so inexpensive lately, anyone doing winter driving beyond their home area should use one. Be sure it contains maps of all relevant countries if you cross international borders, and don't wait until the last minute to figure out how your unit works. Ideally, you should have at least a month of experience in your home area before going on a long winter road trip. (Even when you know how to get to familiar, nearby locations, practice using your GPS anyway.) Be certain any hand-held unit is suitable for navigation while driving with spoken turn-by-turn promps. A GPS device intended for just hiking, boating, and the like is NOT suitable while driving. Remember: One wrong turn onto a winter-abandoned road can be fatal.
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Winter driving Travel Guide from Wikitravel. Many thanks to all Wikitravel contributors. Text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0, images are available under various licenses, see each image for details.