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Joe Smuin
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Whiteout, you say??
Whiteout, phooey! :>) Them Kiwis are big sissies!! When you can't see the closest cars from where you are standing when you took the photo - that's more like white-out conditions that northern mid-westerners and Canadian prairie folks consider a white-out. Or likewise for folks in the coastal mountains. Still, I'd agree that you wouldn't want to lose your bearings out there in those conditions, most especially if you didn't know the terrain. Joe