Roger's Pass: Road Gleaning

The Trans-Canada Highway passes through Rogers Pass to connect Revelstoke to Golden . It is is located in Glacier National Park and is a popular destination I have learned for ski touring. However, the road is quite hazardous and the pass itself is home to the world's foremost avalanche control program for a transportation route. That being said, especially in the winter, there are many road closures due to slides and avalanches. On top of this, there are often accidents as a result of the poor road conditions. The most beneficial of such accidents are always when food trucks turn over. In these cases, any food that falls is no longer fit for consumption as a result of stirct company policies around food safety.Consequently road gleaners have emerged. Basically, any time a crash involves a food truck, there is sure to be food abandoned on the road, or available to be collected at the scene of the accident. Apparently in Revelstoke you will know when such a crash has happened, because all of a sudden the town will be flooded with a certain product. I have heard stories of oranges going around in 2010/2011, and just this week, a truck went down full of mushrooms. I know this because our household was lucky enough to be offered a flat of the discards and we are now eating lots of mushrooms! What would you want to road glean if you had the chance?