Grabbed my camera, some lunch and headed up into the hills not far from town:




Past a favorite trout stream where I've had excellent luck with dry flies in warmer weather:


Last week in deeper fresh snow the Jeep got great traction:


This time I had to chain up, at least the front. The snow was compacted down to hard ice, and temps just above freezing reduced traction to nonexistent. So, on with the front chains, and I beat a very slow and deliberate retreat.

 

Nice pics. thanks for sharing. Suggest you try siping your tires....you shouldn't need chains for that, though those are the worst conditions...compact snow and ice right at or slightly above freezing.

 

love it

 

Siped tires help a lot, but I don't know if they would have helped much with this. I had trouble just standing and walking on this ice - it was pretty bad. Heck, I slipped and fell down moving from one tire to the other too fast. First time I'd chained up this year, or this Jeep. My chains are a little oversize, they were left-over from the 4x4 before this. Still, I can tighten them up enough to fit.

CW

 

Those are some beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing. I really hate dealing with chains, as useful as they are in those conditions. Seems like something is always breaking and loose chains can destroy a wheel well or fender very quickly. Plus they will eat up your tires. Four wheel drive and Anti-lock breaks sure make bad winter driving conditions easier to deal with.

 

BFG AT are some of the best factory all-terrains in the snow I've ever had. What tire pressure did you air down to?