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Yeah, me too. I just was out hunting for several days, went to bed there was about 6" of snow, woke up to almost 2ft.
Packed up to move to lower ground, chain up all four on a 85 chevy 1 ton dually and took me 5hrs to go 2 miles having to dig out 5 or 6 times.
It was nasty pushing snow with the bumper and the big block 454 just working to get out of there, I got lucky.

What are corks?

Cork boots...Boots with sharp spikes in bedded in the soles. Used by loggers and others who are dealing with wet, slick, terrain.

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Thanks.

Do you drive a Subaru?

My Tundra would have made short work of that.

A Geo Metro would make short work of that, with the right tires or chains on.

Ribka's point with that pic has nothing to do with the 3-4 inches of unplowed snow. It's the packed ice. The kind that'll make you slip on your ass on your first step out of the vehicle.

Yep 4 wheel drive works great braking in on a steep downhill rmountain road ice. lol

I have a Tundra, and this aint the golf course cuck911.

Driving down a steep and remote mountain gravel road pass with a 1500 ft drop off and in 2 feet of wet freezing snow aint like driving a golf cart in suburban Colorado. That was the entire point of the post. I think a local snowmobile club plowed that road. a metro would have been pushing snow with its bumpers the 2 miles up the pass.

Yep lesson learned- I left the house without chains and should have known better hunting in the mountains as conditions change quickly.

LOL!

Weeeee! A slippery icy road in wet snow. DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

Give me a fuggin' break.

I have a 2011 Tundra Rock Warrior with the SuperCharger kit on it from the factory.

An excellent rig! I’ve climbed some seriously stupid mountains in snow and ice. But, I’ve yet to figure out how to safely come down the steep grades once I’m done scouting.

I’ve stayed hours and even did an overnight on a mountain top because if I tried coming off. I would either be dead or typing this drivel with my nose.

Goin up ain’t ever the problem. It’s down.

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Was that pic taken way further down the mountain? I am not seeing anything close to 2 feet of snow. Even the built up plow berm doesn't look half that deep.

I'm not too sure I agree. It is fairly rare, but I have done this going uphill on mountain roads. The pucker factor gets redlined.

Just gotta stay on it brother...You let off and the circus can begin. Grins

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Edit...That’s a solid sheet of ice. I’m speaking of packed ice with snow. Nobody can safely do a steep grade on an ice sheet without serious traction devices and fûck ton of lucky....

Chaining a log to the back to keep from spinning around is pretty hard core.... most spooked I've been was in a sudden white out.... I was totally disoriented. I wanted to just stop but was afraid someone would just run into me so I just creeped along at maybe 5 MPH.... was very relieved when I could start to see again.... pretty surprised I hadn't driven off the road too.

up aint a problem, its the down gravity problem. I don t care how good your tires are

Ha! keeping on the gas often works, but not always. I've rolled a UTV with a dog box and 4 lion hounds in it by flooring it uphill, then sliding back down like that bus. I've also floored it when chained up....only to dig down through the packed snow and become high centered. That is a rare situation, but I have done it.

With some unpacked snow on top, you for sure get at least some traction. The road in Ribka's pic has unpacked snow, but something tells me around some of the bends it has been packed down to nothing but solid ice, just like what I was dealing with last Saturday. Several hunters slid into each other that day, because it was essentially like the ice in the bus GIF above, but on a one lane dirt road with a stellar embankment to fall off.

Yeah....I think that’s what I said. Double checking. Yep! I concur. 😬😎

Holy Fook! How’d the hounds do being tumble dried? Hope they came out ok.

I’m not saying this shît is easy, or only special dudes know how to drive in mother nature’s nightmare. The worst is not being prepared for the situation, or not having gear to help mitigate the adventure.

I usually know leaving what I may be getting myself into. Doesn’t change the vapor lock I have had on my o-ring when it happens.

Sometimes you think you can do it....And sometimes you know you got no choice but to try. “Passenger side or drivers side door open to bail” BTDT too.

Love hunting!

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They were used to it. Just another day of being thrown around in the dog box to them.

99+% of the time I have no issues. This Saturday was actually the first time in probably 5 years that I absolutely needed chains to get out and back to town, but I also don't push the limits like I used to. I used to do stuff like that on purpose...because I enjoyed the rush, and had to start walking to get help several times a year.

If your hounds could only talk....Laffin 😎

I don't own them...they're a buddy's.

He's way worse of a driver than I am.