Got out and did a little snow wheeling this past weekend. I told myself last fall that I wasn't gonna drive the truck once the snow started flying in an effort to keep the salt off of it. Well, the little kid in me couldn't pass up a chance to go out and play in the snow, so now I have a truck covered in a nice layer of salt, ice, and frozen mud...    haha     But, it was a fun trip and well worth the current condition of the truck. 

We had a pretty good sized group of people given the weather conditions. (It's been pretty cold here in the Midwest. The high that day was like 9 degrees) There were 13 rigs and about 20 people. As usual, I was the only non-jeeper. We split up into 2 trail groups once we got there, since getting a group of 13 rigs through the woods in the snow would've been a slow process. 


I didn't take a ton of pictures (it was cold and I'm a wuss  lol) but here are the few I did take. 

Flexing on stuff    This was while we were waiting for one of the guys to remove what was left of a very expensive JRI shock (he had a bit of bad luck and broke a shock shaft 5 mins into the trail)

 


Waiting in my nice warm truck while the tan JK gets winched out of a tree. He slid slide off the trail and this tree on the side of the hill caught him. 





The frozen tundra




Heading into the woods 



  mirror picture of the rigs lined up behind me




Waiting on some traffic





Creepin through the woods 





King of the hill




King of the hill (from a different angle)




Waiting for the guys in the back to catch up





Guy with the broken shock working his way through a tight spot in the trail.




Waiting on a few people to make their way through an obstacle 





JKU got a little tipsy 




JKU stuck.  I made it through this same spot over the summer... when it was dry    haha




Some of the other rigs












After leaving Bundy. 




I broke through some ice a couple of times and ended up playing in the mud underneath. Here are a few shots of the mud and ice caked up on the front end.












All of this extra crap on the front end caused one hell of a vibration. I couldn't do more than about 45mph before things got out of hand. I actually stopped at a car wash on the way home and got the wheels cleaned up a little so I could do the speed limit. 






All-in-all, it was a great trip. The truck did pretty well in the 6-8" of snow that was on the ground. I was less than impressed with the duratracs in the icy conditions. As usual, I didn't air them down, which may have been part of the problem. But myself and another guy that was running them noticed a distinct lack of traction compared to the other rigs in our group. Next time I'm out in the snow, I'm going to try airing them down and see if that helps things. 

Last edited on Tue Jan 2nd, 2018 03:51 pm by Jimmyspy