I had enough snow, living in Germany, I don't care if I never see two more snowflakes piled on each other. I do wish, however, I could still walk well enough to walk up rabbits in the snow.
fallschirmjaeger
I learned to drive in snow by driving on wet, red clay roads in Alabama. The county has mostly up graded them to "all weather" roads , although still "dirt", at least the ones not paved. Todays kids don't have that training ground.
Mike
Mike,
I'd bet that wet red clay is slicker than just about anything!
Nope. Not even close. Freezing rain or wet black ice is as slippery as it gets. I can recall a night so slick that after I came to a complete stop, my car slid sideways off the slight crown in the center of the road, and onto the gravel berm. I got out and put my tire chains on to make it the rest of the way home. But I fell flat on my ass several times in the process. The time to put chains on is before you get in trouble. And that is why I run now four studded snow tires on all of my vehicles every winter. And I still carry tire chains, sand, a come-a-long, and a tow strap too, for those extra bad nights.
But I did spend one delightful morning digging my truck out after getting it buried in wet clay during a spring turkey hunt. I hesitated as my buddy pointed down the logging road back in to where we were to hunt that morning. It had rained all night, and my headlights reflected off the submerged surface that resembled a creek more than a logging road. I said, "That looks pretty juicy Al." He said it had a good solid base. Maybe so, but it was obviously much deeper than the axles of my truck.
