re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth

Which is extremely helpful when the roads are covered in ice, because 4WD doesn’t work on ice any better than non-4WD.
OTOH, 4WD will get you out of the ditch/median/middle of oh-shitland after you’ve slid off said ice-covered road…

(personal experience, yes I haz it…)

Yeah. On the Montana trip, my friend took me up to see a frozen waterfall, somewhere in the mountains near Bozeman. The higher we went, the deeper the snow. We slid off the narrow, twisty road no fewer than 3 times. I kept thinking, “This is it. We’re going to be stuck up here, and they’ll find our frozen-fresh-thawed corpses up here come spring!”

I was tempted to panic, but my friend never did, so I didn’t either.