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Did you float on top of the ice crust or sink through it?

I'll come. Never been here, meeting on the side of the highway at the turn off? https://www.google.com/maps/place/48%C2 ... !1s0x0:0x0

Anyone know what the conditions are where you're going? Not really interested if it's rutted out channels of ice. Hasn't snowed in a while.

Nobody wrote:Nice! The snow has a way of making you want more HP. Any idea what elevation you made it to?

3600ft, about a half a mile past the last switchback.

Scoobienorth wrote:Dang. That's awesome. What size of tires you running ?

35". Didn't think it was possible to do this stuff with my Jeep, I guess the conditions were just perfect.

Sat in line at the pass to go skiing, closed until 10am, then 11am, then 1pm and we left. Next up Iron Goat trail. Got two minutes in before turned around by wind fall (small stuff but didn't have a saw). Then Tonga ridge. Incredible conditions. Hadn't been wheeled for a lot of storms. Powder was bo...

My friend has Trxus MT on his pickup and I wasn't sure if he was aired down, then measured and it was only a few PSI.

I hear KM2's are too stiff of a rubber to do well in ice/snow.

We don't mind going up high or a longer trip. Like i said its more about the specifics of the routes. I always just check snowfall telemetry (snotel and NWAC both have pretty extensive washington telemetry systems) to find what elevation recent snowfall started to accumulate at, locate a forest roa...

I went out today, so I have to do my xmas shopping tomorrow. I'll be looking to go out again after Christmas. You should join us on New Year's Day. I'll probably come New Years day, not positive yet. Had a great day, got up to 4500ft mostly in old filled in ruts then broke trail the last 400 vertic...

From my experience driving trucks off highway if I start sliding backwards and can't hold it usually best off to push in clutch or find nuetral and steer to back into the high side bank. Either you'll be stopped there or spin around and drive it out forwards down the hill. If you've lost control I'...

Looks like I won't be skiing a second day tomorrow. Would go wheeling Sunday.

Random thought, has anyone ever tried deep snow wheeling with front tires at 1PSI, and rear tires at street pressure or lightly aired down with chains on? Seems the front breaks trail, and the back follows on a surface that is work-hardened so it's less likely to sink and the chains could give it gr...

Nobody wrote:Saturday morning? Anyone?

Any interest in going out tomorrow night after work? Was hoping to go skiing both days this weekend.

Those should do pretty good. Need siping. Are the sidewalls 3 ply? What do you have for an air gauge? Yes pretty sure they're 3 ply. I haven't siped them because I also use them in the rocks in the summer but I probably should do at least some shallow surface siping. Air gauge is just generic 0-60P...

Tires are radial c-rated 35 MTR Kevlars so sidewall shouldn't be a problem. Down at 0-1 PSI they visually appear completely flat with the rim a few inches from the ground. This is what they look like at 7-8PSI, don't have a picture when they're real low. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5662/233678843...

ok... I'll have to go do some more comparisons sometime, plenty of opportunities coming up. Every time I've been out so far, I've noticed no difference in performance in both deep snow or compact going from 5psi down to 0-1psi so I've just been leaving it in the 5-10 range for improved ground cleara...

So there's a confusion I have... isn't airing down actually significantly worse if the conditions are ice or hard compact snow where you don't need flotation? You just decrease the pressure on each tire lug and turn it into even more of a sled is my understanding, which is why narrow small tires are...

Any tips for avoiding an out of control backwards slide when snow wheeling? I was on Tonga Ridge today and on the final steep section I was in ruts that had been beaten down to ice with a few inches of fresh on top, half way up I started spinning, lost traction, and immediately went backwards. Brake...

Nice! How high did you have to go to get out of the rain? I wish I had some higher elevation spots closer to home. Can't wait for the snow level to drop. Maybe by next weekend. It snowed the whole day everywhere east of Snoqualmie Pass (minus a tiny bit back on the road in Cle Elum on the way out)....

Deep fun day... Got to within 1 mile and 500 feet of Van Epps Pass, turned around at about 5300ft because there wasn't enough traction to push the wall and make reasonable forward progress. Conditions were not great, 6-12 inches of fresh on top of a breakable crust with feet of faceted sugar below. ...