Get the car out with the help of some others. I got maybe 100 yards before I lost it doing all of 3 miles an hour (which was hard to do without severe braking). So, I change the tire, load the car, and venture down the steep icy logging road. Well, it was warm when we got there and got real cold that night and stayed cold the next day.ice. Got to the trailhead and heard a hissing sound and decided to leave it until I got back to the car. On the way to the trailhead, up the snowy logging road, I had to pull aside for somebody to pass and picked up a HUGE spike of somesort in my right rear tire. I had done a snow camping trip to Mt Rainier on x-country skis.
I must be the one person who has lost in a Subaru. Run the Subaru through it, dig out the snowblower, clear the drive and the woodpile, and settle in for a long winter. So now we are back, a new 18 inches in the driveway since we left. This year we actually have snow tires which is WONDERFUL. So the next 75 miles were pure ice until we dropped to a lower elevation and left winter behind.īut through it all, given the fact that we slow down as needed for road conditions (a concept all the people in the ditch seem to have missed), the Subbie is as surefooted as she can be. Colorado does a stellar job on winter road work - New Mexico not so much. It was just like some one drew a line on the road at the state border. We were cruising along pretty good, then we hit the New Mexico line and thumped onto solid ice across the entire road surface. Down there the roads were cleared of snow, but the area had received a new 16 inches the night before. We got over the pass and into the San Luis Valley. The first 100 miles was all snowpacked and icy mountain driving, with a few Bighorn Sheep on the road for fun. I threw in the chains (cables) just in case, but I didn't expect to use them, and never did. We were timing the trip between winter storms that have been hitting southern Colorado, and northern New Mexico one after another - many feet of snow in the last two weeks. It's about 320 miles, just one mountain pass, then 2 lane roads of various sizes and conditions. Either way, I doubt if you'll ever have to put chains on again (but ya gotta have decent tires).Įven if you'll never use them, it's best to be carrying.So we took off last week from our home in Western Colorado, for a Christmas visit to the in-laws in Albuquerque. Sounds like the guy that ordered you to put chains on either wasn't listening when you told him you had AWD, or maybe your tires may not have been suitable for snowy conditions, even with AWD. I've since scrounged up one of those neat plastic carrying cases from my bud who owned a gas station in Tahoe back then, and that box is good enough for any CALTRANS or CHP dude that just HAS to see:rolleyes:, and will last forever. Not sure what size they are anymore, the original cardboard box desintegrated years ago:lol. Probably wouldn't even fit on my Subaru (certainly not on my Acura:lol: ). Heck, those chains are the cable type I had for a Celica that I had before I got into 4WDs.
By occaisionally I mean maybe once a year, every time in California (they're really anal there). Interesting that you had to put them on a Leg, as you stated above.Īt the chain control "stop" points, I was occaisionally asked to actually open up and show the chains. I've had 4WD vehicles since the mid-80s (Tercel then Subaru), I've NEVER had to put chains on either of them.
0 kommentar(er)
