"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
12/17/2016 at 01:08 • Filed to: None
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"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
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But the MJ says “meh”.
Although it’s still not quite to bumper depth. But if I’m pushing with the axle tubes, it’s getting pretty darn close on a stock-height truck.
The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/17/2016 at 01:25 |
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That looks like light fluffy snow so it’s easy, if it was wet dense snow it be different.
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gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
12/17/2016 at 01:37 |
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Fairly dense drifted snow blown in off the lake that maybe doesn’t look like a lake. Not quite as bad as wet and heavy in terms of traction, but also not great in that it usually behaves like fine sand, meaning it packs in hard but goes away when you put torque to it. This is the first time I’ve gotten such good impressions of the undercarriage.
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The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/17/2016 at 01:44 |
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The “fine sand” snow is the worst. When breaking trail at my dad’s hunt camp in North Ontario (2hrs north of Cochrane). It offers no traction. I figured out to feed the throttle gently.
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gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
12/17/2016 at 03:12 |
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I honestly don’t get the wet heavy snow here much, it’s usually more of a melt thing. But before it melts, the old, zero moisture content ice pellets that are what it turns into after a few months at -25 that don’t stick together and never stay put, underneath a deceptively firm sun-baked crust is definitely the worst. It’s all fine till you break through the crust, and then you end up beached with wheels paddling at nothing. I mean it’s easy enough to dig yourself out, but you’ll just end up digging forever cause you’ll never climb back onto the crust.
The above isn’t that kind of snow, as there is reasonable traction available until you pack your undercarriage into it, and the only real way out is to lift your vehicle off, a lot like the stuff pushed up by the plows at the end of the driveway before it turns into concrete. Other than that, packed snow is a pretty great driving surface, decent traction and what not.
For anyone else reading this, yes, snow is a widely variable thing, depending on moisture content when it fell, average moisture content of the air since its been deposited, temperature, how the snow was deposited, how long it’s been since it was deposited, etc. A common statement is that the Inuit have over 100 words for snow, which is a great way to put it, except it has more to do with most indigenous North American languages not working like indo-European languages much at all and so they’ll have a massive word that’s more of a verbal phrase describing the snow without really having much more than a word fragment referring to snow that can’t stand by itself without stuff attached to it, do the 100+ words is more like 100+ combinations of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc.
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The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
> gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
12/17/2016 at 03:17 |
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The crust layer is for sure the worst kind, also when it when a icy “sugar” snow on top.