This is about the best advice. Drive slow when the conditions call for it. We went off roading on New Years and on the way back the weather was super crappy. People were driving like dillholes, speeding past us, and we passed a lot of them in the ditch further down the road. Bet you I got home faster going slow than they did waiting for a hook.

 

Yeah, best thing is drive smart and to the capabilities of your vehicle and just outright avoid going into ditches. Yes we do have offroad rigs but theyre not indestructable and either is your body, I do tend to drive somewhat normal in inclement weather but we dont get much more than slightly slick rainy roads here, and a **** ton of wind

 

The best thing is to drive to the road conditions, to many people don't slow down and end up in the ditch or worse. Also 4X4 may get you moving and help you stay on the road but it dosent help when you need to brake, more so if you are driving to fast for the road conditions.

 

Always dumb founded by poor weather drivers. Some just fly, others crawl. I can make great time because I use that thinkin thing in muh head!

 

Sometimes you just got to go slow. We we're towing trailers that day and there was black ice all over the road. Nothing like having a trailer start to come around on you to wake your *** up.

 

Hehe, wanna wake up? When you realise some *** trailered a quad and left it in neutral, fell off, had to chase it down, and hope it back on the trailer hahahaha

 

Of course driving to the conditions is the best practice, but sometimes stuff happens, (like the doorknob ahead of you spins out, and it's either him or the ditch/median) type of situation. Here is one of the worst accidents around my area from last year (not my picture, but just to show you what we drive in up here in Canada):


If you do find yourself stuck on a median or in a ditch, the depth and composition of the snow make a pretty significant influence on how I tackle getting unstuck.
-If you know the snow is deep enough to high-center you, or bury down to the unirails, I tend to try and low-range it and creep out, preventing deeper ruts. If the snow isn't that deep, but you are still stuck, throttling it out is always an option.
-If the snow is heavy, you will realize how much of an anchor your differentials are, and rocking the Jeep is sometimes the only option.
-If you just got 20" of fresh powder, and are stuck, throttle it out without airing down your tires to try and get down to better traction.

Airing down rarely hurts a vehicle's snow performance. Just know that it is not a magic-fix, and you will likely have to shovel as well, so invest in a good one. (foldable, metal construction.)

I recently went on a snow wheeling trip with a couple other XJ's and mine which had the least lift and the smallest tires outperformed the others by vast margins. One reason probably being they were Duratrac's (one XJ on Pro-Comp AT's, another on KM2's) , and another being that the small tires dug into the soft snow better than the others, and were able to find better traction much more effectively.

In summary, experience is the best teacher, snow is soft and light except when you need to shovel it, and get a roadside assistance membership if you get enough snow, or if you drive an XJ. (either component warrants a RA program, )

 

Nasty. This one just happened in Indiana. Be smart out there people.