CHAINING...are you ready?

I'd much, MUCH rather drive the mountains in a blizzard, than the plains. At least CDOT seems to have enough equipment to keep the mountain passes er passable. But out east, they are just stretched out too thin. Besides, I've seen ground blizzards out east there, that would put drifts across the highway within a few minutes of it being plowed. DEEP drifts. Impassible drifts. . .

 

well for that matter gimmie nh and maine the snow just piles up and gets plowed then salted and next day they are bare and dry

 

Actually they don't but they figure your so blinded by the scenery, that it creates and optical illusion to blind you to the fact they that they are really, understaffed, under equipped and complete idiots.

couple of times I've played snow plow busting through those mini drifts on the highway, and some can be down right dangerous to try and go through. My rule of thumb, slooooow way down, and if they start getting taller than 18", I'll turn around and go home, tell the boss to reschedule.

 

What? Not until June 1 anymore? You may as well carry all year long in Colorado. Oregon doesn't have a set time period but you better bet your rearend you better have them on 84 I the winter. I've only seen "Chains required" on 5 a handful of times, mainly on Siskiyou but they've had them all the way to Stage Road last year.

 

I've watched them chain up in the slow lane on Snoqualmie. Never understood when there's 8,000,000 places to chain up there.

 

Tehachapi gets a fair amount too sometimes......... It's a SOB when there's snow on the Grapevine too. You SoCal people aren't used to that.

 

actually the biggest snowfall I have ever seen was
in center valley pa
you walked up the drifts onto the roof
was 4 days before we saw a plow over a week off school
chains wouldn't have helped
maybe 1967?

 

This is just me but my chains stayed on my racks all year round. Why bother taking them off? They dont add that much weight .Unless you got no room to keep them in the truck. My w900 has a extra storage area behind the passenger side steps but I have enough space in the side box to keep them in their buckets. I allways just kept 2 singles hanging on the rack so DOT can see Im carrying them and the rest stayed in the buckets in the side box.

 

That grapevines over-rated! Seen bigger and steeper hills in a kids sandbox!

 

Not used to rain either.....