Educational snow story.

[Huck BB62]

Well, it snowed just above us in the latest storm. Our minpin, Riley, has never been in the snow before. We went up the mountain to the snow in the Denali, because it has better relief for my bad leg. Our H3 has the same traction control system in it so this is why this story's entertaining.

We had to go up steep streets. The snow was about six inches deep, very wet, and as it was driven on, turned to icy slush. It looked as though people were coming out, but no one was going in. There were two spots by the side of the road where people slid, dug in, and had to recover, one even left their shovel by mistake. My wife was driving. The Denali's traction control system was surely getting worked. My wife just kept an easy go pedal on and the Denali clamored it's way up a long, steep, slick, wet snow encrusted road. We pulled into a large virgin driveway (most of the homes are summer homes, very few full-timers) to let the dog play.

We heard a heck of a racket coming from way down the road. Laurie backed up back on the road and we watched quite a show. A full size, lifted, mud terrain shod Chevy 4x4 with three people in it was having a heck of a time, engine revving, sliding back and forth. They made it a third of the way up the hill, almost hit a tree and stopped. We watched as they slid/backed to a safe pull over. They looked somewhat befuddled as we slowly drove by. The anti-lock brakes were getting on and off the whole way down the grade but it never got sped up.

The traction control system, and the anti-lock brakes work great. A lot of people never will utilize it to this extent but for those of you that are wondering, it's great!