Central PA Winter trail ride - Event Date: 16 Feb. 2020

This is the current condition of the roads we will be using... Ive done it with and without chains... Its your preference but if you have a set or two.....this will be a good excuse to "throw iron" This photo was taken today... In the next 3 weeks there could be a foot of snow or it could be bare dirt. You never know around here but wanted to give you time to prepare. This should make for some really fun pictures and videos! 

JeepFever: Yes! The blue sky’s are a welcome sight. The only part of our ride that Chains will be really nice is for the “roads” between trails. The snowmobiles pack them down and they get icy. Chains or cables will help a lot there. The actual “trails” won’t be icy.....just snow/dirt. Chains/cables won’t be as noticeable there. I would imagine the cables even with just being exposed over the center lug would still be helpful on smooth ice. I have the same tires as you and my chains fall into the tread as well. That’s a lot of contact pressure over the center of the tread so it should dig into the once quite well! I will try to avoid the really treacherous sections of road... bring what you have and we will make it work! I would hate for someone to go buy a set of expensive chains...come here and then we have a heat wave and we end up driving on bare dirt roads. Haha! That being said....this may also be an excuse to buy chains and play around with them if that’s something you’ve been wanting in your tool kit. 

Thanks! Glad to be here. I don't have chains for my 32" swampers, but I have a good tow strap

Road conditions update. We’re still a few weeks out but the sun was shining so I went up on the mountain to check the roads. There’s no snow in sight at my house but still some in the woods

Edited by Millennium falcon - 19 Feb. 2020 at 3:59am

I’ve heard that but completely disagree. I was in 2wd the whole time I was out and had zero problems. Some people just suck at driving! 😂 

I have the rear end torn apart at the moment to fix a couple of issues that popped up late this summer.  If work cooperates and I can get get everything back together in time count me in as well.

Only two more weeks!! 

Ol' Unreliable wrote: AKoller wrote: You know driving on snow or ice with NDTs is a disaster waiting to happen. Don't forget, he just recently siped those tires so they won't be so dangerous.

One week away,  from departure date.    Weather forecast could still change . . . right now prediction for Sat/Sun look great,   but not a lot of chance for decent snow in the week preceding.