What's Your Longest AWD Snow Trip

[scoobydoo2]

...After spending the entire day with our school's junior high under water ROV team at the MATE ROV competition, I had a 400km trip back home that I decided to do in a snowstorm. That, I think is the longest snow drive I have ever done. Took me 5 hrs. The view...well this is what it was all the way home...but there is something about doing it in an AWD vehicle that makes it fun....

[rockhopjohn]

2 weeks, 3300 miles. Boise, ID to Nor. Cal Coast to Vancouver Island, and back to Boise during the hardcore winter storm of 2008 that shut Portland and Seattle down for almost 2 weeks.

[foxrider68]

Originally Posted by scoobydoo2

...After spending the entire day with our school's junior high under water ROV team at the MATE ROV competition, I had a 400km trip back home that I decided to do in a snowstorm. That, I think is the longest snow drive I have ever done. Took me 5 hrs. The view...well this is what it was all the way home...but there is something about doing it in an AWD vehicle that makes it fun....

I can't touch the time but I love driving with a view like that. I drove in a short snow storm in Fargo once. I felt out of my element, wide open spaces, high wind, and lots of drifting. I'm used to being tucked in the trees and hills I guess.

[scoobydoo2]

...and since it was dark when I got home...here she is the morning after...nothing like a dirty OB...time for a wash...

...as for the view...yes it is lovely. That is in Terra Nova National Park...

[foxrider68]

Originally Posted by scoobydoo2

...and since it was dark...here she is the morning after...nothing like a dirty OB...time for a wash...

...as for the view...yes it is lovely. That is in Terra Nova National Park...

Good thing they have heated car washes or you'd just be adding to that layer of ice

[rasterman]

I think back, and I realize all of the worst winter driving I've done, by huge margin, was all in old RWD cars.

Since getting a Subaru, when it snows I try like crazy to alter my travel plans to avoid going out.

Nothing to do with handling in the snow... The problem is salt on the roads. I miss my old RWD cars; they rusted out. I don't want that to happen to my subie

Hopefully I'll eventually move back to someplace salt free and snow-a-plenty.

[Bassman]

I don't ever have to drive very far - - we're only at 4600 feet and I seldom have to drive more than five miles to get out of the snow. Problem is that we live in a snow recreation area and have all the flatlanders who do not know how to drive in the snow (and don't prepare for it properly) coming up here for fun times. I like having my OB to get me where I need to go and to be able to get around them when they crash or get stuck....

[cagranitz]

My wife and I drove 4 hours in a snowstorm to Elk Mountain, PA. Was one of the best storm drives ever. It was snowing hard enough that the air intake under the hood got clogged up. Since the engine could barely get enough air, power was horrible. I didn't think we were going to be able to make it up the last few hills to the resort. Kinda scary. The hood latch was frozen shut so I couldn't even open it up to try clearing the snow/ice. It eventually ended up throwing a CEL for the throttle position sensor which cleared itself on the drive home the next day. I ended up removing that flat plastic section of the air intake just under the front hood and now it's just the round open plastic pipe. That is much less likely to get clogged when storm driving. It's been like that for about 5 years will no ill effects on performance or mileage.

[reddoak]

680 miles from Oklahoma City to Denver. I was working, and in a RWD Chevy full size van... So I rented a Jeep Grand Cherokee and drove that. Took me 2 days, there were tractor trailers in the ditches lining the whole way.

[seeren]

Originally Posted by rockhopjohn

2 weeks, 3300 miles. Boise, ID to Nor. Cal Coast to Vancouver Island, and back to Boise during the hardcore winter storm of 2008 that shut Portland and Seattle down for almost 2 weeks.

We drove my wife's (now sold) '95 Legacy from MT to Seattle that X-mas. Coeur d'Alene/Spokane area was the worst as far as people off the road.

That car was very low, and we had to get to the top of Queen Anne. I can never get on the correct street coming from I-5, and usually end up threading my way up the backside and wandering around until I find the right block. This time was no different, except all the side ways up had 2 feet of snow and maybe 1 or 2 trucks had gone down. We powered up that **** with no problem, even had to get out of the track once to go around somebody that turned down the street while we were about 2/3 of the way up. The look on that guy's face was awesome, I bet our car looked like it was swimming uphill. If we would have stopped it would have been game over, though. We got back through the pass to come home just hours before the whole thing got shut down for several days.

We've had only 1 good snow so far this year, 8", and our new OB was out before the plows. I'd rather be in the OB than my 4WD truck most of the time.