New Year's Day?

Stuck at work! 🙁 have fun ladies!!

We are home. Fun way to start the New Year. Just enough snow to have a little fun but not enough to make it too difficult. The maiden voyage of The Pearl went well. Panda Express on the way home, 2013 is off to a great start.

I'm home safe and sound. Great run! Thanks to John and Family, Josh, Kevin, Joe, and Justin for helping kick off the new year in style! Pics and a write up to follow.

How'd the second road (Washington) go?

"JohnDF" wrote: How'd the second road (Washington) go?

I think you would have been fine after I plowed the road. 😀 I needed a tug a couple of times - pretty similar to what you saw. The snow was really weird. We'd go out on a point and there would be just a little but the second we got in the shade I was plowing. There was one corner where there was dirt on both sides of the corner and 1.5 feet of snow in the middle. Crazy. Everybody got their chance to pull the Nissan but it didn't get out of hand. 😂 Looking at my pictures there all of me stuck. 😂 Hopefully Kevin was a better photographer.

Awesome day! Thanks for letting me join you in kicking off 2013 the right way.

Thanks, Had a great time. Nice way to get back into the swing of things after 3 + months away from the jeep. Thanks Keane!! 🍺 🍺

Great run! I'll try to get some pics posted soon.

Great run Keane! Thanks for organizing it. Great way to start the new year! Go Nissan!

Write up and pictures added. For some reason I can't get thumbnails on the pictures in the gallery but they seem to be there. Hopefully Kevin has better luck and I'll add a few to the writeup.



http://wiki.posse4x4.org/2013_January_New_Year_Run

Thanks for the write up. Sorry I missed it...

Keane, how did your new Duratrac's perform in the snow?

"FAM" wrote: Keane, how did your new Duratrac's perform in the snow?

Overall I think they did fairly well.



I need to do some work to figure out a good tire pressure. I wasn't paying attention to how fast the tires aired down and ended up at 9psi to start. That was way too low. There was so much flex in the sidewall I might as well have been riding on the rims so I aired them up a bit before we got going. I think I went too high at around 18 psi but those sidewalls are REALLY squishy and based on the less than great reviews of them I didn't want to push them too hard. Maybe 12-15 next time?



In general I wasn't stuck until I was really pushing a fair amount of snow and you could feel it. I would be driving along pushing the snow and then all of a sudden it would be just a bit too much and I would break traction and sink. I think some of that also has to do with learning to drive an automatic in the snow. I really prefer a manual transmission where I can work the throttle and clutch together.



Overall in "normal" snow conditions I think they'll be great. It has been pretty icy up here lately and I've been impressed with how well they hang on to the road. When they do slip it's been brief and I've never had any trouble getting back in control again.

"Bender" wrote: [quote="FAM"]Keane, how did your new Duratrac's perform in the snow?

Overall I think they did fairly well.



I need to do some work to figure out a good tire pressure. I wasn't paying attention to how fast the tires aired down and ended up at 9psi to start. That was way too low. There was so much flex in the sidewall I might as well have been riding on the rims so I aired them up a bit before we got going. I think I went too high at around 18 psi but those sidewalls are REALLY squishy and based on the less than great reviews of them I didn't want to push them too hard. Maybe 12-15 next time?



In general I wasn't stuck until I was really pushing a fair amount of snow and you could feel it. I would be driving along pushing the snow and then all of a sudden it would be just a bit too much and I would break traction and sink. I think some of that also has to do with learning to drive an automatic in the snow. I really prefer a manual transmission where I can work the throttle and clutch together.



Overall in "normal" snow conditions I think they'll be great. It has been pretty icy up here lately and I've been impressed with how well they hang on to the road. When they do slip it's been brief and I've never had any trouble getting back in control again.

Will the truck be on the road patrol?

"BKGM Jeepers" wrote:

Will the truck be on the road patrol?

We were just talking about that. If we can dig up enough snow clothes we'll all be there.

"Bender" wrote: [quote="BKGM Jeepers"]

Will the truck be on the road patrol?

We were just talking about that. If we can dig up enough snow clothes we'll all be there.

Ok! I may be bringing my truck too!

No jeep? Did it fall apart at PC?

"finder_87" wrote: No jeep? Did it fall apart at PC?

I had a fitting fail between the Ram and the sending line. It should be a one day fix.

Finally got my pics up. Added them to Keane's album.



Not sure what's up with the thumbnails.