Camping In Snow
Hi All, My family and I are looking ahead to next year and planning a ski trip. We are from the South (Houston Area) and we were thinking about going to Ruidoso, NM because we have never camped in...
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I would not do studs personally, as the dry driving is way worst than the few times, you need them for black ice etc. If it is that bad, you usually have chains on any how.
Different area's need different things,Studs work great when it is a solid snow packed and plowed road such as we have here in Idaho often.When you driving on a patch here and a patch of snow there and come to a downhill grade without a chain up area,studs are great,really great.
The problem on these forums is the different area's.Few have the same conditions as say central Idaho where a drive from Boise to McCall could be 100% snow pack and plowed for 100 miles.Chains are not an option on a plowed highway but studs are.
My last trip from Boise to here was 200 miles of a solid plowed snow pack even through Riggins Idaho which is rare.Had a guy pass me pulling a small trailer and lost it as the trailer started to fishtail and he and the trailer went into the ditch..Studs on that trailer would have prevented that.
Boise to Bogus basin ski area,alot of people use studs..McCall to Brundage ski area,the same.
Different ares and conditions require different things..Know idea on Washington state other than from here to Spokane on a bad day there was over like 100 wrecks due to snow/wind and a partial snow pack.
I refused my eye doctor appointment that day in Spokane(400 miles round trip) as our mini-van is not set up for it with studs.Glad I did!
