Some friends and I caravanned out into the Mt Hood National Forest to find some Christmas Trees!
This is the first time I took my newish 255/85/16 Toyo MTs into the deep snow and I'm pretty happy with how they performed.
Once we got our trees, we decided it would be fun to keep climbing up a rough forest road until the snow got too deep for the little Ford Ranger in the pack.
We limped along until we found a spot to a wide enough to facilitate a turn around. Despite the foot of fresh powder on the ground, the Landcruiser performed a J-turn without too much trouble, but reversing back uphill just wasn't happening without chains. Luckily, I was with the right kind of women folk to help me figure it out:
The 2016 TRD Pro 4runner in our group tried to scoot by me but ended up with his backend sliding precariously down into a steep ditch instead, which got an expected reaction after hearing him brag about the fancy ATRAC control system all morning. With a little help from the Jeep Wrangler and a tow rope, we got him unstuck and everyone made it off the mountain in one piece.
Thats pretty awesome!!! Was up around there today myself. Great area!!
