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In article <1992Dec21.174102.16911@nwnexus.WA.COM>,
 pyotr@halcyon.com (Peter D. Hampe) writes...
>On the "I can drive in snow" thread - I heard a statement that I
>agree with.  Most of the people who say "I'm from BigSnowState
>and I know how to drive in Snow" usually are missing two crucial
>differences: wet snow and hills. And irregular snow falls.  That's 
>three. [Amoung the differences are ...]
> 
>With out the regualr snowfall there is less chance to practice.
>The wet snow makes for slick roads in a heartbeat, and the hills
>just tend to negate SOP for intersections (The snow and ice rules
>are that traffic up the hill has right of way unless you are sliding
>sideways down the hill.  Sliding down the hill backwards is still a
>2 point penalty.)

Yesterday I had a major ordeal with snow driving.  Being a New Englander, my
snow experience is in low hills and the like.  I made the mistake of trying to
drive Aufderheide Drive in Lane County (a.k.a. Willamette National Forest Road
19) with insufficient equipment, no food, no water, no chains, and a front
wheel drive subcompact.  I got back to Eugene at 11 this morning, after getting
my front wheels towed out of the shoulder by a passing pickup 25 miles north of
Oakridge.  Needless to say, I'm staying off that road for a while.  You think
about mortality quite a bit in those situations.