This time of year there are numbers beyond count of folks heading up to and down from the mountains for ski and other winter fun purposes. I cannot believe how many folks:

a) drive 2 wheel drive pickups with seemingly tread-less tires and can’t go over 20 miles per hour, and refuse to ever pull over so at least 1 or 2 of the 100 or so folks lined up behind them can drive at a reasonable speed;

b) drive Ford Excursion or Chev Suburban class SUVs or similar. These vehicles are incompetent beyond anything except a 2 wheel drive pickup with bald tires. They are menace to the snowy/icy roadway. I'm surprised they sell so well with such horrid performance;

c) have their vehicle windows of their cars so fogged up they obviously can’t see. As if carrying a towel would be beyond comprehension;

d) don’t believe in carrying chains a shovel, or a couple of bags of gravel, road flairs;

e) don’t clean the snow off their headlights or tail lights;

f) and my favorite are the folks with pickup trucks having dual rear tires. These are the fumbling vehicle of choice for the snow mobile trailer hauling culture. I have seen so many of these off the side of the road, their snow mobile trailers askew, and naturally no chains, that I find it laughable in a tragic sort of way. Why will these folks spend 10s of thousands on the truck, the trailer and the snow mobiles yet refuse to buy chains or even good winter tires. It defies belief!

I’ve helped scores of folks get back on the road or called for help on their behalf. This wouldn’t be necessary if most of these folks had half the sense that God gave the average dog. Simply amazing.

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...Tracy

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