That picture says it all - excellent photo!

That kind of snow drifts you see in the picture (with all those funky shapes and cavities) can get surprisingly hard if the wind blows hard and long enough. Usually, you can forget about smashing through them with a vehicle - but it takes quite a bit of blowing to make them hard enough to walk on.


Oh, and in those conditions extremely fine powdered snow will make its way into every possible and some impossible openings. Pop the hood of any of those vehicles and you'll find a block of snow with an engine inside. That needs to get cleared out before you go anywhere.

Snow is amazing stuff.