Originally Posted By: hikermor


Navajos living in the canyon did amazing trips with normal passenger cars. Again, it is skill and experience, not equipment, that counts.
Its both.

No,I dont go looking for trouble but thinking 4x4 means you go anywhere is inexperience to the highest degree....but when it comes to equipment my Truck makes my jeep look like a slug.Now you may have a monster high end or modified Jeep that puts mine to shame,but stockers,my truck is far better than my Jeep.

So yes,equipment does matter.Just like your high end ropes.

And no 2 wheel drive with snow tires on car is going thru ice and snow that my big heavy diesel 4x4 high clearance truck with snow tires can,no way,no how. I see that constantly,I live it.

My comments about flatlanders in the hills....take yourself out of your equipment/experience comfort zone,you will have problems.Hence stuck flatlanders every time it snows.