There are articles all over the web about how the "mountain snowflake" symbol is worthless. It was developed many years ago. In that day and age, the tires that were branded with the symbol were pretty good snow tires. By today's standards, there are HT tires on the market now that will outperform some of the old AT tires with the symbol. Do some reading and you'll see how pathetic the old AT tires stack up to new technology. Testing done in Canada where they get a lot of snow has indicated that shoppers should completely ignore the mountain snowflake symbol when shopping for tires, as it is misleading. A new standard needs to be developed and I hear that many tire makers are working toward that now.
As far as driving in snow goes there are two schools of thought. In DEEP snow you want a tire that will hold onto snow because snow sticks to snow better than snow sticks to rubber in that scenario. So driving through 2 or 3 feet of powder in the wilderness a tire like the BFG might do OK.
However, in 95% of situations you see on the pavement you do NOT want a tire that holds onto snow. You want a tire that evacuates snow and slush and grips the road surface. This is why the BFG tire sucks, for lack of a better word. The interlocked tread pattern won't release anything...so you get a tire that is terrible for snow, slush, mud, even deep water puddles on the roadway. My personal experience is that they will "push" going into turns and they are dangerous. Tons of online reviews agree with me. The General Grabber AT2, Definity Dakota AT, etc. all have the same problem.
You guys keep acting like I'm raining on the parade. I don't really care. I'm offering good advice and experience because there is too much pushing of name brands on the internet. People need to be made aware of what they are getting with their hard earned money, rather than just buying product A because everybody else on the forum seems to be doing the same. If that bothers you, skip over my post and read on.
