Finished our 2922 mile Chicago-Colorado adventure.
We spent a lot of time on the road to and from Chicago in some pretty extreme conditions, we just got back tonight. Colorado is truly a 4Runner state, we didn't get to go on any OHV trails but we found some gravel, snow and had a great ski, snowshoe and cabin fun time trip that made us all agree to go back every winter. At this point we might as well move there. And the 35+ year old banana colored roof rack held up from high winds, lots of gear loaded in and -5 degree temps on the way back through Iowa. We pulled off in Des Moines, the defroster was only able to thaw the bottom third of the windshield when going 65 mph in a treacherous ice storm yesterday. I'm glad we did, we counted 35 cars and trucks in the ditches and medians on the way home.
Oh, and if you are debating the ability of Duratracs to do ice, snow, gravel, tarmac and grooved highway duty, I give them a very high rating across all. They are indisputably capable.
Happy New Year!