Show us your TITS (Tundras in the Snow)!

Ok, everything I knew about moving through a sandwich of ice + 8" of dry fluffy snow + 1-2" of hard crust was wrong. For all these years since I bought Tundra it was an ultimate obstacle, which negotiated buying a winch + bumper. With traction control disabled Tundra was just jumping back and forth trying to climb up the crust (that holds 200 lbs of me), then break it, throw out the fluffy stuff, then struggle getting any traction on ice. So I thought it was natural and got a winch to help getting the last feet. Boy I was wrong...

I watched a youtube video a few months ago about long pressing of traction button, but that fell right into subconscious part of memory, where it was hiding behind the now present winch. This time I was making very slow progress in 4LO, where the traction was somewhat better disabled, but the revving engine just wasn't spinning wheels fast enough. So I asked myself if darn traction can be disabled better in 4HI, and suddenly out of nowhere that video came out from the darkest corners of the memory. Jesus Christ... This truck can plow! I was tearing apart all those ice-glazed log roads, mile after mile! It was unstoppable even on quite aggressive slopes, where I assuredly was winching in the past. Oh wow... Of course, average MPG was like 3 When grinding through the snow it was probably less than 1.

Still had to use winch one time, but only to climb up into a wind protected pocket for the night, in controllable manner, to avoid damage to the truck.

 

PC is home for me, so much shoveling this winter!

 

Lots of snow this year! I’m in Utah a few times a year for work and enjoy the skiing. Hope the avalanches don’t get too crazy.

 

Thanks, love the stance and the ride. I do rub on my sway bar, but that’s it.
I’m running a 315/70r18, “I haven’t seen anyone else run that size yet”
On 18x9 +25 wheels.

 

My first TRD Pro, a 2016:

 

The following morning of picking mine up. Drove to my parents for Christmas, brutally cold last year in Kentucky. Windchill was around -11 if I remember correctly.

 

An olde but a goode. Shot 2 years ago in northern Minnesota in the middle of Ottertail lake.

 

It's here... This fell last night.

 

We got a coating of snow last night in Pa. It’s already melting.

 

It's cause that black DC Tundra is hot!

 

Pulling my donut crazy neighbor out of the ditch last year. No snow yet...

 

I can’t remember a dryer Nov-Dec. Laugh now, cry later.

 

Not a lot of snow. But we got a little on Shade mountain where I hunt. It got real foggy too.

 

But a dusting

 

We're supposed to get our first measurable snow Saturday night you'd think the storm of 2015 (4-5 feet) is coming
Everybody and their brother put their plow on Wednesday and they are talkng about pretreating roads as soon as today on the news
Needless to say there are a lot of people and businesses desperate for snow around here

 

Overnight in Ashland, Oregon two years ago. Eight inches overnight. Blew up my front diff going over Mt. Shasta. A bad memory from a great trip!

 

New tires are great in the snow!

 

Mammoth Lakes Ca expecting a foot of snow in a few hours

 

Damn... that is one clean looking first gen

 

Went to the club to shoot bow while it was snowing.

 

We had 18” back a month ago but most melted. This was recently.

 

Yep this turned out to be a pretty good one

did you lose power at all?

 

Nope. Just been waiting all day for the plow driver because I can’t park in the street since our town is still in a state of snow emergency.

 

Another day at work. This angle makes it look like the tree wasn’t even close to the roof of the truck, it was less than an inch above. Ice storm in the high ground made for a lot of young hardwood trees bent over the roads. 60 mph winds tomorrow after 4” of snow then rain. Winters have changed dramatically around here.

 

Not in the snow, rather, tucked away for the night after playing in the snow

 

Nothin' too crazy on this recent trip to Payson AZ. Very impressed with the performance of the Toyo AT3s in the snow/slush. (no ice to test with, not cold enough)

 

I had a tire kicker stop by...