[71_safari]

Oops, sorry. Looks like you wanted practical feedback. All I can tell you, definitively, is that I do not take my two-wheel drive trucks into the same places as the 4WD. I use common sense. Snow isn't an issue if roads plowed and/or sanded and weight in the back. But I would definitely be more hesitant to pull the trailer under those conditions without 4WD.

I have, however been badly stuck three times in the past 6-7 years, each time by continuing into worsening muddy situations that I shouldn't have, in a 4WD truck. Last time it happened was last winter, on the Lost Coast of Northern Calif, after three days of heavy rain. I was in my K2500, took an unplanned shortcut back to 101 on the spur of the moment and damn near had to spend the night when the steep, unmaintained county road turned to clay, 20 miles from closest pavement, without my chains, or come-along. Took me hours to get it out and it was dark by the time I did. Not fun. One tough truck, but four-wheel drive will only get you stuck further out. I would have been better off with 2WD and chains in that instance. Guess what got loaded into the truck the day I got back?

-john