First snow of the season for us and the Renegade. It's been snowing on and off in the mountains in the last month, but melting within the next few days. This is the first snow that lasted more that a day and continued to snow throughout the next 2 weeks.

The Renegade came out in the Spring of 2015 and we purchased ours at the end of April. So we've been waiting for winter to find some mud and snow we can drive it through.

The first bit of the video was on stock tires with my sisters and niece. The plan was just to get out and play in the snow. So I didn't do much driving or recording with the stock tires. I was with the wrong people to risk getting stuck in the snow.

The hood view is bad. I didn't tighten the camera mount so it's shaky and makes a lot of noise banging around. So I didn't use much of those videos.

3 Days later I went back up with the mud tires and my cousin brought along his 2011 Thundra. Now I could get into trouble and have a capable truck to pull me out if needed.

The stock tires did fine on the main trail, but not so on untouched snow. Turning in deep snow just slows you down to a halt. Even if I back up and tried to slowly clear a path forward, the stock tires would stop and spin on the deeper snow. With the mud tire's large lugs, it would dig and claw forward a bit more each time I gave a run at it.

I don't know what temp is required, but at 40 degrees F the Renegade displays a icy road warning light. It's optional for the driver to access the weather and turn on any assist if necessary. It hasn't gotten cold enough lately for that light to come on. So it was a surprise to me when I first saw it. When the Renegade sensed the tires slipping in the snow/ice it also gave a warning or traction lost and suggest changing the drive mode to snow.

The whole traction/4x4 system worked very well for me in upwards to 5 inches of snow. A sedan and 4Runner parked at the entrance of Black Mountain trail because they couldn't get past the first few patches of melting snow. These patches of snow/ice are hundreds of yards apart and the heavier snow doesn't show until 40 mins into the trail.

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