i went riding with my brother and father in law a couple days ago in the snow. they both have polaris 500's. we were in about a foot or better deep and they were getting stuck evey 10 minutes. the rubicon was running circles around them. if were not for me they would have had a lot of pulling an digging to do. they were very impressed with my machine. i was even winning the drag races in the deep snow up hills. nothing beats a good rubi.