Here are a few pics from my ski trip last week -- these are shots from the Alleghany mountains in Virginia, as I crossed into West Virginia on route 250:









This is one of the most beautiful parts of the country I have traveled through, and it's a fun trip -- I crossed about 4 major mountain ridges, with elevations close to 4000 ft. The roads were mostly clear for this trip (except for some crazy drifts), but in the past I have driven the route in with snow coming down, and it can be quite an adventure.

The RDX ran like a champ -- I really appreciated the sharp handling on the twisty mountain roads, and got to enjoy SH-AWD. Over the 510 mile round trip, I got 21.5mpg; 19.6mpg heading out (uphill) and 23.4 coming home (downhill). About 70% of the miles were interstate, the rest were country/mountain roads.

Craig

 

Cool pics. My wife and I went through W. Virginia mountains last year en route to the Carolinas, although the drive was pre-RDX. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful drive (specially going through the tunnels).

 

cool dude,gr8 pics

 

Thanks for the pics and stats!

Are those the stock tires? The road in some of the pics looks well plowed. How much snow did you have to drive over and how did they do on it?

 

Yep, stock tires. The roads were clear except for sections with drifts (8-10"). When I got to the ski resort (Snowshoe WV) there were unplowed sections of the parking lots and roads to the condos. The stock tires seemed to do fine -- at least as well as the stock all-season tires I have had on other cars. The only trouble I had was backing out of a snowed-in parking space, which was almost impossible. Then I realized I had the parking brake on the whole time (it started beeping when I put it drive afterwards -- wish the beep had warned me in reverse!). Later on I had no issues when I parked in similar spots and remembered to release the brake *before* backing out, idiot!

 

Nice pics and good stats to know, thanks for posting. I may have to talk myself into a CO ski trip! I can relate on the e-brake issues, ha. It's an adjustment not having the hand-pull brake. Or a clutch.

 

c_hunter Great pics! looks like you have been enjoying the winter. I am ready for summer now after this long cold spell.