This is the first few minutes of a night snow ride where we had to turn around because of deep snow. I was in the lead with my partner following with his Arctic Cat 500. The marks in the track are from his tires jumping up and down trying to get traction. The Temp was in the single digits and the snow was really slick.
My LED did a good job of lighting the way. I lost a lot of rear braking because of ice build up. The loss of traction going up the steep mountains in the deep snow and the brakes were the deciding factor to turn around. We were within a mile of making the top but had turn around at about 7000 ft.