That's been my idea as well...no point in wasting money on a sled that I'd have to load up and haul north 3-5 hours (its honestly only a 2 hour drive)...however with idiots that don't know how to drive on a good day think they gotta get out and drive in the snow....add to that a 2 lane narrow, winding, mountain road...and driving way too fast, 1 accident and you are stuck there for hours...totally not worth it especially for just a weekend.
I'd rather have one of those mini-trucks, or my Bronco 2 and just drive right up into the hills behind my house and go where I want. Even at that there isn't enough snow to need tracks, or 4WD most of the time LOL. We got about a foot right around Christmas time, which was enough for me. After the holidays I could care less anymore. I did put the Bronco 2 in 4WD this year for just a day LOL...figured that was enough 4WD use for another year or...umm...3 which was the last time it got put into 4WD, but we had 2 - 3 feet of that white stuff that year. Typically the 4WD don't get used much around here anymore we just don't get the snow that we used to. You can go up to McCall, Donnelly, or Cascade and get into some deep stuff and oftentimes in the winter they have trails along the highway where the sled guys run all the time, pretty cool up there, if it wasn't for having to work, I'd love to live up there, especially when they have the McCall winter carnival...I've lived in southwestern Idaho for 31 years, have yet to go to that winter carnival
. I've seen pictures of all the ice sculptures they do up there but never been up there in person, its just not worth the 3-5 hour drive up there as you know there's going to be wrecks on the highway going up and/or coming back and a day isn't enough time to really get to see much, and so many people up there there's no place to park either....can't rent a hotel or anything up there as they're booked out years in advance too. I really need to go up there during the summer and scout out some areas, where I possibly could pull a camp trailer up there and stay in for a few days in order to be able to check out the carnival and some of the old businesses and stuff....but I'd think I would want to rent a sled for that to get around up there, just park the truck and trailer somewhere out of the way and just ride the sled.