The main difference between 2 wheel drive and 4 wheel drive is that when you get stuck with 4 wheel drive you are a lot more stucker.

Winch of course is the best. Handyman jack, come along and a box of kitty litter can all help a lot.

I marvel at the hood mounted Jack's. Brilliant for a new $80k vechile.

The good part about snow is, you can dig out if you want too. I always felt digging out was good mental therapy. I don't seem to need as much as I used too.

I got tired just looking at that. I need a nap.

I carry a 4x8 sheet of 5/8 plywood ,that fits great in the bed of my pickup.
The rear end went thru the ice and I was lucky to jack it up and slided the
plywood under the tires. Worked great that time!!

I use a couple chunks of old carpet, just stick em in front or back of the tires depending in which direction you need to go. 60% of the time it works everytime

A 70 pound Bruce anchor a 12000 pound winch with 90' of Amsteel on it .... tree saver steps, snatch blocks, soft shackles and kinetic rope. Since I have all that in the truck together with a chain saw I have not managed to get stuck and use it mostly to get others out of the pickles they got themselves into. Got the neighbor out of a ditch yesterday. No one was hurt and just a bit of plastic of the bumper splintered. Good tires are a big help when it gets white outside.

Yukon jack

All gas - no brakes

I have done that a few times myself. Lust last fall needed to get through low spot that had drifted and was to deep to make it through. Didn't take long to do and got a good path through and poured the inion to it and saved me about 3/4 of walking to get where I needed to be.

I was running snares and in the first picture you can see my track up ahead. I was headed south and the NW wind just piles the snow in on the south side of the hills. I am running stubble so the tops are pretty open. It would have been a lot shorter a dig to go out forward, until I came back. Then I could dig out what I did to back out. There was no way I was getting out to the south and then making it back north to the house with out more of these therapy sessions. I know what it will look like over the next hill from what the last one looked like. We have a small ground blizzard going now. You can see, just not far.