The Defender is an awesome vehicle. I watched helplessly as a stock D90 pull a heavily modified CJ (mine) out of the mud. And then it pulled a Toyota SR5, and then another Wrangler. Humbling that.
Yeah, I live in the Rockies.
In fairness when you read this story, remember I have snow tires with the plastic ice-studs, but the cops saw me, waived me to the front of the line of cars and trucks in a pass that was about the close, and I proceeded to plod forward at 15-20mph in 4 feet of snow and ice with a line of 50 cars behind me.
Can’t go fast, but I can go anywhere.
I stopped at the cafe on the other side of the pass, and people got out and were taking pictures with my truck.