We've been lucky this season to avoid the snowstorms that battered N.E. until today. We got hit with 7" today. I left at 4am it was 16f/-8c with snow showers. The aftn was a little bit of riding, a little bit of pushing, some handlebar wrestling. Had to bail to the side to let cars get by a few times. The main roads were rideable, the side streets were a quagmire. Over the years I've practiced riding a straight line. That comes in handy for riding in a tire track with 7" of loose, mash potatoey type snow all around you. Most of the time I maintain a pretty good line. I put the bike on the middle ring and up in 2nd or 3rd gear and try to maintain a steady cadence and the goal is to just keep moving forward. And that was on a side street that gets some traffic. For the streets that don't get enough traffic to lay down a decent base to ride on, then I was pushing the bike. All in all I pushed three separate times for a total of maybe 400 yds. Even your fat bike ain't gonna get you thru stuff like that. It was 30f/-1c during all of this so I was heating up big time. Had the jacket unzipped, vents wide open. It was a good workout.