Went down 7 days after the big snow, no one had yet traveled up the driveway as you can see in the shot below.  I originally thought that most of it would have melted on the gravel driveway and the minivan could have made it.  Tom Bledsoe suggested I borrow his 4wd pickup and drive up and down a few times before taking the van over.  Luckily I took his advice as the minivan would have never made it back up the hill to get out.  After driving over it twice in the truck I had a very hard time getting back up the big hill in 2wd.

A foot of snow that had compacted but not been driven on since it fell a week ago