Looks like a lot of fun.
A few years ago I was living in the sticks and commuting 5 miles to Cockermouth. On christmas day night we had a huge snow fall leaving a lot of colleagues supposedly snowed in. I was one of the few who showed up for work on Boxing Day and the only reason was so I could have a ride like the one you've just had (if i was a driver I'd have probably used the 'snowed in' excuse too). In them days we'd get one day of snow, one week of slush and that was if we were lucky!