Huge wrote:

On 2011-10-30, David WE Roberts wrote:

Unless you hire a 4x4 for the ski scene?

IME, rental 4x4s have their 4WD locked out.

Also the hire companies have terms in the contract forbidding off-road
use. I had "quite a time" with Avis in Rome about the condition of one
of their cars when I took it back after a number of landslides in
Central Italy. We'd driven down roads where mud had washed across the
carriageway and in places was forming mounds a couple of feet high. When
we got to the rental office the car was spattered in mud and looked as
if it had been off-roaded for many weeks. Which is what they tried to
argue.