It was just supposed to be a leisurely drive to get to the Bear Paws and snap some pictures

Took a leisurely drive out to the Bear Paws for the first time a couple weeks ago. Somehow, I returned unharmed.

And more miraculously, so did my car.

Someone should put a little note in two-door Hondas saying: "If there's lots of ice ahead and 10-foot ditches to each side, don't drive me here."

But there's no such note.

And, for some reason, my brain didn't register that this could, in fact, be dangerous.

It was Saturday. Just about noon.

It had snowed a couple days earlier, and there was still a thick layer of white stuff on the ground.

The sun beamed through the clouds and slowly (very s...