OK, about the jeep bashing.
I drive an 89 toyota camry,
we drove up to the snow, on snow covered roads, when we parked it was still coming down pretty good. SO, my wife took the two kids to play in the snow while I sat there putting on tire chains. On the way out, the kids were READY TO GO, they would not have been happy if we were stuck or had to wait to put chains on.
BOY WAS I GLAD I PUT THEM ON... I WAS STUCK,  but nothing a little rocking didnt fix. got unstuck and the plow drove by GRRR, so I took them off, BUT it woulda sucked to have to figure out how to get them on buried in the snow. got on the clean stuff yanked them off. had them on for a total of 50 ft.
sometimes it IS better safe then sorry, had we left five minutes early, we would have needed the chains to get halfway down the mountain.