Since there's not much comment on the H1, I'll throw in my
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I keep my deuce parked in a meadow on my property at about 7,200 feet in Colorado. The meadow is pretty flat, but gets a fair amount of snow. This winter I went to pull out and was having trouble in 10" of snow, but no weight and purely highway ribbed tires. I did get it out with some back & forth and the front axle engaged. In contrast a couple of winters ago I needed to use the tandem axle trailer I have parked in the same meadow next to where the deuce now lives. I drove in and backed up to the trailer through 2 feet of snow in the H1 and hooked onto the trailer with no problems. I did need to put the H1 in low to get enough wheel spin to clear the tread while pulling the trailer out, but it came out without chains. The H1 does have BFG all terrains on it, so considerably better traction just from that. I've only ever put chains on the H1 once, and that was due to mud and that same 3,000 pound trailer with 1,200 pounds of gear on it pushing the rear end around some nasty mountain roads downhill around the corners.. I've driven the H1 through 24" continuous snow with no effort, and pounded my way through 48" drifts with a couple of runs to get enough momentum (the drifts were on my property, so no worries about hidden obstacles).
My guess is that chained up the deuce would out-perform the H1, but for something you can hop in and get through some pretty nasty stuff, the H1 does a fine job. It is AWD so even the wife can drive with pretty good results. However I have learned that as well as it does getting out of trouble, it is just as good at getting into it. A couple years ago I was headed up to Denver with some slight weather, cruising with traffic at around 65ish, as we came around a bend I saw traffic stopped. I applied as much brake as I felt I could, and realized I wasn't going to be able to stop in time, so I gave it just a little more and she broke loose. So there I was going sideways at 50mph, luckily the cars around me were able to get clear. So I casually let up on the brake, checked over my shoulder and got it slid into the right lane (surreal slow motion memory of that event is still engraved in my brain). I had it under control again, but there still wasn't enough room to stop my 7,500 pounds. I looked at the fast approaching rear end of that white bronco and thought "That poor bugger doesn't deserve to get rear ended just for being in the wrong place at the right time," so I put it in the ditch. Once there I was able to get enough traction to stop decently, while traversing a side angle that would rolled a jeep. Once I got her slowed down, I pointed her up the side and got back on the shoulder and merged with traffic. I wish somebody would have had a video camera for that event, I would love to see the sideways slide and the casual trip into the ditch and back out! Once traffic crawled along I went past 5 accidents, the initial one followed by 4 more from poor buggers trying to stop just like me. The moral of the story is the H1 will go through anything but won't stop for squat.
Given the choice, for casual cruising, I take the H1, but if I needed to haul some serious cargo I'd chain up the deuce and feel quite confident that I'd get there with my 5 tons of gear.