Synthetic Winch Line Freezes?

A Jeep Talk Show listener recently wrote in with his own experience with synthetic winch line.

They wrote;

On the winch debate on episode 390 or 391 I loved the battle between tony and josh. That’s was funny and entertaining. Both of you have great points. But one that I experienced you did not mention. I have 3 jeeps and two have synthetic and one that I was planning to put on my grand is steel. I am in Southern Arizona and this past winter we had an epic snow event ( snow lasted more than 1 day). Pretty rare. Anyway we had rain and snow and freezing temps for a couple days. In the bad weather I made the wife park the car and drive her JK and I drive the TJ so if anyone needed help I had the gear to go do. Now on to the rope vs cable. I went to use my winch and the rope and cylinder was one big piece of ice. Rope was wet and froze together. Making it non-usable at that time. However the cable was only stuck together minimally. But usable. Other that my vote is for rope. I like taking the extra weight off the front end.

Thanks for sharing your experience with us Tom P.