Cache Under Snow, Don’t Stub Your Toe!

[+Iowa Tom]

First I will say that I wish the author of a post could correct a misspelled word in the title! If there is a way, somebody please let me know how.

 

Thanks moderator for changing "sub" to "stub."

 

What percentage of your caches are typified (more or less) by this image right now?

 

 

I’d say about 30% of mine are under-snow at the moment. I heard we are experiencing the effects of La Niña which, according to this chart does not affect all places equally.

 

I suspect that many of my caches will go under water next spring as well.

 

Merry Christmas

 

-it

Edited December 19, 2005 by Iowa Tom

[+Prime Suspect]

0%

 

(Only forum moderators can alter a thread heading, once it's been posted.)

Edited December 18, 2005 by Prime Suspect

[+nfa]

90% or more

[Hugh Jazz]

100% of the caches I found today looked just like the one in the photo.

[+Metaphor]

10% ( OK, just one cache in Upstate NY, not here in Maryland...)

[+Renegade Knight]

Within my go out for the day and look radius. 100%. So I placed a lame micro in honor of other threads that have taken place in these forums.

[+sbell111]

None, in my current area.

[+CamoCacher]

100% but I love the extra challenge. With a good 6 inches in our area there aren't to many that aren't covered.

[+Ed_S]

The ones I own, 100%.

 

The ones I've found, I'd guess 75 - 80% are currently under a layer of white camoflage.

[+One of the Texas Vikings]

 

 

Wow !!!!

 

What is that white stuff on the ground ?????

 

In Houston we have humidity, but then, you don't have to shovel humidity !

[Major Catastrophe]

If you count the advisory for freezing rain tonight, then 100%.

 

If you ignore that (it's going to warm up tomorrow anyway) then 33%. That one's well-buried by now.

Edited December 19, 2005 by Major Catastrophe

[+Iowa Tom]

I dono about the white stuff but I will tell you it's cold! I thought of the title for this post right after I severely stubbed one of my little toes up in my son's bedroom. It's turning all shades of blue right now.

[+Deliveryguy428]

So that is what snow looks like.....here it is just ice...yay for the south....

 

::walks to a huge snow pile:: hey lets kick some snow around ::crunching of toe:: found a cache :-X

[+Coal7]

1 of mine and if they plow and pile. My other one wont see the light of day till June

[+briansnat]

Last week all of them. This week probably a few. The snow's largely melted. Maybe 2-3 inches left.

[+tands]

OK, don't ever complain about folks posting spoilers on your caches. That photo blatantly reveals the location of your hide.

 

On another note, some caches down South here are almost Winter-Only caches. Wildlife in NC, for instance, would be covered by an impenetrable coating of several inches of mosquitos in the Summer, or so I've heard. We plan to attempt it once the 'little girl' stops raining on us so much and swelling the rivers.

 

- T of TandS

Edited December 19, 2005 by tands

[+altosaxplayer]

0%

 

Havent even had enough snow to cover a micro yet this year

[+NotThePainter]

Our ground is covered right now but 0.1% of my hides are covered*. Why? I guess because my GPS was a Christmas gifts years ago and I became sensitive, real fast, to snow accessible caches.

 

*One of my puzzle caches is temporarily unavailable until the snow shoveling gets done, another one will become unavailble if Boston gets 2 to 3 FEET of snow. So I think I'm pretty safe.

 

Paul

[uperdooper]

the upper peninsula of michigan has so much snow in the winter, caches close down or disappear.

 

 

 

events can be fun though.

 

[+radioscout]

Actually 0%.

And 60% of my caches can be found if the ground is covered with snow.

[+Packanack]

the upper peninsula of michigan has so much snow in the winter, caches close down or disappeard

 

I attended college in the UP, I enjoyed seeing the pictures you posted from your Labor Day Event.

[+olbluesguy]

This gives me an Idea....I'm going to put arrows at all my caches for the winter.

No excuses to stay indoors and not cache.

[uperdooper]

the upper peninsula of michigan has so much snow in the winter, caches close down or disappeard

 

I attended college in the UP, I enjoyed seeing the pictures you posted from your Labor Day Event.

labor day? that was the 4th of july.

[+The Herd]

Having cached in the snow, I never really thought about the effects on ;my own caches, since we had found the boxes ok. However, this weekend, some cachers hit up my boyfriends multi and reported how fun it was to dig through the snow to find the "plaque" they were looking for. When we went to the location ourselves, we realized just how much "fun" it had been for them. THe snow plows had piled an entire parking lots worth of snow on top of the plaque. KUDOS to the newbies that found it though! I think I would have given up after the first few inches!!!