BeenThereDunnThat Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Here in central connecticut we just got about 10 to 12 inches of snow dumped on us.... on top of the 6 or so inches that was already on the ground. It took me almost an hour to shovel out my car and driveway this morning and then 40 minutes to drive to work... normally it takes about 7 minutes. I get home and check my emails and see that I have over 50 emails from the past two days containing notifications from my watchlist. What the heck?? No wonder I can never keep up in the "finds"! I already put my GPS unit away until the spring thaw! Crazy people out there.... Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Some of us think those who put away their GPS and spend the winter watching television are crazy . Quote Link to comment
+cudlecub Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 With snow, who needs the gps? Quote Link to comment
+trail hound Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Some of us think those who put away their GPS and spend the winter watching television are crazy . I'm with Brian.....No Ticks,Snakes or Sweat.....As for the snow....I love to see what kinda critters are running around and leaving tracks. Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I love to see what kinda critters are running around and leaving tracks. It was in the 40's in the foothills when I went yesterday and I got to watch this guy walk up the stream. Quote Link to comment
+JDandDD Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Put the GPS away!?! This is a great time of year to cache with snow hanging on the pines. Wouldn't want to miss it. And don't miss the bugs of summer either. JDandDD Quote Link to comment
+Bill & Tammy Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Put the GPS away!?! This is a great time of year to cache with snow hanging on the pines. Wouldn't want to miss it. And don't miss the bugs of summer either. JDandDD Exactly, no PI, mosquitos, ticks or sweltering humidity... this is the best time of year to go caching! Plus it wards off cabin fever. Quote Link to comment
+flannelman Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Fewer muggles!! There is no snow in Arkansas. I've been caching 3 of the last 4 days and has it ever been great!! This is definatly the best time to cache here. Summers are 100 degrees with 110% humidity. You have to swim around wherever you go here during the summer. Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I love to see what kinda critters are running around and leaving tracks. It was in the 40's in the foothills when I went yesterday and I got to watch this guy walk up the stream. Very cool. Yeah, critter tracks are fun, too; but the best thing about cold, snowy winter weather is that you usually don't have a muggle problem. I reckon you don't have much of a people problem at all. Quote Link to comment
+Westerner Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hey Tahosa, What trail did you see the cat on? Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hey Tahosa, What trail did you see the cat on? North Fork of Little Thompson down the hill from where you wanted to hide a cache. Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Winter: no tree cover. Easiest time to hold good satellite reception (ignoring that the hider's reception in August may have been terrible). Best time to hide a cache with good coordinates under tree cover. Better views from the hilltops and ridges when there's no leaves blocking your line of sight to the valley below. And so forth. Quote Link to comment
+1stimestar Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Though I have been plagued with a health problem this winter I would cache if I could and plan on going as soon as I can. This is from last winter. Quote Link to comment
+WaldenRun Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) With snow, who needs the gps? Assuming you mean you can follow footprints, that doesn't work when going for FTF. This is from today's hunt, which took place during the storm the thread originator speaks of: The only tracks we could follow were from snowmobiles. -WR Edited January 4, 2006 by WaldenRun Quote Link to comment
adampierson Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Though I have been plagued with a health problem this winter I would cache if I could and plan on going as soon as I can. This is from last winter. Hey! Is that a divining rod you have in your hand??? Quote Link to comment
+Firefighter Skippy Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Well, in the past week Ive driven over 700 miles and been out twice in the rain -1 day thunder & lightning - to do the 12 Days of Cachmas. Yesterdays snow kept me home though and now I have to work the next few days, but I'm itching to get out there . Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hey, IK found 100 caches between July 9 and August 10 of '05. Brutal humid wet (hurricane) summer. Cachin' on. Here, winter's easy. Quote Link to comment
+Team Red Oak Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hasn't snowed much in our part of Maryland yet. But we were out caching in the snow in Nov. This is our first winter caching so we weren't sure how we would like it. Well we love it. In fact I like it better than summer caching. I can't wait for even more snow - bring it on! We have our first cache ready to hide. I went and got the first set of coords in Nov, then over Christmas break I had my husband try to find the location and he had almost the exact reading I did in Nov. We'll check the coords again when we actually place the hide but winter is great! We just ran out of zip lock bags so as soon as I get to the store the cache will be placed and I will do the page, so hopefully by this weekend the cache will be in place and sent in for approval. We've talked about some caching strategy of trying to get in a bunch of wilderness finds before all the brambles grow back and then in the summer do some of the city caches. My poor husband had one PI almost all summer long. We love winter caching so far! Quote Link to comment
+Doc-Dean Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) Snow??? Crazy??? I went to Antarctica to get a cache, does that qualify me as crazy? And yet there are still 3 caches withing 5 miles of my house that I have yet to go find... Edited January 4, 2006 by Doc-Dean Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 We don't get huge amounts of snow here in Illinois, but we get our share. After the first big snowfall of the season, I couldn't wait to get out and find a cache. I managed a FTF on a cache in a field covered with snow. Along with all the benefits of caching in winter that others have listed for me it's just plain fun....one of those 'stupid fun" kind of times. FYI: Caching Through the Snow Bret Quote Link to comment
+Teamhawaii1981 & blueicyrose Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I think I've done more caching this winter then ever. And as soon as I get my PQ, I'm outta here! Quote Link to comment
+1stimestar Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hey! Is that a divining rod you have in your hand??? No it was just a stick I broke off along side the road as I forgot my hiking/poking/digging stick! Quote Link to comment
BeenThereDunnThat Posted January 4, 2006 Author Share Posted January 4, 2006 Wow.... you guys are amazing true to the heart geocachers.... I feel like such an amature now Quote Link to comment
+Mystery Ink Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hardcore enough to go caching in 60+ mph winds 6 second video of the winds we had up there We cached up at Montebello OSP in 60 mph winds we got 21 caches that day up there only 1 DNF because it washed away in a flooded area. The rain was stinging our faces as if it was rocks hitting us. And we even found an Aquarium cache. Quote Link to comment
+krisse Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I went to Antarctica to get a cache, does that qualify me as crazy? Woha - I just read your log.. Very nice! Wish I could go there some day. And yes - I've been out a couple of times this winter, my brand new 60csx will be arriving soon then i'm going to live on the streets doing caches for a few days.. Quote Link to comment
+Elde Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Winter: no tree cover. Easiest time to hold good satellite reception (ignoring that the hider's reception in August may have been terrible). Best time to hide a cache with good coordinates under tree cover. Better views from the hilltops and ridges when there's no leaves blocking your line of sight to the valley below. And so forth. That assumes you live in a part of the country where the leaves and tree part company in the winter. T'ain't the case here in the great Pacific Northwet. Quote Link to comment
+RockyRaab Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Utah. You could slog through mud - or die in an avalanche. You could get frostbite - or hike at 50 degrees. You could cache - or be snowed in with a power failure. ON THE SAME DAY!! Quote Link to comment
+1NatureMom Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 You havent been there or done that untill you've cached in the snow! Come join everyone else in Conn. on the Cachemas Quest! Hope to see ya on the snowy trails! Leslie Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow... If it don't stop the mail, it's good caching weather as far as I'm concerned. Quote Link to comment
+Anonymous' Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Winter: no tree cover. Easiest time to hold good satellite reception (ignoring that the hider's reception in August may have been terrible). Best time to hide a cache with good coordinates under tree cover. Better views from the hilltops and ridges when there's no leaves blocking your line of sight to the valley below. And so forth. That assumes you live in a part of the country where the leaves and tree part company in the winter. T'ain't the case here in the great Pacific Northwet. I know exactly how you feel. Quote Link to comment
BRTango Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 We've got a good bit of snow here in the NH/VT area as well. I'm all for caching in the snow... but when it gets dark at 4:30 and I don't get off work until 6, it makes it kind of hard... I typically have to wait until the weekends, but lately I've had to work those as well. Quote Link to comment
skibum923 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I'm stuck here in snowless Kentucky. Looking at these pictures make me can't wait to move to Fairbanks in February. Quote Link to comment
+1stimestar Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I'm stuck here in snowless Kentucky. Looking at these pictures make me can't wait to move to Fairbanks in February. Hey cool and welcome up! Let's go caching when you get here. What are you coming up for? Fairbanks is an awesome town. Quote Link to comment
skibum923 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I'm stuck here in snowless Kentucky. Looking at these pictures make me can't wait to move to Fairbanks in February. Hey cool and welcome up! Let's go caching when you get here. What are you coming up for? Fairbanks is an awesome town. I should be leaving here in about a month. I plan on driving up so that could take me anywhere from a week and a half to two weeks to do. Unfortunately I will probably only be there a few weeks before I get sent to Iraq, but I will be back next fall. Quote Link to comment
+1stimestar Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Ahhhh Ft. Wainwright. Well there are a lot of caches that are quick and easys right in town. February is when the Yukon Quest is also. (Toughest sled dog race in the world.) It starts in Fairbanks this year and is very exciting to watch. I drove up in December of 03 in a car with out even front wheel drive. If you are coming up the AlCan don't worry too much. They keep the roads pretty well sanded. You should get a copy of The Milepost, which covers every highway in the state. It also tells you which establishments are closed for the winter. Also, NEVER pass up a gas station with your gas tank under half full without filling up. Make sure to bring some tapes or CDs if you listen to music while you drive as there are hundreds of miles where no radio at all is available, not even AM. Good luck! Quote Link to comment
+dougsmiley Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I just started geocaching and I thought I'd hate winter caching, but I'm really enjoying it. No bugs to worry about which is a big plus. I may find I enjoy it just as much as summer caching. Probaly won't go out too much in the snow, but it doesn't usually stick around long here in Indiana. Quote Link to comment
+Timber_Wolf Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Wo kein Schnee liegt kann gelaufen werden. If i like i go in the winter at 1 am for an cache. There is no wrong or bad weather or time to go. Quote Link to comment
+Night Stalker Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 (edited) My caching partner and I purchased snow shoes for just such occasions. We have tried caching in deep snow without them, but it sucks to take half an hour to travel 100' when the snow is waist deep. By the way we didn't find that cache on that try. When we finally found the cache the next try we found that the coordinates were more than 50' off. Edited January 8, 2006 by Night Stalker Quote Link to comment
+Davispak Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Here in NC it has been 55 degrees and sunny, so perfect caching weather, although I have hunted on rainy days and so far when it has been 28 degrees out. We only get about one really good snow a year ( live in the foothills) we mainly get Ice and sometimes alot of that. but very mild this year. I was in the military and I was out in every type of weather you can imagine so I don't see a few flakes or a little puddle slowing me down. Cache ON! Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I'm stuck here in snowless Kentucky. Looking at these pictures make me can't wait to move to Fairbanks in February. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Kentuckian here. I'm wearing T-shirts in January; outside the house. I love the south! Quote Link to comment
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