+chuckwagon101 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I would like to hear some true stories of the worst weather conditions others have been out caching. Wifey has accused me of dragging her caching when she swears that NOBODY else would go. I assured her that many people just look at adverse weather as a "stimulating adjunct", but I don't think I convinced her! Quote Link to comment
+Skillet68 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Wasn't really the worst weather conditions, but it certainly was an adventure. White caps on the lake! Inspired this cache... Marooned on Spence Island Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 (edited) 26 degrees below zero for a FTF! My pen didn't work, I broke the ziplock bag that the log was in, my exposed bits were blue, it was a blast!!! My first day ever of geocaching, it snowed 7 inches, and I fell through thin ice on a pond during my last hunt... I once tipped over while canoeing to a cache during a light snow... Another time I paddled to a cache during such a hard rain, that my canoe almost swamped due to the 3-4 inches of water sloshing around in the bottom... Another time, I was caching in Moab, UT at the end of July, and spent an hour in 115 degree sun looking for a cache...I only stopped when I started getting dizzy... wait...I'm a lunatic...I need to develop better judgement about when to head out caching...please...send help!!! Jamie - NFA Edited October 15, 2006 by NFA Quote Link to comment
+olbluesguy Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I would like to hear some true stories of the worst weather conditions others have been out caching. Wifey has accused me of dragging her caching when she swears that NOBODY else would go. I assured her that many people just look at adverse weather as a "stimulating adjunct", but I don't think I convinced her! Check out the logs for this cache back in Feb. Big Brother Bob Drinks Too Much Quote Link to comment
bogleman Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 check out the first few logs on one of my earlier hides, use the attributes properly. Good logs but I felt bad about what they went through to get the smile. Personally I will go out anytime the urge strikes. Quote Link to comment
+llatnek Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Way down here in the Midlands of South Carolina (where they loot the food stores today if the weatherman says chance of snow next week), I once had to quit searching for a cache because the sleet was sticking to my glasses. I simply couldn't see. Quote Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I went caching when there was three inches of snow on the gound during a snow storm. I walked all the way from my apartment, too. It was at least a mile. Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 After reading all these stories and referrals.........I feel like such a wimp! Quote Link to comment
+tomfuller & Quill Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 While doing the toughest caches I can in the "Counting Counties in Oregon " cache (GCR9XY) I have encountered some bad weather and bad roads as well. All 3 of the most memorable were more than 100 miles from home. Two on September 15, 2006 check my logs for Cougar Rock (GCP4B4) and Baldy Dash (GCM4A9). I met Chubby Forest Monkey (CFM) on February 28 and we snowshoed up Hogg Rock to Baked Ham (GCK0XZ). It was a DNF but check CFM's pics. She came back with Odder on June 23 to find it. Odder is another story, I saw her do a polar bear swim at an event cache earlier in February. Check my bookmark list for CCiO. 3 more counties to go... Tom Fuller Crescent, Oregon Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 I checked all the cords and viewed all the pics! WOW!! I showed wifey a couple of them.........she just shook her head!! I am going to keep these posts in mind.......the next time I stumble into a briar patch and think I have it tough!!! Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 A 20-minute hail-storm while night caching. Them things HURT! Quote Link to comment
+Teamcoz Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Last month we did a group night out during Tropical Storm Ernesto, it was a blast. Even the Little Coz's were out and hung in there during the heavy rains. Quote Link to comment
+Metaphor Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Try these two hikes in Wales, one up Pen-y-fan and the other up Mt. Snowdon. Pen-y-fan Mt. Snowdon Quote Link to comment
+Former Hawkeye Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Ice storm last November. I wanted to clear all the caches in the Fargo-Moorhead (Red River of North) before winter. There said NO Travel-but then its geocaching is special to us nuts The hardest thing was getting the little micro log out of the bison tube. I had to take it back to my car and I nearly wiped out going back to place it in its hiding place. I was the last one to find it until the flood left the area in April. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) Our trip to the Haystack Hike cache comes to mind. It wasn't that cold, temps were in the 20s, but when we started out it was overcast and breezy. On our way up the mountain that changed and it started snowing, but what was really intense was the wind. The gusts were close to hurricane force and the trees were heeling over. As we walked along the trail we could feel ourselves going up and down because the tree roots were lifting the ground when the wind gusted. It was a really strange feeling and kind of scary. The snow was almost horizontal a times. To add to things it had rained heavily the day before so the trail was basically a stream (see pic below). I love weather like this. Makes you feel so alive! We've also gone out after snowstorms (once after a 2 ft dump), in cold condiitions (near 0 F) and in the pouring rain. Edited October 16, 2006 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) I have read all the updates and I cannot believe them!!! Yet, I DO BELIEVE THEM! These things are too real to be made up. My greatest difficulty was when a tiny bridge was being repaired and I had to walk in two inches of water across a "raging" stream that was two feet wide! I can see that I have a lot of contemplating to do about some future caches and difficulty ratings. I have GOT to get me a good story too!! Edited October 16, 2006 by chuckwagon101 Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I have a habit of storm racing on the ground. I once got to camp literally as a storm hit with 30mph+ winds. I was checking on one of my own caches. I've night cached with a group during active storm warnings, and got in from that just as the bottom fell out and it started pouring. The lightening was helping us read the GPS screen. After that I finally ran out of luck and got caught in a downpour, no storms though, just got soaked. I had met another cacher in the woods, and we were hunting aimlessly due to bad coords. I got a call on the radio that it was coming, so we headed out, but it started pouring soon after. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I was going to link to some Buffalo-area caches found over the weekend, but if they're geocaching, I guess they can't log their finds until the power is back on. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 I have read all the updates and I cannot believe them!!! Yet, I DO BELIEVE THEM! These things are too real to be made up. My greatest difficulty was when a tiny bridge was being repaired and I had to walk in two inches of water across a "raging" stream that was two feet wide! I can see that I have a lot of contemplating to do about some future caches and difficulty ratings. I have GOT to get me a good story too!! You have to remember that there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 ... My greatest difficulty was when a tiny bridge was being repaired and I had to walk in two inches of water across a "raging" stream that was two feet wide! ... Ummm, why didn't you simply step over? Quote Link to comment
+tands Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Yeah Skillet, don't wonder why nobody has gone after 'Marooned' yet with your scary logs! - T of TandS Wasn't really the worst weather conditions, but it certainly was an adventure. White caps on the lake! Inspired this cache... Marooned on Spence Island Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 ... My greatest difficulty was when a tiny bridge was being repaired and I had to walk in two inches of water across a "raging" stream that was two feet wide! ... Ummm, why didn't you simply step over? LOL! Tongue in cheek! Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 I can see that I am going to start on some inclement weather, 5 star difficulty caches. Soon. I think I will start "toughening" up by ceasing to complain about heavy dews messing up my walking shoes and beggar lice ruining my Gold Toe socks! Quote Link to comment
+Team Teuton Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 During Hurricane Francis. I did think it was a bit blustery but had no idea all this was going on around me as I was hiding THIS cache. Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 During Hurricane Francis. I did think it was a bit blustery but had no idea all this was going on around me as I was hiding THIS cache. DAYYYYYYYY-YUMMMMMMM! Now that is concentration! To be focusing on hiding a cache so intently and miss the "white tornado"......!!!!!! Wow! Love it! Quote Link to comment
+Moose Mob Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Snow, rain, and hail? Let's look at the other end of the spectrum. Picture a cloudless day in August anyplace in the desert southwest. Hiking even a half mile in 120º is insane. (yes, I did it once) Quote Link to comment
+chuckwagon101 Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 Snow, rain, and hail? Let's look at the other end of the spectrum. Picture a cloudless day in August anyplace in the desert southwest. Hiking even a half mile in 120º is insane. (yes, I did it once) Hey Moose, you lived to tell about it too! I think I can take the heat better than the cold.... but I don't know. Having a heat stroke would be a problem for me to worry about. I only have a few caches and they were found during hot weather. We take water and don't push it if it's more than a mile in the heat. But 120 degrees...............YIKES! I don't think I could do it. Quote Link to comment
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