+Team Virginia Browns Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 How many cachers go on a caching break during the winter months? My break is kind of forced on me as it becomes too cold to drag the family out to cache. Anxiously awaiting sping and prime Geocaching season! Quote Link to comment
+Kitch Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 do kids ice skate, go sledding, skiing, etc??? Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 It's too cold for me to go hiking for caches. I hate winter! Checking my list of easy nearby cches... Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Nah, I take a break in the SUMMER when it's too HOT (not to mention having to cut the lawn and do other "home" things ) Winter time is peak time, here in Baltimore! Quote Link to comment
+BlueSkyMI Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 It was -1º this morning here (Michigan). Would not attempt it today....but if it was a nice sunny day in the 20's?? I'd drag my better half out there and do a few. Quote Link to comment
+BadAndy Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 I love the smell of geocaches in the snow... smells like..... hot cocoa. Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Is Winter that time of year when all the whiners head for the cabins and leave me alone in the back country. I'll cache and backpackand camp in the snow, let it snow. Quote Link to comment
+TeamK-9 Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Winter is great for caching. The parks are generally less visited, and sometimes there's footprints that you can follow right to the cache! A lot of people say snow caching takes too much preparation. I mean, you have to get dressed warmly, and you have to make sure you have dry clothes and gloves, and if you have children, you have to make sure they're dressed warmly. And you also have to realize wether or not there's snow where you're going: (On one of my first cache attempts, we went up to one of the state forests on the ridge. I live in the valley. And of course, it had been sunny, slightly warmer, and snowless for several days in the valley. I got to the mountains and found 1-2.5 feet of snow, and I of course was in trail runners.) But preparation for snow, is just as bad as preparing for really hot weather. Forget about it, get out there, and CACHE. Quote Link to comment
+Chuy! Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Come to San Diego and you can cache year round . Today's high was 64 and the low calls for 45. These are for the beach areas where it's generally cooler. Quote Link to comment
+Mastifflover Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 I've found that I cache more in the winter than the summer. I don't ski or snowmobile so it gives me something to do when there's snow on the ground. It always seems like there is too many other thing to do when the whether is nice. Besides theres NO BUGS!! Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Ummm... Hello people... Hiking through snow to caches will lead people DIRECTLY TO A CACHE HIDING SPOT.... I will cache in cold, but I will NOT under ANY circumstances go in snow, which would seriously compromise the integrity of a cache hide. Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Ummm... Hello people... Hiking through snow to caches will lead people DIRECTLY TO A CACHE HIDING SPOT.... I will cache in cold, but I will NOT under ANY circumstances go in snow, which would seriously compromise the integrity of a cache hide. hello back.....that's why you make false trails in the snow. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Ummm... Hello people... Hiking through snow to caches will lead people DIRECTLY TO A CACHE HIDING SPOT.... I will cache in cold, but I will NOT under ANY circumstances go in snow, which would seriously compromise the integrity of a cache hide. There are ways to avoid problems with that. In fact I think that makes snow caching even more fun. Making false trails and such can be amusing. Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 see! the pika thinks it's fun too. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 How many cachers go on a caching break during the winter months? Nope, its my favorite time to hunt caches. Great reception, no bugs or rattlesnakes and the swamp caches go down from 4 star terrain to 2. Best of all, all the softies are home watching football on TV. Quote Link to comment
+NickL Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Ummm... Hello people... Hiking through snow to caches will lead people DIRECTLY TO A CACHE HIDING SPOT.... I will cache in cold, but I will NOT under ANY circumstances go in snow, which would seriously compromise the integrity of a cache hide. I don't know about you Fly but by the time I find a cache there are plenty of assorted misleading tracks none of which lead directly to the cache. Besides that if the snow is that deep I tend to follow the animal paths/track as much as I can while bush wacking. On top of that present with lets say 3 chooses to approach the cache I will choose the worse, and then when I depart I will choose the worse of the remaining two. Quote Link to comment
+NickL Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Got a head of myself by replying to Fly before posting this. I do not cache in the summer because I do not enjoy the heat. I will cache most of the fall, winter and into the spring. I only do a few caches on each outing and I do it for exercise and stress relief. If I am feeling well I may do several caches on a single trip. The biggest factor that will keep me from caching in the winter is how the GPSr will work at the colder temps. While the GPS will function at the lower temperatures (assuming that you batteries are good) when it gets to cold the LCD display will stop to work. But if you are close a compass and paced off distance should get you close while the GPSr rewarms inside my coat, Besides that less muggles around in the cold weather. Quote Link to comment
+TeamK-9 Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Ummm... Hello people... Hiking through snow to caches will lead people DIRECTLY TO A CACHE HIDING SPOT.... I will cache in cold, but I will NOT under ANY circumstances go in snow, which would seriously compromise the integrity of a cache hide. There are ways to avoid problems with that. In fact I think that makes snow caching even more fun. Making false trails and such can be amusing. Yeah, there's all kinds of interesting ways to mislead people from the cache. I've read of a cacher carrying a waterbottle with yellow food coloring, that he dumped in the snow near the cache. It really distracted people from going after where they thought the cache was. Eventually people caught on though, and it became a fairly obvious marker as to where the cache really was. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Ummm... Hello people... Hiking through snow to caches will lead people DIRECTLY TO A CACHE HIDING SPOT.... I will cache in cold, but I will NOT under ANY circumstances go in snow, which would seriously compromise the integrity of a cache hide. Who said you'd find it in the first place you look?* *if you don't you'll leave a LOT of bogus footprints. Quote Link to comment
+Team Snoopy Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 My finding has gone down greatly since the bitter cold negative degree weather has come in. And if we do go out finding with my 2 boys (7&5) we plan extensively! This is the time for short easy finds for them. And the rest we save for the rest of the year. They have more fun doing other snow things, than hiking in it. Quote Link to comment
+BadAndy Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Ummm... Hello people... Hiking through snow to caches will lead people DIRECTLY TO A CACHE HIDING SPOT.... I will cache in cold, but I will NOT under ANY circumstances go in snow, which would seriously compromise the integrity of a cache hide. Apparently, you have'nt seen me caching in the snow. My tracks don't lead anywhere...directly. If someones curious enough to actually follow my swirlingn spinning backtracking, bushwhacking tracks...well...they deserve a find at the end. Quote Link to comment
+NickL Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Apparently, you have'nt seen me caching in the snow. My tracks don't lead anywhere...directly. If someones curious enough to actually follow my swirlingn spinning backtracking, bushwhacking tracks...well...they deserve a find at the end. And you need snow to do that? LOL that is my normal mode just that the snow shows it, I ussually get a good laugh downloading and looking at the tracks. Quote Link to comment
+TeamTeeGee Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 <--- So thankful to be living in Florida!!! What's snow? Quote Link to comment
+1stimestar Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 If you don't cache in the snow here, you don't cache for about 6 months of the year. The cold has slowed me down a bit but mostly other winter related things. Quote Link to comment
+Polgara Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Winter is the best for geocaching!!!! There are no bugs, and what other time of year can you go sledding on a gameland road in your Jeep!!! GET OUT AND CACHE!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+XRN95 Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Although I would describe myself as a summer person, I do not stop caching in the winter. It's -17C here today, windchill of about -30C give or take and I went out caching. Maybe its just addiction or mental illness, lol, but I don't quit when its cold and/or snowy. Fortune favors the Brave!! Quote Link to comment
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