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Along with the island caches, one of the pluses of winter caching is following tracks right to the cache. We spent a winter or two digging out caches, only to see smarter people a few days later saying…”Thanks to T and B for digging it out for us!”
We have gotten less determined and more intelligent about such things! I do agree with SL……if it’s feeling like it’s not fun….wait another year. We whiffed on October 1, which was one of our final dates, because of many of the reasons you mention…..working late, very dark, plus we had our infant grandson to care for. We took care of the date the following year and I honestly don’t think our well being is any worse or better for it! 🙄
For shorties like me it can be hard to follow in the footsteps of the extra tall cachers. :LOL:
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Avoid guardrails on dead ends in the winter. They are usually plowed in and impossible to get to. Same thing with guardrails at the end of a parking lot.
One winter, I went to find a cache near Lambeau Field in the parking lot. The guardrail was buried by a 20-25 foot high snowbank. I walked away without even attempting to make the find.
I went back the following year with no snow at all on the ground and made the easy find.
If you are looking for winter friendly caches to do, the Yellow Brick Road series in Oconto are pretty much winter friendly for the most part.
Here’s a quickie video I just made today about geocaching in winter.
Awww…You made it look so nice and winter wonderland-ish. Thanks for sharing!
Last night two caches got published at the end of Hamilton Ave (a fairly long very accessible road in Eau Claire). “WH Park and Grab” 1 & 2. I’m crossing my fingers that the CO has a whole run of these planned for all the way down Hamilton because that would really help me!
some pics of caching yesterday near Rhinelander
Highs out here for the week are in the mid to upper 50s
The best sig is no sig.
oops! wrong thread……………………….
Yeah, sweetlife, that’ll be about what it looks like here today.
Winter is also a good time to solve puzzle caches. If you have enough of those in your area, that should make for some good caching next summer.
@todd300 wrote:
One winter, I went to find a cache near Lambeau Field in the parking lot. The guardrail was buried by a 20-25 foot high snowbank. I walked away without even attempting to make the find.
I know what cache you’re talking about, and I always thought the clue meant not to search on game days.
-The Happy Hodag!
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@The Happy Hodag wrote:
Winter is also a good time to solve puzzle caches. If you have enough of those in your area, that should make for some good caching next summer.
@todd300 wrote:
One winter, I went to find a cache near Lambeau Field in the parking lot. The guardrail was buried by a 20-25 foot high snowbank. I walked away without even attempting to make the find.
I know what cache you’re talking about, and I always thought the clue meant not to search on game days.
-The Happy Hodag!
No clue on the page right now, but there is a disclaimer on the cache page that warns it may not be winter friendly.
@todd300 wrote:
@The Happy Hodag wrote:
Winter is also a good time to solve puzzle caches. If you have enough of those in your area, that should make for some good caching next summer.
@todd300 wrote:
One winter, I went to find a cache near Lambeau Field in the parking lot. The guardrail was buried by a 20-25 foot high snowbank. I walked away without even attempting to make the find.
I know what cache you’re talking about, and I always thought the clue meant not to search on game days.
-The Happy Hodag!
No clue on the page right now, but there is a disclaimer on the cache page that warns it may not be winter friendly.
That’s what I meant. I found it in the middle of winter with no snowbanks around at all. My first thought was “Not winter friendly MY @$$” I might have even put that in my log as well. I’m pretty sure that was a warm winter that year tho.
-The Happy Hodag!
The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.
Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.
Walking through waist deep snow last winter looking for two lonely caches without a “not winter friendly” attribute was not nice
One was gone thanks to critters but was supposed to be in a hole at the base of an old oak I could stick my head into after I dug it out
The other was buried under feet of snow under a fallen tree I barely knew was there due to the snowThe best sig is no sig.
So far, so good. I haven’t missed a day yet! It’s possible that I will run out of options before winter expires but I think I’ll at least have a really good dent made here. I’d love to have the daylight come back just a little bit faster than it is but we had a nice mild December and that really helped me so I can’t complain too much.
Most of the puzzle caches around here seem to be field puzzles…or at least the ones that I haven’t found yet are. I just recently learned the trick where you can change the coords on Geocaching.com so that your puzzle solution will go right into your PQ and I’m just dying to use that so hopefully a good armchair solve will come along one of these days!
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