snow’s got me down

[djwini]

this happens to me every winter. when the snow and cold show up, i stop caching. i know there are brave souls out there, walking thru the snow to find those boxes. but i just can’t seem to get myself out there. i haven’t been caching since thanksgiving and i need a fix. i’m going next week right after christmas no matter what.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Just bundle up to the point of sweating and you’ll be fine. You can always peel off layers.

I did a couple caches today that were amazing, and would NEVER be the same in any other season. Der Schlechte Affe Geht Deutscher! and Eye can See For Miles

PICS!
Me in da tree

View from atop Eye Can See For Miles

[bandits]

We love to cache in the snow even though it is a bit more challenging. The calmness and the beauty is what gets us out and keeps us going. It is worth our time and we get some great workouts! Being prepared is definitely the key for us. . . researching the caches, portable shovel/snow scraper and plenty of layers as Jay mentioned.

We also take the opportunity to go after some of those 5/5’s that we would normally not be able to get to in the summer time without hauling our canoe. We really enjoy it, but it is definitely better to have someone with you, it just makes it that much more fun.

[elfdoctors]

I can sympathize. I’ve only “found” an event cache in the past 5 weeks. However, this has more to do with Hunting Season and Christmas than to snow. I hope to get out there again after the holidays.

[Greendale4X4]

I hear you. My goal was to get to #500 by year’s end, but I’m currently sitting at 482 🙁 . With my recent home purchase, my priorities sort of changed…

[Lostby7]

You could always hunt Earth caches and virtuals….

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

I understand as I let the last 3 weekends go by without even looking for a cache.

[Frizz]

Winter is a great time to cache, just don’t expect to get huge numbers. You will encounter different challenges than caching in other times of the year. Each time I go winter caching, I learn something new. This week I had the “keep your feet dry” lesson reinforced! Find a companion, and choose a few good caches. You’ll be glad you did.

Why not organize a meet & greet. A lot of other cachers are going through with-drawl too.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

There are advantages to winter caching, though. People all over Rochester MN have followed in our tracks the last couple weeks, LOL.

I don’t mind winter caching at all, but the ice that coated everything earlier has added a different dimension to the game. We went after many “available in winter” caches yesterday that were your typical ammo box under a fallen tree. Under at least two feet of snow, so that at times, you couldn’t distinguish that there WAS a tree. With a half inch covering of ice all over everything. Frozen into its spot once we did find it.

Let’s just say that I am suffering an overuse injury to my entire right arm today after chopping ice with makeshift ice picks all day yesterday. But….we FOUND ’em! I think about every one of those should get an extra two stars difficulty rating right now, too.

We also enjoy winter, anyway. Snowshoes, x-c country skis, all that kind of stuff. If you don’t enjoy winter to begin with, it might be a bit harder to be enthusiastic. And it’s okay to do something else, too! 😉

[gotta run]

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

We also enjoy winter, anyway. Snowshoes, x-c country skis, all that kind of stuff.

If you like X-C skiing [warning: shameless self-promotion alert following], we just placed a cache designed to be X-C skied to. GC1805M. Either skate or “classic” skiing. (“Back in the day” when we started skiing everything was “classic” and the skate skiers were the ones who chewed up our nice tracks. Now we’re the oddballs.) It’s at Brown County Reforestation camp so not exactly in your backyard though.

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[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

It’s not like I dislike winter, But I just haven’t felt like going out into the snow to go find them. I will its just a matter of time.

[Team Margaritaville]

Hey Hemi..

When you decide you want do Navarino bob let me know I’ll walk it with you.

[Doc.]

1. The first step to Winter Caching is to put down the remote and step away from the TV.

2. Step two: Don lots and lots of interlocking layers of clothing. It’s not official if your arms can touch your sides.

3. Step three: Remove five of the eight layers ‘cuz now ya gotta pee!

4. Step four: Grab 14 packs of AA batteries – 18 if there’s a wind chill!

5. Step five: Grab thermos of hot coffee and box of kleenex.

6. Step six: Remove three immediate layers ‘cuz now you are having a hot flash and gotta pee!

7. Step seven: Leave house.

8. Step eight: Leave house and remote.

9. Step nine: Take the car back out of reverse at the end of the driveway.

10. Step ten: Get out of the car at the end of the driveway and just lay down in the snow. Make a snow angel. Do a happy dance. It won’t kill ya! Then just drive to the damn cache site. Turn off the gpsr and follow Zuma!’s footprints in a straight line to a cache! Voila! Ya just made 20 finds in one hour by following Zuma! trax! 😉 Ahhh!!!! the numbers from chasing Zuma! !!!!! 🙂

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Oh gotta run, you’re tempting me! We need that Delorme page, too. Trekkin’ has informed me he thinks his skiing days are over due to some weirdness in his feet from the beating they’ve taken running marathons.

However…..I could ski while he looks for others nearby. Hmmmm…..no school next week. We’ll see!

I’m still weird, too. In fact, I’m so weird, I have some wonderful real wood skis that look like wood, even. Had a heck of a time finding someone who still knew how to pine tar those things, but when I did, they thought they were the coolest things they’d seen. Every now and then I’ll pretend I’m fast and skate for a few strokes, but then reason takes over again!

[bandits]

@Doc. wrote:

1. The first step to Winter Caching is to put down the remote and step away from the TV.

2. Step two: Don lots and lots of interlocking layers of clothing. It’s not official if your arms can touch your sides.

3. Step three: Remove five of the eight layers ‘cuz now ya gotta pee!

4. Step four: Grab 14 packs of AA batteries – 18 if there’s a wind chill!

5. Step five: Grab thermos of hot coffee and box of kleenex.

6. Step six: Remove three immediate layers ‘cuz now you are having a hot flash and gotta pee!

7. Step seven: Leave house.

8. Step eight: Leave house and remote.

9. Step nine: Take the car back out of reverse at the end of the driveway.

10. Step ten: Get out of the car at the end of the driveway and just lay down in the snow. Make a snow angel. Do a happy dance. It won’t kill ya! Then just drive to the damn cache site. Turn off the gpsr and follow Zuma!’s footprints in a straight line to a cache! Voila! Ya just made 20 finds in one hour by following Zuma! trax! 😉 Ahhh!!!! the numbers from chasing Zuma! !!!!! 🙂

If our calculations are correct, you put on eight layers, took off five because you had to pee, and then took off three more due to the hot flash and needing to pee again. . . . Bottom line is . . . YOU LEFT THE HOUSE NAKED! 😯 [/i]

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