Weather woes and whining…..

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Okay, just have to whine where there’s a chance some might “get it.” We had it all planned out to head over and get the last three pages we need for the DeLorme, with several earthcaches thrown in for good measure.

Now, we’ve cached all through the winter, even when it was like 25 below. But this weather is absolutely miserable, especially for a drive across the country and a walk basically into Lake Michigan. To make it even more painful, we won’t be able to make this run until the first weekend in May if we can’t go now.

Boo hoo. Let’s hope gas doesn’t go up any higher, for this and any other number of reasons.

[Doc.]

They LIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It IS accumulating!!!!!!!!!! White everywhere!!!!! I feel like I’m locked in a perpetual loop!!!!!!! Quick, someone throw me a cache! With color! Sunny colors, no camo beige!

Darn, nothing like a little white cheddar with white-out whine!!!!

Next!

[cheezehead]

Are you starting to get it down there Doc? Just a few flakes floating around up here. GRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrmummbbbleeeemummmmmbbllerrrrrrr! 😡

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We’re holding onto the thin thread of hope that by Sunday, we can at least go somewhere and do some caching. We were so up to do this DeLorme thing. Oh well, it will be a lot more fun in nice weather!

[Doc.]

About 3″ of snow/concrete on the ground and enough accumulation to start to pull a car into the ditch. Yeah, I was out driving in it. Now it’s turned to rain. More snow to come tonight. Still blowing hard . Weather station showing about 30 mph. and a wind chill of 5 degrees (above 0). Tried to herd the roosters from one barn to another, and they went tumbling down the driveway in the wind! Guess I should put out a little more corn for them!

[Timberline Echoes]

We are up in the middle of the Keweenaw penninsula, Calumet MI out in Lake Superior under blizzard warning conditions… and hope to cache tomorrow even though they are predicting 2 feet of snow and 50 mph winds… no snow yet… just wind, so maybe it will stay south by you guys. We did get 2 caches on our way into town. Some places the snow is over 3 feet deep on the way up here… esp. around Mass City and north of there. We’re not lettin’ the weather slow us down… 😆
TE

[bandits]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

We are up in the middle of the Keweenaw penninsula, Calumet MI out in Lake Superior under blizzard warning conditions… and hope to cache tomorrow even though they are predicting 2 feet of snow and 50 mph winds… no snow yet… just wind, so maybe it will stay south by you guys. We did get 2 caches on our way into town. Some places the snow is over 3 feet deep on the way up here… esp. around Mass City and north of there. We’re not lettin’ the weather slow us down… 😆
TE

Just saw the weather report for the area you guys are in and . . . SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE S.O.L.!!!!!

Have fun!

[elfdoctors]

A nice blizzard is happening outside here. The National Weather Service has raised their estimate and it now telling us we will get between 8-15 inches of snow.

[Sparse Grey Hackle]

😆 Snow, is excellent for tracking for those FTF’s!! And, a good way to save on those batteries. Don’t put those snowshoes away just yet!!

Now, I have heard that some weather models are looking at 70 plus weather for next week. 😀 With that will be lots of MUD!

So, you gotta love being able to cache in so many different weather elements.
➡
I’ll be wishing for cold and snow when we are out in Nevada and Utah this summer caching. HOT and more HOT! 8) 8)

[Trekkin and Birdin]

SGH, We love winter caching, but in its own season, LOL. Which up north, could go into June, but down here we should be past all that!

IMO, the only good thing about April is that May comes after it. 🙄 Heck, I found two deer ticks after spotting a Whooping Crane at a cache site on Tuesday! Crappy weather, ugly muddy, sleety, snowy scenery AND disease carrying insects. Great….not!

We’re just struggling with delayed gratification of that delorme now. We’ll survive!

[Ry and Ny]

Man, I’ll take the mud if those 70 degree temps mean some of the standing water dries up. My next door neighbor’s yard is approximately 50% under water and I’m up to about 15% under water. If this doesn’t ease up, I’m not too far from having the water level rise to level of my back door.

[seldom|seen]

I feel your pain. We all get those little windows of opportunity and for some reason mine always happen when the weather is the worst that it can possibly be.

Went out in that misery last night to tag a few lonliess and get on the board this month. Man, it was my definition of NOT A GOOD TIME. But you know how it is, you go when you gotta go. I found myself in a marsh that I could only get to by crossing a hip deep creek full of spring thaw and rains.

I managed to cross that barrier only to find myself in a swamp with TONS of standing water and after the 3rd of forth 4th slip of the footing into that cold water, I just gave up and started trudging through it.

Unfortunately, the cache I was after, A Sliver in Time, was a real bugger and after 45 minutes of trudging around in the marsh in that cold driving rain, I was drenched to the core and hypothermia was setting in. That’s when the questions like “What the hell am I doing out her right now?” start setting in.

I tell you, I was never so happy to put my hand on an ammo box than I was last night! Here’s to caching and the things it drives some of us to do.

[cheezehead]

@seldom|seen wrote:

I feel your pain. We all get those little windows of opportunity and for some reason mine always happen when the weather is the worst that it can possibly be.

Went out in that misery last night to tag a few lonliess and get on the board this month. Man, it was my definition of NOT A GOOD TIME. But you know how it is, you go when you gotta go. I found myself in a marsh that I could only get to by crossing a hip deep creek full of spring thaw and rains.

I managed to cross that barrier only to find myself in a swamp with TONS of standing water and after the 3rd of forth 4th slip of the footing into that cold water, I just gave up and started trudging through it.

Unfortunately, the cache I was after, A Sliver in Time, was a real bugger and after 45 minutes of trudging around in the marsh in that cold driving rain, I was drenched to the core and hypothermia was setting in. That’s when the questions like “What the hell am I doing out her right now?” start setting in.

I tell you, I was never so happy to put my hand on an ammo box than I was last night! Here’s to caching and the things it drives some of us to do.

Ya know the Jingle ** What would ya do for a Kit Kat Bar**

** What would ya do for a Ge-O-Cache**

Which gives me an idea for a Ge-O-Cache! 😉

[manparuby]

Know what we’re doing about this weather issue…getting out of here and heading to the land of 95 degrees and sunshine. Hop in our spare suitcase T&B.

[djwini]

i couldn’t even get to a sliver in time in summer.
you are either brave or totally nuts

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