Winter-Friendly Cache Icon

[zuma]

@PCFrog wrote:

I utilize the icon to mean that the cache will be not only accessible in the winter but retrievable in the snow. This does not mean it above snow level only that if there is snow, you will still be able to get it.

This is how I take it as well. A micro under a rock next to a tree is not winter friendly. A large ammo can in a log, even if on or near the ground should be findable in the winter. A cache hanging in a tree should be findable in the snow…..Findable with snow cover to me means winter friendly.

z

[Sparse Grey Hackle]

@CodeJunkie wrote:

Just something else to ponder. The “Snowmobiles Allowed” icon means you can arrive near the cache via a sled, but does it infer the cache is “Winter Friendly”?

Most likely that the cache is on a snowmobile trail. We have a public bookmark (Snomocacing Up Nort) for these specific type of caches. In the bookmark we also make a bookmark note if it is a “sled up and grab” or if you can get to within a few feet of it.

It all depends for the icons. On the Bearskin Trail Up Nort the attribute could be a Bike for summer and in winter it is a snowmobile trail. At times you may or may not have both icons for snowmobile and for snow flake. As you are limited to the number of icons.

We can attest that if -cheeto- has an attribute for a snowflake…it is 99.999 percent “Winter Friendly”

Winter caching is much like summer caching…it all depends…on the weather………..what is and what is not.

[gotta run]

We use this icon primarily as a “not” icon. i.e., we only use it on caches that are not available with the red line thru it. Otherwise most everything else can be found with enough perseverance.

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