@LightningBugs Mum wrote:
Actually, the main problem I have with winter caching is not the weather but the fact that the days are so short.
That’s the problem with winter, period. Since mid-July we have been losing two minutes of daylight each day, and now it’s up to three. 😥
But I digress.
We started caching last fall (mid-October), and we had a perfect month or so to go out a couple of days a weeks and get the hang of geocaching. We really would have hated to start in December of 2007!
Didn’t go out too much in the deep snow, but we had some adventures that were memorable. Back roads are worse in the winter, snow piles make parking difficult, and we don’t like to go out when bad weather is predicted. The other half of sandlanders hates winter caching, but he went out with me anyway.
We’re finding more caches in the summer and going for more at a time, too. We also go farther for a cache trip. At so many of our post-snow finds we’ve said, “Sure glad we didn’t look for this one in the winter!”
But let’s hope last winter was an aberration and we can get out more.
Hated the sogginess and the ticks of the spring, but it felt good to go out more. Guess I vote for fall.
