Definition of a Winter-Friendly Geocache
This time of year, the hunt is on for winter-friendly geocaches. Polar regions have permafrost. Minnesota has perma-snow once the first snowfall arrives, at least through the end of winter.
For us, a winter-friendly cache is one not likely to be inaccessible because of snow or ice. That means, it’s not located under a log or rock, where it’s likely to be buried under a foot of the white stuff. More often than not, we go after one of those “easy” 1.5/1.5 caches only to find the find impossible. Later, when we go back to erase that DNF, there it is, an easy grab. I hate that.
I kind of wish that classifying a cache as winter-friendly or not were more routine. I can understand how it can be hard to visualize what winter conditions may bring. We consider that when it is a cache that is only boat accessible. For my part, I’d like to know what I’m up against going for a cache in the winter, but I suppose that is just part of the game.
Photo by macthanos
I just did some winter caching for the first time this week and I certainly prefer bushwacking in a foot of snow over the middle of summer. Haha! Biggest problem we had with caches I think was having them frozen to the inside of a log where they were inaccessible
December 31st, 2009 at 10:09 pm