Local Snowcaching

[mortonfox]

The weather system dumped quite a bit of snow on the area Thursday night and temperatures never got above freezing on Friday. So there was still a lot of snow (and snow/ice-covered roads) on Saturday. I decided it wasn't a great day to travel out very far and tried my hand at finding geocaches in the snow within New Castle County. Some, like the

Comments

[makovette]

-10*F and snowing for geo-caching? Crazy like a fox indeed :)

[mortonfox]

It had warmed up to 20-30°F by Saturday. Not enough to melt the snow but not so bad for going out.

[anthony_lion]

Should you really go after snow-covered caches?

After all, muggles may come by later and wonder what has been going on...

Incidentally, a couple of women ended up getting stuck in snow and scree, and requiring rescue, here in Norway just before Christmas because they went after a 'difficult' cache hidden high in the slope.
(I'm pretty certain that cache is flagged with 'unavailable in winter')

[mortonfox]

As in all aspects of geocaching, it's a judgment call. However, I have never heard of muggles, except for hunters, going out of their way to follow tracks in the snow into the woods.

[mortonfox]

I've used snow tracks too, if I'm not the first one to go for the cache after the snowfall. That is pretty common practice in areas that have a lot of snow. The first cache visitor may walk around a bit to try to obfuscate the tracks but that doesn't always work. It's like a game within a game.

There was one instance where I used the cache hider's tracks because I was FTF. JBadger may remember that one.