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Post by marencolleen on Mar 23, 2008 13:02:05 GMT -9
somebody please tell me when winter will be over!!! I moved up here last may and the snow was gone, but will it be sooner with the mild winter? I'm going crazy crazy crazy crazy!!! and i'm getting very cranky and snappy at being stuck inside. half the caches i've gone for in the winter have been no finds! WHEN DO I GET MY SANITY BACK!?!?!
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mtboy
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Post by mtboy on Mar 23, 2008 14:03:09 GMT -9
Winter is over. ;D
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Post by krashalaska on Mar 23, 2008 16:08:16 GMT -9
Yeah I have been snow free for about three weeks?
and until recently all my finds were in the snow about 90 of em so don't get discouraged you just drove past another cache!
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Post by Malcore on Mar 23, 2008 23:09:41 GMT -9
Looks like summer is close at hand to me. I just took this pic today, not much snow left. Ok so I was up in Turnagan pass.
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Post by akgeowidow on Mar 24, 2008 20:39:49 GMT -9
somebody please tell me when winter will be over!!! I moved up here last may and the snow was gone, but will it be sooner with the mild winter? I'm going crazy crazy crazy crazy!!! and i'm getting very cranky and snappy at being stuck inside. half the caches i've gone for in the winter have been no finds! WHEN DO I GET MY SANITY BACK!?!?! I HEAR YA!
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Post by NorthWes on Mar 25, 2008 9:30:04 GMT -9
Oooh - I feel your pain, MareenColleen! Best solution is to 'snowbird' geocache in late winter (as in, fly to Palm Springs or Las Vegas & cache the desert!).
I was snowmobiling up at Petersville last Saturday 'because it was too icy to walk around Anchorage...' (riiiiiight) went 1 for 2 on cache find attempts. First cache I'd found in over a month...
Very soon (within a week or two) the ice will be relegated to the low places (like along Campbell Creek biketrail) & you'll see how naked caches are in the late spring when there's no foliage to hide them well. Then the devils club grows up (only Trove Rover runs through that stuff!) & the mosquitos come out... and we fondly remember winter caching (conveniently forgetting the horrid icy conditions of late winter / early spring...).
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powmia
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Post by powmia on Mar 25, 2008 13:22:37 GMT -9
Snow? What snow?
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Post by marencolleen on Mar 25, 2008 19:00:41 GMT -9
as i look at the two feet of snow still piled on my picnic table! the mosquitos don't bother me, so i don't mind summer caches! I just don't like winter, it annoys me...
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Post by oleruns on Mar 26, 2008 1:11:17 GMT -9
I like winter. Heck, you don't even need a gps most of the time, just follow the tracks, they look like webfeet ;D
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Post by marencolleen on Mar 28, 2008 18:13:59 GMT -9
I like winter. Heck, you don't even need a gps most of the time, just follow the tracks, they look like webfeet ;D ha i had that same idea for this one cache i've looked for about a dozen times. the only problem is when i got there i discovered someone had been doing some tree thinning... so much for following footsteps...
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Post by neeners on Apr 11, 2008 22:16:38 GMT -9
Stuck inside? I guess nobody taught you that when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
There are caches that can only be reasonably found in winter (snowshoe caches) and if you're not ready to try skiing, snowshoeing is the perfect beginner winter sport.
If you're going to make it up here, you have to find an outdoor winter activity to keep you busy and get the sun on your face.
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mtboy
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Post by mtboy on Apr 13, 2008 18:17:39 GMT -9
Finding caches in the winter isn't as important as actually getting out there...I was thinking today on my way down from a failed cache drop that I have traveled over 110 miles on geocaching expiditions this winter, logging 1 cache. ( However, the memories of these three trips are priceless. I know I would be out playing anyway, but geocaching 63 miles towards a cache on the Yetna River, 39 miles on Resurrection Trail to Starry Starry Nights (success, FTF!) then yesterday I broke out the snowshoes to check out the caches by Rabbit Lake(I think it is 11 or 12 miles to do the whole trail), both of which were out of my reach. Geocaching has given me ideas and motivation to go places I wouldn't have otherwise ventured. Winter is an amazing time up here where terrain opens up that is otherwise inaccessable to non-moose or fish. It is almost over, and life will again go at a crazy place as the manic summer season sets in. Enjoy our last few dark nights...and log some of those pesky snowshoe and night caches!
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Post by Broccili on Apr 16, 2008 11:00:05 GMT -9
I believe you missed summer... we are now in the 2008 Winter. What a summer it was -- I had to work that day, but I did catch the sunset, it was pretty. Then, it snowed. Again.
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Post by NorthWes on Apr 16, 2008 14:19:38 GMT -9
It has been a memorable winter - yesterday's flakefest put us into the record book as having experienced one of Anchorage's snowiest winters in the last 103 year, according to the press release (reproduced in part below) from the NWS. Of course, if you live over near the Ladybug Kids, you can about double these numbers... At the National Weather Service on Sand Lake Road, the seasonal snowfall total is now 91.9 inches. This makes the winter of 2007-2008 the 10th snowiest on record for Anchorage. Listed below is the current list of top 10 snowiest Winters in Anchorage since records began in 1915.
Year snowfall 1. 1954 132.8 inches 2. 1955 128.8 " 3. 1994 121.5 " 4. 1948 111.0 " 5. 1989 102.6 " 6. 1991 99.5 " 7. 1965 94.8 " 8. 1958 94.5 " 9. 1998 94.1 " 10. 2007 91.9 "
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Post by saidbystacy on Apr 25, 2008 16:47:00 GMT -9
What I want to know is - WHO forgot to pay the sunshine bill?!
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Post by troverover on Apr 25, 2008 18:31:29 GMT -9
I have to say that I don't mind the winters up here. I got out more this winter than I think I ever have and more than a few of those outings were some of the most beautiful and memorable hikes I've done. Not to mention it just makes finding the cache all that more sweet. Like Baldy Airstrip for instance. Postholed it all the way up with some of the best people I know only to find that the cache was buried under a bunch of snow. No matter, we ended up coming up with it anyway and had a great hike down. I think we all had a sense of accomplishment that day and the best part is that it was spent with friends! However, I do have to admit that I was very excited to see summer around the corner and the opportunity to enjoy other adventures as well as fishing and camping. Sigh.....it is disheartening to see all this snow. Seems like were getting a whole winters worth in one day! Chin up marencollen....it will end and when it does....IT IS WORTH IT!!! ;D That's why we're all here!!!
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