The weather this week has been a bit brutal with the temperatures. I did get out a few times snowshoeing checking trail cameras. It’s been years since there has been enough snow to really hike with snowshoes. With nearly two feet of snow, they certainly were effective. Only issue was cold feet, 800 Gram Thinsulate boots aren’t enough anymore. I now have a 2000 Gram pair. I’ll take them for a test run next.

Trail camera activity has been slow, and batteries are going dead fast with these below zero temps.. In past winters I only used lithium batteries The cost of them skyrocketed so I went back to alkaline. I think I’ll give  lithium rechargeable batteries a try.

Well , tomorrow is Feb 1^st and I call that the dead of winter. Things are slow. A couple of weeks from now it will be notably lighter later and then all downhill from there till Spring. I am really looking forward to more scouting and setting up trail cameras in the new areas this Spring.

Jim