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

 

I swapped batteries out in many of my trail cameras this week, The extreme cold and estimated snow totals forecasted for today’s snowstorm will keep me from weekly checks for a while. I will be breaking out the snowshoes for sure next week. Lots of miles hiked this month looking for sheds with no luck other than the deadhead I found a few weeks back. The heavy snow coming will blanket sheds for a while.

A pleasant surprise this week with a TC video of a bull in a winter setting. Picture above

I checked  few trail cameras this morning before the snow started. Glad I did , batteries were dead.

Jim