This website looks great, I've been reading alot of the posts today and appreciate the awesome tips!
When you do a search on the site look for Winter friendly ones. The Guard rail caches and Lamppost caches are good too. Other than that watch the weather and look at the satellite view of the caches. If it has snowed and it has been found since it wont be hard to find. If you are not sure how far it is to get to a cache the satellite view will help.
No matter the terrain listed, the weather or anything else were good boots. Mark you car each time you get out of it and bring a phone.
This took me a while to figure out, so bear with me. When you go to the Geocaching website you will see "my profile", click on that. On the right hand side is "Build Pocket Queries". You can build a list of caches from there that will be emailed to you. I think you can do 5 PQ's a day. In the winter I like to check off "Found in the last 7 days" or "Winter friendly".
I have two little ones, and my first winter I did not cache a lot. Last winter we went out quite a bit and discovered that it was a lot of fun!! Good luck!
Santa is bringing a GPS to the Snow Family for Christmas and we are very excited to start a new hobby!
Don't know if you have kids, but usually kids "below high-school" are fascinated by geocaching. You can sit back and let them find the caches! LOL!
Sheesh! What you said applies to adults as well as 7-year-olds! LOL!
No question about it, Play-Doh as long as it's fresh. It loses it's taste as it ages.
I agree though, kids love to see what's in there even if they don't take anything. I think it can also teach them a lot about trading fairly. When we took our granddaughter caching in AZ the second day, she actually chose some of her own trinkets before we left to trade without it even being suggested to her and pondered at each cache if the trade was fair. That's a value some adult cachers could learn.
Personally I think the whole thought of trading fairly is one of the best lessons caching has taught Cole. We always tell him pick ONE thing and he usually does without a big fight.