Winter Outdoor activities
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Hi
Please highlight what are the winter "outdoor" activities that you do....I know there isn't much Winter in Socal.
1) Death Valley (good time to visit as it is not too hot)
2) Whale watching
3) Big bear to ski or get some snow.
4) hiking (all yr round)
5) fishing....
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snow shovelling? haha
but seriously...i was just raking leaves in my yard earlier...and it just occurred to me that i'm gonna have A LOT to shovel during winter time 'cos the driveway is freaking HUGE and LONG.....and how the f do i shovel away the snow without removing the clam shells together with it??!
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Originally posted by lostintransition:
snow shovelling? haha
but seriously...i was just raking leaves in my yard earlier...and it just occurred to me that i'm gonna have A LOT to shovel during winter time 'cos the driveway is freaking HUGE and LONG.....and how the f do i shovel away the snow without removing the clam shells together with it??!
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
What clam shells?
our entire driveway is covered with white clam shells.....looks pretty..but seriously?!! -
Originally posted by lostintransition:
our entire driveway is covered with white clam shells.....looks pretty..but seriously?!!
I didn't know there was an asphalt shortage out on the east coast...
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
I didn't know there was an asphalt shortage out on the east coast...
there's probably asphalt underneath all the clam shells...the clam shells i believe are spread on mainly for asthetics rather than serve any useful function...it does go well with the perfectly manicured lawn...most of the houses here are summer houses..so i think the homeowners don't really think of the practical aspects for winter living. clam shell driveways are pretty common here though...maybe 'cos we are a coastal town..most houses have some form of seashore theme. the shells make the properties look expensive..... -
Ha ha ha.....Is that the left over NEW ENGLAND CLAM CHOWDER!!!!!
U r funny....: )
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I usually sit at home in front of the radiator. Then I think about summer.
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Winter outdoor activities ah?
Hmm... Last winter we thought we'd do something different. We went to Big Bear to ski. Big mistake. Too expensive and we found out we are not ski bunnies. The whole adventure set us back about $500 clams! This winter, we're going to Big Bear again but this time to an inner tube park.
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am thinking of driving down to mammoth!
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Originally posted by vito_corleone:
am thinking of driving down to mammoth!
yesterday mammoth had 3.2 earthquake -
Just remember another winter outdoor activities....but need our Northern folks to explain what the experience is like....
ICE Fishing.....
Anybody have any experience?
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
Just remember another winter outdoor activities....but need our Northern folks to explain what the experience is like....
ICE Fishing.....
Anybody have any experience?
Fatum should be checking in here shortly with first-hand accounts of his ice fishing escapades.
My very brief exposure to the "joys" of ice fishing occurred a few winters back, on a rather sizeable lake just west of the Twin Cities. A couple of colleagues from work had already set up some kind of tent over a 12" hole they had drilled through the ice about a hundred yards from the shore. They had a portable propane heater running in the tent, so it actually wasn't all that cold inside. They were seated on a couple of upturned plastic 5-gallon pails and had a couple of baited lines cast through the hole in the ice.
I must have stayed and chatted for about an hour, and although they consumed lots of beer during that time, they didn't catch anything. I later learned that their yield from an entire day spent ice fishing, was precisely one fish.
Ice fishing doesn't strike me as being a particularly productive or exciting venture, but to each his own.
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it's not ... ice fishing is really about the beer drinking and not about the fish. what's so fun about winching up a hapless, half frozen fish through a foot wide hole anyways ? But then again, drinking beer in an ice shack is not the wisest thing to do, guess where do people pee in the ice shack ? ...
fun winter activities during my time in pluto included exciting stuff like
"locating and digging your car out of the parking lot the morning after the snow storm"
"scrapping ice off the windshield on a -30 celcius morning"
"involuntary "ice-skating" while walking to school"
"quarrelling with the slumlord over the heating"
"hibernating"
"over-eating"
"dreaming of warm weather"
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oh yeah, I still have a mobile ice shack with friends in pluto ..... if anyone wants to buy it ....
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I supposed is the only time you get to walk into the middle of the lake on foot.
So what sort of fish did you guys catch?
Rainbow Trout ? Perch? any grass Carp? (they don't have it in SG no more)
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
I supposed is the only time you get to walk into the middle of the lake on foot.
So what sort of fish did you guys catch?
Rainbow Trout ? Perch? any grass Carp? (they don't have it in SG no more)
Not every frozen lake is automatically "walkable" in winter--the general rule of thumb is that the ice needs to be at least 4" thick to safely support the weight of a person. We've had some rather mild winters in the past in which it did not get cold enough for the ice on area lakes to freeze to that thickness, but people would still walk on it. A risky proposition at best, which has resulted in people (and vehicles, and icehouses!) falling through the ice.
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walleyes and yellow perch. At some lakes they catch northern pike ....
but give me summer fishing any time ! .....
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Originally posted by Fatum:
walleyes and yellow perch. At some lakes they catch northern pike ....
but give me summer fishing any time ! .....
how do they taste ? i never really care much for fresh water fish....
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
how do they taste ? i never really care much for fresh water fish....
Oooooooo ..... cold water walleyes are one of the best tasting fish I've ever eaten. White, flakey flesh, like eating cod fish fingers or fresh caught seabass. It's even more expensive than salmon in pluto. I like it better than trout. Just dust it with salt, pepper, dill and corn meal and dry em ....
Yellow perch, not so good. Pike are quite boney, but pike cheeks, the jaw muscles bit, are a delicacy, they are like scallops, springy and chewy. And I have caught pink fleshed northern pike at certain lakes up in shield country before. So far up north, the waters are pretty poor in nutrients and forage fish, so the pike take to eating tiny fresh water shrimps up there, and the flesh gain a pinkish, orange colouration like salmon.
But what you should do, is to try and locate artic char at your local supermarket. It'll make salmon taste like sardines.