 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm quite new to this pastime of geocaching, but it's quite a fun way to pass few hours (mainly cos I'm a bit rubbish). I wondered if any snowheads had taken up this hobby and if so is it worth doing whilst on a ski trip or are all the caches buried under metres  of snow?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Found a couple in Corvara/Colfosco. Most of the mountainy ones tend to be away from the pistes, and usually indicate if they're accessible in winter.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I've done a few when skiing. You can usually tell if you're going to be able to find them as others will have logged finds earlier in the season. I find it's a great way (on skis or not) to get children enthusiastic again when they're starting to flag, so research a couple of easy nearby ones beforehand and have their details easily to hand. If using your phone and relying on live maps to locate the cache beware that unless you have a clever app that will cache the maps beforehand, you might start paying for data while searching.
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Just been checking out the geocache map for Wengen. If there is a snow symbol next to the geocache does that mean it's accessible in winter, and by accessible I mean for a piste skier?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Think mouseover the symbol says what it means? I believe a snowflake means accessible in winter, but may or may not be accessible from the piste. Some are in the village, some are down walking paths. Those I found were in the village, and was a 100m or so trudge to a church.
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I would read the logs before trying to find any cache on the slopes. That should give a good idea whether it is accessible in winter.
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That's what I'd do. Just having a peek now. One with a snowflake and sun symbol says "seasonal access only". Another has a big snowflake that says "available in winter". A couple from Kleine Scheidegg heading down towards Alpiglen/Brandegg (nice place to stop - recommend the apple fritters and custard) claim to be on a winter walking path that;s signposted as such, so I'd expect it to be accessible on foot, but might be up some path from the piste.
Might need to have a look on the GC.com maps and google maps in parallel (which have lifts+pistes marked now for several ski resorts) to see which ones might be worth a look.
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