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Just for my curiosity, how often are the winter weather good enough for you to venture outside?

• haroldp 12y ago
  All the time (if you like horizontal rain).
• grecy 12y ago
  >how often are the winter weather good enough for you to venture outside? I've never had, or ever heard of the winter weather being bad enough to stop people going outside to do activities in Whitehorse, Yukon. I was Caribou hunting last year near the Arctic Circle at -48C, my friends were back country skiing on the weekend when the wind was severe and likely the windchill was past -60C. I ride my bike or walk to work/town literally 365 days of the year. Friends were Bison hunting a few winters back below -55C - and they were sleeping in a wall tent :) They had to wake up every hour to stoke the stove, and it took them a full day to get their snowmobiles running so they could ride ~100km on them back to the world. Not the kind of place you want to make a mistake. It doesn't snow much here (semi-arid) so we don't get whiteout conditions. Our local community ski will close when it's past about -30C - so we can't go skiing on the chair lift then - on those days I go snowshoeing or ice fishing usually. Friends up in the Arctic Circle in places like Iqaluit [1] have told me they have 20 or 30 days a winter where it's impossible to go outside - it's such severe whiteout and wind you would get lost and literally die if you went outside. Nobody leaves their house for any reason on those days. That doesn't happen here - or at least I've never heard of it ever happening, and have not seen it in my 5 years. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqaluit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqaluit