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Sunday we're headed to Ely, Nv. for a week, expect sunshine and temps in the 30-40 range. Hopefully it will be the 'dead of winter' for a bunch of coyotes.


mike r

30-40 in Ely? Must be a heat wave.
or did you mean 30 to -40?
Damn that's a cold place.

Dead of winter! As a kid it ment feeding in the dark after school, milking in the dark before school. Now it means cold weather fishing, and cougar camp in febuary! Hope we get new tracking snow! Things sure change.

I still hear that expression pretty often. Especially about now. To me it's pretty much Jan. - Feb. when some of the coldest and cruelest winter settles in. Single digits last night and about 13 deg. this afternoon. Seeing very few birds & hearing none. Out in the woods there's that dead, muffled, silence that comes with frigid temps and a foot and a half of snow. So silent that it's downright eerie. Almost no deer movement and hard to even find tracks. Although Sunday afternoon I was shoveling the end of the driveway after the plow run filled it in and caught 3 deer crossing the road about 75 yds. away. First deer I've seen in a couple weeks. The deer are pretty much "yarding up" now, which means they gather in a sheltered place like under some large pines with low branches where they are out of the wind and won't get snowed on. Then they pretty much lay low and don't move much so they can conserve precious calories. They'll move when they get hungry enough but otherwise move very little. So to both me and the local deer herd this would be "dead of winter".

From the end of the week (next Arctic blast) through the second week of February. Still winter but daylight is appreciably longer and there's hope.

Not sure, recently moved to Colo from Minnesota.
Winter is mild here.
Friends that moved to Fla from Minnesota rag me occaisonally in the winter when it’s 32 here and they are 70.
I tell them to check back last half July when the humidity and temp in Fla are in the 90s and it’s 80 here with humidity under 40.
I worked a summer in Fla, outside. Nice place to visit in the winter. But that’s it.

Wow. Sounds brutal.

22250, We used to go snowshoeing around Parish. With 6 feet of snow you could go anywhere, places too thick with no snow, and being chest deep at best the deer hated to run. Lots of fun.