Outdoor Growers - Now's The Time To Scout Your Area

4cyl5spd said:

note to everyone, winter scouting has it's drawbacks, wherever you go in the winter, you will leave a very obvious footprint. people will follow these paths so choose the day you set out and your path wisely. this weekend I did a haul and upon my return I noticed another set of snowshoe prints. apparently someone saw my tracks and followed them in. fortunately they turned around halfway and the next day it snowed followed by rain. thank god for that but it goes to show how vulnerable winter scouting may leave you. from this point on for me the snow and ice is melting. if I wanna get in I'll have go in the hardway over steeps, hills and thick underbrush. my snowshoe path is turning into a wetland marsh as the snow melts and will be virtually impossible to cross when the warm weather hits.

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Those are my favorite grow spots - the places where in the winter, you can hike to them, but in the summer there's no way to get there without a canoe or slogging through a mile of swamp. I just found another area like that a few weeks ago, and spent the whole weekend marching back and forth atop the snow, scouting it and mapping it. Fantastic spot. Ten square miles of swampy islands, surrounded by small streams and bayous. I could grow 500 plants there and nobody'd find 'em.

But the ice is already gone rotten beneath the strengthening sun, and now I won't be able to get back in there until all the ice is out and I can canoe it. Which is good. Exactly what I'm looking for. Because if the only way I can get out to my islands all summer long is by canoe, then that's the only way anyone else is going to be able to get there, too. Which means the chances of anyone finding it by accident are very slim.

damn man ! sounds like you got ground thats never been walk'd on

here in switzerland i will grow in my garden ^^

hehehee.... Switzerland sucks ! to small to grow outdoors ... evry1 would see it ^^