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Unlikelyto affect your balance, but be aware that wind chill will be a factor.* A temperature of 0 degrees will be equivalentto -10 degrees. Add a windproof outer layer. Secure map and compass. Goggleswill be very useful in winter conditions.

Walkingwill be arduous. You will need to brace/lean into wind, and energy output willbe significantly increased. Risk of being blown off balance/sideways.Navigation will be challenging: get your back to the wind and down on one kneeto ensure a stable platform to read your map, then put your map safely away ina pocket.

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Attempting to walk in 60-70mph winds is dangerous, and there is a high risk of being blown over and suffering injury. Stay away from difficult underfoot conditions or exposed edges and get off the hill as soon as possible.

Dogs may have four legs and a lower centre of gravity, but their lighter weight makes them susceptible to strong winds and vulnerable to spindrift flying close to the ground - so spare a thought for them too. Here Heather Morning's SARDA dog Milly is pictured caked in spindrift blown along in gale-force winds.

The age-old question often comes up when hunters begin discussing big, old smart bucks. How do they use the wind to travel? Every time I hear this come up, or see it on a forum, I know we're in for a long debate with more opinionated arguing than the presidential debate.

There are those who swear that every big deer they see travels with nose into the wind. Others claim that deer walk the wind to their back. And let's not forget the ones who claim it's always a crosswind. Common sense alone should tell us that if deer "always" walked a certain direction based on the wind they would end up drowning in an ocean after a two-week, one-direction wind.

I believe that the guys who see deer walking wind-to-tail see that observation because they believe that's how deer travel. Therefore, they set up for deer to move in that manner. And the same can be said for the wind-to-nose and crosswind-only theories. The deer I see outside of the rut travel from point A to point B going from bedding to food or water, and back to bedding with little regard to the wind.

That said, there are certain times when I do see them use the wind outside of the rut. One example is in hilly terrain when deer enter a field. If the field has a low spot, older bucks tend to enter from that low spot when entering in the afternoon/evening. I've heard some say that is to keep them from being as visible. Perhaps that has some validity to it. But I think it has more to do with catching the dropping thermal air current that occurs around sunset. If you test the air current like I do (with milkweed plumes), you will see the thermals pulling all around the high spots in the field down to these low spots.

Another exception is when hunting pressure becomes a factor. See, I learned long ago there is usually a stand in place in a lot of the best spots on pressured land. But if you look downwind 100 yards or so (just out of sight of the hunter's stand), I commonly find where the older bucks are circling around the hunter unnoticed.

On the flip side, based on my observations, when bucks leave their bedding area they pay little attention to wind direction. That might sound wrong. I hear many hunters say different. But my 40 years of observing pressured and un-pressured bucks, I don't see a correlation. I do see them come out faster, further and with more confidence when the wind is blowing to them from the direction they travel, though. This might be why some hunters see more deer traveling this way. But, in my opinion, it's simply because they're hunting too far back from the bedding to observe other movement.

During the rut, some of this buck behavior changes. Cruising bucks (day walkers looking for does) tend to walk with a crosswind while trying to smell as many areas as possible. They do this while looking to pick up the scent of a hot doe. It's common sense if you think about it, though. Walking into or away from the wind will only give you the scent you have already been smelling, but crosswinds will give you new areas to smell with each step. Just make sure you're on the right side of that crosswind when you set up.

In hilly terrain, you can really narrow down the cruisers. These deer tend to cruise leeward (downwind side) ridges. Furthermore, they cruise the top 1/3 of the ridge where the rising thermals and wind coming over the top (from the opposite direction) meet. This allows them to smell from below and above at the same time. Hunting cruising bucks in this type of terrain is as easy as checking the wind direction and mapping out long, connecting leeward ridges.

We hear a lot of talk about hunting the downwind side of doe bedding areas. I don't totally disagree with that, but there's more to it. Oftentimes I find bucks cruising the up-wind side. Might sound a little crazy. That said, observations have shown that they cruise the side that does enter and exit out of the bedding area. All the while smelling the ground scent on the trails.

You're golden when both the entrance and exit trails are downwind. But when they differ, you need to look at the sign to decide. Generally, you can't see the faint buck trail cause it only gets used during the rut. However, the doe trails coming out of the bedding will often be marked at the buck and doe crossing with a rub or a scrape.

If you were hunting a transitional zone between a feeding area and bedding area with a primary wind direction coming out of the north (blowing south), with the feeding area north of the transition area and the bedding area south of it, deer would probably be likely to move from the bedding area through the transition area (and hopefully present a shot) to the feeding area in the afternoon.

Before we dive into whether whitetails move more on windy days, we should understand just how influential it is in day-to-day life for deer. First, it's the primary and best line of defense for deer. They use and trust their nose even more than their sight and hearing. It's that important.

Because of this, wind influences where and how deer bed and how they travel from point A to B. Deer don't always move with the wind in their face. That's a myth. But they do almost always bed with the wind at their back.

This allows them to cover downwind and crosswinds with their eyes and upwind with their nose. Of course, their ears stay on a swivel, and when a twig snaps, their eyes lock on, regardless of the direction.

When deer are on their feet, they tend to use the wind to their advantage, even if they don't walk straight into the wind. They'll circle downwind of areas they aren't sure about, wait until dark to move when the wind isn't in their favor, etc. As mentioned, they use it to their advantage when bedded and when moving from point A to B. The only time they aren't relying on their nose is when they are out in the wide-open, but even then, they use it.

While it's purely anecdotal, my own in-the-field experiences support that deer movement increases on windy days, especially bucks. It's not a significant change, but enough to be noticeable. But what does the research say about it?

Along with Auburn University, the University of Georgia, the University of Florida, and others, Penn State University (PSU) is one of the leading whitetail research facilities in the nation. They regularly produce ground-breaking data on whitetail behavior, including recent studies on the relationship between deer movement and wind.

They began the study by polling the public. Of the 1,600 hunters they surveyed, 90% said they believed deer moved less on windier days. So, the adage must be true, right? That's what PSU set out to determine.

It started in October of 2013 when PSU undergrads measured the distance traveled by radio-collared whitetails. In total, they captured data for approximately 1,700 whitetail days and nights. They quickly realized that deer moved farther when winds blew 1-3 mph than less than one mph. Then, the distance traveled remained virtually the same until winds reached 10-plus mph (which exceeds the daily average in most places) when the distance traveled peaked. This behavior proved accurate for daylight movement as well.

They analyzed three categories of wind speeds, including 0-1 mph, 1-15 mph, and 16-27 mph. While the latter studies revealed wind speeds had less impact on does (likely due to having fawns), it showed a much more significant impact on bucks. Their daytime travel increased significantly as wind speeds increased. Overall, bucks traveled 100 feet per hour with less than one mph winds, 115 feet per hour with 1-15 mph winds, and 213 feet per hour with 16-27 mph winds.

Some of the leading whitetail biologists from DNRs and wildlife agencies from around the country agree with the findings, and many of them point to PSU's data as the leading research for wind and whitetails. Johnathan Bordelon, deer program manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, is one.

In essence, his and his team's findings were partially conflicting with PSU's research. Still, most biologists we reached out to referenced the three PSU studies as the accepted, leading data on the relationship between daytime deer movement and wind. Still, even those who side with the opposite camp relate just how vital wind is.

Many hunters have long sat on the sidelines during windy days. They believed efforts under such conditions were futile, unnecessary, and without reward. Based on the research, the old saying that deer move less on windy days isn't true. Instead, bucks seem to move a lot more in the wind.

Regardless, whether we'll ever determine the why or not, we still know that they do move more. That alone should be enough to encourage hunters to head afield on windier days. (Remember that it is safer to hunt from the ground than elevated positions during windy conditions.) e24fc04721