5,983
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
[[trash:Winter]]
no edit summary
* First and most important: Wear warm clothes and keep your feet warm and dry!
* Limited daylight: In winter, it is usually cold and dark for the most part of a day. For example, there is only 8 hours of sunlight per day in [[Western Europe]] on the third week of December, and it's already dark at 5 in the afternoon. If you don't want to find yourself [[hitchhiking at night]] (when temperatures drop even further), you have to choose your routes carefully.
* It's good to stick to [[highway]] [[petrol station hitchhiking|gas stations]] where you can wait inside, e.g., next to the coffee machine, with a [[signs|sign]] of your destination.* If you know that you won't avoid thumbing on [[on-rampsramp]]s, bring a torch to shine light on yourself and your sign. You should also try to stand someplace where there is a lot of light from the streetlights.
* Dry cold air is not as bad as a humid one.
* Some people prefer to dress in layers like an onion to keep themselves warm, and unpack when it is needed. However, some hitchers, for example, [[User:alex|alex]], prefer not to have lots of layers under the warm jacket as cars are mostly well heated (unless you are in [[Russia]]?), and for short rides it is more convenient to be dressed only in 2-3 really warm layers so that you could avoid the hassle of undressing million of layers and then dressing up again.
Image:Erzurum.JPG|Early morning and -25°C in [[Erzurum]], one of the coldest places in [[Turkey]]; leaving the town towards West.
</gallery>
[[trash:Winter]]
[[Category:General info]]
[[de:Jahreszeit]]
