Night Ops

Alright guys, winter time has come. Let's see some winter nop gear!

-What's your winter tactic?
-How snowy is it in your region, will you dress in a different colour to adapt?
-What challenges will you need to prepare for with gear?

Southern hemisphere. Snow is a myth. Full of spiders.

Winter gives me many challenges due to the snow and cold as I live near Chicago. Hope to see how others are dealing with Winter. Promised my team I would try to see what others are doing.

I like winter for opping more so than summer, as it is more comfortable to cover up your skin. A face mask, long pants, long sleeve shirt, hood, and boots are pretty miserable during the summer. Where I live, there is never excessive snow, so it is usually easy to conceal tracks somehow. The nights are longer during the winter, which is an obvious advantage. Another factor that often goes unnoticed is that least people are likely to be outside at midnight on a winter night than a summer night. As far as gear, I would just add more layers. Usually the colors would remain the same, given the lack of snow. If there was heavy snow, I would probably do some sort of white speckled with muted greens and browns.

Zerg wrote:I like winter for opping more so than summer, as it is more comfortable to cover up your skin. A face mask, long pants, long sleeve shirt, hood, and boots are pretty miserable during the summer. Where I live, there is never excessive snow, so it is usually easy to conceal tracks somehow. The nights are longer during the winter, which is an obvious advantage. Another factor that often goes unnoticed is that least people are likely to be outside at midnight on a winter night than a summer night.

That's pretty much my situation as well. Another advantage is winter fog, especially early in the mornings. Makes getting back home a lot easier.

A problem I'm facing in Winter is that the frost makes the grass really crunchy to step on. Everything seems much stiller and queiter in winterm so the crunching can often make more noise than I would want.

That and the frost also soaks through to your feet and leaves footsteps.

Trees, and most vegetation for that matter, have less foliage to break up your silhouette.

Damn you guys. Most winters, we've got several feet of snow on the ground. Once we get the first snow that sticks, that's generally considered the "end" of the opping season around here. It typically takes some very special circumstances to justify a winter op, as the risk of leaving tracks that will last for months is too great for casual opping.

However, there is an ancient Japanese art, perfected by ninja clans of ages past... An art that allows an operative to maneuver over any amount of snow and not leave a single footprint or track - Ah crap, I fear I've said too much already. Just ignore that bit.

it shall be my first actual time opping in a snowy region, as when i started last year we had gotten no snow, i shall take this as a challenge

About this, I'll probably have to quit opping as soon as I began because of this snow thing. I have no proper camo for it. And it looks like it's going to be a snowy winter this year, it's barely December and it is already freezing and ever so slightly snowing.
Anyhow, I got my shit ready for the first op, looking forward to it. Tonight's the night I go check out a construction site.

Looking forward to debrief.

Well I guess I may as well admit my shame now. I have opped in a greatcoat in the dead of winter before combined with wool socks, gloves, and cap to keep the vital areas warm. This setup has allowed me to stay out all night without becoming uncomfortable in the slightest. The idea is to only do simple, very low risk ops and if something go wrongs then I simply wait out someone who didn't dress as warmly as I have. I can do a gear list if anyone likes.

Ok guys, might as well get this over with sooner rather then later. There is in fact a technique for opping in snowy environments without leaving a single footprint, but it's something of a site "secret". I'll talk it over with some of the veterans here, and see if everyone is ok with sharing. Keep in mind it's a little out there, but it works exactly as advertized. All jokes about "tunneljutsu" aside, this shit is real.

Not the hoverboard thing again...

Ghost wrote:Ok guys, might as well get this over with sooner rather then later. There is in fact a technique for opping in snowy environments without leaving a single footprint, but it's something of a site "secret". I'll talk it over with some of the veterans here, and see if everyone is ok with sharing. Keep in mind it's a little out there, but it works exactly as advertized. All jokes about "tunneljutsu" aside, this shit is real.

Did you post this again because no one gave any attention the first time?

Eh, I was going to go on this huge rant about operatives running around in cotton ball ghillie suits and superman-diving into snow banks, just to see if we could convince someone to do it, but there wasn't enough interest amongst newbs. Perhaps next year.

Just so much disappointment.

Teutoni wrote:much disappointment.

Such let down

Wow

Many sadness

Very cry.

Shiba Inu
Very overuse
Wow

Still very snowy in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. Can't wait to get the team and myself back outside oping. We're on our little "offseason" at the moment.

Poltergeist wrote:Still very snowy in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. Can't wait to get the team and myself back outside oping. We're on our little "offseason" at the moment.

I never recalled you posting about you and your team. You did say you would, have you gotten around to it yet? I have been waiting for months now.