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Indoors mostly. I run my Mini B on my basement modular track. I race indoor carpet as those tracks have the best heating but I can still run at the local indoor dirt track but it's a bit cold in there at some points as she keeps the heat on a bit low.

Outdoors I really don't do anything outdoors if it's dry and sunny out and over atleast 35 (F) degrees

I'm in MD so usually it's mild winters but since it's a El nino I think right? We been hit with several snow and ice storms. Haven't been outside bashing my slash/rustler since I think November.
 
Winter is coming...

I'm planning to officially retire this year (July?), so my focus has been more on looking for things to do once I'm no longer gainfully employed.

I have five RC kits still in the box that will take up some time, and I've been slowly accumulating electronics for those. I got fresh fishing gear for Christmas, so I'm covered there.
 
Mostly indoors, a little outside time with the Typhon until the snow got deeper. No more than a couple of minutes of sliding around and the steering linkage gets packed with snow and won’t turn until you “unpack”it:cool:

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we don't get winter where i am, we get about 4 months where it cools off about 40 degrees and rains sometimes. and sense id rather RC when it's 63 out instead of 95 i tend to do more driving in the winter.
that said, we do get times where it'll rain for 2 or 3 days, then be sunny but wet but another 4 or 5 days, then rain again and that'll go on for 3 or 4 weeks and it never really dry's out and i don't like running my stuff in the wet, so i Kyosho Mini Z in the garage. or just stay in and do maintenance.

i think if i lived somewhere that had winter and i had the space id just put together a winter beater. pick up a used nitro MT of some kind (probably a Savage) that i wouldn't really give 2 💩's about, drive it hard and put it away wet. as long as the engine was running good and the electrics were working properly let it eat.
 
When my schedule allows I fly my rc planes and bash my Arrma Grom's. When I can't go outside, I play with my mini crawlers and tease the cats with the miniZ.
Other than that I look at my list of things I need to do to my other rigs and promptly procrastinate.
 
I might try to get the granite together to have something to beat on in the snow. I would run the Gorgon but I don't think the stock electronics would last 5 mins.
I hope to buy something or build the Gorgon BL WP so I can run it all seasons.
I'm building the Optima Mid and a couple others if I can ever get my focus back to that... 🙄
Otherwise, I get busy in winter with snow removal and other fun house projects.
 

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