A February Full Snow Moon FM marks the date of the February 2025 Full Moon and hopefully the weather will cooperate for a brilliant view of the Moon.
A February Full Snow Moon FM
Event Description:
1. When: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 - 7:30 pm through 8:00 pm at the Nose Hill VP.
2. A group photo will be taken at 7:55 pm at the Nose Hill VP.
3. At 8:00 pm we will clean up the site and head back down to the trail head. Be sure to stay with the group on the way down to enjoy the terrific views and caching stories from the trail!
Note to Geocachers Regarding Attendance at this Event:
Please register for this event by logging your Will Attend with the number of people in your group.
About February's Full Snow Moon
The Snow Moon
The sequence of full moons that fall through the year are sometimes assigned names such as the "Snow Moon", according to the months and seasons in which they fall. This practice has been popularised in recent decades by the Farmers' Almanac in the United States. The names used by that almanac claim to have ancient origins from Native American tribes. This claim has been examined in detail by Patricia Haddock's book Mysteries of the Moon (1992) and is partially true, but the selection of names is largely arbitrary.
Throughout history a great variety of different names have been given to the sequence of lunar cycles through the year, and modern lists of such names, such as those popularised by the Farmers' Almanac, tend to inevitably be a medley of names taken from many different cultures.
According to the Venerable Bede's De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time; 725 AD) – an authoritative account of the calendar used in Saxon England – the lunar month containing the second full moon after the December solstice (within winter) was called the "month of mud (Sol-mōnaþ)".
The biography of Charlemagne (circa 817–833 AD), written a few years after his death, gives a name of the "horn month, or disinherited month (Hornung)" for the same lunar month.