I lost my glasses in the snow. Any tips/tricks on how to find them?

I love whatzit's answer of using kids. That is beyond a doubt what I would do in my neighborhood if this were to occur. Recruit a handful of children, give them a few bucks each, and then offer a BIG BONUS PRIZE to whichever one finds them (like maybe a $20 target gift card or something so they can buy a toy). Our snow is really powdery right now, so I think a rake would actually be a good sifting option. Good luck! (As a side note, I got a $100 rebate card thing to See recently which is up at the end of the month. If the glasses don't turn up today, memail me your address and I'd be happy to send it to you can recoup some of the loss on sweet new frames.)

I can tell what probably won't work: Way back when, my dad dropped my mom's wedding ring in the snow by the car (he had picked it up from being resized). At night. Downtown Denver. After a few minutes of panicked and fruitless sifting, he grabbed all the snow he could and put it in the back seat of the VW bug, in hopes that when it melted the ring would be there. No ring. Wet car. But, I have found dropped tiny things by trying to replicate how they fell and narrowing the search area. You could park your car and try to spring something of comparable size/weight as your glasses off the antenna a number of times. Watch closely where it lands and make that your search zone.

Don't worry, everyone! http://imgur.com/fpM68HA And now I'm going to have to explain to my wife what "EFB" means!

How close is this to your kitchen? I might haul out a lobster pot full of hot water!

I'm so charmed by the fact that your mefi name is actually Mr Fig. True love!

Rather than a rake, go in with a shovel. Sift through the snow and move it away. Also: i think you might want to accept that your glasses aren't going to get found prior to be ruined - either by people or by rust.

Tangential, but if this were me and I still had my prescription available I'd preemptively order a $10 replacement pair from someplace like Zenni or goggles4u.com, or I think Coastal.com has a "first pair free" deal.

Metal detector. Cheap ones from a toy shop are like 40 bucks and if you have a metal frame under nothing but snow probably good enough. Find glasses with it, return it if you are that sort of person, or keep it around in case it happens another time.

MeFi ate my carefully worded answer, but I'll rephrase: - Manual labor: How many kids do you have access to that want a bump in their allowance and a chance to play humanitarian deminer or archaeologist? Block the area off in squares and go through it like they do on CSI. Small shovels, a screen/mesh, and string to mark your squares will be useful. - Heat: Do you have a heat gun? A Fresnel lens? Melt off the snow in your area using electric or solar power. Properly run off water to not create super icy conditions as the melted snow refreezes. - Fluid mechanics: Do you have anything to blow the snow away? I think a snowblower will be too violent and likely to suck up the glasses and chuck them somewhere new or destroy them outright. But, a ShopVac can often run in reverse, or an air compressor could be interesting... I spent 25 years in deep, deep snow winters and have also lost glasses to the snow. Your incident is one in a million but you can resolve this; mine was a bigger territory (ski slope) and I never had a chance.