Hard Prospector Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Being based in SoCal still has some advantages....Its drywashing time in the Mojave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Its drywashing time in the Mojave! El Nino storms may fix that here real quick! Snow all over my lawn this morning, still working on various projects, writing articles, catching up on stuff that went undone during prospecting season. Making plans for 2016, and looking forward to some park detecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quick Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Interesting to see that most of you are done detecting because of the cold. I'm just getting started. Might be that I work all summer. No flies,snakes,bugs,pot growers and the ground is softer. Root Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 and the ground is softer. Here in many places the ground freezes much of the winter. If you'd tried to dig frozen ground before, you'd understand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Porter Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Your season in Reno mirrors my detecting season here in Australia except our weather this time of year is HOT rather than cold. So Steve and Chris you guys are detecting the same months of the year as I am. However in hot weather you can always cool off or just go detecting during the cooler parts of the day, whereas when the grounds frozen or its snowing hard a roaring fire and good company is the preferred hangout for detectorists. JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sourdough Scott Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 I had to use my detecting pick this morning to chip the frozen ground under the gate to my yard. I usually had about 1 1/2 inch clearance. A balmy 21 degrees this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quick Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Chris it freezes where I detect also and yes I have dug my share of frozen ground. Just to let you in on a little secret you can detect nuggets that are frozen deeper than not. I found this out on a patch that i worked for years. Then on one trip in the winter it got down in the teens.My partner and I both pulled a mess of gold out of that ground that we had been over before and the nuggets were deeper than any we had dug. I believe the nuggets become denser when they are frozen just like steel. Put some in your freezer and do some testing you might be surprized! Root 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sourdough Scott Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Couple of pictures of the general area where many of us on the forum here locally go detecting. From the recent storm a couple days ago. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasong Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 That's awesome looking area Scott. It snowed here in AZ yesterday in the mountains too but nothing real like that. Tis' the season for detecting! 50 degrees and overcast is my ideal prospecting day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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