It was an exceptional windy day. Strong winds from the north blew down power lines, trees and some trucks off the highways. I was just getting tired spending too many days inside, so I headed to a south facing hill, known for tobogganing and sledding. I used the automatic tuning to get rid of as much EMI as possible, as I was still in Edmonton. I ground balanced the coil to the snow, (probably more to ground below the snow) then set the threshold to 4, as the machine was already a little nervous. I did not want depth. The ground was frozen underneath the snow, and I was hoping to just get the targets suspended in the snow, not at or below ground level. I set the sensitivity to 5. It worked GREAT! The coins and few junk targets gave a nice loud crystal clear audio, compared to the deeper ones, which lacked the clear loud audio. The iron check with a double bleep allowed me to leave one deep nail in the ground. I tried to get it, but the snow was already at about 12 inches, and the dirt was like cement.
The sun at this time of year sets at about 4:30 in the afternoon, and I got a photo of it. The temperature actually got up to +6C/42F and just about broke a record. I continued hunting until about an hour after sunset, and called it a day as the wet snow was freezing making walking up a hill both dangerous and difficult.
Here's the finds. Not too bad! Hunting in the snow is like hunting in the water........you pretty well dig it all, unless you are convinced that it is a large and/or iron target.
