Next day, 6:55 AM...
I am really wore out! Found the spots my son had said gold was being found using metal detectors, but we were not that lucky. We had great luck finding alot of iron stuff, 1 penny, and sore legs and back, but no gold. We looked for about 10 hours yesterday and along with no gold, climbing up a gorge (metal detecting all the way) we had hoped to find some wire gold which was hydro mined by the looks of it. Spent a good 4 hours slipping and sliding around up there, but only found a buried pot belly stove, which we didn't uncover fully once I seen what it was. The ground there was full of hot rocks, which made it hard as I didn't want to cancel out too much and loose any hope of finding smaller gold. After sliding back down that gorge, we spent the rest of the day searching some of the dredging tailing piles that some had found gold in. Andy did some sluicing in the river, to see if there was any evidence of gold, which there was, but only flour and not much of that.
I think I may have found a problem with our detector as well. When switching from prospect mode to coin mode to get a target ID, if I would then switch to pinpoint mode, very often the detector would just squeal and not stop no matter where I move the coil, even up in the air. Didn't do it all the time, but enough of the time to tell me something is amiss with it most likely. Don't know if my settings could have anything to do with this, as it would only do it if I switched from prospect mode, then to coin mode and pinpoint.
We had fun non-the-less. Got some nice pictures and a bit of video and a whole lot of exercise, so not all bad. We will continue on, perhaps over this weekend we my find more luck, and even some of that elusive gold I've heard so much about.
-Rodger