Jackpine Savage
Active member
When I first got into metal detecting one of the sites I liked to visit and detect was the area of a late 1800's logging camp. The name of the logging camp was Hitchcock as it had its own post office during the peak of the white pine lumbering era. Today the name Hitchcock is generally used by locals to refer to the area surrounding several small trout streams, as in I'm going fishing (or hunting) out in Hitchcock.
The shortest route into Hitchcock is via a small paved county road that changes to gravel and then into an unimproved 2 track for the last few miles. At the end of the pavement is a small cluster of older house trailers and well.. lots of junked cars and other piles of miscellaneous debris. The families that live there jokingly refer to themselves as Valley Rats! While the overall name of the larger area is called Pleasant Valley, I'm not exaclty sure where Pleasant Valley ends and the Valley Rats of Hitchcock take over!
I have personally come to know a few of the Valley Rats and they are good preople but, if you are new to the area you would be one of those that I'm told by said Valley Rats, roll up their car windows and lock their doors when they travel through their little community.
So the next time you go detecting in a semi-remote area looking for that "lost virgin site" and see a group of people in lawn chairs around a bon-fire downing a few cold ones. don't be afraid to stop and chew the fat!
HH Tom
The shortest route into Hitchcock is via a small paved county road that changes to gravel and then into an unimproved 2 track for the last few miles. At the end of the pavement is a small cluster of older house trailers and well.. lots of junked cars and other piles of miscellaneous debris. The families that live there jokingly refer to themselves as Valley Rats! While the overall name of the larger area is called Pleasant Valley, I'm not exaclty sure where Pleasant Valley ends and the Valley Rats of Hitchcock take over!
I have personally come to know a few of the Valley Rats and they are good preople but, if you are new to the area you would be one of those that I'm told by said Valley Rats, roll up their car windows and lock their doors when they travel through their little community.
So the next time you go detecting in a semi-remote area looking for that "lost virgin site" and see a group of people in lawn chairs around a bon-fire downing a few cold ones. don't be afraid to stop and chew the fat!
HH Tom