Anybody Tried Hunting at Ski Areas/Resorts?

[keg11v]

I'm wondering if any of you have had experience metal detecting on ski hills in the off season? I just figure with all those years of people wiping out or fumbling with their gloves in the cold weather, there must be some jewelry in the ground up there!

I'd probably start around chair lift load/unload areas, ski/snowboard racks near the lodges, or anywhere around the lodges I suppose.

Maybe I'll give it a try up at Mount Baker, WA this summer, which is near my home. If nothing else it'd be a beautiful day in the mountains!

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

Ski resorts (especially the older ones that date to silver times and earlier) have been hit hard. That is a "usual stomping ground" for md'rs who live near ski areas. And you're right about the lift-lines area: All the skiers who stand there will instinctively take off their gloves to reach for trail maps, snacks in their pouch, etc... And the removing-of-gloves is the perfect recipe for rings being pulled off of fingers.

Good luck !

 

[Ogre1190]

Sledding hills. The bottoms of sledding hills have been very good to me.

 

[victhedog]

Hit the ski resorts every year after the melt
do great

 

[Johnnybravo300]

I thought about this the other day. I live between monarch pass ski area and crested Butte mountain. As many gloves and phones as I have seen under the lifts, there surely is jewelry and wallets! I've heard about hikers finding weird stuff. Lots of pipes I'm sure!

 

[Run4Cvr]

I've done very well at old ski resorts, I haven't hit any of the new ones yet. The one I've done best at closed in the 50s, a lot of trash and .22 slugs dug though. google earth is a great resource for locating the lifts and runs.

 

[RustyGold]

I hit the ski lifts up in Big Bear and all I found was zippers and lift tags and a few odds and ends but nothing of value.