Hi! Welcome from the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon! You kinda forgot Oregon in your geography lesson, RGINN!
2MileHi, what brand of detector do you have? Getting to know your detector takes a little time and a lot of use. Read you manual several times, playing with the detector as you read through it just to familiarize yourself with it. Get out and practice, practice, practice with it, manual in hand if you have to! Over time you can figure out pretty precisely what the detector is telling you. Good lluck!