Trying to detect at a ski resort - Oh my heck, the trash!!!

[BuckRogers2000]

I'm learning to use my MXT, preparing to take my wife on a ghost town anniversary adventure. I work at a ski resort, it's about 75 years old. While I'm having fair success finding clad coins (they're all tore up), I'm having difficulty getting deep signals. Man, is it trashy here!

Any hints for a newbie like me?

 

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[Jason in Enid]

If it's conductive trash, you could try to cherry-pick the dime/quarter signals but if you do then you will miss any gold rings.

 

[Doubter in MD]

Don't ski while you're trying to detect.

 

[kingskid1611]

Since you work there then take lots of time on your free time to remove the trash. And definitely check under those lifts lines.....

 

[SD51]

Make sure you detect the parking lots too. Usually do well in any parking lot that isn't paved. Most likely they don't have a sliding hill there (sleds and toboggans) but if they do, that will be a killer spot!

 

[Deft Tones]

I'd focus on the bottom of the hill first. Where most people might pull their gloves off.

 

[BuckRogers2000]

Make sure you detect the parking lots too. Usually do well in any parking lot that isn't paved. Most likely they don't have a sliding hill there (sleds and toboggans) but if they do, that will be a killer spot!

They used to have a tubing hill. Great idea, thanks!!!

 

[pinenut]

?..Man, is it trashy here!...Any hints for a newbie like me?

Keep at it. Eventually you'll have cleaned out all the newer trash, and gotten down to the old beer cans.
I pulled these from a foot of pine needles at an old ski spot near me. I have found a few coins around, but not where the lodge is, where I thought I'd have some luck. Used to be a towline near the lodge, but it's badly overgrown with brush. I'll go back and keep trying. ^_^