I thought I knew what winter was til I moved from Oklahoma to up here near the Continental Divide. I guess my hobby in winter is work. I'm in retail, this is a ski resort area, so winter is our busiest time. You can get all the overtime you can handle, so 14 hour days and 60 to 80 hour weeks aren't unusual. About the only detecting opportunities with a 48 inch frost line is when somebody loses somethin in the snow, and I try to help them out. The good thing about snow, is in the spring melt I go down to where the city dumps all the snow they remove from the streets. You can come up with some very interesting things.