Single-handedly solving nothing
A repository for instructional and humble-brag posts regarding various hobbies I participate in. This will include metal detecting, goldpanning, rockhounding, and fossil collecting. Who knows what future hobbies I may take up but I’ll include them here as well, should they happen.
Lytton, British Columbia is home to two public panning reserves. One is right in town and the other is six kilometers to the north. Both are on the Fraser River, which any fan of Dan Hurd knows, has gold everywhere. The reserve in town, known as Lytton Recreational Panning Reserve Site 2, encompasses a two … Read more
Two steps forward, one step back is the idiom that best describes our third season of metal detecting. Actually, two steps back is probably more accurate. Maybe even three steps. Point is our activity regressed in 2024. I’m honestly not sure why this happened. Life, I guess? Changing priorities. Changing interests. Whatever the reason, we … Read more
Spring of 2023 marked the start of our second metal detecting season, and we were eager to get busy digging. We were also a bit wiser and with that, a bit more discerning, dialing back the “dig everything” mantra that characterized our first hunting season. Enough pull tabs, already! Additionally, a new weapon was added … Read more
We began our inaugural metal detecting season as soon as the snow melted in the spring of 2022. Although eager to begin accumulating treasure, we didn’t have a clue what we were doing so we just took the mantra “dig everything” to heart and, well, dug everything. The first place we hit up was the … Read more
Whoever coined the phrase “the chase is better than the catch” must have been a detectorist. Outside of jilted lovers, no group of people appreciates the bittersweetness of this idiom better than those in the metal detecting hobby. I’d argue that most treasure hunting is solely about the chase if only because there never is … Read more