What does everyone do in the winter to prep for the next hunt?

So for all us unfortunate people that have to deal with a snowy season, what do you all do to prepare for next Spring? I just got into this hobby about 2 months ago and dread that winter is here already and ending my fun. A friend of mine suggested I look at "plot maps???" to find old homesteads and property lines. I live in Western Nebraska and I'm not really sure what a plot map is, I was a city boy before I moved out here. But what does everyone else do when the snow starts flying?

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Drool over ads for toys coming out next spring that we can't afford .
Get cranky because of the fact that we can't afford them and get cranky because of cabin fever .
Transfer that crankieness by squabbling more with our former friends on TN .
People that really start 'jonesing' begin pinpointing all the flooring nails in their home . WARNING ! Digging these finds will either lead to a winter remodeling project or a divorce 
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 Gives you a lot to look forward to , doesn't it 
 Jim

break out the heavey winter clothes cause it gets down into the 70's  an keep on huntin 

I coin roll hunt for silver, it helps pass the winter blues, and you still get to find silver...lol

Goes4Ever - How lucky do you get doing that? Just curious, it's something I'd try!

I relic hunt in the snow......no insects no one bothers you...and you get down close to the ground...no crops in the fields..

 I go sit in a tree from daylight to dark and watch the deer go by on weekends. In january after deer season jump back into artifact hunting and metal detecting. Cold weather does not stop me deer season does
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Goes4Ever - How lucky do you get doing that? Just curious, it's something I'd try!

look at my signature...........that is my coin roll finds from this year

break out the heavey winter clothes cause it gets down into the 70's  an keep on huntin 

Yep, same here.

I pack and put away our winter clothes in the summer, and I pack and put away our summer clothes in the winter.

When the weather gets cold, I take the clothes I packed for the winter, throw them in the car and go south!!

Actually, that's what we try to do.  The last couple of years ----------

This year, we are hustling to finish a house with the last drops of sun.  During the winter, we will be building cabinets, and such.

But --- we will be going to the warm country as soon as the door has a lock!!!!


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  I'm in Michigan, the detector never really gets put away, I got out every winter month last year.    ffd

Tank 69 you rascal.  If it got in the 70's up here in January we'd all drop dead, not to mention go broke.  When it shuts down here at 9200 ft. I like to read a lot of treasure story books. And look up internet info.  I know most of all that is 99% BS, but it's still inspiring.  I was gonna buy a snowmbile, until I found out it was illegal to ride them on the streets.  I don't ski.  A lot of bars are within walkin distance and we have free bus service, so I get a perverse enjoyment out of watchin drunk tourists do that karoake thing.  Some are pretty good, or else I'm drunker than they are.

break out the heavy winter clothes cause it gets down into the 70's  an keep on huntin 

I'm 100% with ya on that one bro!  LoL

Well, here in Texas, it doesn't really stop me....even if it snowed, (and I have detected here while it has) I try to detect no matter what the weather....if it gets too bad out, I then turn to cleaning, researching leads, and trying to ID some of my finds....
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Oh, us treasure hunters are a bunch of........nutcases, sometimes.

We went out panning in a creek that we had brought hammers and a hatchet to, so that we could break up the ice, so we could pan in.

Darn close to frostbite by the end of that adventure!!!

I actually did get very mild frostbite up in Alaska - Chickaloon Creek, I remember it like yesterday - 1990 - a trip to Alaska (second one), Chickaloon Creek, straight off a glacier, brand new highbanker.  I went in with my shoes still on.  It was cold for a minute or so, but it was ok.

I sucked up bottom for a couple of hours or so - Roy stopped and built camp, started a fire -  got my very first Alaska nugget in the quartz matrix.
Getting darker, I pulled everything up, got out of the water, and it felt like someone had stuck two huge weights to my feet.  Got over to the campfire, took off the wet shoes, and socks, and found blue/white feet - had to warm up towels to wrap around my feet - but they didn't hurt a bit - until they started to defrost ---  for the rest of the night, it was doublehell.  Man, that hurt!

See what us treasure hunters will do for "fun".  It's an addiction, I tell you, an addiction.  Hello, my name is Beth, and I am a treasure-holic.


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"Oh, us treasure hunters are a bunch of........nutcases, sometimes."

You can say that again Mrs. O.!   There've been years I've carried a small hammer and chisel  to cut through the frost line. One year I had a site so productive that I'd build  little fires over the spots if they were good signals! More research for me now days, but I understand anyone who has to keep digging

The winters are not too bad here.  When it gets above 40 and no wind I will venture out.  We usually have 4 or 5 days a month that is decent digging weather and the ground never freezes.  Monty