Look around for areas where you don’t see detector holes or drywasher piles and try your test hole at these spots to determine depth to bedrock.

"The practice of gleaning goes back thousands of years"

I’d start the day by crawling out of my dome tent, cooking up some Spam and eggs, and heating water for instant coffee on the Coleman stove.

Ray followed up by detecting the same area and I was happy to see that he did not find any good targets in the same line. So far so good.