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Hunting a Ski Resort
- Thread starter grover868
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I saw from your post of the same question on another forum, that you are from So. CA. Just be aware that the ski resorts have been hunted to a frazzle, for many years, during every off-season. Of course "no one gets it all", and the machines get better and better as the years roll on. Also, there's always each season's fresh losses, once the snow melts. But the days, from decades ago when it used to be possible to find silver coins at the older resorts (pre 1964 origination resorts) is getting hard, as most of the easier older pickens were scoured out in the past. But as I say, "no one gets it all" 
I've heard of people finding gold rings at the resorts, because the rings accidentally come off when people are taking on and off their gloves all the time. Thus I would imagine that the lift-line areas, or the lift-exit areas, where people mill about, are the most-likely spots where gloves came on and off.
Good luck.
I've heard of people finding gold rings at the resorts, because the rings accidentally come off when people are taking on and off their gloves all the time. Thus I would imagine that the lift-line areas, or the lift-exit areas, where people mill about, are the most-likely spots where gloves came on and off.Good luck.
JimGilmore
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Do not for get that people 1 fall down..2 they drop stuff such as riding a chair lift them may drop items in spots not easy to reach under the lifts path. They tend to put change and items in their gloves fall down and the gloves go flying.
Some areas may have lots of schrapnel from the tracksand cats running over stuff you may find bent coins as well.
Some areas may have lots of schrapnel from the tracksand cats running over stuff you may find bent coins as well.
The bottom third of the hill, anywhere along the rope tow or lifts, the top of the hill, anywhere around a warming area..anywhere there is a likely vantage point for picture taking. If its been swept already, you will know in short order, but since you are there, find the spot off to the side where its a good place to take pictures of people skiing...when the gloves come off, the rings go flying. Also, dont forget the parking area where all the snow was plowed, or the steps to the clubhouse where it was shoveled over the rail...
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Jim, you're absolutely right. I hadn't thought about the route underneath the cables of the lifts. Because yes: while people are sitting in those chairs, for the long rides to the top, they usually do fiddle with their walkmans, eat snacks, get stuff in and out of their fanny packs or back-packs, study the trails maps, etc... All things that are done while taking on and off gloves. I personally have dropped things from those heights (a glove, sunglasses, or whatever), and had to ski down to that area to search for it. So I would imagine that coins and such can be there.
Something like a ski pole or glove is easily retrieved, but something like coins or dense heavy objects like a ring, is going to be impossible to find. They would just get "swallowed up" in the snow (especially if it's powder conditions).
Something like a ski pole or glove is easily retrieved, but something like coins or dense heavy objects like a ring, is going to be impossible to find. They would just get "swallowed up" in the snow (especially if it's powder conditions).
Dan, I don't know about ski resorts in PA, but if they're anything like the ones in CA (albeit probably smaller and not as much vertical drop as ours in CA), wouldn't they just be wide open hills in the middle of summer? Ours out here, are just deserted ghost towns, with no one working, in the summer (unless they double as some sort of summer function too). So there's nothing to stop someone from simply walking out there, and hiking up to the slopes, during the off-season.
JimGilmore
Active member
Your in ca which area you going to I have hunted...Mountain high east and west though not this year...sunrise which is the same area and there are a few others along those mountain paths back towards LA.