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For once the weather was sunny, but it wasn`t that warm, only 13-13 Celsius. Enough to get the insects interested once I had worked up a sweat. The Nokta showed me a good signal and I believed I was off to a great start with an Edelweiss badge, but as soon as I got the small item out from the soil I saw it wasn`t the gebirgsjäger badge. It had similar size and shape,and was of same type of alloy, but the badge ( if that is what it is ) was in form of a pine branch with two pi

I tried to shelter from the rain by searching around trees but soon had entageled myself into shrubbery and sapplings which just made me more wet. Here I got the first "good" find. A very damaged and partly melted EKM. Later when I was home and could clean it up it was fun to discover that it belonged together with another half tag I dug up earlier this season.

In one part of the camp I had many small aluminum signals, so I hoped for a bunch of tags. Instead they were tiny bits from some kind of trench-art production. A few of the bits had patterns or letters engraved. Like if the artist had done tests before applying it to his project. A brass signal stood out in that spot and I let out a ghasp when I dug it out.

In the early days of the week I went out to cross a few spots off my list. On the end of a long day searching on the end of last season I had picked up a few interesting signals that I suspected could be dumping pits. I made a note of them in my notebook until now when I found the time to go back there. I was eager to check what could be hiding underground there so I wasn`t discouraged by the watery clouds hanging just above the roof of my car

The following day the rain came in sideways but I had to get out there to try find at least one treasure, and I had to test my new boots. For the last ten years I have been on my second pair of M77 boots from the Norwegian Army, but lately they had been taking in water faster than a torpedoed convoy ship. The last time I wore them on a wet day my feet were soaked within the first ten minutes. My new footwear was a pair of Haix boots with the fancy name Black Eagle Athletic