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A Recce Trip For Next Season

10/30/2017

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Yesterday morning the world was covered in a few cm thick layer of snow, but the temperature was mild enough to take the detector out for a last stroll. I wanted to check out a forest to see if it might be a place to begin the next season in a few months. After a little stroll and a bit of a climb and a struggle through some shrubbery we reached the forest where it 75 years ago had been some German activity. The forest was wet from the snow so we were soaked even before getting to turn on the detector. We immediately saw rust scattered around the trees. Barrack stoves, buckets, roof sheeting and car tires littered the site. The Fisher gave off good and interesting signals quite often. I only dug two or three signals and they were all food tins, but it looks good for next season for sure. Between a few large pines relics peeked out from the moss. Bottles, metal and porcelain on the surface hints of a large dumping site and a bit further away we could spot a large soup kettle from the camp kitchen. The weather changed rapidly between partly blue and sunny to dark grey with heavy snow, it was very fascinating really. After a few hours strolling around the forest we decided enough was enough and found our way back to the car and headed back home to dry clothes and warm ovens.
Before we got home we drove a little extra and made a stop by a couple of Soviet POW memorials standing by some cabins to make some pics and pay our respects to the memory of the Red Army soldiers who suffered and died in one of the many POW camps that once filled the valley.
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Several barrack stoves.
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One of the many buckets littering the forest.
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Checking a signal.
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Food tin lid.
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Kraftstoff barrell.
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Relics peeking out from the moss.
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A perfume bottle.
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A pine had eaten some metal and planks.
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The camp kitchen soup kettle.
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Another barrack stove.
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Video of the POW memorials we also visited : 
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