I would love to see this in MI too! I have noplace to practice locally and none of my local friends have beacons. I've thought about buying an old beacon on ebay just to practice with.They use the same systems they use in the snow: remotely controlled beacons, buried in the sand. Works great. For probing, they just use wooden poles (1 cm in diameter), instead of metal/carbon probes. They would just rust and break in the tough sand. They teach digging strategies too. Here are some pictures from the 2019 event. The last one I attended personally.
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