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Six greenhorns are risking it all.
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You're about to lose your house.
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Don't lose faith.
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To strike gold in Alaska.
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We got gold!
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And save their families.
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Huh.
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Harder. Harder. Harder.
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Get the frig back.
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Now. As they try to set up their operation.
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Jack Hoffman loses control.
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Hold on.
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And they have to learn to live with each other.
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Shut up and get out of my cabin. Now.
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As Todd Hoffman and his team come face to face
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With the reality of life in the wilderness.
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Whoo.
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Todd Hoffman and his father Jack
have sold everything they can.
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And are staking it all on a gold claim in Alaska.
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Who's that man. Yahoo.
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We've gambled a lot and, uh, It better be there.
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As far as gold mining goes, this is it.
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It's gonna be tough.
There's no plan B.
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We can't even afford plan A.
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We thank you for this moment in Jesus's name.
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Lord have mercy. You know,
we have to win on this one.
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One week ago they left their home
in Sandy Oregon for Alaska with
four of their closest buddies.
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All have been hit hard by the economic downturn.
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To be on welfare, food stamps, and, you know.
We've done that, and I'm done with that.
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I got to make something happen.
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It's weird to say "Do or Die",
but it's very crucial that we find gold.
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It's a very tense situation.
If we can find gold, everything's great.
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If we don't, we're in trouble.
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Alaska's mining season is five months.
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But the Hoffmans can only afford three.
They need to find gold before their money runs out.
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If I fail here, I'm screwed.
I mean, fully screwed.
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So. I fully intend to dig gold out of that hole.
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Their claim is 160 wild and rugged acres under
the Chilkat Mountains in southeast Alaska.
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It's a inhospitable wilderness, where they'll have
to learn how to survive alongside the locals.
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There's an estimated 15 million dollars
of untouched gold on their claim.
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They plan to be mining here until the ground freezes.
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Before they start prospecting,
they have to set up a place to live.
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Jack can't wait to get moving.
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Got to strip this down. Get it smooth.
So we can build our camp up here.
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First step, is to clear and level the ground.
The good news is there's an
old D-6 dozer on the site.
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Abandoned here by the miner they
leased the claim from. The bad news is:
It hasn't been started for three years.
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We're gonna hot wire it
cause we don't have a key.
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It's not like the owner is going to complain.
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This isn't fast, but we'll use it
trying to get on his mine to mine.
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Sure, I don't have any problem with that.
I don't think he will either.
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And if he did, the nearest State Trooper
is hours away. Even if he can make
it through the snow drifts.
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That's good.
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-Enough.
-That's close enough.
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-Okay. We're gonna try it.
-(SNAP)
-Whoa. Oh.
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We must have them wrong.
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-Uh oh.
-Wait. No. We got it wrong here.
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Okay. We're gonna try here.
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Aw. We got to charge it again.
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It looks like winter temperatures of
20 below might have done more
than just kill the dozer's battery.
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After two hours, the final hope
lies in the bottom of Jack's toolbox.
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Squirt a little bit right now.
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Starting spray. Highly flammable ether.
It's used to help cold engines ignite.
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Give it a try.
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Pray. Come on. Pray.
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(Click. Clunk. chuga chuga chuga)
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(Engine fires up.)
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Wahoo.
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Woo. Woo. Hooray.
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No guts. No glory.
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Yeeah. Woo.
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Jack makes quick work of clearing the
snow where the guys want to set up camp.
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That's two little doggers.
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But the job has just begun.
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Basically, we got to get this muck out of here. Yeah.
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We got a lot of dirt
to move. A lot of dirt
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So. I don't know. Kinda
working out the plan as they go.
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The team wants to bring in their RV's.
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But the D6 dozer won't be
enough to shift all the mud.
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They need their heavy equipment.
The 270 excavator, and the even bigger 400.
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We got a lot of work left to do
before we actually start mining.
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Yeah. Suck her up. A little more.
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You're good.
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It's spring in Alaska.
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And with two days of good weather
and hard work, Todd, Jack and the
team finish the solid base for their camp.
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The center piece is their forty foot
semi trailer holding everything
the miners need to live here.
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This is big for us to get this trailer in here.
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It's our kitchen. And it holds all the supplies
that we been living without for a few days.
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It's even holding the wood to build a cabin.
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I'm super excited cause all our stuff's here.
We can actually set up camp.
And we're ready to rock.
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Now. The miners can also bring in their
homes for the summer. Four RVs.
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Doesn't look like much but that's our home.
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For a while.
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This is really a key point for me.
Because we're here.
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They've made a start on the camp.
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But with the ground thawed,
the mining season's already started.
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The Hoffmans have called the crew together.
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They think they know how to strike it rich here.
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Thirty years ago, Jack mined in Alaska.
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And for two years, Todd has been
researching the best way to find gold.
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Gold naturally occurs in the earth's crust.
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In the Chilkat Mountains, geological processes
have forced the gold into quartz veins.
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Over thousands of years, erosion has
washed the gold down the water
courses at Porcupine Creek.
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Eighteen times heavier than water,
the gold has settled along the old riverbeds.
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Jack and Todd will be targeting these deposits.
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On this claim there's ancient river channels.
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And inside each one of these channels,
there's an actual pay streak of gold.
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Then these pay streaks are basically a
streak, coming down the mountain.
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And that is where the gold has
settled, into this pay streak, so
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That's where we got to get down to.
And that's what we gotta find.
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There are three ancient river channels at Porcupine.
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Each potentially with a pay streak.
One runs right behind the camp.
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And that's where Todd wants to
look for the fine gold deposits.
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Although there is a bigger prize.
Along these ancient channels are waterfalls.
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At the bottom of these, big nuggets have collected
over thousands of years. These concentrated
deposits of gold are known as "Glory holes".
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So the water just dropped it in there.
Left it in this basin down here.
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That is what you call a Glory Hole.
All you have to do is get down and dig it.
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Glory Holes are harder to find.
Over thousands of years, the action
of erosion has covered them up.
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So the bottom of an ancient waterfall,
could now be up to 100 feet underground.
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Whereas the fine gold in a pay streak,
could be just feet from the surface.
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Jack wants to go straight for the Glory Hole.
But Todd has decided that they are
going to play it slow, and steady.
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We got to try to locate that pay streak, because
that's where our moneys gonna be. Right there.
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The Hoffmans aren't the first people to have
prospected for gold at Porcupine Creek.
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One hundred years ago, this was a thriving
gold town. 200 prospectors lived here.
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It was one of the most successful gold fields in Alaska.
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But devastating floods, and falling gold prices
brought an end to Porcupine's gold rush.
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However, for the last 25 tears, one man has
grown rich here. His name, is John Schnabel.
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Right across the street from each other.
Our claims butt right up together.
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The legend is, this guy's got so much gold.
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He doesn't even know what to do with it.
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With such a successful miner just across the creek.
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Jack and Todd want to see what they can learn.
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I'm hoping he'll help a guy who doesn't
know how to mine. How about 6 guys
that don't know how to mine.
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Listen. Don't say anything stupid over there.
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Ah, well. Probably want to do that for you.
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-Todd.
-I'm John.
-Good to meet you John.
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This is the top stuff that's in that
dirt you're looking at over there.
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Seems even John Schnabel's pockets
are stuffed with jars of gold.
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You've got a few pieces that's
a little bit bigger than flakes.
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That's what you get down on the bottom.
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Sometimes you get into an
area that gold is bigger than that.
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-I like the sound of that, John.
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
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I really like the sound of that.
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Haw. You got that right. My wife says
that I can't hear a drop in the jar,
I'm not interested. Haw Haw.
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-Nice looking gold.
-It is nice.
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You get to bedrock, you get the heavy gold.
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When that area got hilled out, it was a hundred
feet. It took us two years to get to bedrock.
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Then it's a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
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You just have to have enough money to
stick with it long enough to get there.
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Cause they said "No guts. No glory". Haw haw.
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No guts. No glory.
That's right.
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The revelation, that it took John
Schnabel two years to find a large
deposit of gold, is a bombshell.
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He dug for two years, in that one spot.
Two hundred thousand dollars worth of digging.
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I have the faith that, we're in ground that
we think is really good. You know, geez .
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It'd better be. We don't have the time.
You know, our time's running out.
And so we have to go for it.
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Todd and Jack have only got enough
money to mine for three months.
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They've spent 150 thousand dollars
on equipment, and can't wait
two years to hit pay dirt.
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They have to find gold, before this season is out.
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-Up ahead
-Don't walk in there.
-The search for gold at the claim begins.
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How do you really know that there's gold here.
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The all important mining equipment arrives.
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Oh. No.
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And the local inhabitants
get up close and personal.
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A bear's not gonna get in between my son and I.
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(Gun loading)
That I guarantee you.
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Todd and Jack Hoffman are gold mining in Alaska,
and have been hit by a bombshell from
neighbour and fellow miner John Schnabel.
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He told us he dug for two years.
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We don't have the time.
You know, our time's running out.
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They only have enough money to mine for
three months. And will be going home before
the end of this summer's mining season,
if they don't find gold.
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Todd's plan is to look for a pay streak of gold
in the old course of Porcupine Creek, which
used to run behind the camp.
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Todd thinks fine gold deposits will
have settled into the old river bed.
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Don't go down in there.
Don't walk in there.
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Kind of a dangerous place.
But I'll spend a few seconds.
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With a hole dug, they're going to hand for
gold to see if there's any sign of the pay streak.
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A little bit of color but not much.
Not what we were expecting.
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I've seen some little specks,
but not enough there..
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Really, uh, turned my crank.
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I know we got to just keep trying.
I know the gold's here.
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Hey. Get out of there.
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Every second is dangerous.
Get outta there. Grab it. Quick.
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It's thirty years since Jack mined in Alaska.
It seems like he won't let anything
get in the way of finding gold now.
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He's a lone wolf.
He's a maverick.
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He just wants to dig gold
and stuff. He's ready to die.
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Oh, ah. That's scary.
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I take risks, you know.
If you don't take risks, you don't win.
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With no sign of a pay streak,
Jack rushes off to dig another hole.
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Jack.
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Did I hit it? Aw. Crap.
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Check your surroundings before
you get in any equipment.
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Too bad for him. It's his own truck.
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Todd has made Jim Thurber the site safety officer.
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A job that's proving testy,
with a crew of rookie miners.
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It's like we're on a vacation, but this is deadly.
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Yeah. Well. It's just one of those things.
You get old and you do dumb things.
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That's someone smashed.
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Equipment takes them out like that.
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That's death, So. There's nothing funny about that.
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Survival in Alaska isn't just about
avoiding Jack in an excavator.
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The crew needs to set up
everything they brought with them.
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We have to have an operating camp.
We gotta eat, drink, and sleep here.
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We need water, electricity.
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Hot showers, toilets.
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We're pretty much off the grid.
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They're putting in five septic waste systems,
and are using seven generators to power
the entire site through 3000 feet of cable.
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But they need to tap into
Alaska's natural resources as well.
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We don't have a well or anything.
We gotta grab water out of this little spring.
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Getting up. Walking down the hall to a
shower isn't happening here. So
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Yeah. We're kinda spoiled with
what we have at home but, uh
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It's educational.
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The two 500 gallon water tanks will provide
enough water for one week. It's all hands
on deck to turn this claim into a home.
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Pastor Mike Halstead is turned his
attention to putting a roof over their heads.
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He brought more than a ton of timber from
Oregon to build a house for the community.
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We'll have a big porch and there'll be a big living room
that'll just be a community room where everybody can
come in and have lunch or hang out when it's raining.
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It's gonna have a wood front, a wood back
and wood walls and then a canvas top.
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And so the bear's gonna have to
be over eight feet tall to reach in.
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Mike's taking precautions, for good reason.
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Out here there's a food chain,
and we're not on top anymore.
218
00:16:46,650 --> 00:16:51,930
With the advent of spring, Porcupine Creek's
bears are waking from hibernation.
219
00:16:52,170 --> 00:16:54,270
Oh, there's bears. Black bears.
220
00:16:54,270 --> 00:16:57,120
-Oh. Look at that.
-There he is right there.
221
00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:01,500
To the left of that field there.
They're coming out in the middle of the day.
222
00:17:01,930 --> 00:17:11,790
The valley is home to 400 black and grizzly bears.
They can smell food from five miles away.
And after six months of sleep, they are hungry.
223
00:17:11,790 --> 00:17:13,790
I think we're okay right here.
224
00:17:13,980 --> 00:17:15,630
That's a..
225
00:17:15,850 --> 00:17:19,390
Dang it. I mean, there's bears
everywhere around here.
226
00:17:20,650 --> 00:17:28,600
It's particularly worrying, because there
are 3 kids on site. Todd Hoffman's sons
Hudson, age 9, and Hunter age 11.
227
00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,050
And Greg Remsburg's boy Brandon, who's 10.
228
00:17:33,210 --> 00:17:37,400
Two thousand miles south in
Oregon, their moms are concerned.
229
00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:48,330
I'm nervous, about the boys being caught off
guard by a bear. My son could be walking over
and right there is a 500 pound grizzly bear.
230
00:17:50,860 --> 00:17:57,400
Jimmy Dorsey is also worried.
He's the only member of the crew
who hasn't got an RV to sleep in.
231
00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,030
All he has is his tent.
232
00:18:00,140 --> 00:18:06,920
The bears come down this, this hillside.
This is where they got to stalk us from.
This is it there.
233
00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,200
As the team is about to bed down
for the night, Dorsey hears a sound.
234
00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,640
Uh, there's something right here in these bushes.
235
00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,500
(Growl) Oh! Look at that.
236
00:18:18,010 --> 00:18:19,500
You guys...
237
00:18:21,690 --> 00:18:24,120
Dorsey has seen a bear.
238
00:18:24,130 --> 00:18:27,020
-Where?
-It was running too.
It's right there by those trees..
239
00:18:27,020 --> 00:18:31,740
-How big was that bear, man?
-He's probably about five, six hundred pounds.
-Dude
240
00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:37,000
You know, I haven't seen one fox.
I haven't seen one deer. I haven't seen one elk.
241
00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,250
No moose, nothing.
All I've seen is three bears so far.
242
00:18:40,250 --> 00:18:41,950
-At the mine site.
-Yeah.
243
00:18:41,950 --> 00:18:45,520
That's just..I mean, It's like
nothing lives here except bears.
244
00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,700
For every one you see, there's ten
out there you haven't seen yet.
245
00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:50,540
So who knows how many are wandering around.
246
00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,200
An attack from a 600 pound bear could be fatal.
247
00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,330
The guys have to check the
camp to see where it's gone.
248
00:18:57,330 --> 00:18:59,960
This is a 338 ultra mag.
249
00:19:00,010 --> 00:19:01,300
Look at this.
250
00:19:01,310 --> 00:19:04,110
Todd's got an AR-15 assault rifle.
251
00:19:04,110 --> 00:19:07,710
My god. I didn't know you had that.
252
00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:14,030
And he's taking the Gator, hoping the sound of the engine will scare the bear off.
253
00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,200
Right there.
254
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,330
See the eyes.
255
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,760
-See that there.
-Tracks there dad.
256
00:19:20,990 --> 00:19:23,070
This is it?
(loads rifle)
-Yeah.
257
00:19:26,860 --> 00:19:32,540
Those ones right there, by the willow trees.
I think this is a grizzly bear.
258
00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,000
Right there. Right there.
There's the mother.
259
00:19:41,020 --> 00:19:47,770
This is a bad hunt Jimmy. He's got really
good eyes at night. And you can't
see him through the binoculars.
260
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:54,830
The bear isn't in the camp. But this is
his territory, and he won't have gone far.
261
00:19:55,230 --> 00:19:59,800
Sleeping in a tent doesn't
seem like such a good idea.
262
00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:05,050
I was thinking about staying,
maybe in the truck tonight.
Or the trailer. I don't know.
263
00:20:05,260 --> 00:20:07,050
In the semi?
264
00:20:09,310 --> 00:20:15,450
That bear's still out there. So just
try to keep these doors shut and
if anything happens, give me a holler.
265
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,860
Ooh. Todd. Is that you?
266
00:20:36,350 --> 00:20:38,280
Todd.
267
00:20:43,130 --> 00:20:46,080
Alaska is home to most of America's bears.
268
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:51,520
98% of the countries grizzlies, and a hundred thousand black bears live here.
269
00:20:51,520 --> 00:21:00,620
The Hoffmans are mining in the Chilkat valley,
an area with both kinds. On their claim,
bears outnumber miners 3 to 1.
270
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,960
At Porcupine creek, a vital piece
of mining equipment is arriving.
271
00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:13,280
Step by step. We're getting closer to the gold.
272
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,280
It's the shaker.
273
00:21:16,140 --> 00:21:24,030
Shakers are the first step in recovering gold.
They shake the gold bearing
grabbers from big boulders.
274
00:21:24,350 --> 00:21:31,150
Back in Oregon, the team spent 3 months
creating their very own machine before
shipping it to Porcupine Creek.
275
00:21:36,090 --> 00:21:41,470
Now Jack's in charge of the final step.
Getting it safely off the trailer.
276
00:21:41,790 --> 00:21:45,160
The shaker weighs in at 22 thousand lbs.
277
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,160
Jimmy.
278
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,480
The miners can only lift it with the 400 excavator.
279
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:55,400
All Jack needs to do is lift the shaker a
few inches, so the truck can drive away.
280
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,020
Now. Is the other side in?
281
00:21:57,020 --> 00:21:59,450
Just hold on until he's back.
282
00:21:59,450 --> 00:22:01,440
But Jack's getting impatient.
283
00:22:01,690 --> 00:22:03,150
Heading your way.
284
00:22:03,150 --> 00:22:06,410
Whoa. Whoa. whoa. Hey.
285
00:22:10,970 --> 00:22:12,880
You know you're all jihad.
286
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,410
-Well yeah, I
-I wouldn't give, I would have,
I would just square it up.
287
00:22:16,410 --> 00:22:17,800
That cable's right.
288
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:22,570
And you put the generator right in
the way. Does that look right to you?
289
00:22:22,570 --> 00:22:25,290
I don't know why you
people leave stuff in the way.
290
00:22:25,290 --> 00:22:27,210
Listen. We didn't plan on doing this.
291
00:22:27,210 --> 00:22:29,210
Well. Move it out of the way.
292
00:22:29,210 --> 00:22:32,880
But Jack can't wait for
Todd to move the generator.
293
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,580
All, hell no.
294
00:22:40,810 --> 00:22:42,090
You got it all screwed up.
295
00:22:42,090 --> 00:22:43,400
Now what?
296
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:51,050
Before anyone can stop him,
Pastor Mike Halstead jumps up to
reconnect the cable to the jaws of the 400.
297
00:22:51,050 --> 00:22:52,270
Mike.
298
00:22:53,210 --> 00:22:58,830
That's straight teetering.
Wedge out Mike. Out Mike. Wait.
299
00:22:59,690 --> 00:23:04,670
With such a huge weight,
the jaws are at breaking point.
300
00:23:04,670 --> 00:23:09,630
(cables are heard straining)
301
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,460
Hold on.
302
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,760
Aw, shoot. Listen.
303
00:23:24,060 --> 00:23:26,700
Can you come down a little bit. See if it'll set.
304
00:23:26,700 --> 00:23:28,600
Down. What the heck happened?
305
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,570
You got hooked under there.
306
00:23:31,050 --> 00:23:35,100
Fortunately, the springs are an easy fix.
307
00:23:35,100 --> 00:23:39,820
But if the welds on the shaker break,
it's going to be a major setback.
308
00:23:39,820 --> 00:23:42,330
-What?
-Let me get the 270.
309
00:23:42,490 --> 00:23:48,680
Todd wants to take half the weight with the smaller
excavator. But Jack's in no mood to be helped.
310
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,280
Wait.
311
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,920
Tell him to start it up. Get it out.
312
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,220
Rev out.
313
00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:05,000
Lift. Go go go go go.
314
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,150
(strain can be heard increasing)
315
00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:13,840
(Click)
316
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,900
There you go.
317
00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:17,900
Good lord.
318
00:24:18,220 --> 00:24:22,800
Know what. It's off the trailer and it's fixed.
But that could have been really bad.
319
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:29,160
Everybody's got a different way of doing things.
You know. I've got my way, which I think is right.
320
00:24:29,470 --> 00:24:31,630
Just gotta get done.
321
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:41,580
The shaker is the first section of the team's
wash plant, which will separate gold from dirt.
322
00:24:46,090 --> 00:24:54,140
Todd and Dorsey have to go on a thousand
mile journey to Anchorage to buy the last
and most important piece. A duplex jig.
323
00:24:54,140 --> 00:24:58,430
It's owned by the man the Hoffman's have
leased their claim from. Earl Foster.
324
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,710
This jig, without that, we're sunk.
325
00:25:01,710 --> 00:25:05,470
If we don't have this thing, we're not
gonna get about half the gold.
326
00:25:05,470 --> 00:25:10,190
But Todd's short of cash.
And duplex jigs don't come cheap.
327
00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:13,280
I don't have the money I need.
Thirty thousand dollars.
328
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,880
Todd's only hope is if Earl is
prepared to make a deal.
329
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,860
-What's plan B?
I have no plan B, at this point.
330
00:25:25,580 --> 00:25:33,470
Back at the mine, Jack's supposed to be
digging small holes to locate the fine
gold that the duplex jig will process.
331
00:25:33,790 --> 00:25:35,640
But he's getting gold fever.
332
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,400
I'm so anxious to go mining I can't hardly stand it.
333
00:25:39,610 --> 00:25:46,400
He's abandoned Todd's plan to search
for the pay streak, and is digging
all over the claim to find a glory hole.
334
00:25:46,780 --> 00:25:51,080
We need the money, you know.
It's not a question of wanting it. We need it.
335
00:25:51,950 --> 00:25:55,560
Todd just got to trust me.
I'm the guy that really knows how to mine.
336
00:25:57,660 --> 00:26:05,820
Although a glory hole could yield a million
dollars worth of nuggets, you have to dig much
deeper holes to locate an ancient waterfall.
337
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,650
It could be 5 feet away, you know.
338
00:26:08,650 --> 00:26:16,430
Jack's going on an old miner's intuition. On a
160 acre claim, the odds are stacked against him.
339
00:26:16,430 --> 00:26:19,870
I'm gonna do another one, right here.
340
00:26:23,470 --> 00:26:33,240
24 hours down the Alcan highway, Todd and
Dorsey face tough negotiations to buy the
duplex jig from Earl Foster, the claim owner.
341
00:26:33,630 --> 00:26:38,220
Hey Earl. This is it, huh. Wow.
342
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:44,300
Duplex jigs are vital, because they're
the final stage in a wash plant.
343
00:26:44,860 --> 00:26:53,020
Underneath the jig, diaphragms pulsate
water through a bed of steel shot,
washing the heavier fine gold from the dirt.
344
00:26:53,180 --> 00:26:57,020
Sixty percent of the Hoffman's
gold may just come this way.
345
00:26:57,020 --> 00:27:02,250
Tell me how this works, Earl.
This is a rubber diaphragm.
It pulsates the water?
346
00:27:02,250 --> 00:27:07,470
It allows the heavier particles to
sift down in between those slats
and pile them down here.
347
00:27:07,470 --> 00:27:09,520
You get black sand and gold.
348
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:17,400
I hate to ask man. I'm running out of money.
Would you take half down, and maybe
half at the end of the season?
349
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,930
Up ahead, Jack Hoffman's new plan
for finding gold comes into question.
350
00:27:27,930 --> 00:27:29,740
How do you know that there's gold here?
351
00:27:29,740 --> 00:27:33,440
And Porcupine's bears pay the camp a visit.
352
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,760
Todd Hoffman has traveled to Anchorage
to meet Earl Foster, the man he
has leased his gold claim from.
353
00:27:48,940 --> 00:27:50,010
This is it, huh.
354
00:27:50,010 --> 00:27:58,810
Earl has a vital piece of mining equipment for sale.
The duplex jig will help Todd and his team get
up to sixty percent of their gold from the dirt.
355
00:27:58,810 --> 00:27:59,320
Okay.
356
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,540
The problem is, Todd doesn't
have the money to buy it,
357
00:28:02,540 --> 00:28:08,880
I hate to ask, man. I'm running out of money.
Would you take half down and then
maybe half at the end of the season.
358
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,930
No problem. Whatever come
good for you is okay with me.
359
00:28:15,930 --> 00:28:17,930
Hey man. I appreciate it.
360
00:28:18,330 --> 00:28:20,540
Whoa. Okay. hang on.
361
00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:25,870
That's another 15 thousand dollars Todd
Hoffman has spent on the gold mining dream.
362
00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,280
Thanks pal.
363
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:33,020
With the same again due at the end of the
season, the need to strike gold just got greater.
364
00:28:33,020 --> 00:28:35,690
(Honk, honk.)
365
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,280
A thousand miles later, they are back
at the claim with the all important jig.
366
00:28:42,590 --> 00:28:44,860
Here. Yeah man.
367
00:28:44,860 --> 00:28:46,620
Here it is.
368
00:28:46,620 --> 00:28:48,120
Duplex jig.
369
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,270
This is good to see right here.
370
00:28:54,010 --> 00:29:00,540
Todd's returned to find out Jack has been digging
holes seemingly at random, all over the claim.
371
00:29:00,540 --> 00:29:03,900
Just digging holes here and there.
That's not gonna help us any.
372
00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:06,910
Hey. This is the prize.
373
00:29:06,910 --> 00:29:12,000
Todd wants to know why his dad has
thrown out his idea to find the pay streak.
374
00:29:12,650 --> 00:29:15,020
I thought we agreed we were gonna work that.
375
00:29:15,020 --> 00:29:18,540
-Yeah, well..
-Try and find the pay streak over towards the creek.
376
00:29:18,540 --> 00:29:19,920
I know. I know.
377
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,780
I think we ought to get a kind
of a slow and steady plan.
378
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,200
-That don't find a
-How can we work that?
379
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,320
We need the gold. We need the money,
380
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,650
The glory hole has the most gold in it for right now.
381
00:29:30,650 --> 00:29:38,030
Once we're able to pay for the bills,
I can relax, and go for a pay streak.
But right now, we got, we gotta get the money.
382
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,640
Alright.
383
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,180
Well, go your route but
384
00:29:43,850 --> 00:29:47,280
I don't know. I just don't know
if that's the best route to go.
385
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:55,580
Now, with Todd's OK, Jack's got everyone panning
the holes he's dug searching for a glory hole.
386
00:29:55,580 --> 00:29:57,200
You get any?
387
00:29:57,420 --> 00:29:59,870
-Not much
-Eh?
-Not much.
388
00:29:59,870 --> 00:30:00,960
Just a few pieces.
389
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,870
It's hard work, and it's taking it's toll on the team.
390
00:30:05,870 --> 00:30:13,440
I know there's something wrong with this hand.
Maybe it's just yellow rocks. And the worst
part about it, gold isn't yellow. all the time.
391
00:30:13,710 --> 00:30:21,040
Gold is brown. Gold is pink. Gold has a reddish color.
Then to top it all off, I'm color blind.
392
00:30:23,420 --> 00:30:24,800
Hey Jack.
393
00:30:25,550 --> 00:30:27,480
How do you know that there's gold here?
394
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,480
-How do I know.
-Yeah.
395
00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:32,010
Well. I know there's gold.
396
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,960
-I'm seeing little pieces, but I mean
-It's kinda
-How do we really know if there's gold here?
397
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,860
You keep panning, until you can see it.
398
00:30:41,180 --> 00:30:43,340
I don't know really how to feel.
399
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,760
Maybe I'm just a little bit
naive or something. I don't know.
400
00:30:48,410 --> 00:30:52,110
The search for the glory hole might not be paying off.
401
00:30:53,470 --> 00:30:56,300
But at least they're making progress on the camp.
402
00:30:56,300 --> 00:30:57,770
Okay now. Hold it right there.
403
00:30:57,770 --> 00:30:59,390
Come on man. Hurry up.
404
00:30:59,390 --> 00:31:02,000
Eh?
Ahh. Ooyah.
405
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,720
Good.
406
00:31:05,450 --> 00:31:07,320
Holy mother.
407
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:14,920
In just one week, Mike Halstead has worked tirelessly
and almost finished the first house on the claim.
408
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,610
He's brought everything out here to Alaska.
409
00:31:17,610 --> 00:31:19,980
We're going to have a counter,
and then the sink right here.
410
00:31:19,980 --> 00:31:24,800
And has even built a room out the back of his
community cabin, for Todd and his family.
411
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,880
And this your little love nest here.
412
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,480
Having uh, Mike as a Pastor
and part of our team is good.
413
00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:33,480
He's a monster. A manimal.
414
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,000
There we go.
415
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:46,520
The final detail makes Mike's cabin bear proof,
a point not lost on Realtor Jimmy Dorsey.
416
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,600
Who's worried his tent isn't bear proof.
417
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,480
He's been inspired to build his
own cabin from the logs on site.
418
00:31:54,480 --> 00:32:00,190
As his wife Joy, back in Oregon, is worried
about the safety of their kids, Ella and Hannah.
419
00:32:00,190 --> 00:32:04,280
I don't want to be in the middle of
nowhere..being attacked by a wild animal.
420
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,350
That's terrifying.
421
00:32:08,810 --> 00:32:14,440
The problem is
Dorsey has no experience in building houses.
422
00:32:17,230 --> 00:32:19,710
I put "Look Joy. A solid door".
423
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:25,550
So. I think that she's going to be happy with this.
And the kids are gonna love it. It's still a tent
technically because it has a canvas top.
424
00:32:25,550 --> 00:32:29,040
That's about all. The tent characteristics of it.
425
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,570
I think it's bear proof.
426
00:32:30,570 --> 00:32:35,850
And it will need to be.
The bears are getting bolder by the minute.
427
00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:40,200
I got a griz. Right here. Right here.
428
00:32:40,540 --> 00:32:43,320
He's right in our deal.
429
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,500
Ho. Hey. Ho. Hello.
430
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:48,680
Crack. Crackle.
431
00:33:00,990 --> 00:33:06,080
Greg Remsburg's 10 year old son, Brandon,
has just seen a grizzly bear.
432
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,080
He's right in our deal.
433
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,870
It's the first bear that's come
into camp in broad daylight.
434
00:33:12,730 --> 00:33:16,030
And it's just yards from
where they're eating breakfast.
435
00:33:16,030 --> 00:33:18,680
Their safety is now under threat.
436
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:19,960
Where'd he go?
437
00:33:20,250 --> 00:33:21,720
Did he go up?
438
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,760
-What's he doing in here?
-There he is. Right there.
439
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,040
Coming right in here.
440
00:33:27,420 --> 00:33:30,060
Here. I'm gonna scare him. Just a second.
441
00:33:31,710 --> 00:33:34,720
-Oh. What are you do...
-Bang
442
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,440
-Man. That gun is messed up.
-This is exactly what I thought would happen.
443
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,440
And they would get really used to us.
444
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,230
He'll be back.
445
00:33:43,230 --> 00:33:46,680
-Graham crackers dude.
-Hey hey.
-His favorite.
446
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,240
Food is one of the main reasons
bears and humans come face to face.
447
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:56,990
In the wilderness, it should be kept in airtight
containers, or at least 12 feet in the air
448
00:33:56,990 --> 00:34:00,410
If food is left out, a bear will come back later.
449
00:34:00,460 --> 00:34:05,070
-That's not funny.
-Well. That's your kids leaving crap out, man.
450
00:34:06,650 --> 00:34:09,640
-You left your crackers
-Hey Cubby.
-What?
451
00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:14,060
You left your crackers out.
There was a grizzly bear. At the fire.
452
00:34:14,330 --> 00:34:18,680
Check your graham crackers. He was 15
feet from us having coffee this morning.
453
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:23,470
-You gotta pick that stuff up.
-You shut up and get out of my cabin.
454
00:34:24,330 --> 00:34:25,950
Now.
455
00:34:27,180 --> 00:34:29,150
Get out of the cabin.
456
00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:31,150
Before I throw you out.
457
00:34:31,150 --> 00:34:34,520
As a camp, we all have responsibilities.
458
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:40,810
Greg has had a real fright. Like any father,
he wants to protect his son.
459
00:34:40,810 --> 00:34:44,730
It's one thing to see him out
at a distance, running from us.
460
00:34:44,730 --> 00:34:49,470
But it's another thing to have him sneak in
when you're having your morning coffee.
461
00:34:49,470 --> 00:34:52,960
And take a little bag of
crackers, literally, 50 feet from you.
462
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:57,980
If our wives and kids are gonna spend
the summer here with us we
gotta make sure camp is safe.
463
00:34:58,380 --> 00:35:01,850
That bear's not gonna get
in between my son and I.
464
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,280
(Click click)
That I guarantee ya.
465
00:35:05,530 --> 00:35:10,960
You're allowed to shoot menacing bears
and so, um, I would say what happened
this morning was menacing.
466
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,410
Hey.
467
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,000
Thurber and I are gonna go make
sure that bear doesn't come back.
468
00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:21,740
Okay. You guys stay in here and
keep the door locked. See you in a bit.
469
00:35:21,740 --> 00:35:23,360
See ya later.
470
00:35:27,130 --> 00:35:29,230
OK. Now I can leave.
471
00:35:38,830 --> 00:35:42,810
Here's scat. Right here. Pretty fresh.
Yeah. And that's a trail.
472
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,700
Right down to our food supply right there.
473
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,610
I'm sleeping right down the hill in that trailer.
474
00:35:49,610 --> 00:35:52,650
And they're nestled right up here in this hill.
475
00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:55,210
-There's some scat right here.
-Geez.
476
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:57,120
This is his house.
477
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,920
You gotta (bleep) it up where he wants to move.
478
00:36:00,590 --> 00:36:02,920
Take that ya (bleep).
479
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,860
(Bleep) test off me. Aah.
480
00:36:06,860 --> 00:36:11,050
That oughta do it.
Take care of one of them anyway.
481
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,550
Greg has decided to call his wife Sandy.
482
00:36:17,550 --> 00:36:19,550
-Hello
-Hi.
483
00:36:19,550 --> 00:36:22,490
Brandon spotted a grizzly bear in camp today.
484
00:36:22,490 --> 00:36:26,750
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I would like to talk with him.
485
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,850
-Hey mom.
-Hi Brandon.
486
00:36:29,850 --> 00:36:32,960
Tell me the story about this
bear that you saw around camp.
487
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:37,160
It looked up at me and then it got up and walked away.
488
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,640
Whew.
489
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,130
Did it scare you at all.
490
00:36:41,130 --> 00:36:43,070
I was a little freaked out at first.
491
00:36:43,070 --> 00:36:45,690
You were freaked out but you weren't scared.
492
00:36:45,690 --> 00:36:47,980
And dad and them were having coffee.
493
00:36:47,980 --> 00:36:51,260
I just walked over to dad and said "Hey Dad. There's a bear".
494
00:36:51,260 --> 00:36:54,040
As a mom my first job is to protect.
495
00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:59,900
To, to not be there. To not be there
to be able to do that for him as his mom.
496
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,160
It's really hard.
497
00:37:04,890 --> 00:37:09,080
There's nothing that I could have done in that instance.
498
00:37:09,820 --> 00:37:12,400
-Means a lot to have him up here with you.
-Oh.
499
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:18,060
Damn little thing is all I have. To have my son.
500
00:37:22,350 --> 00:37:29,600
Since Brandon spotted the grizzly bear
in camp, Todd and the guys have been
trying to secure a safety perimeter.
501
00:37:38,620 --> 00:37:43,900
Now, a black bear has emerged from the
trees, just feet from Mike Halstead.
502
00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:46,590
You guys stay back here till we give you a buzz.
503
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,700
I know there was a big black bear.
He was hanging around here the other day.
504
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,310
There's a bear about 200 yards up here.
505
00:37:53,310 --> 00:37:56,380
Mike's the only member of the team with a bear tag.
506
00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:58,540
The only one licensed to shoot.
507
00:37:58,540 --> 00:38:03,840
We're not gonna wait around. It's also
getting dark and I don't want to have to
do this in half an hour when it's darker.
508
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,170
It's fresh. And it's warm.
509
00:38:08,430 --> 00:38:11,130
I see him right over here.
Mike.
510
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,910
Get the gator.
511
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,680
(piercing whistle)
512
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:21,160
Mike.
513
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,920
Todd Hoffman and Mike Halstead are tracking the bear.
514
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:44,920
With bears coming on to their site, the safety
of the team is under threat like never before.
515
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,560
(a rifle shot is fired)
516
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:01,690
A little shaky. A hundred yards.
517
00:39:02,430 --> 00:39:05,560
Hey Mike. Come up on him real slow.
518
00:39:07,340 --> 00:39:08,700
Mike.
519
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,950
Look at that guy.
520
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,240
You can see the exit wound was just right out of the heart.
521
00:39:24,430 --> 00:39:26,800
They're getting in close now.
522
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,810
A bear like this. A 300 pounder.
523
00:39:30,810 --> 00:39:32,990
Could do a lot of damage to anybody.
524
00:39:32,990 --> 00:39:35,450
These kids are all running around.
We have a lot of families coming up.
525
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,950
Whether its a griz, or an older
male black bear, they're all a threat.
526
00:39:39,950 --> 00:39:42,650
My rule is if you shoot it,
you better eat the whole thing.
527
00:39:42,650 --> 00:39:46,540
Right boys. You don't go shooting that
sparrow unless you plan on cooking it up.
528
00:39:46,540 --> 00:39:52,670
For Todd, the success of the bear hunt, has renewed
his faith that they can survive in the wilderness.
529
00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:54,670
Starting to believe it now.
530
00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:58,650
Maybe we'll carve ourselves out a
little, a little life here, you know.
531
00:39:58,650 --> 00:40:00,650
First step the bear.
532
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:02,970
Next step gold.
533
00:40:03,710 --> 00:40:08,170
Following the team's success with
the bear, the mood in camp is good.
534
00:40:08,170 --> 00:40:09,870
Welcome to my hacienda.
535
00:40:09,870 --> 00:40:14,410
Jimmy Dorsey has finished building
a bear proof house for his family.
536
00:40:14,410 --> 00:40:17,420
It's starting to feel like home.
I'm pretty proud of it.
537
00:40:17,420 --> 00:40:25,290
And Todd is all fired up. He wants to bring a strategy
to his dad's chaotic approach to finding a glory hole.
538
00:40:25,290 --> 00:40:30,330
I can't really change the old boy's mind.
We just got to put some kind of plan in place.
539
00:40:30,590 --> 00:40:33,680
He calls Earl Foster, the claim owner.
540
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,150
Hey Earl. It's Todd. I got a question for you though.
541
00:40:37,150 --> 00:40:42,560
If anyone knows where an ancient waterfall
might be located, that would be Earl.
542
00:40:42,990 --> 00:40:51,040
Where Joe's old cabin is, the limestone bedrock
is slanted and you can follow that down and
you'll find pockets and you'll have gold in it.
543
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,320
-You think it's somewhere in there.
-I think so.
-Awesome.
544
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,030
Somewhere right in here is a waterfall.
545
00:41:00,430 --> 00:41:06,000
Goes from about 15 feet, down to 40 feet.
I think I'm standing on the waterfall.
546
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,580
Should just be have an absolute
pile of gold down at the bottom.
547
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,390
Across the river, their neighbor
John Schnabel isn't quite so sure.
548
00:41:15,390 --> 00:41:20,120
You look, should never believe
everything somebody tells you.
549
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:25,840
And Earl Foster, when he was over there,
sold a claim to two boys from Dakota.
550
00:41:26,380 --> 00:41:30,160
They put fifteen holes down, and
they didn't get anything out of it.
551
00:41:31,470 --> 00:41:35,930
And they went down down down down down.
And they went flat broke.
552
00:41:35,930 --> 00:41:38,380
They should not listen to Earl Foster.
553
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:39,820
No.
554
00:41:39,820 --> 00:41:45,520
Wily old miner John Schnabel may not trust Earl,
but the Hoffmans don't have a better plan.
555
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,320
Here's the deal.
556
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,760
I want you to dig somewhere out here.
557
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,410
Dig it, backwards, until it drops off.
558
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:57,050
-Yeah.
-Too shoo.
559
00:42:06,890 --> 00:42:11,610
Take some of this.
That's the farthest I've been down.
560
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:17,680
-There's gold in this rock.
-What?
-I see gold in this rock right here.
561
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:22,250
-Are you sure?
-Yeah. I'm sure. You see it?
562
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,440
That's gold. Right there in
the mud. I think it's panning this.
563
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:33,340
Although there's still a huge job to get the gold
out of the ground, It looks like Earl might
have led them to the right spot after all.
564
00:42:35,870 --> 00:42:41,440
Three weeks after leaving Oregon,
things are finally moving in the right direction.
565
00:42:42,140 --> 00:42:44,040
That flag means freedom.
566
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:49,200
That's the reason why this country was formed.
Little business guys are failing all across this country.
567
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:54,030
People are losing their homes. So.
We got to turn this boat around.
568
00:42:54,030 --> 00:42:58,880
I'm hoping that gold mining is the key to that.
Maybe re-spark the American dream again.
569
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,820
-Yeah.
-Old Porcupine.
-Yeah.
570
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:14,030
The team's made the camp secure.
Found a promising spot to start mining.
And is getting a taste for the Alaskan wildlife.
571
00:43:14,380 --> 00:43:19,000
-Bear burritos.
-No. They're bearritos.
-Bearritos.
572
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,270
Cheers.
573
00:43:20,270 --> 00:43:23,290
This is what happens when
you (bleep) piss us off. We eat you.
574
00:43:23,290 --> 00:43:25,760
Yeah. Ha ha ha.
575
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,760
Now for the next phase guys.
Let's go get some gold.
576
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,210
Alright. Suits me. Yeeah.
577
00:43:31,220 --> 00:43:32,100
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