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We have to get this dredge to the dock site.

I don't know how this is going to work.

I don't need that right now.

Let's fail before you tell me it's not gonna work. All right.

All right, Wes. Let's see if we can move it.

A quarter of the way through the 20-week mining season,

and Dustin Hurt has yet to get a diver in the water at his new claim.

It's going.

Oh, [bleep], wow.

It's actually driving the [bleep] truck.

Holy [bleep]!

It's working, bro.

It's working, man!

All stop. All stop, all stop.

It's not gonna make that turn, is it?

- Nope. - It's bringing it right here, for all this.

All right, Wes. We're gonna do some heavy off-roading.

Copy that. Are you ready to go?

Pull.

All stop, all stop, all stop.

It's not gonna make it over that rock.

It's stuck.

That's never gonna work.

Careful on that. It slipped out on me just now.

Whoa.

We are pulling some boulders today.

Oh. Something broke.

My chest hurts.

So I'm either having a [bleep] heart attack or an anxiety attack.

I don't encourage this behavior.

- All right, go. - Kayla is a beast.

I just try to keep up.

We are in the water. We are mining now.

Please stay working. Please.

Even with their head start, my crew still got our dredge in the water first.

So everybody's back.

We're all here.

In the wild upper reaches of southeast Alaska's Tsirku River.

It's good to be back up here.

Five weeks into the mining season,

Dustin Hurt and his crew finally have gold in their sights.

It's been a long journey to get here.

I'm sorry you guys had to go and do that stuff over there with Mark.

In a bid to help fund the Nugget Creek operation,

Kayla's crew dredged the pilings pit at Porcupine Creek.

With low visibility it's hard to see it.

But the diving proved deadly.

It's a death trap.

If we're completely wasting our time,

I'm not going to spend much more time in this hole.

They finally found some gold,

but the risks were not worth a share of just 25 percent.

We need to find a lot more gold

because that ain't gonna cut it.

last week, at her new dive site on Nugget Creek,

Kayla discovered gold.

Every pan has gold in it.

Now Dustin is desperate for a payday.

We've got to figure out how to get that dredge in the water

by the end of the week.

And it's time to do what we do.

Move some big ass rocks, get some dredging done, find some real gold.

- I'm gonna say 100 percent we're going to find nuggets... - Yeah?

...and they'll be the biggest ones we've ever seen.

I hope you're right, man.

I've got everything riding on this place.

There won't be another season if we don't pay this off.

Half a mile up Nugget Creek...

We just need to build our walkways so it'll be

easier to carry all the equipment up.

Kayla's proved there is gold at her dive site,

but now she has to figure out how to get her crew and dredge to it.

Hey, Dustin.

I'm afraid I have news that you probably don't want to hear.

I really think we need to get some lumber and actually do a lower walkway.

It's not that I don't want to.

I don't think I could afford it, honestly.

Bringing a stack of lumber out here

doesn't cost just $100 a board. It's like...

- No, I get it. - A lot more.

Well, it's not that we don't want to cut the trail.

We're running into serious issues, so.

All right. There has to be another way.

Well, let me see if I can get some big trees.

If I dragged giant straight cottonwoods up here, would that work for you?

I think that's going to be better than this.

All right. Let's do something different.

Kayla's site is 600 feet up creek from Dustin's,

but there is a 150-foot section of sheer cliff face that no trail can pass.

Dustin's plan is to salvage driftwood

and turn it into planks to make wooden walkways so they can carry in their

dredging equipment and dive for bedrock gold.

Whoa, look at that.

And they says, "If you try to go up that river, you're gonna die."

Before Dustin can get to work

on getting his dredge in the water,

he has to help Kayla with hers.

- Oh. - Is that deep?

That's real deep.

Right there, I couldn't touch the bottom.

Oh.

Yeah, hop on.

I've got two of them over there that might work.

I'm also scared there's a ledge right here.

You hook that up.

That's about the best you're gonna get.

Whoa. That's deep.

Uh, that's not the best looking tree.

But, hey, man, with that drive into the [bleep] river.

Yeah.

You get that. I'm good.

Great, man.

I don't encourage this behavior.

How he doesn't die, I don't know.

This is all I have. I don't have lumber.

We're not going to get any boards.

It's either this or don't use walkways at all.

And she wants a walkway, so this is what she gets.

Kayla's team is gonna have some sort of way to get to their site

so they can get dredging.

When both teams are dredging, that means everybody's going to get gold.

Let's go down.

Hey, guys.

- Here you go. - Thank you.

Are y'all going to need more trees or what?

I don't think so.

All right, good luck.

I've done logging for a lot of years,

so milling the logs into boards.

It's home to me, so to speak.

It's my little bit of experience here

can help us get to the gold faster,

absolutely. I'm happy as hell to do it.

Let's rock and roll, buddy.

This is called a chainsaw mill.

It uses a regular chainsaw.

And what it does is it allows us to keep the same thickness board

as we rip down the log the whole way.

- Ready? - Ready.

Scott and Justin must mill over 150 feet of boards

to safely get them and their dredge to the dive site.

All right, one down, 2,700 to go.

We're under a major time crunch.

We have a very short season as it is.

We can get these boards milled quickly.

That gets us to site quicker.

That makes access easier.

That means more dive time, which means more gold.

Beautiful. Look at that.

We've got five more planks already milled.

Still got a lot to go.

We're not even halfway there yet, man.

These logs got to get milled quick.

At Dustin's Golden Gates dig site...

Back at it, brother.

Today we're going to make a parking spot for a dredge.

And there are some really, really big boulders in the way.

Let's get some rocks moving.

After suffering heavy delays last week,

Dustin is falling way behind schedule.

It's taken a lot to get to this point.

We're not in the water yet. My dredge isn't here.

But if I get a glimpse of hope,

I get crushed with six other things.

Let's go, guys.

Under extreme pressure to complete his dam

and get his dredge in the water,

Dustin is pushing himself harder than ever.

All right, let's stop pulling some rocks.

We want to pull this?

Pull this first, get that out.

Get this out. Get this [bleep] out of here.

Before they can start dredging for gold,

the crew must first drag the large boulders down creek

to continue building a dam and raising the water level,

making a deeper pool to float the dredge.

All right, well, let's see what you got.

This would be a good test of our system.

Let's go.

Last week, they installed two winches and a redirect pulley.

Now they will attempt to move the monster boulders.

All right there, Wes.

Pull, pull, pull.

- Come on, man. - Boy.

It pulls real hard.

Woah, woah.

All stop. All stop.

Something broke.

The rope snapped, man. Rope broke.

[bleep] it should be up here right now.

Learning curve. This is a learning curve.

Pull, pull, pull.

All stop. All Stop.

That rock fell right on that rope.

On that sharp side.

The sharp side just cut through like a knife.

I'm just getting frustrated.

James, I'm getting frustrated.

Just got to take this and re-thread it.

The polyethylene rope is capable of an 8,000 pound lift,

but its only weakness, sharp-edged rocks.

Crappy rope.

It's supposed to be good stuff, but...

I've already seen this getting destroyed just like a cable.

I've lost my patience.

I'm bringing it back to old school.

Heavy lifting.

Let's make this work before Dustin has a coronary.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's sharp, watch out.

Oh.

The rope broke again.

All stop.

I almost passed out again.

Things are absolutely not going fast enough for me.

I don't think we have enough rope.

That's it.

My chest hurts.

We're gone, dude.

So I'm either having a [bleep] heart attack

or an anxiety attack.

So one or the other.

- You all right? - Either way, it's freaking me out.

Oh.

What are you feeling, man?

Something's happening, man. I don't know.

I have to go take some aspirin or something.

Okay. All right.

Are you all right?

Chest and neck and [bleep] stuff.

It hurts like [bleep], I can tell you that.

Well, I'm either having a panic attack

or a heart attack, and I need some aspirin right now.

In remote Nugget Creek,

Dustin Hurt is in serious trouble.

They're 81 mil,

so I'll give you two of them.

A medevac helicopter could take up to two hours

to reach the nearest hospital in Juneau.

Are you feeling okay?

No.

Like, what's hurting you?

My heart, hard neck, chest pain, [bleep] like that.

Dustin must rely on the film crew's safety team.

Can I take your pulse?

Yeah. Sure.

Your pulse feels good. It's good and strong.

Um, helps if you can take a big deep breath.

What's your plan right here?

I've just got to get out of here

and pretend this didn't happen.

I'm sure it's just an anxiety attack.

It's not like I haven't been under enough stress lately.

Let's get you back to camp

and give you a proper checkover.

Dustin's medical emergency ends yet another day in disaster.

And puts his season even further behind schedule.

He's got a lot on his mind right now

because we've just been spending a lot of time, a lot of money.

A lot of setup.

Gold can really wear you thin, amigo.

Gold can do that.

Reset.

Try it again tomorrow.

How are you doing? You good?

It's so much better.

Oh, my [bleep].

Despite all the setbacks, neither crew is giving up.

The frustrations of learning a new site,

this Nugget Creek, it's definitely going to try us, that's for sure.

We have to do something.

We never had this problem before, just moving rocks.

This is a whole new level of hard here.

It really is.

It turned out to be just an incredible amount of work.

I'm still looking at it every day.

I look at it and go, "Holy cow, can we actually do this?"

You say an incredible amount of work. I think about that.

But then there could be an incredible amount of gold to go along with that.

- Exactly. - That's what we're banking on.

Hopefully we get some soon.

- Yeah. - Yeah. We will.

I literally forgot what I was up here for.

I was like, "Well, yeah, we're [bleep] dredging for gold, man."

Anyway.

We're going to go do this the right way,

the way we do things. And it's time.

This is the week that we turn this around.

I appreciate all your hard work.

I know everybody's digging in, but now it's time to start dredging.

So let's get to work.

Let's find some gold.

- All right. - All right.

Let's see what's down there.

Four boards.

That should get us around the corner at least.

Up creek from camp.

Good job on those boards. I think that's going to help out a lot.

They weren't exactly easy.

I think we're gonna have a bad-ass walkway.

Paul and Scott are tasked with installing the walkways.

Hopefully, with the core drill,

they can get in there deep enough, put a pipe in it

that it'll support everybody's weight.

To secure their walkway to the cliff face,

Paul needs to first locate solid areas of rock,

then use a water-cooled core drill to bore holes deep enough

to insert sawn-off scaffold poles to support the cottonwood planks.

It's definitely working good.

One down, 27 to go.

The first walkway is up and it's going to go pretty quick now, I think.

That's bad-ass, dude. I'm [bleep] happy with this.

For some reason, I'm not getting any water going to the drill head.

Without a constant flow of water,

the core bit will overheat and the diamond tip is going to warp.

I got to have that water pump to pump water to the drill bit.

It flushes out the material, and it also keeps the drill bit cool.

There's a few pumps around, if I can get them working,

then I'll get water to the drill.

Without it, I cannot drill any more holes.

I need a pump.

We can't get this core drill going.

We're not going to be able to build our walkway.

I've invested five months away from my family.

I've got a wife and four kids at home.

So Nugget Creek has got to pay off.

It has to be worth it.

Gold is why I'm here.

But these walkways do have to be built.

After raiding camp...

Hey, Scott.

...Paul may have found a fix.

Where was that at?

That pump. That's off our trouble.

This was a major find.

If we can get that core drill back going again, we can finish our walkway.

Come on, baby. Stay running. Please.

[bleep] Yeah. I love it when things actually work.

So far, so good.

Core drill operational again,

the march to the dive site can continue.

See, that's perfect.

It's actually moving along a lot faster than I expected.

[bleep] Thank you, sir.

Help!

Oh, man.

Look how much bigger that is.

Oh, man, I can't wait to try this baby out.

At Golden Gates, unable to hold the large rocks from their dive site,

Dustin has come up with upgrades for the key winch system.

Right now, it's pretty and it's new.

I'm hoping that this is going to solve my rock pulling problems right here.

Wes switches out the polyethylene rope

with one quarter-inch steel cable that won't snag on the sharp rocks

and replaces the key winch for a model with twice the pulling power.

Let's see if this baby is gonna work.

See if we can pull some rocks.

So this is good to go.

- All right. - We'll see.

To get the dredge in the water by the end of the week,

the new system cannot fail.

All right. It's time to pull.

Come on.

No.

It's still blocking right here.

How the it get caught in everything?

Okay, pull.

It's stuck.

The hook is underneath this rock,

and you just can't get it out now.

It's not going well.

What the is in here?

That cable is what...

Four foot under the water and stuck.

I'm [bleep] tired of [bleep].

It's been just one [bleep] up after another.

But it's slight.

- Got it. - Yep. Oh, my [bleep].

Can you pull it now, Wes?

No.

If you just can't get it up now.

It's not moving, is it?

No, it's not moving, and we're not getting anything done.

You know, I think that redirect is too low.

If that was higher, you know what,

it would make them skip over the top of this.

But it's just pulling them down into it and locking it in.

Wes believes the position of the redirect for the lower winch

is dragging the boulders down into the riverbed.

If they can raise it up by 25 feet, they can pull the boulders up and out,

clearing space for the dredge.

So we buried it.

We're having a real hard time getting started here.

It's taking forever, and I need it to just work.

We should have been in the damn water diving last week.

And here we are fighting just to get the damn dredge in.

At the Golden Gates...

Where do you want to put the ladder?

Over here.

...Dustin faces yet another setback

in his mission to get the dredge to his dive site.

Our winch system wasn't working.

We've got to find a viable rock to put that redirect.

You've got to remember, all this surrounding rock is junk.

So Dustin has to get high enough

to find a good spot to put that redirect.

The water here is on a hard angle.

So if we would have done something like this

at McKinley, it have worked just fine.

We have to go up there to almost make it level.

This is pulling the cable into the ground.

And that is unacceptable.

We have to have some sort of lift.

The only way to raise the redirect

is to drill into the thin section of crumbling cliff face.

That big black spot.

Well, you see how many layers you got to go through

before you hit solid?

One, two, three, four.

Hey, can you ask them if they've got a helmet I can borrow?

This is sketch ball.

Okay. All right.

In the shadow of the 500-foot-high unstable shale cliffs,

even risk-taker Dustin opts for some protection.

I could play soldier with you guys now.

That's some scary [bleep].

Right there?

Yeah, that looks good.

I'm doing this on a Hoping to Pray event.

I know. I couldn't do that. that.

My worry about here is the vibrations of this pulling this whole flake off

it would kill me instantly.

Towering 25 feet above the rocks...

That's one.

...Dustin needs two more anchor points in the cliff face

that could crush him at any minute.

Come on, shoulder. You can do this.

Almost there, man. Almost there.

My hand's going numb.

You can do this.

That's it. I'm done. That was hard.

Good job, man. Wow.

Let me go put these in right quick.

So now that we've got that taken care of, he's going up,

put in the anchor bolts, and we're going to put the hardware on chain.

More cable. Hopefully, that should be the recipe for success.

He's ready for a test.

Okay, we got it. Let's hook.

This asteroid boulder has been everybody's pain in the behind.

We need to get this out of here and come in for the win for today.

Okay. Let's see what it does. I got it set.

Great. Try to stick out, Carlos.

Pull, pull, pull.

It's moving.

Yeah!

Look at that.

- Yeah! - Yeah!

There we go.

Yeah, buddy.

Finally getting the winches to work.

Please stay working, please stay working.

Come on, baby.

We got more progress in one day than we have in two weeks.

Finally, a great day.

Hey, check that balance job, boys.

Goodbye. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Keep them coming, man.

It's a damn good day. It's a damn good day.

We got a lot of rocks moved. And this is what we do.

This is dredge-worthy right here.

This is what I need.

Good work today.

It looks good.

That's ready for a dredge. I can see it.

It actually looks like a damn dredge site now.

We're back on track. Today is gonna be the change. The change we needed.

I need some breakfast.

- Right. - I'm hungry.

- Where's the bacon and eggs? - Mm-hmm.

Where's the breakfast burritos?

Oh, God. Oh, gosh.

Stretching out my back.

I'm not a young person anymore.

That's from all the rock moving, gear moving.

Unfortunately, the chiropractor won't come up this far.

All right, time to get back to work.

Up creek at the boardwalk...

Please don't break. Oh, good girl. You didn't break.

...Paul and Scott have their dive site within reach.

We finally got a good path now that gets us all the way over here.

I think we can start carrying a lot of our heavy stuff in.

That looks awesome.

It's way sturdier than I expected.

You guys did good.

No more walking through the water.

Heck, yeah.

Well, I have a list of stuff that we need to gather up,

and then Paul and I can take the dredge up here.

Once we get that done, we're ready to start putting a dredge in the water.

- Okay. - Sweet. Let's do it.

I'll definitely be glad when we're done carrying the dredge over there.

- Yeah. - This was a pain in the ass.

It really is.

If we could only have a helicopter fly it in.

You've got to find gold first.

Because we're so behind in the season, having relocated,

it's been really hard on everyone.

We don't really have any gold to show for it.

So we're in a mad dash to get in the water to get dredging.

The last piece of the dredge.

[bleep].

All right.

That's good for now. I'm gonna take a break.

Oh, man.

We got it.

You want to start moving the dredge?

I think we have enough water to float it now.

We can do that.

Thousands of pounds of dredge parts hauled and assembled,

their goal of dredging by the week's end is in reach.

We're so close.

It's a huge relief to get the dredge floating.

Get it in the water. We're about to fire it up.

And that's going to be a huge moment for us

because it's been such a pain in the ass to get access.

Let's fire this thing up. There it goes.

That one's working.

We got it.

[bleep] Hey. We got it.

Heck, yeah.

We've got a dredge running.

I'm gonna go put some material through it.

[bleep] yeah.

It's taken a month,

but Kayla's crew are finally dredging for Nugget Creek gold.

I see rocks going over the box. We're actually dredging.

Is there material coming out?

Yeah, it's coming out. They're going right over the dam.

It's perfect.

We have faced a lot of challenges.

So today was a really huge accomplishment to get a dredge in the water.

Dustin's crew had a little bit of a head start.

Even with their head start, my crew still got our dredge in the water first,

so now we can do what we actually came here to do,

which is hopefully find some gold.

We're going over the big boulders.

Hopefully I don't destroy it. It's not going to be easy.

After five weeks of delays,

Dustin has one large obstacle standing between him

and a potentially monstrous payday.

We are dragging this dredge up the creek.

For better or worse, we're doing it.

This is a big machine. We could have taken it apart piece by piece

and tried to put it together out there.

But it would have taken us a long damn time.

Hey Wes. I'm worried about these pontoons right now.

If we drag it up, we're probably going to pop them.

So, you know, those guys made their walkways with those other boards.

We've got these two that they're not going to use for anything.

If we put these under here

so it's kind of got a sled, we can just pull it over there with the ATV, I think.

Like on the boards?

Yeah, because those are tough compared to the bottom of our pontoons.

If we ruin our pontoons, we're gonna be screwed.

Hopefully we can drag this thing up the creek without it

just completely devastating itself.

This thing needs to be in place and ready to go.

The plan? Build a sled from the cottonwood boards

strong enough to carry the heavy weight dredge,

then haul it 1000 feet from camp

up an uneven dirt track to the access point on Nugget Creek.

From here, they will take on the most dangerous section of the journey,

dragging the nearly one-ton dredge

through a series of bends 500-feet

up the raging, boulder-infested creek

all the way to their dive site.

We've got a little trailer that we've always used for a fuel trailer.

We're going to try to rig that underneath these as well,

so we can have us a makeshift trailer. It'll work.

It has to work. It gots to work.

Rock and roll.

Watch the float, don't get caught.

Oh, sweet.

Let's jack this up.

We need to have it way up, huh?

Just watch it. Stop. One click at a time.

One click at a time. Got you.

Or just do that.

Or just drop it.

I'm not sure if it'll work or not.

Yeah, it's got so much potential for disaster.

I think we're ready to go, y'all.

That works.

Looks like it's working.

Oh. Oh-oh.

That's a bumpy ride.

It's getting more bumpier here.

Ooh, is it gonna make it up the hill?

This is where it's gonna get tricky, dude.

You've got to give it some gas.

- Four wheel drive? - Oh, God. No.

Wow.

Nada.

It got stuck. Little too steep.

What the [bleep] man? Is it that heavy?

Let me go get the Mini Ex.

We're getting into an area that is so steep right now

and there's so much gravel that the ATV is just slipping.

Mini Ex to the rescue.

Strike Team Mini Ex.

Just give it pressure. I'll do the rest.

Look at that.

I can't believe it's working.

Yeah, but this is the easy part.

We made it to Nugget Creek.

This is going to be a [bleep] nightmare.

Just wait till you go look at the creek, though.

The water's down. It's just nothing but a boulder field.

Holy, [bleep].

Now they must rely on the pulling power of their winch system

to carry them the final leg of their journey.

Hey, James. You got me?

Yeah.

Before you make it to us there's a big boulder

I'd like you to attach that redirect on.

The series of redirects are supposed to steer the dredge

away from the most dangerous parts of the boulder-strewn creek.

I don't know how this is going to work.

Once this gets in, I don't think it's gonna have the power to take it up, dude.

I guarantee it.

I don't need that right now.

Just telling you man.

I'm just saying. I don't need that right now.

Let's fail before you tell me it's not going to work. All right?

Okay.

All right, Wes, let's see if we can move it.

It's coming.

Holy, [bleep].

Oh, it's pulling that big boulder.

All stop. All stop, all stop.

That boulder is being pulled, man, for a redirect.

The dredge is veering off course

and headed straight towards a large boulder field.

Pull. We'll see what happens.

It's a war.

It's going.

It's not gonna make that turn, is it?

No.

That boulder moved too much?

It's bringing it right here through all this.

Keep going. We're about to run into something bigs.

Stand by.

I don't know if this is going to work.

We need to learn how to drive it.

Oh, okay.

All right, let's get a pull.

Holy, [bleep].

- Wow. - It's actually driving up the rocks.

- Look at that. - What?

- No freakin' way. - No way, dude.

All right, Wes.

We're going to do some heavy off-roading.

We have to go around a really big rock.

Copy that. Are you ready to go?

Pull.

All stop, all stop, all stop.

Give us a sec. We have to reassess.

Copy that.

Unfortunately, this route has taken us up

straight on this Boulder field.

I'm stuck. I don't know what to do.

It's not going to make it over that rock.

We're hung up real bad right now, man.

We have to reassess.

At Nugget Creek,

Dustin is attempting to drag his dredge 500 feet to his dive site,

but has become stuck and is now in serious trouble.

- Hey, Dave. - Yeah.

It's stuck on that second-to-last board back there on that big hump.

We've got to lift the very back left corner.

Oh.

- It's up there, huh? - It's up there, man.

Can you get the back up with a crow bar, do you think?

You got to come up a lot.

Okay. Now give it a pull.

Ready?

It's got to be two blocks. I can't move it.

We're stuck on one boulder that won't let us by, man.

I don't know what to do.

Hey. Do you want me to go grab that, Jack?

Yeah. Anything at this point.

Caught between a rock in a hard place,

Dustin's only hope will be to lift the trailer just enough to clear the problem boulder.

Thank you, James. It's never gonna work.

It's pretty sketchy.

That is super sketchy.

- Copy, Wes? - Yep.

Woah. Copy that.

Yeah. Come on, [bleep].

Keep on going Wes. Keep on going. Pull, pull, pull.

Oh, yeah.

It's over it.

We just went over that.

That's working, though.

It's working, man.

Pretty soon, I'm going to see the dredge start coming around the corner,

and we're going to be on our home stretch.

Stop, I see the dredge.

Oh, this is actually working. It wasn't easy.

Come on, baby.

Can you believe it? Good job.

One more leap.

Now we have a huge pile of boulders

about 100 feet long, and, well,

this thing's been put to the test.

Nothing this bad.

This is only a single pull.

I don't know if it's gonna work.

All right, let's see what you got.

Are you ready to break some stuff?

Up creek at Kayla's site...

All right. Time to shake things up.

The crew are ready for their first dive on Nugget Creek.

We put a lot of work in setting up the site,

so if we find gold, that would be great.

We don't fully expect it, but we're always hopeful.

Unlike at McKinley,

Nugget Creek's bedrock is rumored to be far closer to the surface.

To get to it, they must first clear rocks in order to start a hole.

Then dig down to what they hope will be no more than ten feet

to bedrock and their fortune in gold.

- You can go ahead and fire it up. - All right.

For her first dive, Kayla will work from the surface with just a snorkel.

As she clears her way deeper.

Kayla is a beast.

She gets after the rock really well. I just try to keep up.

You see that? She's dredging.

[bleep] Yeah.

I hope there's gold in that box.

The dredge is running material.

That is it. We are in the water. We are mining now.

That's what I'm talking about. [bleep], yeah.

At Nugget Creek, Kayla is four hours into her first dive at the site.

I'm tired.

Arms are a little spent.

I don't expect anything, but it'd be nice to see something.

Yeah, I'd be really surprised.

I see a lot of pyrite.

All that rusty stuff.

If only it were gold.

Pyrite, known as fool's gold, is a sure sign that gold is nearby.

That's a lot of [bleep] pyrite.

That is insane amounts.

It feels good being back in the water.

We got a lot of rock moved. We got a good area opened up.

I feel like things are going to start getting into a better rhythm now.

If we can do what we actually came here to do, which is hopefully find some gold.

Down creek,

A hundred feet of boulders stands between Dustin

and the official start to his mining season.

Last obstacle getting our dredge up this massive pile of rocks.

For a job this size, it's all hands on deck.

So Dustin has called in Scott and Paul for extra muscle.

We're about ready to fire up. Let's go.

Uh... All stop.

All stop. All stop.

There's a big boulder in our damn way.

There's actually a lot of big boulders in our way.

Is it trying up there?

It's barely clicking, man, it's trying, but it ain't doing nothing.

Maybe we should lose the trailer from here on out.

Nobody likes a quitter, Carlos.

All we got to do is double pull on this.

We're trying to move the dredge up the hardest part right now.

And this winch with just a single pull is not enough.

They're going to have to find a way to do a double pull on it.

This is going to help out the winch. Double pull.

Hey, Carlos, careful on that.

It slipped out on me just now.

Okay. Copy that.

Whoa!

- You mean like that? - Yep.

Okay. Thank you.

We're ready to roll up here? That winch is running.

Wes, you're with them?

Yep.

Pull.

Got it.

Yeah. It's freaking believable.

Look at that thing man.

Come on in, climb over the wall in.

Holy crap.

It's plowing the boulder.

All the way up.

Come on. Come on, baby.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yes, yes. Yeah! Oh. That's what I'm talking about.

Perfect.

Look at that.

Congratulations.

[bleep] yeah.

We just dragged a dredge up by a huge whitewater, steep creek, man.

This is a perfect spot. Get her off of our little trailer.

That was awesome, guys. Good job.

That was a lot of effort, but, man, I'm glad we did it.

Hey, buddy. Good job, man.

That was a miracle, dude.

Thank you for letting me work here, man. I would've never thought that worked at all.

That is so cool to see the dredge sitting there.

I can't believe that worked. Good job, everybody. Let's do it again tomorrow.

Yeah.

It was one hell of an adventure. Nobody thought it was gonna work.

I had my doubts. We got it done.

It's a wild damn feeling to just go after something

knowing you're probably going to fail

and then completing it. My dredge is in place. It's time to go diving.

Gotta die, might as well die having fun.

Next time on Gold Rush: White Water .

Whoa! Look out! [bleep] Stephen.

Be careful.

Are you stuck right now?

That got my leg.

- Ow. - Good to go.

Hopefully it gets down to some gold. We need this bad.

More than they know.