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[Narrator] Somewhere,

hidden deep within the mountains above Pitt Lake

lies a legend of lost gold...

[Kru] This is over a hundred-year-old mystery.

I heard this when I was a teenager.

[Adam] The legend describes that there's nuggets everywhere.

[Narrator] ...a gold mine

guarded by Slumach's hundred-year-old curse.

[Adam] A death sentence

to anyone that tries to find his gold.

Watch out!

[Don] A lot of people

that have gone looking for this mother lode

have not returned.

[Kru] This is a miner's satchel!

Something happened to this guy.

Yeah.

Don't ever say it's not here.

If you misbehave, you're gonna have consequences.

[Narrator] Now, off-track...

[Adam] It's just a pile of loose rocks--

it's an illusion.

[Narrator] ...and out of time...

[Taylor] It's a very, very small window.

[Adam] We're talking major coastal weather systems.

If you don't find it in three months,

you're waiting till the next year.

[Narrator] ...it's their last chance

to find the gold

and test the truth behind the legend...

and the curse.

Now on the season finale of Deadman's Curse...

[Kru] It is a cave!

[Adam] Cave means mine,

and mine means Slumach.

Oh, [bleep].

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[wind whistles]

[Narrator] Fresh snow has landed

in the Pitt Lake alpine...

...a first indicator

that the hunt for Slumach's gold is coming to a close.

As winter approaches,

a late-season lead

has Adam Palmer travelling west of Vancouver,

to meet a familiar and trusted contact.

I got a call from Ian Carter.

This is the same Ian Carter

that gave Kru and I

an original copy of the Jackson letter.

This has been in my family for years...

Grandpa's box.

[hinges creak]

This is the original Jackson Letter.

[Narrator] In the 1940s,

Ian's grandfather, Dick Carter,

followed clues in search of Slumach's gold...

[Kru, reading] 20 miles in the northwest direction...

[Narrator] ...and left behind a trail

of compelling evidence...

No way.

[Narrator] ...that Slumach's gold is real.

[Kru] Look at the size of those frickin' nuggets!

[Adam] The photos that Ian Carter had

of gold nuggets--

that's the best evidence I've seen of gold

being in the Pitt.

When he calls you up,

says he has something for you,

it's gotta be good.

-Adam. -Hey!

-How are you, buddy? -Good. How are you?

-Long time, no see. -What do you got?

I got somethin' good for you.

This is my cousin, Heather. This is her place.

-Hi. -Hey, Heather.

-What a pleasure to meet you. -Nice to meet you.

This is, uh, what we had to show you.

[Heather] This painting was done by my grandfather.

[Ian] We wanted to reframe it...

[Heather] Yeah, and when I turned this over,

I realized that there was something hidden inside here.

[Narrator] A stash of documents

from Dick Carter's prospecting days.

[Ian] I knew it was significant

when I saw the maps.

And one in particular,

which I know you're gonna be very interested in.

This is the area in question.

[Adam] That was in a frame?

[Heather] Yeah.

[Ian] He tended to do that-- squirrel stuff away.

I've been doing this a long time,

and this is the first time someone brings out a painting

and there's something hidden behind the frame.

I mean, this is straight out of a mystery novel.

[Ian] Potential mine locations, I'm assuming.

[Adam] And he's got some other names on here

that I've never seen before.

This is huge. This is--

-Yeah. -That's "X marks the spot."

-Exactly. There's a lotta X's. -15 of 'em!

[Ian, laughs] Yes.

This guy is the real deal.

Carter was actually one of the few people

that proved he was able to go into the Upper Pitt.

So, last time we were going on little clues--

little trip reports, photos,

a letter...

now we have a map.

You can't get better than that.

He marked the whole Stave Glacier

in its entirety.

And there's X's going all the way through it.

Dick Carter is my hero, okay?

Let's just start there.

The man is so mysterious.

So you think this is just checked spots that he went to,

or these are spots

that he actually prospected and found something?

I don't know. I wish we had those answers.

Look, this is the area that we were at--

right here.

We've been here, look.

This whole entire area is the ice field.

[Narrator] Early in the season...

Adam and Kru combed the Stave Glacier

following legendary prospector "Volcanic" Brown

in search of Slumach's gold.

[Kru] That's a frickin' glacier, man!

Welcome to Bell Pass.

Whoo! Wow.

So he was at the Bell Pass location?

[Adam] Yeah, he's marked it off.

[Narrator] Carter trekked these routes

only 10 years after Volcanic Brown.

What's this one-- where's that?

-Thomas? -That's Thomas Lake.

[Adam] Well, he was digging somewhere...

wheelbarrowing the ore out.

[detector squelches]

It's, like, right on the gold.

No, I'm serious.

Yeah, he's marked that off as well.

I mean, we've been to most of these places,

it seems like.

[Adam] We are essentially on the same path

that Carter was on.

I'm looking at this map

and there're X's popping out all over.

But there's something different--

there's this red marking, this red triangle,

pointing to one "X".

[Kru] Everywhere else we've been,

but, like, this brings us right to the doorstep.

Something spiked his interest in this triangle.

Look. Bottom line--

no one has found as much gold as Carter.

Because we're not just talking about a legend anymore,

we're talking about facts.

He could've found that gold

right here, inside the red frickin' triangle.

Pan of gold--

nuggets so big, if I threw one at ya,

it'd knock you out.

And if he's got a treasure map with an "X" and a triangle?

That's where we go!

Dick Carter knew what he was doing.

This could be the mother lode.

This could be what we're lookin' for.

[Narrator] But Carter's map

is nearly 100 years old.

[Adam] This map is old.

I mean, this map is not to scale.

We're talkin' 50 to 100 kilometres

of terrain that's just in this one little section.

[Narrator] To navigate,

the team needs a starting point--

a way to orient themselves on the map.

Well, I'm looking at this map

and there's some faint writing all over it.

When you first look at this map,

you don't see those words--

it's faded, almost gone,

written in this faint pencil.

You can see here, he's got "Heather... Creek."

-[Don] Is that pencilled in? -[Adam] Yeah.

Okay. Have you ever heard of Heather Creek?

No. There's no such thing as "Heather Creek"

on current maps.

Maybe he used it

to navigate to the upper headwaters

of where this creek was coming from.

He laid it all out for us on this map.

If you find that creek, you could find his route.

[Narrator] Carter's route

appears to follow either side of Heather Creek.

Three unexplored X's mark the route north,

converging at Carter's final destination...

...and what could be Slumach's lost gold.

But...

[Adam] Heading into the Pitt right now is a bad idea.

The weather is getting bad

and the snow line has come down a significant amount.

At this time of year,

this is gonna be the last expedition.

This is your one shot.

And that means, basically, going for a ride.

Ready?

Kru] There's no place like the Pitt in all of BC.

Once you blink, the season's over.

So we have to push it, we have to grind,

and we have to see what's on that map,

as fast as we can.

[Narrator] The road north through the Upper Pitt

is long and winding,

marked by a series of logging roads

that lead into the dense and unforgiving forest.

[Adam] Based on the geography,

based on the mountains behind us,

based on what's in front of us...

we've zeroed in, as best as we could,

to this marking on the map.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Kru] So powerful, eh?

Wow, look at all that bedrock.

[Adam] We need to make sure

that this very promising-looking creek

is the same one on Carter's map.

All right, so if this is Heather Creek...

you can follow this creek right up to that "X".

Sounds like a plan.

We going to get the gear and head out?

First in gets the first gold.

Let's go!

All right!

[Narrator] To confirm their starting point...

Oh...

put it in four-wheel drive.

There goes goat boy.

[Narrator] ...the team is looking

for signs of human activity,

to determine that this, indeed,

is Heather Creek.

[Adam] We gotta be looking for any evidence of mining--

old road cuts, paths...

Back in the day, you know, before the Internet,

all claims were actually marked with claim posts.

There's usually four claim posts per claim,

marking each corner.

Claim markers are the way you mark a territory,

and the beautiful thing is, they're made out of metal.

If it's there and it's metal, we should be able to find it.

The best option we have is just to explore.

There's kind of a trail here.

[Taylor] Just gotta look in the right spots.

[detector beeping]

[detector humming]

[Adam] Something's around here.

-You got a hit? -Yeah.

Whereabouts?

Somewhere in here.

Where'd you get the hit?

Right where you kinda...

[detector humming]

-Right in there? -Yeah.

-Check there. -Oh! Wait, here we go.

-Oh yeah. -Ooh!

Ooh-hoo-hoo!

Oh...

What does it say?

[Kru] Check it out.

"Heather Creek."

[Adam] It's a claim post.

[mouths word]

This is the one.

[Kru] Old-school, too!

This is what's marked on Carter's map.

This is Heather Creek.

And the fact that it's claimed, I mean...

there was mining activity going on here.

Mm-hmm.

I think that he hit this creek,

he came on up,

he saw that it was rich in gold,

and then he's trying to figure out,

where did all that gold come from?

Yeah.

'Cause that's what I wanna know.

And the triangle's the hotspot.

The mother lode.

Exactly. Exactly.

I mean, that's where we're trying to get to,

is that one "X" in that red triangle.

[Narrator] The route directly up Heather Creek

is steep,

but Carter's three unexplored locations

provide two possible routes to the gold.

[Adam] We're going to get as close as we can to those X's

and see what landmark

would have warranted marking an "X".

As a group, we can't cover everything at once.

We go one way, they go another way,

and then we come together.

More eyes, different places,

more terrain covered.

You guys go north, we go east.

We can eventually hit right in the middle.

Now we gotta do what we gotta do--

we gotta go up.

[Taylor] Adam and I took the high road.

Don and Kru took the low road.

[Narrator] The team has arranged to reconnect

at a predefined spot just inside the triangle.

Until they do,

they'll have no means of communication.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

The weather window is closing in.

Your elevation gets cut in half

of what you can access this time of year

as compared to the summer.

You can feel it in the wind, you can feel it in the air.

Late summer/early fall,

if there's precipitation,

that precipitation falls as snow...

...and that snow is not dirt bike-friendly.

[Adam] Well, that's not good.

The snow's come down a long ways.

[Taylor] Oh, that's slick!

[laughs] There's ice right here.

That's so slick.

I'll give it a shot.

Adventurer, go! You're the mountaineer.

Well, it's worth it to try.

I'm looking at a seriously snowed-in, icy road...

But when Adam wants to get somewhere,

good luck trying to stop him.

[engine roars]

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[engine revving]

It's too deep!

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] Only 10 kilometres up a Pitt Lake logging road...

[bleep]

[Narrator] ...winter is knocking at the door.

It's stuck!

It's too deep!

I'm just... sliding.

[engine rumbles]

Nah... I'm stuck.

Sunk yours pretty good, didn't ya?

Yeah, it's too deep. It's too wet!

[Narrator] The route to Carter's marked locations,

and what could be Slumach's gold,

points north.

We can probably get through there, actually,

quite a bit further,

if we stick to the forest.

There's minimal snow, compared to this road.

Screw the road-- we don't need the road.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Taylor] I follow your lead.

This is the perfect excuse

to get off the road and bushwhack.

[Taylor] Gotta love the trees!

[Narrator] So Taylor and Adam make for the forest...

...but using the old map

to navigate to their first "X"

is a whole other challenge.

[Adam] Yeah, it's a tricky map to use.

You would never use this type of map in the field today.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Oof.

This is a huge amount of terrain we're covering.

The key is to find evidence--

any evidence that people were here.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

It's showing us, like, right on top of one of the X's.

It's, like, somewhere right in here,

right in this contour line.

One of those X's is, like...

right here.

Whatever that means.

[Narrator] But the map isn't their only tool.

The land is full of indicators.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

There is a bit of a clearing, like, right in there.

Well, let's go look.

Wow, this opened up. [laughs]

See this?

Yeah.

Check this out.

Something was here.

[Narrator] Six kilometres to the west,

Don and Kru make their way on an alternate route north.

We're just trying to cover as much ground as we can.

We need to get on these X's as fast as we can.

We ain't taking an ATV across that.

What do you think?

I think the bridge is gone.

This is where the ATVs stop and we walk.

Well, let's mount up and get it done.

Mother Nature's made that choice for us, eh?

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Kru] There ain't no easy route.

We got a path through here.

[Kru] You gotta put in the work

and do it again and again and again.

[Narrator] As Kru and Don press on into the bush,

to the east,

Adam and Taylor are coming closer

to what appears to be their first mark on the map.

[Adam] You see this?

Looks like there's some sort of trail.

Oh, yeah, check this out.

[Taylor] Huh.

This is really old.

Looks like a cabin.

[Adam] This is an old foundation.

Right here! It's another one.

-Holy... -This is incredible.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Clearly, we're on the right path.

I mean, I'm not going through the front door,

but I'm going in.

Ugh.

A well-built cabin.

I see part of the roof here.

Yeah. It's what collapsed.

Let's have a walk around.

Geez! There's stuff scattered everywhere.

Look at the hand chisels.

Holy!

Someone had some sort of mining operation here.

This is what they used to mine with.

That's a lot of work.

Whatever they were doing, they were determined.

This is an X on that map.

This cabin, these tools--

this wouldn't be here

if there wasn't a mine, if there wasn't gold.

[Narrator] The location appears to line up

with an X on Carter's map.

For Adam and Taylor, that's one X down...

one more to go.

[Adam] So that means we go...

Up.

With the things that we're finding today,

it definitely is validation to the X's on the map.

Whatever Carter was searching for,

he had a methodology.

I mean, this is just

a breadcrumb that will lead us to something bigger.

[Narrator] Seven kilometres west,

Kru and Don are looking for signs of human activity--

something that Carter would have marked on his map,

and an indicator they're on the right path.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[detector beeping]

It's an old tree. It's been here for a long time.

It sticks out from all the holeyness of it.

This looks like a great landmark spot

that you'd remember to stash something.

It caught my eye, so, maybe it caught somebody else's.

To see a land marker

amidst this new-growth forest,

this one, literally, holey tree sticking up in the middle of it,

I had to check it out.

[metal detector beeping]

[rapid beeping]

Got a huge hit on the front...

and I'm talkin' lit-up!

There it is again.

Like a Christmas tree, just-- [imitates detector beeps]

There it is again.

Oh, it's in here, man.

Come on.

There it is.

Holy crap!

I need a shovel.

[beeping persists]

Listen to that.

See how loose this soil is?

Could be by chance, but normally,

when you bury something, it doesn't compact the same.

This is what I live for!

Finding stuff out in the middle of the bush,

where very few have gone before.

Still hitting. Holy crap. This is deep, man!

[Narrator] High in the mountains above Pitt Lake,

Don and Kru

are searching for some place

or some thing

1940s prospector Dick Carter may have marked on his map.

[Kru] As I'm going down in the roots, I'm getting hits.

There's metal.

There shouldn't be metal here, you know?

And especially underneath this old tree.

[Don] What made you start searching here?

What you told me!

You said "look out for landmarks."

So it could be somebody's using nature's marker

to mark their own X.

-Bam! -Eh?

That's what you showed me.

I've already gone down almost a foot

and I'm still getting hits.

I say we at least give it the decency of a proper dig.

[Narrator] For Kru,

it's been a season

of learning to manage what prospectors call

"gold fever".

[Kru] Where'd that shovel go?

I'm gonna dig this overburden out.

I'll put it in the pan, and then you look through the pan,

and see if you can get anything with it.

Go to town!

I'm used to moving dirt.

Then you check through that and I'll go one pan at a time.

Got a soil change here.

You gotta get a little bit deeper.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Try this down there.

Come on, buddy.

It was lighting up, it was hitting,

and then, all of a sudden-- mm, nothing--

it's like we lost the signal.

We're getting hits on the top,

and we go down,

we're getting hits all the way down...

and then, all of a sudden, it stops?

Come on.

It just doesn't make any sense.

I mean, science isn't supposed to lie, right?

Come on, baby.

Come on, baby.

Ooh... there's a lot of iron here.

See that?

The colour change there--

-[beeping] -...that rusty red?

Ah!

I think it's the frickin' rock.

-Yeah, see? -Yeah. Look how heavy this is.

Yeah.

Look at the colour.

Iron... rust.

[groaning] Argh!

And I guess it was just leaching through the soil

-this whole time. -Yeah.

[Narrator] High concentrations of iron ore

can deceive even the best metal detectors.

[groans]

It's hard when you want something so bad.

I mean, it just sucks!

You put in all this work and time and effort,

and you get a rusty-ass rock.

I don't know, brother.

Maybe, this time, it's not for us to find.

There's no doubt that Kru knows how to find gold.

But he's gone from "Mr. Gold Fever"

to becoming more and more learned.

For Kru, personally,

it's because he's listening.

To me, this is like training.

I appreciate that, Don.

Well, hey, man,

we got a job to do, so let's get 'er done.

Yeah.

[Kru] No more time playin' in the dirt.

[high winds whistle]

[Narrator] East of Heather Creek...

Adam and Taylor push north.

Oh! Thank you for the blessing.

[Narrator] Their route

has them passing through an area

showing promising signs of prospector activity...

an area that lines up

with their next X on Carter's map.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

You see that cross cut in the rock?

-Yeah. -See this?

This whole...

You see how straight that is, how it's not natural?

It's not like a natural creek bed sorta thing?

No, there's a hollow-- that's hollowed out.

That's a quartz vein, if I ever saw one.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

You get all that rusty iron.

-Oh, yeah... -All that iron oxide

with this quartz vein running right through the middle.

They're after that.

This is definitely the area marked with an "X"

and I'm almost certain that this quartz

is the reason that Carter marked it.

Doesn't look like much.

Over the years, it's kinda caved in.

I mean, this would've been a lot of ground to move.

This trench might've produced some gold.

They were trenching here for something.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] Meanwhile, to the west...

...Don and Kru continue to look

for signs they're on the right path.

-Kru? -Yeah?

See that rock on top of the stump?

It could be an indicator.

[Kru] Well, a marker, definitely, right?

Look. You can see the actual pathway

along the creek, coming up through here.

[Don] You're right.

-Let's go. -Check it out.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Kru] Yeah, this is more like it--

this flat-bench area up here, man.

Check this out.

Well, you got the detect--

-What the heck? -We got company?

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

That's not old.

No. Just take your time.

You see anybody?

I'm lookin'.

I'm not gonna go runnin' in there.

[Kru whistles]

-Hello? -Hey?

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Hello?

[Narrator] Deep in the Pitt Lake mountains...

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Hey!

Hello?

Hello?

Hey?

Well...

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Kru] I didn't know if dude was still there or not.

This is somebody's house.

Hello?

[Narrator] Carter's trail--

and a possible path to Slumach's gold--

appears to be a route recently travelled.

[detector beeping]

You think this guy was a prospector?

Well, I don't know.

I'm looking for some evidence, eh?

What else is he gonna be doing out here?

[Don] Somebody's obviously been here.

But why were they here?

Somebody's spendin' time here-- they must've found something.

You don't just set up like this.

-No, he was in for the stay. -Yeah.

Hey, check this out.

What in the world--

Look at this.

It looks like some kind of a... cooking stove?

Huh.

Well, it-- they started to build a...

a cover for it, obviously.

[Kru] Unless it's a smelter.

Hey! Do you think they were smelting?

You know, you may--- you may be onto something here,

because, seriously...

It's a rock... rocket stove, yeah?

This could be...

a primitive smelter.

This is the way, in the day,

they used to actually melt down the gold

and be able to make it into bars and make it transportable.

They might have had, like, a crucible on the top,

or inside,

and then just feeds it and feeds it,

and then gets it hotter.

It looks almost like a raw prospector's camp.

You got the camp, you got a makeshift smelter.

[Don] Yeah.

[Kru] And you're right here on the river.

They'd be smelting gold.

Somebody was camped here doing the same thing Carter was.

[Don] They've either left on their own

or they've disappeared.

[Narrator] The area lines up with Carter's route north

and another "X" on his map.

[Don] Let's go, Kru.

[Kru] It's kinda giving me the creeps.

-Yeah. -Let's get on outta here.

It's starting to set in.

Especially with the sun goin' down.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] Six kilometres to the west,

Adam and Taylor continue their trek,

cutting west,

closing in on the team's rendezvous spot.

Dick Carter's map charts new terrain for Adam,

despite his two-decade-long search

for Slumach's lost gold mine.

[Adam] I mean,

this is the closest I've been...

because of this team.

You know, we all bring different things to the table.

We combine all those skills, we combine the knowledge,

and you see new things.

Taylor is different than most people,

because most people,

after a year of looking for this thing,

give up.

This has actually fuelled her fire

and, now, I don't think

you could actually pull her away.

I think her hunger for finding the truth

is only getting stronger.

[grumbles] Sticks, branches... sticks, ugh.

Through this whole season,

it's just been incredible--

walking in the footsteps of my ancestors,

looking for, and reading, the signs of the past.

It really does feel good

to bring the truth and light

to who Slumach truly was.

For me, the gold

is actually completing this story,

completing this family tree.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

It's not just about the gold,

it's about something so much more.

We find the gold, we finish Slumach's story.

As I was walking across these bigger boulders,

I looked down and I'm like--

it was an engraving.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

But it wasn't traditional.

Adam. Come check this out.

Have you seen anything like this?

[Adam] Let's peel this moss back.

Whatever it is, it's old.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

You can kinda see...

where the water goes into the lines.

[Taylor] Yeah.

[Adam] It's like writing, like, uh...

[Taylor] Oh, yeah, you can really see that.

[Adam] Yeah.

That's pretty distinct.

Put your hand there for scale.

Yeah.

[Taylor] You know,

I've seen a lot of different pictographs

and petroglyphs, and this...

I've never seen anything

like this or remotely close to this.

It's weird.

It's super out of place.

Like, this is like a European "A",

like an archaic "A".

Of all places, here... of all places.

[Narrator] The etched symbol

appears to pre-date the recorded mining era,

and points directly north.

But what does it mean?

[Adam] It's pointing to something.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

-You good? -Yeah.

[Narrator] As gold-hunting season

draws to a close in the Upper Pitt,

Don and Kru make their way to the team's rendezvous point.

-You comin'? -Yeah.

Right behind ya.

[Narrator] For Kru,

the road to Slumach's gold

is paved with lessons learned along the way.

Kru and I started this path walking beside each other,

and as the year went on, we got closer together.

[Kru] Things have changed.

From the mountains,

on the glacier...

frickin' Bute...

you know, you'd have to be not normal

to not grow through all these things

I've been going through.

Call this home for tonight, eh?

At least it's got a little bit of shelter.

[Kru] I've been obsessed with this

since I was a teenager.

It's surreal,

and it's not a legend anymore, it's life.

You know, my life has changed forever.

For the good, through the bad,

and through all the challenges.

[Don] There's a word in my language--

it's [speaks word]--

and what that means--

and I want you to remember this--

it means "a content spirit".

The one thing that you've made,

that I've seen you make,

is good choices.

Working towards being balanced...

...that's a choice.

We're doing it the right way.

We're not doing it out of greed,

so the curse is the greed.

And the greed is the curse.

You believe that?

I know it,

I've seen it.

Thank god,

our eyes have been opened to that truth.

I got something passed on to me a long time ago.

This is a... a jade turtle.

I'm giving that to you, brother.

-To wear. -Are you sure?

Yeah. I'm giving that to you.

The meaning of the turtle

is one who respects others.

One who respects life.

And one who respects the environment.

[Kru] Mm-hmm.

You're in a good place.

Because your heart is true...

and you've not allowed greed to take over.

So keep pressing forward.

Stay on the path, and I'll walk beside you.

[Don] If Kru stays on this path of sharing,

good motives,

and the path of respect,

the gold will come to him.

It's an honour.

Thank you.

[Kru] What do you think, Don?

[Don] We're ready to rock.

[Narrator] Day two...

Yo!

[Narrator] ...the team reunites.

Yeah!

[Taylor, laughs] That was a long hike!

-Yeah. -Good to see ya.

Good to see ya.

It was nice to see them come out of the bush

and make that meet.

How's those X's? You hit 'em?

[Taylor] We found a cabin.

We came across another prospector cabin, too.

And, also, there was an engraving on a stone

in that area as well.

It looked like an "A"-- almost looked like an arrow.

-Really? -Yeah.

You know, it's just weird.

We come across all these things out there.

It's just more proof we're going in the right direction.

So what does that say about the rest of the map?

-It's legit. -There's probably something

at every single X.

That's what I'm thinkin'.

Now we've gotta go find what's in the centre of that triangle.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] The route has the team

passing through the headwaters of Heather Creek.

-Wow! -Holy...

[Kru] We're not swimming. How're we getting there, man?

We're gonna go around that rock right there.

[Kru] Okay.

[Adam] And get us right into the canyon.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Adam] Hug this wall as much as you can!

[Kru] Yes, sir!

[Don] Careful, Adam.

Maybe Dick Carter's like another Adam

who's listening to oral history,

listening to stories,

and he's putting the pieces together,

and quietly finding these places,

and marking them on a map--

with an "X".

[Kru] This is what Adam does, you know?

And nobody better to be out there leading us

than him.

This is his terrain.

This is what he's built for.

Adam's that guy.

[Narrator] Their route

has brought them

to the doorstep of their final destination...

[Taylor] So we follow this narrow river valley.

It leads us right to this area

in the triangle on Carter's map.

[Narrator] ...a high alpine valley,

4200 feet above Pitt Lake,

and, if Carter's map is correct,

only a few miles from their target.

[Don] How much further?

[Adam] Five minutes.

[Kru cackles]

[Adam] This snow is deep.

Some big holes coming up.

Follow my footsteps.

[Taylor] Oh... that's a hole right there.

[Adam] If you're gonna fall, fall forward,

don't fall backward.

Watch out for a big hole here.

[Taylor] Oh! There's one.

[Adam] We've gotta get up to these rocks.

[Kru] When Adam starts fallin', you know we're in trouble.

Thank God you're leading, Adam.

[Narrator] At the end of the valley,

a sharp mountain range spells the end of the road.

We knew we were in the right area,

now we had to figure out which way he would have gone.

[Adam] You see that?

[Kru] I see a rock.

[Adam] Look over here.

You see what I'm talking about?

Right up there?

Aw, [bleep]! It is a cave!

That's what he was talking about,

-that's what he was marking. -Could be the mine.

Cave means mine,

and mine means Slumach.

Is this Slumach's lost gold mine?

[Kru] Let's do it.

If we're gonna get up there, man, let's get up there

[Adam] This could be it.

[Kru] Aw, [bleep]! It is a cave!

[Narrator] High above Pitt Lake...

[Adam] That's what he was talking about,

that's what he was marking.

[Narrator] ...the team has landed

on what appears to be the final "X"

on Dick Carter's map.

[Adam] There's a huge geological feature

on the side of a mountain.

Like, this big, black spot.

[Narrator] A cave

carved deep into the remote mountainside.

[Adam] Cave means mine,

and mine means Slumach.

Is this Slumach's lost gold mine?

[Kru] Let's do it.

If we're going to get up there, man, let's get up there.

If you don't have the map, you'd never find that place.

Period.

[Adam] This is remote.

This could be how it stayed undetected

for so many years.

This could be it.

[Kru] Oh, shit!

Careful, man, there's a lot of loose rocks.

This stuff is falling apart, so be careful.

Yeah, it's loose.

Yeah, you wouldn't want to hang out in here

for very long.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Any... any signs of tools,

charcoal, mining debris,

anything to tell us that someone was here before us.

Wow.

so much mineralization.

One more.

Yeah, we've got mineralization here--

there's no doubt.

[Adam] Oh, a stringer vein right here.

Got a lot of mica, got a lot of pyrite...

but we got all the indicators,

'cause it looks like

there might be some specks of free gold here.

It gets better the deeper in we go.

[Taylor] Pyrite is a good sign.

I mean, it's said where there is pyrite,

there's gold.

[Kru] Wow, this is beautiful.

My [bleep] heart is pumping.

Oh, whoa! Hey, we got somethin'.

Here we go.

Yeah, man, somebody's been here!

[Adam] You think this section has been taken out, like, mined?

[Kru] That's what I'm thinking.

Somebody's mined this whole shist out.

Look at this.

[Narrator] The evidence says

Carter, or someone on the same trail,

was here.

Somebody chased a vein.

[detector beeping]

[Adam] They were going for gold.

You can tell right away.

they trenched this area,

and then just immediately stopped.

It's like the vein ended.

[Kru] I don't think he found the actual mother lode,

I think that's still up there.

So, what he found

was the leftovers of the main mother lode.

We're not here for somebody's leftovers.

[Adam] This is not Slumach's gold,

but somewhere in that area will be the mine.

So...

where's the gold?

[Adam] Of course, Taylor finds something.

[Taylor] I was just walking around there,

and all of a sudden I noticed

something inconsistent in the wall.

I'm like, "okay, this is interesting."

Oh, shit.

I think I found pictographs over here!

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Don] Taylor, do you see anything when you look at that?

Just a star here,

and then a dot underneath it.

Circle...

Would that circle represent a cave, perhaps?

[Taylor] Or marks the spot of something.

Then something like a...

a valley, almost.

You can see where it just ends...

because it got broken up.

[Kru] Missing a puzzle piece.

[Taylor] I mean, there's no doubt

that this definitely wasn't made by First Nations People.

We tell stories through our pictographs,

and these ones are very, like, "this is here."

[Kru] This pre-dates Carter!

Let's keep it real. You know?

This isn't graffiti on a wall somewhere.

'Cause they have a star, a circle with a dot in it.

Yeah. They're not telling a story,

they're telling directions.

Exactly.

[Adam] They look like markers.

[Don] I agree.

[Adam] It's pointing to something.

You said you saw tool marks in that quartz vein.

[Kru] Oh, yeah.

So whoever was up here digging out this overhang here--

[Adam] I think someone did find gold

and that's why they marked it.

[Kru] And whoever did it

was leading somebody to something.

We could be looking at almost a little billboard,

showing us the right way, and the directions,

if we know how to utilize it.

[Adam] This is what makes it interesting.

A route to follow to find Slumach's gold.

[Narrator] Could the final location

of Slumach's lost gold

be spelled out on the walls of this cave?

[Kru] Is it showing us the next step?

Is it showing the next place? I don't know,

but our goal is to find out.

What do these markers mean,

and where are they gonna lead us to next?

[Kru] We didn't do all his hard work for nothing.

People quit all along the way,

people get injured,

the curse takes people out.

We have made it this far,

we're not gonna stop now.

We're gonna get that gold.

[Adam] We've stumbled across something

that none of us could explain.

If you think of this legend as a chapter book,

we literally haven't broken through the second chapter yet.

There's lots more mountains to climb.

[Narrator] It is said

all good stories must come to an end...

...but legends never die...

for in this hunt for gold,

it's the search for truth that lights the path before us,

and with each trail blazed,

each friendship forged,

the journey, in the end,

becomes clear.

It's the choices we make

that, in the end,

make us.

It's our strength, found in soul and spirit.

And so goes the story of Slumach's lost gold--

a legend of greed, hope, and adventure,

where every new clue

finds a home on a page,

in a place within the next chapter.

Deadman's Curse... ain't over yet.