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It's got a

**** flood!

Holy **** dude, look at that.

It's picking up quick!

Holy **** **** ****.

Look at this big ass bull,

it's coming over.

Holy **** dude.

Come on!

We're about to lose our ****

dreads to another flood!

Start lifting up as soon as he

gives me the thumbs up,

he's tying off.

It's done!

Dude, it's coming in!

Oh!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Let's get a blow!

Aaaah!

Come on!

Let's go!

This is going to be a little more

dangerous than I thought.

It doesn't look like there's much

up there to tie off on.

Everything I'm staying on moves.

This is freaking me out a little bit.

That looks pretty sketchy.

Holy ****!

The prep work is what's going to make

this place right.

Step one, diversion.

Let's move some rocks!

Three, two, one!

Oh ****!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Step two, skyline.

We're beating the bad guy.

Dang, this is what it's all about.

Step three, find a goal, man.

That is much down there.

We are the first one here.

This is a safety seal.

Everything is falling into place and I can't wait to see how much gold is down there.

Alright, how we living?

Dustin and his crew have less than a third of their five month season left but are on

the best gold of their lives.

Dude, we crushed that last leg.

Yeah.

I mean, look.

Aw man, that just sets too much of a standard, bro.

It does seem real, does it?

Beautiful, dude.

So we know that this gold down there, right?

Yep.

There's no two ways about it.

Big nugget down there.

Big nugget.

Last week.

Oh my god.

Carlos uncovered the largest nugget they've ever found.

Oh my god.

This is happening for us.

Weighing in at six ounces.

That's about a 50 or 20 thousand dollar nugget.

That's the biggest nugget in gold rush history right there.

But that's it.

By the end of the week, they'd cleaned out every last flake of gold.

I think we tapped this thing out, Ben.

Now, they need new ground.

Nugget Bend is done.

Done.

So where are we going to go?

We have about a mile of this claim.

There's big gold.

Bigger than we've ever thought.

But we're going to go back where we were last year.

Really?

Holy moly, man.

Yeah.

I don't like that.

Here's the deal.

What I want is to go see which below Bigger's boulder.

I think there's going to be big gold.

I mean, we're here to get gold.

I believe there's gold there.

We know that size gold is there now.

Oh my god.

Why did we leave?

Last year, Dustin's crew discovered the perfect dive site.

Just seeing that boulder makes me think of how much gold is underneath it.

They attempted mining under the 50 ton boulder.

But just as they hit the pastry, Mother Nature wreaked havoc.

This is a freaking nightmare.

Destroying the dredge.

It's looking hopeless.

And robbing them of the chance to pull out millions in nuggets.

Yep.

It's a two bar.

I want to get up there.

We were there last year and I missed my opportunity.

That was my fault.

I want to go forward.

We got the skills now to do this.

I'm hoping we can stop the water.

See what's down at the bottom.

It's going to take a little extra work.

But we all know that the prep is worth it in the end.

The other thing we're going to have to do is put up another damn skyline.

The reason for that is we will never leave my dredge in that water overnight.

It will not happen ever again.

We learned our lesson on that last year.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Greed dredges last year.

Yeah, but it's probably faster to put up a skyline and pick the sun of a bitch up and

happen to rebuild the dredge every time.

I agree.

Yeah.

That's what it's worth.

We know it is big gold here.

Yep.

We have to find the gold line on this next section and haul ass with it.

Last year.

Last year.

We could have all given up.

But we're so tight knit together.

And none of us are winners.

Every year we think that this year is going to be our year.

I mean persistence pays off.

That's what it boils down to.

We made it back to the big ass boulder.

This is our revenge.

Let me start with I believe the gold is right up in there.

And it goes up through the left side of that big boulder.

I hope there's gold underneath it.

Let's go.

Despite the 50 ton monster nearly claiming the lives of his whole crew last season.

Grabbed it.

Got it.

The promise of more six ounce nuggets pushes Dustin back into their most dangerous dive

site at Nugget Creek.

Little sketchy.

I don't.

We got to be methodical this year.

We can't just run at it like I did last year.

No.

The prep work is what's going to make this place right.

And we'll be able to knock this out the park if we put an up prep work.

Oh, god yeah.

So step one diversion.

Step two skyline.

Step three final goal.

Yeah.

Game on, man.

Moving back to the site, they dubbed big ass boulder.

The crew will target an area in the shadow of the 50 ton giant.

Dustin's plan.

Divers the creek to protect the dive area.

So they can dig down to bedrock and the golden pastry.

Holy ****.

I don't know if that deep.

That is to holly you up.

So what we're trying to do is we're going to divert across there.

We can cut off half of it or more is going over the big ass boulder.

It's going to help us tremendously.

Beautiful.

I like it right there.

I like it.

Learning how to control this water is definitely going to make it so we can conquer big ass

boulders.

We'll be able to dry this area up and get that goal that's still sitting underneath

that boulder.

Run roll over one more time.

One more maybe.

Don't let that water take you.

Oh, yeah.

It's fast.

It took my legs.

You get another flippin though.

Probably not.

I think I'm going to go if I try.

All right, don't.

I feel like a 10 years old blade of dead water.

While West Carlos and James divert the creek.

Copy that.

Dustin and Paul head up for a more treacherous mission.

Are you ready for this, man?

Holy s***.

This is going to be a little more dangerous than I thought.

We're trying to find a set of anchors, but we got to do it way up high.

I wish we could put them down low like this, but we can't.

I need to be able to pull the dredge out of the water.

So we're going on a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit here.

We're going to climb.

We're going to cut.

We have to go find some decent rock.

Dustin and Paul will scale the 500 foot crumbling cliff face up creek of Bigass Boulder.

To scout out rock strong enough to support their 550 foot cable.

They'll use to haul up their 2,000 pound dredge.

Clear of the raging whitewater of Nugget Creek.

It doesn't look like there's much up there to tie off on.

So we'll see how this goes.

Back to back down.

Back down.

But be confident.

Fine.

First, Dustin will scale the mountain.

With some safety ropes they put in last year above Kayla's dive site.

Right now Dustin's trying to set us a line.

So we get up and over that fin.

Alright.

What the f*** does this?

That's definitely not normal gold mining.

So I have this weird f*** drive to do adventurous f***.

I have an undying hopefulness that I'm always going to get rich out of my goddamn mine.

Okay, it gets really bare up here man.

Do you think it's going to work?

Well, I might have to keep going up.

From here on, Dustin must free climb.

200 feet above the raging creek.

That looks pretty sketch doesn't it?

Yeah man.

Alright Bolt.

There is nothing to die off on.

I mean nothing.

Holy f***.

Oh this is a mess.

It never really goes the way I wanted to.

Goes the way it has to.

Stand by.

A fall from this height would mean certain death.

This is freaking me out a little bit.

Dustin's search for a place to anchor is now a matter of survival.

F*** the whole thing move.

Holy f***.

Everything I'm standing on move.

Holy f***.

Ahh! F*** the whole thing move.

Hundreds of feet above Nugget Creek.

Everything I'm standing on moves.

Dustin clings to an unstable shale ridge.

This is not what I thought it was going to be.

Risking his life to find an anchor point for the skyline that's critical to mine the creek below.

This is still not how I die.

I'm going to go back to the lake.

I'm going to go back to the lake.

I'm going to go back to the lake.

Hey, Paul.

Take up some slack buddy.

I'm starting to downplumb a little ways.

I'm going to get back down to the olders.

Copy that.

So I'm replant down to look for the perfect spot for the perfect anchors.

Let's just get a big pile going.

F*** it.

I'm going to go back to the lake.

I'm going to go back to the lake.

I'm going to go back to the lake.

I'm going to go back to the lake.

Let's just get a big pile going.

Down at creek level.

The rest of the crew are making great progress on the diversion.

Hell yeah.

Starting to slow this side down.

We got the water halfway closed off, but we want to get it closed off more than this.

So now we set the cap stand up and we're going to go across the creek again and just start pulling these boulders in the same land

that we started earlier today and see if we can get this water completely blocked off here.

The gas powered cap stand is a mobile rock moving unit the crew can quickly deploy.

That's going to work great.

Until they have a skylight, it's all they've got, but it's capable of over one ton of pulling power.

A vital tool for conquering the creek.

Whoa.

Oh, ****.

You're right.

Oh, ****.

Perfect, good.

Oh, yeah.

Now we're getting somewhere.

Right in there like a blood.

Yeah.

We're probably starting to get some movement on some of these rocks where it actually slowing down the water pretty fast going over the big ass boulder.

There, damn.

Now deflects 70% of the creek water away from big ass boulder.

Hell yeah.

That's working.

In an attempt to make it safer to dive for gold.

Oh, please work up on the mountain.

Dustin's hunt for an anchor point continues.

Oh, this is going to work, man.

Dude, I'm hitting it and it seems pretty legit.

That sounds good.

The rock looks good enough.

We'll call it.

Copy that.

Dustin West, Dustin West.

Yeah, go ahead.

I need to stop what you're doing for a minute and need eyes.

Gotcha.

I see you.

I don't know where I'm at exactly, so I need you to line me up with the anchors in the back.

Hey, Dustin, do you see me?

Yes, I do.

Are you directly underneath them?

Pretty much.

It's about the closest I can get.

There's the anchor spot right there.

It's perfect.

Oh, it's open.

You were going to say that.

Yes.

Hey, Paul, this is it right here.

Awesome, man.

I'm looking straight down the center of where I want to go.

Come on over, buddy.

This is going to be absolutely perfect for us right here.

The outside is trash, but it feels like pretty good rock.

Keep coming.

You're almost on good land.

Let's do this, man.

I was starting to doubt that we'd find anything here.

We're straight.

All right.

Yeah, I'm glad you came across the downtown.

Oh, man.

I just didn't know what else to do.

It just looks like a pile of rubble out here.

It's insane.

We're going to put bolts in right here.

And where we fell out of here.

All the searching, we damn well found it.

Holy fricking moly, man.

That's a lot of fricking cables.

Yeah, you got to work out coming.

You wait, Carlos.

Today, Dustin's crew were installing their longest ever skyline.

Ah, this heavy.

They missed manhandle a 550 foot, nearly 500 pound cable.

Across a quarter of a mile of steep terrain into the new dive site.

Come on.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

Stand by and come down.

The tower is in with a temperature of 80 degrees.

Dustin's reaching his limit.

That was something.

30 year old me would be laughing.

That's how hard I'm trying.

Oh, this old man.

After six hours of backbreaking work.

You doing all right?

Yeah.

I'm here.

The crew finally have the cable beneath Dustin's new upstream anchors.

Ha ha ha.

He made it.

Well, we got the cable here.

Good job.

James, you got the juice to go do this now.

Yeah.

Let's get this going.

Time to get the upstream cable installed.

James needs to climb 150 feet up the crumbling rock wall to be ready to receive the cable

that Paul is wrestling up the other side.

You see me now, James?

Yeah, I see you.

Copy that.

All right, shoot a rope over to Paul.

See if he can hit Paul with the rope.

All right, you ready, Paul?

Yeah.

Perfect.

Yeah.

Thanks.

All right, James, take her away.

Talk of that.

I got it here.

Atta boy.

Heck yeah, man.

Good job, guys.

That went really well.

Up ahead.

Blood rain!

Go, go, go.

Holy ****.

That's the last clip.

It took the crew eight hours, but the skyline is now anchored up Creek.

Looks good.

550 feet away.

Dustin, Wes, and Carlos must tension it to the downstream anchors.

So we pulled the skyline out.

Now that we got it up, we'll do all the dangerous stuff by tightening it up.

It's actually probably the hardest part.

And every time you click it, you think it's going to rip out the wall.

It gets a little spicy, hopefully.

To tension the skyline tight enough to lift the dredge

and half-ton boulders clear of the creek.

Just hold the **** out.

Dustin must enter the kill zone,

using a monster come along with the pulling power of over four tons.

I'm supposed to be happy when he's down off the slaver.

Too tight, and the anchors could break, or the skyline snaps,

and Dustin risks being sliced in two.

That **** is dangerous right there.

Carlos!

Carlos, I'm running out of juice, man.

Oh, ****.

Run out of steam.

Okay.

I need to finish that.

There we go.

Don't look down.

Don't look down.

Oh, ****.

Oh, ****.

All right, brother, let's go rock and roll.

Do you want to file there, please protect us?

Please keep us safe.

In case you name we pray, I'm in.

Holy ****, moly, dude.

Good.

Two more clicks.

Two more, that's it.

Yeah, buddy.

Looks good, y'all.

It's taken the entire day to get the skyline in place and tension.

I deserve a goddamn raise, man.

But to install the pulley system, to lift the dredge could take another two hours.

Right now, I think we're too tired to do this.

Yeah.

I know we might be better off everybody just fresh start.

Said I'd never do it, but let's tie this dredge off and get the **** out of here.

Got to know where to stay when.

Over night, out of nowhere, an extreme Alaskan weather front hits Nugget Creek.

We made a mistake.

This was a mistake to not put that dredge in here.

Come on.

Dustin's decision to leave the dredge exposed.

Look at that one.

Now, threatens to end his mining season.

Go, go, go, go.

Holy ****, dude, look at that.

Just pick it up quick.

Holy ****.

To save the dredge before it's ripped away by the torrent, the crew must connect the upstream

and the

dredge to a lifting pulley.

I need slack.

Can you get this to me?

The road needs to go back over this other way.

Good.

It's off track.

Flip it, flip it towards the track.

Oh ****.

Thank you.

Bigger this out.

We got to get the A.F.

Open it up and fall.

Let's see if we get it to flip right.

Almost.

You got it.

You got it.

You got it.

Whoa, put her on a ****

****

now.

All right.

Let's go to that ditch up for me, please.

Just turn it off and start it again, man.

See what that ****

does.

Get this done.

Hurry up.

I can't hold on much water.

****.

Watch your shoulder.

I'm slipping.

Oh, come on.

Go in there.

Laundry!

Holy ****.

You got it?

Hang on.

You're in?

Yep.

Let go.

Let go.

Whoa.

This is going to blow.

Whoa.

Come on.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Come on.

The winch connected.

They can attempt to lift the dredge clear of the turret.

Two coming in.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

We're trying to lose our **** dredge to another flood.

Come on.

It's done.

Dude, coming in.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Get over here.

Come on.

Come on.

Hey.

Come on.

Come on.

We're about to lose our **** dredge to another flood.

On Nugget Creek, a storm surge threatens to sink Dustin's dredge.

Holy ****.

His only hope of saving their season is if the untested season is

the untested skyline and anchors will hold as they try to lift it from the torrent.

Go!

Make it work!

You got me to stand on the back and you'll stand on the back.

Go, go, go.

Get about, hopefully.

No, it's not going to bounce.

Stand by!

Come on, baby.

Don't fall.

Don't fall.

Hold on.

Ah, **** that hurt.

Hot.

I'm going to get out of here.

I'm going to get out of here.

I'm going to get out of here.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Hot.

Come on.

Stand by!

We got our time down, Rose, but I've cut that bit.

Yeah!

****

Lift it.

See what happens.

Keep going.

Get out of here.

Get out of here.

****

Get out of here.

Get out of here.

Get out of here.

Get out of here.

Get out of here.

Get out of there.

Get out of there.

Get out of here.

GolBA, get out of here.

Get out!

See how it goes.

Oh, ****....

I hope that came out here.

We're good.

We're good.

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Born fellas.

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Last night was a panic.

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We haven't been out there yet.

We're going to check it out right now.

And we're going to go see what the damage is.

Moment of truth, folks.

Without the skyline, we're dead in the water.

Anything this creek throws at us, we're going to have to handle it.

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I'm not letting it get the best of me to shoot.

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F***ing held up.

Yep.

I can't believe it held up.

Good job, guys.

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Our job today is cracking drag rocks all day long.

So we don't have to do it from underwater.

If you're not drilling, you're putting together blasters.

The more rocks you crack, the faster we're going to be in a water.

Yeah, yeah. I'll be the powder monkey.

Alright, everybody knows what we're doing. Let's go.

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Let's get her done.

The entire crew's set to work.

This all has to get the hell out of here.

Executing Dustin's new mining plan.

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Alright, going hot.

3, 2, 1.

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Holy moly, that was some major fly rock, dude.

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We're going to have fun with this dig.

A lot of work, a lot of effort, but we'll make history because of it.

Last year, we were at the mercy of one person, trying to drill underwater, trying to blast underwater.

Going hot.

We've got a much better method this year.

The more rocks we can get, boom, that aren't underneath the water, the faster we're going to get down to gold.

3, 2, 1.

Oh, wow!

Dude, you blew it to pieces.

That's what we wanted to do.

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Hook and go, hook and go, hook and go.

Yeah!

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Wooooo!

This is awesome.

This is going exactly the way I wanted.

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Over the next five days, the crew clear a hundred tons of boulders.

3, 2, 1.

Getting the hole down ten feet, and now they're ready to dive.

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Got the dread!

Get some gold!

Yeah, how can we get ready to rock the rope?

Dustin has gambled his entire season on finding a pastry of nuggets downstream of Big-Ass Boulder.

Let's get some digging done.

Now, it's time to discover if this huge risk will pay off.

I think this is going to be our turning point in life right here.

Testing one, two, one, two, testing. Copy that. We've got comms. We've got comms.

Carlos is coming together.

I got it, brother. I'm all dressed up and nowhere to go.

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Might as well get in damn water.

Yeah.

Check in.

Do I get to check water?

Okay, good to go.

Just dig as much as you can.

Got to get back on track, dude.

Alright, man. You're in.

Alright.

Finely dressed.

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This is what it's all about.

Last year, a storm beat them before they could get down to the gold on bedrock.

This year, with a massive diversion, they're in with a fighting chance.

Finally got a diver in the water.

Pretty psyched about that.

Carlos is going to pick a ton of progress.

I bet he gets gold today.

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I am so happy.

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We've learned to control this water.

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We've moved more rock in the last couple days.

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And we would have all season underwater.

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This is the way to dig this creek.

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Yeah.

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I am certain of it now.

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Finally got Carlos in the water.

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Hopefully, he'll have a great dive today.

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I don't know if he's going to get down to any gold.

Hopefully he does because if he gets gold this fast, it's going to be awesome.

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At Big-ass Boulder.

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Carlos is an hour into his first dive.

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How's it looking, Carlos?

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It's good, man.

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All eyes are on you.

I need this to go right.

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Yes, it's good.

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DUSTIN is gambled his entire season.

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On finding a huge pile of six ounce nuggets.

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At Big-ass Boulder.

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The water polter's out here, man.

The water polter's out here, man.

The water polter's out there packed.

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Yeah, I was worried that that's what was going to be our slow spot.

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Yeah, man.

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I'd say focus on getting around them and bringing them up and all that stuff.

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This is something different, man.

I've never seen nothing like this before.

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I'm dredging in between boulders, man.

It's just breaking up hard pack.

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Carlos has found hard pack.

Over thousands of years, the weight of boulders compresses gravel into a densely packed barrier at the bottom of the creek.

This layer above bedrock should be the last thing between the crew and a massive deposit of gold.

You know, all the stories that we've heard, all the gold starts in this red hard pack.

And from there, down to the bedrock is where the gold is laid.

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Give that sprayer, please.

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Thank you.

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Faced with an impenetrable layer of hard pack.

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Oh, this is not good, dude.

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Carlos attempts to break through with a water hose running off the dredge.

I like it now. It just chipped away on the pieces. That's it.

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It's literally hard as a rock.

This conglomerate is just, it's amazingly hard, stuck together.

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A lot of time has gone by for this to get this hard.

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That's all I'm asking you to do today.

CHIP, CHIP, CHIP.

I can't believe it, man.

Don't lose heart.

Just one rock gets hot.

No, no, no, hot.

One little piece of the tub.

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It takes Carlos another five hours to get just six inches into the hard pack.

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Hey, Carlos, you made it pull this back a little bit?

No, I'm good right here.

You good?

Yep.

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That bitch is awesome. Make it in. Big time.

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It's right in here.

You put a curtain bar right here, man. I got a big bowl of it right here.

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Got a bunch of that way.

Yeah, that way.

Maybe it's a nugget. I don't know.

It's just got to lift it up.

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That's what's down there, dude.

That is awesome.

That's awesome. Me and you, dude.

All right.

That's all hot, man.

All hard pack runs.

Just like that going all the way down.

Dustin's new technique has got them down to hard pack in record time.

There's no way Carlos can get through it today.

It's rough, man. But we needed a start.

Yeah.

Alright. Let's come on up.

Now we're up.

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I didn't get my bonus. The bonus is gold. Not yet.

Got our first op done.

We learned something, but we didn't get it.

All right, Wes, we're good to go.

We have to bust through the hard pack.

Before we can get to the prize.

I hope some dreams are tomorrow to make it to bedrock.

That's where the gold's sitting.

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On the next, gold rush, white water.

Welcome to my nightmare.

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We can't get the work. We can't get gold.

Today, I'm going to crush it.

We are stretching!

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Hey!

Oh, **** you all right.

You got me worried.

You got blood everywhere.

I guarantee you, James, with that pressure washer, we'll get his back on track.

Does it work again?

It's working great.

It better be some gold.

If not, we are in some deep trouble.

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