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Let's mine some gold.

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Over six short months

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from spring to fall,

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-the Klondike's toughest gold miners...

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...battle Mother Nature.

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I need help now.

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I broke through the ice.

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From violent storms...

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What do we do here?

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Somebody give me a  radio.

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- ...to floods... -Please don't sink, please don't sink.

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Oh, I'm goin', I'm goin', I'm goin'.

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...and summer wildfires...

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It's coming this way now.

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- ...in their quest...

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Plant's on fire!

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...to bring in as much gold

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as possible before winter

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-shuts them down. - Wholly Moses!

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Yeah!

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You guys, you just broke another record.

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The Klondike,

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one hundred and fifty miles south of the Arctic Circle,

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in winter, temperatures drop to minus 50 degree Fahrenheit,

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blanketing the landscape with upwards of six feet of snow

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and freezing everything.

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So when the miners want to get a jump on the season...

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So much snow

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we have.

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Oh, jeez.

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...they have to battle these frigid conditions.

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Come on in.

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And fire up machines that have been frozen solid for six months.

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March 2021,

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king of the Klondike, Tony Beets,

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is determined to start his season early

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and needs his D10 dozer

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to clear hundreds of tons of snow and ice from his claim.

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Well, they're frozen.

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At minus 30 nothing wants to work with you.

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The engine oil is frozen,

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but Tony has a plan.

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The bush fix warms the air above freezing

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to thaw out the fuel.

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Okay, I'm ready.

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The D10 back in action,

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Tony opens up his Paradise Hill mine site.

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And gets his season underway.

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We're in a big push right now to expose the cuts.

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Get them all ready to go.

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Gold is high right now.

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So strike while the iron is hot.

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In April 2022,

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rookie miner, Fred Lewis,

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is waiting for the breakup of the mighty Yukon River.

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- You guys, watch out! -Oh, yeah. Back, back, back.

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So he can get to his California Creek claim

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and start his season.

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- Listen.

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it is official. It's go time.

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Once the ice clears completely,

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Fred ferries across

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and heads 40 miles to his mine site.

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Only for Mother Nature to punch him in the gut.

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What the  is that?

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Holy crap.

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- That's-- - Oh, my .

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Wow.

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Our entire claim is under ice.

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A quarter-mile long,

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thirty-foot thick sheet of ice covers his entire claim.

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Making his gold rich pay dirt inaccessible.

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Our entire infrastructure is gone.

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If we don't break this ice up, we're gonna be sitting here losing money.

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This ice has to go.

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It's stealing our gold, guys.

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Fred can't afford to wait

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for Mother Nature's thaw,

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so he goes to war on the giant block of ice.

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I'll try and break the ice with the bucket.

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Oh, .

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-Oh!

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Fire it up.

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We've got water.

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That should facilitate this  to melt faster.

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crazy.

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Really gonna treat a poor chainsaw like this?

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It's ice.

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But all Fred's attempts failed to clear the ice.

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This ice is really  everything.

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It feels like we're coming here

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with our hands tied behind 100 backs

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and just getting punched in the face.

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It's not the way to start a season.

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We are so far behind schedule at this moment in time,

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so we have to take action and take control of the creek.

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We don't have any other way to do it, I think, but to go up there

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and, uh, and try and make the creek go back where it belongs somehow.

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And that should facilitate melting the ice on the right side.

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The clock ticking on his season,

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Fred throws a Hail Mary.

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He deploys an excavator to create an ice bed,

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redirect the creek over the top of the ice sheet.

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And speed up the melt.

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All right, ice.

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You may be winning this battle,

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but we're gonna win this war.

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It's a little bit risky.

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If we sink this 220, we're freaking done.

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Oh!

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Wow.

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That's like 20,000 pounds of ice you just broke.

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Yeah!

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That was massive.

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Whoo!

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- Go get that. - Here we go.

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We've got a little bit of ice that's holding.

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Fingers crossed it works.

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Wow.

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Just be really careful.

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!

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Well, there goes the ice dam.

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This is definitely not gonna work.

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Forced to wait for the ice to thaw,

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Fred loses months of his season

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and his battle with Mother Nature.

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I'm just at the end of my rope, man.

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All right, here's the first push.

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When the Yukon spring's rising temperatures

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melt the snow and ice...

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- ...the miners rush to start sluicing. - Fire it up.

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And put gold in the box.

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Here we go.

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But the big thaw brings its own problems.

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When the frozen ground turns into a sloppy sludge.

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The  killing us.

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The trucks are wallowing in the mud,

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dozers getting stuck everywhere.

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It's a mess.

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Oh, .

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Come on!

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slimy as  hell.

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Damn it!

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In 2016,

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twenty-one-year-old Parker Schnabel

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is under pressure to get on the gold

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when disaster strikes.

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Why around here does it always have to be a worst-case scenario?

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That is monumental .

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Why around here does it always have to be a worst-case scenario?

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Parker Schnabel is battling Mother Nature's spring thaw.

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That is monumental .

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His vital 46-ton excavator is stuck in the mud.

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What'd you do?

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Backed in a little and then it's just a little too far.

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The next thing you know, it's sunk.

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You couldn't walk across that, like, with your legs.

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Let alone a  excavator.

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It really wasn't that bad when I got in there.

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There's nothing to even say about this

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because it's how big of a  it is.

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- I agree. - Yeah, so just...

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let's just keep our mouths shut.

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Mitch, Brennan,

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grab a couple hose and help pull me out of here.

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You ready?

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We can get it.

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Come on.

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Oh, man. It's really leaning now.

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Stop! Sinks.

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It's suctioned into the bottom with all that mud.

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It's like quicksand, so you  sink instantly.

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We just got to get the mud out so we can break the suction.

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It's gonna be messy.

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Maybe we can just pull out some of this soft stuff here,

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-and then we kind of work this down a little bit. -Yeah.

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To help release this stricken excavator from the mud's vice-like grip,

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Mitch and Brennan dig a trench alongside it.

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It's movin'.

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The machine's sinking as we speak.

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Come on! Go, go, go!

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Get in there, Parker.

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Come on, baby.

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Come on!

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Come on.

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Come on.

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I should be able to make it.

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Whoo!

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Slick, Mitch.

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Giving.

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- I'm glad that worked. - Yeah.

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Back open for business.

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-That's awesome. - Let's get back to work.

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Along with the mud,

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spring's warm temperatures bring another threat...

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Oh. All right, look at this.

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...that halts miners in their tracks.

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Oh, this thing is raging right now.

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Snowmelt high up in the mountains...

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You're about ready to tip over.

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I wanna go. I'm goin', I'm goin', I'm goin',

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with the throttle on.

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...floods the valleys down below.

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Oh!

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Wreaking havoc.

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!

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Uh-oh.

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In 2020,

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melt waters raging down Honker Creek

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smash a hole in the berm protecting Tony Beats' hunker cut.

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Submerging the gold-rich pay dirt

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under 2.5 million gallons of water.

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Tony first repairs the gap in the berm.

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What?

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Watch the track.

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Oh, !

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The actual .

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He has no  track.

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Despite a crippled machine,

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one track and almost no maneuverability,

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there's no stopping the king of the Klondike.

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He's having to use his boom and arm to lift himself up.

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And walk the strong track.

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I mean, it's Tony Beets

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who'll probably do it like it's just another day.

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38 tonnes of mud and rock plug the berm.

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Sealing off the cut from the creek.

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Once he drains a cut,

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Tony will be back on track.

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The Yukon summer...

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Here comes the cavalry.

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Break some pay in here. Let's go!

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...the halfway point of the season.

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We have to hammer down like never before.

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Dried out, easy to dig pay

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makes it peak time for catching gold.

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- yeah!

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But temperatures soar to 90 degree...

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- Once again, we've got a sunny day. - It's hot.

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...turning the land into a tinderbox.

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This is hotter than the gates of hell.

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Sparking wildfires that rage through the region.

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On average, 100 wildfires

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blaze across the Yukon every fire season.

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In 2017,

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wildfires larger than the state of Rhode Island

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were visible from space.

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And a 350-acre inferno

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head straight for Parker's claim.

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I don't know how hot it is, but it's hot.

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There's something burning over there.

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Yeah. Forest fire. Yep.

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-Lightning or... - Probably from the lightning.

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Yeah, that wind keeps blowing at us.

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The fire's movin' fast.

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I don't wanna see my trailer go up the flames.

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All right, I'll be right down.

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The local fire marshal has arrived

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to discuss evacuation plans.

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That's closed the distance.

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It went from 20K away to seven.

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Holy .

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Yeah, she's  coming.

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. It could be here tonight.

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-We need a Cat out there. -Okay.

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Fire lines like try to get a barrier, so it don't burn us out.

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So who's the man for that?

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Um, it doesn't really matter to me.

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I thought Al's done this before.

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We could send him out there.

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I was not very worried about this until now.

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It's all going to depend on the wind direction.

274
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,900
What the ? That mountain just went out of view.

275
00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:49,690
All right. The dozer is just up here.

276
00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:51,790
If you could take it up that ridge up there

277
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,500
and start cutting fire lines.

278
00:20:54,660 --> 00:20:56,190
And they need to be at least 30 feet wide

279
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,390
so the fire doesn't jump over to our side.

280
00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:59,700
And we're .

281
00:21:00,460 --> 00:21:01,790
Sweet.

282
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,560
-Yeah, we're good. -All right. Sounds good.

283
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,690
We're gonna go build a fire line

284
00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:09,500
to protect everybody so everybody can keep mining.

285
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,600
If it gets any closer, it could be the end of our season.

286
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,660
Parker's crew member, Al Salewski,

287
00:21:17,660 --> 00:21:20,660
uses a dozer to rip out a fire line,

288
00:21:20,660 --> 00:21:23,300
a 30-foot-wide gap between the trees.

289
00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:27,360
When the wildfire hits, the break in foliage

290
00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:30,160
should starve the flames of fuel,

291
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,560
preventing it

292
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,600
from reaching Parker's claim.

293
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,900
Yeah, that looks pretty apocalyptic.

294
00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,960
A massive 350-acre forest fire

295
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,790
is raging towards Parker's claim,

296
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,130
threatening to wipe out his season.

297
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,000
Their only hope,

298
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,100
a fire line cut by dozer operator Al.

299
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,800
What a in the balls!

300
00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:17,160
But the next day,

301
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,460
with the fire still approaching,

302
00:22:19,460 --> 00:22:22,830
Al and other crew have cleared out.

303
00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:26,260
Well, there's the hole that you used to have

304
00:22:26,260 --> 00:22:30,530
Al and old Frenchy's trailers.

305
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,190
Obviously, the fire is pretty damn close.

306
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,800
It's basically one valley away.

307
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,290
If the wind starts blowing this way

308
00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:44,130
at 20-mile an hour, it'll be here tonight.

309
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,190
I'll stay, as long as we can still see,

310
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,860
you know, I'm willing to stick it out.

311
00:22:51,860 --> 00:22:54,290
What if the  thing jumps overnight when we're sleeping?

312
00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:55,600
We can't get out of here.

313
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,730
-You're gonna stick it out? - Yeah.

314
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,090
I'm not going anywhere.

315
00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:03,660
But I wouldn't blame any of you if you want to go.

316
00:23:03,660 --> 00:23:05,930
-Um... -Well, I was planning on taking off.

317
00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:10,600
Get out of here before the fire blocks our road and so.

318
00:23:13,860 --> 00:23:15,760
Get out of here.

319
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,360
I hope my trailer is still here when I get back.

320
00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:21,260
I don't want to see a big charred pile on my belongings.

321
00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:23,830
I'll have a end of my season.

322
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,030
It is now Code Red.

323
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,460
Wildland firefighters install a sprinkler system

324
00:23:36,460 --> 00:23:40,600
capable of delivering over 100 gallons of water a minute.

325
00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,090
I think maybe I'll just hook my truck up to my trailer

326
00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:47,400
before I go to sleep tonight in case I got to evac.

327
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,690
I've never been so happy to see paddles in our yard.

328
00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:03,860
Dude, you know, I heard it started hitting last night

329
00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:06,460
as I was going to bed, and I just went to sleep with a smile.

330
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,330
That was a hard rain, huh?

331
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,890
I'd say that took care of the fire.

332
00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:12,890
I would think so.

333
00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:14,930
-It sure looks like it anyways. - Yeah.

334
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,760
The rain has stopped the wildfire

335
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,800
just three miles from Parker's claim.

336
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,500
But it's decimated over 400 acres.

337
00:24:29,660 --> 00:24:31,760
Hopefully now with that fire behind us,

338
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,760
we can get back to focusing on

339
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,500
getting gold out of the ground.

340
00:24:42,860 --> 00:24:44,690
Summer's torrential downpours

341
00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,860
can be a blessing and a curse.

342
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,390
In 2016, Parker plans to move his wash plants,

343
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,090
Slucifer, to a new cut.

344
00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,830
They naming this thing Slucifer was the best idea.

345
00:25:02,660 --> 00:25:04,160
Both times. First time we set it up

346
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,090
it started pouring rain, and now we're trying to move it

347
00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:08,100
and it's thunder and lightning.

348
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,460
Good?

349
00:25:15,460 --> 00:25:18,090
So far so good. She's rolling.

350
00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:20,990
While lightning strikes carry a low threat

351
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,990
to heavy equipment operators,

352
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,800
they can take out the machine's electronics.

353
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,760
Parker risks dragging his $600,000 washplant...

354
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,760
Seems to be pulling along just fine.

355
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,630
...up to a giant 60-foot high pad.

356
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,390
That's probably pretty damn close.

357
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,330
-That's  close there. - Good?

358
00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:48,900
Slucifer!

359
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,160
When the rains finally stopped,

360
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,900
Parker fires up Slucifer at its new home.

361
00:26:05,060 --> 00:26:06,790
All right, let's get everything rolling and shaking.

362
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:07,800
Okay?

363
00:26:08,660 --> 00:26:09,990
Gonna get everything moving.

364
00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:20,030
Hey!

365
00:26:20,030 --> 00:26:22,000
1st scoop into Slucifer.

366
00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:23,560
Sluicifer is hungry

367
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,130
and this cut's big, so it's all up to us to keep her fed.

368
00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:38,730
For  sake.

369
00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:42,800
Rick!

370
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,000
Put this hole on the other side,

371
00:26:48,260 --> 00:26:49,360
Get out of the way, fellas.

372
00:26:53,460 --> 00:26:56,130
Well, Rick's trying to save our  plant here.

373
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:57,700
Look down there.

374
00:26:58,860 --> 00:27:00,090
The heavy rainfall

375
00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:03,360
has saturated the wash plant pad,

376
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:05,430
destabilizing its foundations.

377
00:27:06,260 --> 00:27:07,160
this.

378
00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:11,090
Now, Slucifer is pumping out

379
00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:14,000
3300 gallons of water a minute.

380
00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:17,700
Undermining the pad even more.

381
00:27:21,660 --> 00:27:23,490
Once the pads starts to wash away like that,

382
00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:27,060
only thing it's gonna do is work itself back underneath the plant.

383
00:27:27,060 --> 00:27:28,990
And the plants gonna take a dive off the pad.

384
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,500
Obviously, we can't have that happen.

385
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,790
Rick attempts to break the force of water

386
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:35,900
pummeling the burn.

387
00:27:45,060 --> 00:27:46,630
Somebody get me a  radio.

388
00:27:47,660 --> 00:27:48,830
Shut down.

389
00:27:49,460 --> 00:27:50,660
Don't step

390
00:27:50,660 --> 00:27:52,030
Stop it, just shut down.

391
00:27:54,660 --> 00:27:56,160
We've got to shut it down and reevaluate.

392
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:57,390
We're about to lose everything here.

393
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,090
Despite shutting down

394
00:28:01,100 --> 00:28:04,860
torrential rain, continues to erode the ground.

395
00:28:04,860 --> 00:28:07,500
Threatening to swallow Slucifer holes.

396
00:28:09,060 --> 00:28:10,600
Hey, Rick, can you hear me?

397
00:28:10,860 --> 00:28:11,960
Got you.

398
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,160
I got this coarser stuff,

399
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,230
maybe you can shove that up and around the top part.

400
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,560
Pulling coarse tailings this way is probably the best bet we can

401
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,890
in a few hours, we'll be able to build

402
00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:24,500
a pad up in front.

403
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,460
The loader is gonna dump some tailings over the edge.

404
00:28:29,460 --> 00:28:32,030
Parker's gonna pack it up against the plant.

405
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,560
And then we'll just keep on doing that

406
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,200
until it decides to stay.

407
00:28:43,460 --> 00:28:44,730
Let's fire back up.

408
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:45,890
Hey.

409
00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:48,000
Second time's a charm.

410
00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:54,300
All right, just add water.

411
00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:04,090
It ain't looking too bad.

412
00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:06,090
If we can get the bigger rock to hold up,

413
00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:07,430
we're gonna be all right.

414
00:29:10,660 --> 00:29:11,990
Anyway, Slucifer's making money.

415
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,290
-There you go. -Good job, man.

416
00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:14,300
I got you.

417
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,190
The trees going down.

418
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,660
-Come on! - Come back. Come back, guys.

419
00:29:27,660 --> 00:29:30,390
Gold miners, battle Mother Nature's,

420
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,230
fast changing extreme weather.

421
00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:38,360
We're going in the fall, and the conditions

422
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,060
are getting pretty brutal.

423
00:29:41,060 --> 00:29:43,890
When summer ends, temperatures cool

424
00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:46,200
and heavy rainfall returns.

425
00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:49,560
It's been puking rain for three days straight

426
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,130
and just making an absolute mess of the cut.

427
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,560
And the miners have also learned

428
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,760
to expect the unexpected.

429
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:03,630
my--

430
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:05,960
Hey, Kevin.

431
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:06,760
Shut it down.

432
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,660
All we're pumping is freaking mud.

433
00:30:08,660 --> 00:30:10,700
-10-4. - Shut the pump down.

434
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,190
We don't have any fresh water. fresh water's off.

435
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,030
We're sluicing out of a mud hole.

436
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,730
Fall 2016 Colorado.

437
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,990
Mother Nature throws Freddy Dodge a curveball.

438
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,500
Hey, what's going on?

439
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,360
Waters off.

440
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:33,860
Look at my mud puddles.

441
00:30:33,860 --> 00:30:36,260
Tell me you're freaking kidding.

442
00:30:39,460 --> 00:30:42,190
The intake pond that feeds the wash plant

443
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,730
is almost dry.

444
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,890
We have no water coming into the pond.

445
00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:48,460
So the water is getting lost

446
00:30:48,460 --> 00:30:49,430
somewhere up above us.

447
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:51,430
Got to figure out what the hell is going on.

448
00:30:54,260 --> 00:30:57,300
Freddy checks the intake ponds, water source.

449
00:30:58,060 --> 00:31:00,600
A creek that lies on higher ground.

450
00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:03,430
Yeah, it's dry.

451
00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:07,230
That creek should be about a foot deep right now.

452
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,230
And there's nothing coming down.

453
00:31:09,860 --> 00:31:11,100
It's not good.

454
00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:14,000
There's a big ass problem up here somewhere.

455
00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:20,990
Hey, Todd,

456
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,860
meet me a quarter of a mile west of double trouble.

457
00:31:23,860 --> 00:31:25,300
I found the real problem.

458
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:30,800
What's going on here?

459
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,090
The reason we're out of water,

460
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:35,600
the freaking Beaver's got this culvert plugged up.

461
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,130
Diverted the water.

462
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,260
Really?

463
00:31:38,260 --> 00:31:39,500
It's plugged solid.

464
00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:41,860
Now then what do we do?

465
00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:43,400
We got a backhoe here.

466
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,760
I'm gonna weigh up it.

467
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,660
-You feed me the chain. - Okay?

468
00:31:47,660 --> 00:31:49,960
And it'll drag it out.

469
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,760
The beavers have built a dam inside the culvert,

470
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,290
which channels clean water to the intake pond,

471
00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:59,760
stopping water flowing from the creek.

472
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,060
to the wash plant.

473
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,130
Kinda had the flu.

474
00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:09,360
Kind of need water to mine gold, so.

475
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,230
Let's get the son of a gun unplugged.

476
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,090
Are you sure you want to do this?

477
00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:15,830
This is freaking cold, boy.

478
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,360
Freddy's plan...

479
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,390
Clear the end.

480
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:20,960
Use a grappling hook

481
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:25,000
attached to an excavator to haul out the debris.

482
00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,900
I don't wanna go back in that  again.

483
00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:38,560
Give her hell, Todd.

484
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:39,760
Everybody clear.

485
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,930
Go ahead and pull it through.

486
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:52,690
Jumped up over the top.

487
00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:54,030
We'll have to do it again.

488
00:32:57,060 --> 00:32:59,630
We have to go underwater on this, Todd

489
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,530
Freddy.

490
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,090
Freddy.

491
00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:13,990
You good?

492
00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:25,800
I'm okay.

493
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:41,490
Pull.

494
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:45,830
God, keep going.

495
00:33:46,460 --> 00:33:47,800
God, keep going.

496
00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:50,630
God, keep going.

497
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,900
Fine. Is the water coming through?

498
00:33:57,700 --> 00:33:59,030
Good job, Freddy.

499
00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:01,190
I win, beaver.

500
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,800
We'll have water now.

501
00:34:06,660 --> 00:34:09,000
us one, beaver zero.

502
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,260
Plant's coming hot.

503
00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:18,560
-Everybody clear.

504
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:19,700
Fire it up.

505
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,530
Let's make some gold.

506
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,360
As fall turns to winter.

507
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,590
Only weeks of the mining season remain.

508
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,660
It's cold in here. My feet are freezing.

509
00:34:43,660 --> 00:34:45,060
Days shorten

510
00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:47,690
and temperatures dive below zero.

511
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:57,860
And the miners

512
00:34:57,860 --> 00:35:01,200
face the renewed challenge of frozen ground.

513
00:35:01,860 --> 00:35:03,260
It really hurts when you can

514
00:35:03,260 --> 00:35:04,260
stare at your pay

515
00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:06,390
and you can't get it because it's frozen solid.

516
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,900
It's like a block of concrete.

517
00:35:09,260 --> 00:35:12,060
If we don't get some pay in, we're gonna be screwed.

518
00:35:12,060 --> 00:35:15,230
Eureka Creek, 2023,

519
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,260
Brian McCaughan needs nearly 200 oz of gold

520
00:35:20,260 --> 00:35:23,100
to hit his 1500 oz target.

521
00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:27,130
But his pay is locked in ice.

522
00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:30,160
We need some kind of a Hail Mary.

523
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,260
So I had to come up with a plan,

524
00:35:32,260 --> 00:35:33,600
and the plan is on this trailer.

525
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:40,800
What do we have here?

526
00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:46,390
What do you think?

527
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,290
What in W. T. F. is this thing?

528
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:51,690
Well, it's a drum cutter.

529
00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:53,690
They use them for ripping rock.

530
00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:55,390
You'll go through this frost like nothing.

531
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,690
I'm thinking we can tunnel under the sides

532
00:35:57,700 --> 00:35:59,600
somewhere around 20 ft.

533
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,890
What do you think?

534
00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:04,390
I've never seen anything like this.

535
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,160
By any chance you've ever seen this done in the frost.

536
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,190
I've never seen nothing like this ever.

537
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,990
I'm anxious as hell to give it a spin.

538
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,800
I can't think of any reason it won't work.

539
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,190
Brian plans to use the drum cutter.

540
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,290
armed with a 100 tungsten carbide teeth

541
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:25,060
attached to a spinning drum.

542
00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:28,460
To churn through the frozen gold rich pay layer

543
00:36:28,460 --> 00:36:30,600
trapped in the wall of the cut.

544
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,890
He'll then be able to run the pulverized

545
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:36,200
pay dirt through the trommel.

546
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,260
If we don't do it, we're shut down by the cold.

547
00:36:40,260 --> 00:36:41,630
This keeps you up.

548
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:43,960
Okay, let's go.

549
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,600
I'm gonna have that frickin grinding rock in no time.

550
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,300
Here we go.

551
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,700
Okay, so bring her down. We'll hook her up.

552
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:03,830
Fire it up.

553
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,000
This thing works. Unbelievable.

554
00:37:16,660 --> 00:37:18,500
Okay, I'm off to the cut.

555
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,630
Man, I'm so stoked.

556
00:37:25,630 --> 00:37:27,830
This is like your first day of school right now.

557
00:37:28,860 --> 00:37:30,660
I'm just looking at this frozen wall

558
00:37:30,660 --> 00:37:31,900
and I'm coming hard.

559
00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:34,530
I'm gonna tear this  up.

560
00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:38,400
Here we go.

561
00:37:47,460 --> 00:37:50,460
Yeah, baby! She's going.

562
00:37:50,460 --> 00:37:53,790
I'm going dead straight into some solid frozen ground.

563
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:54,790
This thing is awesome.

564
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,260
I'm like,

565
00:37:56,260 --> 00:37:58,230
I'm trying to hold back my giddiness.

566
00:38:01,260 --> 00:38:03,690
It's really mulched up to a nice size.

567
00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:05,860
I believe we'll be able to run this right through the plant,

568
00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:07,900
frozen right now, right through

569
00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:12,000
Get the rock trucks down here and start hauling.

570
00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:19,730
I'm gonna run up there and watch the first few loads go through.

571
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,960
If the frozen chunks of pay clump together,

572
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,000
it could clog the wash plant.

573
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,090
I'm watching for anything that's not rock.

574
00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:39,490
Basically, any piece of the clay

575
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:41,530
that might still be frozen together.

576
00:38:44,860 --> 00:38:46,160
Everything's coming through,

577
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,000
thawed and clean, like spotless.

578
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,460
Yeah, there's no big chunks in it at all.

579
00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:52,700
It's beautiful.

580
00:38:53,660 --> 00:38:55,600
So it's a 100% success.

581
00:38:57,260 --> 00:38:58,490
Holy

582
00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,160
I'm getting down there. I'm just hammering out

583
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,660
as much as I can because this is incredible.

584
00:39:02,660 --> 00:39:04,560
I've never been able to stay late in the season

585
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,290
like we're going to be able to do this year.

586
00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:09,660
Like this is a complete game changer for us.

587
00:39:09,660 --> 00:39:11,590
Thinking outside the box,

588
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,560
Brian has found a way to overcome the big freeze.

589
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,230
Yep, 1500 here we come.

590
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,560
We gotta dig up a lot of ground to get gold.

591
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,290
But that doesn't mean we've got to leave it,

592
00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:32,360
you know, a mess.

593
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,990
It's not always a constant battle against the elements.

594
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:36,730
We're just trying to make sure

595
00:39:36,730 --> 00:39:37,760
that we do things right here.

596
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,460
You know, I want to have a future up here,

597
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,800
and that means doing things the right way.

598
00:39:42,460 --> 00:39:44,460
Once a claim is mined out,

599
00:39:44,460 --> 00:39:49,160
miners are required to restore the land to its natural state.

600
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:50,090
Good job, man.

601
00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:51,560
Thanks, buddy.

602
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:52,560
It looks good.

603
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:53,530
Yeah, it looks good.

604
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,860
I feel proud of what we've done here.

605
00:39:56,860 --> 00:39:59,160
It's an area that we've mined and reclaimed.

606
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,760
We've spent a lot of time building a whole new creek bed

607
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,960
and putting in frisk structures

608
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,960
and building the banks right and all the slopes, right?

609
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,630
And it's a complicated thing.

610
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:10,990
And it looks good.

611
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,290
Not only does it look good, but it's good habitat too.

612
00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:14,290
You know, we've done a good job

613
00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:16,330
of... of putting things the way they should be.

614
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:18,700
You're welcome, otters!

615
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:22,700
They love it here.

616
00:40:28,060 --> 00:40:29,400
We're into the minuses.

617
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,630
Everything's got to keep moving.

618
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,860
Even us.

619
00:40:33,860 --> 00:40:34,990
We've got to get it all through tonight,

620
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,800
because at this point, we shut down we're frozen out.

621
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,090
By October,

622
00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:43,560
miners have stripped and prepared all their ground,

623
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,800
and a final bounty in gold is just waiting to be sluiced.

624
00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:53,900
But winter threatens to shut down mining at any time.

625
00:40:57,860 --> 00:41:00,700
Miners must fight frozen ground and equipment.

626
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,630
Solid as  rock.

627
00:41:05,260 --> 00:41:06,160
Snowstorms.

628
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,800
This is next level.

629
00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:12,460
And subarctic temperatures...

630
00:41:13,660 --> 00:41:16,560
...as low as -18 degrees.

631
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:17,860
Everything's going to keep freezing.

632
00:41:17,860 --> 00:41:19,160
Everything's going to keep breaking.

633
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:22,160
As they face a desperate battle

634
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,990
to get as much gold as possible.

635
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,390
- It's alive!

636
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,560
If Mother Nature's gonna stop us,

637
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,300
it's gonna take a lot more than this.

638
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,660
We aren't leaving this piece of ground

639
00:41:32,660 --> 00:41:34,230
until we've got all the gold out of it.

640
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,530
But we're running out of time.

641
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,560
2018...

642
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,060
7 degrees below on Indian River.

643
00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:45,760
Parker Schnabel has spent the season

644
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,130
stripping ground and stockpiling pay.

645
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,760
Now he's determined to catch every last flake of gold

646
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:54,990
through Slucifer,

647
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,100
before the big freeze ends his season.

648
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,660
Okay, fire up.

649
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,100
Whoa, whoa!

650
00:42:11,500 --> 00:42:13,490
This thing is probably frozen up solid.

651
00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:16,790
-It's kind of a disaster, isn't it? -Yeah.

652
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:21,090
The belt stopped and just  everything.

653
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:23,090
This belts frozen into the rollers.

654
00:42:23,100 --> 00:42:24,900
Oh, for  sake.

655
00:42:26,260 --> 00:42:28,560
Parker's crew try to free the belt

656
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,000
by cranking the frozen head roller.

657
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:37,060
Sounds like you need some lube?

658
00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:38,590
Or somebody with some muscles

659
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,160
that ain't old like mine.

660
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,230
Send me up.

661
00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:44,400
You got muscles high here.

662
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:48,400
Go one more time.

663
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:53,960
Oh, lovely.

664
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,200
Blow the breaker.

665
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:01,860
Oh, there she goes.

666
00:43:01,860 --> 00:43:03,100
Yep. Looks good.

667
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,400
Good work, everybody.

668
00:43:06,860 --> 00:43:09,490
When it ices up, it's always this belt

669
00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,060
that gets it.

670
00:43:11,060 --> 00:43:12,390
We got to do something about it.

671
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,560
Yeah, go get one of the big old tanks

672
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,160
and plummet in here

673
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,690
and keep her hot as we can.

674
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,630
Hopefully, a little heat will delay the end for us a little bit.

675
00:43:23,900 --> 00:43:25,790
Parker's plan:

676
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,800
Use a tiger torch to heat the head drum.

677
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,690
This should keep the tailings belt

678
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:36,660
moving in subzero temperatures.

679
00:43:36,660 --> 00:43:38,900
Let's go ahead and fire this thing up.

680
00:43:42,260 --> 00:43:45,690
The first shot over the bow for the winner.

681
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:49,200
Right, and we've got to keep sluicing.

682
00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:56,160
As night falls,

683
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,290
the crew keep running in temperatures 10 below to stops.

684
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:03,030
to stop Slucifer from freezing solid.

685
00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:07,560
This pay is starting to get quite chunky.

686
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,400
It's freezing up on us a bit.

687
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,300
But they usually break up pretty good.

688
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,030
Oh!

689
00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:24,260
There's no on the belt.

690
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:30,760
What's going on?

691
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:32,900
Go to jam in the hopper.

692
00:44:36,460 --> 00:44:37,630
Just--

693
00:44:42,100 --> 00:44:43,630
Must be a chunk in the feeder.

694
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:45,900
It's not good, man.

695
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,090
Oh!

696
00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:49,900
Big  chunk in here.

697
00:44:52,260 --> 00:44:54,830
We better hurry because the plant's gonna freeze up if we don't.

698
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,690
Tyson Lee attacks the block of frozen pay

699
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:02,160
with a sledgehammer.

700
00:45:02,930 --> 00:45:04,760
-Here you go. - Oh, yeah.

701
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:05,790
Yeah, Buddy.

702
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:08,390
It's gonna go through now?

703
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:09,630
Give her a try.

704
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,200
Holy, look at that!

705
00:45:14,260 --> 00:45:15,830
Oh!

706
00:45:25,460 --> 00:45:26,930
Flaps on fire!

707
00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:31,260
When Parker shut down Slucifer

708
00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:35,290
to free the hopper, the tailings conveyor stopped.

709
00:45:35,300 --> 00:45:39,030
The Tiger torch left heating the stationary rubber belt

710
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:40,930
has set it on fire.

711
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,560
We'll meet another one. Go get another one.

712
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:45,660
That's the only one we got.

713
00:45:45,660 --> 00:45:46,990
Should I turn on the water?

714
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,830
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

715
00:45:52,860 --> 00:45:54,300
Oh

716
00:45:54,860 --> 00:45:56,460
We're gonna do something else.

717
00:45:56,460 --> 00:45:58,400
Yeah. I'm gonna turn on the water.

718
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,090
All happened so fast, man.

719
00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:23,130
Did you get a look at any damage?

720
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,600
There's a lot of it, I'm  sure.

721
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:28,990
We just need to make sure it's out

722
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:30,690
and come back in the morning and assess.

723
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:31,600
Fine.

724
00:46:32,660 --> 00:46:34,530
Honestly, right now, I'm tired.

725
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:49,800
At first light, Parker arrives to see if they can fight on.

726
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:54,130
Oh, man.

727
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:02,000
The belt smoke, now it's got four inches of ice on top of it

728
00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:05,290
Well, I think she's fried, Dean.

729
00:47:05,300 --> 00:47:06,500
Pretty much.

730
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:08,600
Fire and ice.

731
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:10,900
It's been a hell of a season.

732
00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:16,800
No matter how hard miners push in the Yukon...

733
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,560
Mother Nature eventually wins out.

734
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:27,390
But the spoils of this hard fought war are extraordinary.

735
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,460
We have 8309.75 oz.

736
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:34,890
Battling the elements

737
00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:36,990
one season after another.

738
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,890
Wow, that's a good pour, isn't it?

739
00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:40,790
Yeah.

740
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,260
Gold Rush miners have hauled

741
00:47:43,260 --> 00:47:47,360
in more than 101,000 oz of gold.

742
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:48,860
This represents you guys bonuses.

743
00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:55,460
Today worth more than $230,000,000.

744
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:58,300
You guys are the best.

744
00:47:59,305 --> 00:48:59,267
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