04x17 - Day of Reckoning

[bunniefuu]

Crank it up!

Narrator: after five months

Of struggling
to make their fortunes...

Probably the hardest, most
scariest thing we've ever done.

Narrator: ...in the jungles
of south america...

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
That's about ready to tip.

...and the frozen gold fields
of the north...

Look out.

Holy...

...three mining crews...

Oh!

...face the end of their season.

Got it. Whoa!

Parker: fire it up!

Narrator: with his klondike
ground frozen...

Just might work.

...parker defies nature

With a high-pressure
water cannon.

That's pretty awesome.

In alaska...
Fred: let's go.

...dustin goes to extremes

To get to the source
of porcupine creek gold.

[Bleep] whoa.
What's happening up there?

And in guyana...

Hey, it's coming down!

...the hoffman crew
defies the odds,

Getting their biggest
diamond haul yet.

We found 59 diamonds.

But this season,
the winners and losers...

Fred: what a year.

Dustin:
[ chuckling ] yeah!

...are clear-cut...

...when it comes
to the final reckoning.

You're 150 days are up.

What do you have for me?

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In the klondike,
teenage mine boss

Parker schnabel
is still 170 ounces short

Of his 800-ounce
million-dollar goal.

And a sudden drop in temperature
has put an end to his dream.

Parker: it's freezing out here.

I mean, see all this dirt?

You know, it's frozen.

And it's the best ground
I've ever mined,

And we're not sluicing
any of it the way it is.

That's pay.

Just frozen solid.
No gold's coming out of that.

Narrator:
without thawed pay dirt,

Gold mining is impossible.

Parker:
the last thing I want to do
is be leaving a week early,

Especially
without hitting our target.

[ Sighs ]
it's disappointing.

It's disappointing.

Our season's over.

Narrator: five months ago,

The 18-year-old klondike rookie
ventured north

With an ambitious goal.

I came up here
to find 800 ounces.

All season,
he's battled the dirt...

Three zeroes. I'm out.

...his equipment...

Whoa! Shut her down, parker.
Shut her down!

...and men twice his age.

Do you want my wallet?
Here.

You want to dump it
on the ground, too?

But there's nothing he can do
about frozen klondike ground.

The gold we need is right there.
It's just frozen.

Now, a week before his crew
is due to leave for the season,

Parker heads to meet with
his claim owner tony beets.

It's time to call it quits.

Parker: I don't want to go home.

It's a bummer.

Beets: hey, parker.
Hi, tony.

We're closing down.

We're out of thawed ground.

I don't want to.

We tried everything
we knew.

Mnh-mnh. Monitoring?

No, I don't want to.

Narrator: a monitor
is a pump-powered water cannon.

It produces a blast of water

That washes away overburden
and thaws frozen pay dirt.

With tony's help,

Parker has secured a monitor
from a local miner.

Cheeseman: this is the only
thing we got left to try.

We're not gonna get enough pay
to the plant to get 800 ounces

Unless this works.

Parker: this thing's kind of our
last hope for hitting our goal,

Because it's the only ground
that has the gold in it.

You know, it's the only ground
that's got what we need.

I don't think
they make new ones of these.

I mean, they've probably
been using these exact things

For 100 years.

Narrator: monitors
have been used in the klondike

Since the 1800s.

This one is over 40 years old.

If they can't get it to work,

Parker has no time
to wait on parts

And no hope
of reaching his 800-ounce goal.

Those connectors
are pretty [bleep]

Is it gonna work, gene?

I don't know
what's gonna happen,

But if the hose comes off here,
it's gonna freaking whip around.

So get down
or get away from it.

Be at a place where you can be
out of the way.

I'm a little nervous
about this thing.

The force needed
to get through frozen permafrost

Could maim or even k*ll.

Okay, fire it up.

[ Monitor revs ]
fire in the hole.

Give me some water, gene!

Where's the safest place
to stand?

Whoa.

Holy [bleep]

[ Laughs ]

Hopefully, this thing
is gonna burn through the pay.

It'll wash it out
in front of the face there,

And we'll scoop it up
and haul it to the plant.

If the monitor can thaw
enough frozen pay dirt,

Parker just might still
have a chance

At a million-dollar season.

Parker:
that's pretty awesome, dude.

Good job.
Pretty cool, yeah.

[ Laughs ]
just might work.

South, in guyana,
five months after moving

Their klondike mining operation
to the jungle,

And after a series
of epic failures,

The hoffman crew is finally
firing on all cylinders.

Trommel's coming on!

[ Trommel whirs ]

Okay, jack,
go ahead and feed it!

Jack loads pay dirt
from hope creek.

Jack: this plant
has been working fantastic.

We've got the best
of both worlds going on here.

Todd pumps slurry
from the redemption creek pit

To the modified trommel
over at hope creek.

Todd: I feel like our season
is starting right now!

We've got good ground,
and we got a good wash plant.

We're going for 100 ounces
of gold and 100 diamonds.

With the setup that we got going
now, I think we can get it.

Narrator: the hoffmans leased
their claim from tony mekdeci,

A mining kingpin.

You got a deal.
Welcome to guyana.

But tony gave them only 150 days
to get results in the jungle.

Here's the catch.

At 150 days, he's gonna
reevaluate our relationship.

Possibly, we can lose it.

Now with the 150 days almost up,

The hoffman crew has to produce
serious gold and diamonds

Or their season
will come to an abrupt halt.

We got to
keep this thing moving.

We need more material
through here, tony.

Yes, sir.

I'm gonna have jackson
to crank it up, okay?

Yeah.

Jackson, crank it up!

[ Grunts ]

Whoo!

Hey, guys!
Maybe our luck's changing!

Man, I need a big diamond
right now.

Man: come on!

Oh [bleep] dave!

What happened?

Oh [bleep]

Hey, shut her down!

Shut it down.
We lost a pipe.

We lost a pipe!

Hey, jackson, cut it!

Okay, you got it.
We're doing it. We're doing it.

The hell happened, man?
Blew the pipe.

[Bleep]

Narrator: the pipe
carrying the diamond slurry

Has burst
under the increased pressure.

Pushing at full speed,

We're sending a lot of material
over there.

I think
we sent them too much.

Maybe more than the pipe
could handle.

Not good.

Do you guys have any more
four-inch pipe over there?

I don't know.

We need about a 20-foot section
of 4-inch.

How bad is it over there?

Unless we got another pipe,
we're done.

This is [bleep]

If we don't have any pipe,
it could be a two-day down.

Here's the problem.

Mekdeci's
breathing down our neck still,

And every minute we lose, it's
a minute we're not sluicing.

Okay, got it.

Right on.

We had one piece left.

Hopefully,
they can get rolling again.

Otherwise, we're in trouble.

Pierce: when we're not sluicing,

We're not getting any gold
and diamonds.

And mekdeci
won't put up with that crap.

We got to start producing.

We got to start showing we can
pull our weight around here.

Turin: well, we were pushing way
too much material through that.

That four-inch pipe,
it's just pvc.

Todd just pressed it up
a little too much.

Now we'll back it down.

We know where to run now.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

Narrator:
the hoffmans fix the broken pipe

And are once again ready to run.

If the crew can't find big gold
or big diamonds,

They will be kicked off
their jungle claim.

We got her fixed.
We're up and going.

Let's go.

Narrator:
in cahoon creek, alaska,

Dustin hurt's
mountain-prospecting trip

Is coming to a close.

But before he leaves,

Dustin wants one last shot
at big-time gold.

I'm gonna hike to the top
of this mountain over here,

And we're gonna do
some drilling.

I'm gonna try
and get some core samples

To find out if the gold
really is where I think it is.

Narrator: having found fine gold
on the valley floor,

Dustin believes that its source
lies close to the summit above

In a seam of gold
that runs along a fault line.

If he's right,
the mountain could hold

Tens of millions of dollars
in gold.

The only way to find out
is to drill a core sample.

I'm not sure
how I'm gonna do this yet,

But it's gonna be hard.

Narrator:
wes, one of the texans,

Is coming along to help dustin
on the dangerous mission.

Got everything we need?

The only thing I need up there
other than this is fuel and...

A set of ba*ls.

[ Laughs ]
let's go.

Down in porcupine creek,

The dakota boys
have been struggling all season

To get to their goal
of 320 ounces...

Unbelievable.

...worth over $400,000.

This is
a genuine treasure hunt.

While up on their new claim,
cahoon creek,

Dustin prospected
on the valley floor.

We found the golden cahoon, yo.

Narrator: now, to determine if
their future lies up at cahoon,

Dustin and wes hike
high into the mountains

To find the source of the gold
in the region.

Dustin: we're up here
on top of the world.


Is our campsite right there.

It's phenomenal up here,
but it's also dangerous.

Any tumble out here, any trip,
any slip-up, you're gonna fall.

That's it.

We'd be picking you up
in a body bag.

Narrator:
to reach the fault line,

Dustin needs
to rappel down the cliff face.

The only thing keeping him
from a fall of 1,000 feet

Are three small clamps
he's anchored to the rock.

I'm gonna go over the edge
and we're gonna hunt around,

And then I'm gonna drill it.

We're gonna find some gold.

Be safe.

This is taking gold mining
to another level, man.

Hoo-hoo-hoo! Long way down.

All right, I think this is
where I'm gonna drill, man.

Right there?

Right through this big slab
right here,

Right in front of me.

Narrator: but an
already-dangerous mission...

[ Thunder rumbles ]
...suddenly gets even tougher.

Storm just came in.
Visibility went down to nothing.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

Operating
the diamond-tipped core drill

Will require dustin
to use both hands,

Leaving his body weight
supported by the rope.

[ Drill revs ]

Ready?

I'm ready.

Let's get some drilling done.

I want to see
what's in this rock.

[Bleep] whoa!
What's happening up there?

What the [bleep] was that?

One of the clamps
came out of the rock.

One of the clamps supporting
dustin has broken free.

There are now only two clamps

Keeping him
and his 80-pound drill

From falling over 1,000 feet
to his death.

You ready?! Let's go.

[ Drill revs ]

With his equipment failing
and a storm closing in,

Dustin fights
to get the sample he needs.

Yeah!

[ Laughs ]

[ Sighs ]

All right, man.
I got a sample over here.

Let's pull the core out.

We got to
get out of this snow.

There we go. We got it.

Good job, man.

Hey, man. We did it.
We did it.

In the yukon, parker schnabel's
wash plant is at a standstill.

In a last-ditch effort

To thaw out
the frozen pay dirt he needs

To hit his 800-ounce goal,

He's brought in a water monitor.

But he's struggling
to get to the pay.

Right now, the problem is,
the gravel that we want to get,

The pay gravel, is underneath
a pile of thawed mud.

We need to get the mud
out of the way.

Narrator:
they need to blast away 15 feet
of useless overburden

To get down to
the precious pay dirt beneath.

It's just taking too long
with the monitor,

Trying to wash, you know,


We need to figure something out
to make this go quicker.

This isn't gonna work.

Narrator:
parker has less than a week
to get his final 170 ounces

Before his crew heads south
for their winter jobs.

He needs a new plan and fast.

Hey, greg,
I need you to take the excavator

Up on that bank
and dig all that overburden off

So we can get down
to the pay.

Remsburg: you want the 460
sitting on top of the bank

That you're monitoring?

Is that what I'm hearing?

Right.
I think it'll be fine.

[Bleep] hits the fan,
just swing the ex--

Or walk out of the way
or whatever.

Whatever.

Narrator:
to get to the gold faster,

Greg will dig out the overburden
from above

While parker uses the monitor
to thaw out the pay dirt below.

But working
the 100,000-pound excavator

On ground that is being thawed
is extremely risky.

Remsburg:
I'm not excited about this.

Sitting on top of
a dirt pile making mud out of it

Is probably one of
the most dangerous tasks

A gold miner can do.

Let's go.

We're talking about moving
15 feet worth of mud

To get down
to a little bit of pay gravel.

We're desperate at this point.

So this is it.

This is our last-ditch effort
for getting 800 ounces.

It's got to work.

Oh, this is looking
a lot better, you know?

It's thawing out pretty good.

Looks like we'll get
quite a bit of pay out of this.

Kind of amazed, but it really
looks like it's working.

Narrator:
despite greg's reservations,

Parker's plan
is coming together.

The monitor
is finally thawing enough ground

To feed the wash plant.

Fire it up!

Parker is back running dirt.

But to hit his season goal
of 800 ounces,

He still needs a massive


His next cleanup has to be
the best he's ever had.

I don't want to go home
right now.

I plan on finding 800 ounces.

Narrator: in guyana...

The hoffman crew
needs to finally prove

They can mine
deep in the jungle.

They have been running
promising dirt for three days,

And it's time to find out if
they're modified wash plant

Is catching both gold
and diamonds.

How's it looking?

Good.
Things are really working good.

We got about 1,500 yards.
Got lots of gravel coming in.

What do you think?

Got a good feeling
about this.

Let's pull the mats.
All right, let's do it.

This is good.
It's kind of exciting.

For once, I'm looking forward
to a cleanup.

I think there's a possibility
of this being really good.

Looks pretty good,
you guys.

A lot of gravel.
Lots of gravel.

The best gravel I've seen
in here for a long time.

Todd: exactly where you find
the diamonds.

When we were
just running the trommel,

We didn't have nearly
that much gravel.

This cleanup right here's
gonna prove or disprove

What we've contrapted.

This could be
a really good cleanup.

Let's grab those mats, guys.
Let's go.

All right, boys.

Narrator: jack and thurber
clean up the mats

They hope hold
gold and diamonds.

Thurber:
I see good sign for diamonds.

Jack: if we could find
that one big freaking diamond,

Everybody will go home rich.

This could be the run
that changes everything, jack.

As night falls,
the hoffman crew crew waits

For the results
that will make or break

Their first season
in the jungle.

Jack and I
found 59 diamonds.

Man: all right!
Man #2: wow!

Todd: you're kidding me.

They're nice-looking, too.


Yeah.

So that's pretty cool.

Turin: right on.

So we just doubled up our
diamond count in one cleanup.

Thurber: we did.

That's awesome.

It means that we're on the
starting of a diamond deposit.

It's a good start,
you know?

And we're starting to kick a*s
right now.


Any gold at all, jack?

There's nothing.

I don't -- I don't get it,
because we had gold in the pans.

And we get gold
in every pan.

I can't explain it
'cause I see gold,

And by the amount of material
that we're running,

There should be
a lot of gold in there.

You know what?

I set a goal of 100 ounces
and 100 diamonds, okay?

I may be 97 ounces short
on the gold,

But we're clearing the diamonds.

Do you think this is enough
to get mekdeci off our back?

I don't know what to say, boys.
He's a gold guy.

Narrator:
porcupine creek, alaska.

Dakota fred set an ambitious
goal for his season --


Worth over $400,000 --

Twice what he got last year.

But with less than a week
left this season,

He is still more than
$100,000 short of his goal.

We got a long way to go.

We got a little over
100 ounces to get,

But I think you can do it.

If we just go ahead
finish diggin that haul road,

It should get us
up to our 320.

Hell, let's go after it.

Let's do it.
Let's get some gold.

Sounds good.

Let's fire it up!

Narrator:
team dakota gets to work.

Melody feeds the derocker

With gold-rich material
from their old haul road

While fred excavates
the pay dirt

From the bottom of the road.

Fred: we're getting down to
the end of the season right now.

We're still a ways
from our goal of 320 ounces.

Every bucket of this material
has got some good gold in it.

We're trying like hell to get
every bit we get out of here.

They're really important,
being this late in the season.

Oh [bleep]

What the [bleep] is that?

What the --

Aw [bleep]

Mel, stop! Stop!

Do not come down the road.

Oh [bleep]
mel, stop! Stop!

The road has collapsed
right behind you.

Oh, my [bleep]

That was close.
Oh, my gosh.

If fred hadn't hollered at me,
I would've driven right in this.

I'll tell you what,
we got a problem here.

Well, we can't do
any filling on that.

That's not gonna help.

Skalicky: it'd just go
right in the water.

It'd just fall right in.

This can't be fixed.

And we have
no other access

To the bottom of the hole
out here.

Hey, you guys,
it's still collapsing.

[ Sighs ]

We got to call it.

It's just not safe.

This road is over with --
history.

Narrator: with the road
a potential death trap,

All the team
has left to do this season

Is to run the remaining
stockpile of pay dirt

And pray they hit their goal.

Fred: it's hard to take,

But looked like mother nature
just kind of stepped in

And called it quits.

Narrator:
deep in the amazon jungle,

The hoffman crew
is running out of time.

After their last cleanup,
they have 129 diamonds,

But they have no idea
if it's enough

To satisfy their claim owner,
tony mekdeci.

Todd: this jungle's been just
beating us and beating us.

Finally, I feel like we're
fighting back a little bit.

But we need some gold.

So we're not anywhere
where we need to be,

But we are moving forward.

Narrator: todd gets
an unannounced visitor.

Todd: yellow.

How's it going, man?

Hey, todd.

Yellow works
for tony mekdeci.

Tony would like to
see you.

In georgetown?

No, at your camp
right now.

Tony's at our camp now, right?
Like, he's here right now.

Right now.

Tony mekdeci has made
a surprise visit to the claim.

He's waiting
back at todd's camp.

You need to shut this down
and go meet tony right now.

Okay.

Narrator: with their
five-month trial over,

The hoffman crew's
day of reckoning has arrived.

Logan!
Wrap it up and get out!

We're going back to town!

What's wrong?

Todd: I don't know.

I don't know what's going on.

So he's probably either gonna be
really happy or really pissed.

Knowing my luck,
it's the latter.

Narrator: in alaska,
dustin and the texans

Return from their trip
up to cahoon creek.

All right, we made it.

Narrator:
dustin has drilled a core sample

From what he believes
could be the source

Of all the gold in cahoon.

Fred, I got these core samples
that I drilled out...

All right.

...and I'm gonna be
sending these in.

Tell you what, some interesting
stuff you got here.

I'm really hoping
this is the source.

I really hope that I drilled
in the right area.

This could be our future.

Got some high hopes
on that stuff.

Core samples need to be crushed
and studied in a laboratory,

But it will take weeks
to determine if cahoon

Holds enough gold
to make them rich.

I think you ought to
get them into the laboratory

As soon as possible,

And we'll see
what they got to say about it.

Okay.

After a road collapse,
the porcupine pit is shut down.

Melody now runs the last
of their stockpiled dirt.

Fred, I'm just finishing
the last bucket in the derocker.

This is the last of our material

To go through the plant
this season.

I hope this has some nice gold
in it.

Narrator: all that is left to do
is the cleanup.

Shut it down.
End of season.

Their only hope is that there's
enough gold in their sluice box

To get
their 320-ounce season goal.

And just use
whatever we have left.

So that's it.

We're done for the season.

We'll get
all our tallies together,

Find out how much gold
we made this year.

Narrator: last week's cleanup
was 24 ounces,

Worth more than $33,000.

It took the dakota boys

Past their 200-ounce
break-even point.

This affects everything.

This basically affects what I
can afford to do for next year.

Narrator: this last cleanup
determines fred's profit

And his crew's payday
for the entire season.

I have been
thinking about this moment

For four and a half months.

We worked really hard
and really need the money.

Blood, sweat, tears went into
everything we did this year.

Fred's coming out
with the gold total soon,

And I think
they're gonna be low.

This is from the golden road.

Narrator:
the crew waits to find out

If the last five months
have paid off.

Dustin: here he comes.

Well, we didn't make
our 320.

However,
we had one hell of a total.

This takes us...



Oh, my!
Yeah!

Whoo!
Hell yeah!

Narrator: the dakota boys'
last cleanup for the season --


Worth more than $100,000.

Fred:
that is some serious gold.

Their total of 280 ounces

Means they have found
more gold this year

Than in the last two seasons
put together.

It is worth almost $400,000.

What a year.



I'm happy.
This is a lot of gold.

This is the most gold
I've ever seen in one place.

They have earned every bit
of their share this year.

There is not a slacker
in the bunch,

And I was proud
to work with them this year.

Dustin: whew, good job, guys.

Narrator: in the yukon,

Parker schnabel is shutting down
for the season.

He promised his crew they could
leave at the end of september,

And time is up.

Today's the last day of running
for us.

And until we put it on a scale,

I don't think
we're gonna know what's there.

You know, I haven't hit
my target two years in a row,

And I won't feel too good
if that happens again.

Narrator:
to hit his 800-ounce goal,

Parker needs the biggest cleanup
of his life --

Over 170 ounces,
worth over $200,000.

Parker:
well, we know we've got gold.

Yeah, but is it enough?

I sure hope so.

Narrator: in the yukon,

Parker schnabel
is shut down for the season.

To hit his goal of 800 ounces,

He needs the biggest cleanup
he has ever seen --

A massive 170 ounces.

Man: hey, parker.

Sorry
to keep you guys waiting.

We came up here
with an 800-ounce goal,

You know, and that's
a pretty lofty one.

I mean, that's four times
what we found last year.

You know, it was a big ask,

And...we didn't get
800 ounces.

We got 836.

[ Laughter ]

Oh! Oh!

Doo-doo-ding.

Man: hey, are you serious?

Yeah.



So we pulled over
$1 million worth of gold

Out of the ground
this season.

Really?

Beets:
that's excellent, parker.

That's amazing.

We came up here with a goal,
and we smashed it.

Think it was 804 ounces.

Ooh.

Thanks, tony. Thanks, guys.

You know, I'm damn proud
of everybody here.

Narrator:
parker has had an extraordinary
208-ounce cleanup

Worth close to $300,000 --

The largest ever on "gold rush."

The 19-year-old came north
to set up a gold mine,

And in his first season
in the klondike,

He has triumphed with
nearly $1.2 million in gold.

It's amazing.

I mean,
I hate to be going home,

But...you know,
we earned this victory.

There's no doubt about that.

Nobody will question
what we've done this summer.



I honestly never thought
I'd stand here and say that.

Narrator: down in guyana,

Claim owner tony mekdeci
has flown into the jungle

To decide the fate
of the hoffman crew

Once and for all.

[ Car door closes ]

At the beginning of the season,

Tony gave todd 150 days

To prove that he and his crew
could mine the jungle.

Time is up.

Tony, good to see you.

How's it going?

Well, been better.

I've been better.

Gentlemen.

Turin: hi, tony.

Mekdeci: your 150 days are up.

Where are we?
What do you have for me?

Todd: we're struggling bad
on the gold.

We're not getting it.

We're just not
getting into it --

A lot of issues.

What was your production?

Dad.

A little over
two ounces.

Pretty embarrassing.

Narrator: two ounces
is worth less than $3,000.

I have to tell you,
I'm very disappointed.

Mm-hmm.

This is not production.

It's been a nightmare,
to be honest with you.

You can imagine what kind of
a nightmare it is for me.

The production you have here

Cannot even pay the rental
and the claim.

Hey.

We had a pretty decent cleanup
the other day

On the diamonds.

You may have about
five or six gem stones here.

So that's about 600 bucks.

The rest of it,

What you have maybe
is another 15 or 20 carats.

That's another 750 bucks.

So you have a total
of 1,350 bucks in diamonds.

So this is not gonna help you.

The gold is what we were after,

And everything
was based on the gold.

This definitely
won't do it for us.

It's just too poor
for me to bother with.

You have failed.

You're gonna have to terminate,

Move your equipment,
and move out.

I know we've had
a lot of setbacks,

But, you know,
the weather's changed.

That's helped us.

I feel like
we're just getting our stride.

I feel like we're just
starting to hit it, you know?

Is this your final answer?

What can I tell you, todd?
This is not working.

You have
the wrong system of mining

For this part of the world.

I cannot give you anymore time.

You guys will have to leave.

It was a fair deal.
Thank you very much.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Narrator: todd has invested
hundreds of thousands of dollars

In their jungle operation.

In five months,
the crew has pulled out

Less than $5,000 worth of gold
and diamonds.

Their season
is a complete failure.

They head home empty-handed.

I've had two major setbacks
in my life.

One -- when my wife
moved out on me.

And the second one is coming
all the way to the jungle,

Spending a ton of time
and a ton of money,

And coming out of here
with nothing.

You know, god gave me a
second chance with my marriage,

And I'm praying that
he'll give me another chance

For me and my guys
to go back and go mining again.

Guyana's one of
the most beautiful

But unforgiving places
in the world.

Anything I made last year,
I lost right down here.

But as long as I got my faith,
my family,

And this team right here,
we're not gonna give up.

Narrator:
in the yukon, parker schnabel
is saying goodbye to his crew,

Wrapping up
after a million-dollar season.

Thanks for everything,
gene.

Yep.
It was a pleasure.

Good luck on the road.

See you guys.

[ Engine turns over ]

Ness: I guess that's it, huh?
Everybody's gone.

Yeah.

But, I mean, I still got
some fight left in me.

What do you mean by that?

There is one goal
we haven't hit.

We could go
for 1,000 ounces.

[ Chuckles ]
yeah?

We're pretty close to it.

That's true.

It's only 160-some ounces.

If you try to hit that,
it'd be pretty amazing.

I mean, that's the big one.

Good way to end it.

Are you in?
I'm in.



Let's do it.

Parker has already beaten todd's
klondike total from last season,

But he and rick
make an extraordinary decision.

They're going to
fight the klondike winter

To hit 1,000 ounces.

I'm gonna do
what todd hoffman couldn't.