08x23 - The Dakota Boys

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Narrator: For three seasons,
Fred hurt, and his son, Dustin,

were the most extreme crew
on "gold rush."

Man: Up here, the gold is just
dripping off of that stuff,

so don't spill a drop of it!

Gold crazy!

Narrator:
They dug the deepest...

Man: Woo!
We're digging now!

We hit a giant pot of gold
at the bottom.

You're beating it to threads!

Narrator:
Fought hardest...

What the hell are you doing?

You're pissed off
about everything I say!

Narrator:
And risk the most...

Oh! [Bleep]!
Oh, [Bleep]!

Narrator:
To get to the gold.

Woo, 50.7!

Yeah!

For 2 years,
the Dakota boys disappeared,

but they never stopped
searching for gold.

Man:
Maybe we're stubborn people,

but Dustin and I
just don't give up.

Jeez!

Might have some gold
in that thing!

Narrator:
Now, Fred and Dustin...

This is where we belong!

Are back for their wildest,

most dangerous
adventure ever...

Man: We're just kind of in
that little zone

between craziness and insanity.

Narrator: To dive for gold

in the raging whitewater
of Alaska.

It's not just a fantasy.

Thousands of ounces the size
of your backpack.

It's there!

Narrator: This is the story

of the Dakota boys'
quest for gold

and an exclusive first look

at their next
incredible adventure.

Man: Come hell or high water,

that's where we're going!

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**

let the game begin!

Narrator: Fred hurt has been

a commercial
diver and a construction boss.

Oh!

But for the last 10 years,
he's been a gold miner.

Gold mining is basically
high dollar gambling.

You gamble that there's going
to be something in the ground

that you're going to dig up
and turn that into money,

but if there's not enough of
those minerals in the grounds,

you spent a lot
of money for nothing.

Narrator: For over a century,

the promise of finding
a life-changing mother lode

in the wilds of Alaska
has drawn men like Fred

to it's gold-rich mountains
and valleys,

but the stakes are high

and the remains of once-booming
gold towns

show how fortune
can turn to failure.

Only a handful of claims in this
part of Alaska remain viable.

Among them, porcupine creek.

**

this summer, we're going to dig
that yellow stuff

out of the ground, man!

Narrator:
In 2010, it's the Hoffman crew

that's trying its luck
at porcupine.

Look out, look out!

Ew!

This isn't easy.

This is hard to figure out.

But Todd isn't finding
good gold.

That's what we got.

That represents 3 months.

There's not enough here
to pay for the beans

and there's not enough
to pay for the fuel.

Concerned claim owner
earle foster

puts a call in to a man

who'd already spent 2 years
mining at porcupine creek.

Earle called and said,
"I got some guys mining

on porcupine down there.

They've been
mining there 3 months."

He says, "I want to know
what they're doing!"

What's up, there, Todd?

Hey guys, this is a new
member of our team.

Welcome aboard!

They saw me as the enemy.

He's earle's guy, so we just
have to watch what we do.

Yeah, I was looking to see
that things were going right,

but I kind of saw they weren't.

**

where the hell is everybody?

[Bleep]!

The work ethic was...

seemed to be
just a little bit lacking

to say the least.

Nobody is communicating!

They have their way
of doing things

and they're used to
doing it their way.

I only give my opinion.

Greg, all you have to do
is put your bucket down

and push the thing
down in there!

He needs to shut the hell up.

Narrator:
Fred's refusal to compromise

sets him on a collision course

with mechanic
James harness.

Whoa, watch your threads!

You want to do this?

You started real good
right there,

can you just roll
that in or...?

I would have already if I could.

You're messing with
the threads down there,

you're hitting on it that way.
You're messing with me!

You roll the pieces in!

Get out of my way!

Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey!
Go ahead!

You want this up your [Bleep]?

Hey!
James...

You've been in my way
since this started.

Now, just quit [Bleep]
arguing with me!

You're sitting there
beating it to threads!

Don't argue with me!
Hey, stop it!

I said...
Don't push him!

Don't push anybody!

I said, you're messing
the threads up!

Okay, okay.

Because you're [Bleep]
nose is in my way!

Now get out of the way!

Hey, hey, hey, let's walk.
Let's take a walk.

I just asked you to roll it in!

Everybody calm down, we'll go
talk about it over here.

Many people don't
take advice well.

Me included!

**

narrator: With a royalty of less
than 3 ounces,

claim owner earle
takes a radical decision.

Earle foster was not happy
with the 14 ounces of gold

that he got from
the Hoffmans that one year.

- It's good to see you!
- Good to see you, man!

In my opinion, the Hoffmans
were just overwhelmed

with the magnitude
of the project.

That's a good claim,
there's plenty of gold there,

it just takes someone
with experience

and know-how to get it out.

From my standpoint,
that's great.

Yep.
Well, good luck, Fred.

All right!

Porcupine, here I come!

**

narrator: Earle has sold
the claim to Fred,

but leaves it to the new owner
to tell the Hoffmans.

Fred hurt.

Todd Hoffman,
you doing all right?

Yeah, I'm doing fine.
I see all of the boys are here.

Well, cut to the chase, Fred.
What's up?

Fellas, I bought the porcupine
creek claim from earle,

I'm going to mine
this claim this year.

No kiddin'?

Narrator: Fred's deal means

Todd Hoffman can take his crew
north to the klondike.

Fred: It all worked out
for the good,

because now they've
found lots more gold.

In a way, they should
really be thanking me.

**

narrator: Fred brings in his
tools, equipment, and his son.

Hey, Fred, how are you?
I'm all right. Hey, Doug.

I'm doing good.
Huh?

Everybody wants to know, "well
why does Dustin call you Fred?"

Well, when he was a rebellious


he decided he wanted
to quit school.

That's when I put him to work,

worked on a construction
crew and hey,

it ain't cool to call
the boss, "dad."

You call him what everybody
else calls him and it stuck.

Yeah...
[ Laughs ]

Fred called me up one day
and I was in California

and I was working in a bakery.

He asked me if I wanted
to come gold mining.

I had no clue about gold,
but I thought,

"you know what,
why the hell not?"

To a good season!

**

narrator: The Dakota boys get
down to it at porcupine,

with Fred
mining his way.

We got some big news
this morning.

We're taking all of this crap
out of here!

I don't want nothing left!

The first big move, shell out
on a radically different

wash plant, a de-rocker.

This is the lamborghini
of wash plants.

It'll handle big old rocks.

That other plant they had up
there was just too wimpy.

Let's see what you've got!

We've got water, Fred!

**

we did good, we got it working!

Yeah, boy!
I'm telling you!

Nice!

Fred: That de-rocker was
a real stretch.

That was an expensive
piece of equipment for us.

Narrator: Fred is digging for
gold inside a bend in the creek

that's the stuff
of local legend.

That ancient waterfall that we
were following down

in a hole down there.

Bottom of that plunge pool
would be full of gold.

Narrator: Fred's theory,
millions of years ago,

the creek flowed
over a waterfall.

Gold nuggets were washed down

and trapped in the
plunge pool at the bottom.

Over the thousands of years
that followed,

layers of rocks
and earth built on top,

burying the treasure deep below.

All I can see is gold soup
going out of there!

Fred put it in my head that
there's some ancient waterfall

somewhere around here,

and as soon as we find
the bottom of it,

we'll never have
to work again.

Narrator: Fred digs down,
pulling out 5,000 yards

of pay dirt
in a single week.

Fred: Phew!
We are digging gold now, baby!

Narrator: Dustin feeds
the material into

their new de-rocker wash plant.

Dustin: This is it!
This is the bucket!

This is where I'm going
to get my nugget!

Look at all of those flakes!

Oh, there's so many of them!

I love it!

We are going to need
every bit we can get.

Narrator:
Fred weighs the results.

Seventeen.

**

oh! 18.9 ounces in 7 days.

Proud.

Proud of you, proud of
everybody that helped.

I'll tell you what,
it was really,

it's been a hard road to hold.

Narrator: Just over a month
into the season,

the Dakota boys have
their first success,

$30,000 worth of gold.

I think tonight
is a 3-beer night.

Good job, Fred!

**

narrator: Coming up...

Dustin:
If you work with Fred,

you're thinking about
leaving most of the time.

You're pissed off
about everything I say!

You would like me to talk to you
like that all of the time?

Narrator: Plus...

A first glimpse
of the Dakota boys'

death-defying new adventure.

**

narrator: In porcupine creek,
Alaska, rookie Dustin hurt

gets his first
lesson in gold panning.

Fred:
Watch this technique, here.

Isn't that more comfortable
using both hands?

It's k*lling you,
you can't not touch it.

No, no, I mean,
I mean, like that.

There you go.

Now you've got something going.

I don't know what I'm doing.

I'm starting to learn though.

Hey, you find something?

- Oh, there it is!
- Look at that!

Holy [Bleep]!

So that's why I'm here!

Bring it out here.

Come on, now.

**

narrator: The toughest challenge
for Dustin...

figure out how
to work with his dad.

How you feeling?
Very horrible.

I think it's the fever
that's getting to me mostly.

Narrator: Even running
a 101-degree fever

is no excuse for a day off.

Hey, I'll tell you what,
some of that dirt is looking

really good around
the corner there.

Yeah, I feel like the
walking dead right now.

**

[ laughs ]
I love it!

I feel good!

I was delirious, I was out
of my mind with fever.

He just had no sympathy.

I was his only worker
and that was it.

"No matter what happens to you,
Dustin, you have to work!"

**

[bleep]!

Wow, that's a big hit
right there.

I had a rock positioned just in
the wrong place inside my bucket

and I couldn't see it.

Absolute stupidity!

God!

There was a lot of stuff
that drove me nuts back then,

a lot of stuff.

I'm not sure what you want,
need to me to hold?

Now let me, wait, don't
move it until I...

I'm trying to get
this flushed with the top.

Don't be like that right now.

I'm just standing here holding
it, you're not saying nothing,

you're just walking
back and forth

is what you were doing
and you're not saying nothing.

I asked you to hold it.

What else do I got to say?

I wanted you to hold it
while I was trying to get

a pair of vice grips.

[Bleep]!

Fred's being a [Bleep].

If you work with Fred,
you're thinking

about leaving most of the time.

Fred doesn't mean it,

but the way he is can just
piss a person off sometimes.

I love him to death, but just
sometimes he can get to you.

You're pissed off
about everything I say!

You get all bent out of shape
before I say a word!

I am not being condescending.

I apologize if it sounds
like it is.

"What the hell are you doing?"

That does not sound
like condescending

bull [Bleep] to you?

What the [Bleep]?

You would like me to talk to you
like that all the time?

**

I'm not getting paid,
I'm k*lling myself, getting sick

and then you're going to
talk down to me, no.

**

narrator: After a night in
the nearby town of Haines,

Dustin is back.

I did a lot of thinking.

I had time to myself.

I had clean sheets
for the first time

and it gave me a lot
of time to think.

Narrator: He's come to
a decision about

his future at porcupine creek.

So...
I'm sorry, Fred.

Why?

I snapped.
You didn't deserve that.

I wish I could take it back.

I will be a little bit
more careful from now on.

Well, it's not even that.
It's just, you know...

I should have handled it better.

So I love you and, no,
it's just...

I love you too.

We've got a big,
big project out here.

Yeah, I know.
Oh, lord.

It's getting to me too.

**

come here.

Good to see you back.

Yeah, good to be back.

We were learning each other.

I think we were at least
seeing eye-to-eye.

Give it some go!

Narrator: Over the next month,
the Dakota boys

keep digging down
through the pay dirt,

trying to reach the bottom
of the waterfall.

We just kept thinking,
"just another 5 feet,

just another 5 feet,
and it's like a sickness almost.

I hope there's gold just
dripping off of that stuff,

so don't spill
a drop of it.

Dustin: I hope that this stuff

holds a lot of gold in it.

"I bet it's right there, just 5
more feet and that's it,

I bet it's right there!"

He said that 1,000 times.

Narrator: The Dakota boys work
long, hard days

and pass another milestone.

Since may, we've been trying
to get to 50 ounces.

If we can get 50 ounces,
we'll break even.

Twenty, thirty, fourty-six.

Phew, 50.7, yeah!

There's a lot of work
put into that.

We've still got time
to make a little bit more.

We've got to start working
on our second 50.

**

oh, we are getting into
some good stuff now.

Narrator: In mid-September,


Fred makes a discovery.

Hey, Dustin, check this out!

Something dramatic
has changed here.

See that gray stuff down
at the end of the water line,

way down there?

It's gone from 4 feet above
that water down there

to about 8 feet
above that water.

So it jumped 4 ft.

That probably means
that the bedrock

almost makes a bend right there.

You know what I think,
we might be close

to that waterfall area
right here.

Dare I say, glory hole?

I'm just going to sit here
and dig the rest

of this stuff tonight.

Watch them rocks, young man.

Sounds good to me.

He's digging the right spot
at the very end.

**

man, that stuff
is some hard stuff!

Narrator: The Dakota boys
work night and day

to process the gold-rich dirt
before the winter freeze hits.

Fred: More scratches

to try to get one bucket of
material out of there.

Dustin: Hey, Fred, the pump is
not pumping right now

on the de-rocker.

Fred: Oh, crap.

I'll be right there.

[ Shuts off engine ]

Looks like we busted
a seal, Fred.

[Bleep] [Bleep]!

Well if he can't fix a seal out
here, there ain't no damn way.

Narrator: Without water,
they can't mine.

That's the end of the season.

That's what it looks like.

Narrator: The Dakota boys
finished the season in profit

with $128,000
in gold.

But they know it could
have been more.

Dustin: We got into some
really good stuff.

There could have been
pots of gold in there!

We are going to just think
about it all winter long.

**

narrator: Coming up...

I've got to see what's at
the bottom of the hole.

This might be the biggest flood
ever to come down here.

Wow!

**

narrator: Returning for
their second season,

the Dakota boys find
the glory hole flooded.

Right there is 75 feet
of just pure water

that needs to be gone!

We are going to set up the pump.

Narrator: To get back down to
the rich pay dirt,

Dustin has come equipped.

Last year, we didn't have
the right equipment.

This year, we do.

Fire in the hole!

Fred: Oh, wow!

It's just solid snow
from the creek

all the way up to the top.

Narrator: The harsh winter has
left a dangerous snow pack

in the still-frozen
mountains above porcupine.

This might be the biggest
flood ever to come down here.

Fred flies over the area with
a geologist to assess the risk.

There's our hole,
right straight there below us.

You see this thing cheese
away your Levy?

And the stream itself will make
up all of your excavators,

wash them down into the river.

Wow!

Narrator: For the next month,
unable to drain the pit,

Fred and Dustin
are forced to work

the low grade material
that surrounds the hole.

We've been, and haven't got
a single turn of dirt yet.

We've got to get going.

I put in hundreds
and hundreds of hours

and get a little bitty pinch
or a handful of gold.

Narrator:
With no gold in 5 weeks,

the Dakota boys' season
is going from bad to worse.

**

oh, hell, what did I break?

Oh, crap!

Something in here is broken
and it's flopping up and down.

That thing right there, see it?

That's not supposed to that.

h*, right there!

Looks like the shaft is broken.

Narrator: The excavator tracks
run on idler wheels.

One of the idler wheel mounts
has sheered off.

Fred: Out here,
when something breaks,

you better get out
and do some work

or you're just going to go broke
sitting there waiting on parts.

So Fred decides,
I can make that.

I just thought,
"okay, this is above and beyond

the Fred hurt fix."

He's going to make this thing
right here out of steel

that we got
from the grizzly bars.

Sometimes you've got
to use material

for what you've
got to use it for.

Narrator: The 270's idler wheel
should rotate on an axle

in a steel mount.

Fred's fix has to be
precise enough

to fit into the chassis

and strong enough

to hold the 300-pound
idler wheel in place.

**

Fred decides to construct
the vital parts himself

out of scrapyard junk.

Fred: I'm going to work on this
thing nonstop

until I get it finished.

I think we've got it, I hope.

**

nice!
Good job, Fred!

Narrator: Improvising an axle
was easy.

Constructing a precision mount
out of recycled grizzly bars

requires serious
skill and ingenuity.

**

Fred's scrapyard copy
of the idler wheel mount

looks nothing like
the original.

Yes, it is!

We'll just find out if this
thing is going to do it for us.

Yep.
I hope it works.

All right.

Up, there.

Beautiful!

And it's sitting in there
just right, I like that.

Put the wheel on it and we're
going to find out real quick

if it's going to hold
or not, real quick.

Narrator:
Now, Fred's makeshift mount

has to hold the 300-pound wheel.

- There you go.
- Slowly, Fred!

That strap is not made
for weight!

I know it, not for that
kind of weight!

Whoa, what are you doing?

Give it a bump!

That's it!
Whoa, whoa!

Phew!
That's good!

Go ahead!

Whoa, right there, it's on,
it's on, it's on!

Hey! All right!
All right!

I'm psyched!

That was a good feeling
seeing that thing

just jump right on there,

just like it was
a saddle on a horse.

The idle wheel was definitely
a step up for Fred here.

I wouldn't have thought of it
and I give him kudos

for that one, he did great.

We'll be able to get
back to mining,

get some more of that gold.

Many of my fixes never worked,

but over a period of time, you
develop the ones that do work!

You get a little smarter
along the way.

Narrator: The 270 is fixed,

and, with the threat
of flood past,

the gold-rich hole is drained.

**

Dustin: We definitely are
driving down there

at the bottom of the hole now!

It's very tight down here.

Fred: All right!

Let's see what
we've got down here!

Narrator: Deep down,
Fred uncovers

a huge wall of smooth,
ancient bedrock.

Fred: This has the structure

of perhaps an old
ancient waterfall right here.

Being there and looking up
in that thing,

you knew that it had
to be there for eons

to be able to develop
something like that.

That waterfall
was something else.

To this day, I have no idea
how he knew it was there.

How could he possibly know
that this waterfall is here?

What he didn't know
is how deep it was.

Fred:
If it's got gold in the creek,

the waterfall is the best place
to look if it's possible

to get to the bottom of it.

We really, really hope that
there's some gold in the bottom.

I mean, we need this to happen.

I'm poor!

Narrator:
After 2 days of running dirt,

Fred weighs the results.



Narrator: Worth $30,000.

Gold, look at that!
Pretty big.

It's just an amazing
sensation to think

that you could just keep pulling

that type of gold
from right there.

Narrator: For another month,
the Dakota boys dig relentlessly

down into the ancient waterfall.

Dustin:
Fred's the most driven man

I've ever met in my life,

almost to a point
of obsession.

There's nothing
going to stop him.

Fred: The next bucket of dirt
is going to hit the big one!

Uh-oh, I think we are
[Bleep] into some hard [Bleep]

Here.

Yeah, we are absolutely
reaching the limits

of what we can
get out of here.

Oh, for crying out loud!

**

[bleep]!

**

that's it, we're done.

The material is just too hard

and this thing doesn't have
enough power to discontinue.

We are the limits of what
the equipment can do.

We can't go back
down there no more.

Narrator: 100 feet down,
Fred is forced to stop,

just 20 ounces short of their


but Dustin isn't ready
to give up just yet.

Dustin: I don't think we have
enough gold.

I've got one last thing
I can try, my dredge.

I might dredge the bottom
of the hole.

Narrator: Coming up...

This is what we were
looking for!

An exclusive look at the Dakota
boys' death-defying new mission

to find the ultimate
gold jackpot

hidden beneath
raging whitewater.

There's a little
nugget in there!

Are you serious?

Woo hoo hoo!

Clean that sucker out!

Woo!
Our time has come.

**

narrator: Just weeks from
the end of their second season,

Fred hits a layer of dirt too
tough for his excavator to dig.

I really hope this works.

Narrator: Still 20 ounces short
of their season target,

Dustin decides it's time
for a new approach.

Dustin: I bought a dredge,

it's our
last-ditch effort right now.

So I wanted to clean out
all of these giant pockets

that Fred was missing.

There was plenty of gold
in some of those areas

he couldn't get to
with an excavator.

Narrator: Crew member
melody tallis

helps Dustin operate the dredge.

Woo hoo!

Hey!
This is working great!

I want nuggets!

There's a lot of material stuck,
there's a bunch of cracks.

It's really cold.

Argh!
My whole body is numb right now.

I hope we kick butt!

**

narrator: To hit their


everything depends on the result
of the final dredge.

**

oh, lord.

Hey, guys.

Well, fellas,



Oh, we made it!

...and a little change.

Oh, my gosh!
Can you believe that?

Look at that!

Oh, I was so worried!

Narrator: 163 ounces...
then, worth $280,000.

I'm proud of you guys.

I'm proud of my team.

Excellent, guys!

Fellas, we've got it!

**

narrator: When the Dakota boys
return for a third season,

they make one last attempt

to reach the bottom
of the waterfall.

Man:
I'm not going any deeper!

This is not going to work.

That's it, fellas.

Epic fail!

There's no hope.

Narrator: Their only option is
to expand the pit south,

ever closer to porcupine creek.

We've got to get our way dug
back down to some real material.

Do what we've got
to do to get it.

Move a lot of dirt!

Narrator: Mining is getting more
and more dangerous by the day.

Woman: Oh, [Bleep]!

**

whoa, this thing
is raging right now!

Narrator: Then, when the river
level suddenly rises,

Fred is forced to act.

Fred: That creek is on
a rampage out there.

It's just too dangerous
for us down there.

It's not worth
getting somebody hurt.

We could have a catastrophic
failure down there.

No, no, no!

**

oh, [Bleep]!

**

at the end, mother nature
made the decision

that we were not to be
going to the bottom.

Three years,
it was heart-breaking.

**

sad to see it go,
but enough is enough.

I got to a point where I was
just sick of that place.

Narrator: During the winter,
Fred has

bought a second claim

high in the mountains,

and Dustin decides the future
of the Dakota boys

lies up there.

We are here.

I was looking for big,
coarse gold.

There's a few geologists
that went up there

and made some reports
of gold up there.

What I'm looking for
is the big payoff.

Yeah, we've got to get up
there and get gold.

Narrator: Along with fabricator
miners Wes and Paul Richardson.

I'm nervous as hell
right now.

Dustin flies a small scale
mining operation



Dustin: We are way up!

Way, way, way up!

No more trees!

Cahoon is untouched.

There was a glacier there up
until about 60 years ago.

We stuck two little excavators
on top of the mountain

and went to town, man.

**

yeah, look at this stuff!

That's pure sand!

Nice gravel in it too.

Yeah, that gravel
definitely looks different

than what we had over there.

There better be some
damn gold down here!

Something's got to
pay the bills!

This feels like bedrock,
but I can't tell.

I can't get past it.

If there's going to be gold,

it's going to be in this
busted bedrock right here.

That's all bedrock!

There's huge potential
for gold up there,

because the source
came from that direction.

This stuff is going
to have to be good,

not just a little bit better
than porcupine, but a lot.

I wanted to make
a bunch of gold.

So I was pretty
excited about that.

Whoa!

Narrator: After a week of
backbreaking effort

in the mountains,
Dustin returns

with two buckets of concentrate.

Welcome back!

Welcome back, guys!

Man!

Narrator: The future of
the cahoon plain

depends on these results.

Dustin: Come on, gold!

Show me something.

Make a believer out of me.

Come on!

Are we seeing anything at all?

Nothing.

I mean, nothing?

What the [Bleep]!

[Bleep] Does that mean?

This is insane.

**

[bleep]!

So much time and effort
and money

and to come back with nothing.

I think we had unrealistic goals
when we went up there,

so we got let down so hard
when we went to go home.

**

maybe we're stubborn people, but
Dustin and I just don't give up!

**

be safe!

Narrator: To find the source of
all of the porcupine gold,

Dustin returns to cahoon,
but this time,

to the very top of the mountain,

determined to get a core sample.

Let's get some drilling done.

**

all right, man.
I've got a sample over here.

They came back with
minuscule signs of gold

and that's not what
we were looking for.

So I just had to figure out
where else to go.

I wanted to go a place
where nobody had gone before.

**

narrator: Having failed to find
a pile of gold

at the bottom
of the waterfall,

and with the cahoon
creek claim a bust...

Clear this table off,
I've got something to show you.

It's important!

All right.

Fred has one last hope
for finding life-changing gold.

Let me tell you, McKinley creek
has got McKinley falls.

Back in 1916, a bunch of
little miners mined for 2 weeks

and got 4,500 ounces.

We have a waterfall that nobody
has ever seen before.

There is a possibility
of big time payoff.


would be pretty amazing.

Narrator: McKinley falls is just


In 1916, old timers blasted
through solid rock here

and built a huge flume
to divert the rushing waters.

The 4,500 ounces they then
found in the plunge pool

would be worth
over $5 million today.

Drawn by that legend of a


Dustin and Fred
take a trip to the falls.

All right, Fred.
All right.

We are going to get you
across this cable,

but first I've got to go across.

Narrator: A cable with
a 400-foot drop

is the only way across the creek
to the legendary waterfall.

**

boy, what they hell
are you getting me involved in?

I haven't tried so hard
to get somewhere in my life!

Now I am getting
a little nervous.

All right. That's the end,
I'm just about ready!

Come on over.

Woo!
Wow!

It's incredible up here.

How are you doing, Fred?

Keep going!

Man, what a view!

How in the hell are you
ever going to mine that?

Holy [Bleep]!
Fred, look at this!

**

I'm going to go
check out that cave.

**

Dustin: Them old miners were
something else, huh?

They used expl*sives
and hand drills.

It was an amazing feat.

Wow!

This is perfect!

There's gold in every one
of these pools!

The only problem is raging
water, and that's a big deal!

Fred: Difficult to get here,
you can't get equipment in here.

Vertical cliffs, powerful water.

It presents a lot of challenges.

This is doable.

It's just going to take
the right people

and the right
equipment to do it.

I've got to figure out
what that is and who that is.

It's a hell of a job!

Let's see if I can do it.

There's a possibility
there is a huge treasure

sitting in the bottom
of that plunge pool.

This could be huge.

I'm going to mine a waterfall!

**

**

narrator: Now, the Dakota boys
are set to return

in their own brand new series!

Fred:
This is going to be our year.

This is definitely
going to be our year.

Narrator:
With a Maverick crew...

Man: We are the only rednecks
crazy enough to do this!

Narrator:
And a hard-a*s investor.

I gave you $50,000.

Is there gold here,
or is this b.S.?

There's gold all in this creek,
we haven't gotten to it yet

because this is
some of the hardest

[bleep] To get to on the earth!

Narrator:
Fred and Dustin take on the
hostile Alaskan wilderness...

Oh!
Dustin!

If you're scared of dying,
you're never going to live!

Narrator: And a raging
glacial torrent.

Woo hoo!

Whoa!

Pull! Pull, pull,
pull, pull, pull!

Narrator: Join them on a
high-stakes treasure hunt...

Find that gold, man!

I hear that!

Narrator: For millions
of dollars in gold.

Yeah!
Woo hoo!

You found gold!

**

narrator:
"Gold rush white water."