"On this "gold rush"..." "Somebody wanted my truck more than I did because they stole it." "The miners dig deep." "Here's the deal." "There's a lot of people that, um..." "And reveal the secrets of this season." "I don't know if I should show that." "How parker's crew faces life and death." " Chris is down." " Chris." "I thought he was dead." "That hurt, damn." "Doumitt's wife has cancer." "Look at you, hey." "I was fighting back tears that day." "How the beets family relaxes." "And how a simple piece of paper..." "Destroyed tony's season." "Tony is not good with paperwork." "And how a bare-knuckle fight..." "I don't know why it got so violent." "Tore the hoffman crew apart." "Somebody takes a swing..." "Let go of me now!" "Things change." "I don't want to be judged on this one mistake that I made." "They wanted to, like..." "Trey!" "Trey!" "Kill each other." "And as this epic season comes to an end, one of the key "gold rush" miners is finally quitting. captions paid for by discovery communications." "Any miner who tells you they know for sure what's in the ground is either a liar or a fool." "Hey, guys, this is gonna be our promised land." "At the start of the season, todd hoffman turns his back on the klondike after mining over $5 million in gold and moves his entire operation 2,000 miles south to oregon." "It's easy to mine, no overburden, your home state in the usa." "High bar was great." "It was the best thing we'd ever seen." "We prospected it." "We got the most gold we've ever had on a prospect." "I mean, nuggets." "Big, chunky gold." "It was great." "Todd set a very ambitious goal." "We're on a mountain, it's got nuggets." "Okay, we've never even seen nuggets like these." "I want 5,000 ounces." "I don't care where you're at, that's a damn hard one to get, especially on a new piece of ground." "I want to see a miracle on this mountain." "3.55 ounces." " That's it?" " That's it." " Where's the rest of it?" " I wish there was more." "After my first cleanup or two, then I realized," ""dude, we're in trouble." "We're in trouble at the high bar."" "the claim owners were up there and would tell us where to dig." "You got good stuff right here, the blonde." "Nothing in this red stuff in our experience." "And then what's that down below?" "Down below is another good pay layer." "Anything that's this rocky has been great for us." "We're doing what they said and they'd mined here before." "If the claim owner got that much gold before you, and now we're mining in the same area, you should get similar results." "Gold doesn't jump." "Todd takes his concerns to the claim owners." "We're not used to not seeing something in the box, you know." "That's the way the high bar mines." "This is some of the stuff that we pulled." "You hit these really rich deposits every now and then, but you're going to hit quite a few of them." "Where is the gold?" "That's what everybody asked." "I don't know." "It's a mystery." "We have the proven results of what we did." "What should have happened on their part was them doing some testing before they came up." "We did a test last year and got 1.7 ounces out of 150 yards, I think it was." "And you know that was a little over an ounce a hundred." "Then, early this season, he does a second round of testing." "Freddy went on a treasure hunt." "He hit the bottoms of the creeks." "So basically it's turned us from miners into prospectors." "He hit the tops of the mountains." "By the time freddy was done, it was like swiss cheese." "One color." "It's turning out to be way worse than I thought." "The geology there was different than anywhere else I'd seen." "What a glacier does, it can take a very rich deposit and it's the world's biggest bulldozer and it pushes through." "And it also picks up all other types of material as it goes along, and sometimes it waters it down." "The gold was spotty, too spotty." "It would be good in one spot, and then nothing, nothing, nothing." "Who knows?" "There could be a pot of gold on that hill." "We just couldn't afford to keep looking for it." "There is gold there." "It's definitely not enough to support what we've got going on, not anywhere near." "You know, he shot for the moon, he only hit the fence." "This season is gonna be different." "I lost my grandpa, the man who taught me how to mine." "And honestly I don't know what it's gonna be like without him." "With my grandpa passing away, it made me think about why we're doing this, and if this is really what I'm gonna be doing." "Is that all right?" "That's fine." "Ashley being there helped with a lot of stuff." "She gave me somebody to talk to that had a different perspective and definitely helped me stay out of the darkness," "I'd like to say." "Just two months earlier during their last visit together, grandpa john gave parker one final piece of sage advice." "Parker, I don't... particularly," "I wish you to have billions of dollars like bill gates, but I do want you to have a wonderful feeling for someone who becomes part of your life." "That's all that's important." "Ashley and I met in a bar in australia." "She was a bartender in some little town where I was bumming around." "This is of our trip from down south of australia, where I live." "We went to the great barrier reef." "Look at that." "We spent five days on a boat and we travelled around the islands." "We got to go snorkeling and fishing and just walk the beaches when nobody else was around." "It was pretty amazing." "I don't know if I should show that." "Ashley came up." "I think she was a huge benefit to the whole crew, the whole camp." "Always in a good mood, always smiling, always happy." "And that became almost a contagious attitude through the camp." "So how's it going over there anyways?" "The all-star truck crews keeping up?" " Trying." " Hell yeah." "She turned out to be a great girl." "She worked hard." "She didn't have to, you know what I mean?" "He didn't bring her there to work, but she was there." "She pitched in, she helped out." "I'm loving this." "Every time parker and ashley were together, the cameras were out." " What's up?" " Hiya." "What the" " hungry?" " Starving." "Me eating lunch has never been anything special, and now all of a sudden, ashley is here and me eating lunch with her is some big event." "It's just cheeseburgers." "They look pretty good." "I had a huge amount of reservations about having ashley come out to the claim." "When they want..." "A private time together and you have a camera sitting right there, no bueno." ""Gold rush." you guys and your no, I'm famous because I'm an hole." "No, the hole came first." "It'd be really nice for that to just be, you know, something between her and I that's not on national tv." "The big thing was to get parker and ashley to kiss on camera." "There was actually..." "It was known as the big kiss competition going on." "The first guy to get it on camera got a bottle of whiskey, so it was relentless." "Come on, guys, just one kiss." "Of course I held out, you know," "I can't let anybody cash in on that." " Don't!" " What?" "We don't want ed to collect the money." "I never saw them kiss actually." "No." "Yeah, I don't know." "This could be it, this could be it." "Off, bud." "He fought the kiss to the very last day." "By the final gold weigh, ashley is determined to help the camera men." "He's not gonna do it, so." "Yeah." " Look at that." " Stop it." " It's inside." " Stop it." " What?" " Stop it." "I know what you're trying to do." " Do it." " No." " Why?" " Nope." "Why?" "Because I won't give it to them." "You know, there are some things out there that are just best to be private." " Why?" " Because." " What do you mean?" " I said so." "It's not happening." " Why?" " Because." "Okay." "Well, that bottle of whiskey is still sitting on the shelf and up for grabs because parker made sure to not let that happen." "They never did get it." "Coming up..." "Me and trey never hit it off." "Dave and him do not get along." "They're like oil and water." "This wall is gonna have to come down, plain and simple." "He set me up." "And that's the sneaky way he was." "He's ready for the river." "The biggest challenge with the whole second dredge move is the river." "I've only ever seen my dad in, like, a canoe in a lake." "To realize tony's ambitious dream, he and gene built an entire fleet of tugboats and barges." "It's floating." "Whoo!" "I think I want to go fishing." "Tony may have been a bit overenthusiastic with what he figured he can get done this year." "I went up to the yukon to move the second dredge." "And the reality of it is, all I did was build tugboats and barges all summer." "I think he completely underestimated it." "You know, bit off way more than he can chew." "Tony brands his fleet with the beets' family colors." "But it all starts to go wrong the moment his main tug fails its stability test." "I don't think having a tippy tugboat is a good thing." "I didn't think much of the kid commando and still really don't." "As fall approaches, tony finally has the right ship to move dredge number two..." "His 60-foot power barge." "Yeah, I felt good about building a power barge, putting it in the water, putting it together." "And making it work without it having a bunch of problems." "5 months and $2 million later, tony's ready to move his dredge when bureaucracy catches up with him." "You have to have this piece of paper." "And without it, you're not doing anything." "Tony is not good with paperwork, that's why minnie handles as much of it as she can." "A land use permit, never even thought about it." "So I mean, I can say it's my fault, but if I didn't..." "If I knew about it and didn't do it, then it was my fault." "But I didn't have any idea." "My dad spells phone with an 'f', and I don't mean f-o-n-e," "I mean f-h-o-n-e." "Why don't you do it?" "You're kidding me, right?" "Safety trumps everything in the united states." "This season, 316 mining has a new sheriff..." "Safety officer trey poulson." "I've got the solution... switch packet the whole way down just like a mountain pass." "Trey's responsibility is safety." "And trey literally has the power to make sure that everybody's following the rules." "Todd gave me full reign." "That did kind of, I think, rub some guys the wrong way." "Me and trey never hit it off." "From the very beginning, there was friction, there was tension between us." "Dave and him do not get along." "They're like oil and water." "So these are the lockout tagout clamps that we use to terminate the power to the entire plant." "In order to energize any motor on the plant, we've got to pull each individual lock." "Just pull them off, guys." "Nobody can take that lock off other than you, so that way, you're safe when you're working on the plant." "We can't fire the generator." "We've got a lock left on there, no key." "Who is it?" "Dave." "Dave's a foreman." "Dave should have his key." "There was one day I left my lock on and we had to cut it off." "I was embarrassed." "If somebody was messing up, you just had to call them out." "By mid-season, trey has reason to set dave straight." "Nice." "Nice, hunter." "Me and hunter built the wall." "It was my design." "We were gonna have that feeder up on there and that weighs a ton and it shakes." "So you're gonna want your base to be super safe." "When I started that wall," "I didn't have as good a footing as I really needed." "And so, as we started to stack with the weight behind that wall, it started to tip." "If you come around here, you can see we're bulged out right underneath our load point." "We need to make sure everything is square before we get going." "Geez." "He set me up." "He went to the camera guys." "This wall is gonna have to come down, plain and simple." "The tv crew was the first to know about the wall." "They were standing with me when I spotted it." "The whole thing could fall and come down." "I think we did a piss-poor job." "Did you tell these guys?" "That's the part that..." "That bothers me." "And that's the sneaky way he was." "Next, the two adversaries are forced to work together on the settling pond." "Let's grab some rocks." "And you will just tie them around the bottom." "I was in the canoe to secure the baffles." "Grab that rope if you need." "Okay, trey." "Dave has to secure the rocks to the base of the screen to keep it in place." "Dave." "I don't want to really go swimming." "No, not in that stuff." "Look at him." "He's ready for the river." "When he came back to shore," "I don't know what I was thinking, but I tried to help him around, pull the front of the canoe up, up the bank so he could get out." "Got a little water." "That's got to feel good." "He was pissed." "You could see, he was angry when he hit the water." "But I don't think he ever expected one of his teammates to put him in the drink." "I don't know why trey did that." "I was genuinely trying to help." "It pissed me off." "From that point forward, I just felt like there was no reason to interact or work with trey." "Coming up..." "One of you has gotta stop." "Let go of me now!" "I don't know why it got so violent." "Come on, dave, let's finish it." " Look at him, he's taunting me." " No, he's not." "I punched dave, laid him out." "Is that your best shot?" "The great dave turin embarrassed me that day." "I'm gonna kill him." "After a disastrous start in oregon that delivered only 200 ounces of gold, todd gets a second change to salvage his mining season on new ground high in the colorado rockies." "Freddy threw me a lifeline, man, and I grabbed on with both hands and away we went, man." "The snow on the mountains up there." " Saw it coming in." " Yeah." "We've got maybe five or six weeks to get everything done." "To mine 1,000 ounces before winter, they split in two." "Freddy and trey at the fairplay mine, and dave running sacramento creek." "There was a lot of pressure put on us." "And then the fact that we split the team added that much more pressure." "The competition between the two claims kind of sparked off right away." "Dad, what did we get on fairplay?" "120.2." "Yeah!" "So what did we do at sacramento?" "27.4." "Some people take things too serious and they get their feelings hurt." "Competition sometimes can breed excellence, sometimes it can breed trouble, too." "There was a day when fairplay called and they had lost a loader." "I'll go ahead and shut down, send dave down there with a loader." "He ain't gonna be happy, though." "This is bull" "I was a little bit upset that we shut our operation down." "Sometimes you've gotta sacrifice to keep the mother ship running, and right now the mother ship is fairplay." "He pulls in, he sees our plant down." "I probably had an attitude." "He was pissed, everybody could tell he was pissed." "I have no idea what I said, I don't know what triggered him." "He said, "'f' you."" "he came at me with his arm cocked." "I swatted his hard hat off his head and went after him." "The minute somebody takes a swing, things change." "Let go of me now" "I'm gonna kill him right now." "Let me get him." "Knock it off." "It all went downhill fast." "I couldn't stop it." "I punched dave, laid him out." " Is that your best shot?" " Get down here right now." "I don't know why it got so violent." "Trey, one of you just stop." " Please." " Just walk away." "They were, like, wanted to, like, kill each other." "Let me at him!" " Hey, knock it off." " -trey." "Bring the fury down." "Bring the fury down." "Bring the fury down." "That was an emotional day." "When two of your best friends are trying to beat the out of each other." " Where are they?" " Dave left." " Dave?" " They okay?" "Finally got him to walk away." "Give me a ride, I'm done," "I'm fucking going home." " Come on, dave!" " No, you coward." "Look at him." "Look at him, taunting me." "No, he's not." "As I'm leaving, he starts taunting me again." "He calls me a coward in front of all my friends and I went back at him for another shot." " Dave." " Get the..." " Dave." " No, no, no." " Trey." "Trey." " Come back." "Get him up." " Trey." " Come on." " No, stop." " Trey." "He had a lot of chances to walk away." "And if you're gonna be the leader of men, you've gotta make decisions that are more mature than stand there." "You've gotta walk away sometimes." "Me and you have been friends forever, please." "The great dave turin embarrassed me that day, and I love that guy to death." "Here's the deal." "There's a lot of people that, um..." "There's a lot of people that respect me, there's a lot of people who respect my work ethic, there's a lot of people that respect the profession that I've chosen." "And I don't want to be judged on this one mistake that I made." "I should have never put myself in that position, and that's the thing that I apologize for." "They say that everybody has a bad day." "I think, for the doumitts, that bad day was probably the end of February to about mid-July." "One month before the start of the mining season, chris doumitt shares some devastating news." "Doumitt's wife has cancer." "I have to get home." "She's going for surgery and they just start taking parts off until they run out of parts, I guess." " I'm not sure." " I'm sorry." "Sharon, my wife, found out that she had cancer." "But not just cancer, two different kinds of very aggressive cancer." "A less than 10% survival rate of four to five years, but she's pretty honored." " Yeah." " Rough winter." "A rough year for all of us." "She had but just a few months, that's why I really didn't want to go." "She kept insisting, "parker needs you up there." "I have my sisters." "They'll take care of me, go."" "it was tough." "The toughest year pulling out of the driveway was this year, because I thought I was leaving behind a dying wife." "Chris doumitt." "But sharon's cancer isn't their only health problem." "Spinal surgery delays chris' arrival in the klondike." "Sharon is dealing with this cancer and the chemo and all this." "At the same time, I'm dealing with a bad back." "It's been getting worse over the last few years to the point where I could hardly walk." "How are you doing, kid?" "My god." "Good to see you." "They finally let me off my leash." "I wasn't sure I was coming back this year." "And we found a doctor, miracle worker." "And it's great, I feel like a kid again." "Then, like most men, chris pushes himself too far, too fast." "So how's your girl running?" " Flawless." " Yeah?" "Yeah." "It's amazing." "Poor doumitt is doing the cleanup all by his lonesome." "Damn, mitch!" "Chris is down." "Chris." "Chris!" "When I saw doumitt laid out next to that truck, that's probably one of the most serious moments" "I've had up at the mine." "That was full-blown panic right there," "I thought he was dead." "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "Hang on." "You all right?" "Damn." "I was really worried." "Yeah, I thought he'd broke his back." " You hit your head?" " No, my..." " You hit your back?" " No, I slipped off, my foot got caught underneath the tank and I went over the bed." "Don't get up." "No, no, I won't." "Yeah, I'm good." " Are you sure?" " Yeah." "It's sore, but..." " Do you want a helicopter ride?" " No." "First of all, I feel fortunate that I didn't break my leg or I didn't damage my back, because of the surgery." "But it's embarrassing." "Doumitt was laying on the ground and he's still holding his cigar, hadn't dropped it, and just, like, ready to take a puff." "And we asked him, "dude, why didn't you throw your cigar down"" "and try and grab ahold of yourself?"" "he was like, "no, I'm good."" "slippery." "I thought you were dead over here." "No such luck." "You're stuck with me for a while yet." "But this season, chris suffers a loss that affects parker's entire crew." "I lost the one thing that cannot be replaced." "None of us could believe it." "Yeah, that was bad." "Unreal." "Everything I have is gone." "While we were doing our cleanup yesterday, apparently somebody wanted my truck more than I did because they stole it." "With his wife battling cancer at home, chris doumitt suddenly finds himself stranded in the yukon." "I lost everything, I lost all my cash." "I lost my wallet, driver's license, credit cards, health-insurance cards." "I lost my passport." "Without a passport, I couldn't get home." "If sharon had a turn for the worst, I was stuck." "The guy that took it..." "If he took it because he wanted it, I hope it breaks down on him and he doesn't get a penny for it." "If he needed it, I hope it serves him as well as it did me." "You know, it's a thing." "Things can be replaced." "Everybody was looking for it, the whole town knew about it." "Parker got on social media and got the word out." "It's a unique-looking truck, so hopefully they won't get far." "It's been a heck of a year." "For one month, chris struggles with no truck and no way to get back to the lower 48, if he needs to look after sharon." "But the mounties always get their man." "All right, so where's my truck?" "My goodness." "Fortunately I did get my passport back." "It was still in the truck, but everything else was gone." "We guess it was about 2,000 miles from here." "The insurance totaled the truck." "It was just too expensive to get it back to me in the yukon." "And they just wrote it off as a loss." "The insurance money on chris' truck is put to good use." " Hey." " What's up, dad?" "It's good to see you." "Hey, man." "Long time no see, buddy." "Look at you, hey." "I like your haircut." "Hi, we're the bald family, yeah." "I'm mr." "Bald, this is mrs." "Bald" " look what we bought you, papa." " My word." " There's your new truck." " My gosh, baby." "That is absolutely gorgeous." "She had bought me a new truck." "And between her and jason, they were able to bring it up." "That is beautiful." "Sorry you didn't get to pick it yourself." "I think you did a wonderful job." "Wow." "I feel like I won a game show." "You did." "Here's this beautiful, shiny, new truck being delivered by a wife that had gone through what she had gone through and had changed so much physically that..." "Happy and sad at the same time." "At the end of the season, sharon doumitt opens up about her fight with cancer." "My reaction when I first saw chris is just hugging him." "I just wanted to feel myself up against him and, you know, just be happy that I was alive." "And he was happy and so, no, it was lovely." "When I did see her, I don't get real emotional, but I know I was fighting back tears that day." "I really was." "So how are you doing, baby?" "I'm doing really well." " Yeah?" " Yes." "Finished with all the treatments now." "I don't have to do radiation." " That's cool." " That's right." "Well, no more excuse about, "I've gotta do my hair now."" "No, no, not anymore." "Well, for a while anyway." " For a while?" " Yes." "All righty." "Check this out." "This is where I work, this is the gold room." "It didn't take long for her to get another illness that I don't think she's gonna beat this one." "She has gold fever." "My gosh, look." "I thought that was a rock." "It looks like a tooth, doesn't it?" "I know." "It looks like my gold teeth with the filling in it." "I had the best time in that gold room." "I think I stayed in there the whole time." "This is a real cook, when you know you're cooking gold." "My gosh, can you imagine that?" "You can't, like, overcook it?" " No." "No." " I'm a good overcooker." "Yeah, I know." "You went for years thinking the smoke alarm was a timer." "A year ago, sharon found out she had two very aggressive cancers." "Very low odds of survival..." "Less than 10% survival." "Here we are, a year later, and I thought I would be gone." "And I'm here." "And not just here, but I'm cancer free." "Hey, the good wife." "The good wife." "I picked what I wanted." "Thanks for taking care of mom, too, bud and bringing her up here." "I don't want you to leave." "I know." "You've just been a joy." " You guys hitting the road?" " Yes." "It was wonderful to meet you." "It was wonderful to meet you, too." "Thanks for all the help, both of you guys." "My health now is amazing." "My hair is growing back." "Chris says it feels like puppy hair." "He says I smell like a puppy, too." "This whole season, I lost a lot." "I lost a lot of different things, but at least I got to keep the best of it all." "You know, I still have my wife and you can't beat that." "Michael fights for fun." "So what is your specialty?" "That's awesome." "How about you suiting up?" "You seemed to enjoy it." "This season, tony beets fails to move his second dredge an inch." "But dredge number one turns out to be an awesome gold-mining machine..." "And brings tony within 137 ounces of his 2,000-ounce, $2.4 million gold." "Dredge one this year, we made two and a half times what we did last year in ounces." "We pulled in more gold than the hoffmans did all year." "But it's monica who takes the beets family over the finish line." "So how much gold is in there?" "The combined total between the dredge and monica is 2,176 ounces." "My plant, in the short amount of time we ran, pulled out over 300 ounces." "And if it wasn't for that, we wouldn't have hit 2,000 ounces." "It does a mama good when she sees that." "Tony's got unfinished business for next season." "So, doumitt, what's our season total?" "You ready for this one?" "How about 4,311 ounces?" "For the fourth year in a row, parker schnabel smashes his season goal, with 4,311 ounces..." "A haul worth over $5 million." "Rick and mitch and brandon and all these guys, chris doumitt, when we set a goal, they really want to hit it, they want to exceed it." "Parker and I have mined a lot of gold together, over 11,400 ounces." "That's $13 million." "Wow." "You guys did a good job this year." "I'm damn proud of all you guys." "And, rick, that all is thanks to you." "Hey, man, thank you." "Rick didn't even start sluicing until about halfway through the season and still managed 1,200 ounces out of the indian river this year." "But in the off season, parker and rick's partnership will be put to the ultimate test." "Rick and I are taking on a big, new adventure that may be the dumbest thing I ever do." "Rick and I have been planning a trip up the chilkoot trail to go from skagway all the way to dawson..." "The exact same track that they did 118 years ago." "We're going to go and follow in the footsteps of the original gold rush stampeders." "Six days for us to hike over basically a mountain range." "And then it's like 150 miles worth of lakes." "And then 400 miles of river." "It's a bit of a testament to what the old timers went through." "It's a bit of a testament to what my grandpa went through." "And as long as rick's still in..." "You guys know me, right?" "I've never hiked a day in my life, and I think canoes are stupid." "But I'm about to do something right out of my wheelhouse." "We're making it." "We're making it to dawson city, one way or another." "I hope I don't die." "Stay tuned!" "1, 100.77." "After striking out in oregon, todd hoffman hits a home run in colorado." "This is the best ground" "I've ever been on, including the klondike." "And you know what?" "I'm not gonna give up my dream and my freaking dream is 5,000 ounces." "There at fairplay, if we can get going early next year and run until the snow kicks us out again, who knows?" "The sky is the limit." "I'm gonna move monster red to colorado." "And we're gonna get 5,000 ounces." "I'm gonna kick parker's ass," "I'm gonna kick freaking tony's ass." "And that's how it's gonna go down." "And in the end, the fat guy is gonna get the last laugh." "But for seven years, todd's band of brothers has depended on one man." "Dave turin is coming up to advise us." "Let's find some gold." "And put an angle iron on here." "Cut all the excess weight off," "I don't think we need this." "What do you think, james?" "I think it'll work great." "Dave's a genius." " It works good, man." " Yeah, dude, looks good." "And now that era is over." "I'm done mining with 316 mining and todd hoffman." "I want to be in charge of my future, work with people that I like and respect, because then I'll make the plan, I'll call the shots."