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What you got, man?
My $1 million view, man--
Ooh.
--right at the slide, bro.
Look at that.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Gold diver Dustin Hurt has returned to Haines
in the offseason after record rainfall
caused a tragic landslide.
That's hot.
Man, I didn't know you could see that slide from here.
That is a monster slide, too.
That looks horrible.
Look what happened just 200 yards down the road,
three hours later, bro.
Oh, wow.
Just tear that road right up, huh?
CARLOS MINOR: Three hours later, man.
DUSTIN HURT: That's crazy, man. Wow.
DUSTIN HURT (VOICEOVER): With what happened down here,
makes me afraid of what happened up there.
So I need to get up there and get eyes on it.
We got to find out if everything slid off the damn hill.
The mine site might be just completely obliterated.
We need to get up there.
Well, if we still got all that gear up there,
we can have another season.
NARRATOR: Last season, McKinley Creek gave Dustin a record gold
total worth over $100,000.
DUSTIN HURT: And I'm happy with that.
NARRATOR: If his camp has survived,
there's every chance that the once-in-a-century
flood washed a massive haul of gold down the mountain.
DUSTIN HURT: So how in the hell are
we going to get up this hill?
The flood, it destroyed a whole bunch of stuff,
but it also moved a lot of gold.
There is a lot of snow up there right now, man.
CARLOS MINOR: I have a idea of how to get up there.
I'm pretty sure you're gonna like it.
- All right, man. - We're doing this, man.
Here's a surprise, brother.
What'd you get?
Something that you never thought I would have.
I'll be damned!
Holy cow, man.
Damn, that's a pretty nice machine you got there, man.
CARLOS MINOR: Yeah, dude.
You're sure about this?
It's NASCAR on snow, dude.
Dude.
DUSTIN HURT: All right, man.
If that's our way up, that's our way up.
You want to gear up and try to get up that hill?
Yeah, rock and roll, brother.
NARRATOR: It's a 36-mile journey from Haines to McKinley Creek.
Dustin and Carlos will get as close as they can by road,
then it's a 20-mile snowmobile trek to the mine site.
DUSTIN HURT: I owe it to these guys.
They've been loyal to me.
They've saved my life before.
It's been a long journey, and we're gonna hit it big.
We just haven't yet.
We have more snow than we've ever seen here before.
Hopefully, it didn't crush everything.
We're gonna head up the hill.
It's a dangerous route, but we think we can do it.
With the help of Carlos's machine,
hopefully, we can get up there.
Here we are.
Ready for this?
Yeah, man.
Let's do this, brother.
There's really no other options.
I have to do what I have to do to get up there, ensure that we
get another season out of this.
Now, you just stay on that side.
Let's keep the balance frickin' even.
OK.
It starts!
Don't kill me, man.
No, dude!
Straight through, straight through.
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Come on, man, hit the [BLEEP] gas!
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NARRATOR: Dustin Hurt is halfway through his 36-mile mission
from Haines to his remote mountain
camp at McKinley Creek.
He wants to get his eyes on his camp
to see if there's anything left and hopefully find gold
below the frozen waterfall.
[BLEEP].
It's not moving, man.
It's just not moving.
The engine's going hard, but it's not moving.
What do you think is gonna be wrong with it, man?
I have no idea.
You see anything?
No.
I don't know-- nope.
Oh, you are not going to like this, man.
Look at that.
CARLOS MINOR: Man.
Come on, bro.
That is your drive belt. This is the only thing moving us.
I can't even think of how to fix that.
If we tried to walk out of here, we'd get
out of here in about two days.
Yeah.
Snow like this dude--
yeah, dude, look at this, man.
There is no way in the world we can walk out of here.
No way.
Embarrassing as it is, man, we got the sat phone, man.
I'm gonna to have to call somebody to come and get us.
You remember Jag, right?
Yeah, the pilot?
Yeah, the helicopter pilot Jag.
He's in town.
He's working the other side of the river.
Let's make the call, dude.
There you go.
Got a sat phone.
We've got a helo pilot, that we know personally, that's out
here shuttling skiers up and down the mountain,
and he's literally just a stone throw away.
Hey, man, we're in business.
We got it.
You got ahold of him?
NARRATOR: Dustin Hurt and Carlos Minor
are stranded 18 miles from Haines with
a broken snowmobile drive belt.
Not only can they send him out,
he's got a sling that he could pick this thing up for us,
so it's not stuck out here.
Awesome, bro.
It might be only a few minutes,
so let's get everything ready to go and make
sure that everything's strapped down
and ready to get out of here.
Got you, brother.
I can hear him, man.
Here he comes.
He's gonna drop us some slings,
and we're gonna tie this thing up and get it out here.
Got it!
Make sure it doesn't get hung up.
CARLOS MINOR: All right, got it-- got it on this side!
I'm good!
All right, we got to duck down.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hook us up!
CARLOS MINOR: Yeah!
Ah, [BLEEP]!
DUSTIN HURT: Just focus!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
CARLOS MINOR: Woo-who!
You got it, Jag!
Yeah!
Woo!
Well, hey, Jack, thanks for picking us up, man.
You saved our ass today.
But we're gonna have to figure out how to get back up there.
Did you think about snowboarding?
How do you feel taking a helo ride up there
and snowboarding down, man?
I can do it.
If you're in, I'm in.
CARLOS MINOR: Let's go for it.
Let's rock and roll it, man.
NARRATOR: After failing on the snowmobile,
Dustin and Carlos decide to change plans.
They'll get dropped above McKinley Falls and snowboard
one mile down to their camp.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Thanks for saving our lives out there
and saving our snowmobile.
And we'll see you guys early in the morning.
Things start at sunrise around here.
All right.
We'll be back in the morning.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Woo!
DUSTIN HURT: Man, that was crazy!
So much for making it up on snowmobiles, huh?
Can you believe that just happened?
I'm just glad we're out of there.
We were unlucky to get broken down and lucky enough
to get rescued.
There you go.
DUSTIN HURT: Jag to the rescue.
Let's get out of here.
Ooh, man.
Tomorrow might beat you up.
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