Four Day Trip to the Dream Claim - High Banking in the Nugget Pit

[@jasonlacasse2724]

Mr Hurd. I would love to sincerely thank you for your inspiration to pan for gold, gem hunt and rock hound. My wife and I have been doing a little bit of gem hunting for a few years now. I’ve always wanted to pan for gold. I live up north in New Hampshire and there’s plenty of quarts veins and to my recent knowledge a baker’s dozen of gold mines. So thank you for your charismatic adventures. By far the most fun and knowledgeable Chanel to watch.

[@Drifter6942]

Good job Dan !! You proved that just because you are gold mining, does not mean you will find gold every time ! You kept it real like all of your other videos, and that is what keeps us subscribers coming back for more of your content. Good Work !! Plus I am looking forward to the next couple videos on this trip to see how you guys do

[@davidoconn9352]

It's kind of like fishing you never know what you'll catch... and even when you go home with nothin' you still had a good time doing it! I had fun watching it. Thank you Dan for another entertaining video!

[@josephbradley1781]

It’s nice to see that even the smart, hardworking and just plain lucky guys don’t always find the Gold. It shows us part time prospectors to keep at it even when we don’t find much.

[@rogerdudra178]

Yeah, I can observe HARD WORK for hours.

[@alwaddle7390]

Thanks once again for an honest, fun video. Amazing that in just few feet, the gold can stop or change direction. Keep up your enthusiastic attitude, that's why I watch you! Al

[@takinastabatit]

Eeee, I have been itching for more content, thank yoooouuuuuu! Can't wait for the rest

[@josephpk4878]

Lay down a section of galvanized steel fencing, throw a couple old tarps over it, set your rig on top, high bank your material... when you're done, run a length of cable through the fence at the opposite end and use the winch to roll the fence, with the tailings, right back to where it came from.

[@Danhurd]

great idea

[@robtathome]

Dry days make good days that much better. I watch either way.

[@MisterUnconcerned]

That's the reality of any hobby that involves prospecting. Some days all you get is a firm kick in the junk.

[@paoloriente5233]

Dan don't worry to bring us content without gold, that's the life of the gold prospector! And is beautiful seeing that from you, is like being on the river love that

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Great day out! 🌟⛏️ find it! Great job @Dan

[@nevadadan5937]

You are exactly right Dan. That is the reality of prospecting. People have the word prospecting confused with the word mining. Act of searching for gold and the act of recovering gold. I'm happy to see one of our gold superstars so how hard it really is. Cheers!

[@709badwolf]

wow! that was fun! ,,, we could almost smell the pine trees! thanks again for bringing us all along! 👍

[@joschmidt4951]

Thanks Dan, you just showed the absolute truth about gold mining. Enjoy watching you keep up the good work and stay health and safe.

[@alexkaring]

Agreed, you've got to show the reality and gold isn't a guarantee. It wouldn't be an adventure without the possibility of failure.

[@OneMorePan]

Woo hooo! I love the videos with Pete and Mikey. Nice to see ya get out with em every spring. Can’t wait for the next video. Such a exciting place! Rock on Mr. Dan! 🤘😁🤘⛰⛏🇨🇦

[@silverback5033]

Thanks for showing the reality of prospecting/rockhounding, you can spend a lot of time searching without great results, that’s reality. Kept Safe & Keep Rockin

[@lylehopson9573]

Thank you Mr. Hurd for sharing these great gold adventures and your knowledge of this amazing Hobby

[@dannydan8695]

Love watching these videos. It's like I was prospecting from the convenience & comfort of my couch.

[@claykemper7193]

Dan, you are an amazing dude. I even recall that very difficult gold mining experiment fail that you shrugged off as a useful lesson. Great stuff!

[@MikkellTheImmortal]

A zero gold day is all too common. My fellow viewers really need to keep in mind that gold is an extremely rare element and all the best knowledge and equipment won't find it for you. I personally appreciate you taking my on your journeys prospecting for gold and stones. I've become mostly disabled from workplace injuries and neglect from our government and medical system so this is the only way for me to see the wilds I love so much. Please keep it up as long as you can and give the nay sayers no time. I always enjoy the adventure and hope to be able to get out there with you some day

[@dointh4198]

TBH it was nice sitting in front of the computer watching you guys doing the work. Could do this all day long.

[@scottbalbas7752]

It's so gorgeous up there, the outdoors are a treasure in themselves. Keep a line in the water and you'd probably have a trout every 5 minutes TY for Sharing

[@michaelrossetti7061]

I like how that you show the truth about gold mining that it's not everyday that you find a bunch of gold

[@kennethgreene7124]

You truly are an inspiration. I dream of doing what you do. Maybe one day to have a high banker and finally find some decent gold. Hard to do rite now living paycheck to paycheck while supporting my 3 young beautiful kids. But hopefully one day. Thank you for always resparking up my dreams

[@bcbradley]

I Like the thrill of hunt vibe in this one Dan. Nice video.

[@Alondro77]

I've found the main gravel bank downstream from the moraines I've been prospecting. It was tricky! The stream goes underground 3 different times. The porosity of the ground is very variable. But just below where I'd stopped from going upstream to downstream, and a little to the side is where the biggest, deepest ravine opens out to the clay flats between the hills and dumps EVERYTHING heavy. It's about 100 feet of gravel, including fist-sized rocks and larger... CLEARLY all glacial till! Any bigger gold MUST be there! Now it's a matter of finding out if it's spread evenly in the jumbled piles of rocks, or has concentrated into lines or pockets in the base clay. I only took one tiny random sample from the top of the gravel, just a few pounds of sediment and rocks, as I'd already filled my buckets with downstream pocket gravels... and there was a significant flake just in that little bit! A very positive sign that I'm close to the best spot.

[@louiesamuel9189]

I’m curious if prospecting is profitable or just a fun hobby for you. If it’s profitable, how does the economics part work out?

[@Bull53]

Thanks Dan! Prospeting looks like fun.

[@lambbrookfarm4528]

Looks like a good crew, Dan love your enthusiasm, love the scenery, it's been awhile since I wandered in BC, miss it. Enjoy life every day! Barley juice! Brice

[@Patvk8]

Barley juice almost made me spit out my beer🤣

[@lambbrookfarm4528]

@@Patvk8 Dough...

[@70acres]

I didn't know you could juice a barley! A bad day prospecting is much better than a good day working in corporate! God bless you, Dan. May He give you many more happy days playing in the dirt!

[@_215Juice]

the best part about youtube for Dan is that it gives him gold for the work he's doing even when he finds none. thats fucking awesome.

[@billfoster7951]

I dig your channel. It's got a real nice flow. I hope if you hit it rich, you don't stop the show. Pauly's ok, don't get me wrong, But your channel keeps me hangin on. I've never dug for hold, nor held a pan. I prospect vicariously thru you Dan. If you asked my fav, Id surely pick one. That'd be your ocean picture stone.

[@christhompson4270]

Good luck with the permits 🤞🤞🤞🤞if you don’t find gold you still had an awesome day out. God bless, take care and thank you for sharing 🙏🥰👍👏❤️

[@angrylittlespider4593]

No gold today? No problem! Mike's a home brewer! Cheers!

[@ThatXanMan]

Good luck with getting those permits Dan! I hope sooner than later. Looks like a good spot to clear.

[@Angel-yl1ck]

Dan, that is an incredibly beautiful area. Just getting out there is lovely. Hope you find some gold tomorrw.

[@debbiefeist841]

Good Luck next 3 days..great video...That spot looks like many years of water wear...Rock on...from the Feisty Miner in Wa.

[@richardwarnock2789]

Dan did that cooler you brought help your helpers survive that work out!!!; )

[@qzf201]

I love watching your channel. You are living the dream! Keep the great videos coming!

[@lynkpaul33]

Hey Dan, hope you are healing up Ok and regaining your strength. I was away for away for a while saving the world and that kind of crap. trying to help. Thanks for doing what you do. Stay safe and Healy my friend.

[@scottimusgarrett15]

Hey, no nugs, but it looks like y'all are still having a good time! Thanks for bringing us along again, Dan! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦

[@willhill7029]

Top comment spoiler alert 🙄

[@jackbloomfield5684]

@@willhill7029 yeah 😑

[@maxkozak710]

Good luck guys 😎

[@metaldetectingwithvance3746]

Great video! Enjoy watching your videos!

[@johnnybushman651]

Alright Dan, thanks for the video, looked like fun no matter if you find anything or not. Looks like your doing good and I wish you luck on the nuggets . Be good and safe see you on the next Adventure.

[@jbowerman50]

Dan, last week I was about 2 hours from you, kept thinking just how much I would like to come help you dig. Would be a great day! 😊

[@carriehanifen3434]

Well better luck on your next adventure, great video always nice to see ya love ya 😃❤️👍

[@mr_jake.y8348]

Its all good Dan the man. You will get them next time.

[@DavidArcuri]

That looks like some first class home brew beer. A worthy reward for a long days work with no gold!

[@3.0colorado21]

How you haven’t hit 1M subs yet is beyond me! Love the content Dan!

[@GramCanyonSam]

Excellent experience you shared with the world 🌎 long trips is where it's at! Living in the motherlode for 6 months changed my life

[@GramCanyonSam]

@♜ Pìnned by Dan Hurd 😅 no

[@tjgatica24]

i like that ive been watching long nuff to know about your other trip to this spot

[@michykeys]

Loved the music today! Kind of a Proud Mary vibe.

[@DE_MILNE]

Great channel Dan!! Hope all is well with u and ur family....all the best from Sunderland England.

[@leiferickson3183]

It looked like a lovely time out in nature.

[@williamgoswick4392]

New subscriber here. Enjoyed the video and your great attitude. Looking forward to more videos

[@robertmiller2831]

Some fine barley juice, slightly flavored with some hopps.

[@DanielMorales-ds8ck]

You will have better luck you just getting started

[@gold-diggersanonymous1085]

nice touch with the Swiss swirl! I saw some Swiss at the creek this weekend, and being the absolute beginners they were they tried to swirl with that much dirt in the pan and found as much as you did. (nothing...) Dan please, just pan it down a bit further, you are giving all these beginners the wrong impression of how it's done. Be safe and hopefully lots of gold in your next Vid. Alex from Switzerland

[@tattoedmat]

Any day prospecting is a good day , gold is a bonus. Fingers crossed Dan those permits get granted...does that mean we might see another Andy Thraxx mining?

[@gorillagoldhunters]

Awesome Dan !!!! This is the area!!!!!

[@AussieRockhoundingandAdventure]

So true not every day is a winner but it's with who and how you spend it great video

[@noon9346]

I appreciate all the content you provided us, but can we have some more please, Dan.

[@rasqvange]

Personally I don't go out to get gold I go out for a break from everyday life and if ya find gold bonus😀 Great video dan

[@sabgab]

Dan the three of you would be fun to watch even if you were searching for the can tab off of old soda/pop cans.

[@matthewbooth9265]

Sometimes I'm here just to hang out with cool folks having fun:) There is always gold, when the sun catches that beard of yours:)

[@rikspector]

Dan, The weather is improving and while there's life There's hope you will find gold:) You have such a great variety of minerals and are such a good entertainer( I don't know how you maintain your energy levels) it's always fun, as long as your buddies to poison the adult beverage your drinking: Cheers, Rik Spector

[@MadMarlin1964]

Some big boulders in there!

[@THESLICKNESSEDM]

5 days nice I wanna go be like a old timer panning and mining for gold in the bush

[@Dapper422]

Be careful you'll go broke from all the fines you'll incur if you don't follow all the unnecessary rules.

[@THESLICKNESSEDM]

@@Dapper422 what luckily I have a woman who is basically the princess and the pea and she's is never comfortable always seek a partner who makes you question yourself 😎😁

[@mircomuntener4643]

Except in the old times there was actually enough around for it to be worthwhile

[@THESLICKNESSEDM]

@@mircomuntener4643 every spring more breaks out of deposits and now we can use satellites to find remote creeks and ancient riverbeds we have much better technology to mine with as well so if you have to money to take some risks you could hit the mother load with some luck lol

[@mircomuntener4643]

@@THESLICKNESSEDM yes, of course there is still some out there, but the loads there were in the rush days from thousands of years of wash are incomparable to modern day. Dan earns far more from KZbin than he does prospecting for anything other than BC ocean picture stone, even with all his experience, dedication, and equipment, much of which has feen financed by adsense revenue. There may well be some massive deposits left, but they would be impossible to get approval to access in the modern world. I'm sure there are places in the Fraser that would be really interesting to stick a dredge tube.

[@allanfulton7569]

I would only go in to town for food and keep digging/panning for gold right until the season is over and everything is freezing over.

[@dj11454]

Hey Dan! I've now met two students you used to teach in West Kelowna here haha small world!

[@EddieSchirmer]

those Huge boulders would make an Awesome Boulder-Wall as a landscape feature along a road or unstable bank... would the GOV let you build such things as a "land- improvement" project? at least if you could, you would be able to help control erosion, and also create more usable space for later visitors (not claim jumpers though) and yourself for future use purposes. also, i absolutely LOVE to see the gold you get! definitely a treat every time.

[@forestwarren1211]

Put heat on the heavy white rock. I find some of the same here in idaho where it looks like a pasty white rock. I put heat to it and it starts to shine.

[@arte9855]

Might be interesting to see how you winch some of those large rocks out, I would have liked to see the process of at least one of them.

[@davidbwa]

I was rooting for you but maybe you will find gold on your next dig. I enjoy the scenery. It also looks like home because I'm just few miles south of BC in Washington state.

[@danielhemedinger601]

Finding gold is good but the more important thing is getting together with friends and family and having a good time

[@petepete2284]

Ive heard that a billion times and I still snicker. "I love hard work...

[@Magikarp_king]

Always sad to see a day without gold. Hope the next trip pans out.

[@markfoust8910]

Like you said that's prospecting!! Can't get it all the time.

[@brendachilders8075]

Dan, check the rainfall totals before attempting the rivers… Yellowstone River has record flooding, rainfall and snowmelt!

[@travisbruno1988]

Thats nuts there was no gold in that i would have gold fever after all the other gold you find ill tell you that. thanks Dan and friends we appreciate it

[@michaelpadilla8020]

Flippies!!!!! I remember drinking those with Canadian troops training in Grafenwoer Germany.. Them and the British troops know how to drink...lol

[@hughcourchesne4351]

That's the way it goes great attitude can love your channel and Energy

[@buffalokrisgoldprospecting]

Gold or not. This video was awsome. Keep doing your thing danno

[@trevorcraig9697]

YAY! I love high banking videos

[@MOTOMINING]

I'd do a few more tests up in the bush while waiting for the permits! A definitive result is a must before bringing in machinery!

[@eprohoda]

Daan-Yeah,you made insane footage-see ya!.;)

[@TekedixXx]

I understand why it was omitted, but I think a few seconds of watching the boulders get winched would be pretty cool! Not every day you get to see rocks that big get moved lol ;)

[@kaseybarrow269]

Dan I love your content, you've inspired me. My fiancé and I opened a rock and gem shop, and we are working on starting a mineral and gemological club, I'd like to do what you do, trying to find my way there.

[@gyvren]

Someday when I make it up there, I’d love to help you dig for a day or two. I do excellent grunt work. Good luck, Dan! I hope you find a potato!! 🙂👍

[@chris44gy]

best notification to get woken up by.. not long now 😊

[@forestfischer3534]

It's all good Dan 🤠 you can't find them all the time. Like you say you can't really get that upset when you have views like that!

[@Misrawardiadventure]

Hello bro, I really like your content looking for gold on the banks of the river, steady success, always greetings from us Indonesian gold seekers🇨🇦🇮🇩⚒️⛏️

[@RICDirector]

Well, Dan....I think I know what happened here....you threw a party but you forgot to send an invite to the gold! I always insist that the gold RSVP, myself, but to each their own. 😁🤣🤣🤣😜🥰

[@demottjeff]

Hey your day here is the kinda days I have here in washington. I did meet a old timer and now I am finding the gold but not the big chunky ones, the old timer is suppose to be showing me his secret place....which totally looking forward to it

[@orsud1890]

Ello bravo magnifique récolte ✨✨👌

[@samroberts8365]

Make sure you got your andythraxx mining permit in.

[@MarketingPromosbp61]

Some days a diamond, some days a stone Dan, nothing stays the same.

[@KaySan666]

I wonder, Dan. Have you ever thought about visiting Australia for a little prospecting vacation? You might find some larger nuggets prospecting with the detectors.

[@KrepsyK]

Best if luck tomorrow boys!