UTTER Devastation! Prospecting a Flood Zone in Vermont

[@GSProspecting]

Great day out there fam. Keep at it. You got this fam. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

[@northeastexpanse]

Good time 👊🏻

[@johnbegoss]

another great video! absolutely not or ever bored with your videos.. the "critter cam" shots are a nice touch also. i can't get over how much damage was done,,again, in a short period of time..

[@northeastexpanse]

Thanks John! Irene definitely wreaked havoc on this area back in 2011 and then the floods last year made it so much worse.

[@SilvasSmallMining]

Great video! You’re right, just go out and have fun! The washed out bank looks like a promising area. You’ll have to dig a bit. lol. Good gold hunting! Take care.

[@northeastexpanse]

Thanks man yeah nothing like the journey!

[@GramCanyonSam]

We don't know until we go ! Good video buddy . Next time we end up in the hollow remind me to take you above the waterfall

[@northeastexpanse]

You know it brother! Sounds like a plan. 👊🏻

[@AdamWest-h5z]

I know right where this is. Thanks

[@kevinbeaulieu4405]

Where I live in Vermont?

[@AdamWest-h5z]

@@kevinbeaulieu4405 so do i

[@richardstutler3058]

Some of the places that you passed over where the trees were laying looked very promising since fairly full of heavy rocks and sand !

[@northeastexpanse]

I agree, may go back there someday and go further up to see what it looks like.

[@Ltn.Immelmann]

After a day of unsuccessfully searching for gold here, your video encouraged me to continue. ⚒👍🤠

[@northeastexpanse]

🙂 let’s keep exploring! Be well Peter!

[@claudepotter7763]

Very good advise. I do it alot some time find the pay steek

[@northeastexpanse]

👊🏻🤠

[@MarkOfArgyll]

All those downed trees are going to trap a lot of gold in the years to come! It's the journey and adventure that's important not the gold - so don't worry about colour :)

[@northeastexpanse]

Someday after many seasons of spring runoffs I’ll head back out there. I’m always more excited about what the area I’m prospecting will look like over whether I find gold lol. If I’m mining though, I get antsy if I’m not finding any gold.

[@mikedenson9063]

Just think. Lots of new places to look

[@northeastexpanse]

On the hunt brother!

[@andrewpotter2285]

Can’t imagine what that place looks like now. Some rain out there last night

[@northeastexpanse]

Me either bro, wanted to keep exploring but didn’t feel like dragging gear through that brush disaster. 🤣

[@John-ir2zf]

When I would get to spots like that, just a complete tangled disaster, bail out of the river channel and walk through the woods, keeping an eye on the river to see when you get passed that stuff. Otherwise,like you said, you'll spend hours trying to move half a mile up or downstream. Still, a bad day prospecting is better than a good day sitting home doing nothing 🤷‍♂️

[@northeastexpanse]

Had to scramble through the woods a couple times that day. The last point I got out too had down trees even in the woods, the flood was crazy wide.

[@johnmurphy7830]

Nice job Billy Goat!!! Question : who goes out there with a chainsaw and cuts up the washed out trees?

[@northeastexpanse]

Thanks brother! My guess is that no one will be out there with a chainsaw. I am curious to see what it looks like beyond the brush mess though. Thanks for watching 👊🏻

[@herbertbell6135]

Those little Rock piles are inushuk. The Eskimos use them for navigation and sacred places.

[@northeastexpanse]

Cool I’ve never heard that term! We call them Cairns in the Northeast. They are mostly used here on our mountain trails from the alpine zones to the summits.

[@Sheepdog1314]

I’m craving garnets

[@northeastexpanse]

Always a pleasant surprise to find a nice one!

[@richardstutler3058]

If it was easy everyone would be doing it! :)

[@northeastexpanse]

🙂👊🏻

[@RAMelloh-ij5sl]

All those downed trees will be the cause of flooding and damages during the next high water event. They will pile up at the mouths of culverts and between the abutments of bridges, causing the waters to dam up and wash over roadbeds, erasing them. What a mess. We have seen the same thing in our area. Steep, narrow valleys, 90% forest and nature does its thing.

[@northeastexpanse]

So true. This area is pretty far from any major areas which is a good thing however there is a low lying flat zone at the bottom of the valley that was destroyed last year. I pray Vermont doesn’t get anymore floods anytime soon.

[@BullProspecting]

No sluice are allowed in Vermont without a permit.. Plus it looked like it was backwards.. JS.

[@northeastexpanse]

This is a green mountain gold trap which is a fluid bed classifier. I don’t run it backwards because if I did it may reverse the time space continuum and that would bring us back to the 1980’s…actually on second thought 🤔🫠

[@BullProspecting]

@@northeastexpanse my sincerest Apologies sir! I didn't mean to come off as all Karen like.. I seen a guy up at echo using a sluice.. My beef with the Vermont sluice law is this, a 5 foot to 6 foot sluice has zero impact on water... The place gets ripped up by flooding on a regular basis... But they want to tell people that there little sluice and bucket are a danger to the water?? Land of the Free? I asked the guy if anyone ever gave him a hard time and he said once.. No tickets or anything.. It was more of how to without the hassle.. Im sorry but Vermont needs to leave people the eff alone... I do this as a side gig because I'm extremely passionate about it! Im a amateur geologist and have been tracking load deposits & placer for the past 10 years... There is so much more to this place.. The Green Mountains are literally my 2nd home! I been building Fence for the past 27 years and decided 10 years ago that I wanna be a full time gold miner/treasure hunter.. Honestly, I am addicted to adventure man! I love finding caves, old mines and anything out of the ordinary!

[@AdamWest-h5z]

The 80's sucked. ​@@northeastexpanse

[@northeastexpanse]

@@AdamWest-h5z 🤣