After heart surgery, every day is a gift! Husband had the gift of 7 years more after his. Other things took him from us. I am glad to see you living your days so fully, with a reasonable amount of care. Give your lovely wife my best wishes and prayers for you to have many more adventures together!
Stop eating Animal Products, check out the videos of T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn and his diet to reverse heart disease. Yea reverse even if your doctor and the FDA denies it being possible! Eliminate all processed foods! Good luck. If you don't believe then... have a good trip.
@@plantsfair look into meat based diets like carnivor diet. I've lost weight, feel better than I ever have and have reversed so many of my medical problems. Everyone's body is different, some work better running off of greens and some work better running off of red meat.
Dan, you should start at the bottom end of the claim and work up. Every year the bottom washes down into the next claim and wash down from the top claim down onto yours
Yay Pickerton awesome, my favourite place, great scenery and beautiful countryside, thank you for sharing and god bless and stay safe and well 🙏🙏🥰🥰👏👏👏👏👍👍👍💖💖
I have to agree with others, it doesnt matter if you find something. The process and explaining to us why you did dig where you did dig is what is important to me. I have learned alot from you and hope to be able soon to use it.
My thoughts also. And when he does find something, that is not only an added bonus, but proves he knows his stuff and why he is working the way he does.
I absolutely love your videos Dan, you have an amazing personality sir and panning beside you would truly be a bucket list thing for me. I love learning from your videos
It is great when we see you find gold, but I enjoy the process & the anticipation. I always love seeing the river & the scenery too, so if you don’t find gold, for me it really doesn’t matter. We know there’s a stash of pickers there & we will eventually get to see them all.
I called it a slice of heaven.(Pinkerton) I’m from Puerto Rico and everybody says the beach and how wonderful is but when I see those trees and mountains and the clear water.... man it’s like heaven to me! So relaxing 😌! Thanks Dan! I’m so glad that you are feeling better and looks like you are better!
I love your videos, Dan. I share your love of nature and you are so positive and upbeat. I spend 1 to 2 hours a day watching your videos gold or no gold. And you have inspired me to work on making better videos for my own channel. Keep going!
Some nice gold Dan I told you before I’d be happy to guard that claim for you. It would be fun to spook claim jumpers that can around. Great video brother
@@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm I figure that what Dan thinks. I’m a life long law man so if I was gonna go bad I would have done it years ago. I like your comment also brother
@@davidraines2873 Thank you for your service brother. My grandfather was a police officer and y'all definitely do not get credit for the job you do and I cannot thank you enough for your service. I feel especially grateful for the men and women and uniform in these days. Scary times happening right now. 🙏☮️👍
Great videos!! Love watching the process and how exciting it is when you find something good!! Makes me wish I lived near a nice river like that so I could give it a shot myself!
You're right, we don't need to see you find gold, I live in the UK and don't have any opportunity to go anywhere to do anything like this, even though its so very interesting even to my 9yr old. So I'm living vicariously through you
It’s always so beautiful up there! Haha I think I would have a hard time leaving the site, even if there wasn’t gold. Another great video from a great teacher! Love from Louisiana!
Hey Dan, was just thinking (I know, it's painful at times 😊). You probably keep fairly busy just going from claim to claim periodically looking for claim jumpers this time of year. What ever happened with the ones you cought that were camped out & claimed they found very little gold ?
Not usually commenting, but i have to say, your videos got much more professional over the years. It is almost as if i would be going on an adventure myself. Nothing to smartass about, greetings from a boring office in São Paulo :)
Just a thought, considering you’re next to a fresh water river, couldn’t you carry some water purification tablets/water filter so you always have the means to get water if needed? Or even a life straw so you have something for an emergency (god forbid there ever is one!)
This is exactly what I was thinking! I've been hiking with people who have water bottles with built-in press filters so they can fill their bottle and immediately filter it all, that could also work.
I would like to point out, that water purification tablets only make bad water "better", not good. I learned that in a mountain war zone in Nicaragua back in the 1980s. What I would have done for a life straw!
All you need is the life straw that's it. Meridian sucks straight out of the sludge pit it purifies the water as you drawing it and it'll pull salt out of the sea you can drink strait saltwater the LifeStraw is the s***
@@robertwheeler9540 DO NOT drink seawater through a lifestraw or any other camping/back packing filter. The only ways I am aware to desalinate water is through a solar still or traditional distillation or a reverse osmosis filter. Do your research don’t trust comments on RUclips.
The beard is coming in nicely Dan! I've been watching your videos for a couple a years now, I absolutely love your content!! Keep up the search my friend. Much love from Northwest Washington!!
I first tried panning back in the early 1970s, at Edmonton's Klondike Days. Years later, when living in Vancouver and then on The Rock, I would go panning in random spots just for fun and never found much. Then I moved back to the flatlands and working in the oil patch, and was exposed to hydro-vac trucks (I ran a little 5-ton hydro-vac for one company). Now, watching you, and other RUclipsr geologists, scratching and shoveling possible pay dirt with anything you can, from picks to round nose shovels and even battery-powered wet/dry vac. So, add a pressurized water spray and a larger vac, perhaps with a 5 gal. pail before the vac. The vac would prevent run-off while the water washes everything clean. Just an idea...
Is the camera you were using better than the one you use regularly. I noticed a difference in the quality was great (not that the other one not great) just a noticeable difference. Great content, as usual. Thanx Dan
Back in the old country (Cornwall, UK), and in the time of sail, the fishermen would throw small change into the sea to ‘buy’ wind. I’ve attempted many times to buy luck fishing from the rocks.
Dan, I use a GPS and plug in where I find my bigger gold on site. Might be of some use to you after a season at Pickerton to review where your hot spots have been.
You might not have much in East TN but if you go across the border into virginia or north carolina theres a ton of gold. Research the gold belt that runs through the shenandoah area
@@theronbrown4363 I have. Thought about heading to those areas. It’s just hard to find the time to take off for extended trips. Coker creek I can camp right on the river for free so that’s why I keep going there to save on trip costs.
I'm surprised Dan Hurd doesn't have his own claims club. They have been very profitable for some prospectors down in California and Oregon. 10$ a month x500+ Just some easy access claims for family's and elderly. Casual prospectors are happy with specs. I've seen people posting on Facebook about how they found nothing but still had a great time.
Mid Summer and that river still has an impressive flow rate going. If someone were to fall in, they could be a kilometre down river before they got the chance to get out again. Don't fall in Dan! Mark from Melbourne Australia
I love watching you Dan but I have to say if anyone ever came to Alabama to do any work y'all would be absolutely devastated with heat and humidity....we have 100° with 100% humidity....you sweat standing still outside if u could only imagine those possibilities for our area....it's like when I meet a northern in our winter wearing shorts and everyone else wearing hoodies and pants, lol 😂😂 I'd freeze my buttox off up there I know!! But I'd still love to come that would be my absolute favorite vacation.... maybe not so much my family but I'd be absolutely ecstatic!!!!
Hi Dan. It is Ryan Courtemanche I am still enjoying your videos specially your Pinkerton claim. I'm back at mission creek doing some gold panning. And I have found some gold. I'm having trouble reading the stuff area of the creek around the area from the power station Springfield and Hollywood. On far side. The is very low right now. Is there any advice you can share with me thanks
You EASILY earned my sub!! Great content. I've been binging on it fir weeks!!! Gunna try some panning on Tranquille with my boys soon!!! We have already found tonnes of opal, agates And geodes around kamloops...maybe a fossil?? Thanks for the inspiration!! I am loving this!!
I truly love watching you scratch around to find the yellow stuff 💛, but the fisherman in me for this particular site your at... can't but help to ask lol... ever thought about dropping a line in the water while your finding the yummy yellow stuff 😁. Might find some chunky stuff to bring home and dinner too 😁❤❤. Super glad to see the recovery is going well as well... ❤❤❤
Great video Dan! I bought myself a pan years ago, and I take it with me (now and then) on my camping trips throughout Nevada. How do I make sure I’m not looking on someone else’s claim? I guess I just don’t know, enough to know, that I don’t know. 😉
The fun thing about playing with dirt are the things that you find in it… at same time makes you feel like a little kid who is finally allowed to play in the dirt without getting into trouble
Hey Dan I was trying to send you a text but my phone changes things and I lost the text, I was watching you find your biggest nugget, I don't remember where you were, the country and the water there is just beautiful, really love your videos, been watching them for a long time, and will continue to watch, really like you and your lovely family, be blessed.
I just gotta share !!!! I bought a Mazda ( used ) recently and I used to detail cars for a living . The previous owner didn’t care about driving off-road and was in a gold mining area ( Timmins Ontario Canada) I couldn’t believe how much fine sands ( and magnetite sand ) were caught by the floor mats . After hosing them down, using a carpet cleaner and let them dry , I still was able to beat 1/2 a cup of super fine sands out of them . I had cleaned all kinds of cars and never saw any other floor mats capture so much fine sands and would surmise they would work amazing for flour gold 😉
Can I just say that I luv the music you find to play in the background of your videos! It’s hard to find good music that’s not copyrighted and I’d say you found it! Lol
After heart surgery, every day is a gift! Husband had the gift of 7 years more after his. Other things took him from us. I am glad to see you living your days so fully, with a reasonable amount of care. Give your lovely wife my best wishes and prayers for you to have many more adventures together!
Stop eating Animal Products, check out the videos of T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn and his diet to reverse heart disease. Yea reverse even if your doctor and the FDA denies it being possible! Eliminate all processed foods! Good luck. If you don't believe then... have a good trip.
@@plantsfair look into meat based diets like carnivor diet. I've lost weight, feel better than I ever have and have reversed so many of my medical problems. Everyone's body is different, some work better running off of greens and some work better running off of red meat.
Dan, you should start at the bottom end of the claim and work up. Every year the bottom washes down into the next claim and wash down from the top claim down onto yours
Yay Pickerton awesome, my favourite place, great scenery and beautiful countryside, thank you for sharing and god bless and stay safe and well 🙏🙏🥰🥰👏👏👏👏👍👍👍💖💖
I have to agree with others, it doesnt matter if you find something. The process and explaining to us why you did dig where you did dig is what is important to me.
I have learned alot from you and hope to be able soon to use it.
My thoughts also. And when he does find something, that is not only an added bonus, but proves he knows his stuff and why he is working the way he does.
Love the addition of the drone footage. Pickerton is beautiful.
I agree I enjoy watching the hunt for Gold as much as when you find it. It makes me feel ok about all of the times that I never find anything.
Most people will never know how hard we work for our Gold, but we love it!
I absolutely love your videos Dan, you have an amazing personality sir and panning beside you would truly be a bucket list thing for me. I love learning from your videos
It is great when we see you find gold, but I enjoy the process & the anticipation. I always love seeing the river & the scenery too, so if you don’t find gold, for me it really doesn’t matter. We know there’s a stash of pickers there & we will eventually get to see them all.
I called it a slice of heaven.(Pinkerton) I’m from Puerto Rico and everybody says the beach and how wonderful is but when I see those trees and mountains and the clear water.... man it’s like heaven to me! So relaxing 😌! Thanks Dan! I’m so glad that you are feeling better and looks like you are better!
IM HAPPY just to see your amazing adventures .The gold is just gravy and happy always to see you happy.
I love your videos, Dan. I share your love of nature and you are so positive and upbeat. I spend 1 to 2 hours a day watching your videos gold or no gold. And you have inspired me to work on making better videos for my own channel. Keep going!
Excellent job prospecting Dan ! Hope the new area is full of pickers ! Best of luck to you !! 🤠⛏⚒👍
Glad to see you well and findings
on one of your hundred claims stay well Dan the gold man and now the crystals clear honest man on RUclips
Man, so jealous! You get to work in such beautiful spots! What I wouldn’t give to work outside all day with views like that! 😄
Scorcher today, but the Cassiar mountains are already snow-capped today. You get such weird weather in BC!
Glad you had a great day... love watching your stuff 😋
Fans? Who are these fans of which you speak? Oh, wait, that's me! Glad to see that you seem to be at or better than ever, health-wise.
I've been binge watching your channel. Enjoyed your adventures.
Some nice gold Dan I told you before I’d be happy to guard that claim for you. It would be fun to spook claim jumpers that can around. Great video brother
Sure, you're just going to spook yourself and jump the claim. LOL
Just kidding bro, I love the comment. 😂
@@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm I figure that what Dan thinks. I’m a life long law man so if I was gonna go bad I would have done it years ago. I like your comment also brother
@@davidraines2873 Thank you for your service brother. My grandfather was a police officer and y'all definitely do not get credit for the job you do and I cannot thank you enough for your service. I feel especially grateful for the men and women and uniform in these days. Scary times happening right now. 🙏☮️👍
I love watching a happy Dan! Cheers me up no end.
Great videos!! Love watching the process and how exciting it is when you find something good!! Makes me wish I lived near a nice river like that so I could give it a shot myself!
You're right, we don't need to see you find gold, I live in the UK and don't have any opportunity to go anywhere to do anything like this, even though its so very interesting even to my 9yr old. So I'm living vicariously through you
Hi Dan, great to see you my friend. Don't get discouraged.
It’s always so beautiful up there! Haha I think I would have a hard time leaving the site, even if there wasn’t gold.
Another great video from a great teacher! Love from Louisiana!
I come for the humor, knowledge, the process and the company, just keep doing what you're doing 👌 👍🏾 😉
Hey Dan, was just thinking (I know, it's painful at times 😊). You probably keep fairly busy just going from claim to claim periodically looking for claim jumpers this time of year. What ever happened with the ones you cought that were camped out & claimed they found very little gold ?
Not usually commenting, but i have to say, your videos got much more professional over the years. It is almost as if i would be going on an adventure myself. Nothing to smartass about, greetings from a boring office in São Paulo :)
Just a thought, considering you’re next to a fresh water river, couldn’t you carry some water purification tablets/water filter so you always have the means to get water if needed? Or even a life straw so you have something for an emergency (god forbid there ever is one!)
This is exactly what I was thinking! I've been hiking with people who have water bottles with built-in press filters so they can fill their bottle and immediately filter it all, that could also work.
I would like to point out, that water purification tablets only make bad water "better", not good. I learned that in a mountain war zone in Nicaragua back in the 1980s. What I would have done for a life straw!
All you need is the life straw that's it. Meridian sucks straight out of the sludge pit it purifies the water as you drawing it and it'll pull salt out of the sea you can drink strait saltwater the LifeStraw is the s***
The Fraser River is so murky I'm sure it would plug up a life straw very quickly. It's not very remote, so bringing water isn't a big deal
@@robertwheeler9540 DO NOT drink seawater through a lifestraw or any other camping/back packing filter. The only ways I am aware to desalinate water is through a solar still or traditional distillation or a reverse osmosis filter. Do your research don’t trust comments on RUclips.
The beard is coming in nicely Dan! I've been watching your videos for a couple a years now, I absolutely love your content!! Keep up the search my friend. Much love from Northwest Washington!!
What a find, GOLD HOT SPOT in Pickerton!
I appreciate you Dan thank you for your time I learned a lot from you and I'm grateful much respect
I first tried panning back in the early 1970s, at Edmonton's Klondike Days. Years later, when living in Vancouver and then on The Rock, I would go panning in random spots just for fun and never found much. Then I moved back to the flatlands and working in the oil patch, and was exposed to hydro-vac trucks (I ran a little 5-ton hydro-vac for one company). Now, watching you, and other RUclipsr geologists, scratching and shoveling possible pay dirt with anything you can, from picks to round nose shovels and even battery-powered wet/dry vac. So, add a pressurized water spray and a larger vac, perhaps with a 5 gal. pail before the vac. The vac would prevent run-off while the water washes everything clean. Just an idea...
Is the camera you were using better than the one you use regularly. I noticed a difference in the quality was great (not that the other one not great) just a noticeable difference. Great content, as usual. Thanx Dan
Same camera
After I commented, I realized I was wearing my reading glasses, lol!
Right on Dan! Pinkerton never disappoints.I heard ya say one more pan in the video. Thanks for the shout out! 🤘🤣🤘
Back in the old country (Cornwall, UK), and in the time of sail, the fishermen would throw small change into the sea to ‘buy’ wind. I’ve attempted many times to buy luck fishing from the rocks.
Love the intro to this video with the fly-byes and guitar.
Awesome day of fun in the sun. I love being on the water.
Great beautiful scenery and top notch video
Very nice Dan👌🏻 I found myself a wee hot spot but nothing like Pickerton!!!!⛏🏴
Dan, I use a GPS and plug in where I find my bigger gold on site.
Might be of some use to you after a season at Pickerton to review where your hot spots have been.
I prospect at about 9,400ft and I always bring a gallon of water as my time limit! (It last 10-12 hours) think the elevation is more dehydrating.
Geesh… it’s gorgeous scenery up there. And the gold always helps too. Thanks for another great video.
You bet
I love that place! Thanks for the adventure 👍🏻
Good luck with the new spot. Rooting for ya Dan. Benny
I wish I could go panning at such an awesome spot. Love these videos. Here there’s only a few places in eastern Tennessee with gold baring rivers.
I'm in ky I never knew there was gold panning near me I'll have to find out where
You might not have much in East TN but if you go across the border into virginia or north carolina theres a ton of gold. Research the gold belt that runs through the shenandoah area
@@theronbrown4363 I have. Thought about heading to those areas. It’s just hard to find the time to take off for extended trips. Coker creek I can camp right on the river for free so that’s why I keep going there to save on trip costs.
I'm glad to have all those dimes explained also
Nice pickers Dan. We love pickerton
Good luck Dan !
Goodmorning to you Dan😃
Nice work Dan! Love your channel. Thanks for sharing your adventures with me.
Glad you enjoy it!
I hope you've healed up OK, and you are in good health stay blessed!
Dan, you are the man !
Your videos are always a great watch. Hope you catch the claim jumpers, the thieving rats !!
I'm surprised Dan Hurd doesn't have his own claims club.
They have been very profitable for some prospectors down in California and Oregon. 10$ a month x500+
Just some easy access claims for family's and elderly. Casual prospectors are happy with specs. I've seen people posting on Facebook about how they found nothing but still had a great time.
I love the pickerton videos no matter the outcome.
The water on the Fraser River always seems to be dirty
Mid Summer and that river still has an impressive flow rate going. If someone were to fall in, they could be a kilometre down river before they got the chance to get out again. Don't fall in Dan!
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Its good to see a bloke who knows how to stratify properly.
Congratulations!
How I love that place! 🕊
I love watching you Dan but I have to say if anyone ever came to Alabama to do any work y'all would be absolutely devastated with heat and humidity....we have 100° with 100% humidity....you sweat standing still outside if u could only imagine those possibilities for our area....it's like when I meet a northern in our winter wearing shorts and everyone else wearing hoodies and pants, lol 😂😂 I'd freeze my buttox off up there I know!! But I'd still love to come that would be my absolute favorite vacation.... maybe not so much my family but I'd be absolutely ecstatic!!!!
enjoyed watching your video nice gold keep digging 🙂
Great video as always, Dan! This video made me wonder how many shovels/picks you go through in a season? Lots of scraping against bedrock! 😅
Looks beautiful out there.
Hi Dan. It is Ryan Courtemanche I am still enjoying your videos specially your Pinkerton claim. I'm back at mission creek doing some gold panning. And I have found some gold. I'm having trouble reading the stuff area of the creek around the area from the power station Springfield and Hollywood. On far side. The is very low right now. Is there any advice you can share with me thanks
i been looking at Estwing rock pick hammers, was glad to see you using a regular claw hammer, which I have, good video
Another excellent Video Dan. Thank you very much!
My pleasure!
Nice Pickers !!!!!
The first picker looked like a Pug's puppy!
Go Dan Go! 👌💕
Great pickings Dan👍🏻
You EASILY earned my sub!! Great content. I've been binging on it fir weeks!!! Gunna try some panning on Tranquille with my boys soon!!! We have already found tonnes of opal, agates And geodes around kamloops...maybe a fossil?? Thanks for the inspiration!! I am loving this!!
The excitement of the new hot spot makes your beard curl!
Mate that Pickerton claim treats you well. Nearly always gives you some nice Gold.
Nice 👌 slo-mo action.
You earned my subscription YEARS ago!
All the fine gold and a little superglue and voila, a picker. Then a few pickers and voila, a nugget.
I truly love watching you scratch around to find the yellow stuff 💛, but the fisherman in me for this particular site your at... can't but help to ask lol... ever thought about dropping a line in the water while your finding the yummy yellow stuff 😁. Might find some chunky stuff to bring home and dinner too 😁❤❤. Super glad to see the recovery is going well as well... ❤❤❤
Eccentricity at its finest !!!!!!!
Dan I hate your still having issues with claim jumpers. Can’t wait for the next video.
I love pickerton !!! 👌🙌🥰👏🏻👏🏻
Haha at 9:55 that picker looked like the silhouette of the pamp suisse bullion.
Love the fish for a dime story, funny.
Great video Dan!
I bought myself a pan years ago, and I take it with me (now and then) on my camping trips throughout Nevada. How do I make sure I’m not looking on someone else’s claim? I guess I just don’t know, enough to know, that I don’t know. 😉
Cool new hot spot. Thanks for sharing. FYI I sent you a magnetic separator to try out.
Love your videos keep up the hard work
I seemed to have misplaced those GPS Coordinates dan, mind shareing again. Thanks
The view alone is worth claiming the area!
Gotta love it when water is everywhere around you but you still don't have enough.. Lol
Not a bad day of prospecting at Pickerton Dan.
Great adventure Dan
Awesome finds
Yes it was
Love watching you vids
The fun thing about playing with dirt are the things that you find in it… at same time makes you feel like a little kid who is finally allowed to play in the dirt without getting into trouble
Thanks for another great vid
One if those backpack shop vacs would be nice here
Hey Dan I was trying to send you a text but my phone changes things and I lost the text, I was watching you find your biggest nugget, I don't remember where you were, the country and the water there is just beautiful, really love your videos, been watching them for a long time, and will continue to watch, really like you and your lovely family, be blessed.
looking Healthy and strong Dan!
I just gotta share !!!!
I bought a Mazda ( used ) recently and I used to detail cars for a living . The previous owner didn’t care about driving off-road and was in a gold mining area ( Timmins Ontario Canada)
I couldn’t believe how much fine sands ( and magnetite sand ) were caught by the floor mats . After hosing them down, using a carpet cleaner and let them dry , I still was able to beat 1/2 a cup of super fine sands out of them .
I had cleaned all kinds of cars and never saw any other floor mats capture so much fine sands and would surmise they would work amazing for flour gold 😉
As a carpenter ....that's the best use of a claw hammer I've ever seen. Keep up the good work man. 🤣😂😁😀😎
Can I just say that I luv the music you find to play in the background of your videos! It’s hard to find good music that’s not copyrighted and I’d say you found it! Lol
Glad you enjoy it!