Gary...I sure enjoy your logical, forensic approach to locating the gold. You seem to be able to unravel a creek's story like reading a mystery novel. It's always a pleasure. Thanks for the great video.

Love the beauty of the place you went to! I especially love the leopard lilies! That's what I love about Hunter creek too! The beauty of nature---big leaf maples, oaks, crimson columbine, mountain misery, giant ferns and leopard lilies. The Motherlode has so much more than gold to offer the adventurer! Thanks for the little tease of gold, but moreover thanks for sharing the wonders of it all!!!

That was a problem I had, staying in a hole to long and getting minimal results. This is a very informative video and thank you for it. 🇺🇸👍😎⛏

Gary you make the best videos, the scenery is always awesome, I would love to get up to the High Sierras and try prospecting, I’ve watched your videos for years now and although I’ve never done any prospecting I feel like I could do a pretty good job based on what you’ve taught me, thanks for the great educational videos keep em coming 👍

Thanks for taken us along....such beauty great....thats the size Gold we fined in Lynx Creek here in AZ...but just like your area it is just so darn beautiful that it just fun gettin out. Again thanks for taken us along.

Thourow sampling of a new area, and some color ..awesome 😎

That shot of the tiger lily's was great Gary thanks for doing what you do

A beautiful day. A beautiful creek. A little gold. I love it!

Hello Gary. Your so right, that is beautiful country and just being there can lift your spirit. Thanks Gary for your effort in creating another wonderful video.

Best take-away message at the end Gary. I could not agree with you more!

You are the very best. So many channels just show the mechanics of mining, which is interesting. But I love how you show a perspective of the prospecting that is specific to whatever the conditions are where you're looking. For a newbie like me, this is fascinating, and instructional. I'm primarilly a fly fisherman who carries a little pan and a few hand tools when I'm spending the whole day traipsing up and down rivers in gold country (In general, N Idaho is not near the gold country that you have in the Sierras, but there's some here!) I'm used to "reading the water" for trout, but now there is this whole new "reading" of the hydrology, rocks, river conditions, (and the researching of claim acivity as a new winter sport) etc which deepens my experience up on the river. I'm so glad you do these videos!

Good job Gary, it was great to meet you at the nugget hunt.

Great video Gary!!! I finally saw first hand what you mean when you say "hard packed gravel " it takes a bit but finally learning 😁

Hey Gary, The real treasure here is the beauty of Nature. I am thankful that I get to see Your videos. I am hamstrung as my Wife's caregiver but would be out there If I could. At 69 I still have good physical Strength and would love to be out there Thanks, Guy in Eugene, Or

where was Jeff, look like he missed a good time, and maybe by a stroke of luck he could have beat you. Really enjoyed the video, thanks Gary.

That was a long hike Garry, I think I saw your mustache growing. Great share I really loved it.

Greetings Gary. I see you wearing a Marines cap and occasionally a sweatshirt. Are you Corps? If so, we are brothers. I was in the Corps 1967-1973. Old timer. I have hunted gold around Dahlonega, Georgia but found very little. That was the big strike before the California strike. Great videos. I enjoy them very much. At 73, I am no longer able to chase the pickers and flakes, but I enjoy watching you. Semper Fi

Beautiful day, beautiful country and some gold. Doesn’t get any better than that.

Thanks, Gary--good, informative video, pretty country!

Awesome video with great info. Always fun to watch.

Love you brother. Thanks for the adventures.

Another great back to basics vid. Something very special out your way in all those landscapes. And you appreciate it that much more when you know the history. Be well Gary.

Great video. I really liked the nature shots you added.

Great to see how a master does it. Thanks for sharing 👍

First !!!!!! Now to haul hay !!!!!

Yes that hillside looked steep ! Good common sense info and advice on what to look for and experience info too. Beautiful country to be out in, you are blessed to be able to roam it 😉

Stunning Country Gary! The Tiger Lily and Alder were beautiful! Very helpful well filmed professional and magnificent Sierras!

What a beautiful spot that waters crystal clear

That's some beautiful country...awsome video

Good job showing and telling, keep updating see ya on the next one have a great day.

Thank you! Really enjoyed as always 💕

Quality information from the Professor......thank you for sharing 🤝🍻!

Great vids, I always take the time to watch and learn, have applied your experience and skill to many gold bearing rivers here in new zealand 🇳🇿

Great video, enjoyed watching you work the creek and learned from how you did it!

Thanks for sharing more prospecting techniques with detailed information Super good advice on panning a new random creek .12 of a gram plus a beautiful new area equals a fantastic day of fun Thanks for another great video Gary You can alway use my lucky scoop your holding onto for me !!

I love the scenery up there! Me and my mining buds are heading up there for a little camping in the next couple days and hope to get a picker each lol. Heavy pans and thank you for the awesome videos! If we see ya, we'll holler again :)

Wonderful video. Almost fishing time!

Thanks Gary -that was a lovely location-the butterfly and Turks cap lilies are really pretty.

Hi Gary, I see your hat so we are brothers, I'm Navy. I just moved to Paradise, CA. 3.5 miles from whare the Dog Town Night was found. 54 pounds! I have a Dues II on order so I hope to find gold and silver. Good luck.

Your videos are great! If you were to come out east you'd see really small gold, what you got there we call nuggets!! 😆

Good bits of gold there. See ya on the next one!

Jeff must be off fishin'. Very informative, as usual, with good tips on what to look for. Gotta love the high sierras. ⛏💰🇺🇸👍

That's a beautiful Creek with lots of bedrock

It was a beautiful spot great video

I really enjoy your videos !

Great vid!!! Awesome job

A couple weeks ago the Tiger Lillys were in bloom here also. thanks for the share.

Always have fun fam. Keep getting that au fam. Gold squad out!!!

Finding gold is just the bonus to a picture perfect day, I guess the only way it would have been better is if Jeff was there too. It is always a pleasure to watch your channel…take care Gary 👍

It would be interesting to see how you would do with your SDC on that creek and hill side. That mining camp was there for a reason. Great vid as usual. Great meeting you at the Hunt.

Awesome another vid. Been hoping for more👍🏾

Man, I love your videos ❤️ beautiful nature

Thanks for another video.

As always great video!

Maybe the gold the Oldtimers mined was an old chanel somewhere on the slope or even topside, rather than the creeks on either side? But it sure is a beauty spot, worth spending the day. Cheers for the nice video! Pleasure to watch, as always.

That crane system in the introduction is so freaking awesome! We broke our rock pullers sprocket 3 times trying to get a sheet of bedrock out the other weekend that looked like it would be a time saver. Thanks for the awesome videos good luck out there.

I have watched many many hours and love it. I've always wanted a metal detector but now have bad knees so that's probably one bucket list item that won't come to pass. The only thing I wish you would do is number each episode (video). Otherwise, great videos and I have learned so much! Thank you.

Good tips👍Camera don't do justice to cliffs or drops just multiply by 3 😁🤠⚒ really really fine...shows small flakes and Wisconsin pickers😂😆😂😆

Thanks. More info, more knowledge.

Great lesson cheers

You weren’t whistling Dixie! That is a perty creek, great way to spend the day 👍🏻

Your right it really is a beautiful place. That's not really very small gold compared to flour. If you sluice it it would build up.😉👍

Enjoyed thanks for the video!👍🇺🇸

That bedrock sure looks good in the video. Too bad there wasn't a bunch of half ounce nuggets for you!

Well Done Gary..cross another creek off your list!

A beautiful day out 🍻

Good morning

wow what a great hobby

A day out in the fresh air still beats a day under a sink fixing a leaky drain. ✌

I was in one hole all week got four nice nuggets Jeff has pics and a total of 50+ grams out of it I’m still super pumped up about I told Jeff I got spoiled

Thanks Gary, lucky for Jeff you didn't find much. But Im wondering how it would go if a person thru a sluice in yhe creek and started filling bucketd. Would make for a nice day amd you just might find a little pile of shiney. Jeff's turn next... "Yeller Gold"

I don’t know how you do it? I’m 70 and I barely make it out of my recliner..

Clean up sluice running... watching a two toes video. Good day to be a Californian

That's a steep hill sir. Until one scrambles through the brambles to scratch that barren gravel, it's difficult to fully appreciate.

I agree with you that the creek was beautiful. I would of enjoyed my day without finding gold too.

No knee pads, your a tough dude!

it will take you long while to get back up the steep hill side. how do you check with the state of Cal. where you can pan for gold, approved excess? thanks for the great videos.

Man oh man-I got to get out of Concord and go for a ride

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Remember, "any gold is good gold" 😉

Nice Video, I would just sluice or highbank the crap outta that area, looks like about every pan had some gold be it small or not.

Lol! Your fine gold looks like pickers around here.

Can’t wait to get beck out there, see you soon brother. 🤙✌️

I recently noticed a small creek in a burned out area with stacks of rocks about every 200 feet, so I'm assuming the old timers were finding some good material. Going to check it out next weekend, any tips for specific areas I should look at while there?

gotta get a gold monster. (light weight vlf). was checking out the new gpx 6000 at keen engineering. real light but $6,000. just a thought on the gold monster. have a good day.

I got a pretty good chuckle when you said you had “a lot of really fine gold” the showed the pan. Here in western Washington we call that big gold. Those pieces were darned near pickers when compared to the fly poop we typically find.

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Gary, I hope you are carrying an InReach satellite unit when you are solo hiking way off the beaten path like you do !!! If you break a leg deep down in those narrow steep canyons and you immediately go on the Mountain Lion and Bear menue!!! Thanks for all your hard work putting together the Great videos and sharing the knowledge!!!! All the best.., And Yes in deed!!!! it is truly beautiful country up there! May favorite place to go .., can’t wait to be back up there myself! Especially these days with the pandemic craziness still going on 24X7 !!!! The only place left that you can go these days and know… the only ones you’ll be seeing waring masks are the Raccoons!!!

Ive been checking out my local streams and rivers. I live in San Joaquin county I've tried the Mokulume river consumers River some of the American River even the Stanislaus not a whole lot of luck. First time I ever went panning was the yuba River and that's been the best I've ever seen. Any suggestions?

It could just be me but I think I know what creek you were at, or at least in the vicinity of.

Is it possible river changed direction or area?

Two Toes Knows where the gold goes.

You got a lot of bedrock in your area.

Anther great clip Gary. I keep meaning to ask how long would it take for the average hike in? Mostly in Time and distance in a ballpark figure. Cheers and Beers from Down Under. 😀

When you are out looking for new spots, what do you use to make sure the area isnt claimed?

What creek is this?

A bit off topic, but is that Butte/Plumas fire encroaching on your gold hunting turf?

Hi Gary I live in Myers California and I got a river that runs through my property. I found small flood gold with my gold pan, what metal detectors do u recommend for flood gold.

You're videos are awesome. My problem is I stay in one location too long. Still learning and paying some dues because of it. Thanks again for another great video. Peach season is pretty heavy now, so it's going to be awhile before I get up in the hills.

1/8 of a gram. Woohoo!