Exhausted, soaked, and pushing through doubts, we finish running our first pile through the sluice. Jack is working, but not up to par—and the gold isn’t showing up the way we hoped. Morale is wearing thin. While Paul and Wes rebuild the dredge, Dustin and Danielle head out on a fuel run. The break changes everything. Back together, spirits are up as we head upstream for our first dredge run of the season—a fresh start, a new layer, and renewed hope that the gold is still there. Sometimes all it takes is one good run to turn everything around.