There are a few things we learned yesterday in our sit down chat with Dakota Fred Hurt of Discovery’s surprisingly engaging spin-off of Gold Rush, Gold Rush: White Water. If you don’t want to lose all your gear and food, you may want to travel in the Great White North of Alaska and Canada with
On Friday’s Gold Rush: White Water season finale, we learn that getting a half-an-ounce a day is the minimum requirement for Dakota Fred Hurt and his crew. This is how much it takes to make some money as they mine the raging rapids of McKinley Cree in Alaska. And we have two exclusive clips that
There’s some big boulder-sized trouble brewing in Alaska’s frigid McKinley creek which roils through the walls and chasms of rocky terrain. It bodes poorly for our two main characters from Gold Rush: White Water — father and son, Dakota Fred Hurt and Dustin Hurt. Tonight’s episode illuminates how one’s luck can turn on a dime
On tonight’s Gold Rush: White Water, life and death hang in the balance. We have a front row seat to a dangerous work day for Dakota Fred Hurt’s crew, including his son Dustin Hurt and Rich Webster, a greenhorn who is new to this season. The fear of being crushed to death underwater is a daily
We have a dramatic exclusive clip from tonight’s Gold Rush: White Water that shows Dustin Hart and Rich Webster underwater — about 12 feet below the raging McKinley creek when a calamitous event occurs. Having your air supply run out while underwater is truly a worst-case scenario in diving. Our clip shows that the air
On tonight’s heart-stopping edition of Gold Rush: White Water, mother nature teaches Dakota Fred Hurt and his crew a serious lesson as diver Carlos Minor gets trapped underwater in the raging McKinley creek. In Monsters and Critics’ exclusive clip, we see what seems to be a short distance and an easy assignment turn into a
On tonight’s episode of Gold Rush: White Water we see how easy it is to mix signals and screw up simple communications when the backdrop is a noisy raging creek, and everyone is on high alert for safety. In Monsters and Critics’ exclusive clip, the mood goes from outright anger to levity in a split
On tonight’s Gold Rush: White Water it’s American ingenuity on display. Wes Richardson is a welding can-do Texan who makes some equipment for Dakota Fred Hurt and Dustin Hurt out of what looks to be salvage scrap metal. He is a blowtorch-wielding wizard as he fires up and solders pieces of metal and heavy-duty screening
Good times await you on the next episode of Gold Rush: White Water as Dakota Fred Hurt nearly has a cow watching his son Dustin Hurt orchestrate a ballet of heave-hos and hoists. We hold our breath, and pray the expensive dredge dangling in the wind doesn’t wind up swamped and upside-down in the McKinley
Fred Hurt, aka Dakota Fred, could shame Chuck Norris in his heyday. This fit septuagenarian is going strong still with no signs of slowing down, and if you listen to what he says, constant activity and strength-related tasks on a daily basis are key to a youthful old age. Dakota’s a badass, pure and simple.