[Bird] Okay, Noah, hit it.
This year has been a wild ride.
It's unbelievable, actually
everything that we have been through.
I normally love the uncertainty that tomorrow will bring,
but the uncertainty has beco a little bit more scary.
It definitely feels like everything has tried to stop us.
Especially now more than eve
we have to stick together.
The ranch is the dream
that we've always fought so hard for.
The dream of living the way we wanna live
and living that way together
I'm very determined to finish strong here.
You never know what tomorrow brings.
[narrator] On the season finale of Alaskan Bush People...
Let's see this thing in action.
[Noah] We're getting close on fixing the mining equipme
and finding gold on the ranch.
-[Ami] That one fell off. -[Bam] Definitely have to make some adjustments.
[Bird] Dang it, Noah!
Rain. She's ready to come home.
And she's really ready, right?
Definitely worried about Rain.
Hoping it's not too soon to bring her back.
Here she comes.
How do we get these nuggets? Let's do this.
We have a hardrock mining expert coming up.
Any hints he can give us?
I would be in shock if it weren't gold.
[Donnie] You can run tons and tons of material..
And get yellow gold and that's what you want.
[Noah] Okay, hit it.
Big blue is on.
[Noah] Kill it! Kill!
Yeah, that needs to be fixed.
[narrator] ...autumn descend on the northern Cascade mountains
and the Wolfpack's dream of finding gold on North Star Ranch
inches closer than ever before.
[Bird] Be very careful.
With sister Rain still in treatment off mountain,
Bird has taken the lead in her absence.
[Bird] You know, we thought we had everything up and running
and it was gonna work perfect,
but now that we know there's one more little hiccup
with the conveyor belt in the distance,
I'm hoping that Noah can get it fixed before Rain gets back.
[Gabe] How's the mining equipment doing?
[Bird] We're just about to a point
where we can start, like, crushing material and stuff.
[Ami] Where's it going after you crush it?
-Where do you have set up? -[Bird] Onto the...
It's actually called the "table," I believe.
And my goal for this has tried to be, like...
Have it all set up to help get materials
to do, like, a test.
[narrator] To assess the mountain's gold potentia
the Browns arranged for a local rock mining expert
to examine their ore sample
in just a few days' time.
If the test fails to find any traces,
the Wolfpack's dream of a family-owned mining operation
would be crushed.
I admit I have some high expectations.
My expectations are we get some buckets of rock
and pour it down. Boom! On the table, gold.
We'll take any kind of precious metal, mineral,
whatever we can get.
I definitely believe that there's gold on the mountain.
We might get really surprise
You know, the first rock we throw in
might just start glittering.
Or we might look for years
and, you know, never find more than a flake.
That's the thing with gold mining.
It's a bit of a gamble.
But it can really pay off.
That was one of the biggest draws
that brought us to this property,
was the mines.
[Gabe] Well, I know ever since we got the gold equipment
from Nighthawk and everything,
Rain has believed in it 100%.
Okay, so, then, what do we need to do?
We have it set up up there.
Now we need to...
[Bird] It's Rain's baby. She knows all the details.
I'm just setting it up and then, hopefully,
she'll be back before we need anything technical.
Okay.
You know, other than the, you know, the "can do" attitude
and the excitement and the "I'm doing this no matter what..."
Yeah, I'm winging it entirely.
I have faith in this equipment.
But it does seem to have a few more setbacks,
a few things we have to fix that I didn't anticipate.
So, before we can collect some rocks
and get it, like, professionally tested,
we have to get it right.
Let's crush some rock and get some gold.
Sounds good.
[Noah] No matter how old something is,
if you put enough care and effort into it, it will work.
[narrator] In order to proce good crushed ore samples
for the hardrock expert,
brother Noah must quickly solve the jammed conveyor belt.
All right, so, biggest hit on it and rolled off
and got stuck on the inside of the bottom of the conveyor belt
and here to jam everything.
I'm gonna go through and pick out the pieces that I can by hand.
The mining equipment is old
It is rusted. It's beaten up. It's torn up.
There's gonna be stuff that messes up.
You need to realign it, redo this, undo this. It's just...
Part of the process
of putting something like this together is trial and error.
A way to prevent it from happening again, temporarily...
If I can jam this on top of the bottom belt at an angle,
it'll make it to where, as it spins,
any rocks that collect here will hit this and slide off.
There's a lot of pressure.
We don't have much time.
We need to get the crusher and all the mining equipmen up and running.
But I can fix it.
Here goes.
Never mind.
The crowbar that was supposed to stay in place didn't stay in place.
Do that again.
It's really important for Rain and Bird
that find gold on the mountain.
It'll just be a way of lifting Rain up,
lifting her spirits a bit.
Let her complete Dad's dream of finding gold here.
If they get my grinder, maybe a sledge...
It'll work.
[chainsaw whirring]
Definitely helps having a short blade.
[narrator] While the rest of the family
continues their quest for gold,
brother Bear's focus remains on building
a dream cottage for his wife and kids.
After clearing a road to his plot of land
on the northwest corner of the Brown's mountain,
Bear will clear and level the homesite.
Vision that Raiven and I really have for our permanent home
is to have this nice fairy cottage
built up on this perfect hil
I think this is the most extreme spot for the house
because it's kinda high up.
It's as high up, really, in the area as you can get.
It's got a nice overview where you can see down.
You could almost take a hang glider down it.
It's an extreme spot. It really is.
I definitely think that Raiven is gonna be happy with the work today for sure.
We're both chomping at the bit to get a house up here.
Alternately, I'm trying to leave this old, crooked tree right here.
It's probably gonna have to go,
but I'm gonna save it for last, so...
Just because it's such a beautiful tree.
It's like a tree that's grown.
The tip of it is, like, broken off
and it grew in so many different directions.
It's perfect for crouching,
for, like, just sitting on.
It's just a really cool tree.
The rest of 'em are probably gonna have to go,
but I need to get these out of here,
get the area, like, flattened and see what all to take and what all to leave.
You know, it feels really go to be in the process of building
our permanent home on the mountain for my family and I.
It's something that just feels like a real victory
because it's been a pretty hard past few years
and it feels good to actually finally have a win.
I now pronounce you husband and wife.
You may kiss the bride.
[Bear] Like most storms, you always have obstacles
and I've never had any doub that Raiven and I would pull through them.
Are you hungry?
Delicious, baby. That's really good.
Raiven and I have accomplished quite a bit with our family.
Getting us up on the mountai
and to have a lovely lady by my side
and a kid looking up to me and another kid on the way..
-It's a boy! -Blue balloons for boy.
...ah, it feels like we're finally starting to live the dream.
It made short work of that one.
[Bird] So, we only have the one feeder right now.
-Oh, nice! -Right?
[Gabe] Oh, I love it.
[narrator] The next morning
the Browns complete ranch chores
before shifting focus to the mining site.
And for sister Bird,
the hard morning labor is a welcome distraction.
Here, catch.
You missed.
Hold on, buddies. I gotta put it in the feeder.
[Gabe] Just one, or do we want more than one?
Uh, we'll do two.
So, I have another doctor's appointment coming up
that's fairly important.
It's to see if I still have tumor markings.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous.
And I'm definitely, 1,000% using the mining equipment
to keep my mind off of what's coming up.
And I feel like I just wanna focus more on other things.
I do have one, kinda, bit of, you know, good news.
Good-ish news.
What's going on?
[Bird] Rain.
I talked to her recently, actually.
Just chit-chatting. You know us. You know, just...
You know, seeing how she is and everything.
And she, you know... Then she's like...
She's coming back.
She's ready to come home.
How is that "kinda" good news? That's really good news.
I was trying to make you think that it was like,
-"Oh, I got another kitten." -[Gabe] Oh, Bird.
It's really good news.
We've definitely missed her here.
On top of just the workload,
it's, you know, it's not the same without her here.
-Nothing is. -It's very empty.
Yeah. She's been missed.
I'm so excited that Rain is gonna be back.
She's not just my world. She's my entire universe.
She's like the sun that I, like, orbit.
I miss her so much.
This is the longest that Rain and I have ever been apart
since she was born.
I am over the moon that she got the help that she needed
and that she's ready to come home.
She's ready to come home to the Wolfpack and the ranch.
I'm so excited.
[narrator] Coming up...
[Ami singing] We have a gold mine.
[Bam] Well, I have not seen it work yet.
[Bird] I wanted to make sur everything ran
before bringing anybody else in
and I think we're ready now.
That one fell off.
-Why are they falling off? -[Noah] Oh!
[Bird] This is why I wanted to do a test-run before Rain got here.
[chainsaw whirring]
Why? Cruel world, why?
[narrator] The quest for gol heats up on North Star Ranch
With a rock mining expert due to arrive in a few days
the family's dream of gold riches
hangs on bringing the 100-year-old rock crushe
back to functionality.
[Noah] Everything's lined up. Try to space them one per run.
[narrator] But for Bird, her mining endeavor
must temporarily take a back seat.
[Bird] So, I have another doctor's appointmen that's fairly important.
Today, they just do a blood test.
It's to see if I still have tumor markings
'cause I had very high tumor markings before the surgery
and they just wanna make sure they all went away.
One of the ways they discovered that it was tumorous
is because there's a certain thing in your blood
that is very elevated.
That's a sign that you most likely have a tumor still.
One of the main things I wan talk to my doctor about
is, you know, if I can have a kid.
On top of being really nervo of what they're gonna tell m
I am really nervous to not have Rain with me.
Uh, and yep, I'm 27 and I need my little sister to come with me.
But I do, you know? I wish she was here with me
and I don't think I've missed her more.
It just calms me down to have her with me.
And I'm so nervous right now.
I could use my little sister.
Her concern is that, with hormones being my enemy,
if I were to get pregnant,
that causes a lot more hormones than your body would even normally have,
and that could even up the chances of the tumors coming back
and that's definitely, you know, disconcerting to hear.
-Okay? -[Bird] Okay.
You didn't tell me they were concrete discs.
They're concrete stepping stones.
Originally, they were going to be a walkway
with glow-in-the-dark, little rocks all the way around them,
but forest fire happened before I was able to do it.
Now I'm thinking about using them up on the island.
[narrator] Up at his old house site,
Noah enlists brother Gabe to help salvage materials
as his family begins preparations for their move to Alaska.
[Noah] There's a lot of stuf that needs to be done at the Meyers Chuck place.
So we're gonna head up.
I'll be able to show Rhain and the kids what it is
and spend a couple days winterizing the cabin and the island.
Then, next summer, it's back to Alaska.
[Gabe] Very professional stacking job.
Thank you.
You wanna hear something, kind of, almost unbelievable-funny?
What's that?
Okay, so, I didn't realize it until I was there on the island.
One of the times we were going on the ferry,
and along the ferry alone,
dad and I were outside by the railing.
It was just he and I.
Dad's like, "Yeah, imagine if I owned that island right there,"
and I'm like, "Yeah, and I own that little one."
-That was Mystery Island that dad said... -Whoa.
...and the one I pointed out is the island I now own.
So I'd actually talked with Da 15 years ago
about if I owned that island
and now I own it.
I still don't think that it's really sunk into me.
I own the island
that Da and I talked about more than 15 years ago.
And that's where we're going
and that's where I'm going to build a home.
In Alaska right now
is a perfect little island waiting for us.
So we're gonna head up.
I'll be able to show Rhain and the kids.
It's all about giving Eli and Adam and my wife
Alaska.
That's all you want?
-[Noah] Yep, that'll do. -All righty.
[Bird] Oh, my gosh!
-They got so excited. -[cats meowing]
Guys, look.
Come here. [clicks teeth] Come here.
[narrator] With sister Rain
scheduled to return to the mountain later that day...
[Ami] I've been waiting a long time for this.
[narrator] ...the Browns convene for one last test of the mining equipment
before her arrival.
[Bird] What do you think Rain's gonna think?
She is going to be speechless, I think,
with amazement.
Gold mining is very important to Rain
and the kids have put a lot of effort
into getting all of this equipment working.
They worked hard to make sure that,
when she gets there, it's running.
And it is sad that she isn't getting to be
in on this portion of it right now,
but I think that all of that will be washed away
when my baby's back.
So, you've tested it. You know the machine works.
-You know that it fires up. -Yes. Yep.
The conveyor belts do actually move.
-Does the crusher crush? -And the crusher does crush. The crusher crushes.
Well, who wants to see it running?
-I'm ready. Let's do it. -Fire it up, Ma.
Let's see this thing in action.
[Bird] Noah's been fixing stuff.
I've been, you know, greasing things and fixing things
'cause I wanted to make sur everything ran
before bringing anybody else in
and I think we're ready now.
Good to turn it?
[Noah] Okay.
-Y'all ready? -[Ami] Ready.
Ready when you are, man. Let's see this thing in action.
[Bird] Ah!
[Ami] All right! [singing] We have a gold mine!
Well, I've not seen it work yet, so...
-[Ami] You ready for a rock? -Go for it.
Get them moving slow, but you don't wanna get caught in it.
So, the mining equipment works
where there's a conveyor belt
that leads into a big crushe
that crushes big rock into smaller pieces of rock
And then that goes to a conveyor belt
that goes to another crushe
that gets really crushed.
Okay, Mom, watch it here. It's almost in.
Those are mine.
[Bird] Oh, it's about to go, Mom.
There it is. Crush!
Oh, my gosh!
[Bam] Well, that one didn't go in the crusher.
And it fell off of the conveyor belt.
There goes another one uncrushed.
That one fell off.
-Why are they falling off? -[Noah] Oh!
Well...
[Bam] I know that Noah and Bird
wanted it to be more of a moment
when we actually first fired it up,
so this hasn't actually been tested that much.
The rocks were just falling off.
And everybody's like, "Yay, it's working!"
I'm like, "It's not working."
[Ami] They're all falling off.
[Bam] They definitely have to make some adjustments.
[Noah] We'll be right back.
[Bird] Dang it, Noah!
This is why I wanted to do a test-run before Rain got here.
[Noah] You said you didn't wanna do it without other people.
-You said you wanted to wait. -[Bird] Well, I know. If it...
[Bird and Noah arguing]
If it worked, I wanted Mom to be here!
[Noah] Well, all the stuff works.
We were really excited
to be able to show Rain the machine working.
However, it's not working.
This is not a case of Brown luck
'cause Brown luck ends good
This is just another problem.
The main reason that Bird and I
are doing all this work on the gold mining stuff
is for Rainy.
But we have run out of time
[Ami] Where are they?
[Gabe] It's really good to get her back, huh?
Yes, it is.
She's been gone too long.
It's very difficult when a mother sees her children
going through a difficult, tough time.
I couldn't even speak to her on the phone for a while.
Uh, we had it arranged for me to...
Rainy was the baby.
She'd never been away from Mommy that long.
I know she will come through
I have faith in God.
What she's going through is His will,
or it wouldn't be happening.
[Gabe] Here she comes.
Here she comes.
-[Ami] Hey, hey! -[Gabe] Hey!
-[Bird] Hi. -There she is!
Look who I found wandering around.
[Gabe] Welcome back, kiddo.
It's good to be back.
[tearfully] Hi, Mom.
[Ami] Missed you.
[Gabe] Aw.
[Rain crying]
I know. I know.
You can't do that again.
No, I can't.
[Ami] I love you.
To finally see Rainy getting back to the ranch was overwhelming.
I never want them to leave my sight.
When they're not with me, I miss them so much. All of them.
And it always does a mother's heart good
to see her babies and hold them.
My baby's back.
Wow. It's weird being up here again.
Good weird or bad weird?
Good weird.
-It's good weird having you back. -[Rain chuckles]
How you doing? How you feeling?
I feel good.
I feel a lot better than I did.
Okay.
So, I don't know how much Bird has shared.
Not a lot.
Um, but, basically, I just...
[sighs]
I felt like
I lost connection with that part of me,
the little me, the real me.
And when we went to Alaska,
especially with Eli being there,
it made me remember what it was like to be that little kid.
And realizing that I'm not anymore.
And I couldn't handle it
and so I went to a psychiatric hospital,
somewhere that I knew could help heal my mind.
Because it's just like when you have a broken bone.
Brown's, reluctantly, won't wanna go to the doctor.
But you have to get it fixed.
And, you know, sometimes they re-break it and they set it,
and that's what they did.
Leading up to the trip going to Alaska,
I had some reservations.
Um, and then when we arrived in Alaska,
everything reminded me about how Dad was never gonna be here again.
And that hit me really hard.
I started feeling kinda off,
um, is the best way I can describe it.
Like, my head just wasn't right.
Um, you know, I started having weird thoughts
and, you know, feeling really depressed, really down.
But I knew that something wasn't right.
I stayed in a psychiatric hospital for about a month.
And there they taught me, you know, what was going on,
uh, why I was feeling the way that I was feeling,
what was happening and how to deal with what was happening.
They helped me move past...
Not move on, but move past my grief.
It gave me a new perspective.
Yeah.
[Rain] Being in the hospita helped me exponentially.
It helped bring everything together
and helped me understand that what was happening
wasn't that un-normal, you know?
That it was something that people do go through.
I might not be back to fully-operating Rainy 100% yet,
but I'll get there.
I know you're leaps and bounds better than you were before.
Whatever you need from any of us,
just say the word and we'll be here.
I'm proud of Rainy for facing this situation,
the problem she's having.
I feel for her.
She's not an infant or a toddler that I can pick up
and make the bad things go away.
But I know she will come through
because I know God has faith in her.
And what she's going through is His will,
or it wouldn't be happening.
No matter how dark and strange it seems right now,
it will all be good.
Something that has been so hard not to tell you when we speak
is that I have been working on the gold.
And I knew that, if I could have it up and running,
so all we have to do is pour rock into it and start getting gold,
that you would be very happy.
Is that what you did?
I'm not gonna tell you everything we've done,
I wanna show it to you, but I have been working on the gold.
[Rain] It feels really good to hear
that everyone's working so hard on the gold mine while I've been away.
It definitely gives me wind in my sails
to know how much my family cares and supports me.
Honestly, I think finding gold on the mountain
is just what everybody needs.
[Noah] You ready?
[narrator] With the Browns' mining leader back on the mountain...
Okay, look up!
[Rain] Wow.
[narrator] ...the siblings turn their attention
to a gap in the conveyor,
the final hurdle
before the pack can begin processing gold.
[Rain] Yeah.
We thought it was gonna run fast enough
to just boom it in.
-No. -It doesn't... Yeah. It does not.
When we got it, the conveyor belt was actually on top of that...
-[Bird] Oh! -[Rain] ...and it was placed into it.
I'm gonna cut out the funnel.
I'm gonna cut the sides here and here
and then I'm going to bend it
so that it meets and just, like... Yay away from the belt.
Then just... It'll go right in.
I need someone to bend
and someone to hold.
I'll bend.
Okay. Ready?
-Yep. -Ready.
[Noah] Here we go.
-You good? -Yep.
This is warm. This is nice.
[Noah] Okay, so it's not burning you?
-[Rain] No. -[Noah] Okay, good.
Make sure you don't cut through it.
All right. I'm gonna count to three,
-then y'all are gonna go. Ready? -Ready.
One, two, three, go!
Rain was not supposed to see it
until we were finished and it was running.
Hammer time.
But it's nice to have Rain back.
I'm glad that she's doing go
and she's dealt with everything that she needed to
and she's back on the mountain.
It's where she belongs.
[Bird] I think that's about as close as we're gonna get it.
-We're burning the rubber. -I know, but...
Yeah, I think that'll do.
[Bird whoops]
You know how dirty that water probably is?
As long as it's not the one that had the dead chipmunk in it, I'm good.
[narrator] A hard rock gold expert is due to asses the mountains potential
in just a few hours.
But while brother Noah continues repairs on their rock crusher
youngest sister, Rain, must employee a more old-fashioned method
to generate sufficient material to pan.
-[Rain] Okay. -How do we get these nuggets? Let's do this.
So, it's not gonna be quite nuggets, it's more of a powder.
So I'm not just gonna sledge hammer this open
-and find a gold nugget? -No.
This is called a pumice.
So then, you just pick this up.
I am beyond hopeful. I absolutely know that there's gold in these rocks.
I just... I just know that it's there.
I don't even know how to explain it, I just have a sense for it,
and I'm very excited to actually see if I'm right.
So, we have these sifters.
Obviously, the big one goes on top of the little one.
And then, you have a pan underneath.
-And then you get gold. -Basically.
-Ah, yes, shaking. -You have to hold the bottom.
The goal isn't to get all of the rock into the pan.
So, see all those sparkles that are just kinda floating around with everything else?
-Mmm-hmm. -And see the sparkles
that are staying on the bottom in the pan?
The sparkles that are staying on the bottom of the pan are gold.
I don't have woven paper, leave me alone.
See, now you get what I've been saying.
Rain, she's pointing out where the gold is from the rock we crushed
and we're panning it and she's pointing out, "Oh, look, there's cold."
I'm a little nervous for sur
'cause it's like, it looks like gold,
and I want it to be gold, and Rain's saying it's gold
And, you know, I'm a little nervous that they're just gonna be like,
"Nah, you just got gold fever. That's not gold."
If we're finding little sparkles, just doing this,
can you imagine when we get these into the big crusher,
and we're doing, like, loads upon loads of giant... Like...
Oh, I know.
A couple flakes are gonna turn into let's go buy us some lamas.
What?
-[Rain] This is Donnie. -Yep. Noah invited me up here.
-[Ami] Nice meeting you, Donnie. -Nice to meet you.
My name's Donnie Hobert and I've been gold mining always,
been mining off and on for 20 years.
Did it commercially for 15.
So, it's been in my blood really.
So this is, kinda, our first go at hard rock mining.
It's gonna be a lot of work, but pays off when you're running tons of it.
Hard rock, you can end up melting it at one point.
Breaking the rest of that minerals out of it,
and then, you get yellow gold and then that's what you want.
There's still gold here. There's lots of gold here all over this mountain.
You know, back in the day this was booming and it jus shut down for a while
they don't have our technolo we got.
'Course, this ain't the best of technology, but it's working at it.
Compared to rock and hammer, you know.
I'm a little bit nervous to see what Donnie has to say about the gold.
I would be in shock if it weren't gold
because I have researched this extensively.
It would also be very embarrassing
'cause I was like, "Oh, look, there's gold!"
And then, come to find out that if isn't gold, that's...
It's gonna be crushing my dreams like that crusher is crushing the rocks.
So, what'd you think? We got gold?
Oh, yeah. I think you got gold.
You can run tons. Tons and tons of material.
That's just a bucket full, you know.
-I agree. -[Ami] That's right.
-Little more turning and you'll catch it all too. -[Rain] Yeah.
The validation that Donnie gave me
saying that this is in fact gold just made my heart sing.
I'm just over the moon excited.
The next step, is to take a bunch of the materials,
and run it through the processer, and see if we can get some gold.
And I am more than ready.
-We got gold, Mom. We got gold! -Yeah, we got gold, baby girl.
[Bird] Oh, it just smells so good.
-Mmm. [mumbles] -[Ami] What?
It does taste as good as it smells.
It, kinda, makes me wanna gag.
I mean, it is right next to a cow patty, but it just smells so good.
[narrator] The next morning before the family returns to mining,
Bird receives important test results from her follow-up appointment.
I mean, honest, I just wanted to grow old with all my cats
and not have to make any decision ever in my life, but here we are.
I haven't necessarily spoken to my family about,
you know, the decision that I have to make to, you know, have a kid or not.
I do have a hard time talking to, really, anybody
Especially when it comes to, like, medical or, you know, life decisions.
Have you spoken to your doctor?
My doctor tells me if I wanna go down the path of having kids that I can.
But I've decided to...
have a kid.
Another grandbaby.
And I get to be an aunty for my sister this time.
I know there's something special about having kids.
It's always been something that's almost seemed a littl scary for me.
But I know there's something special about it.
And the risk of possible cancer to try and have that is worth it.
I guess one thing that everything has showed me
is that it's not always a straight line,
it's not always what you think it's gonna be.
Life is an adventure.
Live your dream.
[Rain] You know, this is the first time we've heard Bird say
that she does want to have a baby someday.
And it feels really good.
Bird means everything to me, she is my whole world.
And I just wanna see her happy and fulfilled,
and I'll be by her side no matter what.
Obviously, you know, babies there's two people involved.
Is there?
So, I know before you would, kinda, entertain the idea of dating.
I'm open to the future, but I'm not headed to the Quick Stop.
I would have taken you somewhere you were actually going to meet a guy.
-[Ami] Wear your cute little skirt. -Who do you think I am?
[all laughing]
[Bird] Honestly, the more people pester me into, like try and find a guy,
the more I don't want to.
I like things to be on my terms,
uh, which is what's been hard with this.
'Cause this isn't on my term. [chuckles]
I don't know. I guess you could say I'm a hopeless romantic.
I just, kinda, believe I'll run into the guy.
What are you doing?
That's not how you spit.
I was never taught how to spit.
-Project it. -[Rain] I'm a lady.
-[Bird] You project it. -Lady's aren't supposed to spit.
[Ami] Everyone spits.
-[Noah] Hey, Gabe, look. -Yeah.
-Nothing in my hat, right? -Nothing in your hat.
If I set the hat down, like so, right? There's nothing in my hat.
I'm gonna take the hat, I'm gonna go like this.
Next time I remove the hat, I have my ferret!
[exaggerated gasp]
It's literally the cutest tricky thing I've ever seen.
Triss is my ferret. She is just the best ferret ever.
She's a super-good helper. She's my mascot.
I figured I needed some intelligent help for this so I thought I'd bring her.
[Noah] You are the generator, I'll go to the breaker,
then on our way back we'll start loading rocks.
-[Rain] Go for it. -[Bird] All right. Oh, my God, I'm excited.
-[Bam] Do you know for sure you fixed it? -It should work.
[Bird] There's only one way to know if this works, go turn it on.
[narrator] Eighteen months ago, patriarch Billy Brown,
imparted his dream of gold mining to the youngest sibling.
Gold, it's here. It's worth looking into, it really is.
[narrator] And the wolfpack has transformed the mountai into a boom town.
That's what I'm talking about.
[narrator] Now, with Rain at the helm,
the Browns are finally read to test their equipment.
If they can yield even trace amounts of gold
they can kick their mining endeavor into overdrive,
turning the mountain's natural resource into self-sustainability.
Go for it.
I have my doubts that the mining equipment will run,
but I'm pushing that to the back of my mind.
[Noah] 'Kay let's just start piling it on, come on.
This is the moment that Mom, Da, and I have talked about since forever,
this is what we've been waiting for.
[Bird] Oh, my goodness.
It's working, guys.
-[Noah] It's working. -[Rain] See, it's coming out and falling in little pieces.
-Oh, the big ones. -[all cheering]
Pretty much everybody's here and the mining equipment is actually working.
Honestly, I'm relieved.
I thought something else was gonna go wrong,
but it's actually crushing all the rock,
all the conveyor belts are working,
and it's just so exciting that everybody's here for that.
[Rain] Oh, those are so small.
I knew it would work.
Of course, baby girl. Of course.
Perseverance pays off.
-Determination. -[Bird] Yeah.
[Rhain] Hey, I think it's almost done.
Huh.
I am just overcome with emotion,
seeing all of the mining equipment working and crushing rocks.
It's just insane that we've come this far.
And it just makes me feel more connected to Da than ever
because this is a dream that him, Mom, and I dreamed.
And so, it feels really goo that all of our hard work
and all of our dream determination, is finally paying off.
All right, let's go look at the pile.
[Bird] I hope we just go down and just have gold.
Is everybody else as excited as I know Rain and I are?
That we just...
turned the gold mine on, crushed rock,
back in the day the miners purely did it by hand.
Mom, do you wanna see gold?
Right there, it sparkles.
-[Ami gasps] -[Rhain] See it?
[Ami] You know, it's a little.
But a lot of a little makes a lot.
It's like learning to walk.
First there's a little,
then there's a little mini walks, and then, soon he'll be running.
And so, soon we'll have...
bags full maybe.
I think Da would be proud.
It has been a rough year and it feels like everything this year, and last year,
has tried to stop us from trying to get this going,
and trying to build the ranch up,
and get everything back to how it was, even before the fire.
-But, in the end, we come together and we do this. -[Ami] That's right.
It brings me very much joy to see the kids and the family stick together
and preserver so much like they have.
Billy would definitely be proud.
[Bird] Eli has something to say.
-Gold. -[Ami] Gold.
-[Rhain] Wow. -[Bird] I just told him that.
He's got the fever!
[all howling]
[Rain] It's not even about the amount of gold that we get,
the gold represents a dream that came from a spark.
And that turned into a reality and that's what North Star Ranch is all about.
It's all about a dream made real.
The last couple years have not been easy for any of us.
And just maybe it's a sign that Brown luck could be changing.
[Bird] There was definitely a lot up in the air for the family right now.
Uh, I'm excited to see... To see what happens.
And I'm hoping it's a good year.
[thunder rumbling]
[Noah] Okay. Good to go.
This is what the wolfpack does, we band together and we get stuff done.
And it feels good.
It feels good to be able to help people achieve their goals.
Uh, but I'm definitely ready for the next part of this adventure.
-[Noah] Again. -[Rhain] Again.
This time, I get to come! And baby Adam.
People go to Alaska for a variety of reasons.
They're running away from something or they're running to something.
I was going to something. The future. The Meyers Chuck property.
It's a blank canvas and I'm going to fill it.
-Happy Alaska. -Happy Alaska.
[Eli] Happy Alaska!