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Jason Quinten Kincade’s Gold Fever Diary, Page 7—Outline:
I brake camp, leave the Yuba River behind, and drive to an unfamiliar city to purchase food and prospecting supplies. After a sleepless night in a flee bag motel, and almost penniless, I must get to the mountains (in a remote and elevated region of the Gold [...]

Jason Quinten Kincade’s Gold Fever Diary, Page 6—Outline:
I meet the self-proclaimed Super Sniper. He’s a chubby, older man who used to snipe for gold but now scours the countryside daily on his little Honda motorcycle looking for anything that will up his bottom line.
He lives year around in his old camper, traveling from spot [...]

Jason Quinten Kincade’s Gold Fever Diary, Page 5—Outline:
A slide cuts me off from town, and bad weather keeps me in camp. The river floods and huge, downed trees race by in the current. Camp is pummeled by fierce winds. Branches are falling all around me like rain and trees could be next. I [...]

Jason Quinten Kincade’s Gold Fever Diary, Page 4—Outline:
I set up my new sluice box in the river, work a long day, and haul a couple hundred five gallon buckets of gravel to run through the box. My hands take a beating, and I have to return to camp for an equipment modification in order [...]