If you’re like me, you’ve not watched a single frame of Discovery’s Gold Rush. But that’s about to change now that the show’s producers have unleashed a wicked new Behind the Scenes episode. It ain’t news, but one look at what the production crew has to go through up there in the Klondike will make anyone with a camera groove in their shoulder wince in solidarity. Killer mud, pissed off prospectors, rogue excavators! Reminds of a few groundbreakings I’ve attended. Then again, nothing I’ve seen on the golden shovel patrol can compare to what folks like Nick O’Mealley experienced while living for months in the middle of untamed Alaska. Don’t believe me? See for yourself – just don’t go around trashing those ‘pampered’ production crews. After all, when’s the last time a hungry bear bum-rushed your ribbon-cutting?

Been at least a couple of months for me…