CALIFORNIA’S historic drought has ended. Riverbeds, once dry, are torrents, and California’s Gold Country is living up to its reputation.
Standing on a narrow bridge over Eagle Creek, Robert Guardiola watches nearly 40 miners spread out. Wearing kneepads and waders, they have begun to organise their equipment – buckets and classifiers, hog pans and cradles – along the edge of the stream.
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