Bonanza Creeks water was filled with gold, but it was very cold and extremely hard to walk in. To get to the river though,you had to travel the White Pass or Chilkoot Pass. Ether way you had to be careful of the robbers and gangsters. Many died, or were killed on these difficult and deadly routes. Some who made it lost their minds from hardship and starvation. Pain was the only sound you heard on these trails to gold. Many braved the possibilities for their reason they came: Gold.