Gold breaking all-time highs - what happens next?

• •Okay, so gold hitting $2400 is just absolutely wild.
• •He said it was like having deep roots in good soil, even when the market felt like a clear-cut forest.
• •My concern now is, how much runway does this thing really have?

Okay, so gold hitting $2400 is just absolutely wild. My father always drilled into me the importance of having a solid chunk of our portfolio in tangibles, especially gold, ever since our family timber business started getting hit with those environmental regulations back in the early 2000s. He said it was like having deep roots in good soil, even when the market felt like a clear-cut forest. I’ve been steadily building up my Gold IRA over the past decade, mostly with allocations from some of the timberland sales we’ve done in Eastern Washington, and I've got something in the ballpark of $350k committed. Seeing it perform like this feels like a huge "I told you so" moment, both to myself for sticking with it and to some of my friends who thought I was just being old-fashioned.

My concern now is, how much runway does this thing really have? We’ve seen incredible gains, and while I’m not looking to dump everything, it makes me wonder if a correction is inevitable. I’m thinking about my own kids down the line and wanting to preserve this generational wealth for them, not just ride a temporary wave. That long-term perspective is drilled into me, especially being from a family that's been managing land for generations. You don't just clear-cut for short-term profit without thinking about the replanting.

I’m also starting to get closer to the age where RMDs are going to be a factor, even if it's still a ways off. I was actually playing around with that RMD Calculator I saw linked on here a while back, trying to project what those distributions might look like when the time comes. It’s pretty sobering to see the numbers, especially with how much the account has grown. Does anyone have experience with managing a Gold IRA through the RMD phase without having to liquidate too much of the physical metal? Or am I overthinking this given how much time I still have?

What are people’s thoughts on what comes next for gold? Is this just the beginning of a sustained bull run, or are we due for a healthy pullback? How are others in similar positions (mid-six-figure Gold IRAs, with a long-term, generational mindset) planning their next moves? I'm based out of Spokane, and while I love our local community, sometimes I feel a bit isolated in these kinds of financial discussions compared to folks on the coasts.