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Mountain Men

Mountain Men

—Most people enjoy the modern technologies and conveniences of today -- smartphones, tablets, cable and satellite TV among them -- but there are those who choose to live off the grid in the unspoiled wilderness where dangers like mudslides, falling trees and bears are all part of life. "Mountain Men" profiles some of them. Eustace Conway, who has lived at the western edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina for more than 25 years, teaches interns about the old ways of living with nature. Tom Oar needs an entire year to prepare for the 7-month-long winter on Montana's Yaak River. In Alaska, Marty Meierotto must gather enough wood to survive -- in complete isolation -- winters that can have temperatures drop to 60 degrees below zero. It's not easy, but for these mountaineers it's life as they know it.
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Season 1413 of 13 Episodes

  • Tom Oar shares his hard-earned survival secrets forged through a lifetime of experience living in the wild.

  • Tom goes for one final ride on the trapline to pull his last sets before passing the torch to Sean and Hank; Jake has a showdown for the ages when three lions are cornered in a single tree; Marty makes a last ditch run at the wolverine that has decimated his trapline all season; Lauro explores the Arctic sea ice by dog team and hunts caribou on the frozen tundra; Mike races to rebuild his cookhouse in the wake of a devastating bear invasion.

  • Lauro embarks on a new solo adventure with his dog team across the unforgiving Arctic wilderness; Bret and Ivy run into trouble when their traps vanish under several feet of solid ice; Chance's bold push into new trapping territory pays off big, leaving him and Soraya with a haul of marten to skin; Jake chases down the giant tom lion that gave him the slip a week earlier; Paul taps the raw power of pure skunk essence to concoct his most potent trapping lure yet.

  • Lauro barrels to the finish line of the Iditarod along the frozen Bering Sea coast; Mike fights to salvage his Kodiak Island homestead after a bear invasion; Chance makes a push into uncharted territory on his trapline; Jake corners a tomcat.

  • Marty rebuilds a snowmobile from scratch before facing off with a wolverine menace on his trapline; Lauro feels the fatigue on the Iditarod trail and makes a wrong turn in the dark; Bret and Ivy ascend high into the Alaska Range to hunt Dall sheep.

  • Lauro begins the longest Iditarod in the history of the famous sled dog race; Mike hunts elusive and rare silver foxes along the shoreline of Kodiak Island; Chance works to support his family through sub-zero temperatures on the trapline while Soraya prepares for the imminent arrival of their new baby; after a lifetime in the wild, Tom finally contemplates retiring from trapping; Jake has a terrifying day when his dog takes a 50-foot dive from a tree.

  • Mike journeys to an uninhabited island to hunt a herd of wild buffalo with help from the local natives; Lauro pushes himself training for the upcoming Iditarod with a grueling 260-mile run through the Alaskan wilderness.

  • While hunting for meat, Mike crosses paths with a prowling brown bear and her cub. Chance races the first snow to finish his livestock barn. Lauro and Neil smash through thick river ice to harvest beaver and fish. Bret and Ivy scale their cabin roof to install solar panels and power their homestead with clean energy. Meanwhile, Paul hits the jackpot on his coyote and beaver traplines.

  • Lauro guides his dog team through frozen wilderness to reach Neil at a remote trapping camp. On his homestead, Mike digs a root cellar into the hillside. Ivy hunts grouse while Bret preps for the upcoming season by building and boiling his gear. Chance and Soraya begin building a log barn to shield their livestock from winter. In Montana, Jake makes a daring climb to save one of his stranded dogs.

  • Bret and Ivy bust through sheets of lake ice to ferry critical equipment to their cabin by boat; Lauro and Virginia use the dog team to haul fresh cut timber from the forest for a log cabin build.

  • Chance and Soraya slaughter a ram to provide meat for their growing family; Lauro begins preparation for this year's Iditarod by taking his team on a fall training run; Tom sets his line for another season of trapping in the mountains; Jake and his brother Bo motor their way down the Missouri River on the hunt for two mule deer; Paul and Chance build a pole barn with logs from the nearby forest and home-milled lumber.

  • Marty flies to new hunting grounds in search of an elusive caribou herd; Lauro and Neil build a trapping and fishing camp to help feed their sled dogs; Mike muscles his reclaimed gangway into position to create a new bridge on his property.

  • Marty guides Noah through her first bush plane landing at a remote caribou camp; Mike hauls a 50-foot gangway across land and sea to his Kodiak homestead; Bret and Ivy fend off a hungry brown bear raiding their salmon nets.

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73 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Lion Alley
    Ice Cold
    Mountain Marathon
    Backcountry Battle
    First Kill
    Gunpowder and Lead
    Untethered
    King of the Mountain
    Alaska: Land of Promise
    Alaska: Flying High
  • Lion Alley

    Tom and Nancy make a special buckskin vest for Hank; Jake's snowmobile breaks down in the heart of Lion Alley; Paul takes on a neighbor's beaver and muskrat problem.
    Upcoming
  • Ice Cold

    Jake spends the night in the mountains after his snowmobile breaks down; Paul traps for mink and pine marten; Eustace helps a friend buy and assemble an antique sawmill; Aron and Jen harvest 12,000 pounds of ice from the lake.
    Upcoming
  • Mountain Marathon

    Tom begins the countdown to his 80th birthday; Jake and Anika tow a broken snowmobile down the mountain but run into fresh lion tracks and are back on the hunt; Paul sets out to take on a wolf pack.
    Upcoming
  • Backcountry Battle

    Kidd and Harry traverse through intense whitewater to reach the spawning grounds of steelhead trout.
    Upcoming
  • First Kill

    Tom instructs young Hank on some essential skills; newlyweds Jake and Anika hunt elk in the bone-chilling cold; Paul takes on an infestation of nuisance badgers; Ray uses bushcraft technology to haul his elk meat out of the backcountry.
    Upcoming
  • Gunpowder and Lead

    Tom packs a traditional muzzleloader on a winter deer hunt with Sean and Hank; Jake and Anika complete a successful elk hunt with a backbreaking pack out; Aron and Jen cut down dead trees that threaten to destroy their cabin.
    Upcoming
Mountain Men

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Most people enjoy the modern technologies and conveniences of today -- smartphones, tablets, cable and satellite TV among them -- but there are those who choose to live off the grid in the unspoiled wilderness where dangers like mudslides, falling trees and bears are all part of life. "Mountain Men" profiles some of them. Eustace Conway, who has lived at the western edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina for more than 25 years, teaches interns about the old ways of living with nature. Tom Oar needs an entire year to prepare for the 7-month-long winter on Montana's Yaak River. In Alaska, Marty Meierotto must gather enough wood to survive -- in complete isolation -- winters that can have temperatures drop to 60 degrees below zero. It's not easy, but for these mountaineers it's life as they know it.

Starring

Eustace Conway, Tom Oar, Mike Horstman, Harry Youren, Kidd Youren, Josh Kirk, Martha Tansy, D.B. Sweeney, Marty Meierotto, Rich Lewis, Morgan Beasley, Jason Hawk, Kyle Bell, George Michaud, Charlie Tucker

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  • Eustace and his neighbor train a stubborn stallion; Jake and his team of dogs successfully run off their first mountain lion of the season; Paul tracks and kills a young buck; Aron hunts for moose, while Jen fishes for rainbow trout.

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