Mountain Men

Marty installs floats on his bush plane and flies to a remote lake to hunt moose; Lauro and Neil harvest driftwood and build a log river raft from scratch; Mike traverses hostile terrain on Afognak Island to take down a bull elk; Jake cruises the Missouri River on the hunt for a mule deer buck; Paul sets dozens of coyote traps, targeting their valuable fur to bring in cash for his new homestead.

Marty desperately searches for a bull moose that vanished in thick brush; Mike hustles to pack out the meat from a bull elk before it can be scavenged by brown bears; Lauro and Neil take their log river raft on its maiden voyage to set nets for fish and traps for beaver; Bret and Ivy haul a cast iron wood stove over dozens of miles of frozen tundra to their remote cabin; Jake continues his hunt for a mule deer on the Missouri River.

Lauro travels north of the Arctic Circle with his team of sled dogs to hunt caribou; Daniel rebuilds an old floating cabin using driftwood logs and the power of tides; Jake takes out a coyote that threatens the livestock on a remote ranch; Tom catches a red fox and transforms the hide into a warm winter hat; Paul prepares for hunting season by constructing a smokehouse on his new homestead.

Lauro hunts caribou in white out conditions on Alaska's North Slope; Bret and Ivy, buried under heavy snowfall, push to set their 230-mile trapline; Daniel launches from his floating cabin to hunt deer along the rugged coast; Jake sets the pack on their first lion chase of the winter and turns up a massive tomcat which puts them to the test; Paul takes flight in a bush plane to scout for new trapping and hunting territory.

Marty battles the brutal Alaskan winter while running his wildfire ravaged trapline in the Far North; Mike reclaims an abandoned set of solar panels to power his Kodiak Island homestead; Jake discovers a gruesome lion kill on the mountain; Tom climbs aboard a drift boat and floats the Kootenai River to trap beavers with his friends Sean and Hank; Paul hunts down buck near his cabin to fill his new smokehouse with meat for the winter.

Lauro kicks Iditarod training into high gear with a 300-mile run on the Denali Highway; Bret and Ivy go from checking traps to hunting moose, and take the opportunity to bring down a large bull; Mike responds to a bridge washout by going on the offensive against destructive beavers; Tom helps Paul with running his trapline and skinning his catch; Jake tracks a killer lion, but his hounds turn up a different kind of cat.

Mike braves icy waters to catch snow crabs living on the seafloor hundreds of feet below the surface; Bret and Ivy travel uncharted terrain to create a new trail, and build a log bridge to cross a deep creek; Tom and Nancy apply their craftsmanship skills to help a local charity; Paul constructs a trapping sled and takes it on a punishing journey to a remote beaver pond; Jake sets traps for bobcats in pursuit of their valuable hides.

In Alaska, Marty Meierotto makes a final push into the brutally cold conditions of his trapline to harvest the last of his furs, snap his trap, and fly home to his family. Mike Horstman carves a road into the side of a steep ridge to gain better access to prime hunting grounds. Daniel Peters pilots his boat through shallow waters and raging tidal currents while on a risky mission to trap wolves on the islands of Southeast. In Montana, Jake Herak faces an emergency on the mountain when his dogs brawl with an aggressive lion. Meanwhile, Paul Antczak overcomes a snowmobile breakdown to venture deeper into the forest near his new homestead, setting traps for bobcats and marten.