Marty escapes a blizzard and flies home from the trapline to reunite with his family; Lauro runs a 100-mile dog race and gets closer to qualifying for the Iditarod; Daniel takes down a black bear to provide meat for his family.
Marty digs his bush plane out from a deep snow drift to preserve his one lifeline in the bush; Bret and Ivy escape an avalanche from their cabin roof before embarking on their journey back to home base.
Buried under record snowfall, Marty fights to heat his cabin and maintain his trapline; Lauro and Neil brave the icy Yukon River with their sled dogs, while Mike ingeniously crafts a driftwood windmill to power his homestead.
Marty has a near death experience when he plummets through ice on a frozen waterway; meanwhile, Lauro journeys deep into the untouched backcountry by dog team to establish an expedition camp.
Marty embarks on a moose hunt, luring a bull within his sights. Meanwhile, Mike's relentless pursuit of foxes yields a collection of prize pelts. As Bret sets his sights on trapping wolves, Ivy balances duties at the homestead.
In the interior, Marty Meierotto puts the stalk on a group of caribou, but the hunt takes a wild turn when a family of grizzly bears comes charging toward his camp.
Marty instructs his teenage daughter Noah as she pilots the bush plane; Mike hunts a herd of Kodiak bison and donates the meat to friends in town; Lauro and Neil check their traps and fishing nets on the Yukon River.
Marty returns to his trap line to find it destroyed by wildfire; Mike hunts an elusive herd of Kodiak elk; Lauro and Neil Eklund journey down the Yukon River by log raft on a quest for beaver and fish.
Will I eat? Survive the winter? Get perilously close to a grizzly? The challenges of off-the-grid life in the 49th state are presented in excruciating, engrossing detail in this Mountain Men spinoff.
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