Mountain Men is on the History Channel in Season 6. It airs on Thursday nights. This is my favorite of the reality T.V./ 'bush people' genre. They are living off the grid in the Alaskan wilderness.
Rich is hired to patrol ranches with his brave beagles. He seriously injured his back in Season 5, when he fell off a tree. That's because Rich goes on real thrilling cougar and bobcat hunts, where his dogs also get bloodied.
Eustace runs a lumber mill with his associate Preston. He was also seriously injured with a concussion last season. We have tracked their progress as they hauled their turn of the century saw mill engine and grew it into a business.
Marty is an airplane trapper. He braves all the elements to fly further out to snare the furry critters. One time he made an overnight trek after he was stranded in a snowy forest and finally made it home.
Tom is the oldest one--a gnarled-faced but tough as oak trapper, living in a dream cabin with his wife. He takes us through the whole trapping process from preparing the traps up to tanning the hides and fur pelts the way the pioneers used to do it .
They're adding more rugged individualists the past couple of seasons. These are all dying lifestyles which tamed the Wild West. There are various other copycat shows, but these frontiersmen/women have a way of warming up me as the most believable and lovable. I don't await to see it anxiously as other cable programs, so I place this up to the Winning 25 yd line. It relaxes better than milk before bed.
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