Dark Winter Nights

Ray Smith runs with a pack of wolves and Jan Hanscomb finds it hard to rid her house of an uninvited bear.

Sean McGee tells the story of a police bust gone awry thanks to ice and Dick Griffith literally freezes his butt off.

There’s a mysterious evil force that lives in Alaska and it’s called “The Blowhole.” Anyone who has ever seen it has learned why they always say, “Don’t stop in the blowhole.”

Josh Weiser tells the story of the most incredible experience he ever had as a tour bus driver in Denali National Park.

Dawn Erbeck shares a story about the hazards of bringing jewelry into the wilderness and host Rob Prince shares his personal experience with a life threatening case of lost and found.

Sarah Sullivan discovers as a little girl that her mother’s threat assessment radar isn’t as tuned in as she thought it was and Taryn Hughes delivers her own baby in her truck on the way to the hospital on a frigid Fairbanks night.

Champion dogmusher Brent Sass shares the hilarious story of his first attempt at caribou hunting and Bill Schnabel tells the story of how not to raise pigs for bacon.

Matt Irinaga is saved by a mysterious stranger emerging from the ice fog and Phoebe Rohrbacher meets the nicest man in Alaska in the un-nicest of ways.

Deb Horner picks up a furry hitchhiker who refuses to leave her truck, Kat Betters picks up a dead hitchhiker who miraculously comes back to life, and host Rob Prince tells the bizarre story of the time he picked up a hitchhiker in his 1982 DeLorean sports car.

Jabin Collins experiences a life-altering car accident that threatens his dream of playing high school football, but not all things that are “life-altering” alter life in a bad way.

A woman goes on a remote canoeing trip with a guy friend and gets stranded when they wrap their canoe around a huge rock.

Two men survive a fiery plane crash only to have to walk miles through snowy woods and a kid nearly surrenders to hypothermia.

Alaskans prank each other with very mixed results.

The cast of an Alaskan play decide the show doesn’t necessarily have to go on and a guy’s hat saves his life while on the job.

Alaskans escape their problems in the most fundamental way you can–running like hell.

Alaskans manage to rescue each other from certain death in miraculous ways.

Alaskan mothers give their daughters a real run for their money.

Alaskans try to solve their problems in MacGuyver ways but don’t get MacGuyver results.

What Alaskan animal should you fear the most? A bear cub, because they don’t travel alone…

A woman moves to Alaska and finds the freedom to explore her understanding of the world, leading to huge and terrifying ideological shifts.

Knute Keilland takes a prominent visiting scientist for an impromptu swim and Cody Dean steps out of his tent for a pee and makes a horrifying discovery.

Geoff Carrol fights off a polar bear with the wrong end of a shotgun and Mike Ruckhaus falls asleep behind the wheel of a Nodwell tracked vehicle while traversing frozen arctic tundra.

Host Rob Prince meets his neighbor for the first time–three years after he passed away…

Mike Speaks receives life-saving beers from the heavens on a poorly-executed winter hike around Denali.

Sam Cosnotti arrives alone in Seward shortly before Christmas and is welcomed by a co-worker to a rather unconventional Christmas Day dinner.