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.

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.

LaVerne Haakenson tries to call her mom's bluff and gets served a huge slice of humble pie and Hadara Ben-Israel follows her mom to Alaska as a girl only to find that her mom has had a serious change of lifestyle.

Ian Wright and Alyssa Quentin try to solve their problems in MacGuyver-like ways but don’t get MacGuyver-like results.

Travis Cole and Hayden Nevil discover that the most dangerous animal in Alaska is also one of the cutest.

Hailee McCaig goes on a remote canoeing trip with a beligerent friend and gets stranded when they wrap their canoe around a huge rock.

Scott Waterman and his friend survive a fiery plane crash only to have to walk miles through snowy woods and a kid nearly surrenders to hypothermia.

Guy brings joy to a little girl with a magical flower garden and Lynda Brandenberg tells a classic prank-gone-wrong story from her family's early days in Alaska.

Dawson Moore and the cast of an Alaskan play decide the show doesn’t necessarily have to go on, and Skip Lipscomb’s hat saves his life while on the job.

In two separate stories, Ron Boynton and Dr. Jesse Robertson escape their problems in the most fundamental way you can–running like hell.

Mike Spindler participates in a daring night rescue on Arctic sea ice and Amanda Byrd decides the best thing she can do to try and save a drowning man is to point at him.

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.

Jan Hanscomb accidentally traps a bear in her house and Linda Brandenberg recounts an old family story of when a prank “backfired.”

Ryan and Val move to Alaska from D.C. only to learn that bears up here consider hibernation to be optional and Randy Brown’s day gets weird when he finds himself in a canoe in the middle of a river holding a bear by the tail.

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

One woman starts having paranormal experiences after moving in to an apartment next to a graveyard in Juneau and another family makes a disturbing discovery on a road trip through Delta Junction.

Betsey Jacobs nearly loses her new service-puppy-in-training in a frozen river and Seth Robinson and his wife are worried about getting caught in an avalanche, so they consult with their dog. NO DOGS DIE IN THIS EPISODE so don’t worry.

Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson takes an ancestry test and tells himself he doesn’t care if it helps him find his birth parents. Turns out he cared.

An Alaska woman’s battle with alcoholism starts extremely young and ends in tragedy.

James Mennaker’s family gets caught in a flash flood, Richard Coleman goes through the ice, and Michael Daku survives a plane crash.

Tom Bachert receives an absolutely bizarre request from a stranger in the fog on a frigid night and Andrew George decides to take a few hundred salmon ice skating.

Sarah Manriquez battles an epic blizzard on Alaska’s barren North Slope in a tiny tour bus full of wide-eyed visitors to Alaska.

Turns out kids actually do get their tongues stuck to metal in winter. Host Rob Prince investigates and tries it out for himself.