Mountain Men: Season 12
Season 12 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Mountain Men Season 11.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 12 Progress Shield
Unbreakable
Aug 24, 2023 · 62 min
Eustace hunts for his winter meat in the pre-dawn hours. Jake harvests a deer with bow and arrow. Tom helps his friend Paul prepare for trapping season. Ray stalks elk through knee
First Kill
Aug 31, 2023 · 62 min
Tom instructs young Hank on some essential Mountain Man skills. Newlyweds Jake and Anika hunt elk in the bone chilling cold; Paul takes on an infestation of nuisance badgers; Ray u
Gunpowder and Lead
Sep 7, 2023 · 62 min
Tom packs a traditional muzzleloader on a winter deer hunt with Sean and Hank; Jake and Anika complete a successful elk hunt with a backbreaking pack out; Aron and Jen cut down dea
Breaking Wild
Sep 14, 2023 · 62 min
Eustace and his neighbor train a stubborn stallion; Jake and his team of dogs successfully run off their first mountain lion of the season; Paul tracks and kills a young buck; Aron
Lion Alley
Sep 21, 2023 · 63 min
Tom and Nancy make a special buckskin vest for Hank; Jake's snowmobile breaks down in the heart of Lion Alley; Paul takes on a neighbor's beaver and muskrat problem; Kidd and Harry
Ice Cold
Oct 5, 2023 · 63 min
Jake spends the night in the mountains after his snowmobile breaks down; Paul traps for mink and pine marten; Eustace helps a friend buy and assemble an antique sawmill; Aron and J
Mountain Marathon
Oct 12, 2023 · 63 min
Tom begins the countdown to his 80th birthday; Jake and Anika tow a broken snowmobile down the mountain but run into fresh lion tracks and are back on the hunt; Paul sets out to ta
Backcountry Battle
Oct 19, 2023 · 63 min
Kidd and Harry traverse through intense whitewater to reach the spawning grounds of steelhead trout. Jake loses his dogs after they follow lion tracks into remote and unfamiliar te
Untethered
Oct 26, 2023 · 63 min
Jake and his dogs tree three cats in one day; Paul prepares his haul of winter fur for market and explores a new piece of land to call his own.
King of the Mountain
Nov 2, 2023 · 63 min
On his 80th birthday, Tom builds a teepee while Nancy plans a surprise party.
Alaska: Land of Promise
Nov 9, 2023 · 62 min
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
Alaska: Flying High
Nov 16, 2023 · 62 min
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 tra
Alaska: Grizzly Standoff
Nov 23, 2023 · 62 min
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.
Alaska: In the Crosshairs
Nov 30, 2023 · 63 min
Marty embarks on a moose hunt, luring a bull within his sights; Mike's relentless pursuit of foxes yields a collection of prize pelts; as Bret sets his sights on trapping wolves, I
Alaska: Cold Pursuit
Dec 7, 2023 · 63 min
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 exped
Alaska: The Fire Within
Dec 14, 2023 · 63 min
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
Alaska: Snowbound
Dec 21, 2023 · 63 min
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 jour
Alaska: Born to Run
Dec 28, 2023 · 63 min
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 do