JOE RAY: Some people are scared of the dark...
Not me.
I choose the darkness.
Moved underground, under the grid, under the world.
A lot of people don't come down here and that's the way I like it.
DOC LEVERETT: One morning I woke up and I decided that
I had (BLEEP) had it.
Some people get off the grid.
We got above the grid, up in the trees.
Up here, I'm the only predator and nobody bothers us.
BEAR CLAW: Living on the ridgeline, high above the grid,
- everything else seems small. - (HORSE NEIGHS)
I'm where I'm supposed to be, out here in the middle of nowhere.
DAN BURTON: I volunteered to be a castaway,
cut off from the world.
In America, you got choices and this is my choice.
This is life outside the grid.
NARRATOR: In the age of technology,
the electrical grid is expanding and the world is getting smaller.
For some, finding peace of mind
means hiding out where no one thinks to look.
To escape, they redefine off the grid.
The edge, there is no honest way to explain it.
Because the only people who really know where it is,
are the ones who've gone over.
JOE: In the caves,
I found a world that doesn't exist out there.
Under the grid, I found the peace and the quiet
that I've always wanted.
This is where I belong and this is where I'll stay.
I'll be here 'til I die.
Okay, this looks like a little hole that we fixin' to drop in.
So, uh, before I drop in this hole,
beard's gotta drop in the shirt.
This looks real tight too, I don't know about your camera.
So, uh, here we go.
We have to, uh, descend into the bowels of the earth.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
C'mon, guys, let's go!
Gonna need some help?
(MAN GRUNTING SOFTLY)
JR CAMPBELL: (GRUNTS) It's stuck.
There you go, that's it. (GRUNTS)
(CONTINUES GRUNTING)
Jesus, Joe!
(JOE LAUGHING)
JR CAMPBELL: How do you find these places, man?
JOE: Okay.
NARRATOR: Over the last two years,
Joe Ray has spent most of his time underground.
Making his home within the Ozark Mountains of North Central Arkansas,
Joe occupies hundreds of the nearly 2000 documented caves in the region.
Carved from limestone, over centuries of erosion,
this underworld contains subterranean lakes,
a labyrinth of tunnels, and large caverns
that Joe uses for shelter and storage.
JOE: It keeps me young. That's one good thing about it.
A lot of young folks come up here and they go, "Holy (BLEEP)!
"I ain't going in there!
"I ain't doing that!"
Getting closer!
NARRATOR: Today, as National Geographic Channel cameras join Joe Ray,
he's in the midst of preparing for one of his most difficult times of year.
JOE: The monsoon season's here, the rain is every day.
It's not going to quit.
NARRATOR: Over the next two months,
monsoon season in Arkansas will deliver heavy rains to the area.
Often causing regional flooding.
These rising waters can infiltrate Joe Ray's underground world.
Submerging entire tunnels and caves.
JOE: We're headed around to my armory.
Watch your step.
The caves are flooding and I got to move all my stuff
before everything goes.
It's not a good sign.
I've got lots of water and mud on the floor here
and lots of excess water dripping off my ceilings.
So I know this cave here is going to, uh,
be submerged here pretty soon, won't be long.
We'll empty this one and then we'll head to the next one.
These are some of my babies here.
This gun I've had, probably, 20, 30 years.
Never failed me.
I've got another little .32 Savage here.
This is a 1907 model, this is an old gun, still shoots like a charm.
I love it.
This one here is my really most secure gun,
my little 12-gauge pump.
Within 50-75 yards, eh, I'll paste anything I want.
(JR CAMPBELL SPEAKING)
I, I've never actually had to shoot anyone.
A lot of people don't even want to talk to me, you know.
I've went into town a few times on foot and stuff
and people feel sorry for me.
I've had people buy me dinners and stuff for, they say,
"Here, you need some food."
You know, it's really sort of funny but, you know, I always take it.
It's a free meal, hey!
Let's load up and get on outta here
'cause I gotta go save the rest of my stuff.
NARRATOR: With his guns secure, Joe will continue to safeguard
his belongings from rising waters.
Chief among them is a stash of irreplaceable mementos
that belonged to his wife, Mary,
who passed away nearly two years ago.
JOE: I got a stash where I keep Mary's mementos.
That's more dear to me than just about anything.
I've gotta have that.
She loved this place as much as I did.
(BIRD CALLING)
BEAR CLAW: I don't know why anybody would want any more than this.
Nice campsite, a couple of fine mustangs,
a good dog, and a good rifle.
The first time I rode by here, I thought,
"Man, if I could ever put a lodge right up on top,
"I would be in heaven."
I pursued my dream.
It's a wild country but I love it very much.
Haven't shaved in 20 years.
Takes up too much time.
Of course, you know, my family always thought I was crazy.
Thank you very much, but my dad always said
that I was just like one of his uncles.
(IMITATING HIS FATHER) "You're just like him."
All you want to do is hunt and fish and ride.
I said, Thank you.
(CHUCKLES) I knew I couldn't be the first one.
NARRATOR: Beyond the grid, Bear Claw makes his home in Western Idaho,
high atop the ridgelines of the Clearwater Mountains,
part of the Northern Rockies.
Up here, Bear Claw found a place removed from the modern world,
one he believes resembles the frontier of the early 1800s.
BEAR CLAW: Of course when I was a kid, my mother said,
I'd like to come out of the house just once and not see you
climb up in that tree.
I don't think it ever happened though.
There's a pretty good fire going right there in them trees.
Must have exploded in there, burning up.
Right over there, I see a white speck.
This is going to be a bad time of the year.
It's dry as a tinderbox everywhere.
NARRATOR: Here in Idaho, a lack of rain has resulted in a severe drought,
causing serious issues to contend with.
Frequent wildfires have been plaguing the region,
and over the past week, flames have reached forested areas
less than a mile from Bear Claw's camp.
The danger of the fire is this whole country could catch on,
and burn down,
and I don't wanna burn up with it and all my critters.
So I'm gonna move my camp.
You can tell it's really dry out here
cause this horse's hooves are as hard as rock.
(COUGHS)
This whole country could burn up in a couple of days this time of year.
Luckily, I've got a fast horse.
(CROW CAWING)
DOC: I'm not seeing anything.
Still nothing, Jeanny.
Nothing at all?
Nothing. I ain't even seen a squirrel.
I only got like six cans of meat, baby, so you got to do something.
Is there any way you can head down south?
- We could eat the bird. - No, we're not eating Norman.
(CHUCKLES) I guess if they ain't here, I gotta go where they're at.
JEANNY: Yeah.
DOC: I'll check down by the creek.
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything.
DOC: Woke one morning in the city, the day that I had the revelation
that I was going to get away from it all.
Things barreling down on my chest and I realized I (BLEEP) had it.
I'm done.
I'm getting rid of everything and I'm going on to the mountains
and I'm going to go build me a tree house and that's where I'm going to live.
And that's what this means, "I have (BLEEP) had it."
And that became our slogan.
NARRATOR: Doc and Jeanny built their tree house
approximately 25 feet off the ground,
to provide them with an elevated perspective on the area below.
- Thought I saw bigfoot. - (MAN CHUCKLES)
NARRATOR: In the far northwest corner of America,
they live in the treetop canopy of Onion Creek, Washington.
Amid over 1 million acres of dense forest near the Canadian border.
DOC: Everything that we own,
it fits in this little 10 by 10 structure here.
And, uh, and we're happier for it.
We tried to get everything as compact as possible.
Everything that you could want for in a regular house
we have here in our... Our one bedroom.
Basin where you put water in just like a regular sink,
a cook stove.
Here's the grocery store.
...30-06 to handle just about anything we want to eat up here.
Is my climbing gear up here or down there?
JEANNY: It's up here.
DOC: I've got a couple of trees that I can climb up and see what's going on.
Thank you, ma'am.
Love you. Good luck.
Come back in one piece.
Yep, hopefully with some other pieces too.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the past, Doc and Jeanny
have spent more than two weeks in their platform
without ever touching the ground.
JEANNY: Bye! DOC: See ya!
JEANNY: Good luck!
NARRATOR: But with food stores running low,
Doc is forced to the forest floor to head out on the hunt.
- (GUN COCKS) - DOC: My stomach is growling.
NARRATOR: To find solitude, some go to extreme lengths and places.
Living beyond the grid high in the mountain tops,
or far below it, deep underground.
In the middle of Lake Michigan
lies a place removed from the world known as Beaver Island.
Outside the grid.
DAN: I decided to move to Beaver Island with my family to get a fresh start.
There's no roads tying to Beaver Island,
there's no highway, the people are tough.
If they don't want you here, they're not going to let you stay here.
I like that. I choose to live like that.
Probably the most special thing in terms of wanting to move here was the, uh,
lack of population, simple living.
Let's go for a ride.
With the unique isolation factor, you know,
being out here in the middle of Lake Michigan,
you're going to get people that come and go,
but the population stays about the same usually.
You know, one of the most remote areas in the continental US.
This beach line, this stretch of straits here,
in the winter, there's a lot of ice that piles up.
The ice just left this lake in early May.
So, we're just getting on the water.
You know, summertime, it seems you're spending your whole time
working your butt off for wintertime.
It's a small window.
NARRATOR: Out here, 18 miles from the mainland,
Dan Burton makes his home amid the freshwaters of Lake Michigan.
He lives within the Beaver Island archipelago.
A series of nine islands,
several of which are completely uninhabited.
DAN: So, basically, I'm looking this beach line to bow fish.
The season just started.
It's early and we want to get fishing as quick as possible.
You gotta be a couple sticks ahead of the fire.
It's not that long we're gonna be right back to freezing rain,
snow, and ice again.
When the seasons change, and the water's warming up,
fish come in here to bed down, and to, and to eat.
So they're coming right up to the banks.
You know, it's nothing to see a 36-inch pike, or carp,
you know, big bass.
(EXCLAIMS SOFTLY)
You know, it just takes patience.
You gotta kind of sit around and just wait, let 'em settle back in.
Oh, you see, there's one coming in right over here.
Ooh! Ooh!
Dang, got 'em!
Yeah.
Bam! Nice!
It's nice when a plan comes together.
BEAR CLAW: I don't know if you've noticed but the ravens
haven't been around today.
They're usually here.
I think they know there's a fire somewhere.
Time to mosey. (COUGHS)
Maybe you ought to move, too.
We all gotta get to a safe place.
NARRATOR: Beyond the grid in Western Idaho,
wild fires are now threatening areas
less than one mile from Bear Claw's camp.
(COUGHS) I can't do smoke and dust so it's a big factor for me.
My lungs are bad.
NARRATOR: To make matters worse,
he's long suffered from a respiratory condition aggravated by smoke.
BEAR CLAW: I don't feel comfortable this close to a fire.
This time of year, being prepared
is literally a survival tool tool that we have to have.
Taking off, five or ten minutes, you're in the saddle and you're gone.
- What do you say, pretty girl? - (HORSE SNORTS)
Time to mosey. (WHISTLES)
Come on, guys.
Let's go find a new campsite across the canyon.
(HORSE SNORTS)
NARRATOR: Bear Claw will ride approximately eight miles west,
even further beyond the grid,
to insure safe distance from approaching flames.
BEAR CLAW: C'mon, boys.
NARRATOR: He relies on his horses, Rainbow and Idahe,
to move along the ridgelines, navigating steep terrains.
BEAR CLAW: These horses take me wherever I want to go.
All you gotta do is spend enough time with them,
and they know what the scoop is.
I think they know there's a fire somewhere,
- they know it's time to mosey. - (HORSE SNORTS)
(COUGHS) Oh, man. That smoke.
DOC: If you're gonna be hunting deer, a deer stand is the ticket.
I don't have a traditional deer stand.
Hopefully my steps are still good.
Haven't been out here in a while.
NARRATOR: In the woods of Eastern Washington,
Doc Leverett and his wife, Jeanny,
make their home high above the grid.
Now, as Doc aims to replenish their food supply,
he'll rely on that same elevated position to hunt for game.
DOC: Folks complain about going to the grocery store,
this is earning your dinner.
(BIRDS CALLING)
Deer, they have a lot of speed.
You're not gonna catch 'em.
You're not gonna run 'em down.
It's kind of an ambush hunt.
You have to be somewhere they're gonna cross.
Huh. There's something down by the creek.
Looks like there's, uh, there's some sort of structure down there.
Might have got a new neighbor...
(DOC SPEAKING)
(SIGHS DEEPLY) I guess I'm gonna go exploring a little bit.
Hopefully, it's not one of these knuckleheads that move out here,
and they read a book on how to survive in the wild,
and they gonna do it.
NARRATOR: Five years ago, Doc first moved above the grid
to escape the snares of civilization and the crowds that come with it.
The structure he spotted is less than a half-mile
from his treehouse.
Trespassers. Let's go see what we can find.
DOC: It looks like I might have me a new neighbor.
NARRATOR: In Onion Creek, Washington,
Doc and Jeanny Leverett
moved high above the grid to escape civilization
and the crowds that come with it.
But after spotting signs of newcomers less than a half-mile away,
Doc is on high alert.
DOC: One of the reasons we came up here was to get away from it all.
When we arrived here,
no other human had ever hung their hat here.
Every structure, every...
Everything you see that isn't nature produced,
me and Jeanny built it with our own two hands.
We don't have too many trespassers
but we don't have too many repeat trespassers.
I've heard of the Three S rule,
it's shoot, shovel, and shut up.
It's some type of treehouse, here.
Hello?
Anybody home?
Hello?
So right now, we're basically coming right in
between Garden Island to my left,
Hog Island kind of straight ahead to the right,
and Beaver Island is straight behind us right now.
Hopefully, this evening, things work out, and we get the right weather.
And hopefully, we'll come home with some fish.
Otherwise, I'm gonna be resorting to squirrels.
NARRATOR: In the middle of Lake Michigan, far outside the grid,
Dan Burton has traded in is his kayak for an outboard motor.
DAN: I want to try one more hotspot.
NARRATOR: In search of a new fishing hotspot,
he'll use his bow to target the remote waters near Hog Island.
And we're going to try to shoot right through there.
(EXCLAIMS SOFTLY) See those?
Boulder on the left, boulder on the right.
And on both sides right now, the water is probably two feet deep.
(EXCLAIMS)
We don't want the wind to kick in, not right now.
These waves don't help, so now we gotta start...
- (LOUD THUD) - (BLEEP)
Son of a (BLEEP).
(MOTOR WHIRRING)
C'mon, baby.
It hit hard enough to kill the engine.
Oh, man, that prop is (BLEEP).
See if I can pull myself into that island.
Okay, you stay, Titus.
Let's get it in and get it somewhere safe.
Oh, man!
The prop's broken.
I bent this one over and I lost the whole tip of this one.
I'm going to get on the radio right away
and see if I catch somebody before it's too late.
See if somebody will run out to us.
I'm gonna need a little help.
(RADIO CLICKS)
Yeah, this is Tag A Long looking for somebody on shore to give me a hand.
- Over. - (STATIC HISSING)
Tag A Long, looking for someone to give me a hand.
I got a, uh, prop that I tore up.
If somebody could run me one out.
Over.
(STATIC HISSING)
(BLEEP)
I don't know if anyone heard my call.
(STATIC HISSING)
Anybody out there?
C'mon, Bird Dog, this is Tag A Long.
Tag A Long looking for some help.
I don't wanna be out here all night.
JOE: Coming up to another one of my stash holes here.
I gotta go down and try and find, and save it if, uh...
It all depends how the flood is or how the rain,
there's been lots of rain.
NARRATOR: For the last three days,
rains have intensified in North Central Arkansas,
causing flooding underground.
Below the grid, Joe Ray is attempting
to safeguard a cache of irreplaceable mementos
before rising waters inflict any damage.
JOE: This is it.
Yeah. (BLEEP)
I've got a big problem here
because this is usually always completely dry.
Now I've got lots of water, so...
It's time probably to do a little swimming.
I don't know if y'all's camera gonna be able to go or not but,
uh, we've gotta get on in there and go.
I gotta have that stuff.
Mary's mementos...
This is, uh...
JOE: I got a stash where I keep Mary's mementos.
I've gotta have that.
NARRATOR: Below the grid,
nearly a half mile from the outside world,
Joe Ray is attempting to reach an important stash
of irreplaceable mementos before rising waters inflict any damage.
JOE: C'mon.
(JR CAMPBELL SPEAKING)
JOE: Well, there's no telling. My stuff is washed away.
We might try and look for it.
It all depends how this gets.
We might have to swim.
It's gonna get deeper going back.
There'll be no doubt about that.
You can't take the camera, you better leave it, but, uh,
we gotta roll.
Ooh, this water's cold.
It's still rising.
We can't go this way any farther.
We're gonna have to turn around and go back.
Maybe I go in another way, as long as it's not flooded.
This is, uh, this is impossible.
Unless you don't value your life.
We need to go back out and go to the other cave.
BEAR CLAW: We're just gonna check the direction of this wind.
We can see the smoke rising over here where the fire is burning.
NARRATOR: In Idaho, fire fighters are working to contain
multiple wildfires in the Clearwater Mountains.
Fires are burning less than a mile from Bear Claw's old camp.
But after traveling further beyond the grid,
he's now three miles from the flames.
BEAR CLAW: It's filling that canyon full of smoke over there.
(COUGHS)
It's, uh, it's a cooking, it's a good fire.
(COUGHS)
I like to drink mullein tea to soothe my lungs.
Three leaves ought to be good and strong.
Make a little fire and cook up some tea.
There we go. We got us a little flameage.
Don't take too long.
Before I came to the mountains, I got sick.
I got really sick, my lungs were bad.
Back in Wisconsin, I worked in a factory too long,
and weld smoke got to my lungs, and, so, I...
I ran out of there puking, the place where I was working.
They sent me to some doctor, and, of course,
he had to mix up a solution of weld smoke.
Said I had to breathe it for 30 seconds.
I told him I was going to die.
Then he goes, "Yep, you're allergic to weld smoke."
I said, "Well, I already figured that one out."
That's why I left that job.
Then I ended coming out here where I really wanted to go.
The best thing that ever happened to me.
Out here, all these plants are the doctors.
They'll take good care of you.
Everything you need is right out there, just got to go get it.
(SLURPS)
"Mmm, mmm, mmm..."
As my dad would say.
DAN: This is Tag A Long looking for somebody on shore to give me a hand.
I got a busted prop, and I'm gonna need some help.
(STATIC HISSING)
Anybody roger that?
NARRATOR: In the middle of Lake Michigan,
on an uninhabited island,
Dan Burton's boat has been immobilized outside the grid.
DAN: One big gravel pile.
NARRATOR: With no reply on the radio
and less than two hours until sunset,
Dan is in survival mode.
DAN: When you're broke down, and, uh,
dead in the water, it's frightening.
You know, it's scary.
It's scary to think that you gotta possibly stay the night.
It's a heart-pounding moment.
You make do with what you got.
Right here! A little gardener snake.
If you're starving, there's dinner.
DOC: Hello?
Hello?
Don't wanna catch anybody off guard here.
Man, somebody started to build a grand structure.
NARRATOR: In Onion Creek, Doc Leverett is investigating
potential newcomers less than a half-mile from his treehouse.
Guess they were gonna build them a grand mansion in the trees.
NARRATOR: But after surveying the area,
there are no immediate signs of life.
DOC: Lots of folks come out here.
They've read a lot of books.
They've heard a lot of tales of people coming
and living the dream in the wilderness.
Then they get out here and realize that mother nature is not very forgiving.
There's no learning curve out here.
Stuff everywhere.
I always find something useful.
Old refrigerator rack.
Got an idea though.
This is perfect.
There's so many different things that you can do
with somebody's cast off stuff.
NARRATOR: Doc's given name is Lee Leverett.
But he earned the nickname "Doc" decades ago
for his ability to fix just about any problem.
As long as you don't come home empty-handed,
I guess it's a good day.
NARRATOR: After 16 years in the Navy,
he learned to maximize the resources at hand,
often reusing and repurposing unlikely materials.
I forgot the reflective thing, I can use that for the back.
Yeah, that'll work.
DOC: Make a dehydrator. Solar dehydrator.
JEANNY: Okay. I can use it for the kale.
DOC: I'll see what I can come up with.
We spent our first winter in this place and it is way too small.
A lot of things have been removed but this was the basic structure.
So, this has just become our workshop.
We had some other siding up that I've used to make our new one,
but, uh, this is where we learned some of the hard lessons.
Really roughing it.
Solar dehydrator uses the heat from the sun's rays
to remove the moisture out of food.
We use the metal as a reflector in the back.
You can buy it in the store,
but mine will probably last just as long,
and it won't cost near as much to run it.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
One solar dehydrator.
It's not going to win no beauty pageants.
But it will work.
I'mma get this set up in the sunshine.
(JEANNY SPEAKING)
These are going to be awesome.
Little bit of oil, cajun spice.
DOC: Good deal.
JEANNY: All right, there we go.
DOC: All right.
JEANNY: Awesome.
Sun's pretty good, it should be dry in a couple of hours.
JOE: This is the only other option that I have right now
unless I go back through and want to swim and, uh,
maybe drown.
NARRATOR: Below the grid in Arkansas,
heavy rains have flooded multiple tunnels
obstructing Joe Ray's path to a cache of personal belongings.
For two hours, he searched for an alternate route
unaffected by the flood.
JOE: I hear water. So, uh, this doesn't sound good.
We've got to get on in there and go.
This is it.
And I hope it's there.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
Yep we've got a problem here, this is already starting to water up here
but it looks like all my stuff is still here.
(JR CAMPBELL SPEAKING)
NARRATOR: In North Central Arkansas,
heavy rains are causing flooding
in the underground caves of the Ozark Mountains.
Navigating a labyrinth of tunnels below the grid,
Joe Ray has managed to reach his most important belongings
before rising waters could inflict any damage.
JOE: Thank God everything's still here and it hadn't flooded in here yet
because this is really the most important to me.
Everything I've got here is irreplaceable to me
and I, I have to keep this.
Well, this one was the first picture we ever had made together.
The very first one.
If there was ever a soulmate made for me, she was it.
I'll probably never find another one like her.
I was really pretty wild before I met her.
She saved me actually.
The smile she had, she always had this smile.
(VOICE BREAKING)
She brought such joy to my life.
It's just hard to imagine her gone.
But life goes on.
I mean, she's not suffering anymore.
So I'm happy for that.
Because, I mean, she was to the point where she suffered every day.
NARRATOR: Joe cared for Mary for nearly 15 years
as she suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
After she passed, he retreated under the grid
in search of peace and solitude.
JOE: She's with me in spirit and soul.
I can feel her in all the caves I go to.
It's like she's always there watching over me.
She's like my angel now. (SNIFFLES)
She's safe, so that's all that counts.
I've got everything that really matters to me right here.
So, uh, let's, uh, hit the trail.
DAN: Tag A Long looking for some help.
Anybody out there?
Bird Dog, you out there?
This is Tag A Long still needing some help.
Over.
NARRATOR: In the remote waters of Lake Michigan,
outside the grid,
Dan Burton's boat has been immobilized on an uninhabited island.
(CAMERAMAN SPEAKING)
We'll wait and see.
NARRATOR: With no reply to his mayday and sunset approaching,
Dan's prepared for a long night.
DAN: I don't know if anyone heard my call.
If not, we're here.
Trapped with hardly any boat traffic
unless somebody comes through fishing, so I just gotta keep...
CAMERAMAN: Wait, wait, wait.
- (PROPELLERS WHIRRING) - DAN: I can hear it.
Yeah, see if I can catch him.
(CAMERAMAN SPEAKING)
DAN: Knock on wood.
NARRATOR: Small engine sea planes
often deliver supplies to the remote islands in Lake Michigan.
(DAN WHOOPING)
NARRATOR: And if this one spotted Dan,
it will radio for help on his behalf.
Thank you!
It may be hours, or even a day before rescue arrives,
but life outside the grid often means making it on your own.
DAN: Well, we're gonna hang out, make sure the boat stays here.
Did you bring your sleeping bag?
BEAR CLAW: We always carry a sword on our saddle,
cutting brush, stabbing bears, things like that.
This will work great.
Looks like we've got everything we need here.
We'll have a shelter in no time.
NARRATOR: In the Clearwater Mountains,
Bear Claw has finally found a new camp,
10 miles from the nearest wildfire.
BEAR CLAW: I'm just tying a few poles up, lashing them down.
NARRATOR: He strategically crossed the Clearwater River
to use its waters as a fire break and settled at high elevation,
above the tree line.
BEAR CLAW: Looks like a good shelter to me.
This is exactly the kind of campsite I was hoping to find.
I can see where the fire would go
and if anything does happen, I can see it coming.
I could saddle them horses up, and we can mosey on farther.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
My home is wherever the sun goes down.
That's where my home is.
The freedom that I have, this is good for a man's soul.
NARRATOR: This season on The Boonies.
DAN: Living out here on the water, you're always treasure hunting.
There's treasure all over.
I'm sure it's here. I don't see anybody beating me to it.
You just got to be out there, and, uh, willing to dive in and get it.
This is an amazing place.
There's gonna be something around every corner.
JOE: This is the shaft we'll be going down in, right here.
And these shafts could actually go for miles.
I mean, it's always dangerous.
You never know what's gonna come.
Let's go check it out and see what's happening.
DOC: When you think you're all alone,
and you hear a tree crash,
it kinda makes... Makes the hair stick up on the back of your head.
We got a bear hunting for food.
I don't mind sharing the woods with 'em
but I do not want to share my house.
BEAR CLAW: Waking up this morning,
knowing that I'm headed out for a pack trip,
this is what I live for.
There is nothing more I would rather do.
- (HORSE WHINNIES) - Whoa, whoa!