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.
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 RAY: 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.
C'mon, guys, let's go!
Gonna need some help?
JR CAMPBELL: It's stuck. There you go, that's it.
Jesus Joe!
JOE RAY: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
JR CAMPBELL: How do you find these places, man?
JOE RAY: 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 RAY: 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 RAY: The monsoon season's here, the rain is every day.
It's not going to quit.
NARRATOR: Over the next 2 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 RAY: 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, paste anything I want.
JR CAMPBELL: Have you ever had to shoot anyone?
JOE RAY: I, 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. Ya know, it's really sort of funny but,
ya 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 RAY: 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.
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.
You're just like him.
All you want to do is hunt and fish and ride.
I said, Thank you.
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.
BEAR CLAW: The Danger of the fire is this whole country could
catch on, 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.
This whole country could burn up in a couple of days
this time of year.
Luckily, I've got a fast horse.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DOC LEVERETT: I'm not seeing anything.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Still nothing, Jeanny.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Nothing at all?
DOC LEVERETT: Nothing. I ain't even seen a squirrel.
JEANNY LEVERETT: I only got like six cans of meat baby,
so you got to do something.
Is there any way you can head down south?
DOC LEVERETT: We could eat the bird.
JEANNY LEVERETT: No we're not eating Norman.
DOC LEVERETT: I guess if they ain't here,
I gotta go where they're at.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Yeah.
DOC LEVERETT: I'll check down by the creek.
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything.
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 aproximately
25 feet off the ground, to provide them with an elevated
perspective on the area below.
DOC LEVERETT: Thought I saw bigfoot, ha!
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 LEVERETT: 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 in our one bedroom.
Basin where you put water in just like a regular sink,
a cook stove.
Here's a 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 LEVERETT: It's up here.
DOC LEVERETT: I've got a couple trees that I can climb up and
see what's going on.
Thank you, ma'am.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Love you. Good luck. Come back in one piece.
DOC LEVERETT: Yup, hopefully with some other pieces too.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the past, Doc and Jeanny have spent more than two
weeks in their platform without ever touching the ground.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Bye! DOC LEVERETT: See ya!
JEANNY LEVERETT: Good luck!
NARRATOR: But with food stores running low,
Doc is forced to the forest floor to head out on the hunt.
DOC LEVERETT: My stomach is growling.
NARRATOR: To find solitude, some go to extreme lengths
and places.
Living beyond the grid high in the moutain 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 BURTON: 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 like 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 stretches straights here.
In the winter, there's a lot of ice that piles up.
The ice just left this lake in early May.
So, you know, 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 9 islands, several of which are completely
uninhabited.
DAN BURTON: 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.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
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.
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. Man. Nice.
It's nice when a plan comes together.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
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. 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.
BEAR CLAW: 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 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?
Time to mosey. Come on, guys.
Let's go find a new campsite across the canyon.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
NARRATOR: Bear claw will ride approximately 8 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.
Oh, man. That smoke.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DOC LEVERETT: 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 LEVERETT: Folks complain about going to the grocery
store, this is earning your dinner.
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 and they're gonna cross.
There's something down by the creek.
Looks like there's, uh, there's some sort of structure
down there.
Might of got a new neighbor.
Lookin' in my backyard.
Whew, 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.
DOC LEVERETT: Trespassers. Let's go see what we can find.
DOC LEVERETT: 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 LEVERETT: 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? Hello?
Anybody home? Hello?
DAN BURTON: 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 afternoon 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 BURTON: 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.
DAN BURTON: We're going to try and shoot right through there.
Whee, see those?
Boulder on the left, boulder on the right.
And on both sides right now, the water is probably
2 feet deep. Whee.
We don't want the wind to kick in, not right now.
These waves don't help so now we gotta start [bleep]
son of a [bleep].
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.
Yeah, this is Tag A Long looking for somebody on shore
to give me a hand.
Over.
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.
[bleep].
I don't know if anyone heard my call.
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 RAY: Coming up to another one of my stash holes here.
I gotta go down and try and find, uh, 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 RAY: 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.
This is disastrous.
JOE RAY: I got a stash where I keep Mary's mementos.
I've gotta have that.
NARRATOR: Below the grid, nearly a quarter mile from the outside
world, Joe Ray is attempting to reach an important stash of
irreplaceable mementos before rising waters
inflict any damage.
JOE RAY: C'mon.
JR CAMPBELL: How far we gotta go?
JOE RAY: 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.
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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
muliple 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.
It's, uh, it's a cooking, it's a good fire.
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, Yup, 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.
Mhmm, mhmm, mhmm, as my dad would say.
DAN BURTON: 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.
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 BURTON: One big gravel pile.
NARRATOR: With no reply on the radio and less than two hours
until sunset, Dan is in survival mode.
DAN BURTON: 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 LEVERETT: Hello? Hello?
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.
DOC LEVERETT: 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 LEVERETT: 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.
With 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.
DOC LEVERETT: 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.
DOC LEVERETT: I forget the reflective thingy,
I can use that for the back.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Yeah, that'll work.
DOC LEVERETT: Make a dehydrator. Solar dehydrator.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Okay. I can use it for the kale.
DOC LEVERETT: 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 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.
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 LEVERETT: We'll get some kale chips.
These are going to be awesome. Little bit of oil, cajun spice.
DOC LEVERETT: Good deal.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Alright, there we go.
DOC LEVERETT: Alright.
JEANNY LEVERETT: Awesome. Sun's pretty good,
it should be dry in a couple of hours.
JOE RAY: 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 RAY: I hear water.
So, uh, this, uh, doesn't sound good.
We've got to get on in there and go.
This is it. And I hope it's there.
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: What you got back here Joe?
NARRATOR: In North Central Arkarnsas, 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 RAY: 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 soul mate 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.
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 RAY: 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.
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 BURTON: 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: So what do we do now?
DAN BURTON: We'll wait and see.
NARRATOR: With no reply to his mayday and sunset approaching,
Dan's prepared for a long night.
DAN BURTON: 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. That's a plane. That's a plane.
DAN BURTON: I can hear it. Yeah, see if I can catch him.
CAMERAMAN: You think he sees us?
DAN BURTON: Knock on wood.
NARRATOR: Small engine sea planes often deliver supplies
to the remote islands in Lake Michigan.
DAN BURTON: Whooee!
NARRATOR: And if this one spotted Dan,
it will radio for help on his behalf.
DAN BURTON: Thank you!
NARRATOR: It may be hours, or even a day before rescue
arrives, but life outside the grid often means
making it on your own.
DAN BURTON: 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.
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 BURTON: 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 too 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 RAY: 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 LEVERETT: When you think you're all alone,
and you hear a tree crash, it kinda makes the,
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.
Whoa, whoa.