Tougher In Alaska Episodes	Season 1
Back To Pazsaz Entertainment Network's Tougher In Alaska Page Gold Mining The promise of gold has lured men north to Alaska for more than 100 years. Learn how individual prospectors around the state use ingenious techniques (including a giant underwater vacuum) to extract the gold. Watch as a team of hard rock miners in the mining town of Wiseman blast through 250 feet of rock in the hopes of hitting the mother lode. Geo Beach reveals the guts, self-reliance and ingenuity it takes to prosper in this challenging land. Salmon Fishing Alaska's Bristol Bay is home to one of the greatest natural spectacles of the north: the annual run of millions of sockeye salmon to their spawning grounds. More that 2,000 fishing vessels will converge to partake in the annual catch of ten million fish. Geo Beach will go on deck with two different crews as they navigate the bay looking for the mother lode and trying to avoid collisions with other boats. Electric Linemen Explore the demanding jobs and dangerous locations on a quest to find out what it really takes to succeed in Alaska. Geo Beach flies out to the remote village of Kasigluk to help install power poles and string electrical wire by hand (there are no bucket trucks in the bush.) He'll dig in with the linemen of the Golden Valley Electric Association, who brave temps as low as minus 40 in Fairbanks, just to keep the lights on. Deadly Winter Geo takes a trip to Fairbanks during a winter cold spell. Included: a look at the work of one of the city's volunteer fire companies; a search for wolves that have been killing pets. Railroading In Alaska, human survival has historically depended on the railroad and this still holds true today. Geo Beach hops on the legendary Alaska Railroad and travels 450 miles through some of the most perilous terrain on the planet. He'll load coal at the Usibelli mine, join the rail gang in Denali, and visit the spooky, isolated end-of-the-line town of Whittier = all of this to find out what it takes to keep the railroad on track in order to supply Alaskans with what they need to survive. Logging In Alaska's Southeast Panhandle, unforgiving coastal mountains and steep valleys make logging a deadly profession. Geo Beach learns just how dangerous logging can be when he embeds with veteran loggers in the heart of the Tongass National Forest. They'll teach him how to fell giant spruce trees with a single chainsaw, "choke and chase" them with a cable-logging machine, and deliver them to the mill. Finally he'll join the most extreme loggers of them all - heli-loggers - who go deep into rugged stretches and steep areas where no roads can go. Dangerous Earth In addition to their other geographical challenges, Alaskans have learned to live with seismic changes. Host Geo Beach he can see three steaming volcanoes from his own backyard! Travel with Geo to the sinking native village of Newtok. Discover a glacier that is growing larger and threatening the town of Yakutat. Finally, fly into the Lake Clark National Park to install an earthquake-tracking GPS station on top of two colliding tectonic plates. Will a deadly storm strand the crew overnight on the mountain? Dangerous Roads Alaska's roads through the wilderness are few and hard to navigate. The only road connecting the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope to the rest of the state is the deadly Haul Road. Join host Geo Beach as he rides shotgun with one of the roads most legendary truckers during the treacherous winter season. Geo will learn how to load giant oil pipe, plow and repair over the course of this 400-mile trek. He'll even ice the road with highway workers and work with a construction crew on the historic Alaska-Canada highway. Extreme Salvaging Thousands of oceangoing vessels brave the perilous Alaskan waters each year. Host Geo Beach will join Alaska's premiere salvager, Dan Magone, as he attempts to salvage a wrecked 197-foot barge in the deadly Shelikof Strait in the middle of a severe winter storm. Geo will also explore Alaska's dramatic history of shipwrecks and ride along with elite Coast Guard helicopters on a trip to service and maintain remote navigational aid stations out at sea. Wild Waste Getting rid of waste is a problem in Alaska. In cities such as Fairbanks, only 20% of residents are connected to a main sewage system and native villages have long relied on the "honey bucket" to dispose of sewage. Join host Geo Beach as he goes to Ketchikan, the black bear capital of the world, where he races to collect trash before the bears can get to it. Then, he teams up with a remote maintenance worker who is the sole plumber, electrician and carpenter to nearly a dozen villages in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, an area the size of Washington State. Finally he'll head to Fairbanks and make house calls to help thaw frozen septic pipes and tanks so that it can be a free-flowing city once again. Artic Troopers Historically, keeping the peace in Alaska has been a unique challenge. After all, how do Alaska State Troopers keep the peace in a state two and half times the size of Texas? Geo will find out when he joins a team of recruits for an intense survival course at Alaska's Trooper Academy in Sitka, investigates caribou "crime" scenes with Wildlife Troopers in the Brooks Mountain Range, and helps the sergeant at the northernmost Trooper post in America to hunt for alcohol smugglers and arrest criminals in the remote arctic bush villages outside Kotzebue. Frozen Freeway Take a look at how different aspects of travel in Alaska are affected by climate and terrain. Join host Geo Beach as he travels to the open tundra of western Alaska to see how life moves along the Kuskokwim River, a 724-mile lifeline for many Native Alaskan communities. Then Geo plays mailman on a giant hovercraft for a day, plows out an emergency ice road so that a needy village can get heating oil before it runs out, and goes on a search and rescue mission for any stragglers on the icy, fierce frozen river. Extreme Isolation Examining how residents of the Panhandle survive the extreme isolation, often in places with no roads and in island communities. Included: touring Juneau; traveling with telephone workers who install microwave repeaters on mountain tops; going underground to harness a glacial lake for hydroelectric power.
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