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Jamy May Wagner discovers a giant woolly mammoth tusk sticking out of a river bank and Matthew Sturm’s climbing companion insists he’s going to summit the mountain or die…or both.

One man tries to feed 60 people with frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving and a woman discovers you shouldn’t just burn wood for fun in Alaska.

Dave Runfola and his family and friends suffer an unthinkable tragedy and learn how to grieve that loss in an Alaskan way.

Anne Lilley tries to sleep at night under an ant farm made of voles and Gwen Helms accidentally bearsprays her maid of honor.

Laura Reed gets rescued by the US Army and Melissa Shippey misses her exit while mushing in the backwoods of Alaska.

Dave Frey gets trapped in the wilderness with four boys from the Fairbanks Youth Facility medium security jail and David Bowen sees something in a reclusive student that no other teachers have seen.

Peggy Sullivan performs an exorcism so she can go to lunch and defense attorney Bill Satterberg ends up on the defense himself.

Ryan Peterson takes a DNA test to see if he’s predisposed to any health issues and ends up finding his birth family.

Burr Lemare, Patty Burchell, and Ken Hughes all share amazing stories from Nome, Alaska!

Jenny Brown gets a valuable lesson in wilderness survival and Dan Flodin learns where his tax dollars went.

Pat Levy tries to prevent the worst man-made disaster in Alaska and Chris Zwolinski almost starts one.

Art Warbelow thinks he’s got a ghost in his garage, but his sister Cyndie knows better.

Randi Carnahan discovers to her horror that she doesn’t know that much about beavers and Bruce Miller zips up more than he bargained for.

Kaiti Ott turns her car into a fishbowl and Ashley Carrick breaks the cardinal rule of Alaska: Don’t Drive Naked.

Correspondent Ryan Peterson explores the little free libraries of Fairbanks and interviews their creators.