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-Up in the
Tobacco Root Mountains,
the sun's finally caught up
to Jake and his pack
and they're ready to roll.
-All right, so I found this
track early this morning
in the dark,
and I wasn't able to turn up
another one,
which is a good thing.
So we've only got one job
to do today.
We'll see if the dogs
can't get this kitty pushed
back up on the mountain.
Marlene.
Here it is.
Here it is. Here it is.
Good dog! Good dog!
[ Dog barks ]
Good dog.
Well, just like that,
we're off to the races.
-On the cat's scent and kicking
off the first hunt of the season
are Marlene, Mardel, and Blue,
three of Jake's
most seasoned trackers.
-Coming into the season
this year is a little different
than all the ones in the past.
We don't have any pups anymore.
Everybody's fully trained.
Everybody I would consider
to be a veteran this year,
so I'm hoping that this year
I can put out less dogs.
I'm going to do two to three
at a time instead of letting
go half the pack.
I rely on these dogs each
and every day,
so it's going to be nice
to run smaller packs
and be able to have
extra dogs at home
that are ready
to go for the next day.
♪♪
All right.
Let's see where these dogs are.
Oh, they're covering
some country.
-At top speed,
the dogs are running as fast as
15 miles per hour,
leaving Jake in the dust.
-They went over top of this
ridge and they're dropping down.
So I need to get up
to the top here
and see if I can't catch up
to them.
-He'll track them on GPS
while he closes the gap,
a trek that can take hours
in this treacherous terrain.
♪♪
-Can't quite hear
these dogs yet.
I should be getting
close enough to
where I should be hearing them.
They're across the canyon
here in a patch of timber,
and it looks like they're --
Yeah.
They're just a little
over a half mile right now,
so I should start hearing
them here pretty soon.
It's definitely nice
to have snow on the ground,
but, uh, tough,
tough snow conditions.
I'm slipping and sliding,
and I'm using a lot more energy,
but, uh, either way,
I've got to keep pushing.
-The dogs are trained
to stay on target
until Jake arrives,
no matter how long it takes.
♪♪
[ Dogs barking ]
-All right. I can really hear
those dogs now.
They can't be far.
Oh [bleep]
Well, that's not good.
I've definitely got
something funky going on here.
The dogs were peeling
up the creek here,
and Marlene just took --
went about 100 yards
and pulled up, treed.
I think she's down here
treeing by herself.
I'm going to get up here and see
what the heck I got going on.
[ Barking continues ]
♪♪
What do you got here?
-Holy cow!
You got it pushed way up
in that tree.
-...Jake's first shot
on target...
-You ain't supposed to be
chasing a bobcat.
-...is a misfire.
-It's definitely
a big old bobcat,
but it's not what we're after.
And I've got Blue and Mardel
heading up the drainage here
on the creek.
So I'm just going to pull
Marlene off
and get her lined back out
with those other two.
And hopefully she catches up
to the rest of the pack
and catches that lion.
Good girl, Marlene!
I'm not going to tell
Marlene she did a bad job.
She caught a cat.
Good girl! Marlene!
Let's go! Mama! Here.
Come on, let's go.
You did good.
Catch you up with the rest
of them.
♪♪
-The detour puts Jake
even farther behind.
But making up time
on the steep cliffs
is a tall order
with fresh powder on the ground.
-Holy crap.
The snow is really starting
to pick up.
Um, kind of let up there
for a minute,
and now it's really starting
to come down again.
All right.
I've got dogs starting
to tree way down here below me.
Looks like they're all
barking pretty good right now
and they're staying put.
So I think they got it treed.
Um, I just got to cover
about three quarters
of a mile to get to them.
Hopefully they got me a cat
caught.
♪♪
[ Dog barking ]
♪♪
Mardel.
Mardel decided to climb the
tree, so I got to get up there
and help her down as quickly
as I can.
We've got a cat
on the top of the tree,
and Mardel is about halfway up.
Mardel climbing a tree,
it's a disastrous deal
because if that mountain lion
decides it wants to attack her,
she's going to be
pretty well helpless up there.
[ Barking continues ]
Come on. Good girl.
That cat only knows
two ways down the tree,
and that's to climb down it
or jump out of it.
Good girl, good girl. Good girl.
One of those options
is going to be
right over top of me
and the dog.
So if this cat comes down
right now,
me and the cat are going to end
up in hand-to-hand combat,
which is the last thing I need.
Good girl. Come on.
♪♪
♪♪
Come on, deli.
[ Barking continues ]
♪♪
You good?
[ Barking continues ]
Got it?
You got it, baby girl.
[ Barking continues ]
You're good, you're good.
[ Barking continues ]
♪♪
[ Barking continues ]
All right. Holy crap.
[ Dogs barking ]
[ Barking continues ]
We got this mountain
lion pushed back,
and it's time
to get my butt off the mountain
and get these dogs fed,
and we'll be right back at it
again tomorrow.
Here. Good dogs! Good dogs!
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