

Dirty Rotten Survival
2015 · National Geographic · 60 min · 1 season
S01E10 · Fool's Gold
Wed, 18 Nov, 2:00 pm
Dick takes the guys to Oregon, one of the forgotten frontiers of America's gold rush, for a mid-1800s-style prospecting adventure. Base camp is a mountain peak, crisscrossed by historically gold-baring streams and overlooked by a mine shaft.
About
"Dirty Rotten Survival" is an outdoor adventure trek seasoned with a dash of grit, "man-genuity," and a whole lot of MacGyver'ing. National Geographic Channel challenged a survival savant, an engineer-inventor and a construction guru to hit the road and test their mettle by competing in location-inspired outdoor challenges across several states using a different, limited set of tools in each episode.
Episodes
- E01
Get Hardware
Wed, 16 Sept· 60 minHome builder and jack-of-all trades Johnny Littlefield is taking survival expert Dave Canterbury and engineer and former military colonel Dick Strawbridge on a 25-mile hike through the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.
- E02
Swamped
Wed, 23 Sept· 60 minThe guys go to the swampiest state in America, Louisiana, to see if they have the skills to get an old jeep through 50 miles of its largest swamp, The Atchafalaya Basin, with no food, a canteen of water each, and a small swamp survival kit.
- E03
Car-B-Que
Wed, 30 Sept· 60 minDave challenges Johnny and Dick to go car-camping in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Canterbury-style. Starting at a junkyard, they each select a vehicle to drive through the logging roads and ending at the northernmost tip of Lake Superior.
- E04
Jersey Devils
Wed, 7 Oct· 60 minHomebuilder and jack-of-all-trades Johnny Littlefield is flipping the standard survival trek on its head with a 50-mile hike through the most densely populated state in America: New Jersey.
- E05
Desert Express
Wed, 14 Oct· 60 minJohnny, Dick, and Dave head to central Nevada to conquer the most daunting desert stretch of the Old Pony Express route, and to make their epic trek even more challenging, they're doing it on bicycles they cobble together themselves.
- E06
Castaways
Wed, 21 Oct· 60 minDick is bringing the guys to an island buried deep into Florida's Ten Thousand Islands, part of the largest expanse of mangrove forests in North America.
- E07
Timber!
Wed, 28 Oct· 60 minThe guys head deep into Washington's Olympic Peninsula to build an old-school logging camp, using only tools and resources from the surrounding area.
- E08
Hog Wild
Wed, 4 Nov· 60 minDick, Johnny and Dave head to the heart of Texas to hunt and trap hogs in the center of an overrun hog population, using only handmade weapons.
- E09
Gimme Shelter
Wed, 11 Nov· 60 minDave takes Dick and Johnny to his home state of Ohio to give the guys a taste of what life was like on the original Western frontier, the birthplace of America's Northwest Expansion.
- E10
Fool's Gold
Wed, 18 Nov· 60 minDick takes the guys to Oregon, one of the forgotten frontiers of America's gold rush, for a mid-1800s-style prospecting adventure. Base camp is a mountain peak, crisscrossed by historically gold-baring streams and overlooked by a mine shaft.
Cast

Dave Canterbury
Dave Canterbury

John Littlefield
John Littlefield

Dick Strawbridge
Dick Strawbridge









