Dirty Rotten Survival

2015 • National Geographic Channel
3.7
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Dirty Rotten Survival episodes (10)

1 Get Hardware
9/15/15
Season-only
The guys have five minutes to gear up in a hardware store before facing a 25-mile hike through the Berkshire Mountains. Setting off into untrailed wilderness they rely on their skills, improvised tool kits and grit to get them through to the end.
2 Swamped
9/22/15
Season-only
The guys head to the swampiest state in America — Louisiana — to see if they have the skills to get an old jeep through the Atchafalaya Basin. Dave has arranged to pick up an iconic World War II-era Jeep that the guys will use in their attempt to traverse the swamp. With just a canteen of water and a small swamp survival kit each, the guys test their skills to get the 1947 jeep — and themselves — through a 50-mile course in one piece.
3 Car-B-Que
9/29/15
Season-only
Dave challenges Johnny and Dick to go car-camping in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Canterbury-style. At a junkyard, they each select a vehicle to drive through the logging roads, staying at different campsites over three nights and ending at the northernmost tip of Lake Superior. Using only their cars and a few demolition tools, the guys must take whatever they can from their vehicles to use as camping resources for each night on the road.
4 Jersey Devils
10/6/15
Season-only
Homebuilder 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. Accompanied by survival expert Dave Canterbury and engineer Dick Strawbridge, Littlefield starts his journey in the center of humanity — a mall parking lot — and finishes in the least populated place in the state, the Pine Barrens.
5 Desert Express
10/13/15
Season-only
In Nevada, the guys attempt to conquer a 75-mile trek through the most barren stretch of the Old West, the route of the classic Pony Express. Do they have the skills and the savvy to tackle this bone-dry gauntlet of desert terrain...riding bicycles instead of horses? The journey begins at one of the few Pony Express stops still standing -- Middlegate Station. A high-octane prize waits for the man whose 'pony' runs best.
6 Castaways
10/20/15
Season-only
Being stranded on a deserted island with only a few items is a familiar hypothetical scenario, but Dick, Dave, and Johnny are doing it for real. Florida's Ten Thousand Islands is a 30-mile jigsaw of mangroves sprawled across crocodile-infested waters. In this barely-navigable labyrinth, there is no potable water, no place to build shelter, undulating tides that trap your boat, and predators stalking your every move.
7 Timber!
10/27/15
Season-only
Johnny takes the guys deep into Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to a 500-acre parcel of land, challenging them to build an old-school logging camp. Each must fell one tree, process it into usable lumber, and then build a camp using tools and resources from the surrounding area. Stopping only to eat, sleep, and complete an occasional side challenge, the guys will climb, chop, and build their way to a fully functioning lumber camp.
8 Hog Wild
11/3/15
Season-only
Dick, Johnny and Dave head to the heart of Texas to hunt and trap hogs from an overrun hog population, using only handmade weapons.
9 Gimme Shelter
11/10/15
Season-only
Survival expert Dave Canterbury is taking engineer Dick Strawbridge and homebuilder Johnny Littlefield to his home state of Ohio, to give them a taste of what life was like on the original Western frontier. The guys have one week to design and build hunting shelters and to forage for whatever food they can using only the supplies in their kit, their wilderness know-how, and their bartering prowess.
10 Fool's Gold
11/17/15
Season-only
Dick takes the guys to Oregon, one of the forgotten frontiers of America’s gold rush, for a mid-1800s style prospecting adventure. To give the guys the best chance of finding gold, Dick picks up some panning supplies and reaches out to a local claim owner willing to let them work his property — for the right price. Base camp is a mountain peak, crisscrossed by historically gold-rich streams and overlooked by a looming mine shaft.

About this show

Three guys. Three skill sets. Fifty states. Three men with wildly different skill sets are on a mission to reinvent the great American road trip by completing outdoor challenges in each state using elbow grease and good old-fashioned man-genuity.

Ratings and reviews

3.7
3 reviews