NARRATOR: In the rugged cliffs of Southwest Montana,
Jake is on a high-speed chase. [howls]
Come on!
NARRATOR: To keep pace with his youngest hound.
Now I got to go ahead and catch up with Marlene.
She's trailing that calf.
NARRATOR: Who's broken from the pack
to track and tree a 200-pound mountain lion all on her own--
for a second time.
Pretty cool to see, but she probably
shouldn't be running a big column
like this by herself anyways.
Son of a bitch.
It looks like Marlene has got him locked down right now.
And that's a pretty badass sight to see.
[barking]
Wow. That's a big calf, big calf.
NARRATOR: Marlene split from the pack a mile down the mountain.
Come on, Marlene.
Good girl, Marlene.
NARRATOR: To pick up their trail,
Jake relies on his emergency tech.
I've just got Henry and Lefty located
a couple of hundred yards away.
But got a hell of an obstacle course ahead of me.
Looks like the dogs are trailing just over top of this ridge.
I've got to pick my way up through here.
This is a nasty, nasty cliff.
It's not going to be fun, but it's the only way
to get up and through here.
So let's go, Marlene.
Get up there, baby girl.
Good girl.
NARRATOR: The monster cliff faces a near vertical climb.
These rocks are slick as hell.
NARRATOR: On a coating of treacherous black ice.
It's real important that I try to stay on these dry patches.
If you look down underneath the snow here,
there's a lot of ice.
Every bit of that is slick as [bleep]..
And one false move here, and it's
going to be a real bad day.
Come on, Marlene.
This is a route I've taken in the past by myself,
but today is my first experience trying
to lead a puppy through it.
Come here. Come here.
A little further.
Come here.
Get over here.
Come here.
Woo! Close call, baby girl.
NARRATOR: In a race to catch up with the rest of his dog pack--
The conditions right now aren't
real ideal for taking this route, but we can't let up now.
NARRATOR: But sitting between him and his hounds--
I've got to Henry and Lefty up just over the ridge there.
NARRATOR: Is a 300-foot vertical wall of ice and solid rock.
Good girl.
All right.
NARRATOR: And the only way through is up.
Let's go, Marlene.
Come on. Here.
Good girl.
Come here, big girl.
Come here.
I'll lift you up through this part.
Good girl.
Get up there.
Let's go, Marlene.
One last little pull.
Climb up there, baby girl.
Good girl.
All right.
Now that I'm over the ridge here,
I need to get these dogs caught up right now.
I can hear them just a couple hundred yards away.
Yeah, that's a big cat track.
Both dogs are in it, and they're treeing just ahead of me.
I'm going to make my way up here real quietly.
I'm making my way up to these dogs.
I can hear them treeing pretty hard.
All right. Here's the captain.
You can see its butt facing towards us.
Good boy.
NARRATOR: Altogether, Jake's team treed two cats three times
in just a matter of hours.
Looks like Lefty and Henry are doing their job.
They got that cat up there.
Good boy, Lefty.
Good boys!
Good dogs!
NARRATOR: A hard day's work and a sign
that the valley's predators are showing no signs of surrender.
Now that we got this cat far enough off the ranch,
it's time to go ahead and pull the dogs
and make our way back to the truck.
On to the next one.
I feel like today was highly successful.
I've pushed away two cats instead of one.
But tomorrow is another day, so we'll get right back after it.