LOVE IT OR hate it, “The Legend of Mick Dodge” has become a reality TV hit on the National Geographic Channel.
And now Pat Neal — Peninsula Daily News’ “wilderness gossip columnist,” salmon and steelhead fishing guide and the “mayor of Oil City” — has joined him on Episode 5 — titled “Food Run” — for the show’s Season 2.
Episode 5 with Mick and Pat originally aired nationwide on Tuesday and repeats on the NatGeo channel on the Port Angeles-Sequim-Port Townsend area’s Wave Broadband standard cable network (and other services, including satellite — check your online listings) at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. tonight.
You also can buy and watch Episode 5 (and other episodes of “The Legend of Mick Dodge”) via Amazon.com’s Instant Video service.
“For decades, legendary wild-man Mick Dodge has lived an unusual life, relying on natural resources as much as he can to survive,” according to a promotion for the episode.
“But Mick doesn’t shop in an ordinary store for common items. He scours the rivers, oceans, homesteads and any other place he can think of, in hopes of getting his hands on the sustenance he needs . . .”
And, in a brief video (posted below) promoting the 25-minute show, “Mick ventures into Oil City to meet up with the Mayor [Pat Neal] and ask him for some help fishing . . .”
(And if you know where Oil City is located, you’re a true expert on the North Olympic Peninsula.)
We’ve also added some of the promotional photos of Mick and Pat from Episode 5 in the photo box above.
Check out more photos and videos at http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/episodes/food-run/video/.
You can read more about “The Legend” himself — according to NatGeo, he “leads a barefoot subsistence lifestyle in the Hoh Rain Forest” — by searching “Mick Dodge” in the PDN’s online news story archives.
Pat Neal’s column is in the print edition and electronic eEdition of the PDN every Wednesday.
Here’s the promo video from “Food Run” (also at YouTube’s http://youtu.be/VpJ_YlAHiUg ):
