10/07/2026
Pretty darn cool to see one of our own on the HISTORY Channel!
Great Slave Lake Lodge guide Connor McMahon is one of the new cast members of Mountain Men: Wild North.
When Connor isn’t guiding guests for us at Great Slave, he’s up in the Yukon running dogs and living the kind of northern lifestyle that makes him a pretty natural fit for a show called Mountain Men.
The new series premieres tonight in the U.S. on HISTORY and tomorrow night in Canada.
We’ll definitely be watching and cheering Connor on!
Mountain Men Season 15 Cast: Who Are the New Faces?
Mountain Men is returning with a very different group of faces at the center of Wild North — but these aren’t people suddenly learning wilderness life because television cameras showed up.
Rob Bauer lives in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, and is originally from Stettler. His own posts give a glimpse of the practical work behind his life. In May, he was moving his sawmill setup and casually joked that he “sure wish[ed]” he had a helper. It is a small detail, but one that says plenty about someone accustomed to building, maintaining and doing the work himself.
In Ontario, Kielyn and Dave Marrone have spent years creating their life together through Lure of the North. Their work can take them into remote areas to install solar systems or fell trees, sometimes requiring a canoe just to reach the property. Kielyn also shares mushroom foraging, climbing and time exploring the surrounding lakes and trails. This August, the couple celebrated 15 years of marriage and 20 years together, then entered their first Spartan race without formally training. Kielyn joked that “the lifestyle we live, keeps us pretty ready for a butt kicking every so often.”
Connor McMahon’s Yukon life looks completely different. Based in Carcross, he runs with the dogs of Feral Racing, and his posts regularly show long teams disappearing down snowy trails, sometimes with 16 dogs pulling ahead of him. Connor has already competed in the Iditarod, finishing 20th, and returned to the trail for the 2026 race. For him, dog mushing isn’t something introduced for the show — it is already a major part of everyday life.
Randy Barrass offers another glimpse of Alberta self-reliance. One of his recent projects was building and improving a firewood processor before joking that he could finally spend the summer putting up wood for the next winter. In another post, reflecting on his life and time spent with his brother and uncle, Randy summed up his preference simply: “Alone is best for me.”
Broc Simoneau’s world is closely connected to hunting and guiding in Saskatchewan. His posts show experience with bear, moose and whitetail, while his interest in hunting has also taken him much farther from home. He has written about experiences in places including New Zealand, Scandinavia and Africa, often treating hunting as something learned, taught and passed between generations.
Aron and Jen Toland, meanwhile, may already look familiar to longtime viewers. At their remote property around Eliguk Lake in British Columbia, the couple took on an old fishing lodge and gradually transformed it into an off-grid home and wilderness operation. Their days revolve around building, repairs, food growing and preservation, foraging and constantly finding ways to make things work far from ordinary conveniences.
A sawmill in Alberta, remote solar work in Ontario, sled dogs charging through a Yukon night, winter firewood being prepared months ahead, a Saskatchewan hunting tradition, and an old British Columbia lodge becoming a home.
The faces may be new, but the wilderness life isn’t. The cameras are simply arriving at stories that were already well underway.
Mountain Men: Wild North premieres October 7, 2026.
