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NARRATOR: Deep in Alaska,
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hundreds of miles
from anywhere...
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SUE: It is not for the meek.
It's not for the timid.
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If you question
your own abilities,
be somewhere else.
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...the clock is ticking.
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AGNES:
We have to really prepare
ourselves for the cold winter.
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NARRATOR:
Temperatures are dropping.
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ERIK: This is a seriously
harsh environment.
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NARRATOR:
And daylight is disappearing.
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SUE:
Winter's barrelling down on me
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like a freight train.
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NARRATOR: On this season
of Life Below Zero...
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SUE: There was a bear sighting
just a few hundred yards away.
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Everybody feels
it's gonna be an extremely
aggressive bear year.
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GLENN: This is very
hungry country where I am.
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There's a reason
why I'm the only person
within many miles of here.
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Whoa!
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If I fell down, it would
be a slow, painful death.
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Whoa!
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ANDY: A lot of people die
every year in Alaska
going through the ice.
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Ah, shit.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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This time of the year,
it doesn't matter
what you feel like,
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you still gotta get up
and get the job done.
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Whoa! We got a live one.
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CHIP: We are hunters,
not farmers.
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We chase it down and kill it,
or we get nothing at all.
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You can break down,
freeze to death,
you can crash,
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but you gotta get out there
and earn it.
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ERIK: It's hard when you're
cold and you're shaking.
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If it was easy,
it really wouldn't be fun.
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SUE: My name is Susan Aikens,
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and I live 197 miles
above the Arctic Circle,
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just a few miles
from the Arctic Ocean.
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I live by myself out here at a
place called Kavik River Camp.
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Population, one.
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The meat that I hunt directly
means I live or I die.
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I still don't have enough
to get me through the winter.
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Gonna go a ways up river
and set up a tent
and see what I can get.
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The goal is
I need to fill my freezer,
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to put it in my belly,
so I don't die this winter.
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Weather in the Arctic
is absolutely unpredictable.
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Every sign says
big, bad winter again.
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So I have to be
prepared for snow, cold,
pretty much the whole gamut.
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It's the changing
of the guard.
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Summer and the bounty of that
summer is going to go away.
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The caribou migrate out.
They're gone.
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The bears go to bed,
they're gone.
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Most of the birds migrate out,
they're gone.
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So if I'm gonna get meat,
I've gotta get it now.
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I'm hoping to leave
with an empty sled
and come back with a full one.
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Night-time is back,
northern lights are back,
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it's just a quick slide now
into the fun
that we call winter.
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NARRATOR: To stock up
for the impending winter,
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Sue heads toward
where the Kavik River
meets several valleys,
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a prime spot to source food.
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SUE: There's your ptarmigans.
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Oh, I see some ptarmigans
way out there.
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I think I'll just have
to get close and see
where they're hiding.
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Where there's one,
there's usually more.
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I do have one,
let me go find him.
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All right, well...
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At least we got
one for dinner.
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Thank you, little birdie.
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This is a good first step
in filling my freezer.
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But I'm gonna need to
do a whole lot more hunting
to survive this winter.
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ANDY: I have ideas for how
I want my life to be
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and you can make the life
you want when you live out
in the bush like this.
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There's nobody telling you
what to do or what not to do.
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I'm Andy Bassich.
I live here at Calico Bluff.
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Ever since I was a young boy
I kind of had this gut feeling
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that I wanted to
live out in the woods.
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When I moved up here,
I didn't know anybody,
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didn't know anything
about Alaska,
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but there were something,
some deep drive inside of me
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that put a calling to me to
come out here and live here.
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KATE: My name is Kate Rorke.
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There are no roads
to where I live.
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No close neighbours,
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just a whole lot of wildlife
and 20 sled dogs.
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ANDY: In Alaska we call it
subsistence living.
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Years ago they would have
called it a frontier life,
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living out in the woods
and being self-sufficient
as much as possible.
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For us, in the upper Yukon,
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we go from summer to winter
very, very quickly here.
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Fall times are very short
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and there's a lot to do
in the fall,
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with harvesting gardens,
hunting moose,
and catching fish
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for both ourselves
and the dogs.
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And we only have
about three weeks to do that.
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KATE:
It's a major hurry now to get
the wheel across the river
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so that we can get
the good fish
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and get them as fresh
as we can to put up
for ourselves.
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NARRATOR: Andy and Kate rely
on their home-made fish wheel
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in order to secure food
from the river,
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but getting it in the water
is a gruelling task.
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ANDY: It's a big job
putting a fish wheel in.
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Especially when it's just
one or two people.
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Quite frankly,
everything that has to do
with fish wheels is heavy.
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It takes a lot
of self-motivation
to live out in the bush.
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You've gotta be able
to push yourself.
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If you're a person that
when the going gets tough,
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you just, kind of,
sit down and wait it out,
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you're not gonna do
very well out here
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because that resource
will either go by
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or your opportunity
will be missed.
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We're the last community
in Alaska before these fish
go into Canada.
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So we're at the end
of the line, basically.
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So even though a run
comes in really strong,
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if it's fish like crazy
down in the middle
and lower river,
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there may not be
a lot of fish in this run
that make it up to here.
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We know when
they're expected to come,
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but we don't know what
the numbers are gonna be.
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KATE: So right now every
minute counts at getting
that wheel in the water.
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So the quicker
we get it in the water,
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the more luck we're gonna
have at getting some fish
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to put up for ourselves.
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CHIP: I didn't come here
to hide from anything.
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I didn't come here
to find myself.
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I just took the skills I have
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and I focused it
into the proper way
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a man should make
a living for his children.
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Whoa.
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AGNES: That's one big leg.
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-Yee!
-Yup, the meat here
don't come in
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pretty little
plastic packages.
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It comes wrapped in skin.
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We have to skin it,
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we have to take
the muscle groups apart
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and separate the bones.
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There.
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CHIP: It's a lot
of work all right,
but it's well worth it.
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It's really clean food.
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It's beyond organic.
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I'm Edward Hailstone,
my friends and family
call me Chip.
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I live with
five of my daughters
and my wife here
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in Noorvik, Alaska,
along Kobuk River.
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And I live
a subsistence lifestyle.
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We hunt.
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We fish. We gather.
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And we do it as a team.
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My name is Agnes Hailstone.
I was born in Noorvik,
raised here.
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I've been here
pretty much all my life.
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My daughters were born here
and hopefully
they'll do the same.
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CHIP: So, I'm thinking
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this place needs a cache.
We need a place to put this up
and to hang it in.
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-Yeah.
-The best thing to do is just
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-build a little
something here.
-Just build here?
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Yeah, we could use it
this winter until we're
done with it,
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so the caribou we get here
will go in the cache.
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-Yeah, it'd take at least
10 logs per wall.
-AGNES: Yep.
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And it's gonna take beams
for the floor,
beams for the roofing.
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-So I'm probably
looking at, like, 50, 60 logs.
-AGNES: Okay.
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NARRATOR:
With dark winter approaching,
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the Hailstones will soon
partake in their most
crucial hunt of the season.
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In preparation, they must
replace their old meat rack
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with a new cache
that can store
larger quantities of meat.
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CHIP:
When we're gathering wood,
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we have to go
at least five miles away
from this town.
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-Look at that!
-AGNES: Even skinny ones...
Oh, wow, we scored!
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Even those little ones will
do fine for the top, yeah?
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CHIP: They should.
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AGNES:
Wood have so many purposes,
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especially when we live up
here in the extreme cold
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and it's always good
to have extra laying around,
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because even your neighbours
is gonna run out of fuel
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and they'll end up
having to rely on wood.
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(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
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They all say
he who chops his own wood
heats himself up twice.
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CHIP: So, I'm throwing
these logs out in the river
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and she can bring
the boat right up to them,
add a loop or two to them,
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and then go to the next one,
and go to the next one.
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We're doing something
that's terribly efficient
and terribly useful.
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And the benefits
out of this is everything
from heat to buildings,
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and then back to
heating that building.
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Looks like the wife
is coming down,
catching up with the logs,
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and looks like, um,
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all the ones I've tossed
in there along the bank here
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are ready to get picked up
here pretty soon.
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She's adding rope
and tying them in a bunch.
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I think she's doing
a good job.
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I was gonna
go over there with the wife,
and go jump in the boat,
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and maybe start
manoeuvring her
a little faster.
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Here's the next bunch, right?
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Okay. Take this out
and attach it to that one.
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AGNES: Right on.
We're not leaving any behind.
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They're all following.
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This enough for now.
This is a good load.
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So this is all ahead,
full steam right now.
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-(AGNES LAUGHS)
-But it's been a good day.
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I've got a good load of wood.
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I can sort this stuff out
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and get started
making something.
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In traditional days, this is
exactly what they would do
to get their firewood.
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They'd go at the end
of the year when it's all
nice and dry like this,
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and they'd float them on down
the river this time of year
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in rafts like
we're doing here,
and that would be that.
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And get through the freeze up
when you can't
go out and gather,
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when the ice is too thin.
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GLENN: I live out here
because I really
enjoy this lifestyle.
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I enjoy
the autonomy it affords.
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I enjoy the competence
it demands.
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I like the connection
to nature I feel when I live
the way I do here.
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My name's Glenn Villeneuve.
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I live 200 miles
north of Fairbanks
in the Brooks Range of Alaska.
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I'm a 60-mile walk
from the nearest road.
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My nearest neighbour lives...
I don't know how far away.
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I picked this place because
nobody else was utilising
the resources here.
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It was a place where I could
go hunt, trap, fish,
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live as close to
the land as I wanted to.
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And it's the place
I consider home.
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It's early in the morning.
It's just barely
starting to get light,
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and this is the first day
that I've decided that
I wanna look for a moose.
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With almost
nothing else to eat,
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I can get by
for six months on a moose.
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Okay. That has a razor
sharp edge on it now.
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That'll shave hair
right off of my arm.
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When you're eating
very little carbohydrate,
like I often am out here,
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I have to get about
three quarters
of my calories from fat.
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Mmm.
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Fat's hard to find.
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A lot of animals
don't have enough fat
to go with the meat.
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The really critical thing
is to get a moose
with a lot of fat on it.
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This is the time of year
when the moose are mating
and bull moose stop eating.
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And every day that passes,
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the longer it takes me
to get a moose,
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the leaner
that moose is likely to be.
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This magazine
holds four rounds,
228
00:13:23,189 --> 00:13:25,724
but if everything goes right,
229
00:13:25,791 --> 00:13:28,127
it's only gonna
take one to kill a moose.
230
00:13:32,165 --> 00:13:34,200
When I pull the trigger
and that moose drops,
231
00:13:34,267 --> 00:13:36,169
that's six months
food right there.
232
00:13:36,236 --> 00:13:39,271
(WHISPERING)
I have to be really careful
not to make noise.
233
00:13:39,338 --> 00:13:42,474
More often than not
I've detected moose
234
00:13:42,541 --> 00:13:45,745
by ear
rather than by seeing them.
235
00:13:50,716 --> 00:13:54,520
A lot of times, it takes
10 days to find a moose
236
00:13:54,587 --> 00:13:56,489
before I get
a good shot at one.
237
00:13:57,556 --> 00:14:01,027
So I just have to be
patient and pace myself.
238
00:14:01,094 --> 00:14:04,230
Keep my energy going
so that I can get a moose
239
00:14:04,297 --> 00:14:07,166
and I'd have energy left
to get the moose home.
240
00:14:09,936 --> 00:14:11,170
I just heard a moose.
241
00:14:13,272 --> 00:14:15,341
I just heard a moose
over this way.
242
00:14:18,745 --> 00:14:20,813
I gotta get across
this wet area
243
00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:22,615
before I can start calling.
244
00:14:22,682 --> 00:14:24,684
Once I get on the other side
of the water,
245
00:14:24,751 --> 00:14:27,020
I'll try to get him
on good ground.
246
00:14:27,087 --> 00:14:28,521
If I kill him
in this wet spot,
247
00:14:28,588 --> 00:14:31,424
it would be a disaster
trying to get him out of here.
248
00:14:33,459 --> 00:14:36,729
Hunting on foot I can't cover
nearly as much territory
249
00:14:36,796 --> 00:14:38,564
as if I had a motorboat,
250
00:14:38,631 --> 00:14:41,400
or I was in an area
where I was using
a four-wheeler.
251
00:14:49,475 --> 00:14:51,543
I see a big moose.
252
00:14:51,610 --> 00:14:53,680
I can't tell
if it's a cow or bull.
253
00:14:53,747 --> 00:14:55,915
I can't see the head yet.
I can't see the antlers.
254
00:14:58,885 --> 00:15:01,854
It's a cow and a bull.
I can only shoot bulls.
255
00:15:01,921 --> 00:15:04,790
If I can get that bull,
it's gonna be worth
dragging it down from here,
256
00:15:04,857 --> 00:15:06,659
but I can't go much further.
257
00:15:20,974 --> 00:15:23,175
(MIMICS MOOSE CALL)
258
00:15:25,678 --> 00:15:28,380
They keep moving further away
from me into the forest,
259
00:15:28,447 --> 00:15:30,516
further and further
away from the lake.
260
00:15:30,583 --> 00:15:33,753
And I really need to get them
close to the lake
so I can get him home.
261
00:15:35,588 --> 00:15:38,925
The bull's
right behind the cow.
I can't shoot right now.
262
00:15:51,637 --> 00:15:53,406
It moved.
263
00:15:53,473 --> 00:15:57,143
It takes days walking around
to find a moose.
264
00:15:57,210 --> 00:15:59,245
Then you gotta get
close enough to it.
265
00:16:00,512 --> 00:16:02,548
I'm just getting way
too far away from the lake.
266
00:16:02,615 --> 00:16:04,516
If I had to move a moose
from here all the way down,
267
00:16:04,583 --> 00:16:08,087
I'd have my hands full.
It would take me a few days
probably to get it home.
268
00:16:08,154 --> 00:16:09,822
So I've pretty much
given up on this one.
269
00:16:11,224 --> 00:16:12,825
It's a beautiful moose.
That's too bad.
270
00:16:13,826 --> 00:16:15,628
It's just a beautiful bull.
271
00:16:18,231 --> 00:16:22,034
Every year
that I've been out here,
I've always gotten a moose.
272
00:16:22,101 --> 00:16:23,436
And it's always scary
273
00:16:23,503 --> 00:16:26,438
because there's always
the chance I don't get one.
274
00:16:26,505 --> 00:16:27,773
And if I don't get a moose,
275
00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,176
it would be really hard
for me to live out here.
276
00:16:33,579 --> 00:16:38,417
SUE: I live dynamically close
to my environment.
277
00:16:40,052 --> 00:16:43,823
It's right up my backside
and I'm crawling on top of it.
278
00:16:43,890 --> 00:16:45,691
So we better be
able to get along,
279
00:16:45,758 --> 00:16:47,292
say "sorry" when we do
something wrong,
280
00:16:47,359 --> 00:16:49,428
and "thank you"
when it goes right.
281
00:16:54,533 --> 00:16:57,870
I've been riding the ridge
a little bit so I can
get a good look over.
282
00:16:57,937 --> 00:17:03,376
Now I wanna just drop in
and follow it
and see what I see.
283
00:17:03,443 --> 00:17:05,277
See if there's
a good, little campy spot.
284
00:17:05,344 --> 00:17:07,713
See if I like the setup.
Am I seeing sign?
285
00:17:07,780 --> 00:17:10,049
If not,
I'll go towards the river.
286
00:17:10,116 --> 00:17:14,486
All's you can do is check
it out, and throw the dart,
and hope for the best.
287
00:17:14,553 --> 00:17:16,355
NARRATOR: With winter
on the horizon,
288
00:17:16,422 --> 00:17:20,559
Sue Aikens is on a quest
to secure food
for the long months ahead.
289
00:17:28,567 --> 00:17:31,604
SUE: I got a nice little
valley that might funnel
some animals in.
290
00:17:31,671 --> 00:17:34,807
They can come
down this valley,
291
00:17:34,874 --> 00:17:37,142
down that valley,
292
00:17:37,209 --> 00:17:40,879
up this one,
or down that one.
293
00:17:40,946 --> 00:17:44,183
I mean, it's as good a shot
as any. I say I set up camp.
294
00:17:45,951 --> 00:17:48,320
When it gets dark out here,
295
00:17:50,022 --> 00:17:52,724
you definitely
feel vulnerable.
296
00:17:52,791 --> 00:17:56,128
Expect it to be a pretty
brutal year with the bears.
297
00:17:56,195 --> 00:17:59,765
NARRATOR: Living by herself,
hundreds of miles from
the nearest hospital,
298
00:17:59,832 --> 00:18:03,736
Sue must protect herself
from the region's
many apex predators.
299
00:18:05,504 --> 00:18:08,774
SUE: This is going to be
some bear fencing.
300
00:18:10,075 --> 00:18:12,211
I'll get it to go
around a few times
301
00:18:12,278 --> 00:18:15,681
and then you hook up the
battery to it and some leads,
302
00:18:15,748 --> 00:18:18,116
and zap!
303
00:18:18,183 --> 00:18:21,953
A little bear tries to make
a snack out of Suzie,
he's gonna get macked.
304
00:18:22,020 --> 00:18:25,491
Sometimes all's you need
is a couple of seconds
to get yourself ready.
305
00:18:31,197 --> 00:18:32,998
ANDY: Alaskans are
very unique people.
306
00:18:33,065 --> 00:18:36,868
We're all very independent,
especially people
living out in the bush.
307
00:18:36,935 --> 00:18:39,338
We're all very inventive,
308
00:18:39,405 --> 00:18:41,039
tough, hardy souls
309
00:18:41,106 --> 00:18:43,142
that wanna take
care of themselves.
310
00:18:53,052 --> 00:18:56,188
NARRATOR:
Andy and Kate must get
their fish wheel in the water,
311
00:18:56,255 --> 00:18:59,391
or risk missing
their opportunity for salmon.
312
00:19:02,095 --> 00:19:05,430
-ANDY: Let's flip this over
so that the boards are up.
-Yep.
313
00:19:05,497 --> 00:19:08,267
When fall hits,
it's the crunch time.
314
00:19:10,503 --> 00:19:14,340
And we've gotta get
everything done before
that snow flies.
315
00:19:17,409 --> 00:19:19,945
There's no time to stop.
There's no time to rest.
316
00:19:20,012 --> 00:19:22,314
There's hardly time
to take a breath.
317
00:19:23,950 --> 00:19:27,586
It's always very
nerve-racking for me
putting the fish wheel in.
318
00:19:31,023 --> 00:19:32,558
The last thing I want is,
319
00:19:32,625 --> 00:19:34,827
the day I wanna go fishing,
to break my wheel
putting it in
320
00:19:34,894 --> 00:19:37,830
and then spend three or four
days trying to fix something.
321
00:19:41,167 --> 00:19:43,435
All right.
Ready to go fishing now!
322
00:19:46,539 --> 00:19:49,942
The fall chum have a very
short cycle of really up
323
00:19:50,009 --> 00:19:52,878
and really down.
And when they're up,
they're up really good.
324
00:19:52,945 --> 00:19:55,514
When they're down,
they crash, there's nothing.
325
00:19:57,149 --> 00:19:58,818
Son of a bitch!
326
00:19:58,885 --> 00:20:00,553
That's turning too fast.
327
00:20:10,529 --> 00:20:12,631
Whoo, baby, there's a lot
of current there.
328
00:20:14,299 --> 00:20:15,768
We have to bring it in
quite a bit.
329
00:20:15,835 --> 00:20:17,703
That's turning
almost too fast.
330
00:20:17,770 --> 00:20:19,505
Let's bring it in some.
331
00:20:19,572 --> 00:20:23,308
I feel like the current's
a lot faster here this year
than it was last year.
332
00:20:23,375 --> 00:20:25,510
So we don't have to
have as long of a spar.
333
00:20:25,577 --> 00:20:27,580
We don't have to have
as long of a lead.
334
00:20:30,249 --> 00:20:34,153
Generally, I like somewhere
between five and six
rotations a minute.
335
00:20:35,387 --> 00:20:39,758
So one full rotation
about every 10 seconds.
336
00:20:39,825 --> 00:20:43,929
That keeps one basket of
the wheel in the water fishing
almost all of the time.
337
00:20:45,364 --> 00:20:48,067
What we want is we want those
baskets to be coming down
338
00:20:48,134 --> 00:20:50,068
and just barely digging a hole
into the gravel.
339
00:20:50,135 --> 00:20:53,439
And that makes a place
to where the fish can't go
underneath the wheel.
340
00:20:56,776 --> 00:20:59,578
So if it can slowly
dig a hole for itself,
341
00:20:59,645 --> 00:21:02,815
that increases the efficiency
of the wheel dramatically.
342
00:21:07,086 --> 00:21:08,787
That's about where we want it.
343
00:21:08,854 --> 00:21:10,022
KATE: Whoo-hoo!
344
00:21:10,089 --> 00:21:11,691
Seems to be
turning really good
345
00:21:11,758 --> 00:21:14,426
and touching bottom
and not going too fast.
346
00:21:14,493 --> 00:21:16,729
So it looks like
we found our spot.
347
00:21:18,364 --> 00:21:20,699
ANDY:
Here, fishy, fishy, fishy!
348
00:21:20,766 --> 00:21:23,502
It's a crapshoot. We have
no idea what's going on
349
00:21:23,569 --> 00:21:26,539
other than I know there are
fish coming up. How many?
350
00:21:26,606 --> 00:21:28,440
I guess
tomorrow morning will tell.
351
00:21:29,241 --> 00:21:31,243
There we go!
352
00:21:31,310 --> 00:21:34,112
-First fish!
-Looks like a nice one!
353
00:21:34,179 --> 00:21:36,649
I'm very excited
we got our fish wheel in,
354
00:21:36,716 --> 00:21:38,150
and it's going
and it's catching,
355
00:21:38,217 --> 00:21:40,953
and it went in
as smooth as silk.
356
00:21:41,020 --> 00:21:43,622
ANDY:
Tomorrow it would be great
if we had maybe 100 fish.
357
00:21:43,689 --> 00:21:45,557
That will be a really good
start for us.
358
00:21:49,228 --> 00:21:51,763
CHIP: I live out here
for the freedom of
doing things my way
359
00:21:51,830 --> 00:21:53,398
and the way
that I feel like doing 'em,
360
00:21:53,465 --> 00:21:55,700
when I feel like doing 'em.
361
00:21:55,767 --> 00:21:57,937
No hours, no bosses,
that's what it's all about.
362
00:22:04,910 --> 00:22:08,480
This has always been
the best way to move a lot of
firewood in one shot.
363
00:22:08,547 --> 00:22:10,549
Hell of a lot easier than
dragging it on a sled
364
00:22:10,616 --> 00:22:12,784
just six or seven pieces
at a time.
365
00:22:12,851 --> 00:22:14,252
(AGNES SPEAKING)
366
00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:16,355
Yeah,
there's no getting stuck,
there's no being frozen,
367
00:22:16,422 --> 00:22:20,525
there's no breaking
your equipment.
Much easier.
368
00:22:20,592 --> 00:22:22,694
We have really
small trees up here
because it's the Arctic
369
00:22:22,761 --> 00:22:24,830
and they have a real short
growing season.
370
00:22:24,897 --> 00:22:28,300
And we have
real long winters and then
we have real deep cold.
371
00:22:32,971 --> 00:22:35,241
Even though it's hard work,
I enjoy doing this
372
00:22:35,308 --> 00:22:37,109
because I can see heat,
373
00:22:37,176 --> 00:22:40,078
and then we can also
build things with them.
374
00:22:40,145 --> 00:22:43,181
-Homeward now, huh?
-(AGNES SPEAKING)
375
00:22:43,248 --> 00:22:46,384
CHIP:
Raw materials to us is part
of the essence of subsistence.
376
00:22:46,451 --> 00:22:47,953
It's getting stuff yourself.
377
00:22:48,020 --> 00:22:50,255
Getting materials
from the land,
the things you need.
378
00:23:10,408 --> 00:23:13,512
It's always important
to have a cache in places
that you wanna frequent.
379
00:23:13,579 --> 00:23:16,148
You do need to have places
to keep your things dry.
380
00:23:16,215 --> 00:23:17,582
You need to keep
yourself dry sometimes.
381
00:23:17,649 --> 00:23:19,918
So as an emergency back-up
I could walk inside the cache
382
00:23:19,985 --> 00:23:22,287
and say, "Well, I need
to sleep here on the floor."
383
00:23:22,354 --> 00:23:23,722
And that's happened
more than once.
384
00:23:25,090 --> 00:23:26,858
I got a V-notch on the top
385
00:23:26,925 --> 00:23:29,761
and on the bottom,
I have it notched like that.
386
00:23:29,828 --> 00:23:33,365
So when they rest,
they'll rest like that
upon each other.
387
00:23:33,432 --> 00:23:35,834
I'm gonna split
this one in half so that
it has a flat half,
388
00:23:35,901 --> 00:23:37,903
that will meet my flat floor
and my flat beams
389
00:23:37,970 --> 00:23:39,771
so I can stack the logs up
on top of it.
390
00:23:39,838 --> 00:23:41,473
Now it can all disassemble
391
00:23:41,540 --> 00:23:44,243
and I can take it in pieces
other places
392
00:23:44,310 --> 00:23:45,577
and I can reassemble it.
393
00:23:47,980 --> 00:23:51,950
Living a subsistence
lifestyle is basically
working for yourself.
394
00:23:52,017 --> 00:23:54,319
And what we're doing is
we're going out,
we're getting materials,
395
00:23:54,386 --> 00:23:57,590
raw materials, and we put it
all together to make a living.
396
00:23:57,657 --> 00:23:59,558
You know,
we have it down for ourselves.
397
00:23:59,625 --> 00:24:01,660
Nobody wakes us up
in the morning
and tells us what to do,
398
00:24:01,727 --> 00:24:03,562
or where to go,
or how to get there.
399
00:24:03,629 --> 00:24:05,898
We've learned over the years,
throughout my life,
400
00:24:05,965 --> 00:24:09,134
just experiences themselves
have amounted to this.
401
00:24:12,438 --> 00:24:14,206
This is actually excellent.
402
00:24:14,273 --> 00:24:15,741
(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
403
00:24:21,747 --> 00:24:22,781
(WHIRRING STOPS)
404
00:24:22,848 --> 00:24:24,383
Fucking shit, threw its chain.
405
00:24:27,953 --> 00:24:30,322
These things happen.
It's part of having
any machinery.
406
00:24:30,389 --> 00:24:32,157
This isn't a recreational use.
407
00:24:32,224 --> 00:24:33,892
It's like our snow machines
or our chainsaws,
408
00:24:33,959 --> 00:24:35,861
we don't just
recreationally use these
409
00:24:35,928 --> 00:24:37,862
so we can have a little bit
of wood at the cabin,
you know,
410
00:24:37,929 --> 00:24:39,797
for the two weeks
out of the year
that we use it.
411
00:24:39,864 --> 00:24:42,668
Damn it, we are using
these things all the time,
412
00:24:42,735 --> 00:24:44,937
and we're constantly
in a state of repair.
413
00:24:47,773 --> 00:24:50,442
NARRATOR: With caribou season
just days away,
414
00:24:50,509 --> 00:24:53,545
Chip must hurry
to complete his cache
in order to store meat
415
00:24:53,612 --> 00:24:55,447
from the upcoming harvest.
416
00:24:57,182 --> 00:25:00,185
CHIP: Instead of just
trying to use a chainsaw
to make a rounded cut,
417
00:25:00,252 --> 00:25:02,254
I'm going down to the depth
I want it to be,
418
00:25:02,321 --> 00:25:03,655
then I'm making my cross cuts.
419
00:25:03,722 --> 00:25:05,390
That takes out
the pieces a lot easier.
420
00:25:14,367 --> 00:25:16,035
Now that one fits.
421
00:25:16,102 --> 00:25:19,605
From here on,
it's pretty much just cut,
and notch, and stack,
422
00:25:19,672 --> 00:25:20,672
and I'll have my walls.
423
00:25:27,813 --> 00:25:29,882
ANDY: We live out here
to live a certain lifestyle,
424
00:25:29,949 --> 00:25:33,519
to be connected to the land,
to get the resources
from the land.
425
00:25:33,586 --> 00:25:35,587
And that's what's
important to me.
426
00:25:47,432 --> 00:25:49,301
You untie and I'll drive.
427
00:25:50,769 --> 00:25:52,870
We're gonna go check
the wheel for a second day,
428
00:25:52,937 --> 00:25:55,674
see what we get.
We're hoping it's not
too many fish.
429
00:25:55,741 --> 00:25:58,510
We still wanna put up
a few more fish for ourselves.
430
00:26:00,846 --> 00:26:04,182
It's very time-consuming to
cut them for human consumption
431
00:26:04,249 --> 00:26:05,584
to do it right.
432
00:26:07,285 --> 00:26:09,888
Scoring them.
433
00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:12,524
There's a lot of work that
goes into brining them,
434
00:26:12,591 --> 00:26:15,494
getting them ready
to go into the smoker.
435
00:26:15,561 --> 00:26:18,296
If we get females,
we'll probably smoke some eggs
436
00:26:18,363 --> 00:26:19,831
so we have some caviar.
437
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,134
All of that
takes a lot of time,
438
00:26:23,201 --> 00:26:25,370
so 100, 150 fish
would be great,
439
00:26:25,437 --> 00:26:29,408
it could be really bad news
if we pull up and the boxes
are overflowing with fish.
440
00:26:29,475 --> 00:26:31,576
'Cause I don't want to
have to deal with 400 fish.
441
00:26:31,643 --> 00:26:34,146
It'd be really nice
to deal with maybe 100 fish.
442
00:26:34,213 --> 00:26:35,713
We can focus
on cutting, and drying,
443
00:26:35,780 --> 00:26:37,950
and smoking some of the fish
that we want.
444
00:26:38,017 --> 00:26:40,886
And it won't take me long to
put up 100 fish for the dogs.
445
00:26:40,953 --> 00:26:42,220
That's nothing for us.
446
00:26:42,287 --> 00:26:44,223
I guess we're gonna
find out here real quick.
447
00:26:47,860 --> 00:26:48,860
Uh-oh.
448
00:26:50,829 --> 00:26:52,464
We're probably close to 300.
449
00:26:54,466 --> 00:26:57,469
It looks like we got
our work cut out for us today.
450
00:26:57,536 --> 00:27:00,606
Definitely would much rather
have a few less fish,
451
00:27:02,207 --> 00:27:03,742
but better too much than none.
452
00:27:05,877 --> 00:27:07,179
(ANDY SPEAKING)
453
00:27:09,013 --> 00:27:12,517
(CHUCKLES)
I think from here on out
it's gonna be slam bam.
454
00:27:18,890 --> 00:27:20,359
We got a lot of fish today.
455
00:27:20,426 --> 00:27:22,227
Kind of like
an Easter egg hunt.
456
00:27:22,294 --> 00:27:25,564
You show up with your wheel
and you see how many eggs
you got in the basket.
457
00:27:25,631 --> 00:27:28,100
That's the way
every day is out here.
458
00:27:36,342 --> 00:27:37,676
We've got 200 fish.
459
00:27:37,743 --> 00:27:42,347
They probably average
right around
seven pounds apiece.
460
00:27:42,414 --> 00:27:44,683
That's not a half bad
looking fish right there.
461
00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:46,918
Huh.
462
00:27:47,419 --> 00:27:48,520
Keeper.
463
00:27:48,587 --> 00:27:50,088
ANDY: All in all,
things are going pretty good.
464
00:27:50,155 --> 00:27:53,558
It's a little more work than
I really wanted to do today.
465
00:27:53,625 --> 00:27:57,729
By the time I cut
these fish and then clean
the fish for ourselves,
466
00:27:57,796 --> 00:28:02,000
I think I'm gonna be
a sore little puppy
by the end of the evening.
467
00:28:02,067 --> 00:28:06,204
I'm not complaining.
I'd much rather have the fish
than not have the fish.
468
00:28:06,271 --> 00:28:08,373
It's all about a economy
469
00:28:09,574 --> 00:28:11,744
of your time and energy
out here.
470
00:28:11,811 --> 00:28:12,978
There's so much to do,
471
00:28:13,045 --> 00:28:15,614
it's really important that
what you spend your time on
472
00:28:15,681 --> 00:28:17,715
is done efficiently
and cost effectively.
473
00:28:17,782 --> 00:28:19,884
That's why I've always been
a fish wheel fisherman.
474
00:28:19,951 --> 00:28:23,688
For us, it's a really
efficient way to put up food.
475
00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:25,624
KATE: Okay, well,
you've got 30 done.
476
00:28:26,525 --> 00:28:28,593
You have about 160 to go.
477
00:28:28,660 --> 00:28:29,661
(CHUCKLES)
478
00:28:34,566 --> 00:28:36,735
GLENN: For me,
479
00:28:36,802 --> 00:28:40,605
living involves hunting
and killing in order to live.
480
00:28:40,672 --> 00:28:42,307
It's the natural cycle.
481
00:28:42,374 --> 00:28:43,875
Part of the cycle
of life and death,
482
00:28:43,942 --> 00:28:46,511
and I'm participating in it
every day out here.
483
00:29:05,564 --> 00:29:07,699
(WHISPERING) It's my fifth day
hunting moose now,
484
00:29:08,701 --> 00:29:10,135
and I'm over in an area
485
00:29:10,202 --> 00:29:11,936
that I know is a good spot
486
00:29:12,003 --> 00:29:13,471
for a moose
at this time of year.
487
00:29:13,538 --> 00:29:16,408
I'm gonna move down
in here carefully this morning
488
00:29:16,475 --> 00:29:18,477
and see if I can find
a bull moose.
489
00:29:28,887 --> 00:29:31,023
Living up here
in the Arctic in the winter,
490
00:29:31,090 --> 00:29:33,325
it takes a lot of energy,
it takes a lot of food.
491
00:29:33,392 --> 00:29:35,961
I eat a lot.
I eat about three pounds
of meat every day.
492
00:29:36,028 --> 00:29:40,298
Meat and fat.
That's what sustains me
in the cold weather.
493
00:29:45,003 --> 00:29:46,405
(GLENN SPEAKING)
494
00:29:48,007 --> 00:29:50,275
(MIMICS MOOSE CALL)
495
00:30:08,026 --> 00:30:09,428
Here he comes.
496
00:30:12,797 --> 00:30:15,934
See, he's waving his antlers
at me just like this.
497
00:30:16,001 --> 00:30:18,736
He thinks
I'm a moose right now.
498
00:30:18,803 --> 00:30:21,506
He's coming to fight me.
Look, he's got a cow
over there.
499
00:30:33,786 --> 00:30:36,521
He doesn't want me
mating with that cow.
500
00:30:36,588 --> 00:30:38,556
He wants that cow for himself.
501
00:30:38,623 --> 00:30:41,392
He's gonna go out
in that open field, I hope.
502
00:30:41,459 --> 00:30:43,595
I just gotta get
lined up for the shot.
503
00:31:10,555 --> 00:31:11,890
(GUNSHOT)
504
00:31:13,091 --> 00:31:14,359
I got him.
505
00:31:22,835 --> 00:31:25,270
I got him. He's down.
506
00:31:25,337 --> 00:31:27,339
That's a nice
looking bull, too.
507
00:31:28,406 --> 00:31:30,542
There goes the cow
that was with him.
508
00:31:30,609 --> 00:31:33,411
She's out of here now.
She's in oestrous.
She's mooing and mooing.
509
00:31:33,478 --> 00:31:34,746
She's wanting to get bred and
510
00:31:34,813 --> 00:31:38,683
he thinks
that I'm another bull
coming to take his cow.
511
00:31:38,750 --> 00:31:41,919
He doesn't want that.
So he came over here to fight.
512
00:31:41,986 --> 00:31:43,855
He was over here
to chase me off.
513
00:31:47,726 --> 00:31:50,395
This is the fifth day
looking for a moose.
514
00:31:50,462 --> 00:31:54,432
I've walked about
25 miles looking for this
moose around the lake.
515
00:32:08,013 --> 00:32:09,447
It's dead.
516
00:32:11,049 --> 00:32:13,017
If I had
very little else to eat,
517
00:32:13,084 --> 00:32:17,122
just this moose here
would feed me
for almost six months.
518
00:32:17,189 --> 00:32:19,958
It's really
an important moment for me
to get a moose like this.
519
00:32:20,025 --> 00:32:21,359
It was a lot of work,
520
00:32:21,426 --> 00:32:23,962
but I got him and I got
six months food right here.
521
00:32:24,029 --> 00:32:27,198
It's a good moment for me.
I would rather live this way
522
00:32:27,265 --> 00:32:30,201
by hunting than by
buying my food in a store.
523
00:32:30,268 --> 00:32:33,171
That's the way
I live out here.
It's the natural cycle.
524
00:32:36,574 --> 00:32:38,910
CHIP: We never had
no big dreams for big houses.
525
00:32:38,977 --> 00:32:40,845
We treat this like a camp.
526
00:32:40,912 --> 00:32:43,948
It's a place where we can
take shelter, we can eat,
we can see our family.
527
00:32:44,015 --> 00:32:45,350
It's pretty nice.
528
00:33:03,735 --> 00:33:05,236
It's coming together.
It's good.
529
00:33:05,303 --> 00:33:06,805
I just got a few more logs
to add here.
530
00:33:06,872 --> 00:33:08,239
Maybe four more on here.
531
00:33:08,306 --> 00:33:10,175
NARRATOR: In order to store
and preserve the meat
532
00:33:10,242 --> 00:33:12,744
from the Hailstone's
upcoming caribou hunt,
533
00:33:12,811 --> 00:33:16,414
Chip is putting
the finishing touches
on the family's new cache.
534
00:33:16,481 --> 00:33:18,816
The roof will be
cross-beamed like this.
535
00:33:18,883 --> 00:33:20,251
And I'll put up
several of them
536
00:33:20,318 --> 00:33:22,887
and then probably run a pole
underneath 'em for support,
537
00:33:22,954 --> 00:33:25,490
and then I'll put plywood.
538
00:33:25,557 --> 00:33:27,559
The only thing I'm lacking
is sheets of plywood.
539
00:33:29,294 --> 00:33:33,331
NARRATOR: In Noorvik,
the Hailstones rely on trading
within the community
540
00:33:33,398 --> 00:33:36,100
to support their
subsistence lifestyle.
541
00:33:36,167 --> 00:33:37,769
We're almost quite done
with our cache
542
00:33:37,836 --> 00:33:41,806
but we need a few plyboards.
So I'm just gonna walk around.
543
00:33:41,873 --> 00:33:43,575
My neighbour have
some plyboards here
544
00:33:43,642 --> 00:33:45,518
and I might have something
that he would like.
545
00:33:45,585 --> 00:33:47,996
And so I was just
gonna go ask him
546
00:33:48,063 --> 00:33:53,485
if he'd like to trade
or if I could buy some
of his plyboards.
547
00:33:53,552 --> 00:33:55,453
-Yeah, good to see you again.
-Yep.
548
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,755
I noticed you have
a lot of plyboards.
549
00:33:57,822 --> 00:33:59,657
Yep. This would be perfect.
550
00:33:59,724 --> 00:34:01,792
Wow, these are nice.
Are you willing to trade?
551
00:34:01,859 --> 00:34:04,329
What would you have
to trade for these?
552
00:34:04,396 --> 00:34:06,364
I got 10 gallons of gas.
553
00:34:07,566 --> 00:34:08,866
-10 gallons of gas.
-Yeah.
554
00:34:08,933 --> 00:34:10,969
-Okay, good deal. Awesome.
-Yeah, good deal right there.
555
00:34:11,036 --> 00:34:12,470
-These are perfect.
-Good. Yep.
556
00:34:12,537 --> 00:34:13,671
AGNES: Score.
557
00:34:13,738 --> 00:34:17,609
Those boards are like
$120 apiece boards
right there,
558
00:34:17,676 --> 00:34:21,212
and for four of them,
and he's not using them,
559
00:34:21,279 --> 00:34:24,248
and he needs gas
and I need boards.
560
00:34:24,315 --> 00:34:26,918
So it's a good trade
for the both of us.
561
00:34:26,985 --> 00:34:31,890
I'm gonna go tell him
the boards I traded
for his gas.
562
00:34:31,957 --> 00:34:34,325
And I have to go
ask him for his gas now.
563
00:34:39,331 --> 00:34:42,634
SUE: It's a calculated risk
every time you step
out the door.
564
00:34:44,102 --> 00:34:46,137
There's no guarantees
in anything.
565
00:34:46,204 --> 00:34:48,840
The only guarantee is it's
a limited time engagement.
566
00:34:48,907 --> 00:34:51,476
So why not pack it
full of experiences?
567
00:35:00,952 --> 00:35:03,154
Got a big rain system
coming in
568
00:35:03,221 --> 00:35:05,757
and that will just
damage the hunting.
569
00:35:07,092 --> 00:35:09,194
My visibility goes down to nil
570
00:35:09,261 --> 00:35:12,597
and the animals are just
gonna find some hole
and hunker down.
571
00:35:12,664 --> 00:35:13,665
I'm looking for anything
572
00:35:13,732 --> 00:35:16,000
that's gonna provide meat
that's legal.
573
00:35:16,067 --> 00:35:17,502
They're all on the menu.
574
00:35:17,569 --> 00:35:20,405
But I need to get there,
get closer,
and get the good visual.
575
00:35:22,273 --> 00:35:23,675
There they are.
576
00:35:24,643 --> 00:35:25,844
Where are they going?
577
00:35:29,281 --> 00:35:30,648
They call them ghosts
of the tundra.
578
00:35:30,715 --> 00:35:35,086
And what that means is they're
using the geographic features,
579
00:35:35,153 --> 00:35:37,121
the dips and swales,
580
00:35:37,188 --> 00:35:39,123
and they'll travel
around in them,
581
00:35:39,190 --> 00:35:40,725
and then all of a sudden
they're on high ground.
582
00:35:40,792 --> 00:35:42,860
So for the human eye,
you're looking and,
583
00:35:42,927 --> 00:35:46,531
"Oh, where'd they come from?"
They're just standing out
in the middle of the field.
584
00:35:46,598 --> 00:35:48,833
What you don't know
is that there's a little
dip they travelled.
585
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:52,437
And then you go, "Oh, okay,"
you reach for your gun and,
"Where'd they go?"
586
00:35:52,504 --> 00:35:53,505
They're gone.
587
00:35:55,006 --> 00:35:57,575
Now I'm gonna do
the same thing that they do.
588
00:35:57,642 --> 00:35:59,477
I'm trying to keep
the geographical feature
589
00:35:59,544 --> 00:36:00,778
in between the two of us.
590
00:36:00,845 --> 00:36:02,413
So I'm turning
the tables on it.
591
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,549
They use it to hide
and pop up and down,
592
00:36:05,616 --> 00:36:07,685
I'm using it to hide
and pop up and down.
593
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:10,522
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
594
00:36:10,589 --> 00:36:12,190
This is the game trail.
595
00:36:16,194 --> 00:36:19,463
Bear. We've got
bear and caribou.
596
00:36:19,530 --> 00:36:21,299
I know
they came through this way.
597
00:36:27,038 --> 00:36:29,140
Shit. Okay. Shh.
598
00:36:29,908 --> 00:36:31,109
All right, I see one.
599
00:36:33,011 --> 00:36:34,579
Okay, she just made me.
600
00:36:36,715 --> 00:36:38,216
I can't really get...
601
00:36:38,283 --> 00:36:40,385
Looks to be 200-300 yards.
602
00:36:41,319 --> 00:36:43,488
I've gotta take myself
out of the brush.
603
00:36:45,791 --> 00:36:47,625
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
604
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,596
All right. Come on,
come on, baby, come on, baby.
605
00:37:06,844 --> 00:37:08,346
(GUNSHOT)
606
00:37:10,014 --> 00:37:11,583
One down.
607
00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:13,084
I picked it right.
608
00:37:13,151 --> 00:37:15,853
There was bear tracks,
wolf tracks, caribou tracks,
moose tracks.
609
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,690
This is definitely
the confluence
where you're funnelling.
610
00:37:19,757 --> 00:37:21,092
Now time to go see what I got.
611
00:37:23,195 --> 00:37:24,896
I've gotta go
retrieve the meat
612
00:37:24,963 --> 00:37:28,733
before some of the predators
decide to relieve me
of the responsibility.
613
00:37:29,801 --> 00:37:31,469
I've got a big old storm
coming in.
614
00:37:31,536 --> 00:37:35,472
The forecast is, keep dropping
in temperature and snow.
615
00:37:35,539 --> 00:37:38,042
This time of year I can get
three foot of snow
616
00:37:38,109 --> 00:37:39,343
in no time flat.
617
00:37:39,410 --> 00:37:41,779
Winter is breathing down
my neck.
618
00:37:44,049 --> 00:37:47,652
Right now it's going
slate grey, which this time
of year means snow.
619
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,222
I can trap myself out here,
so I wanna get
this done quickly.
620
00:37:53,992 --> 00:37:57,762
Very first caribou that I got,
I was maybe 12 or so.
621
00:37:59,497 --> 00:38:01,498
Different things happened
in my younger life
622
00:38:01,565 --> 00:38:04,202
and left me
kind of raising myself
623
00:38:04,269 --> 00:38:06,771
and being alone
out in the wilderness
of Alaska.
624
00:38:09,174 --> 00:38:10,942
Bus driver handed me
a gun and said,
625
00:38:11,009 --> 00:38:13,745
"You don't learn to shoot,
you're not gonna be here.
Figure it out."
626
00:38:14,979 --> 00:38:16,981
I got a handful of bullets,
627
00:38:17,048 --> 00:38:18,549
I was pretty hungry.
I was pretty cold.
628
00:38:19,984 --> 00:38:23,154
Here comes this animal
and I first thought of Santa,
629
00:38:23,221 --> 00:38:25,323
you know,
and I was pretty star-struck,
630
00:38:26,390 --> 00:38:28,192
and then my belly rumbled.
631
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:30,561
I took it down,
632
00:38:31,362 --> 00:38:32,730
and it was a harsh reality.
633
00:38:33,965 --> 00:38:35,466
It's, kind of,
a full circle moment.
634
00:38:37,068 --> 00:38:38,203
Thank you.
635
00:38:38,270 --> 00:38:40,404
Taking the first life,
and being grateful,
636
00:38:40,471 --> 00:38:42,707
and not being hungry any more,
637
00:38:42,774 --> 00:38:44,375
to being better at it,
638
00:38:44,442 --> 00:38:48,479
still being grateful
that I won't be hungry
this winter.
639
00:38:48,546 --> 00:38:51,015
I've been down here a little
while working on this.
640
00:38:51,082 --> 00:38:53,985
There's no predator
within 10 miles
that doesn't know it's here,
641
00:38:54,052 --> 00:38:55,253
so they're gonna be coming in.
642
00:38:56,020 --> 00:38:57,522
So I wanna get out.
643
00:39:02,727 --> 00:39:05,263
Temperature went down,
it's come up again.
644
00:39:05,330 --> 00:39:07,765
Just looks
really unpredictable.
645
00:39:07,832 --> 00:39:11,136
I know I'm in bear territory
and I'm gonna add snow, fog,
646
00:39:11,203 --> 00:39:15,406
and everything else in on it,
it's not a particularly safe,
secure feeling.
647
00:39:15,473 --> 00:39:18,909
For me to stay here,
it's really gotta pay off.
648
00:39:18,976 --> 00:39:21,679
I'm not seeing the numbers
of caribou that say,
649
00:39:21,746 --> 00:39:22,947
"Yeah, take another day."
650
00:39:23,014 --> 00:39:25,650
What if I get stuck out here
a week and can't get in?
651
00:39:25,717 --> 00:39:29,220
It's time to wrap this portion
of the trip up.
652
00:39:29,287 --> 00:39:31,222
You know,
live to hunt another day.
653
00:39:32,957 --> 00:39:34,692
CHIP: This is a place
that you can take your kids
654
00:39:34,759 --> 00:39:36,527
and say, "Hey, look, this is
how to have a good time.
655
00:39:36,594 --> 00:39:39,330
"This is a place
where there's days
of high adventure.
656
00:39:39,397 --> 00:39:41,899
"And a lot of other people
are jealous."
657
00:39:58,716 --> 00:40:01,319
I think I got
that one on straight.
658
00:40:01,386 --> 00:40:03,588
I notched the tops
and then joined them together,
659
00:40:03,655 --> 00:40:05,856
and then I put a cross piece
into each one
660
00:40:05,923 --> 00:40:08,493
just to hold them in place
'cause I'm working by myself.
661
00:40:08,993 --> 00:40:10,395
I'm almost done.
662
00:40:19,537 --> 00:40:21,672
AGNES: Wow!
CHIP: You liking that?
663
00:40:21,739 --> 00:40:26,710
Gee whiz! That's a lot
since I left earlier. Cool!
664
00:40:26,777 --> 00:40:29,380
The caribous are starting
to move so it's real important
665
00:40:29,447 --> 00:40:31,815
that we get this
cache done today.
666
00:40:31,882 --> 00:40:33,784
Because if we don't
get this cache done,
667
00:40:33,851 --> 00:40:36,454
then we're not gonna have
a place to store our meats.
668
00:40:40,558 --> 00:40:42,226
CHIP: We got four sheets
of plywood over here
669
00:40:42,293 --> 00:40:43,694
that my wife traded
the neighbour for,
670
00:40:43,761 --> 00:40:45,563
and I'm gonna
put them up on the roof.
671
00:40:46,830 --> 00:40:48,766
What isn't forgotten
and what's still very viable
672
00:40:48,833 --> 00:40:52,269
is gathering stuff
for yourself,
building stuff for yourself.
673
00:40:52,336 --> 00:40:53,971
This stuff is never outdated
674
00:40:54,038 --> 00:40:55,239
no matter what
my technology would be.
675
00:40:55,306 --> 00:40:57,208
If I was cutting these logs
with laser beams,
676
00:40:57,275 --> 00:40:59,010
I'd still end up
with a log cache.
677
00:40:59,077 --> 00:41:01,445
Someday the girls will come
and look at this and say,
678
00:41:01,512 --> 00:41:05,583
-"Hey, look, this is how
my mum and dad did it."
-CHIP: Yep.
679
00:41:05,650 --> 00:41:08,352
-I'm sure you'll get
all the credit.
-(AGNES LAUGHS)
680
00:41:10,188 --> 00:41:12,923
AGNES: This is so cool.
681
00:41:12,990 --> 00:41:15,326
CHIP: I used basically what
I could go out and go gather
682
00:41:15,393 --> 00:41:17,228
to keep it the cheapest.
683
00:41:17,295 --> 00:41:19,897
My wife traded gasoline off
for sheets of plywood,
684
00:41:19,964 --> 00:41:23,134
and I bought a couple pounds
of nails for, like, 10 bucks.
685
00:41:25,069 --> 00:41:28,539
I would say, in the end,
it probably cost us
less than $100.
686
00:41:28,606 --> 00:41:31,141
And of course,
about three days of my time.
687
00:41:31,208 --> 00:41:33,578
I'm gonna have
to put you a step here.
688
00:41:35,313 --> 00:41:36,747
Here you go, woman.
689
00:41:37,515 --> 00:41:38,750
It's all yours.
690
00:41:38,817 --> 00:41:40,884
AGNES: You used 35 logs.
691
00:41:40,951 --> 00:41:43,487
-CHIP: Cool.
-And only six of them
are halves.
692
00:41:43,554 --> 00:41:46,090
And it's real easy for me
to go in and out of there.
693
00:41:46,157 --> 00:41:47,758
It's your size.
694
00:41:47,825 --> 00:41:49,393
So that should help things.
695
00:41:54,365 --> 00:41:55,867
Hey, babe, how do you like it?
696
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,171
It's awesome.
You could go in and peek.
697
00:42:00,738 --> 00:42:02,239
(GIGGLES)
698
00:42:02,306 --> 00:42:04,942
CHIP: Who knows, Mary,
someday it might
even be yours.
699
00:42:08,179 --> 00:42:10,347
We might be old,
and gone, and dead
700
00:42:10,414 --> 00:42:12,049
and you might be an old lady
701
00:42:12,116 --> 00:42:14,552
and telling your kids,
"My dad built that."
702
00:42:16,054 --> 00:42:17,121
Go ahead, have fun.
703
00:42:17,188 --> 00:42:18,889
(QUTAN SPEAKING)
704
00:42:18,956 --> 00:42:21,125
(GIRLS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
705
00:42:21,192 --> 00:42:22,759
CAROL: Try and go on this one.
706
00:42:22,826 --> 00:42:24,862
MARY:
Got to go like this, Qutan.
Put your arms the other way.
707
00:42:24,929 --> 00:42:26,130
CAROL: Qutan?
708
00:42:26,197 --> 00:42:27,598
CHIP: This right here
could last long enough
709
00:42:27,665 --> 00:42:29,633
that my daughters could be
using this when they grow up.
710
00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:32,570
CAROL: Oh, I joke.
QUTAN: So close!
711
00:42:32,637 --> 00:42:35,005
I just gotta go work,
and take the kids,
712
00:42:35,072 --> 00:42:38,742
and go upriver
and spend a couple days
doing our caribou hunt.
713
00:42:38,809 --> 00:42:40,945
And then come back
and go fill it up.
714
00:42:41,012 --> 00:42:42,379
CHIP: Is that a perfect door?
715
00:42:42,446 --> 00:42:43,748
-Is that big enough
to get through?
-CAROL: Yeah.
716
00:42:44,983 --> 00:42:47,518
Sun's just about down
and I'm tired.
717
00:42:47,585 --> 00:42:49,086
-Me too.
-It's time to give it up.
718
00:42:49,153 --> 00:42:50,321
-Love you, Mum.
-Love you.
719
00:42:50,388 --> 00:42:52,656
Love you. Have fun.
720
00:42:52,723 --> 00:42:54,024
-Thank you.
-Yeah.
721
00:42:54,091 --> 00:42:56,226
-It's all good.
-You're awesome.
722
00:42:56,293 --> 00:42:59,230
-So are you.
That's why I make 'em.
-Saw dusty and awesome.
59993
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