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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:28,148 --> 00:00:30,884 SUE AIKENS: We know there's large predators roaming around right now. 2 00:00:34,121 --> 00:00:35,322 (SIGHS) 3 00:00:38,559 --> 00:00:41,595 People will say there's never been a recorded instance 4 00:00:41,662 --> 00:00:45,566 of a wolf attacking a human being, they just don't do it. 5 00:00:45,633 --> 00:00:49,303 But my experience out here is far different. 6 00:00:49,370 --> 00:00:52,773 You know, for example, I had my granddaughter, Drew, 7 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,075 visit, uh, this last year. 8 00:00:55,142 --> 00:00:57,144 She is very petite. 9 00:00:57,211 --> 00:00:59,546 She tends to wander off, 10 00:00:59,613 --> 00:01:00,980 and every time my granddaughter 11 00:01:01,047 --> 00:01:04,218 would get about 10, 12 foot from me, you know, here, 12 00:01:04,285 --> 00:01:06,019 slipping right over the river bank, 13 00:01:06,086 --> 00:01:08,055 is this big grey wolf, and they belly crawl. 14 00:01:08,122 --> 00:01:09,389 They get down on their bellies 15 00:01:09,456 --> 00:01:11,892 and they very slowly will crawl up. 16 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,061 And he's trying to get into position to take her out. 17 00:01:14,128 --> 00:01:15,762 The wolf is here, I'm here. 18 00:01:15,829 --> 00:01:18,165 I'm coming at him and he starts taking off. 19 00:01:18,232 --> 00:01:20,000 Well, they can go fast. 20 00:01:20,067 --> 00:01:22,202 My experience is 21 00:01:22,269 --> 00:01:25,471 if you act like a pork chop, you'll be a pork chop. 22 00:01:25,538 --> 00:01:27,307 I get along with all the animals, 23 00:01:27,374 --> 00:01:29,109 even with the ones that want to eat me. 24 00:01:29,176 --> 00:01:34,081 It's... It's a very honest, very natural relationship. 25 00:01:34,148 --> 00:01:36,750 They want to eat me, I don't want them to. 26 00:01:36,817 --> 00:01:37,918 (CLATTERING) 27 00:01:37,985 --> 00:01:39,286 Hold on a second. 28 00:01:41,688 --> 00:01:43,190 There's a wolf. 29 00:01:43,257 --> 00:01:45,292 (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) 30 00:02:12,986 --> 00:02:16,090 I need to see who's been coming around my house. 31 00:02:16,157 --> 00:02:18,525 Since I don't know what I'm walking into, 32 00:02:18,592 --> 00:02:19,993 Old Betsy's coming with. 33 00:02:20,894 --> 00:02:22,529 You know, so I can protect myself. 34 00:02:30,871 --> 00:02:32,272 Even looking for tracks, 35 00:02:32,339 --> 00:02:34,774 as hard as it is for me to try and find a track, 36 00:02:34,841 --> 00:02:37,845 I know whatever I find is going to be fairly fresh. 37 00:02:37,912 --> 00:02:39,480 You are never alone. 38 00:02:39,547 --> 00:02:41,281 You've gotta try and track them down. 39 00:02:41,348 --> 00:02:42,716 Source 'em, see where they're coming at, 40 00:02:42,783 --> 00:02:44,284 where they're going to. 41 00:02:44,351 --> 00:02:45,786 What vantage point is he taking 42 00:02:47,054 --> 00:02:48,655 to find out how to get me 43 00:02:48,722 --> 00:02:50,957 is gonna to tell me what vantage line I need 44 00:02:51,024 --> 00:02:52,893 to take, to take care of him. 45 00:03:01,669 --> 00:03:04,204 Here's a wolf print. This is pretty goddamn big. 46 00:03:07,641 --> 00:03:11,478 I mean, he's just sticking to the south side of the bank for safety's sake. 47 00:03:11,545 --> 00:03:15,982 And, uh, wanting to see what I do, where I do it, 48 00:03:16,049 --> 00:03:19,886 how I do it, and, uh, laying in wait. 49 00:03:19,953 --> 00:03:22,222 And that's what it is, it's a waiting game. 50 00:03:22,289 --> 00:03:24,391 Who's going to fuck up first, me or him? 51 00:03:30,364 --> 00:03:31,364 Oh, God! 52 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:35,535 Thirty yards from the front door. 53 00:03:36,971 --> 00:03:38,371 Who's gonna show a sign of weakness, 54 00:03:38,438 --> 00:03:40,774 who's gonna leave themselves a little too far out, 55 00:03:40,841 --> 00:03:42,876 who's gonna circle a little too close? 56 00:03:42,943 --> 00:03:45,846 So, every chance I get, I'll be looking for 'em. 57 00:03:45,913 --> 00:03:48,815 Every chance he gets, he's gonna be looking and smelling for me. 58 00:03:55,389 --> 00:03:57,957 CHIP HAILSTONE: We don't complain. We just work harder. 59 00:03:58,024 --> 00:03:59,893 Everything we do, we have to do for ourself. 60 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,462 You know, that's how we lump it. I'm not complaining. 61 00:04:23,216 --> 00:04:25,885 AGNES HAILSTONE: My sister needs fish and we need seal oil, 62 00:04:25,952 --> 00:04:27,787 so we've arranged a trade. 63 00:04:27,854 --> 00:04:29,890 Trade is a big part of our life up here, 64 00:04:29,957 --> 00:04:32,759 and her village is 30 miles away, 65 00:04:32,826 --> 00:04:35,507 and the only way we could get there is by snow machine. 66 00:04:35,574 --> 00:04:37,563 Eight months a year we're using our snow machines. 67 00:04:37,630 --> 00:04:40,600 Anything that requires a heavy load or long distance travel, 68 00:04:40,667 --> 00:04:42,069 probably requires my snow machine. 69 00:04:42,770 --> 00:04:44,404 (ENGINE SPUTTERS) 70 00:04:54,315 --> 00:04:55,882 (SIGHS) 71 00:04:55,949 --> 00:04:57,517 I blew my belt on my snow machine, 72 00:04:57,584 --> 00:05:00,553 so it's not really gonna take me anywhere. 73 00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:02,522 When my snow machine's not working, it's a lot harder to hunt, 74 00:05:02,589 --> 00:05:05,391 it's a lot harder to, uh, bring home large things, 75 00:05:05,458 --> 00:05:08,328 like if I got a good net check or if I got logs. 76 00:05:08,395 --> 00:05:10,831 I have to rely on other people or I have to do stuff on foot. 77 00:05:11,565 --> 00:05:13,066 (ENGINE SPUTTERS) 78 00:05:16,636 --> 00:05:18,271 -Damn it! -(THUDS) 79 00:05:20,006 --> 00:05:21,774 (BEEPING) 80 00:05:21,841 --> 00:05:22,942 CHIP: We tried the store. 81 00:05:23,009 --> 00:05:24,411 The store here is very limited. 82 00:05:24,478 --> 00:05:26,046 Doesn't have much of anything. 83 00:05:26,113 --> 00:05:28,581 So I'm gonna ask on VHF, 'cause I have a VHF. 84 00:05:28,648 --> 00:05:29,983 This is the telephone of the village. 85 00:05:31,085 --> 00:05:32,285 Good afternoon, Noorvik. 86 00:05:32,352 --> 00:05:37,490 Um, anybody out there got an 11080 belt for sale? 87 00:05:37,557 --> 00:05:39,425 Uh, it can be used, in good shape. 88 00:05:39,492 --> 00:05:42,329 Uh, if you've got one, call me at home, 2524 89 00:05:42,396 --> 00:05:44,664 or just come over to the Hailstone's. Thank you. 90 00:05:44,731 --> 00:05:46,266 Well, folks look out for each other up here, 91 00:05:46,333 --> 00:05:49,168 and we have a great communication system in the village with the VHFs. 92 00:05:49,235 --> 00:05:51,304 People often buy and sell things over the VHFs. 93 00:05:51,371 --> 00:05:53,173 It's a pretty good way to go. 94 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,909 Snow machines are so important that when they don't have pieces and parts 95 00:05:55,976 --> 00:05:58,611 around here, there's always a big trade going on. 96 00:05:58,678 --> 00:06:01,414 If you can't get it in the stores, you gotta get it from somewhere. 97 00:06:01,481 --> 00:06:04,451 MAN: (ON VHF) Chip Hailstone, Chip Hailstone. You gotta copy. 98 00:06:04,518 --> 00:06:07,220 This is Hailstone's, go ahead. 99 00:06:07,287 --> 00:06:08,955 MAN: Yeah, I hear you're looking for a belt. 100 00:06:09,022 --> 00:06:10,423 My brother say he got one, 101 00:06:10,490 --> 00:06:14,661 but, uh, Mom says he needs meat better than cash. 102 00:06:15,829 --> 00:06:17,296 Caribou meat is better than cash. 103 00:06:17,363 --> 00:06:19,966 How much you guys want? Half caribou, full caribou? 104 00:06:20,033 --> 00:06:21,735 Hindquarter and briskets. 105 00:06:23,436 --> 00:06:25,272 Sure. Hindquarters and briskets sound good to me. 106 00:06:25,339 --> 00:06:27,841 I'll even bring back straps. Maybe even a tongue and heart. 107 00:06:28,675 --> 00:06:30,477 Okay. That will do. 108 00:06:30,544 --> 00:06:33,780 Okay, um, you'll drop it by and pick up the meat out here, huh? 109 00:06:33,847 --> 00:06:35,649 Uh, Hailstone out. 110 00:06:36,282 --> 00:06:37,584 Signing out. 111 00:06:46,826 --> 00:06:47,828 Sokat, come in! 112 00:06:48,662 --> 00:06:50,564 Oh, sweet. 113 00:06:51,298 --> 00:06:52,866 Check it out. 114 00:06:52,933 --> 00:06:55,335 Here in the Arctic, trade is really important. 115 00:06:55,402 --> 00:06:59,572 And this is part of it. These are the things that I can't go living without. 116 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:01,507 Basically, right now, with my snow machine, 117 00:07:01,574 --> 00:07:03,710 it would take years for me to have a dog team again. 118 00:07:03,777 --> 00:07:05,545 And, um, these are necessary, 119 00:07:05,612 --> 00:07:06,679 and the necessary things take money, 120 00:07:06,746 --> 00:07:08,614 and, luckily, sometimes they take trade. 121 00:07:08,681 --> 00:07:13,119 We got back leg, front legs, can even give you ribs. 122 00:07:13,186 --> 00:07:14,988 And I'll give you a chest, and right here I've got a bag 123 00:07:15,055 --> 00:07:17,690 -full of, um, heart, tongue and liver. -Yeah. 124 00:07:17,757 --> 00:07:19,693 -It's pretty heavy. I think you... -I can help you. 125 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,260 All right. Well, we'll just drag it over to your house. 126 00:07:21,327 --> 00:07:23,396 -Yeah. -Okay, that'll be good. All right. 127 00:07:26,099 --> 00:07:29,502 ERIK SALITAN: The real value of wilderness is aesthetic, 128 00:07:30,203 --> 00:07:32,405 and it's a non-tangible asset. 129 00:07:42,082 --> 00:07:46,385 I'm just looking for a, uh... Looking for a cat trap. 130 00:07:46,452 --> 00:07:48,355 Some real decent lynx signs in this area here. 131 00:07:48,422 --> 00:07:51,824 I'm gonna make a few cubby sets and hopefully catch a cat or two. 132 00:07:51,891 --> 00:07:56,496 And there's a real decent price being paid right now for, uh, lynx pelts. 133 00:07:56,563 --> 00:08:01,601 -Make sure its springs are working good and everything. -(SPRINGS CREAKING) 134 00:08:01,668 --> 00:08:05,338 So we're gonna go put a couple of traps out and on foot 135 00:08:05,405 --> 00:08:08,107 and see if we can't get a head start on the trapping season 136 00:08:08,174 --> 00:08:10,677 despite the weather obstacles. 137 00:08:16,883 --> 00:08:20,019 I'm looking for a spot here that funnels the animals 138 00:08:20,086 --> 00:08:22,188 through a narrow opening. 139 00:08:22,255 --> 00:08:25,058 There's millions of miles of wilderness here. 140 00:08:25,125 --> 00:08:28,061 The pan of the trap is only about an inch big. 141 00:08:28,128 --> 00:08:30,730 You need that foot to step right on it, so... 142 00:08:36,102 --> 00:08:38,872 Come winter, there's zero daylight. 143 00:08:38,939 --> 00:08:42,242 This really affects a lot of people, 144 00:08:42,309 --> 00:08:47,046 and the mental preparation that's involved is what really takes most people down. 145 00:08:47,113 --> 00:08:48,781 I'm crazy as a loon to begin with, 146 00:08:48,848 --> 00:08:50,283 so it doesn't faze me at all. 147 00:08:51,151 --> 00:08:52,352 I just go with it. 148 00:08:58,525 --> 00:09:01,728 Trapping is a great way for me to get out, do a little alone time, 149 00:09:01,795 --> 00:09:03,496 and make a little money while I'm at it. 150 00:09:05,064 --> 00:09:09,535 This tree here is one of my favourite cubby sets. 151 00:09:09,602 --> 00:09:13,272 You can see, uh, in past years where I've had success, 152 00:09:13,339 --> 00:09:16,342 and all the brush was all mowed down and chewed up here. 153 00:09:16,409 --> 00:09:18,277 Here's my old tassel string. 154 00:09:18,344 --> 00:09:21,614 Still have a trap wired to the tree here. 155 00:09:22,916 --> 00:09:26,553 I'm gonna start off by just tying a new tassel on there, 156 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:28,288 a little visual attractant. 157 00:09:28,355 --> 00:09:31,290 We have a termagant wing. 158 00:09:31,357 --> 00:09:33,793 And this here, it kinda blows around in the wind, 159 00:09:33,860 --> 00:09:36,262 and lynx are curious animals and he'll bat at it 160 00:09:36,329 --> 00:09:38,932 and hopefully get himself caught in a trap. 161 00:09:38,999 --> 00:09:40,867 Let's make a little bit of a cubby. 162 00:09:41,502 --> 00:09:43,369 We're gonna take sticks, 163 00:09:43,436 --> 00:09:47,040 make an enclosure that's going to funnel the animal in 164 00:09:47,107 --> 00:09:49,375 to step into the trap. 165 00:09:49,442 --> 00:09:53,145 Goin' to just to take snow in our hands, cover up the chain. 166 00:09:53,212 --> 00:09:55,414 We're gonna take our trapping axe 167 00:09:55,481 --> 00:09:59,051 and we're gonna just dip it into this untouched powder. 168 00:09:59,118 --> 00:10:03,156 The purpose in this is that the snow doesn't become compact 169 00:10:03,223 --> 00:10:04,957 and prevent the trap from springing. 170 00:10:05,024 --> 00:10:10,197 So it's just a fine layer of thin snow that's obscuring that trap. 171 00:10:10,264 --> 00:10:13,433 And we don't want him to just step over it, so we're gonna put that there. 172 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:16,135 These are called guide sticks. 173 00:10:16,202 --> 00:10:19,505 And we're gonna sink it right there, so kitty steps over. 174 00:10:19,572 --> 00:10:22,275 And the trap is essentially ready to go. 175 00:10:22,342 --> 00:10:27,480 There you have a visual, scent, and food item bait, which is a moose femur. 176 00:10:27,547 --> 00:10:31,684 Here you have a tassel, which is a termagant wing, which is a visual draw. 177 00:10:31,751 --> 00:10:34,420 A little wind spins that around, attracts the cat. 178 00:10:34,487 --> 00:10:36,523 So I just finished setting one cubby 179 00:10:36,590 --> 00:10:39,959 and I got a bunch more to set up before I'm done here, so I'm gonna get with it. 180 00:10:40,026 --> 00:10:42,162 Hopefully, when we come back, we'll have a cat. 181 00:10:44,897 --> 00:10:47,667 ANDY BASSICH: I believe in embracing technology, 182 00:10:47,734 --> 00:10:51,670 but I think any time you embrace technology, 183 00:10:51,737 --> 00:10:54,908 the most important thing is how you embrace it. 184 00:10:59,145 --> 00:11:00,613 (DOGS BARKING) 185 00:11:08,388 --> 00:11:10,923 Having some kind of problem with the solar array today. 186 00:11:10,990 --> 00:11:14,661 So goin' to reset the charge controller and see what happens. 187 00:11:14,728 --> 00:11:16,662 Another day of fixing shit. 188 00:11:16,729 --> 00:11:20,099 Some kind of a hiccup in the charge control here. 189 00:11:20,166 --> 00:11:23,269 I was getting all kinds of erroneous readings this morning, 190 00:11:23,336 --> 00:11:25,805 so, basically, I just rebooted it. 191 00:11:25,872 --> 00:11:27,574 Oh, that looks a lot better. 192 00:11:27,641 --> 00:11:32,278 I love the technology, but I tend to try and keep it at arm's length. 193 00:11:35,982 --> 00:11:38,217 We use wood heat for all of our buildings. 194 00:11:38,284 --> 00:11:40,053 We don't use any oil heat. 195 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,389 We're trying to remove ourselves from any dependency 196 00:11:43,456 --> 00:11:45,925 on fossil fuels as much as possible. 197 00:11:50,163 --> 00:11:54,267 I got about two or three loads of wood I need to get back to where I'm happy. 198 00:11:54,334 --> 00:11:58,103 That usually last us a couple of weeks if it's not super cold. 199 00:11:58,170 --> 00:12:01,508 If it's real cold, we burn through the wood pretty quick. 200 00:12:03,776 --> 00:12:05,044 (REVVING) 201 00:12:06,646 --> 00:12:09,282 It's pretty critical for me to get over to my wood lot, 202 00:12:09,349 --> 00:12:11,551 cut some trees, stockpile wood there, 203 00:12:11,618 --> 00:12:14,521 so that I'm well supplied for when the cold weather hits. 204 00:12:17,724 --> 00:12:20,193 I wanna go get a quick load of firewood. 205 00:12:20,260 --> 00:12:23,896 It's a little quicker with the snow machine to just banzai across the river 206 00:12:23,963 --> 00:12:26,065 to my wood lot, cut some wood, throw it in, 207 00:12:26,132 --> 00:12:30,035 then I'm back here in maybe 45 minutes. 208 00:12:30,102 --> 00:12:32,571 The snow machines, they're a pain in the ass. 209 00:12:32,638 --> 00:12:35,074 But they're kind of a necessary pain in the ass. 210 00:12:38,879 --> 00:12:40,480 (ENGINE STARTING) 211 00:12:46,252 --> 00:12:49,055 So I'm gonna go get my coat on and we'll go get some wood. 212 00:13:05,772 --> 00:13:06,873 (ENGINE SPUTTERING) 213 00:13:06,940 --> 00:13:08,575 Aw, come on, man. 214 00:13:13,045 --> 00:13:15,781 -(ENGINE STOPS) -Son of a bitch! 215 00:13:15,848 --> 00:13:17,216 Goddamn it! 216 00:13:17,283 --> 00:13:19,018 Why you gotta do this crap today on me? 217 00:13:19,085 --> 00:13:22,155 All I wanted to do is go get some stupid wood. 218 00:13:22,222 --> 00:13:25,258 See maybe that floats. Maybe that floats. 219 00:13:26,626 --> 00:13:27,760 It's stickin'. 220 00:13:29,195 --> 00:13:33,266 So sick and tired of screwing with all this stupid machinery. 221 00:13:37,337 --> 00:13:38,905 Son of a bitch. 222 00:13:44,211 --> 00:13:46,713 These damn machines. 223 00:13:46,780 --> 00:13:49,115 I just spent a bunch of time working on it. 224 00:13:49,182 --> 00:13:51,517 It's something wrong with the fuel. 225 00:13:51,584 --> 00:13:54,020 The recoil's not working. 226 00:13:54,087 --> 00:13:58,525 It's just the same old crap all the time with machinery in the wintertime up here. 227 00:13:58,592 --> 00:13:59,692 If I can just get it into this sled, 228 00:13:59,759 --> 00:14:02,262 I can just go home and get some dogs, 229 00:14:02,329 --> 00:14:04,197 have them tow it back. 230 00:14:09,870 --> 00:14:11,638 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 231 00:14:30,890 --> 00:14:31,891 (EXHALES) 232 00:14:37,330 --> 00:14:38,965 (SIGHS) 233 00:14:39,032 --> 00:14:40,633 Yeah, baby, that's gonna work. 234 00:14:43,836 --> 00:14:46,239 Yeah, dogs are gonna love me for this. 235 00:14:48,641 --> 00:14:51,511 I was about a mile away from home when this happened. 236 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,149 I'm gonna go hook up about 10 dogs 237 00:14:56,216 --> 00:14:58,651 and we'll just drag it back to the shop with the 10 dogs. 238 00:14:58,718 --> 00:15:01,654 And then go back with the dogs and get a load of wood with them, 239 00:15:01,721 --> 00:15:03,856 I probably should have done that in the first place. 240 00:15:07,794 --> 00:15:09,929 CHIP: It's pretty much a do-it-yourself kind of deal. 241 00:15:09,996 --> 00:15:12,098 You gotta get yourself from one place to another. 242 00:15:12,165 --> 00:15:14,667 There's no tow trucks and there's no gas stations. 243 00:15:33,686 --> 00:15:35,521 I blew my belt on my snow machine. 244 00:15:35,588 --> 00:15:37,824 Got myself a belt. It took some trade. 245 00:15:37,891 --> 00:15:39,859 This will get me back out to the caribou 246 00:15:39,926 --> 00:15:42,328 and I'll replace the caribou that I got the belt with with these. 247 00:15:44,397 --> 00:15:45,732 Fucking total bullshit. 248 00:15:48,735 --> 00:15:51,037 This machine is 10 years old. 249 00:15:51,104 --> 00:15:53,305 It's probably got 50,000 miles on it. 250 00:15:53,372 --> 00:15:55,742 Machines are very personal things. 251 00:15:55,809 --> 00:15:58,343 You, um... You don't let other people go riding around in your machine, 252 00:15:58,410 --> 00:16:00,046 you don't let other people work on your machines. 253 00:16:15,461 --> 00:16:16,929 (ENGINE STARTS) 254 00:16:26,139 --> 00:16:29,075 Anything that requires a heavy load or long distance travel 255 00:16:29,142 --> 00:16:30,742 probably requires my snow machine. 256 00:16:30,809 --> 00:16:34,280 And if you can't maintain your own, you're gonna walk a lot. 257 00:16:40,820 --> 00:16:42,655 ERIK: You take a hot steam in the sauna, 258 00:16:42,722 --> 00:16:44,724 relax your muscles, eat a good meal, 259 00:16:46,225 --> 00:16:49,028 hit the rack, wake up the next day and do it again. 260 00:16:58,538 --> 00:16:59,539 (COUGHS) 261 00:17:00,540 --> 00:17:02,141 Kind of draggin' here. 262 00:17:02,208 --> 00:17:05,511 Been sick for a few days, but I gotta get out and check some traps. 263 00:17:09,415 --> 00:17:10,617 Alaska is a harsh place. 264 00:17:10,684 --> 00:17:13,218 It's, uh... The climate's harsh. 265 00:17:13,285 --> 00:17:15,421 The culture can be harsh in ways. 266 00:17:15,488 --> 00:17:17,523 If you don't like it, don't live here! 267 00:17:17,590 --> 00:17:18,758 It's that easy. 268 00:17:21,361 --> 00:17:22,495 (COUGHS) 269 00:17:30,503 --> 00:17:32,438 The last time I came down to the set here, 270 00:17:34,641 --> 00:17:37,410 there was a fresh cat track coming right down this trail. 271 00:17:37,477 --> 00:17:41,314 I don't see any sign right now, but maybe, uh... Maybe we'll get lucky, eh? 272 00:17:48,187 --> 00:17:49,789 The last time I checked this pole, 273 00:17:50,457 --> 00:17:51,991 a lynx had come along, 274 00:17:52,625 --> 00:17:54,693 torn this bait down, 275 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,864 sprung my trap, and then he walked off that way. 276 00:18:02,101 --> 00:18:04,804 Here I am coming back from my trip, checking traps again, 277 00:18:04,871 --> 00:18:09,709 fresh snow, a lynx again came by, sprung the trap. 278 00:18:11,344 --> 00:18:13,712 Okay, so we're gonna reset this pole. 279 00:18:13,779 --> 00:18:17,950 There's a lot of self-reliance associated with, uh, living out this far. 280 00:18:18,017 --> 00:18:19,018 (COUGHS) 281 00:18:19,085 --> 00:18:21,420 I love being out here and doing this, 282 00:18:21,487 --> 00:18:25,625 but when you're sick, this really'll run you down. 283 00:18:30,763 --> 00:18:33,933 We got ripped off by a big ol' tomcat here. Lynx. 284 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,868 But, you know, you can't win here every time. 285 00:18:35,935 --> 00:18:38,204 So we're gonna go and check this cubby down the way, 286 00:18:38,271 --> 00:18:39,471 and you never know, maybe we'll get lucky 287 00:18:39,538 --> 00:18:41,507 and even that tomcat'll be stuck there, so we'll see. 288 00:18:43,409 --> 00:18:44,510 (COUGHS) 289 00:18:46,112 --> 00:18:47,680 So here's the cubby trap. 290 00:18:47,747 --> 00:18:49,315 Okay, the trap is sprung. 291 00:18:51,784 --> 00:18:53,386 Son of a gun. 292 00:18:53,453 --> 00:18:55,288 We got a little bit of fur here. 293 00:18:55,355 --> 00:18:56,756 We pinched a kitty. 294 00:18:58,324 --> 00:19:01,427 Must've... It just barely got him, you know? 295 00:19:01,494 --> 00:19:05,197 (COUGHS) He may have actually even sat on it. 296 00:19:05,264 --> 00:19:08,601 This cat's run devastation on me here. He's teasing me. 297 00:19:08,668 --> 00:19:10,069 Beat me out on the cubby. 298 00:19:10,136 --> 00:19:12,338 He's not gonna win the next go around. 299 00:19:12,405 --> 00:19:13,839 Let's check some more traps. 300 00:19:17,077 --> 00:19:18,411 Being sick sucks. 301 00:19:20,814 --> 00:19:22,815 Got a couple of miles of trap line here. 302 00:19:22,882 --> 00:19:24,684 I'm just gonna walk some short foot lines I have 303 00:19:24,751 --> 00:19:27,053 that are pretty close to the house here 304 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:30,322 and, hopefully, we catch a cat or martin or something. 305 00:19:30,389 --> 00:19:33,192 I'm looking forward to maybe skinning some fur tonight. 306 00:19:51,277 --> 00:19:52,845 We have a lynx here. 307 00:19:53,946 --> 00:19:57,016 Just an unbelievable animal, a keen predator. 308 00:19:57,083 --> 00:19:58,884 Beautiful and valuable pelt, 309 00:19:58,951 --> 00:20:01,920 and he's a true adapted predator of the Arctic. 310 00:20:01,987 --> 00:20:05,157 And also one of the few fur bearers that we can also eat. 311 00:20:05,224 --> 00:20:07,026 So we're gonna try to angle around 312 00:20:07,093 --> 00:20:11,163 and see if we can't just put one shot with this .22 pistol in it. 313 00:20:15,101 --> 00:20:16,268 (GUNSHOT) 314 00:20:24,844 --> 00:20:26,479 Beautiful, mature animal. 315 00:20:31,384 --> 00:20:33,853 Spend a lot of time checking empty traps, 316 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,789 having snowed in traps, and then finally you go... 317 00:20:36,856 --> 00:20:38,758 And when you get a target animal like the lynx, 318 00:20:38,825 --> 00:20:40,159 you know, it's always exciting. 319 00:20:44,530 --> 00:20:46,165 SUE: To make the decision to live here, 320 00:20:46,232 --> 00:20:49,268 you know, you're deciding that you're gonna pit yourself against 321 00:20:49,335 --> 00:20:52,171 some of the worst shit that mother nature has to give. 322 00:21:02,548 --> 00:21:05,484 I know I've got some predator circling me. 323 00:21:05,551 --> 00:21:06,685 I don't know where he is. 324 00:21:06,752 --> 00:21:08,220 I need to widen out my search 325 00:21:08,287 --> 00:21:11,924 just to make sure that my immediate work area is safe. 326 00:21:15,294 --> 00:21:17,529 A daytime attack would be unusual, 327 00:21:17,596 --> 00:21:20,166 but it is the Arctic and people are food groups. 328 00:21:24,337 --> 00:21:26,205 You got some tracks here. 329 00:21:26,272 --> 00:21:29,041 Fox and a wolf travel fairly similarly. 330 00:21:29,108 --> 00:21:30,643 This is pretty goddamn big. 331 00:21:30,710 --> 00:21:32,578 Although the stride isn't great. 332 00:21:32,645 --> 00:21:35,548 Possibility, this could be wolf. 333 00:21:36,716 --> 00:21:38,250 If so, it's a smaller one. 334 00:21:39,251 --> 00:21:41,920 But, uh, he definitely out here, 335 00:21:41,987 --> 00:21:44,423 and that would have definitely been from this morning. 336 00:21:55,001 --> 00:21:57,270 Right here, this would have been, uh, where... 337 00:21:57,337 --> 00:22:00,772 I mean it's blown over now, but at some point it was the entrance and exit. 338 00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:03,609 These little prints here, those are fox prints. 339 00:22:13,352 --> 00:22:14,787 Over the years that I've been here, 340 00:22:14,854 --> 00:22:17,634 I've got, uh, now 12 to 15 foxes. 341 00:22:17,701 --> 00:22:21,093 They've become my buddies, they follow me everywhere I go. 342 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,428 Um, I've got one, Foxy, 343 00:22:22,495 --> 00:22:24,463 he just, he walks all the way inside. 344 00:22:24,530 --> 00:22:26,832 He'll sit on the couch and watch TV with me. 345 00:22:26,899 --> 00:22:30,402 Uh, it's gotten to the point now, I mean, I just put up his barrel by the window 346 00:22:30,469 --> 00:22:33,072 and he sits there, turn the TV to face him. 347 00:22:33,139 --> 00:22:35,368 If I turn it away, he cries. 348 00:22:35,435 --> 00:22:39,645 It's, uh, you know, I can pet them. They are my little buddies. 349 00:22:43,716 --> 00:22:46,919 When one of my female fox, Loxy, when she was a little kit 350 00:22:46,986 --> 00:22:50,556 it was her first year, and I heard his horrific noise 351 00:22:50,623 --> 00:22:53,391 and instantly knew there was a bear getting into the fox den. 352 00:22:53,458 --> 00:22:55,328 I ran outside and here's little Loxy, 353 00:22:55,395 --> 00:22:56,962 and she's pulling on my little pant legs 354 00:22:57,029 --> 00:22:59,531 trying to get me to come over to the den 355 00:22:59,598 --> 00:23:02,000 and I could hear that the bear was getting into the den 356 00:23:02,067 --> 00:23:03,602 and eating all the foxes. 357 00:23:03,669 --> 00:23:05,137 She's crying and crying. 358 00:23:05,204 --> 00:23:08,074 She tried and tried to pull me over to save her family, 359 00:23:08,141 --> 00:23:10,409 and once she realised I couldn't do it, 360 00:23:10,476 --> 00:23:13,078 she just sat down right on the tundra and cried and cried. 361 00:23:17,950 --> 00:23:20,586 Next thing she did, she just ran under the trailer and just hid. 362 00:23:20,653 --> 00:23:22,955 She is the only one that survived that bear attack. 363 00:23:24,590 --> 00:23:26,125 Loxy! 364 00:23:27,260 --> 00:23:29,528 Loxy! 365 00:23:29,595 --> 00:23:32,765 In order to complete the circuit, I'm gonna get up on my perch 366 00:23:32,832 --> 00:23:36,168 and see where my predator threat... If there is a threat. 367 00:23:36,235 --> 00:23:38,904 We know there's large predators roaming around right now, 368 00:23:38,971 --> 00:23:41,073 but the nature of a predator is 369 00:23:41,140 --> 00:23:43,776 they don't walk out into the open and shake your hand. 370 00:23:43,843 --> 00:23:45,010 They sneak up on you. 371 00:24:02,828 --> 00:24:04,196 There's a wolf out there! 372 00:24:06,198 --> 00:24:07,699 Typical predator activity. 373 00:24:07,766 --> 00:24:09,201 They're gonna circle you, 374 00:24:09,268 --> 00:24:11,136 lookin' for all your weaknesses, lookin' for your pattern, 375 00:24:11,203 --> 00:24:13,806 when they have the advantage at night, they come in. 376 00:24:13,873 --> 00:24:17,409 You let your guard down once and you end up going home in a body bag. 377 00:24:19,111 --> 00:24:21,614 Typically, what they're going to do is circle, 378 00:24:21,681 --> 00:24:26,018 circle, wait for you to get comfortable, wait, and then pounce. 379 00:24:26,085 --> 00:24:28,487 Because he's 100 or 200 yards out 380 00:24:28,554 --> 00:24:30,222 doesn't mean he needs to go down. 381 00:24:30,289 --> 00:24:33,659 When I feel my comfort zone for safety has been comprised, 382 00:24:33,726 --> 00:24:35,360 that's when I need to take care of it. 383 00:24:35,427 --> 00:24:37,696 My job then to protect myself, 384 00:24:37,763 --> 00:24:41,367 get all of my f-ing work done and be inside. 385 00:24:41,434 --> 00:24:43,802 They have the advantage if I go outside at night. 386 00:24:43,869 --> 00:24:45,070 I need to change that around. 387 00:24:45,137 --> 00:24:46,972 They want me bad enough, they're hungry enough, 388 00:24:47,039 --> 00:24:48,073 you come inside, motherfucker. 389 00:24:48,140 --> 00:24:49,441 'Cause then I have the advantage. 390 00:24:51,277 --> 00:24:53,445 People want to know why I do this, this is it. 391 00:24:53,512 --> 00:24:54,547 You know you're fucking alive 392 00:24:54,614 --> 00:24:56,248 when you got something wanting to eat ya. 393 00:24:56,315 --> 00:24:57,916 You gotta beat feet to get your shit done, 394 00:24:57,983 --> 00:25:00,051 and hopefully, you outsmart 'em or outwait 'em. 395 00:25:00,118 --> 00:25:01,286 Dangerous? Yeah. 396 00:25:01,353 --> 00:25:03,789 Scary? No. It's a challenge, I like it. 397 00:25:10,128 --> 00:25:11,730 CHIP: We're not stoppable. 398 00:25:11,797 --> 00:25:14,165 We're the irresistible object. 399 00:25:14,232 --> 00:25:15,267 It's our will. 400 00:25:25,744 --> 00:25:27,746 CHIP: The object today is to go get some seal oil. 401 00:25:27,813 --> 00:25:30,215 We missed a couple of really good hunts this last fall, 402 00:25:30,282 --> 00:25:32,651 so we've taken to trading and purchasing it. 403 00:25:33,886 --> 00:25:35,821 Here in the Arctic, because we are beyond, 404 00:25:35,888 --> 00:25:37,289 way beyond the end of the road, 405 00:25:37,356 --> 00:25:38,924 this is just kind of the way things go. 406 00:25:38,991 --> 00:25:40,759 Um, trade is really important. 407 00:25:40,826 --> 00:25:43,796 My wife wants more seal oil, which is a favourite condiment of ours. 408 00:25:43,863 --> 00:25:45,164 Seal oil goes all over everything. 409 00:25:45,231 --> 00:25:49,668 Makes eating frozen food calorically viable for our bodies. 410 00:25:49,735 --> 00:25:51,303 Her sister wants some white fish, 411 00:25:51,370 --> 00:25:53,105 so it all came together to make a great reason 412 00:25:53,172 --> 00:25:55,274 to go on a trip to the next village, which is Kiana. 413 00:25:58,577 --> 00:26:01,080 AGNES: These down here are all the special fish. 414 00:26:02,448 --> 00:26:06,618 These fish in here are, uh, from Melevik. 415 00:26:06,685 --> 00:26:11,657 They are fatter and got more, uh, white fish eggs in them. 416 00:26:11,724 --> 00:26:16,195 I wanna bring these to my sister Nita in Kiana, the next village up. 417 00:26:16,262 --> 00:26:18,430 They didn't get much fish up there this year 418 00:26:18,497 --> 00:26:20,899 and I told her I'd save her a bag. 419 00:26:29,441 --> 00:26:32,611 CHIP: When we go visit folks in the next village or such, we don't have roads. 420 00:26:32,678 --> 00:26:34,546 And, um, we have a trail system, 421 00:26:34,613 --> 00:26:37,382 but quite often it's just a cross-country deal. 422 00:26:37,449 --> 00:26:40,352 Not too many people around here have a taxi cab to jump into. 423 00:26:40,419 --> 00:26:41,820 Actually, nobody does so. 424 00:26:41,887 --> 00:26:45,123 So we use basket sleds, and we line 'em with caribou skins and a tarp 425 00:26:45,190 --> 00:26:46,858 to keep the snow off the people riding behind. 426 00:26:46,925 --> 00:26:48,994 And, uh, it's actually a very comfortable way to go. 427 00:26:49,061 --> 00:26:53,065 It's the place where grandmas and newborns and, um, delicate things 428 00:26:53,132 --> 00:26:55,501 are put into a nice flexible basket sled. 429 00:27:22,528 --> 00:27:26,699 If it's a good year and a fella's got a nice ride, it can be 20 minutes. 430 00:27:26,766 --> 00:27:29,034 Because it's probably 30, 40 miles. 431 00:27:29,101 --> 00:27:32,938 This year it's kind of rough, we've got passengers, so we slow down considerably. 432 00:27:33,639 --> 00:27:34,940 (DOG BARKS) 433 00:27:52,892 --> 00:27:55,627 -AGNES: How's Jack? -Okay. 434 00:27:55,694 --> 00:27:57,663 AGNES: We brought fish. CHIP: Still like white fish? 435 00:28:00,532 --> 00:28:02,901 Right there, your, um, white fish. 436 00:28:02,968 --> 00:28:05,871 CHIP: Trade is really important, and money is really hard to come by. 437 00:28:05,938 --> 00:28:07,972 And if you can't make money, you can always trade. 438 00:28:08,039 --> 00:28:10,542 It's all a big circle, we all watch out for each other around here. 439 00:28:10,609 --> 00:28:12,110 -Right on, thank you. -Thank you. 440 00:28:12,177 --> 00:28:13,778 It's really fresh. There's no taste. 441 00:28:13,845 --> 00:28:16,415 -AGNES: It's good. -Nice, light, light oil. 442 00:28:20,620 --> 00:28:21,920 No, pink's right. 443 00:28:21,987 --> 00:28:26,391 We dip all our fish and frozen meats and stuff inside of it. 444 00:28:26,458 --> 00:28:29,695 And that way we don't make our bodies cold. 445 00:28:29,762 --> 00:28:32,498 -CHIP: It's rendered down from seal blubber. -Yeah, seal blubber. 446 00:28:32,565 --> 00:28:35,134 -Real good one. -JACK: Yeah. 447 00:28:35,201 --> 00:28:37,769 CHIP: These Inupiaq, their culture is all about food. 448 00:28:37,836 --> 00:28:40,405 It's a medium of exchange, it's a medium of gift, 449 00:28:40,472 --> 00:28:42,507 and, if anything, a really good reason to go on a little trip, 450 00:28:42,574 --> 00:28:44,910 to go visiting, that's the way to go. 451 00:28:44,977 --> 00:28:46,512 Since it's all about food, now I'm gonna go inside 452 00:28:46,579 --> 00:28:48,313 and go eat with my-brother-in-law. 453 00:28:50,349 --> 00:28:52,717 ANDY: For me, I love the technology. 454 00:28:52,784 --> 00:28:56,689 If it's not improving my life, if it's creating more frustration for me, 455 00:28:56,756 --> 00:29:00,159 then I know I'm depending on the technology too much. 456 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,363 Hey, Berg. You guys ready to go 457 00:29:05,197 --> 00:29:07,299 perform AAA services? 458 00:29:07,366 --> 00:29:10,869 This morning I woke up and planned to just do a quick trip across the river 459 00:29:10,936 --> 00:29:12,971 to get some firewood with the snow machine. 460 00:29:13,038 --> 00:29:15,307 Plans didn't work out the way I had envisioned them. 461 00:29:15,374 --> 00:29:18,243 I got right to my wood lot, my machine died. 462 00:29:18,310 --> 00:29:20,445 Then I had to walk home, about mile, mile-and-a-half. 463 00:29:21,313 --> 00:29:22,514 How about you and Tea help me? 464 00:29:22,581 --> 00:29:25,183 Let's go get that snow machine. 465 00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:27,452 Hell with those damn snow machines today. 466 00:29:30,489 --> 00:29:31,490 KATE RORKE-BASSICH: What's going on? 467 00:29:31,557 --> 00:29:33,492 Ah, snow machine broke down again. 468 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:35,460 KATE: No! 469 00:29:35,527 --> 00:29:38,563 So, um, why don't you go get dressed up and help me. 470 00:29:38,630 --> 00:29:42,334 Let's hook up about 10 dogs and I'll go over there and drag it back over here. 471 00:29:42,401 --> 00:29:45,070 Then I can use the dogs to go back and get some wood and stuff. 472 00:29:50,976 --> 00:29:54,680 Sick and tired of working on damn snow machines all the time. 473 00:30:03,923 --> 00:30:06,892 Hey, Kate, you gonna be able to come help me, uh, hook up some dogs? 474 00:30:06,959 --> 00:30:09,328 -How many you gonna take? -Ten. 475 00:30:10,963 --> 00:30:13,332 Living out here, we depend on each other. 476 00:30:13,399 --> 00:30:14,566 We're a partnership 477 00:30:14,633 --> 00:30:18,203 and she's really good at dropping whatever she's doing 478 00:30:18,270 --> 00:30:20,839 to help me when I need help out here. 479 00:30:20,906 --> 00:30:22,674 You got a neckline on one of those? 480 00:30:23,008 --> 00:30:24,309 Yeah. 481 00:30:24,376 --> 00:30:27,112 -(DOGS YELPS) -Gonna need your power today. 482 00:30:27,179 --> 00:30:28,914 Gonna need your power today. Come on. 483 00:30:28,981 --> 00:30:30,015 (DOGS BARKING) 484 00:30:34,753 --> 00:30:37,623 Give me your right foot. Up. Good. 485 00:30:38,690 --> 00:30:39,925 (BARKING) 486 00:30:43,229 --> 00:30:44,396 All right, let's go! 487 00:30:50,135 --> 00:30:53,438 I got better things to do with my time today then screw around with this. 488 00:30:53,505 --> 00:30:55,507 So I'm just gonna drag that machine back 489 00:30:55,574 --> 00:30:58,309 and then go with the dogs and get a load of wood with them. 490 00:30:58,376 --> 00:31:00,646 I probably should've done that in the first place. 491 00:31:01,079 --> 00:31:02,814 Up, up! On by. 492 00:31:02,881 --> 00:31:05,050 That a boys. Straight ahead, straight ahead. 493 00:31:05,117 --> 00:31:06,218 On by, let's go! 494 00:31:08,053 --> 00:31:09,488 Everybody, whoa. 495 00:31:09,555 --> 00:31:13,125 Up easy, up easy. Up easy, whoa. 496 00:31:13,192 --> 00:31:16,595 Up a little, whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Everybody stay. 497 00:31:17,663 --> 00:31:19,464 -Everybody stay. -(DOGS WHINE) 498 00:31:21,133 --> 00:31:22,534 Everybody stay. 499 00:31:23,135 --> 00:31:24,268 Stay! 500 00:31:24,335 --> 00:31:27,005 If these dogs wanna take off on me, I'm screwed. 501 00:31:27,072 --> 00:31:28,340 (WHINING) 502 00:31:28,407 --> 00:31:29,775 Everybody stay. 503 00:31:31,476 --> 00:31:32,844 Everybody stay. 504 00:31:32,911 --> 00:31:35,747 Everybody, whoa. Whoa, whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! 505 00:31:35,814 --> 00:31:37,349 Everybody stay. 506 00:31:37,416 --> 00:31:39,517 The snow machine crapped out on me. 507 00:31:39,584 --> 00:31:41,853 I loaded it into the sled, 508 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,022 I went home, I got my dogs, 509 00:31:44,089 --> 00:31:46,024 I bought them back, I hooked on. 510 00:31:46,091 --> 00:31:47,893 And up. Up, up! Let's go! 511 00:31:50,428 --> 00:31:53,064 Those 10 dogs ran with that snow machine home, 512 00:31:53,131 --> 00:31:56,835 and it was a good feeling to see my dogs in shape, 513 00:31:56,902 --> 00:31:59,905 pulling the snow machine home with no problems at all. 514 00:32:00,806 --> 00:32:02,074 That a boys! 515 00:32:03,341 --> 00:32:04,476 Straight ahead. 516 00:32:09,414 --> 00:32:12,250 -That a boys! That a boys! -(DOGS BARKING) 517 00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:14,853 That a boys, let's go. 518 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,154 That a boys. 519 00:32:17,222 --> 00:32:18,824 Let's go. Let's go. Up, up. 520 00:32:19,391 --> 00:32:21,727 Up! That a boys. 521 00:32:22,594 --> 00:32:24,029 Easy, easy. 522 00:32:24,096 --> 00:32:27,266 Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Easy. 523 00:32:27,333 --> 00:32:29,367 I need you to grab the middle of the line 524 00:32:29,434 --> 00:32:32,003 and drag the dogs in the middle of the team this way 525 00:32:32,070 --> 00:32:34,105 so I can clear this damn tree. 526 00:32:34,172 --> 00:32:36,775 Up easy, let's go! Up, up! 527 00:32:36,842 --> 00:32:40,645 -Kate! I need the middle of the fucking team! -Okay. 528 00:32:40,712 --> 00:32:41,712 That way! 529 00:32:41,779 --> 00:32:44,149 Stop yelling or you're on your own. 530 00:32:46,418 --> 00:32:48,587 Okay, let's go! Up, up! Up, up! 531 00:32:48,654 --> 00:32:50,422 KATE: Whoa, whoa! 532 00:32:51,390 --> 00:32:54,225 ANDY: Up, up. Whoa, whoa, whoa! 533 00:32:54,292 --> 00:32:57,328 -Whoa! Easy. Whoa. -Whoa! 534 00:32:57,395 --> 00:33:00,432 Go. Whoa! Everybody stay. Good job, you guys! 535 00:33:00,499 --> 00:33:02,968 Every day is not a rosy day. 536 00:33:03,035 --> 00:33:06,872 But, you know, you have to remember we're together 24/7. 537 00:33:06,939 --> 00:33:10,242 Just a little pissed off. I'm not meant... Trying to get on your case, Kate. 538 00:33:10,309 --> 00:33:13,378 I'm just pissed off 'cause this damn snow machine is doing this. 539 00:33:13,445 --> 00:33:17,282 I don't want to rely on that equipment any more to do a quick job. 540 00:33:17,349 --> 00:33:19,551 I'm gonna use my dogs 'cause they're reliable. 541 00:33:20,118 --> 00:33:21,386 (PANTING) 542 00:33:28,727 --> 00:33:32,697 Remind me on my next shop to have an automatic winch at the back door. (CHUCKLES) 543 00:33:32,764 --> 00:33:35,299 So my quick day of going out and getting one quick load 544 00:33:35,366 --> 00:33:38,170 of firewood with the snow machine, 545 00:33:38,237 --> 00:33:41,139 because of mechanical problem's turned into an all-day event 546 00:33:41,206 --> 00:33:45,143 which pretty much shot my plans for the rest of the day. 547 00:33:45,210 --> 00:33:47,112 That's the way it is out here sometimes. 548 00:33:47,579 --> 00:33:49,614 Goddamn thing. 549 00:33:49,681 --> 00:33:51,149 I could've gotten five loads of wood 550 00:33:51,216 --> 00:33:53,652 for what I just put into that crap with the dogs. 551 00:33:53,719 --> 00:33:56,254 I'm just trying to debate whether I want to go get a load of wood with this 552 00:33:56,321 --> 00:33:58,723 or just use the dog sled, you know? 553 00:33:58,790 --> 00:34:01,960 Right. Just use the dog sled. Hook them up and go again. 554 00:34:02,828 --> 00:34:03,829 (YELPING) 555 00:34:05,030 --> 00:34:06,565 Stay. Okay, let's go! 556 00:34:06,632 --> 00:34:08,867 Up, up. Chi, chi. 557 00:34:08,934 --> 00:34:11,770 That a boy! Chi, chi. Chi, chi. 558 00:34:15,007 --> 00:34:17,843 Yeah, baby! One more. Chi, chi. 559 00:34:22,681 --> 00:34:24,082 CHIP: It's always been about food. 560 00:34:24,149 --> 00:34:26,351 It's a medium of exchange, it's a medium of gift. 561 00:34:26,418 --> 00:34:28,453 It's, um, what hunting produces, 562 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,089 it's what fishing produces, it's what gathering produces. 563 00:34:47,372 --> 00:34:49,874 CHIP: Currently, there's 18 people living in our house. 564 00:34:49,941 --> 00:34:52,110 There's me, my wife, our five daughters. 565 00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:55,847 Our son and his woman have come to visited us and brought a couple of their children. 566 00:34:55,914 --> 00:34:58,650 And then my wife's sister just moved up from Iowa. 567 00:34:58,717 --> 00:35:01,053 She's occupying one room with her five children. 568 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,055 People flow in and flow out. It's, uh, never the same. 569 00:35:04,122 --> 00:35:06,325 There's no hotels. What can you say? 570 00:35:06,392 --> 00:35:08,192 Everybody's welcome. 571 00:35:08,259 --> 00:35:10,662 This is a pretty standard meal for us. 572 00:35:10,729 --> 00:35:14,299 Fish, meat, something from the ocean, some oil, some blubber. 573 00:35:15,634 --> 00:35:17,736 Right here is a little bit of dried seal meat. 574 00:35:18,469 --> 00:35:20,939 Rose is cutting up, um, beluga. 575 00:35:22,374 --> 00:35:25,043 This is, um, Inupiaq real food. 576 00:35:31,416 --> 00:35:33,251 We have crackers or fresh bread. 577 00:35:33,318 --> 00:35:35,186 We'll have apples, carrots, celery, 578 00:35:35,253 --> 00:35:37,055 whatever fresh vegetables we can find at the store 579 00:35:37,122 --> 00:35:39,391 we're always glad to include in a good meal like this. 580 00:35:40,458 --> 00:35:42,160 Our stores try hard, but a lot of times, 581 00:35:42,227 --> 00:35:45,863 there's no fruits or vegetables at all to be had for quite a while. 582 00:35:45,930 --> 00:35:50,334 But this right here reduces our overall grocery amount vastly. 583 00:35:50,401 --> 00:35:51,802 If we were to live out of the store, 584 00:35:51,869 --> 00:35:54,873 we'd probably be spending maybe $3,000 a month to feed us. 585 00:35:56,007 --> 00:35:57,375 We've got some smoked salmon here, 586 00:35:57,442 --> 00:35:59,344 we have some carrots and some celery and some apples. 587 00:35:59,411 --> 00:36:04,483 There's bowhead muktuk, which is the pink stuff with the black tops, the skin tips. 588 00:36:04,550 --> 00:36:06,450 Then we have beluga, which is a white whale. 589 00:36:06,517 --> 00:36:09,320 There's, um, frozen caribou, there's some dried smoked caribou, 590 00:36:09,387 --> 00:36:11,856 and there's some frozen white fish and frozen white fish eggs. 591 00:36:11,923 --> 00:36:13,858 And it's all been smeared over with seal oil. 592 00:36:13,925 --> 00:36:16,561 If you eat frozen fish or frozen caribou 593 00:36:16,628 --> 00:36:19,197 and you're outside, even inside, you'll chill your body. 594 00:36:19,264 --> 00:36:21,266 But if you dip 'em in seal oil calorically, 595 00:36:21,333 --> 00:36:23,402 you gain, you get heat out of the deal. 596 00:36:23,469 --> 00:36:25,770 Makes our bodies come up to temperature. 597 00:36:25,837 --> 00:36:28,606 It's what makes people live in the Arctic so well 598 00:36:28,673 --> 00:36:32,110 and, uh, we made some good trades this year for seal oil. 599 00:36:32,177 --> 00:36:33,444 What can I say? 600 00:36:33,511 --> 00:36:35,046 It all comes back to food, it's all about food. 601 00:36:35,113 --> 00:36:37,282 The hunting is about food. The fishing is about food. 602 00:36:37,349 --> 00:36:40,085 The interactions with folks around here we have is about food. 603 00:36:40,152 --> 00:36:42,287 Seems my life is kind of centred on food. 604 00:36:42,354 --> 00:36:44,623 And, uh, it's best when we go get our own. I think it tastes better. 605 00:36:48,226 --> 00:36:49,294 SUE: I'm my own master. 606 00:36:49,361 --> 00:36:51,596 I tell the ship which way to sail. 607 00:36:51,663 --> 00:36:54,966 You can live life on the sidelines or, you know, be on the front charge. 608 00:37:06,311 --> 00:37:09,313 I know I've got some predator circling me. 609 00:37:09,380 --> 00:37:10,749 I don't know where he is. 610 00:37:10,816 --> 00:37:13,851 I have to not just believe that I am safe in here, 611 00:37:13,918 --> 00:37:16,354 I've gotta know that I'm safe in here. 612 00:37:16,421 --> 00:37:18,390 And that means checking it. I gotta find 'em. 613 00:37:30,235 --> 00:37:32,403 The top predators, they tend to be sneaky. 614 00:37:32,470 --> 00:37:36,007 They'll draw you out to bring you in so they can get you. 615 00:37:36,074 --> 00:37:39,377 The way a wolf hunts, they send out scouts first, to draw you out. 616 00:37:39,444 --> 00:37:41,846 Once you're out, the rest come in from behind. 617 00:37:41,913 --> 00:37:44,983 The one you can't see is the one you need to worry about. 618 00:37:48,319 --> 00:37:51,289 I have the utmost respect for my environment. 619 00:37:51,356 --> 00:37:54,226 The utmost respect for the predators in my area. 620 00:37:54,293 --> 00:37:56,428 But not a hell of a lot I fear out of life. 621 00:37:56,495 --> 00:37:58,997 It's just a challenge I haven't met yet. 622 00:37:59,064 --> 00:38:00,098 That's all it is. 623 00:38:08,006 --> 00:38:11,342 I got a wolf sitting on the other side of the bank, so I'm ready. 624 00:38:12,210 --> 00:38:14,112 You know, bring it on, boo-boo. 625 00:38:14,179 --> 00:38:15,346 Bring it on, boo-boo. 626 00:38:16,347 --> 00:38:17,348 (GUNSHOT) 627 00:38:20,151 --> 00:38:22,988 Always, my first option is deflection. 628 00:38:23,055 --> 00:38:24,890 Can I scare him, make him run away? 629 00:38:24,957 --> 00:38:26,591 One of my predators... 630 00:38:26,658 --> 00:38:28,960 It's a good idea. 631 00:38:29,027 --> 00:38:32,163 Rather than just hunker, run inside like a weenie, 632 00:38:32,964 --> 00:38:36,367 uh, let off a few blasts. 633 00:38:36,434 --> 00:38:39,170 Let's them know that I mean business. 634 00:38:39,237 --> 00:38:42,407 They appreciate what a bullet sounds like. 635 00:38:42,474 --> 00:38:43,708 It's putting the noise out there. 636 00:38:43,775 --> 00:38:46,944 It's kinda like throwing down the gauntlet. 637 00:38:47,011 --> 00:38:49,681 I'm being proactive with the wolf. 638 00:38:49,748 --> 00:38:54,319 I'm saying, "Bam, bam! This is my territory, you son of a bitch. I dare ya. 639 00:38:55,353 --> 00:38:57,188 "Cross that fucking line. 640 00:38:57,255 --> 00:39:01,126 "Come on, you want me, come get me, motherfucker. I'm ready for ya." 641 00:39:03,762 --> 00:39:06,163 ANDY: We're not hiding from anything out here. 642 00:39:06,230 --> 00:39:09,200 We're just living the way our hearts tell us 643 00:39:09,267 --> 00:39:11,236 is the best way to live for us. 644 00:39:20,279 --> 00:39:21,546 Gonna chi up here, guys. 645 00:39:22,614 --> 00:39:24,815 Chi, chi! Chi, chi! 646 00:39:24,882 --> 00:39:26,918 This morning, planned to just do a quick trip 647 00:39:26,985 --> 00:39:30,021 across the river to get some firewood with the snow machine. 648 00:39:30,088 --> 00:39:33,124 The plans didn't work out the way I had envisioned 'em. 649 00:39:33,191 --> 00:39:35,159 That's the way it is out here sometimes. 650 00:39:35,226 --> 00:39:38,964 You gotta pretty much adapt to things as they happen. 651 00:39:39,031 --> 00:39:40,098 Stay. 652 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,603 So I'm here right now in my wood lot. 653 00:39:44,670 --> 00:39:47,705 I'm going to go get a couple of trees here. There's a couple right there. 654 00:39:47,772 --> 00:39:51,009 There's one dead tree there. I gotta worry about that one hitting the dogs, though, 655 00:39:51,076 --> 00:39:53,477 so I think I'd rather get stuff over here. 656 00:39:53,544 --> 00:39:55,313 Hopefully, this thing will run. 657 00:39:56,814 --> 00:39:57,949 (WHIRRING) 658 00:40:11,095 --> 00:40:12,297 (PANTING) 659 00:40:14,132 --> 00:40:15,767 All right, there's three. 660 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:24,708 (SIGHS) I'm gonna try and take that tree down. 661 00:40:24,775 --> 00:40:29,313 If I can get it to fall on this side of these two trees, I'll be happy. 662 00:40:29,380 --> 00:40:32,717 Jerry-riggin' stuff, man, that's my middle name. 663 00:40:32,784 --> 00:40:34,953 That's all I seem to do around here, you know? 664 00:40:35,020 --> 00:40:36,554 If you don't have the resource, 665 00:40:36,621 --> 00:40:40,791 you look around, you figure out what you got and then you make it work. 666 00:40:40,858 --> 00:40:42,227 (WHIRRING) 667 00:40:45,363 --> 00:40:46,431 (SNIFFLES) 668 00:40:47,631 --> 00:40:50,068 All right, baby, go where I want you to go now. 669 00:40:50,869 --> 00:40:52,770 Come on. Come on! 670 00:40:55,172 --> 00:40:57,108 Come on, baby, come to Papa. 671 00:40:57,976 --> 00:40:59,444 Yeah, baby, go. 672 00:40:59,511 --> 00:41:03,081 Go, go, go, go. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah! 673 00:41:05,049 --> 00:41:06,150 Oh, yeah! 674 00:41:06,217 --> 00:41:07,385 Oh, yeah! 675 00:41:09,154 --> 00:41:12,290 It's always the biggest ones that's farthest to carry. 676 00:41:12,357 --> 00:41:13,458 Never fails. 677 00:41:16,661 --> 00:41:19,364 All day long just sweat my ass off 678 00:41:24,435 --> 00:41:27,171 I think that's going to be it for the night after that. 679 00:41:27,238 --> 00:41:28,673 That's a pretty full day. 680 00:41:29,674 --> 00:41:30,808 Oh. (EXHALES) 681 00:41:31,342 --> 00:41:32,677 Okay, let's go! 682 00:41:37,782 --> 00:41:38,917 That a boys. 683 00:41:39,651 --> 00:41:40,818 That a boys. 684 00:41:42,086 --> 00:41:45,223 That a boys. Yeah, buddy! Whoo-hoo! 685 00:41:45,824 --> 00:41:48,092 Yeah! Let's go home. 686 00:41:52,263 --> 00:41:53,964 ERIK: Tomorrow, it'll be kill or be killed. 687 00:41:54,031 --> 00:41:55,266 That's a serious reality. 688 00:41:55,333 --> 00:41:56,968 So there's a lot of blood in the snow around my house. 689 00:42:12,751 --> 00:42:14,786 Saw the lynx from across the slough, 690 00:42:14,853 --> 00:42:16,420 jogged over there. 691 00:42:16,487 --> 00:42:17,955 Looked at it. 692 00:42:18,022 --> 00:42:20,658 It was a nice, big, mature animal. 693 00:42:20,725 --> 00:42:23,494 Made a clean shot. Dispatched it. 694 00:42:23,561 --> 00:42:25,463 I was happy packing that lynx home. 695 00:42:25,530 --> 00:42:27,131 It's always good weight to have. 696 00:42:34,406 --> 00:42:36,141 You're on your own time zone here. 697 00:42:36,208 --> 00:42:39,110 You can wake up at 4:00 in the afternoon 698 00:42:39,177 --> 00:42:44,248 and accomplish just as much as if you wake up at 6:00 a.m. 699 00:42:44,315 --> 00:42:46,483 And you sleep when you're tired, you eat when you're hungry, 700 00:42:46,550 --> 00:42:48,086 you work when there's work to be done. 701 00:42:49,653 --> 00:42:53,491 I tell you what, I'm happy I got that done. 702 00:42:53,558 --> 00:42:56,894 I'm gonna skin a lynx and go to bed. I'm whipped. 703 00:42:56,961 --> 00:42:58,996 You make your own, your own time up here. 704 00:42:59,063 --> 00:43:01,165 You know, Alaska is a harsh place. 705 00:43:01,232 --> 00:43:04,168 It's either you like it or you don't. 706 00:43:04,235 --> 00:43:06,104 It's the only place that I could live. 707 00:43:08,173 --> 00:43:10,574 You know, the satisfaction of trapping, it's nice. 708 00:43:10,641 --> 00:43:14,745 I spend a lot of the year guiding clients. 709 00:43:14,812 --> 00:43:16,614 Spent a lot of time out in the woods with other people. 710 00:43:16,681 --> 00:43:20,118 It's one of the few times of the year that I get to be on my own. 711 00:43:20,185 --> 00:43:24,255 I like that serenity and to get out there and get some alone time. 712 00:43:26,524 --> 00:43:28,559 Yeah, the lynx is a prized animal. 713 00:43:28,626 --> 00:43:30,728 (COUGHS) It's a valuable hide. 714 00:43:30,795 --> 00:43:32,830 They're not a difficult hide to flesh. 715 00:43:33,698 --> 00:43:35,600 They bring a good price. 716 00:43:35,667 --> 00:43:37,535 If you're self-employed, there's no sick days, 717 00:43:37,602 --> 00:43:41,839 so you gotta just keep plugging along. (SIGHS) 718 00:43:41,906 --> 00:43:43,374 (COUGHS) 719 00:43:43,441 --> 00:43:45,109 But even on days where it's kind of bum, 720 00:43:45,176 --> 00:43:47,478 I'm pretty sick and I got a fever... 721 00:43:47,545 --> 00:43:51,416 (SNIFFLES) It's pretty late at night, I'm hungry, 722 00:43:51,483 --> 00:43:54,552 I don't really want to be fooling around, I wanna just get in bed... 723 00:43:56,087 --> 00:43:58,389 This is better than any office job, you know? 724 00:43:58,456 --> 00:44:00,858 I wouldn't make it very long in an office job. 58974

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