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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:17,929 --> 00:00:20,130 GLENN VILLENEUVE: Caribou are one of the most important animals to me 2 00:00:20,197 --> 00:00:21,565 up in this country. 3 00:00:23,267 --> 00:00:25,670 Most years, about half the meat I eat is caribou. 4 00:00:26,137 --> 00:00:29,640 I've been seeing caribou down in this country earlier in recent years, 5 00:00:29,707 --> 00:00:31,909 and I'm wondering if there might be some around right now. 6 00:00:34,712 --> 00:00:37,348 The biggest thing about caribou, you just can't count on them. 7 00:00:37,415 --> 00:00:38,783 It's different every year. 8 00:00:40,151 --> 00:00:43,220 Sometimes, there's not a single caribou in the country for months. 9 00:00:45,423 --> 00:00:47,392 Knowledge of the animals you're hunting 10 00:00:48,059 --> 00:00:50,294 is a big part of the equation. 11 00:00:50,361 --> 00:00:53,030 It's important to understand animals and their behaviour. 12 00:00:53,097 --> 00:00:54,165 (MAKING MOOSE CALL) 13 00:00:54,232 --> 00:00:55,632 When I'm hunting moose in the fall, 14 00:00:55,699 --> 00:00:58,069 I'll make a sound that a moose makes with my voice, 15 00:00:58,136 --> 00:00:59,871 and that'll call the moose to me. 16 00:01:00,004 --> 00:01:01,705 (MOOSE CALL) 17 00:01:02,473 --> 00:01:04,342 That doesn't work with caribou. 18 00:01:04,409 --> 00:01:07,611 This time of year, if there's caribou around, I can't call a caribou to me. 19 00:01:12,116 --> 00:01:14,418 I'm going to try and sneak up on the caribou. 20 00:01:14,485 --> 00:01:16,086 Approach him silently. 21 00:01:17,054 --> 00:01:19,156 So I'm looking for signs of caribou. 22 00:01:19,223 --> 00:01:21,258 I'm listening for caribou. 23 00:01:22,393 --> 00:01:24,061 Looking for tracks in the snow. 24 00:01:24,995 --> 00:01:26,630 You got to know the animal you're after. 25 00:01:27,765 --> 00:01:29,100 You got to understand it, 26 00:01:29,167 --> 00:01:31,402 and you got to tailor your approach to that animal. 27 00:01:33,238 --> 00:01:36,774 A lot of times caribou will travel up kinda high on this ridge. 28 00:01:36,841 --> 00:01:39,610 So I'm heading up here, see if I can find any tracks, 29 00:01:39,677 --> 00:01:41,579 see if I can possibly find any caribou. 30 00:01:45,949 --> 00:01:47,717 Snow is good for tracking. 31 00:01:47,784 --> 00:01:50,954 If any caribou came through, I should be able to intercept their tracks. 32 00:01:51,021 --> 00:01:53,591 Look at this, something went through here. 33 00:01:55,059 --> 00:01:56,761 What is this? 34 00:01:56,828 --> 00:01:58,395 This is no caribou track. 35 00:02:02,833 --> 00:02:04,802 (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) 36 00:02:28,426 --> 00:02:31,495 See this? The whole body's dragging in the snow. 37 00:02:32,729 --> 00:02:34,331 See these lines? 38 00:02:35,433 --> 00:02:37,501 Those are the marks of quills. 39 00:02:37,568 --> 00:02:39,870 That's a porcupine track, but I gotta know which way he's going 40 00:02:39,937 --> 00:02:41,171 if I wanna catch up with him. 41 00:02:41,505 --> 00:02:43,608 Porcupines are good eating. 42 00:02:44,408 --> 00:02:46,644 Just by feeling the track with my bare hand, 43 00:02:46,711 --> 00:02:48,912 I can feel the details of the paw print. 44 00:02:48,979 --> 00:02:50,848 I can feel the bed of the track, 45 00:02:50,915 --> 00:02:52,716 which way it's angled. 46 00:02:52,783 --> 00:02:57,321 Toes are always gonna be lower than the heel when they're travelling in snow. 47 00:02:57,388 --> 00:02:58,455 Yeah. 48 00:02:58,522 --> 00:02:59,790 That porcupine's headed this way. 49 00:02:59,857 --> 00:03:01,225 I'm going to try and catch up with it. 50 00:03:02,159 --> 00:03:03,393 I never know what I'm gonna find. 51 00:03:03,460 --> 00:03:05,029 I have to take advantage of the opportunity. 52 00:03:05,096 --> 00:03:06,363 I'm thinking mostly about caribou, 53 00:03:06,430 --> 00:03:08,065 but I never know what I'm gonna find. 54 00:03:08,132 --> 00:03:10,400 Whatever I find, that I can take advantage of, I take advantage of it. 55 00:03:10,467 --> 00:03:12,303 I'm an opportunistic hunter. 56 00:03:13,071 --> 00:03:14,972 If I hustle, I should be able to catch up with it. 57 00:03:15,039 --> 00:03:17,041 This is a pretty fresh track right here. 58 00:03:17,508 --> 00:03:20,277 It is very hungry country. There aren't that many animals around. 59 00:03:20,344 --> 00:03:22,847 I have to take advantage of whatever I can find. 60 00:03:26,950 --> 00:03:29,587 CHIP HAILSTONE: If you're not prepared, you're not gonna score. 61 00:03:29,821 --> 00:03:32,656 If you're not prepared, you're probably not gonna survive it. 62 00:03:47,438 --> 00:03:48,739 Hey, puppy, puppy. 63 00:03:48,806 --> 00:03:50,007 Today we're having a blizzard. 64 00:03:50,074 --> 00:03:51,342 It's the first one of the year. 65 00:03:52,243 --> 00:03:54,811 We have real thin ice and this isn't doing our ice any good. 66 00:03:54,878 --> 00:03:57,948 The ice isn't gonna thicken with this crap on top, and it's really warm out. 67 00:03:58,015 --> 00:03:59,917 But it's really windy, too, and it's really wet. 68 00:04:02,420 --> 00:04:06,857 I need to get me a pole that I can make into a handle for an ice chisel. 69 00:04:08,092 --> 00:04:09,527 Call 'em a "tuk" up here. 70 00:04:09,594 --> 00:04:10,928 Ice is going to thicken. 71 00:04:10,995 --> 00:04:12,262 It's just not happening right now. 72 00:04:12,329 --> 00:04:13,697 And I'm gonna need that ice chisel. 73 00:04:13,764 --> 00:04:15,432 I'm gonna need to go along and test the ice as I go. 74 00:04:15,499 --> 00:04:17,401 I'm also gonna need a way to make a hole through the ice, 75 00:04:17,468 --> 00:04:19,937 and really efficient way of doing it is with an Eskimo tuk. 76 00:04:20,838 --> 00:04:21,872 It's got a nice weight to it. 77 00:04:21,939 --> 00:04:22,973 It's a little heavier than I want, 78 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,508 but it's gonna lose weight when I skin it. 79 00:04:24,675 --> 00:04:27,278 Since it's freeze-up, and it's stormy and nobody's going anywhere, 80 00:04:27,345 --> 00:04:29,246 it's the time of year to sit down and get your tools made. 81 00:04:29,313 --> 00:04:32,683 And here in the land of ice and snow, this is the tool for me. 82 00:04:34,151 --> 00:04:36,553 If you want to get to fish, you got to knock a hole in the ice. 83 00:04:36,620 --> 00:04:38,656 If I want to knock a hole in the ice, I need to have myself a tuk. 84 00:04:46,430 --> 00:04:48,132 I'm stripping off the bark right now. 85 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:51,635 I'm gonna take off the lumps, bumps, the slivers, and the knots. 86 00:04:52,837 --> 00:04:54,505 We're going to dark winter. We have thin ice. 87 00:04:55,305 --> 00:04:56,707 We have limited daylight. 88 00:04:57,742 --> 00:05:00,811 And it's time to prepare ourselves for when the sunshine comes back, 89 00:05:00,878 --> 00:05:02,213 but the deep cold is here. 90 00:05:03,781 --> 00:05:07,351 Not going on any ice until I can have a look at how thick it is. 91 00:05:08,752 --> 00:05:12,156 This right here, not only will it be the thing that I would use crossing the ice, 92 00:05:12,556 --> 00:05:14,892 tuk -ing ahead of me, but should I break through, 93 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:17,861 I have a stick I can put sideways in my hole 94 00:05:17,928 --> 00:05:20,530 and use to get myself out with. 95 00:05:20,597 --> 00:05:22,399 NARRATOR: For the Hailstones, 96 00:05:22,466 --> 00:05:26,603 Arctic waterways provide vital transportation and fish for consumption. 97 00:05:26,670 --> 00:05:29,206 But they can be extremely dangerous. 98 00:05:29,607 --> 00:05:30,841 (ICE CREAKING) 99 00:05:30,908 --> 00:05:33,610 And a misstep on thin ice could be fatal. 100 00:05:37,548 --> 00:05:39,583 If you live out in the country like we do, 101 00:05:39,650 --> 00:05:41,284 you end up using one of these quite a bit, 102 00:05:41,351 --> 00:05:42,587 and they don't make them in stores. 103 00:05:43,321 --> 00:05:46,323 They make cheap imitations, but nobody makes a good one. 104 00:05:46,490 --> 00:05:48,292 And if you want the best, you just do it yourself. 105 00:05:48,992 --> 00:05:52,229 This is the time of year, while the ice is thin, to make my ice chisel. 106 00:05:52,296 --> 00:05:56,166 So when it gets thick here in a couple days, I can go put this baby to use. 107 00:05:56,333 --> 00:05:58,969 This needs to be done before I can go out on the ice. 108 00:06:00,370 --> 00:06:02,005 If I don't have this to test the ice, 109 00:06:02,072 --> 00:06:03,373 then I won't know what I'm walking on, 110 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:04,708 and I'm taking a big chance. 111 00:06:06,343 --> 00:06:08,345 I'm just about done here. 112 00:06:08,712 --> 00:06:10,414 This is what I'll use as I walk ahead of me, 113 00:06:10,481 --> 00:06:12,249 to see if this'll plunge to the ice ahead of me. 114 00:06:12,316 --> 00:06:14,718 If this will go through the ice, I'll go through the ice. 115 00:06:14,818 --> 00:06:17,354 If this doesn't go through the ice after a good hefty thump, 116 00:06:17,554 --> 00:06:18,689 then it's safe ice to walk on. 117 00:06:19,023 --> 00:06:20,857 And you can't buy this in a store. 118 00:06:20,924 --> 00:06:23,693 No, it's something you just gotta make yourself if you want to have the best. 119 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,031 And, uh, if I don't have much, I might as well have the best. 120 00:06:32,202 --> 00:06:34,371 JESSIE HOLMES: It's in your best interest to not underestimate 121 00:06:34,438 --> 00:06:35,739 the dangers out here. 122 00:06:46,617 --> 00:06:47,985 (DOGS BARKING AND HOWLING) 123 00:06:55,626 --> 00:06:58,362 Zeus, Thor, you want to go haul some wood? 124 00:07:00,998 --> 00:07:05,602 Getting my dogs watered here and then I'm gonna go get my harnesses and lines set up. 125 00:07:06,637 --> 00:07:09,606 Take the dogs out on a run, out in the flats. 126 00:07:13,711 --> 00:07:18,314 Finally, winter's setting in. We're having ideal conditions with a nice snow pack. 127 00:07:18,381 --> 00:07:23,086 So I'll be conditioning my dog team while I'm going out with a purpose, 128 00:07:23,153 --> 00:07:27,223 and I need to get some wood around here because it's starting to run slim 129 00:07:27,290 --> 00:07:30,094 on the immediate amount of wood that I've had stocked up. 130 00:07:31,629 --> 00:07:35,232 Your safe haven is the woodpile for living up here in the winter. 131 00:07:36,299 --> 00:07:40,170 Got to have wood to make warm food for the dogs and to warm my cabin 132 00:07:40,237 --> 00:07:42,606 so I can have a safe place to come home to. 133 00:07:44,141 --> 00:07:46,476 Wood's a huge commodity to me out here. 134 00:07:46,543 --> 00:07:48,479 We're not talking like a little pile of wood. 135 00:07:49,313 --> 00:07:51,181 I need, like, stacks of wood. 136 00:07:59,857 --> 00:08:01,658 Yeah, these dogs love to run, 137 00:08:01,725 --> 00:08:03,226 so when you get to hooking them up, 138 00:08:03,293 --> 00:08:06,330 they get all crazy and excited. Whoa! 139 00:08:06,397 --> 00:08:09,567 These dogs ain't gonna wait around no longer. They're ready to go. 140 00:08:10,234 --> 00:08:13,337 I love to hear the dogs barking and screaming and howling. 141 00:08:13,404 --> 00:08:15,339 That means they're ready to go. They're feeling good. 142 00:08:17,407 --> 00:08:19,543 You ready guys? Whoo! 143 00:08:22,446 --> 00:08:23,580 I build on that attitude. 144 00:08:23,647 --> 00:08:25,215 All right! Straight ahead. 145 00:08:25,749 --> 00:08:27,451 So it's time to get to work now. 146 00:08:31,822 --> 00:08:34,123 SUE AIKENS: The level of comfort I enjoy in my life 147 00:08:34,190 --> 00:08:38,495 is absolutely directly related to how hard I've worked to attain it. 148 00:08:49,606 --> 00:08:52,977 What I'm working on here, these are my solar panels. 149 00:08:53,911 --> 00:08:58,648 And now that the sunshine has come back, what I can do now, is get up here, 150 00:08:59,015 --> 00:09:02,786 start clearing it off and I expose these solar cells. 151 00:09:07,958 --> 00:09:09,626 (PTARMIGANS SQUAWKING) 152 00:09:15,633 --> 00:09:17,267 Right over there. 153 00:09:17,667 --> 00:09:19,303 I got ptarmigans. 154 00:09:21,038 --> 00:09:23,373 What I want to do, is before they make me, 155 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,809 I want to get down, get my binos, get my rifle, 156 00:09:26,676 --> 00:09:29,379 and take the opportunity to maybe get some fresh meat. 157 00:09:33,417 --> 00:09:36,954 It'd be nice to be able to shoot the gun and get my own dinner. 158 00:09:37,421 --> 00:09:39,723 In my own backyard, on my own terms. 159 00:09:39,924 --> 00:09:43,860 Ptarmigan, it's one of the only food sources out here for a lot of the year. 160 00:09:43,994 --> 00:09:46,496 For being one of the dumbest birds on the planet, 161 00:09:46,563 --> 00:09:48,599 they get away from me all the freaking time. 162 00:09:53,871 --> 00:09:55,872 Good Lord, they're all over the place. 163 00:09:56,941 --> 00:09:59,909 I'm seeing maybe 500 ptarmigan or so. 164 00:09:59,976 --> 00:10:03,547 But they're spread out a little on the far side. 165 00:10:03,614 --> 00:10:05,916 Might be a case of my eyes are bigger than my stomach 166 00:10:05,983 --> 00:10:09,253 and certainly bigger than my talent with a .22 open sights. 167 00:10:10,788 --> 00:10:13,857 Still 100, 120 yards that direction. 168 00:10:13,924 --> 00:10:15,492 Looking this way. 169 00:10:16,426 --> 00:10:19,162 Can I physically get close enough to maybe take a shot? 170 00:10:19,229 --> 00:10:20,464 It's a roll of the dice, man. 171 00:10:20,531 --> 00:10:21,765 They're a little on the far side, 172 00:10:21,832 --> 00:10:23,667 but it wouldn't be me if I didn't try. 173 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:31,441 There's one. 174 00:10:32,709 --> 00:10:34,410 I can see some on the bank. 175 00:10:34,477 --> 00:10:36,714 Problem is I got the sun in my eyes. 176 00:10:37,181 --> 00:10:39,415 Tends to blind you from what you're aiming at. 177 00:10:39,482 --> 00:10:41,218 You want to be a little off of that. 178 00:10:48,626 --> 00:10:50,927 It's a long freakin'-ass shot, man. 179 00:11:05,409 --> 00:11:06,410 (GUNSHOT) 180 00:11:07,177 --> 00:11:08,345 Fucking bloody hell. 181 00:11:09,846 --> 00:11:11,114 I missed. 182 00:11:13,817 --> 00:11:15,018 See my little foxy. 183 00:11:15,953 --> 00:11:18,589 I didn't realise he had come along for the ride. 184 00:11:18,656 --> 00:11:22,526 The last thing I want to do is shoot my little foxy friend. 185 00:11:22,593 --> 00:11:25,929 To me, it's no different than knowing you have people out that direction. 186 00:11:25,996 --> 00:11:27,497 Those are my homies. 187 00:11:27,564 --> 00:11:29,299 So I've got to be very careful. 188 00:11:30,267 --> 00:11:32,502 Foxy's moved way over there and he's pointing. 189 00:11:32,602 --> 00:11:34,337 So that means the birds are down there. 190 00:11:35,005 --> 00:11:37,141 He'll point, just like a pointing dog would. 191 00:11:37,341 --> 00:11:39,042 It's a pretty cool hunting partner. 192 00:11:43,547 --> 00:11:45,982 It's a long-ass shot. They're way the hell out there. 193 00:11:48,051 --> 00:11:49,052 (GUNSHOT) 194 00:11:52,589 --> 00:11:53,590 (GUNSHOT) 195 00:11:55,458 --> 00:11:56,660 Nope. 196 00:11:58,562 --> 00:11:59,629 Got one more left. 197 00:12:00,130 --> 00:12:02,899 I've only got one bullet left that I brought with me. 198 00:12:05,135 --> 00:12:06,536 Right there. 199 00:12:08,772 --> 00:12:10,107 Oh, really? 200 00:12:12,208 --> 00:12:14,911 Slinky forgot to read the game plan, man. 201 00:12:14,978 --> 00:12:17,581 (LAUGHS) He's... He's down there pushing them that way. 202 00:12:18,182 --> 00:12:19,883 What are you doing, dummy? 203 00:12:20,984 --> 00:12:23,754 My little hunting partner got a little excited. 204 00:12:23,987 --> 00:12:26,423 What do they call that? Buck fever? 205 00:12:27,057 --> 00:12:28,592 He got a little fox fever. 206 00:12:28,659 --> 00:12:30,894 And he pushed 'em a little early and in the wrong direction. 207 00:12:31,762 --> 00:12:33,196 With where they're at, 208 00:12:33,330 --> 00:12:36,399 the amount of energy I'm gonna expend trying to get close, 209 00:12:36,466 --> 00:12:38,335 trying to get close... Nah. 210 00:12:38,802 --> 00:12:40,504 Ptarmigan are the gift that keep on giving. 211 00:12:40,571 --> 00:12:42,272 They'll be at my front door if I just wait. 212 00:12:42,706 --> 00:12:44,041 (CHUCKLING) 213 00:12:44,875 --> 00:12:47,977 We were hunting buddies. You left me behind! 214 00:12:48,111 --> 00:12:49,212 (LAUGHING) 215 00:12:49,279 --> 00:12:51,281 Sometimes we're unsuccessful, 216 00:12:51,381 --> 00:12:55,352 but it feels awful damn special being able to share a morning... 217 00:12:55,419 --> 00:12:57,087 Morning hunt with a fox. 218 00:12:57,855 --> 00:12:59,923 Time to be getting back to my chores. 219 00:13:05,829 --> 00:13:08,097 CHIP: If I had a choice between Sunday Night Football over this, 220 00:13:08,164 --> 00:13:09,666 this is what you'll see me doing. 221 00:13:20,611 --> 00:13:22,312 Storm died out pretty well, huh? 222 00:13:22,413 --> 00:13:23,913 -Yeah. -We've still got some more snow coming, 223 00:13:23,980 --> 00:13:27,250 but it's just, no more wind and no more streaks. 224 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,489 (AGNES SPEAKING) 225 00:13:32,556 --> 00:13:33,790 CHIP: Oh, the game plan right now 226 00:13:33,857 --> 00:13:35,792 is to go down and go knock some holes in the ice. 227 00:13:35,859 --> 00:13:37,427 I'm gonna go to a shallow place. 228 00:13:37,494 --> 00:13:39,663 The ice is very thin. We have a lot of snow on top of it. 229 00:13:39,863 --> 00:13:42,132 I'm gonna go walk out there and test it with my ice chisel. 230 00:13:43,267 --> 00:13:44,434 I'm just gonna walk out there myself 231 00:13:44,501 --> 00:13:45,869 into places that are real shallow, 232 00:13:45,936 --> 00:13:48,772 so should I go through, I probably won't go past my waist. 233 00:13:48,839 --> 00:13:50,640 (AGNES AND KIDS CHEERING) 234 00:13:50,707 --> 00:13:52,542 But also, there'll be Tiktaalik going along those shallow places, too. 235 00:13:53,677 --> 00:13:55,044 It's something we look forward to this time of year. 236 00:13:55,111 --> 00:13:56,480 I like to eat a few of them things. 237 00:14:01,151 --> 00:14:02,886 Got two inches of ice here at least. 238 00:14:06,623 --> 00:14:10,593 Today, we're just looking for where the shallow gets deep 239 00:14:10,660 --> 00:14:12,729 so we can start setting our traps. 240 00:14:17,968 --> 00:14:19,436 Okay, up high. 241 00:14:20,203 --> 00:14:21,604 Right there. 242 00:14:21,871 --> 00:14:24,708 I'm gonna need willows that are as tall as you, dear. 243 00:14:25,141 --> 00:14:27,744 I'll knock some more holes and widen this one up first. 244 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,315 Last year, at this time, the ice was much thicker. 245 00:14:36,586 --> 00:14:38,788 I was more confident to take my kids on it. 246 00:14:38,855 --> 00:14:41,591 Let them knock some holes. 247 00:14:41,658 --> 00:14:43,993 But at this time of year, when the ice isn't thick, 248 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:45,294 I'm staying close to shore. 249 00:14:45,361 --> 00:14:47,364 Close to where the shallow is. 250 00:14:48,632 --> 00:14:50,166 AGNES: Looks like this is a good one. 251 00:14:53,269 --> 00:14:56,339 This time of the year, we've eaten a lot of caribou, 252 00:14:56,406 --> 00:14:58,241 we've eaten a lot of whitefish. 253 00:14:58,308 --> 00:15:00,210 It's always good to try different kind of fish, 254 00:15:00,277 --> 00:15:03,246 so Tiktaalik this time of the year is pretty good. 255 00:15:04,915 --> 00:15:06,516 CHIP: Sent that into the mud. 256 00:15:09,552 --> 00:15:10,754 There. 257 00:15:11,755 --> 00:15:12,890 You got another one? 258 00:15:13,657 --> 00:15:15,926 In this culture, fresh food is always in demand. 259 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:18,895 We never really stop fishing or gathering. 260 00:15:18,962 --> 00:15:20,363 This year is quite a bit different. 261 00:15:20,430 --> 00:15:22,198 The river froze much later. 262 00:15:23,867 --> 00:15:26,770 What we're basically doing is adapting to that. 263 00:15:26,837 --> 00:15:28,605 It's all right, you know. This is what we gotta do. 264 00:15:33,676 --> 00:15:36,612 You know, you look at a problem, then you look for solutions. 265 00:15:36,679 --> 00:15:38,315 The problem has been the late ice. 266 00:15:40,550 --> 00:15:42,118 This here is our solution. 267 00:15:44,922 --> 00:15:46,389 You got anything you need me to carry? 268 00:15:46,456 --> 00:15:49,559 Huh? I just got my bag. It's empty now. No fishtails or nothing. 269 00:15:51,995 --> 00:15:54,764 CHIP: At least these suckers will be fishing for us while we're at home, huh? 270 00:15:54,831 --> 00:15:56,132 AGNES: Yeah. 271 00:16:00,437 --> 00:16:03,373 JESSIE: I'm not trying to just survive out here, I'm trying to thrive out here. 272 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:04,874 And it's more about smoothing it 273 00:16:04,941 --> 00:16:06,076 than roughing it for me. 274 00:16:09,112 --> 00:16:10,347 (DOGS BARKING AND HOWLING) 275 00:16:10,414 --> 00:16:12,182 All right, straight ahead! 276 00:16:14,951 --> 00:16:16,653 Out in the woods, there's big lakes. 277 00:16:18,622 --> 00:16:20,557 Out there, there's a lot of dry firewood. 278 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:23,693 Straight ahead. Haw, haw, haw, haw! 279 00:16:24,561 --> 00:16:25,695 (DOGS HOWLING) 280 00:16:25,762 --> 00:16:27,597 Doesn't make sense for me to buy firewood. 281 00:16:27,664 --> 00:16:30,700 Whenever there's firewood out there, I got these dogs to haul it. 282 00:16:43,980 --> 00:16:46,049 I'm not sure what I'll encounter out there. 283 00:16:46,116 --> 00:16:48,584 There's a been a lot of snow, it hasn't been very cold. 284 00:16:48,651 --> 00:16:50,887 You don't really know what's underneath the snow. 285 00:16:52,088 --> 00:16:53,189 Hike. 286 00:16:56,793 --> 00:16:57,928 Hike! 287 00:16:58,295 --> 00:17:01,130 Get up, get up, get up, get out of there, get up, come on. 288 00:17:01,197 --> 00:17:03,566 Go, come on, go, straight ahead, straight ahead. 289 00:17:05,368 --> 00:17:07,237 Straight ahead, straight ahead, straight ahead. 290 00:17:07,304 --> 00:17:08,304 Gee, gee! 291 00:17:08,805 --> 00:17:10,206 Gee! Hup! 292 00:17:20,650 --> 00:17:22,752 It's breaking through the whole way across, 293 00:17:22,819 --> 00:17:24,788 and I just try to keep moving once I hit thin ice. 294 00:17:26,490 --> 00:17:28,324 Which is an essential skill as a musher. 295 00:17:28,391 --> 00:17:32,195 The minute you slow down is when you're going to go right straight through. 296 00:17:32,262 --> 00:17:34,029 You know, your team's going to get hurt 297 00:17:34,096 --> 00:17:37,033 and you're gonna be stuck out in the middle of a lake, swimming through it. 298 00:17:39,436 --> 00:17:42,172 There you go. Straight ahead, straight ahead, straight ahead, gentlemen. 299 00:17:43,707 --> 00:17:45,742 Good, gee, gee, gee. Easy now. 300 00:17:46,342 --> 00:17:48,077 I see some bigger trees back there. 301 00:17:48,544 --> 00:17:49,946 Hope they're dry. 302 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:51,881 Ho, ho, ho. 303 00:17:51,948 --> 00:17:53,316 Stay, stay. 304 00:17:55,384 --> 00:17:56,786 Please stay. 305 00:17:59,623 --> 00:18:01,558 This looks like a good spot to stop. 306 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:05,228 -Good boys. -(DOGS WHINING) 307 00:18:05,862 --> 00:18:08,064 This is nice and kind of good, dry ground. 308 00:18:08,131 --> 00:18:11,034 It looks like it's out of those deep lakes, 309 00:18:11,101 --> 00:18:12,702 and don't have to deal with that no more. 310 00:18:12,769 --> 00:18:14,170 This is nice dry wood. 311 00:18:14,237 --> 00:18:15,505 Can hear it. 312 00:18:18,341 --> 00:18:19,676 (STARTING CHAINSAW) 313 00:18:20,777 --> 00:18:21,811 (CHAINSAW BUZZING) 314 00:18:23,713 --> 00:18:26,382 This will burn nice and be light to haul back. 315 00:18:27,217 --> 00:18:31,187 My goal will to always be to have a cord of wood outside of my cabin. 316 00:18:31,287 --> 00:18:34,691 'Cause every morning, you wake up, firewood's going in the stove. 317 00:18:34,758 --> 00:18:37,027 To keep it going every night when you go to bed, 318 00:18:37,094 --> 00:18:39,996 you got to load it up, so that the cabin stays warm and dry. 319 00:18:40,163 --> 00:18:42,465 But also, if I get hurt or sick, 320 00:18:42,532 --> 00:18:45,635 I need to be able to have a month's worth of wood. 321 00:18:45,702 --> 00:18:48,070 I might come back freezing cold, wet. 322 00:18:48,137 --> 00:18:49,772 I never know when I'm gonna come back here, 323 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:53,209 like, and I have to be prepared to get that cabin warm very fast. 324 00:18:58,381 --> 00:19:00,617 You know, I don't have insurance. 325 00:19:01,985 --> 00:19:06,656 So, my insurance is having wood, water and good food to eat, 326 00:19:06,723 --> 00:19:08,725 and living a clean, simple lifestyle. 327 00:19:16,499 --> 00:19:19,068 You know, when I do all this work to provide for myself up here, 328 00:19:19,135 --> 00:19:20,937 it's a good feeling to be self-sufficient. 329 00:19:21,104 --> 00:19:22,539 (CHAINSAW BUZZING) 330 00:19:29,346 --> 00:19:30,947 And that's a good load of wood. 331 00:19:33,382 --> 00:19:34,717 Daylight runs away from you 332 00:19:34,784 --> 00:19:36,820 way quicker than you think it's going to, that's for sure. 333 00:19:36,887 --> 00:19:41,191 To have a good stack of wood outside my door could really save my ass in bad conditions. 334 00:19:42,058 --> 00:19:43,893 All right. Ready, gentlemen? 335 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,228 All right, straight ahead. 336 00:19:45,295 --> 00:19:47,630 Gee, gee, gee. Straight ahead, gee, gee. 337 00:19:47,697 --> 00:19:49,732 Good. 338 00:19:49,799 --> 00:19:51,501 I'll just stay on the main trail. 339 00:19:51,568 --> 00:19:55,171 No more adventures and count ourselves lucky that got a load of wood 340 00:19:55,238 --> 00:19:56,806 and didn't get too wet. 341 00:20:00,943 --> 00:20:03,447 CHIP: My kids have a real well-rounded life. 342 00:20:04,214 --> 00:20:05,781 They can go off into the primitive, 343 00:20:05,848 --> 00:20:08,151 and walk through the door back into the civilised. 344 00:20:21,097 --> 00:20:22,432 -You ladies ready? -AGNES: Yep. 345 00:20:27,304 --> 00:20:29,238 NARRATOR: Chip and Agnes have set trap lines 346 00:20:29,305 --> 00:20:31,574 for the Tiktaalik fish in the shallows of the river. 347 00:20:33,643 --> 00:20:37,379 With the ice not yet thick enough for long-distance travel, 348 00:20:37,446 --> 00:20:39,115 catching fish in these local traps 349 00:20:39,182 --> 00:20:42,886 would help build up the Hailstones' food supply for dark winter. 350 00:20:45,989 --> 00:20:49,092 CHIP: Well, when we were out here last night, it was about two inches thick. 351 00:20:49,159 --> 00:20:51,694 We've had a really cold spell last night and today. 352 00:20:52,261 --> 00:20:54,397 AGNES: Minus 20. CHIP: Might make it a lot thicker. 353 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:01,371 Couple more days of minus 20 and we'll be able to ride on the ice. 354 00:21:05,976 --> 00:21:07,410 CHIP: Well, these are set lines 355 00:21:07,477 --> 00:21:09,044 and we call them traps around here 356 00:21:09,111 --> 00:21:12,482 because they're actually hunting while we sleep and do other things. 357 00:21:12,549 --> 00:21:13,883 AGNES: Come on, Tiktaalik. 358 00:21:16,819 --> 00:21:18,354 Aw, no fish. 359 00:21:19,088 --> 00:21:20,756 -Least the bait's still there. -Yep. 360 00:21:20,823 --> 00:21:24,760 Got to put the bait back in the hole and try again. 361 00:21:25,061 --> 00:21:26,663 CHIP: Back in the hole. 362 00:21:31,634 --> 00:21:33,002 AGNES: Come on, fish. 363 00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,872 -Look like you got the whole hook. -Darn. 364 00:21:39,409 --> 00:21:40,843 CHIP: This doesn't weigh like nothing. 365 00:21:41,210 --> 00:21:43,480 -Yep, no wonder. -Ah, no fish. 366 00:21:43,713 --> 00:21:45,348 CHIP: I want to pick one up that's heavy. 367 00:21:48,718 --> 00:21:51,554 AGNES: Darn, we got one more trap to check, and no fish. 368 00:21:51,655 --> 00:21:53,555 They've only been out for a night. That's nothing. 369 00:21:53,622 --> 00:21:55,391 There's never once been a day in my life 370 00:21:55,458 --> 00:21:58,428 where I've thrown a rod or hook in and caught something every cast. 371 00:22:00,296 --> 00:22:02,198 AGNES: Hopefully, this is the one! 372 00:22:02,431 --> 00:22:04,433 Maybe it's got something. Maybe it don't. 373 00:22:05,001 --> 00:22:06,569 Only one way to find out. 374 00:22:08,338 --> 00:22:09,839 AGNES: Aw, come on, fish. 375 00:22:10,606 --> 00:22:11,974 AGNES: Ugh. 376 00:22:12,041 --> 00:22:14,110 CHIP: Oh, well. That's fishing. 377 00:22:18,247 --> 00:22:19,682 This takes an hour out of our day, 378 00:22:19,749 --> 00:22:22,251 and they've only been in there for what, 24 hours now? 379 00:22:22,318 --> 00:22:25,355 -AGNES: Yep. -I bet you by tomorrow, if those two got robbed, 380 00:22:25,422 --> 00:22:28,090 we just might end up having a couple more fish to try it again. 381 00:22:28,357 --> 00:22:30,393 We'll go tell everybody, no Tiktaalik tonight. 382 00:22:37,467 --> 00:22:40,170 GLENN: There's a lot of different ways to live on this earth. 383 00:22:40,904 --> 00:22:42,505 There's seven billion people on this planet 384 00:22:42,572 --> 00:22:43,806 and they're not all doing the same thing. 385 00:22:44,407 --> 00:22:45,408 This is what I'm doing. 386 00:23:02,258 --> 00:23:04,961 Porcupine spend a lot of time in trees. 387 00:23:08,731 --> 00:23:10,599 NARRATOR: While on the hunt for caribou, 388 00:23:10,666 --> 00:23:13,069 Glenn has discovered porcupine tracks. 389 00:23:13,503 --> 00:23:16,105 Living in the sparse wilderness of the Brooks Range, 390 00:23:16,172 --> 00:23:18,474 he must take advantage of any opportunity 391 00:23:18,541 --> 00:23:21,111 for meat and protein that crosses his path. 392 00:23:21,311 --> 00:23:22,979 GLENN: When they come down to the ground to travel, 393 00:23:23,046 --> 00:23:24,814 sometimes they don't travel very far. 394 00:23:28,851 --> 00:23:30,820 Look, the porcupine tracks, they went right up here. 395 00:23:33,656 --> 00:23:36,159 It's not too far ahead. This is a fresh track. 396 00:23:40,796 --> 00:23:43,499 Hey, look! There he is, right there. Right in that tree. 397 00:23:47,937 --> 00:23:49,972 Porcupines, when they're getting chased, 398 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:51,274 they like to take to the trees. 399 00:23:51,674 --> 00:23:53,142 I can't shoot him with this rifle though. 400 00:23:53,209 --> 00:23:56,445 This thing would make porcupine soup out of that porcupine. 401 00:23:56,779 --> 00:23:59,382 This is for shooting big animals like caribou and moose. 402 00:23:59,449 --> 00:24:01,016 I don't have a smaller gun with me today. 403 00:24:01,083 --> 00:24:02,485 I'm gonna have to cut the tree. 404 00:24:06,456 --> 00:24:07,856 You get a little higher, 405 00:24:07,923 --> 00:24:10,126 you got to think about which way I want to drop that tree. 406 00:24:10,193 --> 00:24:11,727 If he goes over into that, 407 00:24:11,794 --> 00:24:13,863 there's a real good chance he'll get away under that brush there, 408 00:24:13,930 --> 00:24:15,331 I won't be able to get to him. 409 00:24:15,798 --> 00:24:17,333 If I make the tree fall this way, 410 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:18,434 he'll be out in the open. 411 00:24:18,734 --> 00:24:20,336 I got a much better chance of catching him. 412 00:24:21,270 --> 00:24:24,740 I put a little notch here to help guide this tree down the way I want it to go. 413 00:24:29,812 --> 00:24:32,849 There, I got the notch. That will direct the tree where I want it to go. 414 00:24:37,219 --> 00:24:38,287 It's going! 415 00:24:40,523 --> 00:24:41,757 There he goes! 416 00:24:42,626 --> 00:24:43,793 (GROANS) Got him! 417 00:24:44,060 --> 00:24:47,296 If a porcupine falls out of a tree and lands on your head, 418 00:24:47,363 --> 00:24:49,565 that's what your head could look like. 419 00:24:49,632 --> 00:24:50,867 Full of quills. 420 00:24:53,669 --> 00:24:55,204 Porcupine are very good eating. 421 00:24:55,438 --> 00:24:57,173 One of the tastier animals out here. 422 00:24:58,274 --> 00:24:59,709 I'm a long way from home. 423 00:24:59,809 --> 00:25:01,878 I'm not gonna bring him back whole. 424 00:25:02,178 --> 00:25:03,378 I got to butcher him right here, 425 00:25:03,445 --> 00:25:05,348 and it's getting dark, so I better get on it. 426 00:25:05,949 --> 00:25:07,684 I'm gonna start by skinning this porcupine. 427 00:25:07,751 --> 00:25:10,520 Get the skin off without getting any quills in me and I'll be happy. 428 00:25:12,555 --> 00:25:13,756 Look at that fat. 429 00:25:14,223 --> 00:25:15,458 Fat's hard to find out here. 430 00:25:15,525 --> 00:25:17,126 A lot of animals out in this country are real lean. 431 00:25:17,193 --> 00:25:19,128 It's hard to get enough fat off the land a lot of times. 432 00:25:19,195 --> 00:25:21,798 But porcupines are one good source of fat. 433 00:25:21,865 --> 00:25:23,132 This will be tasty. 434 00:25:29,205 --> 00:25:31,240 Cut the head off. Here we go. 435 00:25:32,408 --> 00:25:33,643 There. 436 00:25:34,177 --> 00:25:36,946 Cut the hide off, didn't get any quills in me. 437 00:25:37,013 --> 00:25:38,514 Now I just got to get the guts out. 438 00:25:40,082 --> 00:25:42,651 It's interesting how one thing leads to the next out here. 439 00:25:42,718 --> 00:25:45,954 So often the case, I'll head out thinking that I'm looking for one thing, 440 00:25:46,021 --> 00:25:47,589 but along the way, I find something else. 441 00:25:47,656 --> 00:25:50,093 Can't be too choosy and I really like eating porcupine, 442 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,662 so I'm real happy even though I didn't find any caribou today. 443 00:25:53,630 --> 00:25:55,431 That's the way it goes. It keeps life interesting. 444 00:25:57,466 --> 00:25:59,068 Time to get back to camp. 445 00:25:59,702 --> 00:26:01,370 Go home and cook up some porcupine. 446 00:26:04,907 --> 00:26:06,676 JESSIE: My story's just different. 447 00:26:07,076 --> 00:26:09,145 I'm just a purist, I really like it simple. 448 00:26:13,616 --> 00:26:15,251 (DOGS HOWLING AND BARKING) 449 00:26:22,992 --> 00:26:25,394 (JESSIE SPEAKING) 450 00:26:28,464 --> 00:26:31,967 NARRATOR: In order to avoid a catastrophic fall through the ice, 451 00:26:32,034 --> 00:26:35,672 Jessie and his dogs were forced to push his sled to the limit. 452 00:26:35,739 --> 00:26:39,308 Making repairs before the onslaught of winter is crucial. 453 00:26:41,044 --> 00:26:42,979 JESSIE: The sled that I'm hauling wood here in, 454 00:26:43,046 --> 00:26:45,381 handlebar's completely broken off of now. 455 00:26:47,483 --> 00:26:49,518 Just not a strong side structure. 456 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,855 But very good runners, 457 00:26:52,922 --> 00:26:56,025 so that's why I wanna take a little time here and rebuild this. 458 00:26:56,592 --> 00:27:00,129 I just have to go look around, scavenge stuff out of my sled graveyard, 459 00:27:00,830 --> 00:27:04,833 and do what I can do to get this thing going down and hauling some wood better. 460 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,103 So I'm gonna leave this back stanchion. 461 00:27:07,170 --> 00:27:09,304 This is what we call a stanchion, right here. 462 00:27:09,371 --> 00:27:13,476 This is the upright part of the sled and there's three, four, 463 00:27:13,543 --> 00:27:15,378 depends on the design of the sled. 464 00:27:15,445 --> 00:27:16,979 But I'm gonna remove these stanchions 465 00:27:17,046 --> 00:27:19,848 because they're not that great a wood, and they're breaking. 466 00:27:19,915 --> 00:27:21,883 You can see right here, that's broke already. 467 00:27:21,950 --> 00:27:23,886 And I need to haul a lot of stuff in this, 468 00:27:23,953 --> 00:27:26,455 so I need to rebuild this to where it's gonna hold my load well. 469 00:27:26,989 --> 00:27:28,124 Not flex so much. 470 00:27:29,358 --> 00:27:32,061 Winter is just beginning for me and the work's just starting, 471 00:27:32,128 --> 00:27:34,397 so this is just the next project on my list, 472 00:27:34,464 --> 00:27:36,632 which is followed by a hundred projects. 473 00:27:36,699 --> 00:27:39,169 But I learnt how to fix sleds because I don't have a lot of money 474 00:27:39,269 --> 00:27:41,637 to buy things that are new and built. 475 00:27:51,347 --> 00:27:55,417 So I've got myself two sturdy stanchions added to this. 476 00:27:56,785 --> 00:27:59,989 I'm gonna try to put some sides on it that are out of plywood. 477 00:28:04,994 --> 00:28:06,929 Everything out here, it's rough on things, 478 00:28:06,996 --> 00:28:09,098 and you have to constantly maintain things 479 00:28:09,165 --> 00:28:10,633 and be able to fix them yourself. 480 00:28:17,940 --> 00:28:18,975 Brr! 481 00:28:19,208 --> 00:28:22,178 I'm trying to get done before it gets dark. 482 00:28:31,721 --> 00:28:32,788 Finish it up. 483 00:28:34,457 --> 00:28:36,525 Yeah, that's making it nice and stable. 484 00:28:37,927 --> 00:28:39,761 It's gonna be great for hauling wood. 485 00:28:39,828 --> 00:28:41,430 A lot better than it was before, 486 00:28:41,497 --> 00:28:43,232 and it already was hauling a lot of wood. 487 00:28:43,633 --> 00:28:45,233 Now I just got to bring it inside, 488 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:47,236 thaw it out, and get ready for tomorrow. 489 00:28:53,175 --> 00:28:55,711 SUE: This is not a lifestyle you just wander into. 490 00:28:55,778 --> 00:28:59,315 It is a committed decision to excel and overachieve. 491 00:29:12,094 --> 00:29:15,898 What I'm doing now is I have two coolers in there 492 00:29:15,965 --> 00:29:18,734 and I want to start refilling them with snow so that they melt. 493 00:29:20,570 --> 00:29:22,637 There's always chores to do. 494 00:29:22,704 --> 00:29:25,074 When you're living remote and you're in this kind of a climate, 495 00:29:25,141 --> 00:29:26,308 things have to get done. 496 00:29:26,375 --> 00:29:27,777 There's nobody here but me to do 'em. 497 00:29:32,748 --> 00:29:36,752 This is not the densest snow, so I'm not gonna get a lot of water value out of it. 498 00:29:38,187 --> 00:29:39,922 (PTARMIGANS SQUAWKING) 499 00:29:46,261 --> 00:29:48,164 I'm listening. There it is. 500 00:29:48,564 --> 00:29:49,598 I got ptarmigans. 501 00:29:49,665 --> 00:29:51,867 I got ptarmigans here and there. 502 00:29:53,402 --> 00:29:56,272 This is an important chore, but that's getting fresh meat. 503 00:29:56,339 --> 00:29:58,908 So this is gonna go back and wait 504 00:29:58,975 --> 00:30:01,710 and I'm gonna get ready and see if I can't nail me a ptarmigan. 505 00:30:04,146 --> 00:30:08,184 Anytime you're doing a chore and the opportunity presents itself, 506 00:30:08,251 --> 00:30:09,685 I've got to try. 507 00:30:14,890 --> 00:30:16,425 (PTARMIGANS SQUAWKING) 508 00:30:19,062 --> 00:30:20,596 (WHISPERING) See, they laugh at you. 509 00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:29,037 I've got exactly one, two, three bullets left for this rifle for birds. 510 00:30:29,104 --> 00:30:33,442 I'm gonna try to, very quietly, as I can on the snow, 511 00:30:34,010 --> 00:30:35,544 choose my path 512 00:30:35,611 --> 00:30:37,145 and get close enough to try and shoot him. 513 00:30:37,212 --> 00:30:39,482 I've got three chances. Let's hope I get him. 514 00:30:40,916 --> 00:30:42,351 I think I might be S-O... 515 00:30:43,686 --> 00:30:45,388 Little late to the party, aren't you? 516 00:30:45,855 --> 00:30:47,756 You're supposed to be helping me. 517 00:30:48,390 --> 00:30:49,825 Oh, I think he spotted him. 518 00:30:51,627 --> 00:30:53,262 (PTARMIGAN SQUAWKING) 519 00:30:53,329 --> 00:30:54,763 Damn, he's going too far. 520 00:30:57,032 --> 00:30:58,434 (GUNSHOT) 521 00:31:01,036 --> 00:31:02,137 Get him. 522 00:31:05,908 --> 00:31:07,075 (PTARMIGAN SQUAWKING) 523 00:31:07,142 --> 00:31:08,511 Go get him! 524 00:31:10,146 --> 00:31:12,848 Now Slinky is there, the bird is there. 525 00:31:14,016 --> 00:31:15,851 I may be able to get a little closer. 526 00:31:17,152 --> 00:31:19,088 But I've only got two bullets left. 527 00:31:29,298 --> 00:31:30,566 (GUNSHOT) 528 00:31:31,733 --> 00:31:33,235 (PTARMIGAN SQUAWKING) 529 00:31:39,608 --> 00:31:40,976 (GUNSHOT) 530 00:31:42,277 --> 00:31:43,379 Nope. 531 00:31:44,647 --> 00:31:45,648 (SIGHS) That's it. 532 00:31:47,016 --> 00:31:48,684 And there they go. 533 00:31:48,751 --> 00:31:52,220 Just piss-poor planning that I've got plenty of protection bullets, 534 00:31:52,287 --> 00:31:54,356 but not a lot of hunting bullets. There's a big difference. 535 00:31:56,992 --> 00:31:58,227 Come on, Slink. 536 00:31:58,761 --> 00:32:02,865 This little bit of fun doesn't stop the fact that I got chores to do. 537 00:32:06,836 --> 00:32:08,771 Come on, my little sled. 538 00:32:10,272 --> 00:32:11,607 Yay. 539 00:32:11,674 --> 00:32:15,677 This is really the first chore I started out with today, 540 00:32:15,744 --> 00:32:17,846 but the last chore that I'm finishing. 541 00:32:18,147 --> 00:32:21,116 I'm trying to get more snow in so I can make more water. 542 00:32:23,719 --> 00:32:26,489 This frozen snow 543 00:32:26,556 --> 00:32:30,993 is going to turn into water that I can drink, cook and clean myself with. 544 00:32:31,727 --> 00:32:34,296 The ptarmigan that I almost got... 545 00:32:34,396 --> 00:32:35,898 (CHUCKLING) 546 00:32:35,965 --> 00:32:39,267 ...would have fed me and given me personal energy and fuel. 547 00:32:39,334 --> 00:32:41,403 Um, instead, 548 00:32:41,470 --> 00:32:43,606 I got to work off a little bit of the extra booty. 549 00:32:46,241 --> 00:32:49,278 The other thing I do like, it is pretty cold outside. 550 00:32:50,245 --> 00:32:54,650 While I did not manage to get myself a ptarmigan, 551 00:32:57,186 --> 00:33:00,856 this is my little version 552 00:33:01,823 --> 00:33:03,291 of a little Sue cream. 553 00:33:03,658 --> 00:33:06,128 All's I do is I take the snow, 554 00:33:06,195 --> 00:33:07,696 put in a little bit of the milk, 555 00:33:07,763 --> 00:33:09,331 a little bit of flavour, 556 00:33:09,398 --> 00:33:10,733 and look at that. 557 00:33:11,233 --> 00:33:13,502 I got strawberry snow cream. 558 00:33:13,569 --> 00:33:17,506 As much as a person living in the city may want to live close to the store, 559 00:33:17,573 --> 00:33:19,708 close to schools for their children, 560 00:33:19,775 --> 00:33:22,277 close to a way to get to and from their jobs, 561 00:33:22,344 --> 00:33:23,579 I'm doing the same thing. 562 00:33:25,247 --> 00:33:28,650 I'm living close to my store called a ptarmigan, 563 00:33:28,717 --> 00:33:31,654 near the river and the snow for my water 564 00:33:31,721 --> 00:33:35,724 and open up the door, that sun beaking me in the eye sockets is gonna give me power. 565 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,428 There you go. 566 00:33:41,864 --> 00:33:43,098 It's pretty friggin' awesome. 567 00:33:46,735 --> 00:33:48,504 JESSIE: I don't think you can break the bond 568 00:33:48,571 --> 00:33:51,340 between the dogs and the driver, if it's strong. 569 00:34:03,318 --> 00:34:05,487 All right, I got my sled done now. 570 00:34:05,554 --> 00:34:08,256 It's ready to haul some pretty good-sized loads of wood. 571 00:34:08,323 --> 00:34:09,758 It's a lot better than it was before. 572 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,662 But now I got to put it to use here. 573 00:34:14,329 --> 00:34:16,798 This is the wood that I got two days ago, 574 00:34:16,865 --> 00:34:20,769 so I made it two days of cooking dog food and keeping my house warm. 575 00:34:21,803 --> 00:34:24,306 So it's a beautiful day, it's warmed up a little bit, 576 00:34:24,373 --> 00:34:27,076 so this is a perfect day to be doing this and working. 577 00:34:27,977 --> 00:34:29,278 Try my new sled out. 578 00:34:30,479 --> 00:34:32,981 I'm gonna bust a trail through there and come out with a load of wood, 579 00:34:33,048 --> 00:34:34,183 and then I'll have a trail in there. 580 00:34:35,350 --> 00:34:36,419 Hike! 581 00:34:37,286 --> 00:34:39,488 All right, a gee and a holler and yippee-ta-yay, 582 00:34:39,722 --> 00:34:41,590 out of the chute and on our way. 583 00:34:43,426 --> 00:34:45,962 Good, straight ahead, straight ahead, straight ahead. 584 00:34:46,062 --> 00:34:47,062 Gee! 585 00:34:47,996 --> 00:34:50,666 Need to get a trail in there now with the snow the way it is 586 00:34:50,733 --> 00:34:52,368 before it gets deeper and colder. 587 00:34:53,402 --> 00:34:55,837 It's easier on the dogs to break this trail in now, 588 00:34:55,904 --> 00:34:58,707 and I need to access this all winter if I run out of wood. 589 00:34:59,308 --> 00:35:00,609 Whoa! Gee. 590 00:35:03,879 --> 00:35:05,047 I see lots of wood. 591 00:35:08,517 --> 00:35:11,353 One thing's for sure, you don't need outside motivation or anything 592 00:35:11,420 --> 00:35:14,623 to get wood because it's an environmental motivation here. 593 00:35:15,825 --> 00:35:19,795 It only gets colder in Alaska in the winter so, having the wood, man, 594 00:35:19,895 --> 00:35:22,097 you're pretty motivated to get it. 595 00:35:22,164 --> 00:35:23,832 This is called mapping out your winter. 596 00:35:23,899 --> 00:35:25,968 You just got to be willing to go out and work for it. 597 00:35:26,469 --> 00:35:29,871 Take advantage of when you're healthy and everything's going great 598 00:35:29,938 --> 00:35:31,906 and put a big, large effort into getting some wood. 599 00:35:31,973 --> 00:35:33,541 You never know what's gonna happen. 600 00:35:33,608 --> 00:35:35,677 So this is just another day at the office for me. 601 00:35:37,379 --> 00:35:39,982 Straight ahead. Hike, hike, hike, hike. Straight ahead. 602 00:35:52,928 --> 00:35:54,629 Good way to warm up for the day. 603 00:35:54,696 --> 00:35:58,634 I'll be nice and warmed up now after a few hours of splitting wood. 604 00:35:58,701 --> 00:36:01,103 Good workout. 605 00:36:01,170 --> 00:36:04,372 Good bunch of wood, good training on the dogs. 606 00:36:04,806 --> 00:36:07,709 It's the simple things out here in life that matter. 607 00:36:07,776 --> 00:36:09,144 That's why I work so hard doing this 608 00:36:09,211 --> 00:36:11,613 is because the reward is out there for me. 609 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,982 The reason I live this lifestyle 610 00:36:14,049 --> 00:36:17,753 is for the adventure and the joy of training the dogs out in the wilderness. 611 00:36:25,293 --> 00:36:28,163 Now this cabin looks like an Alaskan cabin, you know? 612 00:36:28,230 --> 00:36:29,865 With a good wood pile out in front of it. 613 00:36:38,173 --> 00:36:40,308 CHIP: In this culture, fresh food is always in demand, 614 00:36:40,375 --> 00:36:41,743 it's always what's going on. 615 00:36:41,810 --> 00:36:43,979 So what we do is we hunt, and we fish, and we gather. 616 00:36:54,190 --> 00:36:55,724 NARRATOR: With the ice thickening, 617 00:36:55,791 --> 00:36:58,527 the Hailstones' window to harvest Tiktaalik in the shallows 618 00:36:59,228 --> 00:37:00,996 is quickly coming to a close. 619 00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:05,500 CHIP: Same old, same old. 620 00:37:11,006 --> 00:37:12,808 (QUTAN SPEAKING) 621 00:37:13,542 --> 00:37:14,609 CHIP: Because when we set these, 622 00:37:14,676 --> 00:37:16,344 the middle of the river wasn't frozen. 623 00:37:16,411 --> 00:37:18,380 So we set these on the ice we could stand on. 624 00:37:18,580 --> 00:37:22,251 Now the whole river's frozen, we can go where the fish are, take these out. 625 00:37:25,587 --> 00:37:27,923 AGNES: Aw, man! CHIP: That one's gone. 626 00:37:28,657 --> 00:37:30,392 (AGNES SPEAKING) 627 00:37:30,859 --> 00:37:32,660 CHIP: What's happening is the ice is getting thicker. 628 00:37:32,727 --> 00:37:35,030 So the shallowness is progressing more and more 629 00:37:35,130 --> 00:37:37,566 and pretty soon, it's gonna be frozen right down to that sandbar. 630 00:37:37,633 --> 00:37:41,236 In two days, this ice has thickened at least four inches. 631 00:37:42,137 --> 00:37:45,940 AGNES: Well, we ain't had a fish yet, we're just checking our traps, 632 00:37:46,007 --> 00:37:48,710 so, um, hopefully, we'll catch a Tiktaalik soon. 633 00:37:48,777 --> 00:37:50,913 We have a few more traps to go. 634 00:37:52,648 --> 00:37:53,916 Come on, fish! 635 00:37:53,983 --> 00:37:55,250 Aw, man! 636 00:37:56,352 --> 00:37:58,053 Hopefully, we'll catch two fish. 637 00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,821 We have two traps left. 638 00:38:02,658 --> 00:38:03,959 Come on, Tiktaalik. 639 00:38:07,196 --> 00:38:08,630 CHIP: There's something there. 640 00:38:11,767 --> 00:38:13,101 AGNES: Oh, my goodness! 641 00:38:17,306 --> 00:38:18,840 (LAUGHING) Look at that! 642 00:38:20,242 --> 00:38:23,011 Wow! Yee, Tiktaalik! 643 00:38:24,346 --> 00:38:26,548 Well, it took a few days, but we have one. 644 00:38:27,115 --> 00:38:30,185 This is our fourth trap and we have one trap left to go. 645 00:38:30,252 --> 00:38:32,421 CHIP: It's a dead one though. The dogs will eat it. 646 00:38:34,622 --> 00:38:35,791 Dog got to eat. 647 00:38:35,858 --> 00:38:37,792 Any fish that's dead in our net or on our line, 648 00:38:37,859 --> 00:38:40,362 we just classify as dog food because our dogs have to eat. 649 00:38:40,429 --> 00:38:42,330 It's kind of like finding a dead caribou. 650 00:38:42,397 --> 00:38:44,032 You don't know what killed it, you don't eat it. 651 00:38:44,899 --> 00:38:47,335 What we need is fresh meat, not dead on the line, 652 00:38:47,402 --> 00:38:49,771 like, from drifting there or being sick or smogged out. 653 00:38:49,971 --> 00:38:51,707 AGNES: Let's go check the other one. 654 00:38:51,774 --> 00:38:54,309 Hopefully, the other one will be alive. Let's go see. 655 00:38:56,378 --> 00:38:58,046 Right on, Qutan, thank you. 656 00:38:58,113 --> 00:39:00,382 CHIP: For now, I'm really happy I got something for my dogs 657 00:39:00,449 --> 00:39:01,683 to get them through the next couple days, 658 00:39:01,750 --> 00:39:02,984 and we just keep on fishing. 659 00:39:03,485 --> 00:39:06,154 -Here's another fish. -AGNES: Ooh! 660 00:39:07,355 --> 00:39:10,525 -Another Tiktaalik! -CHIP: No, not alive. 661 00:39:10,592 --> 00:39:11,960 Bummer. 662 00:39:12,194 --> 00:39:15,030 We used this type of fishing because we couldn't cross the river. 663 00:39:15,097 --> 00:39:17,232 But now the river's frozen solid and we can go anywhere. 664 00:39:17,299 --> 00:39:19,868 We can go where the fish are and carry on. 665 00:39:20,969 --> 00:39:23,839 You know what, kids? We had a really bad whitefish season 666 00:39:23,906 --> 00:39:25,540 because of this late freeze-up. 667 00:39:25,774 --> 00:39:27,609 And the dogs got to eat. 668 00:39:27,676 --> 00:39:29,811 So when you get dead fish, you feed 'em to dogs. 669 00:39:30,078 --> 00:39:32,714 If these fish were alive and squirming, we'd keep 'em for ourselves. 670 00:39:32,781 --> 00:39:35,016 So, not all is lost. 671 00:39:35,117 --> 00:39:37,652 So we should be happy that our dogs will eat good. 672 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,621 This is some of the best food there is for 'em. 673 00:39:39,688 --> 00:39:44,392 This ice is so thick, it's frozen solid out there, we can travel now. 674 00:39:44,459 --> 00:39:45,994 The time for doing this is over. 675 00:39:47,429 --> 00:39:50,999 I made myself a new tuk, which is an ice chisel that we use to get through the ice. 676 00:39:51,066 --> 00:39:53,302 Since we've been down here checking Tiktaalik traps 677 00:39:53,369 --> 00:39:55,337 and using that chisel and opening up these holes every day, 678 00:39:55,404 --> 00:39:57,472 we've been able to check the progress of the ice. 679 00:39:57,539 --> 00:39:59,674 Now the ice is thick enough all the way across the river, 680 00:39:59,741 --> 00:40:02,810 we can go to where the fish are instead of trying to bait the fish to where we are. 681 00:40:02,877 --> 00:40:04,512 So I think fishing's gonna get better. 682 00:40:04,579 --> 00:40:06,648 I'm pretty happy with this tuk and I'm gonna be using it a lot, 683 00:40:06,715 --> 00:40:08,850 because it's an ice tool in the land of ice and snow. 684 00:40:08,917 --> 00:40:10,585 -Shall we go home? -AGNES: Yep. 685 00:40:10,652 --> 00:40:13,655 CHIP: The worst day of fishing is better than the best day at work. 686 00:40:13,722 --> 00:40:15,157 We just keep on fishing. 687 00:40:21,630 --> 00:40:24,166 GLENN: I've always got a lot more to do than I have time to. 688 00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:27,268 Not necessarily just work that has to be done, 689 00:40:27,335 --> 00:40:29,337 but things I want to see, things I want to learn about. 690 00:40:41,749 --> 00:40:45,020 Didn't find any caribou out there, but I was lucky enough to get a porcupine. 691 00:40:46,287 --> 00:40:49,324 I've eaten muskrats, I've eaten squirrels, 692 00:40:49,391 --> 00:40:51,860 but if I'm gonna eat a rodent, there's nothing better than a porcupine. 693 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,029 Because of this. Fat! 694 00:40:55,196 --> 00:40:56,297 Fat's hard to come by. 695 00:40:56,364 --> 00:40:58,032 A lot of animals out here are really lean, 696 00:40:58,099 --> 00:40:59,567 but this porcupine, as you can see, 697 00:40:59,634 --> 00:41:01,436 he's got a good layer of fat on him. 698 00:41:01,503 --> 00:41:04,172 Fat has more calories than protein or carbohydrates, 699 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,674 and you need a lot of calories to stay warm. 700 00:41:06,741 --> 00:41:08,076 It takes energy. 701 00:41:08,143 --> 00:41:10,678 That's why porcupine is a special food for me out here. 702 00:41:11,646 --> 00:41:14,549 Look at that. I got a front leg, I got a back leg, 703 00:41:14,616 --> 00:41:16,317 and plenty of fat to go with that meat. 704 00:41:17,285 --> 00:41:19,721 That's what I'm having for dinner tonight, porcupine. 705 00:41:22,524 --> 00:41:24,426 Everybody has to decide how they want to live, 706 00:41:24,493 --> 00:41:26,094 where they want to get their food. 707 00:41:26,161 --> 00:41:27,862 This is just the way I choose to do it, because I enjoy it. 708 00:41:27,929 --> 00:41:29,631 I enjoy living out here, I enjoy the lifestyle. 709 00:41:29,698 --> 00:41:32,134 I feel more connected to my surroundings. 710 00:41:34,269 --> 00:41:35,937 I don't think this is for everybody. 711 00:41:38,139 --> 00:41:40,141 But I think, unfortunately, there are a lot of people 712 00:41:40,208 --> 00:41:41,643 that aren't doing what they love to do, 713 00:41:41,710 --> 00:41:43,411 and that's too bad to let life go by 714 00:41:43,478 --> 00:41:45,046 and not do what you really want to do. 715 00:41:45,113 --> 00:41:46,981 If you really wanna do something, you ought to get out and do it. 716 00:41:47,048 --> 00:41:48,950 This is what I want to do, so this is what I did. 717 00:41:57,759 --> 00:41:59,328 I bet it's just about done. 718 00:41:59,828 --> 00:42:02,030 Oh, yeah. That looks delicious! 719 00:42:02,097 --> 00:42:05,233 Look at that porcupine. Mmm, does that smell good. 720 00:42:05,901 --> 00:42:07,369 Look at that. 721 00:42:08,970 --> 00:42:11,473 Full moon, what a night to eat out. 722 00:42:13,675 --> 00:42:16,345 I eat mostly moose, and then caribou comes next, 723 00:42:16,412 --> 00:42:18,346 but once in a while, I come across something like a porcupine, 724 00:42:18,413 --> 00:42:19,514 get a little variety. 725 00:42:19,714 --> 00:42:21,650 That's porcupine fat. It's good stuff. 726 00:42:22,484 --> 00:42:24,586 Mmm. Mmm. 727 00:42:26,522 --> 00:42:28,123 That's the best part right there. 728 00:42:28,190 --> 00:42:29,958 It is a little sprucey. 729 00:42:30,025 --> 00:42:31,926 He's been feeding on spruce bark lately. 730 00:42:32,827 --> 00:42:34,496 Connects me to the forest around here. 731 00:42:34,563 --> 00:42:36,298 The food tastes a little bit like the area. 732 00:42:43,004 --> 00:42:44,873 You can't just go to the store up here and say, 733 00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:47,609 "Hey, tonight I want to eat pork chops." 734 00:42:47,676 --> 00:42:50,611 You got to go out and see what nature's got to offer you to eat. 735 00:42:50,678 --> 00:42:51,980 Today it offered me porcupine. 736 00:42:52,915 --> 00:42:56,017 A lot of times, I don't know what the day's gonna bring. 737 00:42:56,084 --> 00:42:57,585 That's what makes life interesting. 738 00:42:57,652 --> 00:42:59,254 You never know what today's gonna bring. 739 00:42:59,321 --> 00:43:02,624 You never know exactly what you're gonna be eating for dinner either. 740 00:43:02,858 --> 00:43:04,559 What a night. 741 00:43:04,626 --> 00:43:05,927 It's beautiful out here. 60766

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