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(DOGS HOWLING)

ANDY: Today I'm gonna get over and start doing some logging.

I have a really limited amount of time to use the snow

and the ice on the river here.

Right now, the days are getting longer.

Because they're getting longer, they're getting hotter.

That means my trails

are going to start deteriorating very quickly.

I pretty much have about a two-and-a-half week window right now.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

Goddamn fucking snow.

ANDY: Came into the wood lot this morning

to start taking down some big trees

and as I pulled in, uh, I got into some deep snow,

I hit a piece of frozen ground and it threw the snow machine off to the side

and I kinda did a roll-over.

ANDY: I don't know how the hell

I'm gonna get this shit out of here now.

Son of a bitch.

(GRUNTING)

Son of a bitch.

(ENGINE STARTS)

ANDY: For all my building projects

for the upcoming season

and all the lumber that I want to make

it's going to be really critical that I get, uh,

50 or 60, what I call saw logs, large logs that I can turn into lumber later.

(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)

ANDY: Yeah, baby!

You're ready to go. Come on, baby!

There she goes.

Yeah, baby!

There's a satisfaction that I get in providing for myself as much as possible.

SUE: There's never any guarantees in life.

It doesn't matter where you are, who you are, how you live.

But the kind of guarantees that I get tend to eat you

for breakfast and spit you out for lunch.

SUE: Again, I appreciate it.

The fuel is going to make all the difference in the world for me

being able to keep doing do what I do.

Okay, I think we're ready to pump.

-Okay, here we go. -All righty.

If you can turn the fuel alone, you can do it.

-Awesome. All right. -TREVOR: It's your fuel.

Show me where to go and what to pull and...

SUE: I had to have the fuel flown in

and it finally arrived today.

After weeks of calling

and waiting for the weather to clear

and conserving all the fuel I had left living in the dark

and knowing that, you know,

the very next thing is your heat's gonna go.

It was pretty scary.

(MOTOR RUNNING)

-SUE: You ready? -We're ready!

One, two, three...

-It's a huge sense of relief. -TREVOR: Awesome!

Huge, huge load of stress off my shoulders.

It's been a long time waitin'. Waitin', waitin', waitin'...

Let's make sure it's going in the bladder.

Bladder starting to fill up a little bit.

This fuel is going to enable me to get the gen going,

keep it going, uh, so electricity, fuel for heat,

fuel for my equipment. Good deal.

13,400 pounds.

13,400 pounds. 2,000 gallons.

You guys saved my little biscuits.

You guys always make sure that I

keep my 10 fingers and 10 toes.

TREVOR: So, we'll see you on the next trip.

All right, fly safe guys.

Yeah, just 'cause the fuel is in the bladder

has nothing to do with being at the point of consumption.

Bobcat needs fuel. I can't get it out of the bladder.

I have to put it somewhere else to get it out of that

and into something else. I need it for my heat.

It has to come from there to there, from there to here,

from here over there, into the tank, then I get heat.

Ah, just got a lot of ice build-up preventing my forks

from staying in place, and they won't lock in,

so I'm going to try and clear it a little bit.

See if I can't, uh, reattach it.

Motherfucker!

Son of a bitch! Cocksucker!

(SCREAMS) Ahh!

It's hard not to get crabby.

I mean, my brain is still a little frazzled.

'Cause it was, you know, it's a lot of stress to be under.

I try not to let it actively bother me,

but I'm human... I... It does.

CHIP: Folks around here have treat me no different

than they do a native from a different village.

They look at me for what I do and how I contribute

and they always honour a provider.

Does that look good? Here let me inspect.

No more dust.

CHIP: This hunt is one of the funnest hunts in the year for our family.

We've entered into light winter.

And basically, right now what we need to do

is be able to get with the herds as they're gathering.

Traditionally, folks around here, these Inupiaq, were, um, semi-nomadic.

They would pass, uh,

the freeze up in the dark winter

and then they would be back out on the land, um, trapping,

hunting, fishing and gathering.

Me and my wife, we make a conscious decision

to go about hunting things kind of an old fashion way

simply because those older ways work and worked really well.

We prefer to be out, and we'll throw the tent and such on the sleds.

We'll pack ourselves up and we'll be gone until

we fill our sleds then we'll return home.

Here we are in Noorvik, and basically,

this is the route that we've got and I'll follow

and our first goal is to get to, uh, right here

and that's where we'll put up our tent

and camp for the night.

Once we progress across the peninsula,

we'd be able to hunt seals.

We usually hunt between Deering

and the shelter cabin in the area

where we like to summer hunt, and well out here,

out here be monsters.

Could take a day, could take a week.

But we're going to be there till we're done.

This is, uh, caribou sleeping bag so we'll be nice and warm.

This hunt we wait for, we prepare for,

it's the most exciting hunt of the year.

It takes like a week ahead to prepare.

Bitch! Get off there.

Do you need a cheater bar?

I need a cheater bar and a cheatin' wife.

CHIP: Everything's got to be ready.

Unfortunately, these are machines

and we have no control over when they decide to quit,

-but we keep on 'em. -Did it screw on?

-It will. -Let's just screw it on more...

CHIP: Just be patient, son.

We have no mechanics around here,

so everything we do we have to do for ourselves.

Before we can leave for these kind of hunts

we have to have our machines working in a perfect order,

we have to have our camping gear in perfect order

and when this stuff is all ready

then we'll be off for this nice fur hunt.

(CLINKING)

Okay.

This one is still good and this one gotta get replaced.

Just want to get this fixed up right away

and get on a trail and get on our way to camp.

Yeah.

ERIK: People always kinda laughed at me

'cause I lived out here and thought it was funny,

but, you know, what's the norm to one person

is very different to the next.

ERIK: I'm a trapper. I'm a subsistence hunter.

I'm a fisherman. It's how I make my living.

Last time I was up on the trap line,

I seen some wolverine sign.

I made a few more sets the last time I was up there,

I'm excited to get up there and check 'em and,

and maybe catch a wolverine.

They're a mystery to a lot of biologists

'cause they're so hard to photograph,

they're so difficult to see.

They're a difficult animal to hunt or trap.

They're incredibly powerful, they can actually bite

the springs of the trap with their jaws

and release themselves.

They'll eat anything. They can crack the femur

of a moose open and get that marrow out.

They're an unbelievably tough animal.

They're not an easy animal to take down

and they're an animal that is almost never dead in a trap.

(GUNSHOT)

There's always a mixed emotion when I catch a wolverine.

It's an animal that's, uh, you know,

it's not seen very often, it's a really special animal.

I got a lot of respect for the animal

and it's kind of sad to me to see it die at the same time.

ERIK: (SNIFFS) Beautiful wolverine.

Oh, yeah.

Oh yeah. That's a... That'll work.

Nice male wolverine here.

Gulo Gulo. Pretty happy.

I'm gonna go home and skin this guy out.

KATE: This is the ultimate dream.

To live in a little log cabin in the middle of nowhere

with the person that you love dearly.

ANDY: Why don't you give me a hand?

KATE: What with?

Uh, I want to go over and start gettin' logs

for the green house today.

Oh, okay.

So you can give me a big hand, just clearing brush

and throwing stuff out of the way.

It's a nice day, let's go over and spend some time over in the woods.

-Okay. -(HOWLING)

(ENGINE STARTS)

ANDY: It'll be a nice day.

We'll go out and spend some time in the woods together.

We don't spend a lot of time doing projects together.

I tend to work alone most of the time.

But when I need a hand she's always willing to jump in.

So the plan here, Kate, is, uh, I wanna,

I wanna work on this tree here.

This dry, this dry one here and then, uh, maybe

this second dry one right here. Thanks.

So why don't you stand off that way,

actually go over there,

you know how to work that come along.

Remember how you work that, you gotta throw the little lever where the spring is.

-So you can crank it. -I'll try.

Why don't you take up the pressure on that if you can.

I'll give it a go.

Just get it kinda snug

so the tree can't go the other way any more than it is.

ANDY: You gotta move the spring.

The little black spring.

Yeah, hang on, I'm looking.

Right on the handle.

Go straight down from your hand six inches.

It doesn't do anything.

-Kate, you see that spring. -Yeah.

See how it's got a lever there. You just push it over.

Oh, okay.

That makes it crank that way.

When you want to go the other way, you flip it back over

and then you have to hold that. Just crank it up until it's snug.

What Kate lacks in knowledge and ability

she more than makes up in willingness.

And if you're willing to get out there and try your best,

that's all that matters in my book.

(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)

ANDY: All right, you're ready to go. Come on, baby!

There she goes.

-(CREAKING) -KATE: Run, Forrest!

ANDY: Yeah, baby!

Hey, I'm pretty happy with the way that fell.

Hey, babe! This is what I'm going to use for skidding them out.

That's how you just put that up, run that one through it.

Right, pull it up tight.

Then you get it parallel to this one

and then I'll pull the snow machine up.

KATE: So where do you want this to go? That way?

ANDY: No, just don't do anything right now.

You gotta be fucking kidding me!

Jesus fucking Christ man!

Fuck you, you goddamn fucking prick!

Hey Kate, bring my chainsaw over here, would ya?

ANDY: You come here to log, I can't get into these timber

because there so much downed trees from the ice

that knocked everything over.

Just a pick-up-sticks and... Of logs, buried and frozen in the silt.

One fucking stump in the whole goddamn forest

and I got a snag on it.

Fuck you!

(ENGINE ROARING)

-ANDY: Hit the throttle. -KATE: What?

Forward.

Okay, easy!

You're going to fucking run me over. Jesus Christ, man!

This fucking place is not gonna fucking work

for doing all this logging, man. This fucking sucks.

ANDY: Come here to log,

I can't get into these timber

because there's so much downed trees from the ice

that knocked everything over.

It's just a pick-up-sticks of logs buried and frozen

in in the silt. I'm just fighting that.

Every time I make a cut around here, I'm fighting that.

Sometimes I get pretty frustrated with it.

ANDY: Put it back in that log like I had it!

Jam it into that log.

All right, get out of the way. Just let me pull it.

Pull backwards! Backwards!

Fuck!

ANDY: There you go.

Well, he barks, it's all right. I'm used to that.

This fucking sucks.

(WHIRRING)

Why don't you meet me at the bottom of the hill?

No problem.

ERIK: I have all the respect in the world

for these animals.

I choose to be out here, they don't have a choice.

They gotta just keep at this.

They gotta keep at the survival game,

or they're dead.

(PHONE RINGS)

Hello?

ERIK: I'm a trapper.

I'm a subsistence hunter.

I'm a fisherman and it's how I make my living.

The wolverine was a large adult male,

it had long hair,

it had a good diamond on the back.

A gentleman who is a friend of a client of mine,

he had heard that I had some high quality hides

and he wanted to purchase a wolverine, hide and skull.

I will have the wolverine all prepared and packaged up.

Have a great day, sir.

ERIK: Nice male wolverine here...

A good one, we earned him.

Put on quite a few miles and finally we got him.

He'll be on a stretcher board by bedtime.

A lot of this stuff out there, hunting and fishing,

is luck, to be honest,

but where the skill comes in is seizing opportunity.

This is the most tedious part of fur handling.

Fleshing, turning lips and ears.

Need to have absolutely all the membranes off

the inside of the hide here

or it turns in from a...

From a very nice and valuable object

to an absolutely worthless one.

So...

Pinning this wolverine hide to the stretcher

so it won't shrink down on me.

The idea is to let air get to everything.

Just gotta let it dry and then, uh,

we'll turn it first side out after the skin is dry.

I'm boiling this wolverine skull for quite a while.

It's got muscle and tongue and brains.

Boil all that off and clean it up and use this old fork

that I never use to eat.

Wolverine is an impressive animal.

Pretty tough, everything about 'em is tough.

Cleaning the skull is even tough.

This job is, uh, on a scale of one to 10

on the fun scale is a 10.

As in, no fun.

CHIP: This is a way of life.

This isn't just a job or an occupation.

Every day I have to do something that benefits my household and my family.

I've gotta keep them warm, I gotta keep them fed.

CHIP: I'm making a target for my wife

so she can zero in her new scoped rifle.

I have an old glove that my wife used for skinning caribou.

This is getting recycled too.

And when she's real good and ready, she'll pop it.

I'm just gonna go on ahead and load it up.

In our culture,

it's not unusual for the women to be shooters.

This is a 7.62x54 Rem Mosin Nagant,

and it has a PU scope on it

and I bought it for a seal hunting gun.

(GUNSHOT)

AGNES: Wow!

The first time I shot, I shot towards the heavens.

(LAUGHING)

Yeah, no dents, no scratches, no cracks.

Pretty good, I'm happy. Now let's see how it fires.

Let's go on ahead and check it out.

Hopefully it'll work better because I have the scope on it

for the long distance shot.

Since we only have a couple boxes of this kind of ammo,

we better be conservative.

AGNES: Yup. Here it goes.

(GUNSHOT)

-(GUNSHOT) -CHIP: Oh, man.

-I'm gonna try one more time. -I would try again, exactly.

(GUNSHOT)

CHIP: Exact same hole, let me see.

AGNES: Here I thought the gun was gonna shoot to the right

but I guess when it's angled like that,

it actually shoots to the left, yeah?

CHIP: Your very first shot is directly in line

but it was elevated.

Your second shot was two inches off and two inches low.

Try and make one more circle?

Yeah! Let's make one more circle and try it again.

AGNES: We're doing pretty good. I like it.

Try one more time at a different circle

and this time I'll try for three bullseyes.

You know, for a fact, you hit that, ah, empty bottle

or you hit that balloon, that glove balloon there.

-You're going to have a seal. -Yeah.

That seal, that's the size you want.

(CHUCKLES) This is awesome.

AGNES: Okay.

(GUNSHOTS)

(GUNSHOT)

Oh, dead fucking on. Dead on!

Right dead in the middle of the target. That's a 10.

I see it!

(GUNSHOT)

Good one. That is sweet.

You are a much better shot than me.

AGNES: Bullseye! CHIP: Bullseye!

I'm pretty happy with this rifle

and hopefully we'll come home with one or two seals.

SUE: The fact that I've got such bad conditions

doesn't stop me from doing what I need to do.

It's working smart, not working hard.

SUE: I get frustrated, I'm human.

But some days, you just got shit work to do,

and you can't stop for nobody's business.

But for me to be able to do what I do here I have to stay

in a fairly positive frame of mind.

Even under negative circumstances.

Doesn't matter what the temperature is,

what anything else is, you know,

you just, whatever the conditions

you gotta get it done.

With the Bobcat up and running,

the first thing I'm gonna do is move that 200-gallon tank

to the bladder so I can pump fuel into it.

These forks go into those holes so I can lift this up,

go out, put fuel in it,

come back, fill up this tank,

front tank and have enough fuel

so that for the next couple of months

when I get the heaviest amount of snow

and some really bad blizzard conditions,

if I can't get the Bobcat out,

I can still carry a pump and make sure I got fuel.

SUE: What the motherfuck?

Motherfucker! You never, never, never,

fucking ever, leave these open.

That means all the prime I had is now gone.

All 92 foot.

It's hard not to be very frustrated at this point.

I specifically left all 92 foot of line primed and shut off.

Pumps been run, lines left open.

When I was back in Fairbanks for my ankle surgery,

some dipshit broke in and stole my fuel.

Dry, dry, dry.

There's where our fuel is.

To add insult to injury, those morons left my fuel lines open

and that line may have lost its prime.

When I talk about priming the line,

the only way to really describe it is

if you go to your faucet in the kitchen

and you turn it on, water comes out.

That means your line is primed, it is full of the fluid

you're asking it to give you.

If you pull open the faucet

and you get (EXHALES) air, you've lost your prime

and it's now air instead of the liquid you wanted.

So I left my line primed and shut so it would hold it.

It'll be bad if I've lost my prime and that fuel is not in there.

Is that running?

Move it a little... It's open.

(WHIRRING)

Don't make me fucking prime you.

I'm so fucked.

Right now I'm trying to pump fuel through 92 foot a line.

Usually, this 92-foot of line is primed.

That means it's full of fuel,

so you already have the suction to pump.

But the son of a bitches who broke into the camp left my lines open.

Come on...

Come on, come on, come on!

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

Come on, oh, yes! Keep doing it. Keep doing it.

It's wanting to.

Come on. See if it'll catch.

Come on you fucking bitch.

Yay!

It's going some. Better than it was.

It's not great, but it is running.

That could've been really fucking ugly.

(CHUCKLES) And I'm glad it wasn't.

A little priming I can do, that whole line, oh, my gosh!

I gotta use about 1,000 to 1,100 gallons of fuel

out of the bladder today, hopefully.

And, uh, get it dispersed around camp.

Well, we're getting fuel in the heat tank.

Once I get all my fuel moved around to the right places

where it needs to live,

then I can get lights back on in the house, electricity.

Trying to get as much as I can done before it gets too dark.

KATE: We're not living some kind of fairy-tale here.

We do have our issues at time to time.

So, some days a diamond, some days a stone.

-Watch your legs. -Got it.

Kate and I are gonna go on a little getaway

to the Tatonduk River,

it's kind of a surprise birthday for her.

This is the pendant I just made for Kate's birthday.

It's a piece of argillite set in silver.

These are the finger bones of lynx right here.

Long finger bones.

And, uh, I'll surprise her with that sometime this evening.

KATE: Andy and I are getting ready now to just do something

for the two of us.

Instead of hard work all the time, it's what we usually do.

Goin' running today? You want to go running today?

Yeah?

It's kind of fun to just go for an overnight somewhere different.

It's our kind of holiday, I guess.

We don't get to go very many places together

and this is kind of a nice little way to do it.

You'll be sledding now today, doggy.

ANDY: Taking two teams out is a little bit more chaos

originally when you first get started.

But they settle into it pretty quick.

And it's a lot more fun for Kate

if she can mush her own team instead of riding in the sled.

ANDY: Atta boys!

KATE: It's wonderful to be gettin' away for a night,

just Andy and I and...

Life is good.

Oh! It's open!

(GASPS) It's gorgeous!

It's just beautiful to be able to get away.

Love it. Forget about work.

Even it's for 24 hours, it's good for your soul,

it's just good for everybody.

KATE: Living in the bush

sometimes is considered very, very romantic.

Just you and the man that you love.

But sometimes, I tell ya, 24/7 with one person

can be a test of patience.

Sometimes I get pretty frustrated, pretty uptight,

uh, pretty keyed up, when things aren't going well.

I'm not a person who holds my emotions inside of me

and sometimes that's really hard for people around me.

Kate knows that too, she knows, she knows that

sometimes she just has to walk away.

I know it's kind of hard on her to have to put up with that.

There you go, full go, here's a nice big one for you!

Atta boy. Good boy.

ANDY: There you go, Burgis. How you doing, bud? You kind of pooped out too?

There you go, Carby.

Get these guys fed up and go inside and have a hot toddy.

And celebrate Kate's birthday.

Maybe I'll get a candle and get Kate to blow it out.

And then I'll sneak a present to her.

What do you think of that, T?

Should we sneak a present to Kate?

I think Kate would like that. What do you think, T?

We'll surprise her.

-Cheers. -Cheers, my love.

Happy birthday to you. Early.

Oh, thank you!

-What do I get? -BOTH: (CHUCKLING)

You get to give me a back scratch.

-Someday. -Come on.

Nah.

Come on, give me a back scratch.

Screw the back scratch, there's something in there.

Awesome! Is there, is there...

Wait a minute, wait a minute,

you can't, you can't open that yet.

Okay.

-Just good wishes. -Yay!

-Oh, my God. -(CHUCKLING)

This is so beautiful.

Bone, is that bear bone?

Here. It's...

That's, that's the lynx bones.

I love it.

-I was a good girl this year. -Yay!

-Happy birthday to you. -Thank you.

Thanks for putting up with my shit.

-I've been doing that for 10 years. -ANDY: I know.

ERIK: Alaska's a harsh place. It's, uh, the climate's harsh.

The culture can be harsh in ways.

You like it or you don't.

It's the only place that I could live.

I'm getting ready to

package up this nice wolverine here.

This gentleman called and would like a wolverine.

So I'm gonna ship that to, uh, a tannery in Anchorage, Alaska.

And then that tannery will tan the hide.

And then they'll send that to a taxidermist

that I've recommended.

And then they will ship it to him.

I sell the majority of my hides to my clients.

And, uh, taxidermists, things like that.

I do, upon occasion, sell them to fur buyers in Fairbanks.

I'm gonna take this lynx and a couple of fox into Fairbanks here,

see if I can't get a halfway decent price for 'em.

Rolled into Fairbanks,

I'm just heading over here to Bill Wivoda's Arctic Raw Fur Company.

I'm gonna see if he's interested in buying a couple hides from me.

He's known to feed out a couple extra dollars

to young trappers to keep them interested,

and keep them positive, and keep them trapping.

-Hey, Bill. Doing good. -Hi, Erik, how are you?

Got some critters for sale there?

Oh, just a couple. Just a couple.

A couple of fox and a lynx.

I see you did it for taxidermy.

Still got all the claws. Did you turn the ears?

Turned the ears, I turned the lips,

and I skinned all the feet and I did that with the foxes

and everything I have I try to get the most I can out of it.

If you ever see anything I'm doing wrong, Bill, you tell me,

'cause I wanna try and put out the best fur I can, you know.

I'm up north of the Arctic Circle there and...

BILL: I would maybe tack these legs out a little bit more

to where you don't have skin folding back in like that.

Tack them out a little bit so they dry better

and they're spread out and same with the fox.

Glad you left the feet on there, it helps.

Easier to sell it.

Handling this stuff correctly, you know,

out of respect for the animal,

you're killing this animal out of respect for the animal,

you use it properly, you don't waste it.

I mean, you're doing everything, everything right.

I think that's very important,

you know, to have that respect

for using this resource.

It's always nice to speak with a, you know,

I hate to call Bill an old timer,

but, you know, an older guy that, uh, that really knows

his trade and Bill's sort of teaching me little nuances

that otherwise I wouldn't have anybody to teach me.

Just an excellent job of handling, again, the split ears, all the eyelids there.

I can go 60 a piece on the fox.

ERIK: Okay. How about the... How about the lynx?

Bill: If I was just grading this on the fur quality,

I'd probably go around 150,

but seeing as you got it mountable

and went to all the extra work, I'll go 200 for the cat.

Hey, thanks a lot, I'll take that for sure.

Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate that.

I'm really happy Bill paid me a more than fair price

and he was very complimentary of my fur handling.

I take a lot of pride in that.

I'm leaving here with money in my pocket and good feelings

and it couldn't have been a better experience.

CHIP: The truth is, this is a renewable resource.

The truth is we take only what we need.

This is part of nature. Everything dies. Everything.

CHIP: Three weeks here together of parts,

effort, money, arranging our house

and preparing for what we like to do at this time of year.

We're out for fur, maybe some fat female caribou,

if we're lucky we'll see seals on the way down

to where we're headed, and if we're lucky, on the way back we'll see seals.

Keep going...

AGNES: Just need extra rope for this one now

and we're pretty much ready.

CHIP: Yep. We need to tie down the gas right here.

AGNES: Real excited. I can barely wait.

I can, I shouldn't say it.

But I could almost taste the blood.

We usually leave kids behind this time of the year

'cause it's usually a rough trip.

We go for miles and miles camping out wherever.

This can be like a couple of days, it could stretch out for a couple weeks.

CHIP: The materials that we want right now that are good

for this time of year are gonna make us some money here

in six or eight months when the tanning time comes around.

We'll have good food to eat until then,

and we'll have a lot of adventures to talk about when we're done with it all.

This is ready, Agnes. This one is ready.

We need to tie down a little bit of gas.

The basket sled is ready.

Hitchin' up the rides and leaving.

The normal journey is probably about three to four hours.

Um, if we have to take longer because we're zig-n-zaggin'

or goin' slow for various reasons. It could take all day.

AGNES: Well, we're just about to set up camp real quickly.

We're a bit too tired,

so we're just going to pitch camp and call it a day.

We actually have quite a bit of travelling to do.

We got a little bit of some rivers

and a little bit of mountains to get through

and we decided that since this is where we are

when the sun is going down past the horizon

this is the best place to be.

So the time to set up is now and be comfortable

rather than, uh, have a hard time at it.

We're putting up our tee-pee.

It's kinda of a shelter we can put up anywhere

if we're out fishing, if we're up on the mountains hunting.

Whatever we're doing. This one here is a very good,

very good tent to have.

Goes up quick, doesn't require stakes.

I'm using my sled for a bed

and I want to slide it in first before I put the skin on.

AGNES: It's gonna be a little lumpy, not too bad.

Trying to get most of the snow off so it don't turn to water,

freeze us to the sled. (LAUGHING)

CHIP: We're just wasting daylight here. AGNES: Yeah.

We use the tarp as an extra layer.

In case it gets windy and then we put the canvas over.

Then we'll make something nice and warm to drink and um...

Eat a little something

and crash out and try again tomorrow.

Ah, these are musk ox skins.

These are what we like to use for bedding,

me and my wife here.

And this here is the best sleeping bag ever!

Made by me.

I'm going to go shovel snow around the edges

to keep the edge down so the wind doesn't lift the tent.

And uh, if you want to fire up a couple of candles

and, uh, pull out some tea. Have some tea and go to bed.

Today we've been riding, we did the sea,

we've done the hills, we've done rivers,

we've ridden just about just about every trade possible

that you can think of including a lot of rocks...

And we're pretty beat so we're gonna finish up camp

here before it gets dark and go to bed.

-Are you tired too? -(CHUCKLES) Yes.

I think I'm tired.

CHIP: Oh, yeah.

Just gonna turn these off, yeah.

CHIP: Yep.

SUE: Civilisation down south in the real world

is far different than Kavik-zation.

You know, off I go!

It's always an adventure.

The gamble paid off. I risked that, ah, 12, 15 gallons

of fuel to do the runway and, uh, it did come in

so now I'm finishing up the oil change

and, uh, gonna go ahead

and see about cranking this bitch over.

Man, I've had this old generator off for a few days

so here's hoping it turns back on.

This generator has been running long, long, long,

long, long, long, long, long time.

And without being rebuilt.

So, it's always a risk, you know.

I've got older stuff here...

This is uh... You know... Stuff...

I always say if it fit on the Mayflower

it comes out to Kavik.

I mean, it should go good,

but until you hear it purr and see the numbers...

I don't know... You know...

Breakers can go, lines can get condensation,

split, an animal can chew it.

You know, any number of things can go wrong.

All right, the oil level looks good.

Here we go!

The test... Here goes nothing.

(GENERATOR STARTING)

Whoo-hoo! I got the generator working.

This is the part that really matters.

We'll push it down, see if I can send the power out.

(LAUGHS) I see a light. I see more lights. Whoo-hoo!

Awesome. Check that out.

Are you happy, little foxy?

Look at that. Hot damn.

Now we're cooking!

Let's go see what it looks like all-lit up.

Look at that.

We got the electric dance.

(LAUGHING) I can throw that down now.

We got light! Look at that!

Pretty different.