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SUE AIKENS: So I got caribou
out there.

They're walking towards
the river to bail. Oh, man.

The snow is too deep
for me to walk.

It's too much for me to crawl
down the runway. I'll freeze
before I get there.

I need my hunting licence
and paperwork.

Spare bullets here,
we all know I need
lots of those.

Gun.

The last thing I need are
my shooting sticks. I'll grab
that out the door.

I don't wanna get a female.
I do wanna get meat.

Let me be successful.

I do have some ptarmigan
in my freezie now.

But it'd be nice
to add a caribou.

NARRATOR: Sue Aikens
is on the hunt for caribou,

a key food source
for the coming spring.

But the animals are only
available as they migrate
through the area,

and an early herd is
an opportunity she can't
afford to waste.

They've already made me.
They're looking right over.

Damn it.

With my personal
code of ethics,

I don't want to get
a pregnant cow.

I want to see the dangly bits.

There's no way for me
to judge boys and girls
from this side.

Fuck! Okay.

Damn it.

(SPEAKING)

Don't give me your ass.

(GUNSHOT)

It's just too far.

Took aim at one of the boys
and the women get around
and huddle up against him.

It's a survival thing.

And that's the end
of this hunt.

I don't believe I even came
close to hitting one.

So, back to camp I go.

CHIP HAILSTONE: Preparedness
meets opportunity,
gives you good luck.

AGNES HAILSTONE: Wow!

The cache is still standing.

NARRATOR: Last summer,
the Hailstones built a cache

at the remote hunting
grounds in Kiwalik.

The structure is vital
to their nomadic lifestyle.

It allows the family to store
their wood, gas, and shelter
for long periods of time.

Chip and Agnes have returned
to their cache to set up camp.

Over the next several weeks,

the family
will use it as a base

to stockpile meat, fur,
and other resources
for the coming spring.

CHIP: Look like our tent spot
right here, huh?

Doesn't feel bumpy
or lumpy too bad.

-Look. Try with
your heel. It's good.
-Yep.

CHIP: Well, we don't have
much daylight,

so if we're gonna do this,
let's do it soon.

AGNES: Some time to, uh,
dig out our tent, dig out our
floors, try and put it up,

and, um, try to get ourselves
set up for the night.

(CHIP GRUNTING)

(AGNES SIGHS)

Cache here, and this
accumulation of camping goods
for my family that's here,

it's just waiting,
waiting to be used.

This is just one
of our cycles in the year.

The time to come down
here is now.

We hunt caribou, maybe
a little bit of trapping,
get a little bit of fur.

Ah! There it is.

First, though,
is getting the tent up.

AGNES: It's hard work to get
our stuff but it's nice to
have 'em here waiting for us.

Yee!

Got 'em!

(CHIP SIGHS)

Start working hard,
even when it's zero,
you start to sweat.

Okay.

CHIP: You got it?
AGNES: Yep.

CHIP: Okay, I'm gonna get in,
over here. Ah.

Keep it up, keep it up.

(CHIP PANTING)

You gotta expand 'em.
Just push 'em out.

I'll hold it up,
you push these things out.

CHIP: That's all you gotta do.
There you go.

AGNES: We just keep
going around and round.
CHIP: Yup.

CHIP: Okay, here's half
your problem.

Some jackass
left this on there.

-It's tied up.
-Yup. It won't even
fucking expand.

-This crap on here.
-I did that. I'm the
jackass who put it up.

-Well, jackass, we
won't do that twice.
-Yeah.

(LAUGHING)

(CHIP GRUNTS)

AGNES: Almost, there you go.

Phew! One more. Careful.

Yeah, I don't want it...

(AGNES EXCLAIMS)

CHIP: Phew!

AGNES: One, two, three, go!

AGNES: Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa.

CHIP: This is our large
freight sled.

And at the end of the...
When we get down here,
it brings us a lot of stuff.

Then we sleep on it,
for however many days, nights,
or weeks it takes.

CHIP: To me,
this is like home.

I'm more comfortable here
than I am in, uh, Noorvik.

I feel like, uh,
I belong here.

GLENN VILLENEUVE: I like to
just take time.

What's the point of rushing
forward for a moment
that isn't even here yet?

I'm going out on the lake now.

I gotta open up
the water hole.

Every three or four days,
I have to open up the hole
I've got through the ice.

Get water out, bring it into
the cabin in buckets,

fill up my reservoir, fill up
my hot water pan on the stove.

Hey! Oh, look at this.

Wolves came out here
and pissed right beside
my water hole.

Wolf tracks.
Those are the claws,
toes, the heel pad.

There's a lot of wolves around
right now, and that means
there's caribou around.

Caribou on the lake!

I can use another
caribou right now.

This time of year,
the days are short.

It doesn't stay light
very long.

When I see caribou,
I gotta go.

This is how it usually goes.

I'll be out doing jobs,
just keeping my eyes open,

and sooner or later,
an opportunity comes up.

I gotta go over there and
see if I can get close enough
to get a shot.

I don't wanna head out
on the open lake and
try to run 'em down

or chase 'em around out there.

I wanna sneak through
the woods around the side.

I'm gonna try and intercept
'em over on this end
of the lake.

They definitely saw me.

Caribou are
very unpredictable,
but sometimes,

when they see some
movement and they're
not sure what it is,

they'll actually come closer
to check it out,

see if it's danger.

Look at this.

This is where caribou have
been feeding. These craters,
they're making 'em.

The caribou crater
down through the snow.

They have to dig down
to get to the lichen.

That's caribou food.

Caribou eat this and
turn it into meat and
fat that I can eat.

These are wolf tracks.

These wolves are hunting
caribou every single day.

(WHISPERING)
I'm getting closer. They're
about a quarter-mile away.

But I gotta get about half
that distance before I shoot.

I'm gonna take off
my snowshoes here
so I'm quieter.

(WHISPERING)

I'm gonna sit here for a while
and see if anything changes.

No.

They're too far,

so I'm not gonna
take that shot.

There are a lot
of caribou around.

I'm gonna wait
for a better shot.

Right there, these caribou
are going behind the island.

They're gonna have to
come out the other side.

I might be able to use
the island to hide myself

and intercept 'em
on the other side.

When the caribou are here,
I gotta take advantage of
that opportunity

because they can be here
one day and gone the next.

ANDY BASSICH: Every day
is kind of an adventure
out here.

Every day you see
new things in nature
if you pay attention to it.

You wanna go get some wood?

Who wants to go get wood?
Just a short run.

I woke up this morning,
it was about 30 below zero.

Went out to my power shack
and I got no wood.

I like getting firewood
with the dogs as
much as possible,

especially when
it's colder out.

The machines are a pain
in the butt to deal with.

Dogs are always reliable.

It's good exercise
for the dogs

and I just like the dogs
better than the machines.

It's just way, way more fun
with the dogs.

Attaboys! Little more gee!
Gee, gee, gee, gee!

Come on! Hup, hup, hup!
Hup, let's go, hup, hup, hup.

Ho! Ho!

It's either cut wood
or go get a job,

make money, and buy oil.

I'd much rather go cut wood.

Well, this tree's leaning
definitely the wrong way,

but at least I don't have to
worry about it dropping
on the dogs.

(WHIRRING)

Well, that kind of sucks.

When trees are leaning,
they can only go
one direction,

so you're at the mercy
of the lean of the tree.

(SPEAKING)

Trees hang up,
uh, sometimes
multiple times.

And, um, it makes for
a lot more work.

(LAUGHS)

Whoo-hoo!

(SPEAKING)

I dropped, I think,
four trees,

just to try and get it
to where I could cut it
up for firewood.

I'll get back in there
and stumble around,

and try and get the rest
of the wood another day.

(STRAINING)

Hundred and fifty, 100 pounds,
150 pounds, it's not too bad.

This'll be enough wood
for probably five days.

On your feet!
On your feet!
Hup, hup!

Ho, ho. Whoa, whoa! Perfect.

I'm gonna load this thing
to the max.

We don't have too far to go.

I'm only about
a mile and a half
or so from the house.

Okay. Hup, hup.

Easy, boys. Easy. Easy. Shit.

Oh, man.

Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Good boys.

Everybody stay. Good boys.
Good boys. Stay. Whoo!

Stay. Stay, stay.

Phew! Man!

Bit of a bump at the
bottom of the hill I wasn't
expecting. (LAUGHS)

Hopefully no harm done.

I heard something pop
when I hit the bottom.

You guys did a good job
of stopping for me.
Good boys.

I'm lucky the dogs stopped
for me. I didn't wanna have
to walk home. (LAUGHING)

I'll keep on going here,
drop this load,

then come back
and get another load.

Hup, hup.

GLENN: You gotta know
what you're doing.

If you don't know what you're
doing, you can get yourself
in a lot of trouble.

(WHISPERING)
There are a couple caribou

just up here off the end
of this island,
they're out at the lake.

I have to see if I can get up
close enough to get a shot.

NARRATOR: For Glenn,
hunting caribou
as they migrate

through the Brooks Range
is key to his survival.

With a small herd making
its way across the lake,

he must sneak along the
perimeter to cut off his prey
and get into firing range.

GLENN: I have to do things
that are gonna confuse 'em.

First, I just walk
parallel to 'em,

closing the distance a little
bit at a time, but not going
straight at 'em.

(WHISPERING) I wanna get
a little closer if I can.

(YELLING)

Starting to yell,
that confuses 'em,

because my voice
is echoing off the shoreline.

When they got behind
this little island right here,

I yelled really loud
when I couldn't see 'em,

hoping that the echo
off the far shoreline
would chase 'em back around.

(YELLING)

(WHISPERING) God,
they don't look that far.

(YELLING)

(SPEAKING)

I decided not to shoot,

because I just can't tell
which one is
the mother for sure,

and I don't wanna
orphan that calf.

It'd definitely die if it was
on its own this time of year.

I'm just gonna keep looking.
Sooner or later, the right
opportunity will come up.

SUE: You must develop,
in your life,

a line in the sand
that doesn't get crossed.

There they are.
Little bastards.

Kavik Valley is known
for the, uh, feed.

The type of lichen
that we have here is the kind
that really adds the fat on.

This is an opportunity
too good to pass up.

Here they are again.
'Bout two, three miles down.

Time is of the essence.

(SPEAKING)

You do not see me.

I'm not coming your way.

(SPEAKING)

We can try to get close.

(GUNSHOT)

God. Fuckin' stop, will ya?

(GUNSHOT)

(GUNSHOT)

I took a few shots
on the left.

Way uncomfortable,
way unsteady.

I took that shot
at that caribou
down by the river.

Busted the bone
into four pieces.

I take shots
and I'm flinchin'.

I'm gonna see
if I can't walk
up a little bit.

I'm gonna be out of bullets.
I got two more left.

(PANTING)

(GUNSHOT)

We got an injured one,
so we gotta go.

It's that one
on the far right.

He can still go pretty far.
He's got an injured leg.

Shit. Stop, dude.

I took a close-range
head shot just to put it
out of its misery.

I'm gonna go back,
get the sled, and, uh,
get him on it.

Before it freezes up too hard.

Been chasing these suckers
for a while.

Changed it up today,
almost gave up,

and decided
I'd just try that
one last time.

Uh, it was actually a hell
of a distance shot.

I am proud of myself.
It may have taken me
a store's worth of bullets

to get the animal down,
but go me.

Wintertime meat.
Almost unheard of.

CHIP: I've always enjoyed
the hunt. It's a good way
to provide for your family

and to enrichen your life.

I'm gonna take an axe with me
and go get some firewood.

I like to go down to the beach
and go get, uh, driftwood
that's blown clear and dry.

I'm gonna go over here
to a place called
Spafarief Hill.

At the base of that
is the ocean.

And there's a lot
of driftwood over there.

And a lot of it's really dry
and a lot of it's already
busted up.

-I love you.
-Love you, too. See you later.

There's a bunch of
female caribou over here.

I didn't wanna spook 'em.

They're about a good
500 yards away.

There's a lot of females
with babies.

So if I wanted caribou,
I could be caribou rich
right now, but I already am.

So, the chore right now
is for firewood.

When we left here this fall,
we left all this wood here.

So I just wanna get
a nice pile, so, uh,

I can burn wood
while Chip's gone,

and if for some reason
he gets back kind of late,

he doesn't have to worry
about sawing all the wood
he brought home,

and, you know,
getting it all chopped down.

Now that we have the wood
thrown in the tepee,

most important chore,
I'm gonna walk to the river
and go get some ice.

What I do is I pretty much
just go out and go find
a big crack

or a lot of cracks
joined like that,

and, of course, you can see
the ground under there. You
can actually see the bottom.

That's real good
drinking water.

Just start chipping
away and...

It's real easy.

See how clear it is?
It's good water.

We take it day by day.
You know, we plan ahead,

we think of the next season,

we think of
the other opportunities
that are heading our way,

and we try to put
all that together.

So this should last us
a couple, few days.

So I'm just gonna go bring
this ice to the, um, tent.

Then I'll have my water
and my heat.

CHIP: It's always a good sign
when there's tracks, there's
caribou, there's ptarmigan.

But, uh, I gotta make my way
over to the wood, too.

That's more important
than anything else.

I got some dry wood.

This last, uh, summer, when we
were down here getting wood,

I left a little tripod
pile of wood.

I see it's mostly
knocked down,
probably by the waves,

but it's sticking up.

And the trick is that it's
not frozen to the ground.

It's sticking up and it's dry,
so, I got a couple of good dry
pieces of wood to take home.

It's probably, one log is
probably two good days
of firewood.

Yeah, it's dry, all right!

This is the Arctic,
and the thing is you
gotta keep warm.

You gotta keep dry.
That's really how it works.

-Shucks.
-(AXE CRACKS)

Oh, man!

Brand new axe, gone to shit.

Bummer.

I just bought this axe
for 40 bucks at the store
before we left.

I didn't wanna take
the home axe,

'cause we heat
with wood at home,

and leave the girls
with no axe.

I could throw a fit, I guess.
Cuss.

Bitch.

But that's not me.

I think I'll just, uh,
tie down the whole log.

I've got, uh, two miles to
the lagoon, five miles home,
so seven-mile drag.

Won't be too bad.

But I have to get wood.

(STRAINING)

Right there.

Sometimes the roots are frozen
into the sand and you can't
go anywhere.

I'm gonna get this tied up.

I'll go back to camp,

find me a cup
of coffee or two.

That gas was expensive,
my time isn't free.

Despite that, I'd rather spend
two gallons of gas

than burn five gallons
of stove oil tonight.

I also get to breathe
fresh air, see some animals.

I've seen so many tracks.
I've probably seen
a couple hundred caribou.

This place is alive.
It's really good to be here.

Those are some nice,
dry-looking, long logs.

Yeah, I broke the axe.
Whack, whack, whack,
whack, whack, pow.

It broke, like, instantly.
No good axe.

We'll have to use
the bigger axe, I guess, here.

So however it works, I guess.

Man, you know that if
you wanna see caribou,

I saw about 200 that just
crossed the Kiwalik,

and then up on those hills
there was a big, long line
that came up towards us.

-AGNES: Wow, all over,
just here and there?
-All over.

Caribou are scattered
'cause the feed up there,

when you get up
on these hills,
the feed is everywhere.

So they're not even
bunched up,
they're just scattered.

AGNES: Wow.

We have plenty of firewood.
I dug out all the firewood
we left.

-Oh, the split stuff?
-Yeah, the split stuff.

-So we don't gotta
saw this right now?
-Nope.

-We have it all inside and...
-Oh, excellent.

We... I went and got ice,
and brought it in
and melted some.

-It's warm.
-Excellent.

AGNES: And you can see.
(GIGGLES)

SUE: You don't ever know
what Mother Nature's gonna
throw at you.

You're at the top end
of extreme for conditions.

Here she is.

Phew.

Damn cold. Temp is dropping
fast and hard.

But I'm just gonna try to get
a real quick gut job done,
then bring this joker home.

Been a while since
I've had to do one in
the wintertime here.

This is not common.

These guys are not supposed
to be back here for a couple
of months yet.

Argh!

Okay.

Well, that ain't gonna
fucking work.

Yeah, I don't know if
I'm gonna be able to...

This is all frozen.

(PANTING)

My hands are freezing
to the knife.

(EXHALES ANGRILY)

I'm freezing to the knife.

My hand is freezing
to the knife,

the blood is freezing
to the knife, the fat is
freezing to the knife.

Come on. (PANTING)

There.

My hands are so frozen.

Fuck. Okay.

(WINCING)

Damn it!

I'm in trouble.

I don't know how much more
I can handle on my fingers.

Ah, fuck it.

I owe it to this animal,
this beautiful girl, to make
the most out of her life.

Argh!

Whew.

This is the heart.

Whew, all right.

Boink.

One saving grace,
I was going for the boy.

This one got hit,
got a spine shot.

Uh, at that point,
this is the one I have
to take down.

It's not a pregnant female.

So, thank the
good lord on that.

I just, I would probably
have to give up hunting.

'Cause I don't know how
I would've handled that.

Last piece.

Okay.

For a winter kill,

wind chill factor's around
50 below zero,

I got a lot of good meat.

I feel proud of myself,
but mostly,

the only thing I'm feeling
right now is freaking cold.

But, uh, you don't even know
how grateful I am.

ANDY: It takes a lot of
self-motivation to live
out in the bush.

Uh, you've gotta be able
to push yourself.

NARRATOR: Andy and his
dog team are returning home
with a sled load of firewood.

Mushing with the dogs
is critical to their training,

but the Yukon River ice
is treacherous,

and he must be cautious
to avoid sled damage,

or serious injury
to himself or the dogs.

I like using the dogs. Uh,
it's good exercise for them.

The dogs are quick, reliable,
and, uh, they do the job.
Plus, they have fun.

Attaboy. Good boy.

You don't put the time in
with the training, you don't
get much out of 'em.

It's not just physical
conditioning training
that's important,

there's a lot of training
that goes into discipline,
behavioural issues.

If your dogs behave well,
then you take 'em everywhere
and you do more with 'em.

If they're always
misbehaving, then,

it defeats the purpose
to take 'em into the bush
with you.

Easy, easy, easy.

Easy. Settle down, you guys.

Holy shit.

Easy, easy, easy.

Oh! Shit.

Cruising top speed across
the Yukon River jumble ice,

the sled started running
sideways, and I couldn't
control it.

I felt the sled starting
to give way on me,
so I just let go.

Bailed because I was afraid
I was gonna fall off.

The sled continued on
with the dogs.

It was crashing and banging,

and eventually it slammed
into a chunk of ice,
flipped over.

Anybody here get hurt?
You guys okay?

You was just going
like the wind!
Holy crap, man!

Holy shit.

Plastic shouldn't do that,
but it looks like it's,

it's just getting kind of old
and brittle.

I don't know if I can
get this home like this.

I'm gonna just unload
the sled here,

maybe take one log for my fire
and then lighten the load up
and try and get it home.

(GROANS) Stay!

I don't wanna come home
empty-handed, 'cause I'm
out of wood.

A fast, easy wood trip's
turning into a bit of
an ordeal here.

Man, lost my sled twice today.
(LAUGHING)

Man! I don't think I ever seen
one blow apart like that.

All right, easy,
you guys, easy.
Gambo, easy, man, easy.

That wasn't too bad.
The sled didn't come
to an abrupt stop,

but I've had 'em crash
before where it comes
to an abrupt stop

and I've had dogs rip
right out of their
harnesses before.

And that's not good
for the dog.

Good boys. Haw, haw. Haw, haw.
Haw, haw. Haw, haw.

What a mess! When I came
down the hill, I heard
something pop.

I knew the sled wasn't
handling right,

so I just decided,
let go, get the heck
away from it,

'cause the last thing
you wanna do is fall
on that hard ice out there.

That's how you really
get messed up.

I'd rather just let go.
I can rebuild a sled,
I can't rebuild an Andy.

Something good came of it.

Got a couple pieces of wood
for my fire. That'll get me
couple of hours.

Uh, I don't know,
I'm gonna have to bring
this into my shop

and really go over it,
but I mean, it's...
It's smucked.

I mean, it's gone.
Look at that.

It's pretty much toast.
This is a total rebuild.

Well, I guess the quicker
I can get the dogs put up
and get it in my shop,

thaw it out and start tearing
it down, the quicker I can

get back on the trail,
go get my wood.

All right, you guys did
a good job. That was me.

I'm the one who screwed that.
I'm the dumbass today.

Today, you were a good anchor.
I saw you stop everybody.
You're such a good boy!

CHIP: In the way that my wife
was raised up,

she kind of takes care
of the warm places.

I kinda deal
with the cold places.

I'm gonna go get some
more firewood.

There's a log right over here
I'm gonna go to.

It was there this summer,

and I flipped it up to
make sure it would
dry out really well.

So before I run out of heat,
take this tired-ass chainsaw

and walk over there
and chop it up.

Oh, heat is important.

Heat dries everything,
cooks everything,

lets the body bathe
in warm water,
drink hot stuff, eat.

It's life.

A good river will
give you everything.

Some good drinking water,
fish in the right seasons,

and firewood.
It comes from upriver.

(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)

Well, with the wood I got
yesterday that hasn't been
burned yet,

and this wood right here,
I'd have a couple, four, five
days' worth of wood, I think.

Well, this will be good
for setting up camp for now.

But I am gonna have to
go get more wood.
It is a constant chore.

It's like going to the river
and getting ice.

It's like going to
the bathroom.

These are just cycles
we're always attentive to.

And when I start to get low
on wood, I don't run out
of wood. I go get more.

That's just the trick
to it all.

I call it wood reduction.

I reduced it from being
a tree over there on the bank,
to chunks of wood.

I brought it here,
I sawed it up into
other pieces.

And now I'm gonna bust it up
with the axe
so it'll fit inside my stove.

Eventually, this will
all be ash.

I got about two fires here,
two fires there.

Something to start us
in the morning,

finish up at night,
start in the morning,
finish at night.

It's a never-ending chore.

-You want some tea?
-Yeah. Tea would be awesome.

AGNES: Nice and warm, eh?

Yeah. Here, I'll add some more
wood to the fire real quick.

My chores are done.
I got them logs and I got
the wood split up.

I went out and chopped
some ice, and
just stacked it up for later.

-Cool.
-Tent is up.

Tent is up and happy.
Our chores are done
and it's time to hunt.

GLENN: Gotta take advantage
of opportunities as they come.

I never know
what today's gonna bring.

When I'm hunting caribou,
I follow my instincts.
I follow my feelings.

I've spent a lot of time
around caribou out here,

and I don't necessarily
plan it out.

I'm looking for a big caribou.

Either a cow without a calf,
or a bull.

Patience is something
that is in short supply
in the world today.

In modern society,
everything's so rushed.

Hunting takes
a great deal of patience,
the way I practise it.

I'm never in a rush.
There's no, there's no need.

Give it time,
and sooner or later,
the moment will come.

It's a long winter.

I only need
five or six caribou.

I don't have a two-week
hunting season.

I'm not out for a weekend,
recreational hunt.

This is my lifestyle.

I can take the whole winter to
get those five or six caribou,

and I'm gonna wait 'til
the shot I want comes my way.

Hey, look at this.

Caribou hair. The wolves.

They must have gotten
a caribou around here.

There's the wolf! I gotta go
over there and chase that
wolf off.

(GLENN HOWLING)

The way I deal with wolves
when they come around

is the same way
I deal with grizzly bear.

I go out and talk to 'em.
I give 'em a chance.

If they listen to me
and they go away,
that's all right.

If they don't listen to me,
and they get too cocky,

they come in closer,
I might have to shoot 'em.

You can't let wolves
harass you.

They have killed a couple
of people in Alaska.

This guy today, he listened.
He took off.

(GLENN HOWLING)

What a great day it was
out hunting on the lake.

You definitely don't have
to get an animal to have
a good time hunting.

You just have to be patient.

Sooner or later, the right
animal will come along
and I'll get the right shot.

ANDY: It's up early,
to bed late,

eat lots of Aspirin,
keep on going.

NARRATOR: After crashing twice
while hauling firewood,

Andy's dog sled
was severely damaged.

Repairing it is essential
to his ability

to haul resources
with his dogs for
the duration of winter.

ANDY: I got the sled inside
to do an inspection on it.

Brush bow's totally destroyed,

plastic's totally destroyed,
delaminating runners.

The more I took apart,
the more I found
wrong with it.

I think it's gonna be quicker
for me to build
a whole new sled

than to try and do repairs
and then rebuild this sled.

When I started this morning,
I had no idea I was gonna be
building a new sled.

(DRILL WHIRRING)

Alaskans are very
unique people.

We're all very independent,
especially people
living out in the bush.

We're all very inventive,
tough, hearty souls that want
to take care of themselves.

Yeah, I'm just about done.

This is the final thing to do.
This is called the bridle.

This is what the dogs
pull the sled with,

and hopefully, I don't have
to do this again for a while.

Looks pretty good.

It's fairly light.

It's a... It's a little more
than a one-handed sled,

but I'm guessing maybe
30, 35 pounds maybe.

Kind of a frustrating
chain of events today.

Losing the sled,
busting it up,

but I'm gonna have a new sled.

I'm gonna have something
that will last me
for five or six years.

There's a silver lining
in every dark cloud.

Once your head gets wrapped
around that, you just get
on with the job.

Let's test it out.

Whoo-hoo!

SUE: I'm not pushing it.
I don't see any reason
to push it.

I accept that I'm in
my mid-50s and not my mid-20s.

Get my coffee going.

Yesterday was an amazing day!

Went out after multiple
attempts at trying to
get caribou.

They're not supposed to be
here this time of year.

I finally achieved the goal
and got some caribou.

And when you get it
in the wintertime here,

when you get food like that
in the wintertime here,
it is the biggest blessing.

But at the time, you're
thinking it's quite possibly
the world's largest curse.

'Cause what I had
temperature-wise was anywhere
26 to 30-something below zero,

20 mile-an-hour winds plus
coming out of
the south-southwest.

What that means is 52 to 55
below zero wind chill factor.

Took my body temp
down like that.

My fingers, I was coming away
with blood, my fingers are
freezing to the knife.

But I stuck with it, I got it
and this is the result.

To be able to get
a fresh-cooked
little meal like this,

fresh protein, is, uh,
pretty amazing for me.

Much, much appreciated.

Looks like my coffee's
getting there.

Can't have a good breakfast
without good coffee.

It may have been a tough hunt,

but that's a tender
little cow.

You know, it's easy to see
when you get really injured

that you can just give up
and say, "Whatevs. I'm done."

Um, but I haven't done that,
and I didn't do that with
the hunt either.

So the hunt really typifies
how the whole year went.

Successful in the end,
but a hell of a journey
getting there.

(CHUCKLING)