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MAN: (ON RADIO)
The National Weather Service

has issued
a fire weather message.

This is for the northern
and interior Seward Peninsula.

Moderate to strong gusty winds

will increase tonight
through Wednesday.

That's not gonna be any good.

And it says,
"Red Flag Warning,"

means that conditions
are occurring or will occur

which could lead
to the development of large
and dangerous fires.

Sounds like
we're stuck at home.

-AGNES: Red flag.
-Red flag.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

CHIP: Like,
we're stuck at home.

-AGNES: Red flag.
-Red flag, I know.

For three days.

I should go get firewood

and we should go
get a couple of days'
worth of something to eat.

-Either caribou,
or a few ducks.
-Yep.

NARRATOR: The Hailstone family
spends their summer
living in Kiwalik,

away from their home
in their native village
of Noorvik.

This nomadic lifestyle allows
them to live off the land

and stockpile resources
for the harsh winter ahead.

We got to start tying down
the tents and the tepees

-and the kitchen.
-Yeah.

We got to make sure
everything is put up.

CHIP: We got
40-mile-an-hour winds

coming in for
the next three days.

The next three days
we're gonna need heat,

we're gonna need
some fresh meat,

and we're gonna need to just
basically secure our stuff.

These are tents.
They can just blow away

and, um, they can end up
in the river, they can end up
in the willows.

They can end up destroyed.
We gotta get busy.

That's really what
we got to do. Ah!

You guys listen
to the weather report?

We have a 40-mile-an-hour
wind warning with gusts,

so we're gonna just
hunker down for a couple days.

It ain't gonna be any good
to go out in the ocean,

it ain't gonna be
any good to, uh, have fires.

Probably ain't gonna be
any good to fish right now,

'cause it's gonna be
such a low tide
with the north wind.

Me and Jon are gonna take off.

We're gonna go look
for the ducks, geese,
whatever's in the river.

-AGNES: Few more logs.
-Yep, a few more logs.

And you ladies
can just tidy up camp.

Anything that's loose
and stuff has to be picked up.

Anything that's up
on the rack up there,

that's gonna have
to be nailed down
or secured.

All right.

Well, I'm gonna go
get ready for boating.

I gotta go get wood,
I gotta go get meat.

They're gonna
secure the camp around here

and make sure that
everything's picked up
and put away,

and nothing's gonna blow away.

'Cause, uh, we can't just

go to the store
and replace things

and, uh, it's just on us.

-Carol.
-CAROL: Yeah.

I'm gonna come in
with these big rocks, okay?

-Yeah.
-They're what I'm gonna
be tying your tent down with.

(CAROL SPEAKING)

Yep, it's gonna get
really windy here pretty soon.

I'm pretty much just gonna
tie the whole tepee down

and prepare for
the real high winds
that are coming.

How fast is the wind gonna be?

It's gonna be like
35 to 45 miles per hour-gusts.

The cold is coming.

Almost like back to winter.

So I'm gonna
use these right here

to hold you girls' tent down.

If it start to get funny
or untied, you girls fix it

to where it won't come,
just come off.

It should hold.

We have to
always just be prepared

because once your shelter
start blowing

it's pretty hard
to keep all your stuff
dry, clean, and together.

So we're just trying
to make sure

we have food security,
our shelter is secured

and, um, we have enough heat.

-There!
-Now fix it here.

That should hold.

I'm gonna take
the chainsaw for wood.

Looks like you're ready
for geese and ducks.

Let's see what
we can come home with.

I'm sure we can
fill the boat with something.

Looks like
the wind's already picking up.

It's kind of nasty.

We've gotten my son Jon
to go boating with me today.

We've got firewood to collect

and we've got
some meat to secure.

We know the weather's coming.

We know what to do
to prepare for it
and we get with it.

What'll kill ya
isn't the weather,

it's not being
prepared for it.

And if you don't
prepare yourself

and you don't go get
the things that you need
before it happens,

you're gonna have to do it
while it's happening,

and that's when
you can get nailed.

GLENN: There's always lots
to see out here.

There's work to do,
but there's also
just a lot to learn.

I'm getting ready to go out
and cut some firewood

in a new area today.

The ice has just melted off
the lake and broken up.

So I can use
the canoe to get out

and access an area
where I don't normally
cut firewood in the winter...

And also go see
how the fishing is

over on the other side
of the lake.

I don't do much fishing
all winter long,

but in the springtime,
once the ice breaks up,

that's when the pike
are spawning in the shallows.

A good time to go fishing.

Feels nice.

During the winter,
I deplete the firewood
close by my cabin.

I'm always cutting
close by the cabin,

because I have to drag
all the wood home in a sled.

This time of year,
I can get out in the canoe

and I can access an area
further away from my camp

so that I don't deplete the
firewood right around camp.

Best thing
about this time of year is

everything coming back to life
after a long winter.

Great to be
out canoeing again,

because it's a different way
of getting around.

See the world
from a different perspective.

Just looking along the shore.

Looks like some deadwood
right up here.

Think I'll go ashore
right around in here.

I've never cut firewood
right here before.

I still use a lot of firewood
in the summer and the winter,
all seasons.

If I don't cook
on the wood stove,

then I burn firewood outside
when it gets too hot.

I have to burn
an outdoor fire to cook

and that uses even more wood.

This is a twisted tree,
like most of 'em out here,

which makes cutting harder.

'Cause the grain
is not straight,
the grain's spiral.

But that's the way it goes.

Things are twisted up here.

Drier wood actually produces
more heat for the cabin,

because if you
cut a green tree, it'll burn,

but it takes a lot of heat

just to evaporate
the moisture out of it.

This is gonna
provide me with heat.

I'll be able
to cook my food on it.

I'll be able
to heat hot water with it.

It's just converting it
into another source of energy.

I'm gonna cut down
another tree

and get
another couple of logs.

JESSIE: This is Alaska,
you know.

You're supposed to be free.

This is the last frontier.
I'm gonna treat it like it.

NARRATOR: Along
the Tanana River,

Jessie Holmes
relies on fishing

to feed himself
and his team of sled dogs.

With the chum salmon run
in full swing,

Jessie must get
his fishnet into the river,

or risk losing out
on vital food and protein.

JESSIE: I see people
got their nets out.

I can't just sit easy.

I need to catch
some fish right now,

feed my dogs and feed myself.

I'm gonna go
take a look at this net

and hope it's not in
as bad of shape
as I remember it is.

I got this old net,
I'm not too excited
about using it, you know,

but I'm gonna mend it
and repair it

and make the best out of it.

Try to get the most life
I can out of this.

So, there's no telling

how long
this is gonna take me,

'cause this thing
is in pretty bad shape.

But I'm that kind of person,

I won't throw
something like this away.

It might not be perfect,

but you see there's
still a lot of mesh left
that can catch a lot of fish.

This is not something that I
enjoy dealing with, fishnets.

It's a hell of a task
for me to have to
deal with on my own.

But sitting back at home
talking about fishing
doesn't catch fish.

Gonna get nothing
if I don't try, so...

Getting out here, making
the best out of what you got,

is what's gonna
catch fish for me.

Like, a new net
would be pretty nice probably.

I don't think
I've ever had a new net.

I just use whatever
I can get my hands on.

I'm all about
not relying on others
and relying on myself,

that's why
I live this lifestyle.

This lifestyle, I value it.

It's important to me
to be truly subsistence.

All right, so now
I've got this net mended

'til the best of what
I want to do it, you know?

The amount of time I have
to spend on this project,

and it turned out a lot better

than I thought
it was going to.

Actually looks like
a fishnet again.

I think I'm gonna
go right here, honestly.

Fishing around here
goes on a schedule.

I have a 42-hour period to see
what's out there in the water,

and with any hopes

there's still gonna be
some king salmon out there.

Get a few kings put up,
you know?

The net's going out
pretty good.

Get this out of the way.

Get my buoy in there.

Damn.

I'd say this is good.

Went right into the eddy line,
that's where I wanted to go.

It would be really ideal
if the fish come through
here good,

because it's right next
to my fish camp.

Gotta make sure
this net's not tangled up
and snagged up,

so that it can get
as much coverage...

And it looks like
if these fish are
comin' out of this eddy,

heading up towards here,
that they'll come into here.

Well, things went good.

Not often you get so lucky.

I'm gonna leave it here,
let it do its job

and hope there's
some fish in there.

SUE: Mine is not
to question why,

but to find the solution.

Thinking about it
doesn't solve it,

getting in there does.

Great.

Like I didn't have
enough problems.

The generator is down again.

-(CLICKS)
-Boom, boom, boom,
boom. Oh, golly.

Hey, this is me.
Can anybody hear me?

Nope.

NARRATOR: A C-46 supply plane
will soon arrive in Kavik,

bringing Sue Aikens
new equipment

and 12,000 pounds of food.

With her generator down,

Sue is unable
to communicate with the pilot

and restoring power
is a priority.

SUE: One of
the biggest factors

to getting Kavik back up
and running for business,
food.

(CLATTERS)

Because of the accident,

when we went from winter
to spring-summer,

nobody was here
to run the gens to
keep the food frozen.

It all went bad.

All the food got thrown away.

Winds are picking up.

I've got the plane coming
with everything on it.

And I can't tell him he's got
a 20-mile-an-hour crosswind.

Got to have power.
It's just that simple.

Jesse, ya in the shop?

-JESSE: Yeah.
-All right.

Gonna kick over the 40.

Give it a second.

-(WHIRRS)
-(MOTOR STARTS)

(REVVING)

(MOTOR STOPS)

Damn it. Motherfucker.

(SUE SPEAKING)

Okay, you want me
to grab that?

-SUE: Yeah,
I can't lift that high.
-Okay.

SUE: Careful,
that pipe might be hot.

(JESSE GROANS)

Obviously taped it shut
for the snow,

and the minute you do it and
you didn't check everything,
guess who's at fault?

Little bit of carbon maybe.

Oh, yeah.

SUE: Let's go
and try this again.

Press your yellow
and then wait.

Hopefully, this will be better
than the last time.

-Let's go take a look.
-JESSE: All right.

SUE: We're gonna go check
the volts and hertz metres

and it gives you an idea

of where
that generator is running.
It's the blood pressure.

All right. So here you go.

-It's at 117, 18 over 61.
-Mmm.

-Not perfect, well
within the guidelines.
-Okay.

-(CLICKS)
-But here we go.

Radio check, Kavik.

When I do that,
I can talk to the airplanes.

Now I can tell 'em,

"Hey, we've got some
volatile winds out here."

NARRATOR: Since
returning to camp
after her injury,

Sue has worked to reopen Kavik
as a fuel supply station.

But having lost
thousands of dollars
worth of food and freezers,

Kavik is not available yet
for lodging,

which is Sue's main source
of revenue for the year.

I've got
the delivery sorted out.

It's... But it's gonna be
coming in on the C-46.

Big old plane.

The delivery plane
bringing in my goods,

this is a 1945 war bird,
tail-dragging plane.

Twelve thousand pounds on it.

Bigger than your average bear.

That runway has to be good.

My limitations right now,

I cannot do the work
on the Bobcat.

Are you comfortable
getting in there

with what I showed you
and how it works?

-Are you comfortable?
-Yeah.

-All right.
-Yeah, I should be
able to do it.

All right, well,
let's get you in.

I need that runway done right,

I need it done quick
and I need it done now.

-Okay.
-So I'll follow...

Yeah, if you wanna
start 'er up and,
uh, go with me,

-I'll show you exactly
what I'm looking for.
-Okay.

SUE: I've called my nephew in,

so I can get help
getting these chores done.

Once I make
that committed choice
that I need help,

I've got to get
somebody out here
and that's just the way it is,

then I don't dwell on that.

I dwell on, "Okay,
what can we do together?
What can we accomplish?

"How can I make him
go do something else

"while I can do something
over here?"

Getting the food,
getting the freezers.

Absolutely the biggest piece,

the last piece in making Kavik
open for business again.

GLENN: Time passes slowly.

Things change slowly,
but they continue to change.

This time of year,
the pike are spawning
in the shallows.

There's a grassy area
just up around the corner
where I might find some.

I haven't caught
a pike yet this year.

Never know exactly
what you're gonna find,

but I'm hoping
for some good fishing today.

This is one of my
favourite spots, right in
where these trees are.

Living out here,
you got to learn a lot

about what's going on
at different places
at different times.

One thing I've learned
is that if I want to get
a fish at this time of year,

I go over to this inlet.

Fish close to the grass,
that's where the pike
are spawning right now.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

There's a big one right here.

There's a real
fat pike right here,

I just saw it
right beside the canoe.

I see one right there.

Yep, yep.

Let's see if I can
get him interested in this.

There's one chasing it.

Whoop, whoop, whoop.

Yep, I got it.

I got a pike
hooked on here.

Oh, it's a nice, big one,
pulling me out.

It's a nice, big pike.

I got to be careful.
I don't want this one
to get away.

Got to watch out for those...

Got to watch out
for those teeth.

Pike have big teeth.

Here. Got it!

Look at that fish.

Wow.

Ah! That's gonna be lunch
and dinner.

CHIP: We're not quitters.
We don't slack.

We bend with the times,
we have to adapt.

(JON SPEAKING)

(CHIP SPEAKING)

Me and Jon are going out,

trying to get
a little bit of meat put up,

get a little bit of firewood.

We've got
a pretty strong wind already,
maybe 25 miles an hour.

We can already see
the white caps,

so going up and down the river

isn't a very good idea
here pretty soon.

We got a stronger wind
coming over the next few days

and we want to be
a little more prepared
than we are,

and so we're trying
to beat this.

Once we get it down,
we'll be good,

but we ain't got it down yet.

I'm gonna go off over here
and go get a log.

JON: Okay.

I'm gonna go see
if I can score some birds
with the shotgun or .22.

There you go.

We got through to Egg Island,
where we go pick a lot of eggs
and see a lot of birds.

So I'm gonna try and
go and sneak over

and if I can't get
close enough with the shotgun,

I'll use the .22 for
a little longer range.

Let's go do some bird hunting.

It's not
the ideal hunting conditions
because it's really windy.

I see geese out here.

(GUNSHOT)

(SPEAKING)

(BIRD CALLS)

(GUNSHOTS)

Aw, damn.

Aw, damn wind.

Took a few shots.
They're all misses.

It's kinda hard
shooting in this wind.

Even my hat
keeps trying to fly off.

So I'm just gonna take a walk.

See if we can get some
of these at the point.

Everything here
doesn't want to die.

It doesn't
give itself up easily.

Usually, there's a chase
you have to get into.

You have to go chase them down
if you really want them.

I see an eider over here.

It's kinda close to the edge.
Looks like I'll be able to go

and get it
if I can get close enough.

(GUNSHOT)

I got him.

I got him.

I got the eider with a .22.

He was too far
for the shotgun, but...

He's out here floating.
Let's go grab him.

Right on. A common eider.

Whoo!

Well, got one king eider,
not bad.

Got it with the .22,
it's kind of too far
with the shotgun.

Kinda scared everything
off the island, so...

Head back down to the boat
and see if I can see
anything on the way back.

Getting pretty windy.
It's gonna get dark
and cold soon,

so I'll be on
my way back home.

My dad's going to be happy.
My sisters will be happy.

GLENN: Experience,
gaining knowledge,

learning how to do things
more efficiently.

That's what it's about.

I just gotta
load up the firewood.

I got considerably
more wood here
than I could fit

in my little sled that
I pull home in the winter.

I'll be able to bring it all
in one load with this canoe.

The canoe allows me to
get out a little further away

than I would normally go
to cut firewood.

I can get it back easier,
so I can go a little further.

I got more than twice
of what I'd fit in my sled.

Nice little pile of firewood.

So I got some materials here
to build a friction fire.

It's just a little
breezy out here for this.

I don't know
if I'm gonna be able to do it.

This is just a fungus,
grows on certain trees,

and I'm just using it in order
to make a little nest here.

It will allow
a small ember to grow larger

and then I can add
other materials to it

and eventually
get a fire, hopefully.

Technique I'm gonna
try right now is a bow drill.

It's a very small bow
that I made,

very compact,
very small spindle.

It drills a hole,
which you start with a knife.

It drills
further into the wood

and the friction
produces smoke.

Two pieces of
poplar wood rubbing together.

Uh. See smoke, that's good.

Good sign.

I've got a little ember.

(GROANS)

And I need it
to grow big enough
to actually get a flame.

It's real challenging
in this wind,

but I'm gonna try
and transfer it into
this fungus here.

(SIGHS) Come on.

It's looking good.

(SNIFFLES) Getting more smoke.

There it goes.

Fire. Yeah!

Look at that.

Time to cook my fish.

There's a considerable
amount of food here.

Look at that fish.

It's all about
taking advantage
of the opportunities

and in order to take advantage
of opportunities,

you have to learn the country
and you have to learn
where things are happening

and when they're happening at.

There's a time
and a place for everything

and if you miss it,
you're out of luck.

You got to be on the ball.
You got to know where to go
and when to go there.

Mmm.

Tasty pike.

JESSIE: I try to set my
mentality up to get it done.

If I set a goal,
I have to do it.

Load up, buddy.

NARRATOR: In Nenana,
the chum salmon run has begun.

Jessie has returned
to check the net

in hopes
of harvesting enough fish

to feed himself and his dogs
through the months ahead.

Fishing here is monitored
in openers and closures.

You know, I only got
42 more hours of this period

that's gonna be open
and I'd like to get some fish.

Catching some grass.

Over here, there might
be one, or two. (STRAINS)

Got some sticks.
That's birch bark.

I haven't got any fish and
I'm getting to the end of it.

Doesn't look like
there's any in there.

What I'm gonna do,
this thing isn't catching
here, you know.

I'm gonna move it.

I don't think
this is the best spot.

If I'm gonna
catch some fish right now,

I need to put this
in an optimal location.

Time's wasting.
Okay, I got my anchor out.

That'll hold my boat.

Now it's time to go look
for a new spot to put this.

It really isn't cost effective
to be driving like,

you know, four or five miles
up and down the river

and not be catching any fish,

but what you got to look at
is like the end of the season.

You need
to figure this all up.

Well, I spent this much
in gas,

but I got 3,500-4,000 fish
put up for my dogs

and I got my winter supply
of fish taken care of.

All right, I came
a little further upriver here
to check this spot out.

This is the spot. This is it.

I see markings from it.

I see from the old poles and
a piece of rope hanging here

and what I thought was
a little post. This is a...

This is a spot.

Nothing marks a fishing spot
like an old can of beer.

You know, all the best spots
are established already
on this river.

It's got to be deep enough.

There can't be
sandbars below it.

There can't be snags.

There's only so many
spots like that on the river

without travelling
a long distance.

I'm gonna give it a shot.

I'm gonna
head back down to camp

and hope for the best here.

All right,
so I set my net in a new spot.

Now I'm going up there.

Got to pull my net
before fishing closes.

So I'm really hoping there's
gonna be some fish in there.

I really got high hopes.

I'm hoping this spot
is gonna catch some fish.

(MOTOR STUTTERS)

Cutting some corners
on the river
like I normally do

'cause this boat's
good for shallow water,

trying to save some gas
and nailed a sandbar.

(MOTOR STARTS)

Luckily this is an old-school,
tough motor.

Made for taking abuse.

Go check this net.

I moved my net yesterday
to a new spot.

Didn't catch any fish
where I started at.

So, I got high hopes that this
spot's gonna catch some fish.

I'm getting at the end
of my 42-hour period
of fishing here,

so, I got to pull this net
after I check it

and I'm just hoping
there's some fish in here.

It's not looking good
so far though.

I don't feel
any weight in the net.

It's a lot of effort
put into this.

Lot of money spent
and a lot of time.

Caught a lot of grass.

Nothing. Damn it!
Nothing in here.

Zero fish to show
for three days of work.

Oh!

What a bummer, man.

(GROANS)

It's kind of discouraging,

but this is just kind of
how it goes.

To me, using a net,
it's not optimal.

But it's not cheap
to keep a bunch of dogs,

you know, like,
I need these fish.

I can't give up on this.
I got to keep at it.

Just hope and pray
that I'm gonna catch
some fish here soon.

AGNES: Well, we all
try to help each other,

share with each other,
respect each other.

Every one of us, a family.

We just got to
keep moving faster.

That wind is really
picking up already.

NARRATOR: A severe
weather warning

has been issued
for the Kiwalik River area.

Agnes and her daughters
must work quickly
to secure camp

before the strong winds
force them to hunker down.

Careful, Idi,
it might just blow right off.

I'll hold it,
I'll hold it while you untie.

We're doing the best we can,
working as fast as we can.

Lot of girl power here

and, um, hopefully
it'll hold through the gusts.

There we go.

So that's what
we're fighting, is wind.

Idi, if you go grab
the other side and you
pull that rope we put on.

Go pull
your sister's other side.

We need to use that tarp
as the weight for the tepee

and cover it up
so the wind won't blow

and it'll be a little bit more
heavier than that, um, canvas.

We almost got it.

Yee! We got it.

This one.
We're doing good, girls.

Nothing's blown away yet,
we're doing good.

Getting worried
about those guys,

they never come back yet.
Man, look how windy it get.

CHIP: I see you got an eider.

He's, uh...
He's gonna be, like,
having a freaking turkey.

You make me hungry.

NARRATOR: While the
Hailstone girls secure camp,

Chip and his son, Jon,
have gone down the river

to harvest vital wood
and food to weather the storm.

CHIP: We ain't got enough wood
for a couple nights,

so we ain't going nowhere
'til we got enough wood,
but there's more down here.

The thing about
the wind is that we get
a wind-chill factor up here,

and when it's cold,
it gets really cold

and if we have to
be in a tent,

or if we have to work
with wet things,

or if we have to go out and
gather things from the tent,

we want to return to
somewhere really, really warm.

Now it looks like
we're beating the wind,

but the wind's
creeping up on us.

I can see real windy clouds

and I feel an increase
in the speed myself,

so I'm pretty glad I'm getting
this part of it all done.

Once we're at camp, we can
just work relentlessly there,

'cause we can always
take a rest when we want.

But out here,
there's not much to rest on,

so we'll get the heat done.

Right in front of you!

(GUNSHOT)

-(GUNSHOT)
-CHIP: Ooh.

(GROANS)

That one was so close

I was afraid
you were gonna hit it
and just blow it up.

JON: Ah! There we go.

CHIP: Looks like
we got our heat,
we got our meat.

We need to get to camp.

We're gonna go chop it all up

and we'll use one
to cook the other.

SUE: You can be
as prepared as you can
make yourself for any event,

and life's gonna
throw you a curveball.

One of my pilots, uh,
just informed me he was...

He had
a bad smell in the room.

I got to check that out.

I can smell hot wire
even from out here.

Ooh.

I mean,
I ain't got no power here.

(SNIFFS) Yeah,
you can really smell it.

(SNIFFS)

Huh.

I do not need this.

I've got plane comin' in,
bringing me all my stuff.

All of my food,
all of my appliances,

hot wires in a trailer
and I got to shut power down.

Fucking unreal.

-(ENGINE REVS)
-We have, uh,

an electrical issue in camp.

One of the trailers
is reeking of hot wire.

Half the dining hall
won't come on,

and we got a break
in the electrical wires.

(MOTOR STOPPING)

I hate electricity. I hate it.

I can say it like
two more times, I hate it.

NARRATOR: With power down,
Sue is unable to communicate
with the incoming plane.

She must fix the problem,
or risk missing the delivery.

SUE: So it's all of this row
is dead

and this side,
anything that runs on that leg
is now inoperable.

I've got a plane comin' in.

Tens of thousands of dollars
wrapped up into it.

I am going up,

hopefully not down,

getting on the roof
and following wiring.

I've got to follow the wires.

Some go this way and go into
the gen shed that way.

Some branch off
and go in here.

I've got to find out
which of our offending wires
are going where.

I inherited a system
that was antiquated,

and I'm working on updating it

and I've been feeling very
proud of myself. I still do.

I can still recognise,
"Follow the wire,
this is a problem."

But then it starts getting to
where it's beyond my ability.

All right,
so I'm gonna kick it on
and send the power out.

(WHIRRING)

No power. Fuck!

There's a problem on this row.

I call 'em row one,
row two and row three.

Two and three and doing good,

but this is still
a problem child.

Following the line in,
you can determine
it's got to be here.

Weatherworn, cracked, dried.

That looks kind of
burned out to me. Unsafe.

These are some of
the harshest conditions

anywhere on the planet,
to try and run a business.

Metal, plastic, parts,
things break.

And they break frequently.

Power travels down
what you call legs.

And one of the legs,
this being part of that leg,
seems to be the culprit.

I have no idea why
this is going balls up now,

no idea at all. It just is.

You know, we've come
to the end of my knowledge
of electrical.

I don't want to be the one
that burns camp down.

In the back of my mind,
I'm risking the rest of camp
if there's an unstable issue.

But if I don't risk it,
I won't have
power for anything.

The plane's coming in.

It's gonna be here.
I don't have a choice.

What I did
is I removed this entire line.

That's dead.
That row is dead to me now.

Three trailers, gone.

Now that plane can land and
I'm just gonna lose revenue
on that row of trailers.

I mean, sometimes
you gotta give a little
to take what you can.

CHIP: As long as we hustle,
we work hard
and we get prepared,

preparedness will
always win out.

-(GIGGLES)
-Uh, where's all the wood?

CHIP: Ah-ha,
where's your glasses?

I don't see caribou,
but you guys got some birds.

Got a duck right here,
a big eider

-and back there a black duck.
-IDI: Oh, right on.

(IDI SPEAKING)

Yeah, please do.

This'll have to be skinned.
The other one
will have to be, uh, plucked.

Boy, ladies,
they look like they're busy.

We got everything on the,
of our little list
of need-to-be-done, done.

I got more firewood
than we're gonna need.

We would have liked to have
gotten a few more ducks,

but that didn't turn out.

But that's enough to
get us through a couple days

with potatoes and rice
and whatever else we got.

Right on! Looks like dinner
and some wood heat.

JON: Yep. Got an eider.

Eider?

JON: That's some dinner.

That's a big bird. Just right
for a big, family-size meal.

Mary will go help you
with those, son.

Or the little one at least.

I'm bringing more wood in.

CHIP: We finished up
what we needed to do
and I think we did it on time.

And tonight, we enjoy the heat
and the meat and the tent.

Mary'll start the head,
the wings, and the feet,

and then you can pluck it.

The heart's good.

It's real important for us
to all work together.

We all start off our day,
we make our plans

and we all work together
to get everything done.

Everything's a lot easier
when you can depend on people.

It's real cold
in the wind chill,

so, we'll be staying here,
staying warm.

Staying dry,
staying out of the wind
and staying well fed.

CHIP: I would say
dinner's done.

You got some
eider duck here,
got some rice made.

It's nice to be in here.

-Nice and warm.
-And out of the wind.

CHIP: Out of the wind, yep.

I would say we've done
very well, working together.

AGNES: Good duck.
Thanks, son.
JON: Mmm-hmm.

-Thank you, honey.
-CHIP: Yeah.

I'm glad to be warm.

And thank you
for fixing this place up and
keeping us out of the wind.

Jon got meat, I got heat

and you girls
have got the weather beat.

JESSIE: I have
an athletic bond with the fish

because, you know,
I'm the same way.

I'm always roaming,
always moving.

I'm back down here at camp,
picking up my net.

I'm gonna go back
and try to put it in
a different spot upriver.

Fishing's back open now.

Get this net out now
and hope for the best.

This will be the third time
I've moved it.

I tried a few spots
closer to town here,

trying to save some gas.

It didn't work out for me
or pan out for me.

I come upriver further,

cut off
some bends of the river,

search some slews
so I could get up here.

It's gonna cost me
a little more gas,

but I know there's not
the competition upriver.

Fishing is
just like this sometimes.

Nothing comes easy.

It just comes with diligence
and hard work out here.

I don't think
I've ever gotten anything
too easy on this river.

Think that might be
a good spot right there.

Yeah, looks good.

The river's narrow here.

Well, this has
a really good rock bottom

and it's got
a lot of depth here, so...

And it's got a swirling eddy
where there's
a back current comin' up.

Fish have just travelled
a big, long bend of the river
without any eddies in it,

and so I'm hoping that
they're gonna stop here
and rest here

as they're
coming out of the eddy,
that they'll go into my net.

I think this'll be
a good spot.

I decided to come up here,

because I might
spend more money
driving my boat up here,

but I think this will be
a more productive spot.

"Third time's a charm"
would be nice here.

That should do it.

Fuck!

-(MOTOR STOPS)
-Fuck!

Fuck me, man. God damn it!

Friggin' just tangled
in my net.

Try to get out of this thing
before I get pulled
downriver here.

Shit.

Fuck.

I had some difficulties there.

My prop got
hung up in the net.

The current
was pulling me the wrong way.

It's a stressful situation.

Now all I can do is
just leave it to do its magic,

and hopefully
it's gonna catch fish.

SUE: I'd like to keep busy
and I like challenges.

Not a day goes by
I don't get one,

just sometimes
not the ones I expect.

Zero wind,
unlimited vis, bluebird.

All right,
I'll see you down there, bro.

There is just that excitement
and that buzz

any time I see
a plane come in.

I feel charged up, 'cause
that's why this is here.

That's why Kavik exists.

It wants to be
the happy little place

that people can utilise
for whatever they need.

Hey, guys.

(PILOT SPEAKING)

I know, I had, uh...

Seems like every five years
I break myself.

I broke myself good this time.

You develop a relationship
with these people.

Very close,
tight-knit relationship.
They care about me.

They were worried when
they heard about my injuries.

Seeing me face-to-face lets
them know I'm still alive.

You know, today
just kind of wraps up

the epitome of
the whole experience out here.

You have challenges
that you have to meet.

The runway has to be done.

This has to be done.

I'm having
electrical issues in camp.

The old food out, bam,
the new food came in.

Bam, I can now charge
the full rate for people.

Everything's in place,
Kavik is open for business.

-PILOT: Ciao.
-Thank you very much.

As always,
you guys save my bacon

-and bring it
at the same time.
-See y'all later.

I got a bunch of
good food in here.

Bunch of new appliances.
It's a good day to be me.

JESSIE: You got to
be prepared year-to-year,

week-to-week, to adapt
to the changes of the river.

Heading upriver
to go check my net here

and see how it's been doing.
Left it in for a good bit.

I hope it's full of fish
and not driftwood,

'cause I'd be very
disappointed to have
done all this work,

all these days here,
and come up
empty-handed for it.

(MOTOR STOPS)

Oh, I'm hoping
there's some fish in here.

There's a fish. Oh, yeah!

All right.

There's a nice summer chum
right there.

That's a
good-looking fish, too.

It's a female.

It's gonna have
some nice roe in there to eat.

I hope there's some more
in here for the dogs.

I thought this was
a better spot.

It is.
There's a bunch of fish!

Yeah, that's what
I thought it would do.

There's a whitefish!
All right, a king?

You know,
I've set this net three times,

I burned up a bunch
of gasoline and this is...

This feels great.

And I knew
this is how it was gonna be,
I just had to keep after it.

There's another one.

Good deal.
This net's catching them over
close to shore, too.

That makes me feel like
there's gonna be more fish

at the end of the net
than there is here.

It doesn't get old to me

to pull up to a net
or a fish wheel and see fish.

It's always
an exciting feeling.

And I just started
being overwhelmed with
thoughts of cutting this fish

and putting it
into a good eating food.

Got my net.

It's back where
it needs to be,
out in the water,

and take these home
and cook up for the dogs

and eat some really good,
fresh fish

and be thankful.

Now I got my fish all put up

and time to head
down back to camp
and get to work.

This is a great start
to my fishing season.

But you can't get
better than this.

The feeling of
living on this river,

and it's good start
to the fishing season for me.

Summer's just
all about hard work.

I think of it as play.