1 00:00:01,101 --> 00:00:06,874 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:06,874 --> 00:00:08,108 [Sue Aikens] Hoo-wee. 3 00:00:08,108 --> 00:00:10,110 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:10,110 --> 00:00:15,148 ♪ ♪ 5 00:00:15,148 --> 00:00:17,818 Got to kick around a little to find the pipes. 6 00:00:17,818 --> 00:00:20,854 ♪ ♪ 7 00:00:20,854 --> 00:00:22,923 They may be frozen to the ground already. 8 00:00:22,923 --> 00:00:26,660 ♪ ♪ 9 00:00:26,660 --> 00:00:28,595 The weather changes on a dime out here. 10 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:30,597 I mean, on a thin dime. 11 00:00:30,597 --> 00:00:32,532 Overnight, bam! 12 00:00:34,835 --> 00:00:39,239 Winter storm hits, but I've got to get the chores done 13 00:00:39,239 --> 00:00:42,175 before winter takes the iron fist. 14 00:00:42,175 --> 00:00:45,078 ♪ ♪ 15 00:00:45,078 --> 00:00:48,348 I've got to get my pipes out of where they're at 16 00:00:48,348 --> 00:00:52,119 before the snow buries it and melts it into the ice. 17 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:54,254 My drifts get 20 feet deep, 18 00:00:54,254 --> 00:00:57,858 and I won't be able to get those pipes out. 19 00:00:57,858 --> 00:01:00,794 ♪ ♪ 20 00:01:00,794 --> 00:01:06,767 ♪ ♪ 21 00:01:06,767 --> 00:01:08,869 So, what's happening to me right now, 22 00:01:08,869 --> 00:01:12,372 my fingers are starting to get frost-nipped. 23 00:01:12,372 --> 00:01:13,907 But I can't stop. 24 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:17,144 It's not duck into the next building or call the plumber. 25 00:01:17,144 --> 00:01:20,247 I am the plumber. I am the electrician. 26 00:01:20,247 --> 00:01:21,315 You want to talk to the mayor? 27 00:01:21,315 --> 00:01:23,250 Hold on, I'm busy working on the pipe. 28 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:25,252 I'll be right with you. 29 00:01:27,487 --> 00:01:28,655 Ugh! 30 00:01:30,424 --> 00:01:33,093 Give me a minute. 31 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:34,761 Trying not to puke. 32 00:01:37,064 --> 00:01:39,967 I just got to get out of the wind for a minute. 33 00:01:39,967 --> 00:01:44,104 ♪ ♪ 34 00:01:44,104 --> 00:01:49,476 You're breathing in that super cold air. 35 00:01:49,476 --> 00:01:52,512 Sorry, I might throw up. 36 00:01:52,512 --> 00:01:54,715 And it affects your body. 37 00:01:56,416 --> 00:01:58,452 Yeah, I'm chunky. 38 00:01:58,452 --> 00:02:02,522 ♪ ♪ 39 00:02:02,522 --> 00:02:04,157 Sorry. 40 00:02:04,157 --> 00:02:06,159 ♪ ♪ 41 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:11,064 ♪ ♪ 42 00:02:11,064 --> 00:02:15,335 At most jobs, you're sick, you call in sick. 43 00:02:15,335 --> 00:02:18,305 Here, if I call in sick, I'm my own replacement. 44 00:02:18,305 --> 00:02:20,140 I'm still sick. 45 00:02:21,908 --> 00:02:25,212 And this is, this is just the beginning of the storm. 46 00:02:25,212 --> 00:02:27,180 Right now, it's got kid gloves on. 47 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:29,816 This is not what it can dish out, 48 00:02:29,816 --> 00:02:31,718 but I know what's coming. 49 00:02:31,718 --> 00:02:33,854 So, why do I work so hard at stuff? 50 00:02:33,854 --> 00:02:35,656 There's no choice. 51 00:02:37,658 --> 00:02:40,660 Just a little bit of elbow grease and puking. 52 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:45,298 Small price to pay so that I have showers, laundry, 53 00:02:45,298 --> 00:02:47,701 and tap water to drink. 54 00:02:47,701 --> 00:02:51,438 Now to get the pipe to the storage Quonset. 55 00:02:51,438 --> 00:02:56,209 I got to go warm up my fingers and get back at it. 56 00:02:56,943 --> 00:02:59,913 ♪ ♪ 57 00:02:59,913 --> 00:03:06,720 ♪ ♪ 58 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,688 [Ricko DeWilde] Oh, moose! 59 00:03:08,688 --> 00:03:12,759 ♪ ♪ 60 00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:15,762 Couple of moose right there. 61 00:03:15,762 --> 00:03:17,698 Nice-looking cow moose. 62 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,870 And as you can see, the moose don't mind me. 63 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:27,274 We don't hunt them in the winter, so the animals know. 64 00:03:27,274 --> 00:03:29,376 But, um, pretty sight. 65 00:03:29,376 --> 00:03:32,412 Big old moose. That's what we eat right there. 66 00:03:32,412 --> 00:03:36,249 It's what we love to see around here is moose. 67 00:03:36,249 --> 00:03:38,151 And when there's moose, there's a lot of wolves, 68 00:03:38,151 --> 00:03:39,486 and where there's wolves, there's a lot of wolverine. 69 00:03:39,486 --> 00:03:41,955 So, I'm gonna keep moving. 70 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:43,590 Look for some tracks. 71 00:03:43,590 --> 00:03:46,560 ♪ ♪ 72 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:52,833 ♪ ♪ 73 00:03:52,833 --> 00:03:54,668 I'm out here trapping for wolves and wolverine, 74 00:03:54,668 --> 00:03:55,936 and it's the time of the year 75 00:03:55,936 --> 00:03:58,638 when we start putting our sets out. 76 00:04:00,740 --> 00:04:02,843 Probably the most prized things we can catch out here 77 00:04:02,843 --> 00:04:05,312 is wolf and wolverine. 78 00:04:05,312 --> 00:04:07,581 Fur's just real valuable to us for clothing. 79 00:04:07,581 --> 00:04:13,320 ♪ ♪ 80 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,423 Okay, right here is some wolverine tracks. 81 00:04:18,125 --> 00:04:20,160 You can see where he's hunting. 82 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,129 Basically, he's coming through here, he went underneath. 83 00:04:22,129 --> 00:04:24,164 And the rabbit trail is right here. 84 00:04:24,164 --> 00:04:25,198 Jump out and grab the rabbit. 85 00:04:25,198 --> 00:04:27,234 He's a real smart hunter. 86 00:04:29,102 --> 00:04:32,672 My late Grandma Lydia, she used to tell us about the wolverine. 87 00:04:32,672 --> 00:04:34,674 She said his name is Doyon, that's his Indian name. 88 00:04:34,674 --> 00:04:36,676 Doyon means big shot, chief, 89 00:04:36,676 --> 00:04:40,080 and, uh, he's muscle, he's all muscle. 90 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,351 She said, "One thing about the wolverine, he makes mistakes." 91 00:04:46,419 --> 00:04:50,323 So, no matter how tough you think you are, 92 00:04:50,323 --> 00:04:52,192 always use your head. 93 00:04:53,426 --> 00:04:56,363 And this trap is pretty nice. 94 00:04:56,363 --> 00:04:57,631 Keep moving. 95 00:04:57,631 --> 00:04:59,966 I love this. It's fun. 96 00:05:02,302 --> 00:05:05,405 The wolves, they might be running the river here. 97 00:05:05,405 --> 00:05:07,073 Last winter, I just drive right across, 98 00:05:07,073 --> 00:05:09,910 and I looked for places to set for wolves. 99 00:05:12,712 --> 00:05:16,016 That's a lot of water out there. 100 00:05:16,016 --> 00:05:18,652 I got to turn around. 101 00:05:18,652 --> 00:05:20,987 Tough country right now. 102 00:05:20,987 --> 00:05:23,957 Running into a lot of water this year. 103 00:05:23,957 --> 00:05:28,028 This is one of the warmest winters we've ever seen. 104 00:05:28,028 --> 00:05:31,498 This time of the year, we'll have had like weeks of 20-below, 105 00:05:31,498 --> 00:05:34,534 negative 40, 50-below weather. 106 00:05:34,534 --> 00:05:38,171 All this would be frozen solid, but this winter's different. 107 00:05:38,171 --> 00:05:42,242 We've only had 20 below a couple times, and that's it. 108 00:05:42,242 --> 00:05:46,112 That means places that don't want to freeze. 109 00:05:46,112 --> 00:05:48,114 Things like that kill people. 110 00:05:48,114 --> 00:05:49,983 People drowning out here, going through the ice 111 00:05:49,983 --> 00:05:52,485 is such a common story. 112 00:05:52,485 --> 00:05:54,921 I already have a friend that drowned last week, 113 00:05:54,921 --> 00:05:58,658 and he just went out on the river, he wasn't careful. 114 00:05:58,658 --> 00:05:59,793 He was trying to drive along the edge 115 00:05:59,793 --> 00:06:00,927 and then he slid into that river. 116 00:06:00,927 --> 00:06:01,928 You can't turn around. 117 00:06:01,928 --> 00:06:04,998 Your tracks are spinning without stud and... 118 00:06:04,998 --> 00:06:06,566 ended up in the river. 119 00:06:06,566 --> 00:06:10,937 Lost his life, and they can't even find his body right now. 120 00:06:10,937 --> 00:06:13,573 That's what happens when you make a mistake out here, 121 00:06:13,573 --> 00:06:15,575 and we all make mistakes. 122 00:06:15,575 --> 00:06:19,412 Some of us are lucky, and some of us aren't, so. 123 00:06:19,412 --> 00:06:21,414 ♪ ♪ 124 00:06:21,414 --> 00:06:27,354 ♪ ♪ 125 00:06:27,354 --> 00:06:33,927 ♪ ♪ 126 00:06:33,927 --> 00:06:35,128 [laughter] 127 00:06:35,128 --> 00:06:36,196 [Chip Hailstone] Keep going. 128 00:06:36,196 --> 00:06:38,031 Keep going, you're good, you're good. 129 00:06:39,232 --> 00:06:40,200 I'm gonna go down and go check this 130 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,134 and make sure it's thick enough 131 00:06:41,134 --> 00:06:44,104 to bring at least one Honda down. 132 00:06:44,104 --> 00:06:47,574 [Tinmiaq Hailstone] You have to be careful of the overflow, Dad. 133 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:48,775 Whoa. 134 00:06:48,775 --> 00:06:51,411 And there's the ice with the overflow. [laughs] 135 00:06:53,813 --> 00:06:56,349 [Chip] Well, I'm gonna go put the net in. 136 00:06:56,349 --> 00:06:58,351 Got lots of fish in the river right now. 137 00:06:58,351 --> 00:07:00,253 Fish migrations are going by. 138 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:03,189 The whitefish are going by. 139 00:07:03,189 --> 00:07:04,457 Got people to feed. 140 00:07:04,457 --> 00:07:05,692 I got dogs to feed. 141 00:07:05,692 --> 00:07:07,627 I've got puppies. 142 00:07:07,627 --> 00:07:10,430 Our dog Kumuk, she's got four puppies. 143 00:07:10,430 --> 00:07:14,134 And, uh, we don't have so many kids in the house to feed now. 144 00:07:14,134 --> 00:07:16,436 We don't have so many things to do at home all the time. 145 00:07:16,436 --> 00:07:18,371 So, we're onto the puppies now. 146 00:07:18,371 --> 00:07:19,839 I got to keep them well-fed, 147 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:21,841 and I got to keep them exercised and happy. 148 00:07:21,841 --> 00:07:23,777 But, uh, we're gonna have a few more dogs. 149 00:07:23,777 --> 00:07:29,115 ♪ ♪ 150 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,718 It's about this thick! 151 00:07:31,718 --> 00:07:32,986 Bring one Honda! 152 00:07:32,986 --> 00:07:34,988 [Tinmiaq] Okay. 153 00:07:34,988 --> 00:07:39,392 ♪ ♪ 154 00:07:39,392 --> 00:07:41,628 [Chip] I put these lines in a couple days ago 155 00:07:41,628 --> 00:07:44,397 when the ice was ultra-thin. 156 00:07:44,397 --> 00:07:48,301 Over the last few days, we got a lot more thicker ice. 157 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:50,537 So, I think it's safe. 158 00:07:50,537 --> 00:07:53,940 Stop. 159 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:55,375 [Tinmiaq] There we go. 160 00:07:55,375 --> 00:07:56,910 It's not frozen or anything? 161 00:07:56,910 --> 00:07:58,445 [Chip] No, it's not. 162 00:07:58,445 --> 00:08:00,980 Well, girls, we can run this net for a couple weeks. 163 00:08:00,980 --> 00:08:03,049 We'll have a lot of dog food for the winter, 164 00:08:03,049 --> 00:08:04,951 and then scraps, of course. 165 00:08:04,951 --> 00:08:06,119 [Carol Hailstone] Good whitefish to eat? 166 00:08:06,119 --> 00:08:08,922 [Chip] Yup, really good whitefish to eat. 167 00:08:08,922 --> 00:08:10,690 [Carol] Remember when we all used to go check net 168 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:11,891 all the time? 169 00:08:11,891 --> 00:08:14,561 [Chip] All the time, because I had lots of kids to feed. 170 00:08:14,561 --> 00:08:16,896 Yeah, well, those are days gone by, 171 00:08:16,896 --> 00:08:18,832 but I hope you girls can remember them 172 00:08:18,832 --> 00:08:21,668 and look back and smile on it all. 173 00:08:21,668 --> 00:08:23,336 [Tinmiaq] Still out here fishing. 174 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:25,705 [Chip] We're still fishing. 175 00:08:25,705 --> 00:08:28,141 I'm gonna go over and start pulling. 176 00:08:29,542 --> 00:08:30,610 Alright, you girls ready? 177 00:08:30,610 --> 00:08:32,545 [Carol] Yup. [Tinmiaq] Yeah. 178 00:08:34,247 --> 00:08:36,516 [Chip] Ahh. Ugh. 179 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:39,018 Damn, this thing's heavy. 180 00:08:39,018 --> 00:08:41,388 But hunting and fishing sure beats going to the store 181 00:08:41,388 --> 00:08:45,024 and paying hundreds of dollars for people food or dog food. 182 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:48,328 [Carol] Go, Dad. 183 00:08:50,864 --> 00:08:51,831 [Chip] I want to be able to feed these puppies 184 00:08:51,831 --> 00:08:52,932 and feed them well. 185 00:08:52,932 --> 00:08:54,701 And keeping them fat out here in the Arctic, 186 00:08:54,701 --> 00:08:56,836 'cause they live outside, is keeping them warm. 187 00:08:56,836 --> 00:08:59,606 So, that's really, really a benefit for everybody. 188 00:08:59,606 --> 00:09:00,640 It's, it's awesome. 189 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:01,674 This is what we do to make a living. 190 00:09:01,674 --> 00:09:02,675 This is food. 191 00:09:02,675 --> 00:09:04,611 Food for us, food for the dog. 192 00:09:04,611 --> 00:09:10,250 ♪ ♪ 193 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:13,319 There goes. 194 00:09:13,319 --> 00:09:16,656 And now the net is set right. Look at that thing go down. 195 00:09:16,656 --> 00:09:18,358 [Carol] Just enough, too, I think. 196 00:09:18,358 --> 00:09:19,325 [Chip] Okay. 197 00:09:19,325 --> 00:09:21,027 I'd say it's good. 198 00:09:21,027 --> 00:09:22,328 Alright, let's get going. 199 00:09:22,328 --> 00:09:24,364 We'll go back to the house and see what they're doing. 200 00:09:24,364 --> 00:09:26,332 [Carol] I bet we already caught a fish under there, huh? 201 00:09:26,332 --> 00:09:27,834 [chuckling] 202 00:09:27,834 --> 00:09:29,068 [Chip] Probably. 203 00:09:30,336 --> 00:09:33,072 [Tinmiaq] Let the net do its work for the night. 204 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:37,043 ♪ ♪ 205 00:09:37,043 --> 00:09:43,883 ♪ ♪ 206 00:09:43,883 --> 00:09:49,789 ♪ ♪ 207 00:09:49,789 --> 00:09:56,329 ♪ ♪ 208 00:09:56,329 --> 00:10:03,169 ♪ ♪ 209 00:10:03,169 --> 00:10:05,271 [Johnny Rolfe] Look. Look in those trees right there. 210 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:09,209 ♪ ♪ 211 00:10:09,209 --> 00:10:15,815 ♪ ♪ 212 00:10:15,815 --> 00:10:19,018 I got, like, a couple dozen caribou laying on the lake. 213 00:10:23,690 --> 00:10:24,924 [Johnny] There's a lot of them. 214 00:10:24,924 --> 00:10:26,926 ♪ ♪ 215 00:10:26,926 --> 00:10:32,665 ♪ ♪ 216 00:10:32,665 --> 00:10:34,734 See that? The snow. 217 00:10:34,734 --> 00:10:36,336 It's blowing this way. 218 00:10:36,336 --> 00:10:37,837 The wind's blowing this way. 219 00:10:37,837 --> 00:10:42,509 Let's see if I can, uh, take this trail 220 00:10:42,509 --> 00:10:44,410 and kind of mosey around. 221 00:10:51,017 --> 00:10:53,086 ♪ ♪ 222 00:10:53,086 --> 00:10:54,854 It's beginning of winter. 223 00:10:54,854 --> 00:10:58,224 I got months and months ahead of me. 224 00:10:58,224 --> 00:11:01,094 So, I need loads and loads of caribou. 225 00:11:02,929 --> 00:11:05,164 The caribou are my livelihood out here. 226 00:11:05,164 --> 00:11:06,633 They're my main food source, 227 00:11:06,633 --> 00:11:09,569 and I don't know when they're going to be back around. 228 00:11:09,569 --> 00:11:12,539 So, anytime there's an opportunity, 229 00:11:12,539 --> 00:11:13,740 I fill that order. 230 00:11:15,909 --> 00:11:16,976 My name's Johnny Rolfe. 231 00:11:16,976 --> 00:11:20,680 I live in the Brooks Range with my sidekick, Java. 232 00:11:22,315 --> 00:11:24,317 I don't think more than a few minutes ahead. 233 00:11:24,317 --> 00:11:26,553 I don't have goals, I don't have desires, I don't have dreams. 234 00:11:26,553 --> 00:11:29,055 I stay in the moment. I live in the now. 235 00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:33,960 Living life to me is getting out on the land, adventuring, 236 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,528 getting cold, 237 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:37,497 getting frost-burnt, 238 00:11:37,497 --> 00:11:39,432 getting my own food. 239 00:11:39,432 --> 00:11:41,935 The nearest city is over 200 miles away. 240 00:11:41,935 --> 00:11:45,672 It's a hard place to live. 241 00:11:45,672 --> 00:11:47,674 But we got nothing around us to bother us, 242 00:11:47,674 --> 00:11:50,810 got nothing to get into our way. 243 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:52,979 This is where I feel most at home. 244 00:11:52,979 --> 00:11:55,949 ♪ ♪ 245 00:11:55,949 --> 00:12:02,589 ♪ ♪ 246 00:12:02,589 --> 00:12:04,691 Look at all these tracks. Look at all this. 247 00:12:04,691 --> 00:12:07,327 See right here? 248 00:12:07,327 --> 00:12:10,430 They paw and just dig at the snow, and dig and dig and dig 249 00:12:10,430 --> 00:12:14,067 and dig just to feed, just to eat the moss. 250 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:16,135 To eat just all the tundra, 251 00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:17,804 all the stuff that lives on the tundra. 252 00:12:20,974 --> 00:12:22,909 [sighs] 253 00:12:22,909 --> 00:12:24,177 It's moments like this I got to, like, 254 00:12:24,177 --> 00:12:26,779 remember to center myself. 255 00:12:26,779 --> 00:12:30,216 Don't let my excitement override um, my instinct and my senses. 256 00:12:30,216 --> 00:12:33,686 I got to stay locked in as a hunter. 257 00:12:33,686 --> 00:12:38,458 ♪ ♪ 258 00:12:38,458 --> 00:12:39,959 It's great news. 259 00:12:39,959 --> 00:12:41,894 The caribou are here. 260 00:12:41,894 --> 00:12:48,668 ♪ ♪ 261 00:12:48,668 --> 00:12:55,508 ♪ ♪ 262 00:12:55,508 --> 00:12:58,244 [Ricko] Oh. 263 00:12:58,244 --> 00:13:01,314 Something dead here. 264 00:13:01,314 --> 00:13:02,949 Check it out. 265 00:13:05,852 --> 00:13:07,820 Oh, yeah. 266 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:09,822 There's basically a moose buried down here. 267 00:13:09,822 --> 00:13:14,927 You see its bones here. This is the upper rib area. 268 00:13:14,927 --> 00:13:16,829 See what's over here. 269 00:13:19,565 --> 00:13:23,436 Oh, this is... look like a grizzly skin. 270 00:13:25,672 --> 00:13:27,640 Like something got killed, probably a moose got killed, 271 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,308 then maybe a grizzly was on it, 272 00:13:29,308 --> 00:13:31,210 and the grizzly got killed by another grizzly. 273 00:13:31,210 --> 00:13:33,279 So, there's a lot of mayhem back here. 274 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:38,251 ♪ ♪ 275 00:13:38,251 --> 00:13:40,386 Oh, I got an antler! 276 00:13:41,554 --> 00:13:44,457 You see the fresh wolverine tracks right in here. 277 00:13:44,457 --> 00:13:45,992 This is a good sign. 278 00:13:45,992 --> 00:13:49,295 Those wolverine, they really like, uh, the bones 279 00:13:49,295 --> 00:13:51,164 and the skulls and stuff of these animals. 280 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:52,165 They chew on everything. 281 00:13:52,165 --> 00:13:53,733 They're one of the stronger animals 282 00:13:53,733 --> 00:13:55,601 that can bust these open. 283 00:13:57,570 --> 00:13:59,639 I'm out here looking for places to set traps, 284 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:01,874 and I just came onto a gold mine here. 285 00:14:01,874 --> 00:14:05,645 So, I'm gonna get the box out, put it out and just keep moving. 286 00:14:05,645 --> 00:14:07,613 Wolverine probably right around here. 287 00:14:07,613 --> 00:14:12,251 ♪ ♪ 288 00:14:12,251 --> 00:14:15,455 It's about 25 below right now. 289 00:14:15,455 --> 00:14:20,393 It's one thing about being out here in subzero temps. 290 00:14:20,393 --> 00:14:23,162 If the wind is blowing strong, and I went like this, 291 00:14:23,162 --> 00:14:25,164 that wind is blowing across, it's not gonna hit my face. 292 00:14:25,164 --> 00:14:26,299 This is big, long wolf hair, 293 00:14:26,299 --> 00:14:28,000 there's wolverine fur on the edge. 294 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,135 The marten hat. 295 00:14:29,135 --> 00:14:31,404 My face is just enclosed with fur. 296 00:14:33,773 --> 00:14:35,842 People like fur for decorative reasons, 297 00:14:35,842 --> 00:14:38,945 but for us out here, it's all about staying warm. 298 00:14:40,747 --> 00:14:43,616 Okay, this trap is set. 299 00:14:43,616 --> 00:14:45,485 Okay. 300 00:14:45,485 --> 00:14:46,953 I'll keep moving. 301 00:14:48,488 --> 00:14:52,592 ♪ ♪ 302 00:14:52,592 --> 00:14:55,428 Trapping is a way of life out here, that's all it is. 303 00:14:55,428 --> 00:14:57,263 Comes out. 304 00:14:57,263 --> 00:14:59,732 It's like something everybody that lives in the woods 305 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:03,636 or hangs out in the woods, they, they trap. 306 00:15:05,271 --> 00:15:07,673 It's not something I just learned over my lifetime. 307 00:15:07,673 --> 00:15:09,475 It's passed-down knowledge, it goes from my parents to me 308 00:15:09,475 --> 00:15:13,312 and went from my parents' parents, so. 309 00:15:13,312 --> 00:15:14,914 Trapping is a lot harder right now 310 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:17,784 because just a limited amount of daylight. 311 00:15:17,784 --> 00:15:21,954 ♪ ♪ 312 00:15:21,954 --> 00:15:23,189 Right now, it's like four hours of daylight, 313 00:15:23,189 --> 00:15:25,992 and it can get real cold real fast, 314 00:15:25,992 --> 00:15:28,561 but darkness don't stop us out here. 315 00:15:28,561 --> 00:15:30,496 It's part of the game. 316 00:15:30,496 --> 00:15:35,601 ♪ ♪ 317 00:15:35,601 --> 00:15:36,636 Just gonna creep in. 318 00:15:36,636 --> 00:15:40,706 I got to run my trap over up here. 319 00:15:40,706 --> 00:15:42,742 It's kind of thick brush. 320 00:15:42,742 --> 00:15:46,345 ♪ ♪ 321 00:15:46,345 --> 00:15:52,485 This here is the river, and as you can see down here, 322 00:15:52,485 --> 00:15:55,154 this is all the wolf trail coming in. 323 00:15:55,154 --> 00:16:01,928 ♪ ♪ 324 00:16:01,928 --> 00:16:03,763 [bleep] 325 00:16:03,763 --> 00:16:06,732 ♪ ♪ 326 00:16:06,732 --> 00:16:12,772 ♪ ♪ 327 00:16:12,772 --> 00:16:14,407 Don't sound good. 328 00:16:16,042 --> 00:16:17,210 [chuckles] 329 00:16:17,210 --> 00:16:19,011 [Ricko] I don't know what's going on with my machine, 330 00:16:19,011 --> 00:16:21,414 but it doesn't sound too good. 331 00:16:21,414 --> 00:16:24,917 So, what I'm gonna do is, uh, 332 00:16:24,917 --> 00:16:26,819 I got to take this machine apart. 333 00:16:29,222 --> 00:16:32,124 I have a toolbox in this thing right here, 334 00:16:32,124 --> 00:16:34,060 and I want to go home. 335 00:16:34,060 --> 00:16:35,995 I'm not trying to walk. 336 00:16:38,064 --> 00:16:40,233 It's deep, dark winter. 337 00:16:40,233 --> 00:16:43,069 Very hard to see. 338 00:16:43,069 --> 00:16:44,971 I was definitely scared of the dark when I was a kid, 339 00:16:44,971 --> 00:16:48,741 more than my brothers and sisters. 340 00:16:48,741 --> 00:16:50,776 And I've been in bad situations out here. 341 00:16:50,776 --> 00:16:53,980 When I was a kid, traveling around with my late dad, 342 00:16:53,980 --> 00:16:58,584 and, uh, I was about 12 years old, I think. 343 00:16:58,584 --> 00:17:00,586 We were about 12 miles out of camp, 344 00:17:00,586 --> 00:17:04,323 and, um, the machine just shut off. 345 00:17:04,323 --> 00:17:06,959 And that was a scary feeling for me. 346 00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:12,298 We walked all the way home to camp, and it was dark. 347 00:17:12,298 --> 00:17:13,399 I remember praying a lot. 348 00:17:13,399 --> 00:17:16,202 Like, not out loud, but in my head. 349 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:19,105 ♪ ♪ 350 00:17:19,105 --> 00:17:21,440 I remember being in storms with my dad 351 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,309 and him, like, leaving me, 352 00:17:23,309 --> 00:17:25,978 so he could break trail ahead and come back. 353 00:17:25,978 --> 00:17:28,014 I remember crying. 354 00:17:28,014 --> 00:17:31,617 Didn't tell my brothers and stuff, but I was so scared. 355 00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:35,021 I remember that feeling, it's like, 356 00:17:35,021 --> 00:17:36,489 is there something out here? 357 00:17:36,489 --> 00:17:37,523 You start looking around, 358 00:17:37,523 --> 00:17:39,558 I mean, like, something coming up the trail? 359 00:17:39,558 --> 00:17:41,727 Is there wolves? Is there a ghost? 360 00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:43,529 [chuckles] 361 00:17:43,529 --> 00:17:45,331 It's this eerie darkness, 362 00:17:45,331 --> 00:17:47,934 like there's something running up behind you on the trail. 363 00:17:50,336 --> 00:17:52,672 And now I'm older, smarter. 364 00:17:52,672 --> 00:17:55,107 I carry tools. 365 00:17:55,107 --> 00:17:57,076 And I'm not afraid. 366 00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:59,345 That's part of being tough, I guess, 367 00:17:59,345 --> 00:18:03,049 is going through those experiences, so. 368 00:18:03,049 --> 00:18:04,684 Man. 369 00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:09,889 Now, this is what I'm looking for. 370 00:18:09,889 --> 00:18:11,257 Right here. 371 00:18:11,257 --> 00:18:13,960 Boom. Oh, there's a stick. 372 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,828 This is the problem. 373 00:18:17,596 --> 00:18:20,866 Ohhh, there we go. 374 00:18:20,866 --> 00:18:22,969 There's the problem. 375 00:18:22,969 --> 00:18:24,704 This looks like a tiny little stick, 376 00:18:24,704 --> 00:18:27,707 but a tiny little stick like this can have me stranded. 377 00:18:27,707 --> 00:18:28,874 I mean, if it's 40, 50 below, 378 00:18:28,874 --> 00:18:32,244 that's life-threatening, just from a twig. 379 00:18:32,244 --> 00:18:33,279 So, it's really important 380 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:35,614 to know how to work on your machines. 381 00:18:38,184 --> 00:18:41,153 Oh, I'm so happy. 382 00:18:41,153 --> 00:18:43,356 Put this right back together. 383 00:18:43,356 --> 00:18:45,324 ♪ ♪ 384 00:18:45,324 --> 00:18:50,796 ♪ ♪ 385 00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:52,732 Looks good. 386 00:18:52,732 --> 00:18:54,967 Sounds good. 387 00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:56,836 Let my trap soak. 388 00:18:56,836 --> 00:18:58,904 Come back on a brighter day. 389 00:18:58,904 --> 00:19:03,809 ♪ ♪ 390 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:10,416 ♪ ♪ 391 00:19:10,416 --> 00:19:11,650 [Sue] Alrighty. 392 00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:14,220 I got that pipe put away. 393 00:19:14,220 --> 00:19:15,388 Go me. 394 00:19:15,388 --> 00:19:20,326 But right now, the storm is just blowing hard. 395 00:19:20,326 --> 00:19:22,228 But I've got a little bit of a lull. 396 00:19:22,228 --> 00:19:27,266 While I've got that, I've got some of my rope. 397 00:19:27,266 --> 00:19:30,803 And this is just part of my safety line system. 398 00:19:33,105 --> 00:19:35,908 If I come out my door, 399 00:19:35,908 --> 00:19:40,012 I'm in a situation I can't see, 400 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:42,648 but I've got to get over there, something's broken, 401 00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:45,584 or I've got to get over here. 402 00:19:45,584 --> 00:19:49,855 No matter what direction I take, 403 00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:52,925 I could get out to the end and swing, 404 00:19:52,925 --> 00:19:55,895 and I'm going to hit this building. 405 00:19:55,895 --> 00:19:57,863 I swing this way, 406 00:19:57,863 --> 00:20:01,233 and I'm going to run into the tank and this building. 407 00:20:01,233 --> 00:20:04,136 As long as you're making that arc, 408 00:20:04,136 --> 00:20:07,440 I'm at the next point of safety. 409 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,043 So now, I'll coil this all up. 410 00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:12,445 Tie you up. 411 00:20:12,445 --> 00:20:14,914 Alright, that one's done. 412 00:20:14,914 --> 00:20:17,116 Now I got to get to the back of this row, 413 00:20:17,116 --> 00:20:20,219 tie on a rope so I can get to the gen shed. 414 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:24,824 ♪ ♪ 415 00:20:24,824 --> 00:20:29,995 Okay, you can see the wind is starting to come back in. 416 00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:33,566 All this stuff, this is the ice on top of the buildings. 417 00:20:33,566 --> 00:20:35,634 The snow on top of the tent. 418 00:20:35,634 --> 00:20:37,603 That wind is breaking it up. 419 00:20:37,603 --> 00:20:40,706 And then it sends it flying. 420 00:20:40,706 --> 00:20:43,209 When I'm out here working, 421 00:20:43,209 --> 00:20:44,477 you get hit in the head with the ice, 422 00:20:44,477 --> 00:20:47,646 it's like an axe blade going right in. 423 00:20:47,646 --> 00:20:51,417 It shatters windows, and you are compromised. 424 00:20:51,417 --> 00:20:54,353 You've got to always have your eyes peeled. 425 00:20:56,055 --> 00:20:59,959 The wind is wanting to knock me right over. 426 00:20:59,959 --> 00:21:02,294 Okay. 427 00:21:02,294 --> 00:21:05,297 I've got almost whiteout conditions again. 428 00:21:05,297 --> 00:21:08,834 The winds are supposed to stay around 75 429 00:21:08,834 --> 00:21:11,303 for the majority of the day. 430 00:21:13,472 --> 00:21:18,544 The time I have out here before frostbite is minimal. 431 00:21:18,544 --> 00:21:21,447 Time is not on my side right now. 432 00:21:21,447 --> 00:21:25,284 ♪ ♪ 433 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:27,953 Okay, so now... 434 00:21:29,722 --> 00:21:32,525 I can get here to the shop. 435 00:21:32,525 --> 00:21:36,395 I can get to the middle row, I can get to the freezer tent, 436 00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:38,664 I can get to my water house. 437 00:21:40,199 --> 00:21:43,335 It seems silly only until you get lost 438 00:21:43,335 --> 00:21:45,871 going from here to the bathroom. 439 00:21:47,706 --> 00:21:51,043 You have to have these safety measures in place. 440 00:21:52,745 --> 00:21:55,648 The animals are not always the biggest predator; 441 00:21:55,648 --> 00:21:57,550 weather itself is. 442 00:21:59,685 --> 00:22:03,455 I've got phased storms up here, being told to stay inside, 443 00:22:03,455 --> 00:22:07,760 and I'm like, nobody else is taking care of this camp. 444 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,763 I need to get my eyes on every problem. 445 00:22:10,763 --> 00:22:13,465 You can turn around and look right here 446 00:22:13,465 --> 00:22:18,204 and see my wind turbine is having a hell of a time in this. 447 00:22:18,204 --> 00:22:20,172 That's going to come apart. 448 00:22:21,907 --> 00:22:24,009 Um, I've got to secure it, 449 00:22:24,009 --> 00:22:28,013 but I can't do anything about it in this wind. 450 00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:31,684 So, I've got to get inside, I've got to get warm again, 451 00:22:31,684 --> 00:22:33,652 and try to fix things. 452 00:22:33,652 --> 00:22:38,524 ♪ ♪ 453 00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:43,963 ♪ ♪ 454 00:22:43,963 --> 00:22:47,099 [Johnny] So, I just saw a bunch of caribou on the lake. 455 00:22:47,099 --> 00:22:51,470 ♪ ♪ 456 00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:55,341 I'm trying to circle around and kind of flank them. 457 00:22:55,341 --> 00:23:00,079 ♪ ♪ 458 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:05,884 ♪ ♪ 459 00:23:05,884 --> 00:23:08,220 I guarantee you they're gonna be up here. 460 00:23:16,729 --> 00:23:20,032 ♪ ♪ 461 00:23:20,032 --> 00:23:26,138 ♪ ♪ 462 00:23:26,138 --> 00:23:28,107 Right through the trees, right there. 463 00:23:28,107 --> 00:23:30,743 ♪ ♪ 464 00:23:33,145 --> 00:23:37,316 ♪ ♪ 465 00:23:42,721 --> 00:23:47,760 ♪ ♪ 466 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,663 They have spotted me, they're staring at me. 467 00:23:50,663 --> 00:23:52,264 I just got to get a little bit closer. 468 00:23:55,934 --> 00:23:59,271 ♪ ♪ 469 00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:05,577 ♪ ♪ 470 00:24:05,577 --> 00:24:07,446 [click] 471 00:24:10,916 --> 00:24:15,020 ♪ ♪ 472 00:24:15,020 --> 00:24:21,727 ♪ ♪ 473 00:24:21,727 --> 00:24:24,296 I'm shooting right into the wind, man. 474 00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:26,231 ♪ ♪ 475 00:24:26,231 --> 00:24:31,370 ♪ ♪ 476 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:41,280 [Johnny] Nothing's been hit. 477 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,084 ♪ ♪ 478 00:24:45,084 --> 00:24:47,586 Holy cow, look at all those caribou. 479 00:24:47,586 --> 00:24:52,825 ♪ ♪ 480 00:24:52,825 --> 00:24:55,127 Good god. 481 00:24:55,127 --> 00:24:57,463 Look at this sight right here. 482 00:24:57,463 --> 00:24:59,498 [bleep] 483 00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:05,137 ♪ ♪ 484 00:25:05,137 --> 00:25:10,509 [imitates caribou call] 485 00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:15,647 ♪ ♪ 486 00:25:15,647 --> 00:25:18,217 [gunshot] 487 00:25:18,217 --> 00:25:20,252 I shot higher. 488 00:25:20,252 --> 00:25:26,725 ♪ ♪ 489 00:25:26,725 --> 00:25:29,895 Man, that's a [bleep] hard shot in this wind. 490 00:25:29,895 --> 00:25:32,231 It's just dropping my bullet fast. 491 00:25:32,231 --> 00:25:37,102 ♪ ♪ 492 00:25:37,102 --> 00:25:43,709 ♪ ♪ 493 00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:46,278 They're just, they're just too far. 494 00:25:46,278 --> 00:25:53,118 ♪ ♪ 495 00:25:53,118 --> 00:25:54,253 I can barely feel my fingers. 496 00:25:54,253 --> 00:25:56,188 In fact, I can't feel them at all. 497 00:25:59,358 --> 00:26:01,894 Maybe one more try. 498 00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,862 ♪ ♪ 499 00:26:03,862 --> 00:26:09,701 ♪ ♪ 500 00:26:09,701 --> 00:26:16,041 ♪ ♪ 501 00:26:16,041 --> 00:26:18,043 He's hit. 502 00:26:18,043 --> 00:26:21,814 ♪ ♪ 503 00:26:21,814 --> 00:26:23,115 Go down, buddy. 504 00:26:23,115 --> 00:26:27,920 ♪ ♪ 505 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,721 He looks like he's down. 506 00:26:29,721 --> 00:26:32,691 ♪ ♪ 507 00:26:32,691 --> 00:26:38,997 ♪ ♪ 508 00:26:38,997 --> 00:26:40,098 Something to finish him off. 509 00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:43,435 So, I'm gonna walk around and have a closer shot, 510 00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:45,437 not into the wind. 511 00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:50,008 ♪ ♪ 512 00:26:50,008 --> 00:26:55,247 Nothing will eat at me more than seeing an animal injured, 513 00:26:55,247 --> 00:26:57,483 an animal that I injured. 514 00:26:57,483 --> 00:26:58,817 But this is hunting. 515 00:26:58,817 --> 00:27:00,853 This is subsistence living. 516 00:27:00,853 --> 00:27:01,920 When I injure something, 517 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,323 I got to put that animal down as quick as I can. 518 00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:14,533 [breathing heavily] 519 00:27:14,533 --> 00:27:21,373 [breathing heavily] 520 00:27:21,373 --> 00:27:28,146 ♪ ♪ 521 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:30,182 The animal's down. 522 00:27:30,182 --> 00:27:31,416 It was a hard shot through those trees. 523 00:27:31,416 --> 00:27:34,486 It was a hard shot with that wind. 524 00:27:36,088 --> 00:27:37,990 Thank you, caribou, thank you so much. 525 00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:40,058 I'm so grateful for you. 526 00:27:40,058 --> 00:27:44,029 ♪ ♪ 527 00:27:44,029 --> 00:27:50,836 ♪ ♪ 528 00:27:50,836 --> 00:27:57,242 ♪ ♪ 529 00:27:57,242 --> 00:28:00,746 [Ricko] There's wolf tracks there, they're old ones. 530 00:28:00,746 --> 00:28:02,314 Not seeing any fresh tracks, 531 00:28:02,314 --> 00:28:04,850 but it doesn't mean they didn't come in. 532 00:28:04,850 --> 00:28:10,389 ♪ ♪ 533 00:28:10,389 --> 00:28:13,926 Right here is a set under that cottonwood right here. 534 00:28:13,926 --> 00:28:16,094 Don't look like I caught anything. 535 00:28:17,729 --> 00:28:19,131 Keep checking. 536 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,836 This is the spot where the wolverine was at. 537 00:28:24,836 --> 00:28:27,406 You can see his tracks right there. 538 00:28:27,406 --> 00:28:32,477 ♪ ♪ 539 00:28:32,477 --> 00:28:35,647 Oh, there's my trap right here. 540 00:28:35,647 --> 00:28:37,649 Oh, I got something! 541 00:28:37,649 --> 00:28:38,884 A marten! 542 00:28:38,884 --> 00:28:41,220 Heck yeah, that's a good one there. 543 00:28:43,455 --> 00:28:46,058 But unfortunately, it's still alive. 544 00:28:46,058 --> 00:28:47,359 I don't like when they're still alive, 545 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:49,494 but always lucky to catch them. 546 00:28:49,494 --> 00:28:51,396 Okay. 547 00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:53,932 I got to dispatch him. 548 00:28:53,932 --> 00:28:55,067 These things will bite, though. 549 00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:57,002 You got to be careful with these. 550 00:28:57,002 --> 00:29:03,175 ♪ ♪ 551 00:29:03,175 --> 00:29:04,776 I wasn't going for marten, but I got one. 552 00:29:04,776 --> 00:29:06,878 I'm happy to catch one, so. 553 00:29:06,878 --> 00:29:08,747 Anaa basee', sooge. 554 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,649 Thank you to the marten. 555 00:29:10,649 --> 00:29:12,951 Marten is like prize, prize animal. 556 00:29:12,951 --> 00:29:15,120 It takes three of these to make one hat. 557 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,623 This thing I'm wearing right here, that's a marten hat. 558 00:29:17,623 --> 00:29:19,791 Okay. Nice beautiful marten. 559 00:29:19,791 --> 00:29:22,928 This is a smaller one, but it's nice and dark. 560 00:29:22,928 --> 00:29:25,731 I'm gonna set this trap and keep moving. 561 00:29:25,731 --> 00:29:28,333 ♪ ♪ 562 00:29:28,333 --> 00:29:30,636 This goes here. 563 00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:35,207 Pretty good, first time out on the line I got something. 564 00:29:35,207 --> 00:29:41,113 ♪ ♪ 565 00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:47,653 ♪ ♪ 566 00:29:47,653 --> 00:29:48,787 [Carol] Brr. 567 00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:51,690 [Tinmiaq] Yeah, I was just thinking that, too, chilly. 568 00:29:51,690 --> 00:29:52,958 Got the axe? 569 00:29:52,958 --> 00:29:54,092 [Chip] Let's go free up these holes. 570 00:29:54,092 --> 00:29:56,128 [Carol] Wonder what kind of surprise we have coming. 571 00:29:56,128 --> 00:29:58,296 [Tinmiaq] We just got to hope for some fish. 572 00:30:01,066 --> 00:30:03,902 [Chip] Alright, girls, at least we're on safe ice. 573 00:30:06,505 --> 00:30:09,274 Me and Carol and Ting have got a net running for dog food. 574 00:30:09,274 --> 00:30:10,442 Here we go. Alright. 575 00:30:10,442 --> 00:30:14,546 And we're hoping for whitefish, sheefish, Tiktaalik. 576 00:30:14,546 --> 00:30:16,415 We never know what's going to happen. 577 00:30:16,415 --> 00:30:18,016 [Tinmiaq] Ready when you guys are! 578 00:30:18,016 --> 00:30:20,018 [Carol] Okay, we're ready. 579 00:30:20,018 --> 00:30:24,056 ♪ ♪ 580 00:30:24,056 --> 00:30:26,191 Heavy? [Chip] Yeah, it's heavy. 581 00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:29,561 [Carol] Oh! 582 00:30:31,129 --> 00:30:34,266 [Chip] Oh. [Carol] We got one! 583 00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:35,901 [Chip] We got a pike. [Carol] Oh, my god. 584 00:30:35,901 --> 00:30:36,835 [Chip] Nice big pike. 585 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:38,904 [Carol] Heck yeah! [chuckling] 586 00:30:38,904 --> 00:30:40,372 [Chip] Look at that one. 587 00:30:40,372 --> 00:30:41,807 [Carol] Real fresh whitefish. 588 00:30:41,807 --> 00:30:42,774 [Chip] Right on. 589 00:30:42,774 --> 00:30:44,042 [Carol] How about that, man? 590 00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:46,511 [Chip] How about more? [laughs] 591 00:30:46,511 --> 00:30:48,847 I'm not feeding seven children anymore, 592 00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:52,250 but the dog's got to eat, and now I've got someone to feed. 593 00:30:52,250 --> 00:30:54,086 There's like three in a row here. 594 00:30:54,086 --> 00:30:56,788 [Carol] Oh, there is a lot in a row. 595 00:30:56,788 --> 00:30:59,091 They're jumping all over the place, huh? 596 00:30:59,091 --> 00:31:02,894 Oh, look, even more at the very end, look at that. 597 00:31:02,894 --> 00:31:04,463 Heck yeah. 598 00:31:04,463 --> 00:31:09,868 ♪ ♪ 599 00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:13,105 [Chip] 36, 37, 38, 39. 600 00:31:13,105 --> 00:31:16,208 39 whitefish and two pike. 601 00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:17,175 I am so happy. 602 00:31:17,175 --> 00:31:18,877 [Carol] Good fishing, yay! [Chip] Yeah. 603 00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:20,612 [Carol] The dogs will be super happy today. 604 00:31:20,612 --> 00:31:22,380 [Chip] They will be, yup. 605 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:23,915 You're probably talking a week's worth of food, 606 00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:25,817 but then again, it's a lot of food for us, too. 607 00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:28,353 And, uh, it's free for the work. 608 00:31:28,353 --> 00:31:31,523 You just do the work, get the fish. 609 00:31:31,523 --> 00:31:34,960 I'm going to go home, and we'll divvy these up. 610 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,198 ♪ ♪ 611 00:31:40,198 --> 00:31:41,199 See you, girls. Thanks. 612 00:31:41,199 --> 00:31:43,135 [Tinmiaq] Love you, Dad. See you later. 613 00:31:43,135 --> 00:31:47,105 ♪ ♪ 614 00:31:47,105 --> 00:31:48,840 [Carol] Oh, look at that beautiful sunset. 615 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,009 [Chip] Wow! 616 00:31:51,009 --> 00:31:53,078 [Tinmiaq] Beautiful. 617 00:31:53,078 --> 00:31:58,550 ♪ ♪ 618 00:31:58,550 --> 00:31:59,985 [Chip] You want a fish? 619 00:31:59,985 --> 00:32:01,086 I was gonna give your puppies fish. 620 00:32:01,086 --> 00:32:02,788 How about I give you... 621 00:32:02,788 --> 00:32:03,755 [Agnes Hailstone] They're all fresh. 622 00:32:03,755 --> 00:32:05,824 [Chip] It's a male. [Agnes] Fresh fish. 623 00:32:05,824 --> 00:32:07,959 [Chip] Is that what you want? 624 00:32:07,959 --> 00:32:10,028 Give your puppies a snack? 625 00:32:12,531 --> 00:32:14,933 Here, puppies. 626 00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:17,002 [yelping] 627 00:32:18,436 --> 00:32:20,305 Oh, yeah, they love the fish. 628 00:32:20,305 --> 00:32:21,506 We got lots of food for them. 629 00:32:21,506 --> 00:32:24,075 The net's producing really well. 630 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:26,912 Yup. Good puppies. 631 00:32:26,912 --> 00:32:28,480 If it was just the three dogs and me and you, 632 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,116 and a couple of the kids, I'd have been done fishing already. 633 00:32:31,116 --> 00:32:32,350 [Agnes] Yeah. 634 00:32:32,350 --> 00:32:34,953 Just because the girls grow up and go do their own thing 635 00:32:34,953 --> 00:32:36,154 doesn't mean we have to stop. 636 00:32:36,154 --> 00:32:37,155 We can just keep living 637 00:32:37,155 --> 00:32:40,959 our subsistence, nomadic life we live. 638 00:32:40,959 --> 00:32:42,194 [Chip] It gives us reason and rhyme. 639 00:32:42,194 --> 00:32:43,261 [Agnes] Yeah. 640 00:32:43,261 --> 00:32:44,529 [Chip] Remember when the kids were young, 641 00:32:44,529 --> 00:32:45,564 and we used to go back and forth 642 00:32:45,564 --> 00:32:48,133 between Candle and camp with dogs? 643 00:32:48,133 --> 00:32:50,001 That was a lot of fun. Dogs are fun. 644 00:32:50,001 --> 00:32:51,002 [Agnes] Mm-hmm. 645 00:32:51,002 --> 00:32:55,707 [Chip] Yeah. Ah-roooooo! 646 00:32:55,707 --> 00:32:57,242 Alright, let's go make some lunch, huh? 647 00:32:57,242 --> 00:32:58,910 It's about that time of day. 648 00:32:58,910 --> 00:33:01,313 Later, puppies! 649 00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:03,315 ♪ ♪ 650 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:09,254 ♪ ♪ 651 00:33:09,254 --> 00:33:15,360 ♪ ♪ 652 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,997 [Sue] I have to keep that wind turbine from blowing apart. 653 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:21,366 Depending on how it blows apart, 654 00:33:21,366 --> 00:33:24,302 there's a lot of raw power going down it. 655 00:33:24,302 --> 00:33:27,906 It's a dangerous situation. It's just too dangerous. 656 00:33:29,541 --> 00:33:31,810 I'm over 60 now. 657 00:33:31,810 --> 00:33:35,347 I've done this lifestyle for a long time. 658 00:33:37,816 --> 00:33:40,051 It's getting harder and harder. 659 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,788 Oh, [bleep] me. 660 00:33:45,123 --> 00:33:50,462 Is there a time when you're too old to live a remote lifestyle? 661 00:33:50,462 --> 00:33:52,998 Come on. 662 00:33:52,998 --> 00:33:58,236 Getting older is being brutally honest about where you're at. 663 00:33:58,236 --> 00:34:00,238 I can't [bleep] do this. 664 00:34:03,108 --> 00:34:04,943 I can't do it. 665 00:34:04,943 --> 00:34:07,913 ♪ ♪ 666 00:34:07,913 --> 00:34:14,085 ♪ ♪ 667 00:34:14,085 --> 00:34:20,825 ♪ ♪ 668 00:34:20,825 --> 00:34:22,193 Ugh. 669 00:34:22,193 --> 00:34:24,195 ♪ ♪ 670 00:34:24,195 --> 00:34:31,002 ♪ ♪ 671 00:34:31,002 --> 00:34:32,270 Okay. 672 00:34:32,270 --> 00:34:35,640 So, if I get a little piece of foam, 673 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,110 put it in between that pole and the building, 674 00:34:39,110 --> 00:34:42,914 lasso it and tie it down somewhere. 675 00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:46,284 It doesn't have to hold forever. 676 00:34:46,284 --> 00:34:50,889 I just need to get it to stop slamming into that wood. 677 00:34:50,889 --> 00:34:53,825 ♪ ♪ 678 00:34:53,825 --> 00:35:00,398 ♪ ♪ 679 00:35:00,398 --> 00:35:03,134 Ooh, that's [bleep] brutal on my face. 680 00:35:03,134 --> 00:35:08,473 ♪ ♪ 681 00:35:08,473 --> 00:35:10,175 When things break, 682 00:35:10,175 --> 00:35:14,546 I don't get the luxury of being afraid of it. 683 00:35:14,546 --> 00:35:17,048 I have to just rush out and fix it. 684 00:35:17,048 --> 00:35:23,521 But this is the stuff that, uh, I mean, it makes you feel alive. 685 00:35:23,521 --> 00:35:25,457 And that's part of why I'm here. 686 00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:33,898 It's the terrible, it's the raw, it's the effervescence of life. 687 00:35:33,898 --> 00:35:36,134 Alright, let me see how that looks. 688 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:38,870 It's not perfect. 689 00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:42,974 It is still moving, but it has stopped 690 00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:45,810 from beating the hell out of itself 691 00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:47,746 against the wooden structure. 692 00:35:47,746 --> 00:35:48,913 It's got a little cushion. 693 00:35:48,913 --> 00:35:51,850 It's got a little give. 694 00:35:51,850 --> 00:35:55,720 Sorry, I'm going back up around 70, 80. 695 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,723 I will need to wrap it and strap it. 696 00:35:58,723 --> 00:36:02,494 But for now, it's better than it was. 697 00:36:02,494 --> 00:36:07,032 But my speech is getting a little slow and slurred. 698 00:36:07,032 --> 00:36:09,968 I probably have a good beard-sicle going. 699 00:36:09,968 --> 00:36:14,005 It's time for me to get out of this wind, defrost. 700 00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:15,707 I have to take care of the body 701 00:36:15,707 --> 00:36:18,376 or the camp ain't gonna matter a bit. 702 00:36:19,911 --> 00:36:21,646 And it's just the relentless 703 00:36:21,646 --> 00:36:25,717 drip, drip, drip of the freeze-up. 704 00:36:25,717 --> 00:36:27,886 I've got to call it for the day. 705 00:36:27,886 --> 00:36:33,792 ♪ ♪ 706 00:36:33,792 --> 00:36:40,665 ♪ ♪ 707 00:36:40,665 --> 00:36:47,472 ♪ ♪ 708 00:36:47,472 --> 00:36:49,974 [Ricko] This is where I set the wolverine and marten trap, 709 00:36:49,974 --> 00:36:54,179 and I'm not seeing no fresh tracks in here. 710 00:36:54,179 --> 00:36:57,782 That's where the dead moose is buried. 711 00:36:57,782 --> 00:37:00,051 Nothing came around. 712 00:37:01,252 --> 00:37:04,556 Wolverine box is empty. 713 00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:08,493 Kind of depressing, but that's how it is sometimes. 714 00:37:08,493 --> 00:37:11,429 It is what it is. 715 00:37:11,429 --> 00:37:14,499 Let's keep checking, hopefully catch something. 716 00:37:14,499 --> 00:37:19,237 ♪ ♪ 717 00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:26,077 ♪ ♪ 718 00:37:26,077 --> 00:37:27,912 I've been trying for the wolves and wolverine, 719 00:37:27,912 --> 00:37:30,982 haven't had no luck. 720 00:37:30,982 --> 00:37:35,053 Not seeing no fresh tracks. 721 00:37:35,053 --> 00:37:36,721 But that's how it goes when you trap, 722 00:37:36,721 --> 00:37:40,191 you don't always, uh, you don't always have success right away, 723 00:37:40,191 --> 00:37:42,560 or even sometimes not at all. 724 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:48,900 ♪ ♪ 725 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:51,736 Woooo. 726 00:37:51,736 --> 00:37:53,538 Doyon neeyo! 727 00:37:57,675 --> 00:38:00,311 [Ricko] Alright, we got a wolverine. 728 00:38:00,311 --> 00:38:01,780 Doyon. 729 00:38:04,549 --> 00:38:09,487 Anaa basee' Denaahuto' gheenghon'. 730 00:38:09,487 --> 00:38:13,358 Gotta be lucky to catch these things. 731 00:38:13,358 --> 00:38:15,760 They don't come around all the time. 732 00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,365 Got the wolverine. 733 00:38:20,365 --> 00:38:23,101 Doyon. 734 00:38:23,101 --> 00:38:25,136 Big chief. 735 00:38:25,136 --> 00:38:28,039 And as the elders say, when you come home with this, you say, 736 00:38:28,039 --> 00:38:30,642 "Doyon neeyo!" 737 00:38:30,642 --> 00:38:34,379 Doyon neeyo! That means big chief animal came to me, 738 00:38:34,379 --> 00:38:37,649 let's celebrate, you feel happy. 739 00:38:37,649 --> 00:38:39,684 Look at that long guard hair. 740 00:38:39,684 --> 00:38:41,786 Amazing animal. 741 00:38:41,786 --> 00:38:46,558 Beautiful colors under the chin right here, the yellows. 742 00:38:46,558 --> 00:38:48,760 It's a very awesome animal. 743 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,727 I'm happy. 744 00:38:49,727 --> 00:38:52,297 This has been a good start to the year. 745 00:38:52,297 --> 00:38:54,999 Big chief animal. 746 00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:57,135 Doyon neeyo! 747 00:38:57,135 --> 00:39:01,139 ♪ ♪ 748 00:39:01,139 --> 00:39:07,979 ♪ ♪ 749 00:39:07,979 --> 00:39:14,852 ♪ ♪ 750 00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:21,593 ♪ ♪ 751 00:39:21,593 --> 00:39:23,528 [Johnny] That was a hard one, man. 752 00:39:23,528 --> 00:39:25,530 That was not easy. 753 00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:27,532 The wind just whipped my butt. 754 00:39:27,532 --> 00:39:32,103 ♪ ♪ 755 00:39:32,103 --> 00:39:35,440 No matter how good of a shot I think I've become, 756 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,476 every hunt teaches me something different. 757 00:39:38,476 --> 00:39:40,878 And I'm glad it does. 758 00:39:40,878 --> 00:39:44,349 And that's nature just showing me time and time again, 759 00:39:44,349 --> 00:39:47,352 who's in charge, who's the boss, who makes the rules. 760 00:39:47,352 --> 00:39:48,786 Not me. 761 00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:54,626 ♪ ♪ 762 00:39:54,626 --> 00:39:57,829 Java girl, what do we got? 763 00:39:57,829 --> 00:39:59,764 You know what we got. 764 00:39:59,764 --> 00:40:02,634 We got some meat. 765 00:40:02,634 --> 00:40:04,602 Alright, let's get butchering. 766 00:40:04,602 --> 00:40:07,605 ♪ ♪ 767 00:40:07,605 --> 00:40:09,741 I mean, these caribou have thousands and thousands 768 00:40:09,741 --> 00:40:14,345 and thousands of acres to just roam and be free. 769 00:40:14,345 --> 00:40:17,048 And the odds that they come right through by my cabin, 770 00:40:17,048 --> 00:40:20,351 I take advantage of that, and I'm very fortunate. 771 00:40:22,053 --> 00:40:24,555 Next year they might start migrating 20 miles east, 772 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:26,357 or 20 miles west from here. 773 00:40:26,357 --> 00:40:29,861 And I won't have a food source. 774 00:40:29,861 --> 00:40:32,096 Look at this. 775 00:40:32,096 --> 00:40:34,632 There's the bullet. 776 00:40:34,632 --> 00:40:35,733 It's not often you find the bullet, 777 00:40:35,733 --> 00:40:38,102 you know, sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. 778 00:40:39,704 --> 00:40:41,706 That's probably what I love about this lifestyle the most 779 00:40:41,706 --> 00:40:44,909 is keeping my senses sharp and in tune 780 00:40:44,909 --> 00:40:49,847 and just be ready and prepared for what comes next. 781 00:40:49,847 --> 00:40:51,516 I wake up just so excited, 782 00:40:51,516 --> 00:40:57,155 like, I have no idea what's gonna happen today. 783 00:40:57,155 --> 00:40:59,424 I have no idea. 784 00:40:59,424 --> 00:41:01,559 And that, to me, is living life. 785 00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:03,528 ♪ ♪ 786 00:41:03,528 --> 00:41:09,233 ♪ ♪ 787 00:41:09,233 --> 00:41:10,768 [Ricko] It's been a good start to the trapping season. 788 00:41:10,768 --> 00:41:13,104 I got a marten, and I got a wolverine, 789 00:41:13,104 --> 00:41:15,940 so I'm real happy. 790 00:41:15,940 --> 00:41:16,941 When I'm out in the woods, 791 00:41:16,941 --> 00:41:19,177 it's just like I'm in church, in a way. 792 00:41:19,177 --> 00:41:21,112 Can't help but think about the people that went before me 793 00:41:21,112 --> 00:41:22,847 and all the teachings they gave me. 794 00:41:22,847 --> 00:41:25,383 Helps me to have luck, I think, too. 795 00:41:25,383 --> 00:41:28,086 But I carry them with me because that keeps me grounded, 796 00:41:28,086 --> 00:41:30,321 keeps me alive. 797 00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:33,124 It's dangerous country out here. Anything can happen. 798 00:41:34,926 --> 00:41:37,795 [Chip] Alaska's fickle, and it's moody, 799 00:41:37,795 --> 00:41:39,597 and it changes a lot. 800 00:41:39,597 --> 00:41:43,000 Temperatures change, scenery changes, the animals change. 801 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,303 We have migrations come in, migrations go out. 802 00:41:45,303 --> 00:41:47,305 Could be fish, could be caribou. 803 00:41:47,305 --> 00:41:50,208 So, I'm in a dynamic place, and I like to change with it, 804 00:41:50,208 --> 00:41:52,810 I like to roll with it, I like to go with it. 805 00:41:55,046 --> 00:41:58,416 [Sue] Been here almost a quarter of a century. 806 00:41:58,416 --> 00:42:00,952 Holy cow. 807 00:42:00,952 --> 00:42:02,754 What a day. 808 00:42:02,754 --> 00:42:04,756 And now I'm over 60. 809 00:42:04,756 --> 00:42:07,959 Will the body keep up with the lifestyle I have? 810 00:42:09,494 --> 00:42:12,764 Not much scares me. 811 00:42:12,764 --> 00:42:18,202 But at some point this winter, 812 00:42:18,202 --> 00:42:21,305 I'll have to close camp up for a little bit. 813 00:42:21,305 --> 00:42:24,442 I'm supposed to go have surgeries this winter. 814 00:42:24,442 --> 00:42:27,612 I have a little bit of fear that... 815 00:42:29,514 --> 00:42:31,616 [voice breaking] What if I can't come back? 816 00:42:31,616 --> 00:42:35,486 ♪ ♪ 817 00:42:35,486 --> 00:42:39,190 But the now is all we have. 818 00:42:39,190 --> 00:42:43,327 And the Arctic is beautiful, it's primitive, 819 00:42:43,327 --> 00:42:45,062 it holds its secrets, 820 00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:49,934 but it can kill you the minute you forget to respect it. 821 00:42:49,934 --> 00:42:54,872 Nature always has that front foot forward. 822 00:42:54,872 --> 00:42:56,607 We're just along for the ride. 823 00:42:56,607 --> 00:43:01,279 ♪ ♪