1 00:00:00,701 --> 00:00:03,270 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:03,270 --> 00:00:05,906 RJ: We're gonna go over to Kupreanof. 3 00:00:05,906 --> 00:00:08,642 There's a bunch of black bears over there. 4 00:00:08,642 --> 00:00:12,079 Kupreanof and Kuiu Island have the densest population of 5 00:00:12,079 --> 00:00:15,282 black bear probably in the world. 6 00:00:16,884 --> 00:00:19,086 KAMILIA: You're gonna have to teach me a lot this trip because 7 00:00:19,086 --> 00:00:21,288 I am terrified of bears. 8 00:00:21,288 --> 00:00:22,656 RJ: Yeah. 9 00:00:22,656 --> 00:00:25,826 KAMILIA: You're gonna have to really walk me through this hunt. 10 00:00:25,826 --> 00:00:28,495 RJ: Well these, these black bears are a little different. 11 00:00:29,563 --> 00:00:31,231 They're so testy. 12 00:00:31,231 --> 00:00:32,866 KAMILIA: The black bears. RJ: Yeah. 13 00:00:32,866 --> 00:00:35,536 They don't see people as much as the brown bears over on 14 00:00:35,536 --> 00:00:40,007 the other islands and they don't get shot at as much here. 15 00:00:40,007 --> 00:00:43,744 KAMILIA: Living in Alaska, we are faced with danger every day. 16 00:00:45,345 --> 00:00:47,147 RJ: These bears are just waking up from the hibernation, 17 00:00:47,147 --> 00:00:49,216 they can be pretty hungry. 18 00:00:49,216 --> 00:00:51,585 They're pretty aggressive. 19 00:00:51,585 --> 00:00:55,022 I'm sure they're itching to get some food in their stomach, 20 00:00:55,022 --> 00:00:57,157 but we are too. 21 00:00:58,592 --> 00:01:00,861 But I'm not just out here by myself. 22 00:01:00,861 --> 00:01:03,931 I'm, I'm here with Kamilia and all of them. 23 00:01:03,931 --> 00:01:07,234 I need to be extra prepared to make sure that they are okay as well. 24 00:01:11,471 --> 00:01:14,975 (theme music playing). 25 00:01:20,781 --> 00:01:21,782 RJ: Oh, check it out. 26 00:01:21,782 --> 00:01:24,184 There's some, uh, some orcas over here. 27 00:01:24,184 --> 00:01:27,187 KAMILIA: Oh my goodness. 28 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:33,660 That is insane. 29 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:35,429 Look at the little baby. 30 00:01:35,429 --> 00:01:37,497 (laughter) 31 00:01:37,497 --> 00:01:39,866 RJ: I'm always surprised at what Alaska throws at you. 32 00:01:39,866 --> 00:01:41,468 It's, it's incredible. 33 00:01:41,468 --> 00:01:44,338 This is what I live for, for moments like these. 34 00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:46,373 Are you to get this show on the road, 35 00:01:46,373 --> 00:01:48,041 go try to find a black bear? 36 00:01:48,041 --> 00:01:49,876 KAMILIA: Yes. RJ: All right. 37 00:01:49,876 --> 00:01:51,712 It's a good start to the trip. 38 00:01:51,712 --> 00:01:53,647 KAMILIA: Yeah, it is. 39 00:02:00,654 --> 00:02:01,655 RJ: Oh, there's a bear right now. 40 00:02:01,655 --> 00:02:02,656 There's a black bear. 41 00:02:02,656 --> 00:02:03,657 KAMILIA: Stop. RJ: Right there. 42 00:02:03,657 --> 00:02:04,691 Yep, there is. 43 00:02:04,691 --> 00:02:05,692 KAMILIA: Oh, my gosh right there? 44 00:02:05,692 --> 00:02:07,060 RJ: Yeah. You see it? KAMILIA: Yes. I see it. 45 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:08,628 RJ: Yeah, that's a black bear. 46 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:11,365 KAMILIA: That's a big one. RJ: Yeah, that thing was huge. 47 00:02:11,365 --> 00:02:13,133 KAMILIA: Yeah, it was. 48 00:02:13,133 --> 00:02:15,969 RJ: I think we're gonna go down and anchor the boat up. 49 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:17,738 Hopefully get a bear tonight. 50 00:02:17,738 --> 00:02:21,274 KAMILIA: Strangely enough, a few nights ago I had a dream 51 00:02:21,274 --> 00:02:24,778 that I was attacked by a black bear. 52 00:02:24,778 --> 00:02:27,447 Frightening to have these dreams. 53 00:02:27,447 --> 00:02:31,551 The danger is there, so I'm really hoping that 54 00:02:31,551 --> 00:02:34,287 that's not going to happen. 55 00:02:38,959 --> 00:02:40,360 KALEB: It's early spring time. 56 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,429 The snows all melted out. 57 00:02:42,429 --> 00:02:44,297 It's nice and warm out. 58 00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:49,002 So, it's time to do projects that will improve our lifestyle. 59 00:02:49,002 --> 00:02:51,505 And be a benefit for our family. 60 00:02:56,676 --> 00:03:00,647 BRITTANY: So, let's try laying it out and see what we think. 61 00:03:00,647 --> 00:03:02,649 KALEB: Yep. 62 00:03:02,649 --> 00:03:04,885 Yeah, not a bad size for a greenhouse. 63 00:03:04,885 --> 00:03:07,120 BRITTANY: No. 64 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,190 Kaleb and I decided this year it's time for us to do a garden. 65 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:11,291 KALEB: Yeah. 66 00:03:11,291 --> 00:03:14,027 So what we need to do is cut everything to length. 67 00:03:14,027 --> 00:03:15,262 BRITTANY: Mm-hmm. 68 00:03:15,262 --> 00:03:18,031 KALEB: And then we got to drill holes in there and 69 00:03:18,031 --> 00:03:22,102 start thinking about pounding ground posts in the gravel. 70 00:03:22,102 --> 00:03:23,537 (laughs) 71 00:03:23,537 --> 00:03:25,205 BRITTANY: It's gonna be fun. KALEB: Oh, boy. 72 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:27,374 BRITTANY: Our hope is to harvest enough to where 73 00:03:27,374 --> 00:03:28,975 we can eat it for quite a while. 74 00:03:28,975 --> 00:03:31,745 And then we can also put it up in cans and freezing. 75 00:03:31,745 --> 00:03:33,714 That way we have it throughout the winter. 76 00:03:33,714 --> 00:03:36,416 KALEB: This is a 16 by 24 greenhouse. 77 00:03:36,416 --> 00:03:38,718 These boards will lay on the ground. 78 00:03:38,718 --> 00:03:41,354 We'll pound the post into the, into the dirt. 79 00:03:41,354 --> 00:03:43,056 I don't know how far they're gonna go. 80 00:03:43,056 --> 00:03:45,492 Well, that's kind of a crap shoot if you ask me, 81 00:03:45,492 --> 00:03:48,495 but I'll make a try. 82 00:03:51,031 --> 00:03:52,232 BRITTANY: Where do you want this? 83 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:54,668 KALEB: Right there. 84 00:03:55,702 --> 00:03:58,538 So, I gotta get started cutting. 85 00:03:58,538 --> 00:04:02,075 Make this all the right size, stand it all up, 86 00:04:02,075 --> 00:04:04,311 and start pounding stakes down. 87 00:04:05,312 --> 00:04:09,015 Time to make some noise. 88 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:11,885 (whirring) 89 00:04:19,593 --> 00:04:21,728 All right, I got these all cut to length and now I've gotta do 90 00:04:21,728 --> 00:04:26,333 this next step, which is, screwing all this together. 91 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:27,968 Uh... 92 00:04:27,968 --> 00:04:29,169 Gonna screw 'em to the end. 93 00:04:29,169 --> 00:04:32,472 Screw 'em in the middle, screw 'em on this end, and, uh, 94 00:04:32,472 --> 00:04:34,141 everything will be happy then. 95 00:04:39,646 --> 00:04:41,248 JOHNNY: Here in Alaska, 96 00:04:41,248 --> 00:04:45,085 you gotta hunt to survive and if seasons change, 97 00:04:45,085 --> 00:04:47,788 you have to take advantage of what's in the locality, 98 00:04:47,788 --> 00:04:50,423 and not every hunt is gonna be successful, 99 00:04:50,423 --> 00:04:52,492 but you don't really have any other options. 100 00:04:52,492 --> 00:04:54,561 But to keep looking. 101 00:05:00,333 --> 00:05:04,171 JOHNNY: Yeah, that Eagle's doing the same thing I'm doing, hunting. 102 00:05:05,372 --> 00:05:06,840 You know, we're after different animals. 103 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:07,874 He's after fish. 104 00:05:07,874 --> 00:05:10,577 I'm after black bear. 105 00:05:10,577 --> 00:05:13,780 This time of year, I migrate with the animals, 106 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:15,816 and I leave the Brook's Range and 107 00:05:15,816 --> 00:05:19,286 I come to South Central Alaska. 108 00:05:20,554 --> 00:05:24,157 You know, there's two very important hunts every year. 109 00:05:25,458 --> 00:05:29,663 Fall hunt for winter meat and spring hunt for the summer meat. 110 00:05:29,663 --> 00:05:33,200 And right now I'm going after the elusive black bear 111 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,368 for my summer meat. 112 00:05:35,368 --> 00:05:39,339 This is the meat that carries me through until I go back north 113 00:05:39,339 --> 00:05:43,043 into the Brooks Range, but it's always daunting. 114 00:05:44,010 --> 00:05:46,313 If I don't get a bear, it's very hand to mouth. 115 00:05:46,313 --> 00:05:49,082 So that's why it's important to get just a big, 116 00:05:49,082 --> 00:05:51,985 solid wholesale style of food, 117 00:05:51,985 --> 00:05:54,187 and that's a bear for me. 118 00:05:54,187 --> 00:05:56,590 You know, bears man, they just like pop up out of nowhere 119 00:05:56,590 --> 00:05:58,925 and just, you least expect it. 120 00:05:58,925 --> 00:06:00,994 It's how it always is, you know? 121 00:06:05,432 --> 00:06:09,035 (gusting winds) 122 00:06:12,072 --> 00:06:13,506 Cool. 123 00:06:13,506 --> 00:06:15,442 All right Java, come on. 124 00:06:32,659 --> 00:06:36,029 I'm looking for like grass that's been clipped. 125 00:06:36,029 --> 00:06:40,300 It looks like somebody took like a weed eater and, uh, 126 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:42,802 that's from the black bear eating at it. 127 00:06:42,802 --> 00:06:45,305 I'm just trying to see what's been cut. 128 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,876 Here you go. Right here. 129 00:06:51,778 --> 00:06:54,014 You see the grass has been clipped. 130 00:06:54,014 --> 00:06:56,182 She smells it. 131 00:06:56,182 --> 00:07:00,787 So, normal blades of grass come to a point at the top. 132 00:07:00,787 --> 00:07:05,525 These all come to points, and you look at these ones that's 133 00:07:05,525 --> 00:07:09,829 been clipped and this, you can see it's a little brown on top. 134 00:07:09,829 --> 00:07:14,668 It's been chomped on, it's been eaten little patches here 135 00:07:14,668 --> 00:07:18,104 and there, so a bear has been coming down here. 136 00:07:18,938 --> 00:07:21,641 The bears don't go far from any food source, 137 00:07:21,641 --> 00:07:24,210 and right now the food source is the grass. 138 00:07:28,982 --> 00:07:32,052 If it's been there once, it's gonna come back. 139 00:07:32,052 --> 00:07:37,057 I just have to be in the right place at the right time. 140 00:07:44,497 --> 00:07:46,800 CHEVIE: We live on Innoko River for a reason. 141 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,501 Gives us a lot of fish. 142 00:07:48,501 --> 00:07:52,939 Gives us a lot of access, but when it wants to take, 143 00:07:52,939 --> 00:07:55,108 there's nothing you could do about it. 144 00:07:58,311 --> 00:08:00,180 SONTA: Truck is this, are they gonna move that? 145 00:08:00,180 --> 00:08:02,916 Or are they just gonna let the front end get flooded? 146 00:08:02,916 --> 00:08:04,584 CHEVIE: Does it look like it's in the water right now? 147 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:06,019 SONTA: Yeah, it's in the water. 148 00:08:06,019 --> 00:08:07,620 CHEVIE: All right, let's check on this cabin. 149 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:09,489 SONTA: Yeah, the water's really high in Shageluk. 150 00:08:09,489 --> 00:08:13,360 That's a sign that we better go check on the cabin today. 151 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,728 It's coming up. 152 00:08:14,728 --> 00:08:16,730 Would you still say about an inch an hour? 153 00:08:16,730 --> 00:08:18,631 CHEVIE: Gotta be. SONTA: About an inch an hour. 154 00:08:18,631 --> 00:08:20,166 CHEVIE: Gotta be something like that. 155 00:08:20,166 --> 00:08:22,635 And there's so much water on the Innoko 'cause we had a lot of snow. 156 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:24,004 A late spring. 157 00:08:24,004 --> 00:08:25,905 The mountain runoff's finally starting, 158 00:08:25,905 --> 00:08:27,941 and this water's gonna keep on coming up. 159 00:08:27,941 --> 00:08:31,544 And I'm really concerned about our cabin down river because it 160 00:08:31,544 --> 00:08:33,646 is not on high ground. 161 00:08:33,646 --> 00:08:36,483 SONTA: Dang, Chev. Look at that bridge. 162 00:08:36,483 --> 00:08:39,252 I've never seen the water that high. 163 00:08:40,020 --> 00:08:41,388 CHEVIE: If that bridge goes out, 164 00:08:41,388 --> 00:08:43,890 we'd have a real emergency here in Shageluk. 165 00:08:44,324 --> 00:08:47,193 This is our access to the outside world. 166 00:08:47,193 --> 00:08:49,963 Anything that comes into this community that people rely on, 167 00:08:49,963 --> 00:08:52,098 comes across that bridge. 168 00:08:52,098 --> 00:08:56,536 SONTA: The bridge is essentially a lifeline to everywhere else. 169 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:58,505 You know, there's really no way out of the community. 170 00:08:58,505 --> 00:09:00,006 CHEVIE: Yep. 171 00:09:00,006 --> 00:09:03,376 SONTA: And it's a concern for safety and medical needs or emergencies. 172 00:09:03,376 --> 00:09:06,279 CHEVIE: And right by that bridge is the power plant and 173 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:08,014 that powers the whole community. 174 00:09:08,014 --> 00:09:10,917 If the water gets high enough to start to reach those 175 00:09:10,917 --> 00:09:14,320 transformers underneath it, we have to shut the power down. 176 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,757 Mother Nature could say you're going back 177 00:09:17,757 --> 00:09:21,561 in time, 30, 40 years, 50 years. 178 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:24,397 We start worrying about food security for people and 179 00:09:24,397 --> 00:09:26,332 different stuff like that, just. 180 00:09:26,332 --> 00:09:28,368 It's, uh, it's a real deal. 181 00:09:28,368 --> 00:09:31,704 You gotta be one or two steps ahead of it, so... 182 00:09:31,704 --> 00:09:32,906 SONTA: Yep. 183 00:09:32,906 --> 00:09:34,474 Definitely don't wanna be behind a situation like this. 184 00:09:34,474 --> 00:09:36,076 CHEVIE: Yep. 185 00:09:36,076 --> 00:09:39,412 The water's coming up fast, it's not going down. 186 00:09:39,646 --> 00:09:41,781 SONTA: So should we go check on the cabin? 187 00:09:41,781 --> 00:09:43,683 CHEVIE: Let's do it. 188 00:09:44,918 --> 00:09:48,321 Where Sonta and I and the kids live is up on a hill. 189 00:09:48,321 --> 00:09:51,357 We're in a safe location, but what I'm worried about is 190 00:09:51,357 --> 00:09:55,128 our remote cabin that's right on the river. 191 00:09:56,329 --> 00:09:58,198 SONTA: The water's super high here. 192 00:09:58,198 --> 00:10:00,333 I mean, it definitely is concerning to me. 193 00:10:00,333 --> 00:10:02,302 Let's just get to the cabin. 194 00:10:04,404 --> 00:10:05,738 Chevy, you're really looking. 195 00:10:05,738 --> 00:10:07,373 You gotta really look. 196 00:10:07,373 --> 00:10:10,677 CHEVIE: Where's the cabin? SONTA: I don't see the cabin. 197 00:10:10,677 --> 00:10:12,612 CHEVIE: I don't see the cabin. 198 00:10:17,884 --> 00:10:19,519 There's the cabin. 199 00:10:19,519 --> 00:10:20,920 SONTA: There's the cabin. 200 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,623 Yep. That'd be our cabin. 201 00:10:24,657 --> 00:10:27,527 CHEVIE: Damn. Holy (bleep). 202 00:10:31,698 --> 00:10:34,434 SONTA: And look, it's even more water in the back of the cabin too. 203 00:10:34,434 --> 00:10:37,170 CHEVIE: Yeah, there's a lot in the back of the cabin. 204 00:10:37,170 --> 00:10:39,506 (sighs) 205 00:10:39,506 --> 00:10:40,507 SONTA: So, what are we gonna do today? 206 00:10:40,507 --> 00:10:42,709 Just chain it up and jack up the house. 207 00:10:42,709 --> 00:10:43,743 CHEVIE: Let's get prepared. 208 00:10:43,743 --> 00:10:47,814 Let's, uh, front row parking. 209 00:10:47,814 --> 00:10:49,382 Oh, and there goes the dog. 210 00:10:49,382 --> 00:10:50,717 SONTA: Oh, Thor. 211 00:10:50,717 --> 00:10:52,886 There's water there now buddy. 212 00:10:56,356 --> 00:10:58,591 CHEVIE: Holy (bleep). 213 00:10:58,591 --> 00:11:00,727 SONTA: Good thing we brought our rubber boots today. 214 00:11:00,727 --> 00:11:01,728 Wow. 215 00:11:01,728 --> 00:11:03,062 CHEVIE: It is... 216 00:11:03,062 --> 00:11:04,397 SONTA: It's never come up this high since we've built this place. 217 00:11:04,397 --> 00:11:05,832 CHEVIE: Well, the other thing that's amazing me 218 00:11:05,832 --> 00:11:08,601 is look how deep it is. 219 00:11:08,601 --> 00:11:11,170 SONTA: It rose a lot quicker than I expected and 220 00:11:11,170 --> 00:11:12,639 it's still coming up. 221 00:11:12,639 --> 00:11:14,874 CHEVIE: Let's, uh, pick up anything else that's loose, 222 00:11:14,874 --> 00:11:17,343 I guess I see just stuff underneath the cabin. 223 00:11:17,343 --> 00:11:18,811 SONTA: Some tools. CHEVIE: Some tools. 224 00:11:18,811 --> 00:11:20,113 Let's try to get that tin high. 225 00:11:20,113 --> 00:11:21,281 Whatever we could do. 226 00:11:21,281 --> 00:11:23,550 And let's just give it one more good pickup so 227 00:11:23,550 --> 00:11:24,918 we could work around this area. 228 00:11:24,918 --> 00:11:26,819 We might have to end up jacking this cabin up. 229 00:11:26,819 --> 00:11:28,788 SONTA: All right. Yeah. 230 00:11:28,788 --> 00:11:30,657 Just to get that much higher, you mean? 231 00:11:30,657 --> 00:11:31,891 CHEVIE: Just to get it that much higher. 232 00:11:31,891 --> 00:11:34,761 So the water's gotta come up another, foot, 233 00:11:34,761 --> 00:11:37,063 18 inches and then it'll be in our floor. 234 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:41,367 And then I just kind of want to prep and like see how much strap 235 00:11:41,367 --> 00:11:43,436 we're gonna need to run. 236 00:11:43,436 --> 00:11:45,605 SONTA: Basically, you just wanna tie off the whole building. 237 00:11:45,605 --> 00:11:46,973 CHEVIE: We'll tie off that whole building. 238 00:11:46,973 --> 00:11:47,974 All right. 239 00:11:47,974 --> 00:11:49,108 SONTA: This is amazing though. 240 00:11:49,108 --> 00:11:52,445 I was not expecting this much water in just one day. 241 00:11:52,445 --> 00:11:53,746 So the water's still coming up. 242 00:11:53,746 --> 00:11:54,914 It's really a concern. 243 00:11:54,914 --> 00:11:56,149 CHEVIE: No (bleep). 244 00:11:56,149 --> 00:11:59,085 I mean, hell, it might be at the bottom of the floor tomorrow. 245 00:11:59,085 --> 00:12:01,955 SONTA: Well, let's get to it. 246 00:12:01,955 --> 00:12:05,024 Time's definitely moving a lot faster than we are right now. 247 00:12:05,758 --> 00:12:06,793 CHEVIE: We're on a river. 248 00:12:06,793 --> 00:12:08,328 We're not on a road system. 249 00:12:08,328 --> 00:12:09,462 There's no hotels. 250 00:12:09,462 --> 00:12:11,864 There's no gas stations between villages. 251 00:12:11,864 --> 00:12:14,167 SONTA: Thor! You're not helping. 252 00:12:14,167 --> 00:12:16,369 CHEVIE: But as cabins are built along river systems, 253 00:12:16,369 --> 00:12:19,038 they're a necessity for everybody that lives in this 254 00:12:19,038 --> 00:12:22,842 region to have those safe houses along the way and 255 00:12:22,842 --> 00:12:25,411 along the trails that are traveled year-round. 256 00:12:29,115 --> 00:12:31,651 KALEB: In order to have a good building, 257 00:12:31,651 --> 00:12:34,387 a proper foundation needs to be laid. 258 00:12:34,387 --> 00:12:38,224 My entire career has been in construction, 259 00:12:39,959 --> 00:12:42,862 so if I want something built, 260 00:12:42,862 --> 00:12:45,732 I have the skills to make it happen. 261 00:12:46,899 --> 00:12:48,001 KALEB: These are all cut to length, 262 00:12:48,001 --> 00:12:50,703 so now I can get to the, uh, 263 00:12:50,703 --> 00:12:52,472 business of building a greenhouse. 264 00:12:52,472 --> 00:12:54,574 Everything's level now. 265 00:12:55,408 --> 00:12:59,245 (drill whirring) 266 00:13:00,013 --> 00:13:01,381 There we go. 267 00:13:01,381 --> 00:13:02,415 There's one bow put together. 268 00:13:02,415 --> 00:13:04,050 Shall we go try and stand it up? 269 00:13:04,050 --> 00:13:06,319 BRITTANY: Yeah. 270 00:13:08,488 --> 00:13:10,490 Okay. 271 00:13:11,057 --> 00:13:13,860 Oh, there it is. 272 00:13:15,828 --> 00:13:16,929 There we go. 273 00:13:16,929 --> 00:13:18,631 KALEB: There we go. Cool. Let's make another one. 274 00:13:18,631 --> 00:13:20,700 ELOVIE: Wow! KALEB: It works. 275 00:13:21,267 --> 00:13:24,270 BRITTANY: Knowing how to build, even as something as simple as 276 00:13:24,270 --> 00:13:29,642 these already bent steel poles can help my kids to be a little 277 00:13:29,642 --> 00:13:31,944 bit more self-sufficient. 278 00:13:31,944 --> 00:13:33,179 ELOVIE: Here you go. 279 00:13:33,179 --> 00:13:34,514 KALEB: Thank you darling. 280 00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:38,518 GILBERT: Here. BRITTANY: Thank you. 281 00:13:38,518 --> 00:13:40,586 I think it's going to help them later on in life, 282 00:13:40,586 --> 00:13:42,221 whether they decide to live in the city or 283 00:13:42,221 --> 00:13:43,623 whether they decide to live rurally. 284 00:13:43,623 --> 00:13:45,591 They'll either have these great memories or 285 00:13:45,591 --> 00:13:48,194 have these great abilities as they grow. 286 00:13:48,594 --> 00:13:52,065 (whirring) 287 00:13:52,398 --> 00:13:53,933 Last one. 288 00:13:53,933 --> 00:13:55,501 KALEB: Last one. 289 00:13:55,501 --> 00:13:57,470 BRITTANY: Can't put it in yet. KALEB: Let's hope it fits. 290 00:13:57,970 --> 00:13:59,272 BRITTANY: What happens if it doesn't? 291 00:13:59,272 --> 00:14:00,807 KALEB: What? 292 00:14:00,807 --> 00:14:02,775 BRITTANY: I said what happens if it doesn't? 293 00:14:02,775 --> 00:14:06,913 KALEB: I'm gonna go, somewhere else and cry. 294 00:14:06,913 --> 00:14:08,381 Probably. 295 00:14:08,381 --> 00:14:09,782 BRITTANY: Ellie, come bring the bolts over. 296 00:14:09,782 --> 00:14:12,051 KALEB: That's something that I totally do. 297 00:14:12,051 --> 00:14:13,619 BRITTANY: That makes sense. 298 00:14:13,619 --> 00:14:14,620 Move from this direction. 299 00:14:14,620 --> 00:14:15,655 Mm-hmm. 300 00:14:15,655 --> 00:14:18,024 KALEB: There we go. BRITTANY: Ta-da. 301 00:14:18,024 --> 00:14:21,027 KALEB: Ah, we got us the start of a greenhouse. 302 00:14:21,027 --> 00:14:23,663 BRITTANY: What if I, I think it needs to be rotated? 303 00:14:23,663 --> 00:14:24,964 KALEB: Have fun. 304 00:14:24,964 --> 00:14:26,332 (laughs) 305 00:14:26,332 --> 00:14:27,533 BRITTANY: I think this looks amazing. 306 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:29,368 KALEB: You just do that. This is, is amazing. 307 00:14:29,368 --> 00:14:31,003 All right, I'm gonna get... 308 00:14:31,003 --> 00:14:32,238 BRITTANY: What's the next step? 309 00:14:32,238 --> 00:14:34,707 KALEB: A, uh, wrench and tighten all these up. 310 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:36,476 BRITTANY: Cool. Do you have two wrenches? 311 00:14:36,476 --> 00:14:39,212 KALEB: Yeah. BRITTANY: Let's go get 'em. 312 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:48,020 JOHNNY: When you're going out into the wilderness hunting, tracking, 313 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:51,224 you have to look at nature signs and adapt to them, 314 00:14:51,224 --> 00:14:55,128 but also having a plan is super important. 315 00:15:04,804 --> 00:15:07,173 JOHNNY: Is that a bear? 316 00:15:09,575 --> 00:15:11,911 Is it moving? 317 00:15:13,780 --> 00:15:16,249 It's moving. 318 00:15:17,283 --> 00:15:19,185 Got a bear, Java. 319 00:15:20,153 --> 00:15:24,190 I'm gonna try to get up there before it crawls into the brush. 320 00:15:24,190 --> 00:15:26,459 All right. Here we go. 321 00:15:35,535 --> 00:15:41,808 Stay. Stay. Stay. 322 00:15:42,308 --> 00:15:44,076 Stay, stay, stay. 323 00:15:44,076 --> 00:15:46,379 Okay, get out there. 324 00:16:01,127 --> 00:16:06,866 ♪ ♪ 325 00:16:06,866 --> 00:16:09,702 Yeah, I'm gonna try to close this gap. 326 00:16:23,349 --> 00:16:30,056 ♪ ♪ 327 00:16:33,059 --> 00:16:35,595 It's looking at me. 328 00:16:48,441 --> 00:16:53,546 ♪ ♪ 329 00:17:01,087 --> 00:17:03,456 I'm gonna take a shot. 330 00:17:11,364 --> 00:17:16,369 ♪ ♪ 331 00:17:18,771 --> 00:17:22,842 JOHNNY: That's a female, I'm almost certain that's a female. 332 00:17:26,846 --> 00:17:28,881 The closer you get, you can kind of tell by the hump, 333 00:17:28,881 --> 00:17:31,851 and the ears, and the shape of the face. 334 00:17:31,851 --> 00:17:35,955 It's this bear right here that's gonna guarantee you future bears. 335 00:17:35,955 --> 00:17:39,125 Just because I hunt, and I kill. 336 00:17:39,125 --> 00:17:42,261 It doesn't mean I want to kill everything I see. 337 00:17:43,296 --> 00:17:48,000 And as much as I need the meat, I'm just gonna let that bear be. 338 00:17:53,506 --> 00:17:55,641 I gotta go find my bear. 339 00:18:01,948 --> 00:18:04,350 CHEVIE: With spring comes high water. 340 00:18:04,350 --> 00:18:07,486 With high water comes a chance of flooding. 341 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:11,524 Even though this is something that we know may happen, 342 00:18:11,524 --> 00:18:16,462 when it does, there needs to be action taken. 343 00:18:18,998 --> 00:18:20,299 CHEVIE: So what we're waiting on, 344 00:18:20,299 --> 00:18:23,602 we're waiting to see is how high is this water gonna get? 345 00:18:23,602 --> 00:18:25,871 Is the house gonna stay on its foundation, 346 00:18:25,871 --> 00:18:28,341 or is it gonna get high enough to be able to 347 00:18:28,341 --> 00:18:31,777 float this cabin down the river? 348 00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:34,580 If that's the case, I want it to be hanging onto this 349 00:18:34,580 --> 00:18:36,215 sturdy birch tree right here. 350 00:18:36,215 --> 00:18:41,387 There's no reason to assume that somebody's gonna turn the spicket off. 351 00:18:41,387 --> 00:18:42,855 Right now the water's still running. 352 00:18:42,855 --> 00:18:45,057 Water's still coming up. 353 00:18:45,057 --> 00:18:46,726 All right, so I'll grab a couple straps. 354 00:18:46,726 --> 00:18:48,928 SONTA: Yep. 355 00:18:50,730 --> 00:18:53,432 CHEVIE: I came here thinking for sure I'm gonna jack this cabin up. 356 00:18:53,432 --> 00:18:57,803 And then some gut instincts, just like, I don't know, man. 357 00:18:59,338 --> 00:19:02,575 I sure don't want to mess with the structural integrity of 358 00:19:02,575 --> 00:19:08,447 the building and then create, create a problem I don't have. 359 00:19:09,749 --> 00:19:12,284 SONTA: What do you think Thor this water world? 360 00:19:12,284 --> 00:19:14,620 Just how you like it. 361 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:16,389 CHEVIE: Sonta's jazzed, relaxed, having fun, 362 00:19:16,389 --> 00:19:20,893 saving the cabin and I'm kind of like 363 00:19:20,893 --> 00:19:22,461 hope I make the right call here. 364 00:19:22,461 --> 00:19:24,563 You know, the pressure's on me to make sure that 365 00:19:24,563 --> 00:19:26,899 this thing doesn't go away. 366 00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:29,335 Panicking and freaking out and, and stuff 367 00:19:29,335 --> 00:19:31,303 like that's not gonna get you anywhere. 368 00:19:31,303 --> 00:19:33,606 You kinda gotta keep your head and just have faith that it, 369 00:19:33,606 --> 00:19:35,574 everything's gonna work out. 370 00:19:35,574 --> 00:19:38,644 SONTA: I'm nervous. Don't break the windows. 371 00:19:38,644 --> 00:19:42,682 CHEVIE: So, what we're gonna do is running some straps through 372 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:48,521 these windows onto this big birch tree right here. 373 00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:51,891 So I have something sturdy with deep, deep roots. 374 00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:55,127 If it starts floating, it's not gonna go far. 375 00:19:55,127 --> 00:19:57,363 I'm just gonna keep my fingers crossed and 376 00:19:57,363 --> 00:20:00,766 hope I'll have something to work with after the flood. 377 00:20:02,902 --> 00:20:06,806 Two, two of these two-inch straps will hopefully do the, 378 00:20:06,806 --> 00:20:08,240 do the trick to hold it. 379 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:09,375 That's a lot of force. 380 00:20:09,375 --> 00:20:10,776 That's a lot of river water, but... 381 00:20:10,776 --> 00:20:12,378 SONTA: Yep. 382 00:20:12,378 --> 00:20:14,780 CHEVIE: I had been contemplating cutting down that birch tree or not. 383 00:20:14,780 --> 00:20:16,115 Could be kind of a hazard, 384 00:20:16,115 --> 00:20:18,217 but I thought I better leave that there. 385 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:19,885 Not gonna be able to cut it down now, 386 00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:22,421 especially if it keeps the cabin here. 387 00:20:22,421 --> 00:20:27,193 Um, we'll have a special bond with that tree for sure. 388 00:20:31,697 --> 00:20:33,799 KAMILIA: Alaska's unpredictable. 389 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:37,536 We are always risking and it's dangerous. 390 00:20:37,870 --> 00:20:40,106 Mother Nature has no mercy here. 391 00:20:49,515 --> 00:20:52,551 RJ: This is a ginormous bay. 392 00:20:52,551 --> 00:20:54,687 You know, if I was a bear, I would definitely be out here 393 00:20:54,687 --> 00:20:58,524 grazing on the seaweed or the grass. 394 00:20:58,724 --> 00:21:05,331 (imitating deer calls) 395 00:21:07,233 --> 00:21:10,336 KAMILIA: Imitating a deer? 396 00:21:10,336 --> 00:21:12,037 RJ: Yeah, it's just like a distressed fawn. 397 00:21:12,037 --> 00:21:17,510 I might get a hungry bear looking for an easy meal. 398 00:21:22,348 --> 00:21:27,219 You see any, uh, scat or paw prints yet? 399 00:21:27,219 --> 00:21:29,722 KAMILIA: Not yet. RJ: Yeah. 400 00:21:29,722 --> 00:21:33,292 KAMILIA: I'm scanning pretty intensely though. 401 00:21:33,292 --> 00:21:36,896 RJ: Just need to find a couple bear tracks something fresh. 402 00:21:43,769 --> 00:21:46,739 KAMILIA: What is this? See that one? 403 00:21:46,739 --> 00:21:48,707 RJ: Huge wolf tracks. KAMILIA: Wow. 404 00:21:48,707 --> 00:21:51,877 RJ: Pretty fresh. KAMILIA: Crazy. 405 00:21:51,877 --> 00:21:53,145 (barks) 406 00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:55,614 RJ: Hey, heel. 407 00:21:55,614 --> 00:21:57,449 It's pretty eerie. 408 00:21:57,449 --> 00:21:59,818 I don't think very many people have been mauled by wolves, 409 00:21:59,818 --> 00:22:03,589 but it's probably hard to keep a record since they eat everything. 410 00:22:03,589 --> 00:22:05,724 The bones and all. 411 00:22:08,093 --> 00:22:09,428 Ah, ah, ah, ah. 412 00:22:09,428 --> 00:22:13,732 (howling) 413 00:22:13,732 --> 00:22:16,268 That's close. 414 00:22:16,268 --> 00:22:18,504 Those are not your friends, Olive. 415 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:22,174 (howling) 416 00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:24,476 That is seriously a lot of wolves. 417 00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:38,457 (howling) 418 00:22:38,858 --> 00:22:42,761 RJ: It's cool but it's also kinda terrifying at the same time. 419 00:22:42,761 --> 00:22:44,897 You wanna try to talk to them? 420 00:22:44,897 --> 00:22:46,465 KAMILIA: No. RJ: Why not? 421 00:22:46,465 --> 00:22:48,434 KAMILIA: Because I don't wanna bring a pack of wolves here. 422 00:22:48,434 --> 00:22:50,536 We only have two guns. 423 00:22:50,536 --> 00:22:52,838 RJ: It's perfect. 424 00:22:53,739 --> 00:22:55,507 KAMILIA: Not against 15 or 20 wolves. 425 00:22:55,507 --> 00:23:01,113 (howling) 426 00:23:01,113 --> 00:23:03,582 Why do you think they're howling like that? 427 00:23:03,582 --> 00:23:06,385 RJ: They can smell Olive so. 428 00:23:06,385 --> 00:23:10,756 It could be just a way to try to lure her towards them. 429 00:23:10,756 --> 00:23:12,725 They'll try to imitate. 430 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:18,297 Like they'll howl or they'll yelp and lure her into the herd. 431 00:23:19,531 --> 00:23:23,202 Make it feel as if she's like one of them. 432 00:23:23,202 --> 00:23:25,638 And then they'll eat her. 433 00:23:25,638 --> 00:23:27,940 KAMILIA: She's very curious. 434 00:23:27,940 --> 00:23:29,975 RJ: That's exactly what they're doing. 435 00:23:29,975 --> 00:23:32,544 (howling) 436 00:23:32,544 --> 00:23:35,481 KAMILIA: It's okay. 437 00:23:35,481 --> 00:23:37,850 RJ: There's a wolf right there. KAMILIA: Stop. 438 00:23:37,850 --> 00:23:40,953 RJ: Yeah, it out in the open. KAMILIA: Where? 439 00:23:42,121 --> 00:23:44,657 RJ: They're right out there on the flat. 440 00:23:46,458 --> 00:23:49,928 I can guarantee those wolves know were here though. 441 00:23:49,928 --> 00:23:52,731 KAMILIA: That's so terrifying. 442 00:23:52,731 --> 00:23:56,035 He's just walking now down that beach. 443 00:23:57,536 --> 00:24:00,072 RJ: It's like a perfect set up. 444 00:24:00,072 --> 00:24:03,742 There's a pack of wolves but there's only one in the open. 445 00:24:04,009 --> 00:24:07,813 She comes up and hangs out and then 446 00:24:07,813 --> 00:24:10,616 goes walks in the trees and then they all attack. 447 00:24:10,616 --> 00:24:13,252 They're very smart hunters. 448 00:24:13,719 --> 00:24:14,853 KAMILIA: Seeing the wolves and 449 00:24:14,853 --> 00:24:17,489 hearing the howling of the wolves behind it, 450 00:24:17,489 --> 00:24:21,660 it reminds me how powerful Alaska is. 451 00:24:21,660 --> 00:24:26,732 Despite how beautiful and powerful this moment is we know 452 00:24:26,732 --> 00:24:30,235 that we're not going to be able to find our bear here. 453 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:31,804 We need to move on. 454 00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:34,740 RJ: It's been a pretty interesting morning, so. 455 00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:37,976 Maybe change the plan and go fly fishing and 456 00:24:37,976 --> 00:24:41,313 then drift down the river at dark. 457 00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:44,917 KAMILIA: Okay. RJ: Heel. 458 00:24:49,788 --> 00:24:52,624 SONTA: Shageluk has had a history of flooding. 459 00:24:52,624 --> 00:24:57,763 So roughly every 20 years the whole Innoko River is impacted 460 00:24:57,763 --> 00:25:03,969 by a surge of water, and this just happens to be that year. 461 00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:11,310 CHEVIE: Coming up by the hour, getting higher and higher. 462 00:25:11,310 --> 00:25:15,547 SONTA: You could just feel that current pushing against you. 463 00:25:15,547 --> 00:25:19,084 That's just pretty wild, just about over my boots. 464 00:25:19,084 --> 00:25:21,220 You just want to get these batteries moved? 465 00:25:21,220 --> 00:25:24,089 CHEVIE: Yeah, it'd probably be the smart thing to do if 466 00:25:24,089 --> 00:25:26,725 we don't know how high this water is going to get and 467 00:25:26,725 --> 00:25:30,095 I was hoping that I didn't have to move these batteries, um. 468 00:25:30,095 --> 00:25:31,630 They're heavy. 469 00:25:31,630 --> 00:25:36,602 And, uh, who wants to deal with electricity standing in water, you know? 470 00:25:36,602 --> 00:25:39,271 (sighs) 471 00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:41,707 SONTA: You just want to put them inside the cabin for now? 472 00:25:41,707 --> 00:25:43,542 CHEVIE: Well, I don't know what the hell is going to happen to the cabin, 473 00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:46,478 so we might as well just take them home. 474 00:25:46,478 --> 00:25:49,248 Hope that we have a cabin to bring them back to. 475 00:25:52,718 --> 00:25:54,186 Hey. 476 00:25:54,186 --> 00:25:55,788 SONTA: I know. 477 00:26:01,126 --> 00:26:03,896 Every step's a sure step. 478 00:26:04,763 --> 00:26:06,031 (grunts) 479 00:26:06,031 --> 00:26:08,567 Contain your balance. 480 00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:10,502 How many pounds is that Chev? 481 00:26:10,502 --> 00:26:13,872 CHEVIE: I don't know. I think they're 125. 482 00:26:13,872 --> 00:26:15,074 (grunts) 483 00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:16,875 I love this cabin. 484 00:26:16,875 --> 00:26:18,277 SONTA: Way to go Chev. 485 00:26:18,277 --> 00:26:20,112 CHEVIE: Sonta and I built it. 486 00:26:20,112 --> 00:26:21,947 SONTA: Okay, ready for the next one? 487 00:26:21,947 --> 00:26:23,649 CHEVIE: Not really but. 488 00:26:23,649 --> 00:26:25,584 When you put in work on something, 489 00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:27,119 it's more than just a structure. 490 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,622 It's more than just a place used for subsistence activities 491 00:26:30,622 --> 00:26:33,258 or hunting and fishing. 492 00:26:33,258 --> 00:26:34,927 Hell, I probably could have just parked the boat up 493 00:26:34,927 --> 00:26:36,728 another five feet. 494 00:26:36,728 --> 00:26:39,231 SONTA: I didn't even think about that. 495 00:26:39,231 --> 00:26:42,601 CHEVIE: And when something threatens to tear that down just 496 00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:45,737 because of Mother Nature, it's pretty alarming. 497 00:26:45,737 --> 00:26:47,339 All right, one more battery here. 498 00:26:47,339 --> 00:26:49,808 SONTA: Last one. 499 00:26:49,808 --> 00:26:51,944 CHEVIE: This is an emergency situation, 500 00:26:51,944 --> 00:26:53,512 and the water's still coming up. 501 00:26:53,512 --> 00:26:55,147 There's a lot of current through the cabin. 502 00:26:55,147 --> 00:26:57,483 I'm just hoping that something changes. 503 00:26:57,483 --> 00:27:00,219 I'm hoping that there's this, that there's a sign that this 504 00:27:00,219 --> 00:27:02,454 water's going to start to go down. 505 00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:05,424 Not much more we could do now, 506 00:27:05,424 --> 00:27:08,827 but just hope and pray, so to speak. 507 00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:18,170 Hope it's there when we come back. 508 00:27:22,608 --> 00:27:25,110 JOHNNY: Rain and weather can be frustrating. 509 00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:28,480 But more so because the animals don't like to cooperate with it. 510 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,584 But I don't mind subjecting myself to the hardships. 511 00:27:32,584 --> 00:27:35,521 Because that's hunting in Alaska. 512 00:27:42,427 --> 00:27:44,997 JOHNNY: Look at this here. 513 00:27:46,932 --> 00:27:50,702 A vertebrae. It's small. 514 00:27:50,702 --> 00:27:52,838 I'm not sure what that's to. 515 00:27:52,838 --> 00:27:53,839 Could be a seal. 516 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:55,807 It could be a lot of different things. 517 00:27:55,807 --> 00:28:00,546 Small bear, and I know that one of the main food sources of 518 00:28:00,546 --> 00:28:04,216 a bear, when it comes out of the den, is cubs. 519 00:28:04,216 --> 00:28:07,619 It's one of their main food sources, grass and cubs. 520 00:28:10,055 --> 00:28:11,256 Yeah, I don't know what this is from though. 521 00:28:11,256 --> 00:28:14,126 But it's small, it could definitely have been from a cub. 522 00:28:15,260 --> 00:28:17,763 What you think? 523 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:22,234 No, not interested. 524 00:28:22,234 --> 00:28:24,136 (laughs) 525 00:28:27,306 --> 00:28:29,474 Nature's here to thin out the weak. 526 00:28:29,474 --> 00:28:33,645 And if I'm weak and I'm just not going to make it out here. 527 00:28:33,645 --> 00:28:35,914 I like challenges, I like being presented with 528 00:28:35,914 --> 00:28:39,284 a little bit of a push to find food for myself, 529 00:28:39,284 --> 00:28:41,853 because finding food for me is hard, 530 00:28:41,853 --> 00:28:43,889 but it's an adventure. 531 00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:50,162 Something starting. 532 00:28:50,162 --> 00:28:54,166 I feel a little bit of rain and I know from my past experiences 533 00:28:54,166 --> 00:28:56,201 that it bothers bears. 534 00:28:56,201 --> 00:28:59,738 I just, like, I've never seen them out and about in the rain. 535 00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:03,575 I think I might just head back to camp. 536 00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:06,678 And just come back later tonight if it's not pouring down rain, 537 00:29:06,678 --> 00:29:09,448 just keep the hunt alive. 538 00:29:09,448 --> 00:29:12,150 That's the best choice to make right now. 539 00:29:17,389 --> 00:29:21,526 (pouring rain) 540 00:29:22,194 --> 00:29:25,063 The rain just started. 541 00:29:25,063 --> 00:29:27,366 Now this is a hunt for me to secure meat for the spring and 542 00:29:27,366 --> 00:29:30,502 the summer, and to just be hunkered down in a tent, 543 00:29:30,502 --> 00:29:35,540 not seeing any bears, not being able to harvest anything is, 544 00:29:35,540 --> 00:29:37,109 it's just not productive for me. 545 00:29:37,109 --> 00:29:38,510 It's just kind of waste of time. 546 00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:39,778 And as much as I love hunting, 547 00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:41,280 it's not just a recreational hunt, 548 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,349 it's a hunt with lot of purpose, so. 549 00:29:44,349 --> 00:29:47,486 Yeah, you just gotta deal with the punches as they come. 550 00:29:55,093 --> 00:29:57,029 It's getting water in here too, man. 551 00:29:57,029 --> 00:30:00,332 The rain builds up pretty quick in the boat. 552 00:30:00,332 --> 00:30:03,135 And this boat's pretty old. 553 00:30:05,070 --> 00:30:07,306 Once those winds start howling, 554 00:30:07,306 --> 00:30:11,310 this boat's gonna be zipping down the coastline, 555 00:30:11,310 --> 00:30:13,979 so I want to tighten this up a little bit. 556 00:30:16,515 --> 00:30:18,784 It's creepy to have it be this calm because it's, 557 00:30:18,784 --> 00:30:21,687 to me, the calm before the storm. 558 00:30:21,687 --> 00:30:23,722 So, I think that when it starts picking up, 559 00:30:23,722 --> 00:30:24,923 it's going to be dark. 560 00:30:24,923 --> 00:30:26,758 It's going to be when I'm sleeping in my tent and we'll 561 00:30:26,758 --> 00:30:30,128 see how I go to sleep tonight, knowing my boat's just out here 562 00:30:30,128 --> 00:30:34,700 and my tents going to be rattling in the wind, but. 563 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:36,702 Hey man, that part of Alaska life, 564 00:30:36,702 --> 00:30:38,370 what are you gonna do? 565 00:30:44,376 --> 00:30:46,178 KALEB: Living in rural Alaska, 566 00:30:46,178 --> 00:30:50,582 having a garden is really important, perfectly plum. 567 00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:52,684 But Brittany and I have never made it a priority 568 00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:54,953 because we're not good at growing things. 569 00:30:54,953 --> 00:30:57,522 BRITTANY: One down, three more to go. 570 00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,925 KALEB: There's always a time to learn something new. 571 00:30:59,925 --> 00:31:01,526 But. 572 00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:03,795 Hopefully not the hard way. 573 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:09,801 BRITTANY: All right, what's the next step? 574 00:31:09,801 --> 00:31:12,604 KALEB: I think the next thing I want to do is get this vent mounted. 575 00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:13,739 BRITTANY: Okay. 576 00:31:13,739 --> 00:31:14,840 KALEB: And then there's channel lock stuff that goes 577 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,176 across the framing that, that locks in the plastic. 578 00:31:18,176 --> 00:31:20,779 It goes up over the top of the bow and then 579 00:31:20,779 --> 00:31:22,314 of course some across the bottom here. 580 00:31:22,314 --> 00:31:24,015 BRITTANY: Cool. 581 00:31:24,015 --> 00:31:25,684 KALEB: Brittany is a huge help on this project. 582 00:31:25,684 --> 00:31:28,353 This isn't really something that can be done by a person, 583 00:31:28,353 --> 00:31:32,190 by himself, a partner is needed, and Brittany has been doing an 584 00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:35,727 awesome job of helping me out with this project and 585 00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:38,396 providing the extra set of hands that's needed. 586 00:31:39,064 --> 00:31:41,566 It's coming along really good. 587 00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:44,803 Getting this channel lock on. 588 00:31:46,204 --> 00:31:49,674 And then the vent. 589 00:31:49,674 --> 00:31:51,977 Channel lock on the other side and then this side will actually 590 00:31:51,977 --> 00:31:53,812 be ready for plastic. 591 00:31:53,812 --> 00:31:56,148 That's pretty exciting. 592 00:31:56,148 --> 00:31:58,150 BRITTANY: Go grab another piece for you. 593 00:32:02,287 --> 00:32:03,688 Whenever we're doing these projects together, 594 00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:06,625 I try to do whatever is needed. 595 00:32:06,625 --> 00:32:10,328 It's not very often that I use the chop saw. 596 00:32:12,397 --> 00:32:13,732 Even though I don't use it often, 597 00:32:13,732 --> 00:32:15,834 it has always been with wood. 598 00:32:15,834 --> 00:32:19,805 I've never cut metal before, but we'll just see how it goes. 599 00:32:33,018 --> 00:32:35,654 (whirring) 600 00:32:38,156 --> 00:32:40,492 (rattling) 601 00:32:40,492 --> 00:32:44,863 BRITTANY: Uh-oh. KALEB: That looked bad. 602 00:32:44,863 --> 00:32:46,198 BRITTANY: It sounded bad too. 603 00:32:46,198 --> 00:32:47,365 KALEB: Mm-hmm. 604 00:32:47,365 --> 00:32:48,867 BRITTANY: What did, what did I do? 605 00:32:48,867 --> 00:32:50,535 KALEB: Well, you have to go really slow with these when 606 00:32:50,535 --> 00:32:53,271 you're cutting into, uh, light metals. 607 00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:54,940 Otherwise, the blade can catch, 608 00:32:54,940 --> 00:32:56,408 especially with how thin that is. 609 00:32:56,408 --> 00:32:59,611 And it yanks it up, yanks it up into here... 610 00:32:59,611 --> 00:33:01,413 BRITTANY: And then it fling, uh, that way. 611 00:33:01,413 --> 00:33:03,081 KALEB: And then it flings it. 612 00:33:03,081 --> 00:33:06,117 BRITTANY: So that's maybe something to tell me about before, 613 00:33:06,117 --> 00:33:07,919 because I've never cut metal before. 614 00:33:07,919 --> 00:33:09,721 KALEB: Oh, well, see, I didn't realize that. 615 00:33:09,721 --> 00:33:11,189 So that was my bad. 616 00:33:11,189 --> 00:33:13,859 BRITTANY: I mean, every time I've used any power tool, 617 00:33:13,859 --> 00:33:15,260 it's been with you. 618 00:33:15,260 --> 00:33:17,896 KALEB: Yeah. I just didn't realize it. 619 00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:18,930 To me it's just second nature. 620 00:33:18,930 --> 00:33:20,398 But... 621 00:33:20,398 --> 00:33:21,566 BRITTANY: Yeah. KALEB: Yeah. 622 00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:24,135 You got to be real careful 'cause it's a long ways to help. 623 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:31,276 Cutting metal on the chop saw is risky business. 624 00:33:32,310 --> 00:33:35,347 It's just a quick little reminder that we're a long ways 625 00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:36,581 away from help here. 626 00:33:36,581 --> 00:33:39,050 It's a minimum of three hours just to a clinic 627 00:33:39,050 --> 00:33:42,220 and seven or eight hours to a hospital. 628 00:33:42,220 --> 00:33:45,957 We have to be really careful not to get our fingers in places 629 00:33:45,957 --> 00:33:48,460 where saws can chop them off. 630 00:33:52,564 --> 00:33:55,233 Cool. Last screw for the channel lock. 631 00:33:55,233 --> 00:33:56,601 BRITTANY: Let's go. 632 00:33:56,601 --> 00:33:57,936 KALEB: Uh, the next thing to do, I guess, 633 00:33:57,936 --> 00:34:00,605 is start making boxes and fill them up with dirt. 634 00:34:00,605 --> 00:34:02,040 BRITTANY: Cool. 635 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,608 KALEB: And then that stuff can all start warming up and 636 00:34:03,608 --> 00:34:05,110 getting ready to be planted. 637 00:34:05,110 --> 00:34:07,379 BRITTANY: There you go. Cool. 638 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:12,884 SONTA: Anytime that you're faced with a flood, 639 00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:16,655 you are humbled and at some point, 640 00:34:16,655 --> 00:34:18,857 we just have to accept it for what it is. 641 00:34:18,857 --> 00:34:22,093 But we don't know how high the water got at the cabin. 642 00:34:22,093 --> 00:34:24,763 So, our fingers are crossed. 643 00:34:27,632 --> 00:34:29,067 SONTA: Wow. 644 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:30,769 It's still coming in though. 645 00:34:30,769 --> 00:34:33,905 CHEVIE: Yeah, it's still coming up. 646 00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:36,007 This is our road to the airport right here. 647 00:34:36,007 --> 00:34:37,309 It's gone. 648 00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:39,110 SONTA: It's completely flooded. 649 00:34:39,110 --> 00:34:41,046 CHEVIE: We need to be checking on that airport to 650 00:34:41,046 --> 00:34:43,148 make sure that the airport's not underwater. 651 00:34:43,148 --> 00:34:45,951 Once that airport goes underwater then we have no way 652 00:34:45,951 --> 00:34:50,722 of getting the supplies or anything or people in or out. 653 00:34:50,722 --> 00:34:52,324 SONTA: Yeah, then it's a real safety concern. 654 00:34:52,324 --> 00:34:54,759 CHEVIE: Then it's a safety concern. 655 00:34:54,759 --> 00:34:57,162 Shageluk's a community of 70 people. 656 00:34:57,162 --> 00:34:59,698 Sonta's related to almost everybody. 657 00:34:59,698 --> 00:35:02,734 We care if somebody can't get in their medication or 658 00:35:02,734 --> 00:35:05,737 if somebody has medical need or emergency and 659 00:35:05,737 --> 00:35:08,006 can't get out of our community. 660 00:35:08,006 --> 00:35:10,709 That's why we need to go up here and check on this airport. 661 00:35:12,177 --> 00:35:14,112 SONTA: Yeah, I think it's not there. 662 00:35:14,112 --> 00:35:16,614 I think it's underwater. 663 00:35:19,684 --> 00:35:22,053 Oh, right there. 664 00:35:22,954 --> 00:35:26,424 Wow, we have about, what would you say two feet before 665 00:35:26,424 --> 00:35:28,193 it's completely submerged? 666 00:35:28,193 --> 00:35:29,594 That's insane. 667 00:35:29,594 --> 00:35:31,162 CHEVIE: Yeah, looks, looks like it. 668 00:35:31,162 --> 00:35:33,932 SONTA: You could drive right up to the airport right now. 669 00:35:35,634 --> 00:35:37,135 We still have a little ways to go. 670 00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:38,236 That's kind of reassuring. 671 00:35:38,236 --> 00:35:40,038 I'm glad they built it up, you know, 672 00:35:40,038 --> 00:35:41,339 as high as they could. 673 00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:43,742 CHEVIE: Yeah, to the 100 year flood mark or whatever they did. 674 00:35:43,742 --> 00:35:48,646 SONTA: Yeah, it is one of the main worries at this point. 675 00:35:51,850 --> 00:35:53,551 Thor's liking it. 676 00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:55,553 CHEVIE: Oh, Thor get in. 677 00:35:55,553 --> 00:35:57,255 Load up. 678 00:35:59,424 --> 00:36:01,059 All right, we know that the airports here, 679 00:36:01,059 --> 00:36:02,327 that's the number one thing. 680 00:36:02,327 --> 00:36:04,062 Let's go check on the cabin now. 681 00:36:04,062 --> 00:36:06,664 SONTA: Yeah, that's the main question. 682 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:13,405 JOHNNY: It's a interesting relationship when 683 00:36:13,405 --> 00:36:17,342 hunting predators because at one point I'm a danger and a threat. 684 00:36:17,342 --> 00:36:22,480 But if you injure one, then it's flipped and 685 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,849 they become dangerous to me. 686 00:36:26,818 --> 00:36:32,791 JOHNNY: So, I was just about to go out and do my rounds on the dingey. 687 00:36:32,791 --> 00:36:35,226 And as I was getting ready to push off, 688 00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:37,495 I noticed a bear ran up over here. 689 00:36:37,495 --> 00:36:40,632 I don't need the boat, all I need is my rifle. 690 00:36:50,375 --> 00:36:52,977 Oh, man I got a bear way up on this hillside. 691 00:36:52,977 --> 00:36:56,681 Man, this sucker is just way up in there. 692 00:36:57,449 --> 00:37:02,120 Completely inaccessible on foot from me. 693 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:03,922 Those things are just like all-terrain vehicles man, 694 00:37:03,922 --> 00:37:06,024 they just go anywhere. 695 00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:11,262 Yup, there he is. 696 00:37:11,262 --> 00:37:13,298 Okay, he's coming down. 697 00:37:15,633 --> 00:37:17,836 Get the (bleep) out of here. 698 00:37:17,836 --> 00:37:19,738 There's a bear over there on the (bleep) beach. 699 00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:22,407 Let's go. 700 00:37:27,112 --> 00:37:29,414 Okay let's move. 701 00:37:42,894 --> 00:37:45,697 There's one right there too, there's a bear right there. 702 00:37:45,697 --> 00:37:48,032 Far left corner right where the other one is. 703 00:37:50,001 --> 00:37:52,403 We got three bears. 704 00:37:52,737 --> 00:37:57,275 Okay. Time to go shopping. 705 00:38:00,912 --> 00:38:02,580 Busy day in bear country. 706 00:38:05,950 --> 00:38:09,087 JOHNNY: Okay. 707 00:38:13,691 --> 00:38:15,894 Let's just go over there. 708 00:38:29,908 --> 00:38:36,447 ♪ ♪ 709 00:38:44,889 --> 00:38:46,824 I see the bear, it's kinda low to the ground, 710 00:38:46,824 --> 00:38:49,027 a little bit far. 711 00:38:57,435 --> 00:38:59,838 I'm just looking. 712 00:39:11,416 --> 00:39:13,451 Right now, my heart rate is just too high, 713 00:39:13,451 --> 00:39:15,720 I can't hold my rifle still. 714 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:17,555 Sometimes that happens. 715 00:39:18,756 --> 00:39:21,392 (exhales) 716 00:39:34,806 --> 00:39:40,245 ♪ ♪ 717 00:39:41,779 --> 00:39:43,481 (gunshot) 718 00:39:43,481 --> 00:39:45,316 (gun clicks) 719 00:39:48,486 --> 00:39:49,888 BRITTANY: Very exciting. 720 00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:53,758 We're in the, the final few steps. 721 00:39:55,693 --> 00:39:58,763 Peekaboo. Yeah. 722 00:40:00,031 --> 00:40:01,900 All right, next step. 723 00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:04,669 KALEB: We'll start plasticizing this greenhouse. 724 00:40:06,738 --> 00:40:09,574 BRITTANY: I think having this greenhouse and growing a garden, 725 00:40:09,574 --> 00:40:13,544 it will help us be a little bit more self-sufficient. 726 00:40:13,544 --> 00:40:15,613 There were a few times this winter when we literally could 727 00:40:15,613 --> 00:40:18,149 not leave McCarthy because of weather for flying and 728 00:40:18,149 --> 00:40:21,019 because the road was too icy. 729 00:40:21,019 --> 00:40:24,889 Knowing how to garden and having one set up to be able to do each summer, 730 00:40:24,889 --> 00:40:27,425 that's just another skill in our toolbox to help 731 00:40:27,425 --> 00:40:30,895 living out here be better. 732 00:40:32,530 --> 00:40:33,898 Looks like you're almost done there. 733 00:40:33,898 --> 00:40:35,266 KALEB: Yeah, this is the last piece of wire lock, 734 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:37,268 and the plastic is done. 735 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,103 BRITTANY: Cool. 736 00:40:42,407 --> 00:40:43,942 RJ: You know, spring bear hunting and fishing pretty much 737 00:40:43,942 --> 00:40:45,443 go hand in hand. 738 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,045 The bears are down by the river. 739 00:40:47,045 --> 00:40:53,718 And there is a ton of green grass growing on these banks, 740 00:40:53,718 --> 00:40:57,655 so if there are bears, I think they're going to be here. 741 00:40:59,624 --> 00:41:02,660 KAMILIA: Alaska always has a lesson to teach you. 742 00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:07,432 Living off the land and being able to live a subsistence lifestyle. 743 00:41:07,432 --> 00:41:09,467 Oh, oh. 744 00:41:12,070 --> 00:41:14,739 It's challenging, and there's obstacles and 745 00:41:14,739 --> 00:41:18,042 you have to keep trying and trying. 746 00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:21,546 And living in Alaska, that's what it's all about. 747 00:41:21,546 --> 00:41:22,547 Here. 748 00:41:22,547 --> 00:41:24,449 RJ: One, two, three. There you go. 749 00:41:24,449 --> 00:41:26,050 KAMILIA: Oh, look at her. 750 00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:28,753 Alaska is the land of abundance. 751 00:41:28,753 --> 00:41:31,723 It provides what you need. 752 00:41:32,423 --> 00:41:34,092 RJ: Beautiful. KAMILIA: Olive, look. 753 00:41:34,092 --> 00:41:35,493 RJ: Beautiful. KAMILIA: What is it? 754 00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:37,362 What is it? 755 00:41:45,436 --> 00:41:47,872 SONTA: It looks like it's gone down. 756 00:41:49,474 --> 00:41:53,044 Yeah, Thor your water world's going away. 757 00:41:53,044 --> 00:41:55,646 What do you think about that? 758 00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:58,383 Wow! 759 00:41:58,383 --> 00:41:59,784 CHEVIE: Looking a lot better, huh? 760 00:41:59,784 --> 00:42:04,889 SONTA: Yeah. I think we're, we're safe now. 761 00:42:04,889 --> 00:42:08,359 CHEVIE: Yeah, I hope this is a once every 20-year type of flood. 762 00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:09,560 SONTA: Yeah. 763 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,229 CHEVIE: Not having to deal with this every year. 764 00:42:11,229 --> 00:42:13,264 SONTA: Yep. 765 00:42:13,264 --> 00:42:16,534 More and more ground's getting exposed again. 766 00:42:16,534 --> 00:42:18,536 CHEVIE: Water's dropped at least a foot, 767 00:42:18,536 --> 00:42:21,806 maybe even 16 inches, since the last time we were here. 768 00:42:21,806 --> 00:42:24,542 I think we may have dodged a bullet. 769 00:42:28,913 --> 00:42:30,581 JOHNNY: Java, Java! 770 00:42:30,581 --> 00:42:31,682 She smells blood, man. 771 00:42:31,682 --> 00:42:33,050 There's no doubt about it. 772 00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:35,286 If it is injured, I don't want to creep up on an injured bear 773 00:42:35,286 --> 00:42:38,022 and surprise it even more. 774 00:42:38,022 --> 00:42:40,725 So, at this point of the game, it's not about being quiet, 775 00:42:40,725 --> 00:42:42,960 it's about being loud. 776 00:42:44,395 --> 00:42:48,266 There it is. There it is man. 777 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:51,302 (sighs) 778 00:42:54,172 --> 00:42:56,607 Stay. 779 00:42:57,542 --> 00:42:59,744 He's down man. 780 00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:02,513 It's like you could just never be too sure. 781 00:43:02,713 --> 00:43:04,982 I appreciate your life bear. 782 00:43:04,982 --> 00:43:08,052 Thanks, bear. Thank you so much. 783 00:43:10,154 --> 00:43:12,356 Now there's a point in this hunt where I had to make a decision 784 00:43:12,356 --> 00:43:15,126 of which bear to stalk. 785 00:43:15,126 --> 00:43:19,630 I kind of realized that every single day in Alaska, 786 00:43:19,630 --> 00:43:22,133 I find myself needing to make quick decisions, 787 00:43:22,133 --> 00:43:23,634 think on my feet. 788 00:43:23,634 --> 00:43:25,236 You know, it doesn't matter if it's a hunt, 789 00:43:25,236 --> 00:43:28,005 doesn't matter if you've got a building project. 790 00:43:28,005 --> 00:43:31,375 Doesn't matter if you're just spending time with your friends and family. 791 00:43:31,375 --> 00:43:33,044 There's always going to be a time where 792 00:43:33,044 --> 00:43:35,680 you gotta make the best decision. 793 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:41,219 Because these decisions ultimately direct your future. 794 00:43:41,219 --> 00:43:44,689 What you need to do is listen to nature. 795 00:43:44,689 --> 00:43:46,190 Nature will tell you what to do. 796 00:43:46,190 --> 00:43:48,326 Nature will tell you where to go. 797 00:43:48,326 --> 00:43:50,461 Nature will tell you which bear to hunt. 798 00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:52,530 And just by simply listening to nature, 799 00:43:52,530 --> 00:43:54,465 you're going to get what you need. 800 00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:57,969 And I'll let nature decide for me. 801 00:43:58,369 --> 00:43:59,537 Captioned by Cotter Media Group.