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SUE: I’m hearing noises it’s not the foxes, if you look
I don’t see foxes hanging around.
Occasionally I’m hearing something that just doesn’t
belong and that’s what I, what I listen for.
Got some tracks here,
foxy, foxy, foxy, foxy, foxy, foxy,
it could be nothing.
It’s the things in the shadows that tend to
scare people the most.
If I hear a bump in the middle of the night
I have to decide fairly quickly.
Are you going bushy or do you have reason for concern?
Those are bigger, those are big too, those are huge.
Those are not fox, these are wolverine.
And these are fresh.
Some of them you can’t see the heel and I’m looking at it
going okay it’s almost like they’re walking like
this for stealth.
Why do they sneak why would they do that?
It’s hunting.
You slink through the brush,
as you’re getting to look at your prey.
There’s two sets of tracks here, two different sizes.
You’ve got this one coming in, you got another set coming
this way and it’s coming from the twinkie,
that’s a little bit of a scary bunch of intelligence right there,
wolverines they’re top end predators,
they will have a tendency to mark their territories.
Is this something where they’re setting up a perimeter,
they’re setting up this is my turf,
not many more weeks and I’m 100% dark.
I need to make sure this perimeter is secure before
I go full dark.
Now I’ve got wolverines coming right up my backside,
into camp.
That’s enough to make your tighty whities brown.
I need to assert my dominance, they have the upper paw tonight,
I’ll gain it back tomorrow.
ANDY: You only need water, shelter, and food to live and
if you have those three things, no matter where you’re at,
you’re gonna do okay.
Haw, topaz haw, haw Griz that a boy Griz good job,
Denise and I have come out to Ford Lake.
It’s been making ice, for about a week and a half so
muskrats are just starting to push their push ups through
the ice, it’s an ideal time to set for muskrats and
maybe a beaver.
The conibear traps are by far my favorite because
they kill them instantly.
DENISE: Instant. ANDY: Right?
Why don’t we do one of these first, a conibear.
DENISE: Yeah, and let me, let me play around with it a little.
ANDY: Yeah.
So you gotta squeeze that trigger pretty hard.
DENISE: Try not to get me caught in this.
Trapping is something I don’t have a lot of experience
I’ve just touched lightly on it.
ANDY: Takes a lot of hand strength.
DENISE: Yeah, it does.
Oh, man.
This is a great opportunity for me to learn a lot about
trapping, there’s a lot of different push ups here so
I can learn different trap sets.
Definitely one of those things that looks easier
than it actually is.
So awkward.
ANDY: One of the big things that I’ve learned about
working with Denise is that a lot of times she just doesn’t
have the physical strength to do it the way that I do and
she’s gotta figure out how to do it her own way.
DENISE: There we go, hopefully that one catches the biggest,
fattest one cause I’m gonna be real hungry after all that.
ANDY: It’ll go on here like this that’s the way we want it
to set in the hole.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: So the big trick here is...
DENISE: Yeah don’t trigger it, because then I have to set it again.
Living out here it’s important to be able to access your own
food so to be dependent on somebody else, for my food
that I need to survive is unnerving.
ANDY: All right let’s get everything closed up we don’t
want this to freeze once this freezes they quit using it.
DENISE: If Andy can’t get out to trap or something happens,
I need to be able to get the protein if we need it.
ANDY: I just want you to learn how to use different types of
traps so let’s go over and do that one with the leg hold trap.
DENISE: Okay. I need to practice.
ANDY: Ah, you’re doing good you know if you don’t have the
strength you just have to work on the technique.
DENISE: Yup. It’s all about the workaround.
CHIP: You gotta take out time no matter what you’re doing out here,
and get to your chores, you don’t do your chores,
you get punished.
This is, uh, lumber.
And I’m gonna build a flat sled.
This one’s busted up, it’s got some pretty bad divots in it.
Agnes is left camp this morning and, uh, she went to town.
She wants to get some supplies and stuff that we need.
While she’s gone I’m gonna build me a sled.
My old sled is kinda tired.
It did me a lot of service but it’s pretty
beaten into submission.
I already have the materials here, downriver quite a ways
where they got left by a boat this fall and then, uh,
the river froze up and I haven’t been able to
make it down there.
Before the good part of winter comes along with all the
sunshine and all the traveling we can do,
we get through dark winter.
During dark winter is when I like to make my sleds,
I like to work on my snow machines, I like to get all
my stuff in order for the real deep cold that’s coming on.
Basically just be ready for it all.
Before this thing turns into a disaster and is total junk
I wanna retire it.
You can see up here where this is eating away,
must’ve hit some snow, caught it, opened up and
what it’s gonna do is
it’s gonna allow this to roll over and it’s gonna tear off.
Here’s another place where it’s damaged, right here you
can see it really plainly, and how deep it’s damaged too.
We use these sleds on anything that’s, uh, heavy, could be
caribou, could be a moose, could be walrus, they’re
really handy, really useful and I really do need them.
But this one here won’t last long.
Nope.
It’s gonna get retired and move to a different duty and
that’s my plan.
JESSIE: Some people choose to hide from the cold but
I choose to embrace it.
(engine sputtering)
Damn.
It’s cold out.
It’s 45 below, I got a start this machine every four hours
in these temperatures, just so I can try to get it uh to run
and warm up and if it goes too long, gets cold it freezes up.
(engine sputtering)
Ah, man, dammit. Come on.
(engine sputtering)
So much I do with this machine, it’s my lifeline.
It’s (bleep) not starting I gotta do something about this.
When it’s cold I just keep getting up every four hours
and go out and turn it on until it gets to temp and if
I set an alarm for, you know, three and a half hours later.
So it works but you can’t ever get a full night’s sleep.
This was, uh, once a woodshed that I built here, I got the
idea to turn it into a shop, now it’s time to get it going here.
It’s, uh, too cold to be out doing anything else.
Traveling, running the dogs.
I’m not gonna just sit in there by the wood stove when
I could be out here getting something done as important as this.
My snow machines haven’t been working, if I can get this
thing all closed in, get a wood stove in, plug up all
these gaps, build myself a door big enough to get the
snow machine through.
This is gonna make it to where I can hopefully do the proper
amount of maintenance on these machines and be able to warm
them up and get them going in the cold.
For me a snow machine is not at all a toy.
I don’t go out riding snow machines for pleasure.
That’s an absolute essential tool out here.
I gotta have a running machine.
My machine’s not working,
I gotta hook up dogs to haul water,
that takes three, four times as long.
This is really close to being a shop but what it really
needs right now is this fourth wall, I’m gonna use my
chainsaw because this is all rough cut stuff and it’s the
only thing that’ll work in the cold right now.
You know, I couldn’t even get a generator going and a skill saw.
No.
This would happen.
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nothing wants to work.
I gotta take this inside and get it heated up some more,
you know, I had it on the ground
next to my wood stove thinking it would’ve thawed out by now,
still not ready.
I’m gonna go take it, put it up higher than the roof,
keep cleaning until it’s warmed up enough.
Nothing goes as planned whenever it’s 40 below, things break,
nothing works, your fingers freeze, your face freeze.
I don’t want to be out here, you know, in 40 below zero.
Working outside doing something like this but at the
same time I need it.
So right now it’s cold but I’m not gonna sit around
inside all day.
This is a great time to start eliminating that problem of
having to work on things out in the cold.
Hopefully the chainsaw’s ready by now it should be,
it’s nice and hot up there, should’ve put it up there
in the first place.
Sometimes living in the cold you still forget how cold
it actually is.
All right.
I’m in business now, time to get back to work.
(chainsaw whirring)
I need to complete the front wall, get it closed in so I
can get my wood stove in there and start thawing things out.
I’ve done it out of poles and tarps before and made it work
so this is gonna have some permanency and is not gonna
get worn and torn like a tarp and it’s gonna hold heat a lot better.
Okay.
Next step is to get my live edge material in here and, uh,
start doing the front wall.
So far, so good.
ANDY: Part of living out here is you have to kill to eat.
Up, up.
DENISE: Come on, Griz.
Easy, easy.
Right here.
See there’s a feed pile.
ANDY: Oh, wow. Cool. Oh, wow.
There’s quite a few beaver chews over there on
those birch trees.
DENISE: Yep.
ANDY: One of the really cool things about what’s happening
this year is the beavers have moved into Ford Lake.
I’ve seen them move into the lake a couple of times over
the, the 20 years that I’ve been here, they never last
very long because their food source for them is a long way
from the water so they’re easy prey.
Let’s just punch a hole I’d say right about here.
We don’t need that much to put the set in, but if you get a
beaver, you need a big enough hole to get him out.
DENISE: Right.
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beaver trapping at a nearby feed pile.
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ANDY: Okay. I got a pole.
DENISE: Oh, good.
ANDY: Are you good at setting those now?
DENISE: I’m getting better. I don’t know about good.
I’m having some mixed feelings about the beavers out here.
I happen to like the beaver as an animal, I like watching,
and observing, and learning about them but I also need to
realize that it is a real important food source here.
It’s something that’s surging right now, other species are
not, they’re not available.
So you have to take what nature gives you and right now
they’re putting the beavers out there.
ANDY: That looks good.
There’s your first beaver set.
Leg hold set, beaver set.
Let’s do a, a snare set right there.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: We can do that pretty quick.
We both would much rather watch live animals than kill
them but I guess the word I always keep in mind is
respect, if you have respect for the animals, if you
harvest it in a respectful way, that’s the way to do it.
So now, cat tails.
DENISE: Cat tails. ANDY: And then we’re done.
It looks good.
SUE: Remote lifestyle is no place for major character
defects, unless you bring them to the surface, give them a
cup of tea, shake their hand and get to know them.
Hm.
Earlier this morning it was still fairly dark.
I thought I saw something slipping into the bank of the
river this way and then something running up this way.
I mean, it was a noisy night,
I definitely heard a lot of activity.
There he is.
That’s definitely the big black wolverine.
This one is, is way bigger than I anticipated.
I need to assert my own form of dominance so I think what
I’ll do is I’ll finish getting dressed, grab little red,
and just go right at him.
Surprise him as much as they’re surprising me.
Game on.
It weirds your head out.
These are top predators.
I’m something with a heartbeat that looks like food in a wrapper.
If you act like a pork chop out here you’re gonna be one.
So, if I keep them out of my area, it’s better.
Those are fox prints.
Where’s the bigger ones?
This area sure is well used.
Okay. Now, what is this?
I am gonna just get out and take a look at what this is.
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SUE: This is definitely a kill site, and it’s bird,
and it’s recent, and, uh, it’s pretty well done.
I mean, it’s, there’s not, there’s not much left.
A couple of tail feathers.
That’s it.
These tracks here are wolverine, but this is, this
would be pretty close to where I saw the wolverine kind of
going across, he disappear, munch, munch, munch.
So, I want to, uh, let him know I was here.
You spit on it, kick it around.
He peed on it.
These animals, they’re staking ground, so my answer has to be
in their own language.
You desecrate the site, spit on it, they get close,
and suddenly,
there’s an unknown quality here, and they back off.
Any day is the right day to pee on your property line.
You are marking your territory and may the best thug win.
In a human language, I look like a total nut case,
but in animal language, yeah, I see what you did.
BFD, buddy.
And he’s proud of what he did here, and I’m gonna drive
over it like, big deal.
I eat that for breakfast and poop it out for lunch.
CHIP: I need to have everything ready for the
deep cold that’s coming.
There’s been deep cold already, but it’s gonna get
a lot colder.
I’ll tell you, that’s a fact.
(scraping)
I’m removing ice from this piece of wood
’cause I wanna draw on it.
I wanna be able to put a pen marker and have it stay and
not be drawing on top of ice.
And, um, I live in the land of ice and snow,
so this stuff is everywhere.
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With conditions already becoming more erratic,
and daylight dwindling, the build must be completed before
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CHIP: These will be my risers.
These will help out the front end of my sled.
Lot of things you come up to and it’ll smash,
and this will stick.
Get some riser up there, it comes up,
it’ll lift and go right over.
Freight sleds are typically used to do things like, uh,
drag my boat somewhere or maybe put heavy objects on it,
like drums of fuel, logs for firewood,
carcasses from caribou.
Anything and everything except people.
And nobody builds these.
There’s no commercial outlet for buying these sleds.
If I want one, I gotta make it myself.
Looks like the wind is catching up to my wood.
Constantly taking the snow off.
My stuff’s getting buried as fast as I’m using it.
Whew.
The wind is not my friend tonight.
This is terrible.
I’m at a bit of an impasse.
It’s warm, it’s like 20, 25 degrees,
but it’s blowing like crazy.
My board right here is already getting covered in snow.
These are getting covered in snow.
Earlier, it was brushing free,
but now, it’s starting to ice into it.
And when I put these boards together to make my cuts,
they need to be held perfectly together.
I can’t have ice and snow making a gap between the two.
We’ve had our hour and 45 minutes of daylight,
and I’ve gotten this far with it so far.
I don’t want my work all, all messed up.
So I think if I just take these inside, warm ’em up,
get the ice off, get up tomorrow and start again.
DENISE: Living out here is all about sustainability.
Being able to provide for yourself, and being able to
access your own food.
There it is.
He made it.
Wow, this is it.
ANDY: A couple days ago, I ended up, uh, cracking a tooth
and it’s extremely painful.
And I know that it’s not gonna go away, so I’m gonna
buzz out of here and have that taken care of.
Take care of everybody.
DENISE: Good luck. Yeah take care of your tooth.
ANDY: It’s never convenient for anybody to get sick or injured,
but it’s way more complicated when you live
in a remote area.
It gets costly, but it’s just a, a fact of living out here.
DENISE: There they go, Tope.
ANDY: Denise is gonna be on her own now to check the
beaver traps, check the muskrat traps.
DENISE: That’s a weird feeling.
That’s being on our own now.
Just us, Tope.
To see Andy go off in the plane, it’s a feeling that’s
hard to describe because it makes you feel really isolated.
Man, it snowed a lot.
It’s hard to even see where we were at here.
I’m on my own, and I’m still feeling a little bit hesitant.
Glad you could help get all the supplies over here.
I have to be sharp, think through it, hear the lessons
in my head, and go for it.
First job is dig it out.
What d’you think? Is there something under there?
Gotta say, it’s kind of a, kind of a moment you’re
wondering if there’s something in there.
I’ve never seen a muskrat close up.
Andy keeps telling me how delicious these are.
Ooh, I don’t know.
What d’you think, Tope.
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DENISE: What?
Oh!
I thought that was one and it’s not, it’s a, it’s nothing.
That’s weird.
Huh.
Look at all that.
Let’s go over to the next one, Tope, and see what we’ve got.
This is a leghold trap.
We’ve got some dinner in there, Tope?
You’re really checking it out.
Oh, man, I think there’s something there.
I can’t get it!
Oh, this is crazy.
Yes!
Oh, there’s that bittersweet moment.
Oh.
Happy to get something.
It just, I guess it’s just, I’m finding it’s really
making me appreciate the lives of these animals,
having to take a life.
Look at that, Tope.
It is like a little mini-beaver.
Wow.
My first muskrat.
Really rewarding.
Look at that. Okay.
Let’s go check our next trap, Tope.
Daylight’s going away fast.
This one really got snowed in.
This one’s a conibear trap.
Oh, my, wow.
He’s just staring straight up at me.
Everything out here works hard to survive, and pulling the
muskrats out of their pushups, I can’t help but feel,
you know, that poor guy, he just didn’t make it.
Tomorrow, it might be me.
There’s always something kind of over-your-shoulder
in this environment.
And you got to be smart, you got to be on your game
to survive out here.
Let’s get home, get these animals taken care of, Topaz.
JESSIE: You will die in the cold.
Cold will kill you.
It has no mercy.
This is, uh, one inch live edge.
It substitutes as plywood.
It’s a lot cheaper, it’s more practical.
And it looks a lot better.
Right now, the main thing I’m trying to do with the shop is
get some heat in it and get it holding some heat.
I just need to build one more wall.
Make-shift a door and put a wood stove in this, uh, what
was once a wood shed and is, uh gonna be a shop with
a day’s work.
Well, look at that!
Don’t even have to cut anything, cut to fit.
Every year, things get better organized around here.
And this is a real good example of that.
When I first came out here, there was nothing out here
except an old shed.
I have been working very hard to build the infrastructure
that it takes to actually live successfully out here.
There’s gonna be a lot more work that I can do finishing
up on the inside.
But once I got this heat source in here, then I can
do it at my leisure.
Now it’s time to make myself a door so I can keep the heat in there.
Definitely eventually plan on,
when it’s not 40-below, this summer,
coming in and building a nice barn-style door.
But right now, I just want to get my machine in there.
So, I got a pretty good idea.
Use this tarp.
The shop is just the dream.
I don’t know any person that lives in Alaska that’s not
gonna need or want a shop.
I can work in there and be warm.
I can do the proper mechanics and maintenance
on my machines.
That adds a huge level of security having the shop.
Okay. Time to start breaking the shop in here and getting
my first fire built in here.
And you know, it’s about to start paying off.
The work that I did today.
I’m gonna let my machine thaw out real good and go down to
the river and load up on some water.
Okay, first fire in a new shop.
Pretty excited.
This is real nice.
It’s real nice.
CHIP: I love building my own stuff, my own teepees,
my own stoves, my own sleeping bags, my own everything.
Well, the wind has stopped and it stopped snowing.
There ain’t much sunlight today.
Must be some really thick cloud.
We don’t have very long of sunlight anyway.
Why hello. Are you here to help me?
We have the fox back again.
You’re just a curious little guy, aren’t you?
You’re a funny little guy.
You’re not even prime.
I wouldn’t even want to get you in my trap.
No, give you another year.
Time to get the generator fired up.
Maybe it’ll scare him off.
Yesterday, I went as far as I could with the new sled.
I was cutting things up.
I made all my measurements, but the wind kicked up and
then it was heavily snowing.
And it was making it hard to see things and do things.
Now that the snow has stopped, I’m gonna work on the wood
and then I’ll assemble it.
So I’ve got these notches made.
These’ll saddle the two-by-sixes.
I think I’m gonna use the two-by-fours in the back
and I’ll put three back there.
So, that keeps the, the back end straight.
That keeps this side straight.
But for right now, I’m gonna start tacking things together.
These sleds, they kind of beat them to death.
So I got to build it and reinforce it really well.
So I’ve got two-by-tens to make the runners, I’ve got
two-by-sixes and two-by-fours for the crosspieces.
And then I’m gonna put a sheet of plywood on the side.
The plywood will prevent all the ice and snow that’s
hitting the sides of the runners from eating up the runners.
Looking like a sled!
Oh, the wind is cold!
It’s gotten a little more windy than earlier.
We got less than two hours of daylight.
And when it’s blowing, like it is, and it’s dark like it is,
I got to be very careful.
Cause there’s a lot of things that can go wrong with that.
(sighs)
(grunting)
(bleep).
I don’t know about this thing.
I can’t even (bleep) maneuver with it!
The wind is a little stiff for this (bleep),
which is perplexing.
I’ll try and face it into the wind.
Maybe I can manage that, uh, piece of wood if I have it
facing the wind.
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Flo, you’re here.
This pipe just burst on me.
Well, you bundled home and auto with Progressive,
so you have round-the-clock protection on all your stuff.
Like that cardboard TV.
I told props to switch that out.
Okay, everyone, that’s a wrap.
[ Bell rings ]
Wait, you faked this whole thing?
I knew it was the quickest way to see you.
I’m sorry, Jon, but I’m already in love with insurance.
You know that’s weird, right?
Well, any weirder than faking a burst pipe?
Got a little carried away.
Yeah.
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CHIP: I’m trying to get this plywood down to where
I can make a cut.
That’s a little better.
This gives a lot of protection on the outside.
Whenever you make a turn.
Without it it’d be hitting ice, it’d be hitting rocks,
it’d be hitting trees.
It’d be hitting all kind of stuff you really don’t want to hit.
But you do.
And, uh, it’s a lot of protection.
It also gives it better integrity.
I took the time to learn this stuff from people who know.
I never invented this stuff.
I just paid attention when the lessons were getting taught.
Up it goes.
Life on a freight sled, it’s usually from three to five years.
And what I like to do is recycle them.
I’ll use them for like a stand, or I’ll cut the ends
off and make a table out of them.
Maybe something they can cut fish on.
You get rid of the old ones and you just, on with the new.
The next thing I do is drill out my plastics and then
start putting them on.
And after that, I add the hitch.
I’ve probably built 25 or 30 of these flat sleds.
I need to have the sled for carrying meat,
I need the sled for carrying wood.
Lumber, garbage.
I’m not just riding around.
I’m able to move things, large things.
Yeah.
We’re done!
Right on.
I got a good sled for a few years.
I’ll go get my snow-go, hitch it up and just take this thing
for a little cruise.
Make sure she, uh, follows behind fine and we’ll see
how it goes.
Maybe go get me a block of ice.
The reward might be a little bit of water for tonight.
My first project here is going to be going and getting some ice.
I’m pretty low on water.
If I just went and got five or six gallons worth of water,
and a chunk of ice, stack ’em up outside they’ll sit there and
wait for us to come out and use them.
And then that’s a lot less chores than you have to do later.
Having a sled shackled to the back of my snow-go
is like making a Porsche into a pickup truck.
Basically I’m not into going fast at all.
It’s not my, not my thing.
My thing is utility and doing work.
I’m happy with this.
I’m happy with the sled I built.
The job it’s doing.
Just pretty freaking nice.
JESSIE: The deep cold.
It’s always trying to rob you of life.
It has no consideration for your life.
It freezes everything in its path.
All right. Time to check on my machine.
It’s been in here warming up for a while.
Oh, yeah. It’s nice and warm in there.
Wave of heat come rushing out.
Machine looks like it’s thawed out real good.
Ah man, look at that steam coming off of this.
Box has been frozen forever.
Starting to dry out.
Still nice and warm in here.
It’s a huge relief knowing that I’m gonna be able to keep
my machine warm in the deepest of colds.
Do any work that I need to do on it in here.
And not have to be outside freezing my ass off.
(engine turns over)
I’m gonna go get this water and call it a day.
Snow machines and me, we have a funny relationship.
I mostly hate them.
But I rely on them for a lot of tasks around here.
Hauling water, hauling firewood.
I have to have that safety net.
In summer, it’s easy, you know.
Go down, fire up the generator.
Pump hundreds of gallons of water.
Sometimes, it takes a long time to get water.
There is not a day that goes by that these chores don’t
ground me in humility and humbleness.
There might not be a lot of daylight, but if you work hard
all hours of the day and night, you can accomplish
anything out here.
You can accomplish anywhere.
You just figure out ways to make it happen.
Today’s been a good day.
But I’m looking forward to sitting next to the wood stove
for the rest of the night.
DENISE: Most important lesson I’ve learned so far in Alaska,
pay attention to the environment, be smart about
what you’re doing and do not bow down to fear.
Stick with me, Topaz. It’s just you and me now.
Andy’s long gone.
I’m anxious to check out this beaver set here.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, wow, there’s lots of bubbles.
That’s a great sign.
The bubbles are a really good sign that there could be
something down there.
That something’s in the trap.
It’s a sign that something is breathing down there.
I’m gonna just grab a chisel and see what I can see.
Personally I just happen to like the beaver as an animal.
I just like what they do.
I like to watch them.
But it’s also really important to be able to set aside some
of your personal attachments.
That’s part of living here too is just getting over some of
that stuff and doing what you need to do to survive.
Okay.
Come on, beaver.
Be in there.
Oh, come on.
No, shoot.
(groaning)
Nothing.
Shoot.
I thought there was gonna be something with those air bubbles,
but I guess that’s just all the methane bubbles.
We have a snare trap set over here.
Let me go over and check the snare one.
Shoot, I thought those bubbles meant there would be
something in there.
That’s kind of disappointing.
Let’s see here.
Okay. Here’s hoping.
Come on, beaver.
Oh, shoot.
Everything takes a lot of muscle around here.
There it goes, it feels pretty light.
Yeah.
Ah! Oh!
Reggie Bush had something important taken from him,
so Wendy’s is returning it.
The Pretzel Pub.
[Cheers and clapping]
Let’s Go!
Yeaahh!
We haven’t told him it’s back for a limited time.
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DENISE: Oh, there is one!
Oh, man!
Oh!
Oh, that surprised me.
I thought it was empty.
Look at him.
Oh, we got one!
Oh!
Oh, beautiful.
Oh, Topey.
Kind of hate to see that in a way.
It is definitely bittersweet, as is much of life here.
You got to put your emotions aside sometimes.
As much as I hate to see them like this, he’ll go a long way
for, for us, Topaz.
Wow.
Thanks, buddy.
Giving me a lot of, lot of good lessons.
He’ll be a great, great fur from this.
Lots of good meat.
And I, I can already tell I’m gonna learn a lot more about
this animal in the processing that’s ahead of me.
I have a lot more to learn.
Okay, buddy.
Let’s get you ready to go home.
Oh, man, he’s bigger than I thought.
I need to take care of this beaver properly.
I need to show it the respect that I genuinely feel for it
and make the very most out of him.
To be able to get the beaver in my trap really takes me to
a place of confidence and self-assurance that I can
do it by myself independently.
Here we go. Peel ’er off.
Oh, nice.
There’s a little bit of pride to seeing the meat that
I brought in.
To seeing the skin stretched out for useful necessary items
that we’ll use.
That’s a nice sight.
All done.
Good deal.
All right, goodnight.
Happy drying.
SUE: I live outside the box, I think outside the box.
I’ve always thought and felt a little differently.
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What is Susan up to now?
Well, trying to think.
What in the world can I do,
to let these, wolverines
and any other smarty-pants creature, let them know.
Kavik is off limits.
If I can create this beacon in the dark,
illuminating my camp.
They will not know what to make of it, but they will know
they don’t want a part of it.
They are shadow dwellers, and I’m gonna become the light.
The mystery box, has...
fireworks.
Are you watching, all you creatures?
This eye in the sky is for you.
Woah.
Boom!
(firework bursts)
This is specifically for the wolverine and specifically a
shock and awe to imprint that this thing they don’t understand...
Take that!
That they don’t want to have a part of.
Will now be on their GPS coordinates
for as long as they live.
(firework bursts)
(firework whistling)
Woah.
They will remember it as a frightening display of power
that they didn’t understand.
Who in the hell has so much power that they can turn the
sun on in the middle of the night?
That will always keep them giving it wide berth.
(firework bursts)
Where I’m standing, this is my line.
There is no more stalking.
There is no more hunting on Kavik.
You hunt here, you’ll be hunted.
Expect it.
Winter is a long, brutal, cold, dark experience,
with lots of things out there.
The legend of the lady who can turn night into day
will keep them away from here.
This is Kavik.
This is my camp.
Stay away.
(firework bursts)
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