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JESSIE: All right. This right here is what I’m looking for,
a lot of open country.
Lots of little valleys here that I can glass.
If there’s caribou out here, I should be able to find them.
You know, with the fresh snow from last night
and the fresh tracks,
you know, that’s got me excited.
Now I just got to find them.
♪ ♪
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The second meadow up there, there’s 12, 14 caribou.
It’s, uh, at least a couple miles from here.
Looks like some pretty rough terrain,
but I think I can get down in this valley,
and, uh, with any luck, they’ll still be there.
♪ ♪
I’m hunting up in the White Mountains.
There’s a large caribou herd that comes through here
called the Fortymile Caribou herd.
They stretch all the way over to the eastern border of Alaska,
over towards Eagle.
If I can find where they’re at,
then I have a good opportunity
and a good chance
of putting up some meat.
Last year, I got two, uh, bull caribou in the springtime.
This is the time to go replenish it, for two reasons--
the weather’s warming up, and I’m running out.
Seeing those 14 caribou’s everything to me.
But I feel like hunting caribou is all about timing and luck.
You know, I’ve got some good information
that the caribou are out there.
Now I just need to go and try and make all my moves right
and close that distance as much as I can.
(engine stops)
I saw some caribou from up high.
I crossed their tracks back here,
and they’ve worked their way up into the timber.
Making sure I take a look around
now that I’m in some open country.
Don’t want to pass anything up going that direction yet.
I’m gonna try to find where they went and come out,
but I want to make sure there’s not some right here.
Nothing there. I’m gonna head up into this high country
and see if I can’t cut ’em off.
I saw where their tracks were moving into the woods.
They might pop out up here.
But, you know, there’s no guarantees out here,
so hopefully I can get lucky and get over there
while they’re still around.
♪ ♪
ANDY: I’ve always said that quality of life is measured
by how much free time you have to pursue what you like doing.
♪ ♪
Come on, Geo.
Let’s tear this iceboat down.
All right. Blade runner.
Haven’t seen this for a while.
Something we haven’t done in a while
is break out the iceboat.
The iceboat was a project that I built a couple years ago,
and the first time I built it,
the sail, the mast didn’t hold up, the mast collapsed on me.
Son of a bitch.
I need to build a new mast,
and I need to attach it
to the mast post right here.
Also, we’re gonna do some modifications to the sails
so that it sails a little better into the wind
and hopefully even goes faster.
You can see that’s a pretty small sail,
and it pushed the iceboat pretty darn good,
but I’m gonna probably double the size of my sail.
This was a great way to start
and make sure everything worked right,
but now it’s time to make it go fast.
This year, we’ve been having a really unusual fall time,
very little snow, a lot of really warm weather,
we’re easing into winter.
The ice is beginning to flow on the Yukon River.
It’s just a good time of year to play.
Denise and I oftentimes don’t get out and play much.
We’re pretty busy working on projects.
Most of the summer jobs are over, the fall jobs are over,
and, uh, we’re just gonna have some fun.
DENISE: It’s very easy to get caught up
in the everyday work grind,
like anywhere,
and it’s essential for the full health of both of us
to check out of work and check into play.
ANDY: All right. Let’s make some sparks.
First thing I got to do is put together a new mast.
And that’s the only really major modification
I got to make to the boat.
Then it’s all about building the mast and cutting the sail.
It’s a little bit unorthodox,
but, hey, this is Calico Bluff out in the bush.
Okay, so here’s my mast.
It’s gonna be bolted onto here, like that.
That’s my pivot point.
This will be my boom, and I’ve got to make a way
for this boom to come in contact with this mast.
So, once I make that up,
then I can take everything outside, stand the mast up,
take my measurements, and start whacking on the sail.
♪ ♪
CHIP: Nature forces you to do what nature’s doing.
There ain’t no thriving. There ain’t no routine.
There’s take it as it comes.
♪ ♪
You get yours started and warmed up?
AGNES: Yup.
(engine starts)
Whoa.
Mine just started.
CHIP: It should.
AGNES: It must be warm, that warm out.
CHIP: Yeah. Well, it ain’t 20 below, it’s 20 above.
That’s a 40-degree difference.
Woo! Took a while, but mine starts, too.
AGNES: Holy cow.
My snow machine’s loaded with snow.
CHIP: Loaded? Oh.
AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: Yeah. Mine was, too.
Runners are iced. My undercarriage is iced.
My clutch is icing up really bad.
AGNES: So full. It’s just full of snow.
CHIP: Well, you know, it gets really warm here sometimes
in the middle of winter.
What we had was we had one warm day,
and that warm day takes all that snow, and it compacts it,
but it also makes little drops and drizzles,
and, of course, water penetrates everything,
and then it gets into your electronics,
it gets into your steering, it gets onto everything.
Go ahead, you yank on it, and I’ll give you a push.
(engine revving)
(clunk)
AGNES: Whoa, what was that?
CHIP: It’s this.
AGNES: The throttle is stuck or something. Dang.
CHIP: Oh, man.
We got to thaw that out.
How about we, uh, do some service work on these suckers?
You can’t go anywhere like that.
Let’s make a goal of getting right down here to a flat spot,
and we’ll just put a heating tent over it.
AGNES: With tarps?
CHIP: With tarps. Yep, tarps.
We’ll use the fish rack poles,
and, uh, we’ll use that teepee’s, um...
AGNES: Stove?
CHIP: Woodstove. Yup.
But you’re gonna have really bad problems
if yours stays like this, too.
Yeah. Let’s just, uh, let’s kick back, stay home, I guess.
We can get these things thawed out,
but if we don’t do this now,
when we need them, they ain’t gonna be ready.
AGNES: We’re in a rough spot.
CHIP: But we’re in for a lot of work.
It’s just not gonna be any other way about it.
♪ ♪
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in a box six feet under.
Do it with a smile.
Make it better than you found it.
♪ ♪
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That’s right. We’re going to class.
In the brush is where you find your dinners.
Yup. Crazy thoughts, huh?
Out here, there’s things called ptarmigans,
and you’ve got to learn to hunt them.
For now, you can just follow me a little.
Your curious nature will pay off.
I’m going down to the river
to get water.
You noticed I had a few foxes following me.
Something unusual happened this summer.
The parent foxes, uh, kicked all their brand-new young out.
It’s only the second time in over 20 years I’ve seen it.
The young generally don’t make it through that.
It is heartbreaking,
and it has triggered my maternal instinct.
I’m going down. Come on.
So, what I’ve decided to do is just slowly do my chores.
As I go out, these foxes may or may not follow me.
I cannot save them, can’t adopt them, can’t turn them into pets.
It wouldn’t be fair to the animal,
and it’s certainly not legal for me.
But I can try to come up with a way
to trigger their natural instinct.
It’s like flipping a light switch.
The genetic memories of how to be a fox are in there.
If I maybe go hunting, drag them through the brush,
the light switch may go, "Food," and they’ll go after it.
♪ ♪
This is quite wet.
♪ ♪
If you noticed the color of the bucket,
I’m trying to use the same one every time I come down.
If the animal sees it
and they associate this with an activity,
they’ll start associating what I’m doing
with teaching them something,
and then they’ll associate it
with, "Hey, that’s where they, the birds are.
Hey, that’s where she calls from."
You know, and, and, and it’s, it’s simple association.
I can get a little water here.
I’d like to open up a deeper hole.
I’ve got open leads out there. I can’t walk across that ice.
What I think I’m gonna do, I’m gonna leave my buckets,
my bucket here, um, I’ve got some rocks that, that are loose.
And my plan--
just get close to the shore, throw this down.
I’ll either punch through and have a nice hole,
or it’s solid enough, I can go out a couple more feet and try.
Go out a couple more feet.
This whole little blob here is probably fairly solid.
"Probably" being the key word.
Don’t fall in, don’t fall in.
I have a grandbaby I haven’t even met yet.
She might think I’m cool.
(thud)
Okay. That’s solid.
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SUE: Don’t you do it.
(thud)
That’s a little risky there.
It cracked on me, and I can see it, that it ran this way.
I don’t want to be part of the fish food chain,
so I’m gonna throw this this way
and see if it’s gonna collapse.
(thudding)
And it didn’t.
If this’ll hold my weight...
Please don’t, please don’t come apart.
This is not how I see myself going.
♪ ♪
God, don’t do it.
♪ ♪
We’ve got water.
This is a beautiful amount of water coming through.
I think this is the Valhalla of water spots.
Okay. Time to get buckets.
(ice cracks)
Ooh, shoot, don’t do that to me.
(hums)
I have to get water.
I need it for cooking, drinking, but there’s very little time.
I’ve got a reprieve in the weather.
I was 15 below, now I’m 20 above.
I’ll be back down in no time flat.
♪ ♪
Hey, guys, anybody home?
Oh, there you are. Aw, baby. It’s you.
You see the bucket?
(bark)
There’s one of your brothers.
Well, you can see, like any toddler,
I mean, they look large, but they’re actually toddler-stage,
and they’re curious.
So, knowing,
knowing any creature, knowing any child,
I mean, that’s half the battle on teaching them.
Foxes by nature are curious.
What I want to do is make them curious
about the item I’m carrying and then broaden it from there.
This is the beginning,
using their nature to help me help them,
to show them how to be a fox.
It is in my nature to help the underdog
or the under-fox, in this case.
I’m gonna go dump this load out,
but I’ve got a lot more trips to make
and a lot more curiosity.
I’m gonna empty this and keep going.
♪ ♪
You coming in? Are you gonna help me pour?
JESSIE: I feel like there’s no other place in the world
where you have so many opportunities
to be able to go out and live off the land.
♪ ♪
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They know that things are hunting them,
so sometimes it can be hard to find them.
If you see some animals, you don’t let up,
you got to keep going.
Right there.
All right. I think I can get a clean shot here.
(gunshot)
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(gunshot)
(engine revving)
(whistle)
JESSIE: They’re in the trees.
I got one down, but I’m gonna go to the tree line
and see if I can’t get a clear shot somewhere.
Gotta move fast.
(engine revving)
I got two tags. That’s two caribou I can get.
After having caribou on the regular,
it’s something you just don’t want to do without,
so my big focus is getting meat in the freezer.
(engine stops)
Okay. This is where they went into the woods.
Once they go into the woods, they’re gone.
That’s too thick of trees.
I haven’t shot this gun in over six months,
since I broke my collarbone,
and I missed the first shot there.
I think I was flinching and scared.
It hurts a little, but I got the second shot down,
and I got a caribou back there.
They hit these trees.
I had to work pretty hard for a long time to get up on them,
so I feel lucky to get one.
Feeling of relief and elation right now
just to have one down.
It’s amazing.
I’m gonna go and, uh, gut that animal and get it loaded up.
♪ ♪
DENISE: There’s no season like winter
that opens up the doors to the wilderness around me.
And that’s what I love.
ANDY: That looks good.
Wow, that’s a lot of sail.
Man, that’ll make this puppy fly.
NARRATOR: Andy Bassich and Denise Becker
are seizing a brief opportunity for recreation
before dark winter arrives
and survival becomes their sole priority.
They’re repairing their iceboat to sail on Ford Lake,
and after constructing a new mast and boom,
they’re ready to fit a new sail before heading out on the ice.
ANDY: That’s a lot of sail.
DENISE: Kind of weird to see it, especially laid out on snow.
ANDY: Denise, many, many years ago,
had a sailboat, and I was rummaging around,
and I found a tote that had her main jib sail,
and I told her we could modify this iceboat
and see if we can’t get it to sail
a little bit better into the wind.
So, we’ll use these seams.
We’ll sew a pocket, and then I’ll make some real thin battens
that’ll be pretty long, and we’ll just slide those battens
into each one of those pockets.
DENISE: Okay. But just a minute. You want to see something?
ANDY: Yeah.
(laughs)
DENISE: Look at that.
Look at the boat there.
ANDY: It’s actually a pretty nice-looking little boat.
DENISE: It was a great boat.
I know, that was a hard let-go, boy.
ANDY: Yeah. I could have lived on that while you were working.
DENISE: Oh, it was a total live-aboard.
I lived aboard.
ANDY: Yeah. That’s nice.
DENISE: I sailed aboard.
ANDY: All right, so why don’t you work
on getting the cable out, the roller reefing cable out?
DENISE: Well, now, Andy, I have some bad news
’cause now that I see it, I kind of hate to cut it up.
ANDY: Tough (bleep).
(Denise laughs)
It’s being repurposed.
DENISE: Oh, man!
As we’re unfolding it,
we’re unfolding a lot of memories for me,
and to see the scissors go to it and the knives come out,
it takes my breath for a minute,
but it’s been the ultimate reusing, repurposing.
That’s just so representative of life here.
We have to make our environment, create what we have,
make it work for us here.
♪ ♪
ANDY: Okay. Let’s hoist it.
DENISE: Okay.
Here we go.
This sail, the iceboat gives us
the perfect opportunity to have fun together,
and I’m stoked to see the final product.
ANDY: That looks good.
So, let’s lower her back down, we’ll take it apart,
load it on the sled, and get it out to the lake.
Maybe we’ll catch a little bit of wind today.
You ready? Come on down.
Cool. All right.
Go warm up real quick, and we’ll go hook up the sled.
♪ ♪
CHIP: If it’s blowing, if it’s snowing, if it’s hot,
if it’s raining, it doesn’t matter.
It’s gonna do what it’s gonna do.
Just dress for it and sometimes stay the hell out of it.
♪ ♪
(tapping)
AGNES: Clutches don’t usually do that.
CHIP: No. I’ve never, uh...
I’ve never had them not pop back.
Ice, you can usually tap it, and it’ll pop back.
We can get the flat sled.
If I can get my machine running right,
pull over here, throw it on its side,
put it on the flat sled, take it down there, okay?
AGNES: Yeah.
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to a place where they can build a heating tent.
There, they’ll thaw out the machines
and finally perform vital repairs.
(tapping)
(sigh)
(engine revving)
CHIP: Whoa!
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AGNES: (laughs)
(bleep) I think Chip’s snow machine
is having clutch problems also
because he went down to go pick up the sled
and the snow machine started trying to take off without him.
CHIP: It’s the icing problem we’re having right there,
kind of self-explanatory now.
(grunts)
AGNES: Yeah. It seems to be good. That just scared me.
Have to have a good snow machine.
Your snow machine try to take off on you over there?
CHIP: Yup.
It sure did. I got ice problems, too.
Ready? One, two, three.
AGNES: Our little cabin is so small,
a snow machine couldn’t even fit
if we took it all apart and brought every part in.
CHIP: Okay. One, two, three.
AGNES: Usually we have covers over our snow machines,
but those got blown off.
We just have to keep trying to figure out ways
to warm our snow machines up and get one of them started.
One, two, three, go.
(grunting)
CHIP: Well, I can start digging out the tarps over here,
and, uh, you can grab some poles or vice versa.
AGNES: I can go get at those poles.
CHIP: I’ll do the harder one, okay?
(kicking)
I could put up a teepee by myself.
I’ve done that several times.
But it’s a lot faster
when you have two people working together.
It’s like most anything in life.
We’re gonna make a tripod first,
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and we’re gonna add the other poles
to make sure that it’s centered
over top of the snow machines that we’re trying to thaw.
And that way, we’ve got enough room in here,
we could put a stove, run the pipe up,
cap it mostly, and see what happens from there, huh?
AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: Well, it’s break time.
AGNES: We’ll just leave it at that, then,
go in, warm up, have a cup of tea.
CHIP: Yep.
♪ ♪
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Doesn’t mean you win.
But somewhere between all of that, you’re living.
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How you doing?
Well,
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Yeah.
You know now that if I’m carrying this,
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The next thing you guys need to learn is how to track things,
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♪ ♪
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What is it?
Is that some ptarmies?
They flew this way.
But the commotion, one of the foxes is now--
Oh! He saw.
And it’s like, these are your snowballs.
It saw the color and the flash, so it is ticking something.
We got one that wants to learn.
Come on! Come on!
♪ ♪
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SUE: (bleep)
Yeah, you busted it.
You’re a little obvious.
You got to get low, sneak, and then run, man.
Pick your quarry and run.
He knows he blew something,
and it’s starting to dawn on him what it was.
So you can see where his hunting instinct
is firing right and left, but it’s not coalescing yet.
But he’ll figure it out, and no doubt,
he’s gonna be here and there watching.
No doubt there’s other ones.
He’s a baby, and you have to be patient.
That’s right, sniff!
That’s where they were.
He’s chewing on the willows, trying to get a bird.
Well, you’re getting some of the ideas.
Come on. They’re over here now.
♪ ♪
I see ’em. They’re over there.
He’s seeing them flutter in the brush,
and he’s confused.
He’s looking at me like, "What do I do?"
Looks like he’s gonna spook these, too.
Hold on, tough guy.
You’re making hunting a little tough this morning.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
Stop, stop. Stop. Don’t.
That’s mine!
Are you kidding me?
He just took my food.
Are you serious?
(laughs)
Well, he saw that snowball,
and he went after it,
so he did good, only it’s mine.
Bummer for me I don’t have the dinner,
but I couldn’t have asked for a better result.
But I’ve still got a long ways to go.
I’ve got to fill my freezer
and help them get their little instinctual triggers done.
The star pupil doesn’t mean the whole class graduated.
I’m gonna continue hunting, and, uh, continue with my program.
It’s a great start, but it’s a start, not a finish.
♪ ♪
JESSIE: Subsistence living.
I didn’t even know that it existed, really,
but I knew I wanted to live that way,
and I came to the right place
because this is what I do every day.
♪ ♪
(engine revving)
There she is. It looks like I got a cow.
She looks in really nice shape. Her hide’s really nice.
Shot a little low, but hardly any meat damage
right there, you know, in the vital areas.
Everything is good. That’s awesome.
It’s starting to get dark.
I’m gonna have to set up a fire
and get ready to put the work in.
I would definitely like to get two caribou,
but it didn’t work out in the cards that way today,
but you’ll never hear me complain about having one down.
That’s huge. That’s a big relief.
There’s my security, right there.
I had a good feeling about today,
and feeling that I was gonna be lucky.
I was seeing a lot of sign up in the high country.
I hadn’t run into them yet, but keeping my eyes wide open,
and, you know, those caribou that I seen
were quite a ways away.
But, you know, I’m not gonna wait
for something close and easy.
I’m gonna make my own luck and get out there and get after it.
And I’m glad I did.
Now I’ve got a caribou and, you know,
I can enjoy the process of getting it home
and eating it.
This past year has been a little bit of a tough year for me.
There’s been some ups and downs, but one of the best things
was that my freezer was stocked full,
and that helped me recover
through some of the hard times that I went through.
And that kept me healthy.
So, it is very important for me to keep that freezer full
and keep that lifestyle going.
All right, I’ve got everything, uh, wrapped up here.
I’m just, uh, putting these quarters away.
Man, these look great. They got some good fat on them.
Way more fat than the ones I got last year.
I’m, uh, really excited to get this meat home
and start processing it and start enjoying it.
You know, I’m basically sure
this is gonna be an extremely harsh winter
because of what I’ve already seen in the months past.
The feeling of having the security of having my meat,
that’s a big relief.
♪ ♪
CHIP: It isn’t those that are strong that survive,
it’s those that adapt that survive.
♪ ♪
You got some wood.
You gotta love 5:00 nowadays.
It’s dark.
AGNES: It is dark.
I’m glad we’re safe in our own environment,
in our own home.
I’m, I’m glad we have these poles and tarps and this string
so we can just get going.
It’s so cold that our snow machine won’t start.
We decided to grab some tarps and wrap the poles in tarps
like a teepee structure
and, uh, just build it around our snow machines,
throw a woodstove in it, and just start warming it up.
If you just thaw your snow machines up,
they’ll run again after a while.
Probably a little more snow, yeah?
Wow!
It’s sealed!
It’s actually getting warm in here.
CHIP: Yeah. Remind you of old days when we were young
and we used to make teepees like this to stay in?
AGNES: Yep. And actually sleep in these?
CHIP: Yeah. I’m almost there. Just give me a second.
(grunts)
It’s good.
♪ ♪
Well, that should be good enough to get her rolling.
AGNES: Yep.
Not bad shelter.
CHIP: No, not bad at all.
AGNES: I never really thought we’d need a shelter
for our snow machines.
CHIP: It’s warm down here already.
The cone forces it down. You know what I mean?
The, the way it is, it’s, there’s no squares or edges
to have to fill up.
AGNES: Should be safe for now, eh?
CHIP: Yeah.
AGNES: Just leave it here for a while and come back down?
CHIP: Yep.
AGNES: Keep stoking it.
CHIP: We can take turns coming here.
AGNES: Mm-hmm.
CHIP: And I’ll go get some more wood later.
This is gonna take about a day.
AGNES: Yep. That’s all we need
is just a little bit of warmth for these rides.
CHIP: Yep.
♪ ♪
ANDY: I don’t mind working hard, but I want a payoff.
And if I get the payoff,
all the labor and the investment into the time,
that’s, that’s great.
♪ ♪
DENISE: All right!
Heave-ho!
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ANDY: Let’s have some fun.
DENISE: Get some wind on this sail.
ANDY: If you turn left, it’ll be just right.
DENISE: Yeah. Okay.
ANDY: Turn left.
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DENISE: Whoa.
ANDY: See how it’s flopping around?
DENISE: Oh.
ANDY: Look at this. The stay broke.
DENISE: Oh!
ANDY: Oh, looks like the swage let go.
See that?
DENISE: Yeah, it snapped right off.
ANDY: Yeah, I’ll fix this kind of the way
I used to make snares, with wire, so I think I...
DENISE: It just let go.
ANDY: ...put a loop in this.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: And we’ll tie it up,
and that’ll at least get us going again.
We’re wasting our wind.
We’ve got to get out there and start sailing.
DENISE: I know! It’s good wind right there.
ANDY: Well, I think you’re good to go now.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: I think you can get out
and, and sail around and have some fun here.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: Go ahead and get ready, and I’ll give you a shove.
Okay, you ready to go, girl?
DENISE: I’m ready!
Let’s do it!
There it is.
ANDY: That’s it!
DENISE: Where’s that wind?
In life, you’re always trying to seek the balance
of work and play, and for me, whenever I’m in that thought
where I need to take a break, I leave, I go away.
And I like that we don’t have to go far to disconnect.
We can do it right here in our backyard.
ANDY: That’s it!
DENISE: I didn’t realize I’d stopped.
ANDY: That looks good! All right!
DENISE: I have a really good idea.
ANDY: What?
DENISE: I liked it when we’re going together.
ANDY: I’ll push.
DENISE: Ready, you push and then jump on.
ANDY: Well, I kind of like it better
when you push and I steer.
DENISE: Well, we’ll get there later.
(Andy laughs)
Okay. Faster, Andy!
ANDY: Yeah!
DENISE: It’s so much fun being on the sailboat with Andy,
having those gusts of wind take us.
The only thing I would wish is that the lake had an opening
that we could just keep on going.
♪ ♪
CHIP: Sometimes Mother Nature
just takes everything you’ve done
and throws it in a (bleep) dump.
But, you know, you got to roll with the punches.
And that’s really how it works.
♪ ♪
(thumping)
AGNES: Jeez, eh? Woo!
CHIP: It’s a storm, all right.
Oh, man.
AGNES: Holy (bleep).
It’s blowing away!
CHIP: Agh!
AGNES: Did you know it was gonna get stormy like this?
CHIP: I can’t hear a thing you’re saying.
(wind blowing)
(Agnes sighs)
AGNES: Jeez!
Oh.
Oh, my God!
Chip!
It’s too windy!
Everything’s getting covered, eh?
CHIP: Not much we can do!
AGNES: Yeah, it even looks kind of scary.
CHIP: (bleep) We’ll wait till the storm stops,
we’ll come here, we’ll fix it, and we’ll do it again.
AGNES: Yeah. At least the tarps are still holding on.
CHIP: Yup!
We’ll deal with this when this crap is over.
♪ ♪
AGNES: Wow.
CHIP: Yeah, looks like one tarp took off.
AGNES: Whoa.
CHIP: They’re not any better off than when we started.
AGNES: Yeah, now there’s even more snow, eh?
CHIP: Yeah. Well, that’s the weather.
It always wins.
I’ll tell you what.
Let’s go up and have some coffee.
I’ll get my shovels.
We’ll make a plan, and we’ll come back down here.
And I’ll get this rebuilt, and we’ll start all over again.
AGNES: Yeah. At least we got the shelter on.
CHIP: Yeah.
AGNES: It’s still standing.
CHIP: Yup, yup, just one cheap tarp gave out.
AGNES: Yup.
Wow, huh?
CHIP: Yeah, that’s how it goes.
Sometimes you just got to do it again.
You know, these things happen.
This is part of living here.
Nature comes along, and it blows, and it freezes,
and it breaks your things, and it smashes your stuff.
It’ll wipe out all the work that you’ve already done,
and you’ve got to do it again.
If you don’t do it again, you don’t get the result you want,
so you do it again.
You know what you have to do here?
You have to keep on keeping on.
And, uh, that’s what we’re gonna do.
♪ ♪
SUE: If you don’t do something incredible for yourself
once in a while, you just missed out on the good parts of life.
♪ ♪
What are you doing, goofball?
He’s running for something.
I’m not sure what.
What is he doing?
That bird is swooping on something.
Oh, ptarmigans!
It’s been a big few days.
Uh, crash course.
Getting the, the kits to become foxes.
They are definitely out there
putting the wild back into the wilderness.
It’s a hawk.
Well, he’s out there in the field being a fox
and not in camp.
Props to the fox.
He went out there, he saw the ptarmies and ran after it.
The hawk is also after it.
Fox better be careful, ’cause he’s on the menu.
There’s predators and prey out here.
And, uh, at any point, you can be both.
And I cannot interfere with most of it,
so I can show that fox how to be a fox,
but part of being a fox is that he is prey
to a lot of other predators.
And that I can’t show him, it just is a fact.
So I’ve got to turn my attention away from him.
I need to get some personal birds.
I’m gonna keep trying.
♪ ♪
(gunshots)
That was a lot of work for a little bit of birdies.
But...all right.
(wings flapping)
(laughs) I see the birds pick up and lift.
Guess what, it’s not me spooking them.
It’s my students.
It’s my little fur family.
The whole point was to do what I could
to get them to act like full-grown foxes,
as best I could.
The best successful shot they have
is staying out of camp,
learning and doing what they’re doing right now.
I’ve got to step back.
They’re gonna thrive on instinct, and I have to let go.
Worked up kind of a decent appetite.
I think I’m gonna go cook something special.
I’ve earned it, and it’s time to treat myself.
This has been great. This is success on all levels.
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