♪ ♪
SUE: Well, there’s a lot of caribou around.
And they have kind of a whitish mane, darker body.
But unless I’m mistaken, I think I see a bear this way.
So I want to be very careful
and kind of see if I can’t quarter myself that direction.
♪ ♪
It’s early fall. It’s warm.
Maybe a little too warm.
The temperatures are up.
Bears are not denned up.
It is way too warm.
So I’ve got to keep my wits about me.
All of the animals, birds, everything,
are getting ready to migrate, go dormant.
They are ready for their winter behavior.
I no longer have this luxurious amount of weeks
to pick, choose, and lollygag.
But I’m not gonna pass up what nature’s gonna try to give me.
I’m gonna try to get that bear.
(whispering) Got to get a few more bullets in my pockets,
’cause once I’m out there,
I don’t have a second chance at putting more in.
Run at me, that’s what I want.
Run at me, not past me.
I’m daring you.
♪ ♪
(steady breathing)
(gunshot)
Huh! Huh!
(Sue barks)
(gunshot)
No, he’s gone.
♪ ♪
When I’m hunting a bear and I’m focused on it,
I like to be focused on it.
I don’t like to split my focus when I’m doing bear.
Maybe on a normal day, I’d be more interested
in filling the meat freezer with the caribou,
but I don’t have time to put blood on the ground
and have the bear come up from behind.
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and I’ve got to really sharpen and focus my intent.
RICKO: Moose hunting can be real complicated.
It might seem simple, but it isn’t.
Being in the mix with a bunch of moose, bulls and cows,
can be dangerous.
♪ ♪
Early morning.
Right now, too, though, Simone, you can see moose sometime,
they’ll be right on the bank.
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to his children.
Today’s lesson will include his eldest daughter Simone,
as the duo embarks on the family’s most crucial hunt
of the year: the fall hunt for bull moose.
RICKO: Remember when you were little
and we were in that canoe, how scared you were of the moose?
SIMONE: Yeah.
RICKO: This moose hunting season,
I want to bring my daughter Simone out.
She’s 17 years old. She’s never hunted moose before.
And I think it’s gonna be exciting
for me to get her out there,
and also teach her a little bit about hunting.
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Okay, right up here is the Huslia River.
We’re gonna tuck in there,
and it won’t be long till we’re kind of in the hot spot.
Over the last few days, I’ve seen cows coming out.
Right now, if you see cows, there’s bulls right near them.
The moose don’t want to be hunted by bears or wolves
while they’re making noise,
so they use this window in the morning.
For the first two hours of light, it’s real calm,
and that’s when they can get together, come out of the brush,
and into the open areas and fight each other
and challenge for their chance to breed.
We could stop and just do some calls and listen.
RICKO: For when they call back
with raking, thrashing his antlers.
SIMONE: Mmm.
♪ ♪
(scraping)
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
RICKO: I check the wind.
I do some calls, and I just listen.
In the early morning, when you’re real quiet, it’s like...
nothing.
(faint grunt)
(faint groan)
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
♪ ♪
SIMONE: My experience with hunting is pretty good,
because I went since I was like five years old.
And I just always watched my dad.
RICKO: Simone likes to stay back and watch a situation,
even watch other people.
She’s kind of quiet, she’s kind of reserved.
But it makes her more cautious.
And more stronger as far as survival,
because she makes less mistakes.
I hope her shy, reserved personality comes in
as a safe and well-placed shot
when it comes time to make it happen.
♪ ♪
(gun clicks)
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
(knocks jug)
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
RICKO: He walked away. Darn it.
♪ ♪
JESSIE: This is the most difficult season for me,
this transition period between summer and winter.
Everything has to be done before winter is here,
and you’re just on a push.
♪ ♪
(bark)
♪ ♪
(barking)
I’m getting ready to move my remote camp out.
I’ve got my red trailer that I used when I was racing dogs.
And I’m gonna tow it out about 100 miles,
the other side of the Denali Highway
so I can start checking out that country.
But before I leave here, I need to stock up on firewood.
I got a tree that’s dead here in my dog yard.
I’m gonna cut it down.
You know, it also presents a danger
if it’s to blow over and smack one of my dogs.
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also not have to worry about it anymore.
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want to get this thing out of here.
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and take it out for firewood.
(chainsaw buzzing)
Before I moved to Alaska,
I was lost, wandering, looking for something.
And when I moved to Alaska, I found my true place in life.
Sometimes it can be incredibly challenging and hard.
But it just made me dig deep
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Time to grab my guns, grab my jack, and hit the road.
♪ ♪
ANDY: Every time I go out and hunt, it’s a new experience.
It’s a new set of problem-solving to deal with.
The key word is you got to be patient.
♪ ♪
DENISE: Come on, let’s go.
Yay, Topaz!
Yeah, we’re ready to go.
♪ ♪
ANDY: Well, we got a pretty darn good day for floating,
that’s for sure.
DENISE: Couldn’t be better.
ANDY: As we get into the evening,
I’d like to get in and make a camp.
And then we can go out and walk some sloughs
and just see what kind of tracks are down there
wherever we camp out.
The focus on hunting this year
is protein and meat for us for a whole year.
Without fat in your diet,
you don’t do real well out in this country.
So at this point in the fall, anything that we can get,
whether it’s a bear or a moose or a caribou or anything,
is super important right now.
♪ ♪
I’m gonna try and put it right where that grass is.
♪ ♪
(hammering)
♪ ♪
Be a pretty good place to camp right here.
DENISE: Okay.
For all the beauty here, there’s that much real danger.
Lots of tracks.
ANDY: Moose tracks, those are...
DENISE: Whoa, look here. Whoa!
ANDY: You got to keep that guy away.
DENISE: Yeah, look at that, Tope.
ANDY: Man, that’s a big dude.
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DENISE: Wow!
They are enormous grizzly tracks,
right here where we are gonna set up our tent.
Wow, look it.
ANDY: His front pads are that big.
Look at his hind foot.
DENISE: Look at how big it is!
That’s bigger than all four of your feet, Tope.
ANDY: This is where we’re gonna camp.
So we keep the rifles close and the pistol even closer.
So let’s get camp set up, get the tent set up,
and then we can go cruise with the boat,
find a place to put the net in, and then we can come back here.
DENISE: It’d be really good if we get something to eat for dinner.
And not be eaten for dinner.
♪ ♪
I am always happy to set off on an adventure,
set off on new explorations.
ANDY: What do you think, right about here?
Looks like about the most level spot.
DENISE: We’re setting off to do a chore that needs to be done,
a task that has to be done
so that winter can be what we need it to be.
But it’s an exciting task for me,
because I want to explore more of this area.
Okay, Topaz.
We got the house up, let’s go get food.
ANDY: It’s hard to describe what Alaska means to people.
It’s something that’s pretty deep inside of a person.
And I think everyone who comes to Alaska
comes for a different reason.
But ultimately, a life that puts you closer to nature
and a life that allows you to be self-sufficient.
That’s what we both strive for, and that’s what makes us happy.
DENISE: I strive to be me.
I strive to follow my path, not turn back in fear,
grabbing ahold of it and getting to the other side of fear.
ANDY: I don’t dwell on the past, I learn from the past.
I take my lumps and bumps,
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getting out on the river, doing some longer trips.
The abilities that we developed here,
we can go anywhere we want and live and experience it
and have a really good time with it.
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what challenge I can take.
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It’s becoming part of me.
ANDY: Being happy, making yourself better,
learning new skills.
To me, that’s the definition of quality of life and freedom.
♪ ♪
Think we’ll just go into the shoreline here
and set it right over in here, Denise.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: We’re gonna set a fishnet,
try and pick up a little bit of food.
When I go out, a lot of times
I don’t bring a lot of food with me
’cause it makes me hunt a lot harder.
There’s nothing like hunting
when you’re hungry to make you hunt harder.
And there’s nothing like fishing when you’re hungry
to make you fish harder.
I’ll be able to put us where we need to be
and then you just slowly untangle that, okay?
DENISE: Looks a little tangled, but might not be too bad.
ANDY: We’re gonna try and take advantage
and see if we can catch something to help feed us.
I’ve learned over the years,
it’s always smart to have a net in your boat,
’cause you can throw it in,
and you’re gonna usually catch something.
And letting it fish while we’re busy hunting
is just a smart thing to do.
We’re just gonna try it out and see what happens.
Hopefully getting some food for us, good quality food.
SUE: You got to become your opponent,
you got to know what his objective is,
and you’ve got to beat him to the punch.
♪ ♪
I shot at that bear.
It was a bit of a distance, but he ran up here,
and there’s a lot of area to cover up here for him.
No blood trail whatsoever.
There’s no red at all.
Nothing to indicate he got hit.
I either need to get the bear for food,
or get him moving out.
I’ve got this bear out here, uh, I call him Double Stuf.
He’s real dark in the front, dark in the back,
but he’s got a real light-colored coat
in the middle.
He’s an older bear.
He’s been here a long time.
He’s still alpha out here.
When he’s in town,
you really don’t see a lot of other bears here.
But there’s a lot of caribou up here.
Now, caribou typically, if you see a big bear
making ground,
you don’t stand here chewing grass.
So my thought is, where did he go?
No blood trail whatsoever.
Nothing to indicate he got hit.
♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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(gunshot)
♪ ♪
SUE: There he is.
It’s going all the way across the Kavik.
♪ ♪
Maybe, maybe the bear will think I’m a caribou.
Yeah, that bear has had enough.
That hurts.
He’s done.
I think he went up and over.
I know if I were him, I would.
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I see a couple of the caribou
and, and they’re acting a little hinky.
So, I think that’s probably what he’s done.
So now I do have to depend on getting the rest of my caribou.
They’re gonna migrate out.
So my time is now-- chk, chk, chk, chk--
getting less.
And there you go.
So...
that is that.
That’s bear hunting for today.
All hunters really are opportunistic.
I’ve still got caribou that I can get.
Hunting is not shopping.
Alright, time to get home.
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I am who I am.
There’s not a lot of guesswork about it.
♪ ♪
I try to be the best me I can be.
I try to be the best steward for the ground that I’m on.
Alaska teaches you everything,
harshly or beautifully.
It’s more than just a place.
It’s my heart. It’s my soul.
And you carry bits and pieces with you forever.
It’s where it all begins and ends.
Is the hard work getting more difficult?
Yeah, I’m getting older. It hurts.
I use my body like a battering ram half the time.
But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
My goal is I’m preparing for a tough winter.
And I’ll be blessed with anything less.
♪ ♪
JESSIE: I want to know all this country.
It molds me into who I am.
Every trip I make has meaning.
♪ ♪
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It’s somewhere you need something
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but you might not be able to make it back.
♪ ♪
Right now, I got my eyes wide open.
I’m looking for some areas where I’ve seen grouse
that I can get out and hunt.
They’re coming down to the road
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It’s been a long time since I’ve got to hunt anything
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and you know, I’m trying to still live the same lifestyle.
So I’m overcoming that
by building the strength of my mind.
Really looking forward to, you know, continuing
Rosie’s education into hunting.
She’s five months old.
I think this is a good time for her.
She’s mature and ready to absorb.
Rosie, Rosie.
Rosie.
(gunshot)
(bleep)
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It scared me a little bit, because,
first time I’ve shot anything with any kick, you know.
I’m not gonna give up.
We’re gonna keep working these woods.
We saw one grouse, we’re likely to see another.
♪ ♪
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I see one fly up into this tree.
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Oh, here it is, right here.
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(gunshot) JESSIE: Rosie, get it. Rosie.
Good girl.
There it is, right there. Get it, Rosie.
Rosie, Rosie. You can’t eat it.
(chuckles) She’s just learning,
but she definitely has the instinct to catch grouse.
She’s gonna learn a lot more about catching them
and bringing them back to me.
Not trying to eat them, you know.
She’s a five-month-old puppy,
but this is great exposure to her.
If I keep moving this time of day,
it looks like I’ll be able to put up a fair amount of meat.
I love providing myself with good quality protein.
It’s a rewarding feeling to be able to go out into the woods
and survive off small game.
Rosie.
Come on, Rosie.
Go find some more, yeah.
♪ ♪
That was pretty cool, Rosie flushed that one into a tree,
now I got to find where it went, but I think it went too far.
No, that’s a little bird. It’s in here somewhere.
There it is, right there.
(gunshot)
Alright, Rosie!
She flushed it.
Good girl!
I didn’t really even plan on her flushing a bird.
You know, that’s like a sporting hunting thing
that they do train dogs to,
but, me, I want her to stay behind me.
But once she’s seen it, it was an awesome opportunity
for her to get more into the hunt.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
Get it, Rosie. Rosie.
Get it, Rosie! Get it!
Good girl, Rosie! Come, come!
Go for the throat, baby.
There you go.
♪ ♪
This is a perfect trip to introduce her to real hunting.
Before this, she’s never gotten anything but squirrels.
But tonight, whenever we have a big dinner in the trailer camp,
she’s gonna really feel proud of herself.
Yes, Rosie!
You love hunting.
I’m so proud of you.
We got three grouse. We had one miss.
But, you know, we got to go and get this camp set up.
We got ourselves some good dinner to eat tonight
when we get there.
ANDY: I think Alaska’s kind of like an oxymoron.
It can change from one of your best days
to one of your worst days in a matter of a few seconds.
♪ ♪
DENISE: There they are. You hear them?
ANDY: That was a bear or wolves. Right there behind the...
(distant howl) DENISE: Yup.
That sounded like wolves, the one before.
♪ ♪
ANDY: And I just heard something right back through here, too.
So maybe they’re coming down this way to hunt.
Might be worthwhile for us
to just stick here for a few minutes.
♪ ♪
That was a rude awakening with that grizzly bear this morning.
He was way too close.
This morning, I was pretty much sound asleep,
and I woke up and heard the sound of a territorial growl
from a grizzly bear.
I think that grizzly came up,
and then Topaz was up and stirring around,
and he sensed her, and that was his kind of territorial thing,
like, "What the heck are you doing here?"
DENISE: That was a very close territorial thing he was doing.
ANDY: Yeah.
And then I think when he heard me rustling around to get up,
he kind of started moving back down the slough.
’Cause when I came outside, I could hear him groaning
and walking back down the slough the other way.
DENISE: That was scary, I will say.
ANDY: Well, maybe what we ought to do
is just walk up the beach to the slough.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: Take a look, and then we can come back,
and then hopefully the sun will burn some of this fog off,
and we can take the boat upriver and do a hunt that way.
♪ ♪
It’s a really, really rude awakening
to come from deep sleep, to all of a sudden you hear a sound,
and you recognize it as a grizzly bear.
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and it was really big tracks and a big bear,
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and get out of the tent
to make sure we didn’t have him coming into the tent.
It’s just one of those things when you’re out in this country,
you have to be prepared for.
Nature can be really friendly, but it’s also very ruthless.
Look at that.
That’s a big track.
That’s fresh.
DENISE: Wow. Look it, they’re going opposite ways.
♪ ♪
We’re in grizzly country. There’s grizzlies everywhere.
So, it’s learn and be alert to it.
The grizzlies are a big predator here,
and it’s something I have zero experience with,
and I want to be as prepared and aware as I can be.
ANDY: One thing I like about having Topaz
is she’s constantly winding everything.
DENISE: Yeah, I keep on looking at her to...
ANDY: Yeah, she’ll clue us into anything
that’s upwind of us anyway, you know?
DENISE: Yeah.
♪ ♪
ANDY: That’s from a wolf.
DENISE: That’s fresh.
ANDY: Real fresh, that’s probably from last night.
DENISE: Wow.
This is definitely the trail.
ANDY: Yeah.
He’s eating a lot of meat.
It’s black, it’s slimy.
That’s pretty fresh.
DENISE: It’s very fresh.
♪ ♪
ANDY: It’s a good place for viewing,
but I’m not seeing much activity,
and I would have liked to see more tracks up and down here
than just the wolf tracks, you know.
A big part of hunting is just getting out there
and reconning the area, right?
Let’s just head on back and hunt the river.
We’ll probably have a better chance if we just keep floating
and idling down the river.
Maybe we’ll find a bear, maybe we’ll find a moose.
RICKO: There’s a lot of opportunity and a lot of dangers
when you’re hunting moose.
At times, it feels like there’s nothing.
But the best way to lose an opportunity
is to believe that it’s not real.
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
♪ ♪
(scraping)
♪ ♪
(rustling)
(moose groaning)
(gunshot)
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RICKO: Hit him again, hit him again, hit him again.
(gunshot)
Hit him again.
(gunshot)
Okay, we got him.
He stopped on that first one,
I just wanted to make sure you got him.
Okay, come on, you got to walk up and you got to finish it.
SIMONE: I didn’t know we were that close.
RICKO: Oh, you didn’t?
SIMONE: Until we heard that loud noise, and I got kind of scared.
RICKO: When these bulls start to come in, they’re loud,
they’re mean, they’re aggressive, they want to fight.
They’re at that point where they’re just like,
"I’m here, you called me in. Let’s go."
You always got to approach from the back
in case they jump back up.
♪ ♪
He’s done, huh?
You hit him good that first time, you lunged him,
but I had to, I had to make sure he didn’t run away.
You could hear the bullet hit,
you could see the moose’s butt drop down a little bit.
He stumbles, he starts stumbling around,
and I knew she got it good.
Good job, Simone.
SIMONE: Whoa, that was crazy.
RICKO: You got your first moose.
So proud of you.
Are you excited?
You hit him good that first time,
so don’t feel bad I, I shot that second one,
you had him, you lunged him.
Know what you should say, though, "Ana baasee’ dennahuto."
Just remember that, it’s a big moment.
You don’t have to say it every time you kill something,
but a big moment like this, I want to hear you say it,
like you’re talking to whoever gave it to you.
"Ana baasee’ dennahuto,"
that’s whatever out here that take care of us, thank you.
"Ana baasee’ dennahuto" is thank you to whoever look out for us.
That’s the creator, of course.
SIMONE: Ana baasee’ dennahuto.
RICKO: Now that the moose is down,
I could tell it’s a real big moose.
It brings me back when I got my first moose when I was her age,
but the moose she got today is a lot bigger
than what I got when I was a kid.
I think the strongest fundamental
with Athabaskan culture is being open-minded and humble.
That’s how you learn.
I guess that’s the goal for me out here
is learn every part of my environment.
I want to get out, break new trail this winter,
find new areas and find new opportunities
for me and also for my kids.
The only way for me to share my Athabaskan culture
is to get my kids out with me and let them experience it
and move around on these lands with me.
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But not only a master of our environment,
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Old dog that doesn’t learn no more is a dead dog,
so as old as I am, there’s a lot for me to learn.
Being out in the woods is the best way to learn,
whether you’re young or old.
♪ ♪
Damn, look how big it is! It’s huge.
See what it looks like.
Damn, big body on it.
See what it measures.
Since it’s your first moose.
I got a tape measure somewhere, right there.
SIMONE: This one?
RICKO: The one that’s further out
that’s straight across from this one--no, down.
Yeah, that one.
It’s 64, Simone.
Got a 64-inch bull on your first, first hunt.
Lot of boys don’t, lot of men don’t even get moose like this.
(laughs) Your friends are gonna be jealous.
This moose she got has got a lot of fat on it,
and that’s the most important thing for us people out here
in rural Alaska is nice, fat quality meat from that moose.
Once you learn how to cut the moose up right,
you’ll never forget.
There’s 99 ways to skin a cat,
there’s only one way to skin a moose.
I could see my daughter Simone’s smile on her face.
She don’t smile like that very often,
but today, big smile from her, and that just warms my heart
to see her like that and makes me proud as a father
to be able to bring her out and bring her close enough
to make that shot, that’s hers today now.
Just like I teach my son, I got to teach my daughter
how to hunt and how to be strong and how to be independent.
And this is just to protect the meat,
because we eat the meat off of the head, just like that.
You carry the rifle, I carry the head,
’cause it’s gonna be a hard job carrying this out.
This is a long day with my daughter out moose hunting.
Before we go home, we’re gonna enjoy a real good meal,
because all this hard work is gonna make that
moose fall season flavor a whole lot better.
ANDY: Most people live in a very unsustainable user way of life,
whereas out here what we use is a renewable resource.
♪ ♪
I’ll just get you in, grab the float and lift it up,
and let’s see if we got anything.
DENISE: Fingers are crossed.
Think fish, think fish.
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That was a huge hit for us,
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ANDY: You saw one? DENISE: I saw one.
ANDY: Good.
DENISE: I’ll bring the anchor up.
ANDY: Pull those up and put ’em inside the boat,
and then I’ll just pivot the whole thing to the shoreline.
There you go.
Well, we got dinner anyway.
Let’s go see what we got in there.
DENISE: I know I saw a fish.
ANDY: Pull it up.
DENISE: Got a few sticks?
ANDY: I got a lot of sticks in my end.
DENISE: Yeah, there are a lot of sticks.
See? Right there!
Nice!
ANDY: That’s something.
That looks like a whitefish maybe.
Yeah, it’s a little whitefish.
DENISE: Nice.
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DENISE: Let’s go cook a fish.
♪ ♪
Oh, that looks good.
Mm-hmm.
There’ll be some for you, Tope.
Man, that looks good.
Look at that, it’s just scraping right off the bone.
Well, this is a nice bonus tonight.
ANDY: Mm-hmm.
Mmm. That’s a good fish.
DENISE: Mm-hmm.
ANDY: And a good lesson about all this
is that you can pretty much go anywhere you want to go up here,
and if you got a net and you got a gun
and you bring a few basic things, you can eat pretty good.
DENISE: Yeah, definitely. Look at this meal.
This is a really good way to wrap up the day. Energy snack.
ANDY: All we got to do now is go shoot a moose.
JESSIE: I’m going bigger and better every year,
every season out here.
That’s just all I know how to do.
That’s the only way I know.
♪ ♪
Me and Rosie, we had a good hunt earlier.
We’re just looking for our spot up here
that we’re gonna drop the trailer,
then we’re gonna build us a fire in the stove
and cook us up some grouse.
NARRATOR: Jessie Holmes is traveling the Denali Highway
to set up a remote trailer camp in the Brushkana wilderness.
The camp will open pathways
to winter resources and exploration,
but the task must be done before winter returns
and access to the road is cut off
by the onslaught of snow and ice.
♪ ♪
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and there’s a lot of wind and a lot of storms.
This is a spot that’s tucked away,
there’s a little trail right off here to the right I’m gonna take
and find somewhere to put the trailer.
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but there’s a lot more to explore
than just the Denali Highway itself.
Having this camp here allows me to come here
and get off the beaten path.
♪ ♪
(crackling)
(sizzling)
Listen to that crackling sound.
That’s how you cook grouse.
You like it raw, but I like it like this,
and I hope you like it that way, too.
You know, you just, you just can’t beat a day like today.
Getting out in the country, enjoying the fresh air,
hunting with my dog, being successful,
getting our camp set up.
We’re ready for winter.
♪ ♪
SUE: Always know where your seat of power and balance is,
and keep it.
That’s how you stay alive out here.
♪ ♪
Really? Really?
You couldn’t just knock ’em towards me, could you?
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I see a caribou right there,
but there’s a lot better specimens out there.
Definitely not enough of an animal
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but I see some ptarmigans.
NARRATOR: With the grizzly bear no longer a threat
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to other potential hunts, such as caribou or ptarmigan.
This time of year, she must seize any chance for meat
that the tundra provides,
before winter returns and food becomes scarce.
SUE: We had one straggler.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
Okay.
One down.
Here we go.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
Alright. Thank you, guys.
Thank you.
A nice addition...
to the food closet.
♪ ♪
There we go.
Taking some refuge there.
You go back in there.
So I’m gonna keep going forward, keep my eyes peeled.
I’m gonna try to get a larger-bodied caribou.
The, the bigger body means more meat for the freezer.
From what I see, from what the animals and plants
are showing me, it’s gonna be a winter of extremes.
So I’m gonna fill my freezer accordingly.
♪ ♪
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SUE: (bleep)
Oh!
♪ ♪
Turn.
♪ ♪
Come on.
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
I got him in the neck.
I got to get out there and make sure that he’s not gonna suffer.
(breathing heavily)
(sighs)
Thank you, my friend.
You’ve got a wonderful body, not meat wasted.
His buddy.
He’s not the biggest-bodied bull on the planet, but...
Don’t come too close, bud.
You’re making this hard on me, dude.
Oh, oh.
Buddy, got to turn just a little bit.
Head-on is a problem for me.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
(crying) Thank you.
♪ ♪
It was just meant to be.
He kept coming around, kept coming,
and so they’re obviously buddies,
he’s gonna be a little lost without him, so I just did it.
It’s good meat, it’s here,
and I talked about being an opportunist
and taking that opportunity.
It’s done.
And, um, gonna get these guys loaded up.
Thank you again, little buddy and big brother.
Very grateful.
♪ ♪
It’s very emotional sometimes for me
to take the life of another animal.
♪ ♪
There’s never one moment I’m not grateful
for the bounty that I get.
I’ve gotta go over to the river, the other side of camp.
It’s where I do take care of the animals.
Keeps them cleaner, cools them down better.
I can keep an eye on the predators in the area,
it’s just a lot better spot,
it’s well within my comfort zone.
I’m not dropping blood right here.
I’ll take ’em where I usually go.
♪ ♪
It’s a hell of a start to the winter.
♪ ♪
And I’ll take it.
You don’t always get this lucky,
but I’ll roll in it when I get there.
♪ ♪
(engine starts)
♪ ♪
ANDY: I’ve always believed that’s the difference
between survival and not surviving.
It’s those first two or three things you do
that are the difference between making it or not making it.
(engine rumbling)
NARRATOR: With winter looming, the window for stockpiling
fat and protein is rapidly closing for Andy and Denise.
They are in search of a bear or moose,
but if they’re unable to harvest
one of these fall resources,
they will be ill-prepared to survive the cold months ahead.
♪ ♪
DENISE: Andy, Andy, there’s a bear!
♪ ♪
Where is he?
Did you see him?
ANDY: He’s gone. He’s gone.
I saw him, he looked out at us,
and then he went back into the woods.
DENISE: That’s too bad.
I just caught a glimpse of him running up the hill.
ANDY: Coming upstream with a lot of noise,
it’s pretty hard to sneak up on ’em.
♪ ♪
DENISE: Oh, god. I can’t believe I saw him.
ANDY: Put it on the beach right here,
and we’ll run to the far end of this slough
and see if we can’t ambush him when he comes out, okay?
♪ ♪
So we just saw a bear walking the shoreline.
We’ve landed down below him. We’re hoping we can ambush him.
He went up to the top of this island.
We don’t know if he’s gonna keep going
or if he’s gonna come back down,
but we’re gonna try and head him off at the pass.
♪ ♪
Yeah. We got to get over on this island here
to where we can see if he comes out of that slough.
But he definitely went onto this island here.
I didn’t see anything up here at all.
These bears in the fall time are really good eating bears.
It’s for our food. It’s not a trophy.
However, you still have to be very smart
about what you’re doing.
Bears are dangerous animals.
The apex predator.
♪ ♪
(whispering) I think you need to get to a place
to where you can shoot down this way comfortably, find a rest.
My guess is he’ll probably come out somewhere
about right in here somewhere, circle back around.
If it comes out up here, you’ve got a shot.
It comes out right here, you got a shot.
But he’s gonna be walking,
so you’re not, you’re not gonna have a long time,
just aim for the, you know, shoulder.
But I’m gonna stay back here and keep an eye
in case he starts going up the beach, okay?
♪ ♪
DENISE: (whispering) Bullet in the chamber, safety on.
♪ ♪
You just never know out here.
You never know what the next minute’s gonna bring.
Oh, man, these bears, they just appear like a ghost
and vanish the same.
(tapping)
♪ ♪
ANDY: So he just came out at that point,
right where the boat is.
So I think what we need to do, let’s cross right here
and walk up this side of the slough, okay?
♪ ♪
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ANDY: Did you see where I hit him?
I don’t know where I hit him, but I saw stuff fly, you know.
♪ ♪
I’m gonna go and see if there’s any blood, okay?
♪ ♪
(sighs) Okay.
I’m pretty sure I hit him pretty good.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: I was holding on his shoulder,
and so I think I probably hit him in the heart and lung area,
but he’s bleeding good, he’s gonna, he’s gonna die.
We just got to be able to follow the blood trail,
but not push it, right?
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he’ll, he’ll just keep going further back in there.
DENISE: He wouldn’t come out?
ANDY: I don’t think so.
But I would say just stay right here.
You’ve got a round in your chamber?
DENISE: I got a round in the chamber.
ANDY: Okay.
♪ ♪
He’s right here. He’s still alive.
I see him breathing, I think.
♪ ♪
There’s some blood.
DENISE: Careful, Andy.
Geez.
Oh, be careful. Geez.
♪ ♪
ANDY: Yeah, he’s dead.
♪ ♪
DENISE: Okay, how do you want to do this?
ANDY: Let’s get the rifles out of here.
DENISE: Yup.
ANDY: Why don’t you take mine down, take yours down,
come on back in, and we’ll see if we can drag him.
This is gonna be a workout.
DENISE: Oh, wow.
ANDY: Ready, one, two, three.
What do you think of that, Tope?
Yeah. See, I hit him a little farther behind.
I was aiming for up here, but he was walking, but...
DENISE: Yup. Good shot, though, it killed him fast.
Oh, it’s beautiful.
ANDY: That’s a pretty good size bear for a black bear.
DENISE: Wow.
ANDY: A lot smaller tracks than that grizzly, though,
this morning.
DENISE: Mm-hmm.
ANDY: It’s got a really nice coat, too.
He’s got his fall coat.
Be interesting to see how fat he is.
DENISE: Provide lots of good food for us.
This bear is essential food for us.
Now we have meat, we have meat for the winter.
We’ll utilize every aspect of him.
He’s fat.
The bear fat, I’ve learned here, is tremendous resource.
I’ll be using that bear fat in all of my winter baking.
A lot of our winter food will come from this bear
in many different ways, and in more ways than just the meat.
One, two...
ANDY: Alright. That’s good, one more.
Alright. Good enough.
♪ ♪
The importance of this bear is that it’s our first fresh meat
of the fall, so this is really huge.
Being able to come home with some meat in the boat,
that’s a big bonus.
RICKO: People get too spoiled
and they lose touch with reality,
and then the only cure for that is starvation.
That’s when you start to respect what you have.
♪ ♪
You want more or you good?
I have to say this is probably one of my best hunts
I’ve had in a long time,
’cause I got to hunt with you, so good.
This is the fall flavor.
This is the flavor of the fall, moose hunting.
That’s number one food for us Natives
out here in rural Alaska.
Tastes better.
Food tastes way better if you get it on your own.
Plus, you got to work for it and all that work we did today.
SIMONE: Yeah, that took a long time.
RICKO: First started hunting moose,
I hunt for a long time and I couldn’t get nothing.
I wanted it so bad, it didn’t give itself to me.
And Grandma, my mom, she said,
"You and your brother Von go upriver."
It was only about five or six miles.
"Go upriver and get that firewood that’s on the bank."
We drove out there, and on the way, there was a bull moose
right on the bank, and that was my first moose.
I was so happy.
I came back home, my mom told me,
"That’s ’cause you wanted it too bad.
You kept saying, ’I’m gonna get a moose,
I want to get a moose.’"
And it’s just like I bad-lucked myself.
SIMONE: I never said any of that.
RICKO: Yeah, I know. I noticed that.
SIMONE: I just said I’m gonna try.
RICKO: Yeah. But you listen. That’s important.
You’re my daughter, and I love you a lot.
I’m super proud of you for getting your first moose.
Made my heart, like, glow.
That’s how happy I felt when you got it, so happy.
I haven’t felt that happy to get a moose
since I got my first moose,
’cause like, I relived the moment.
SIMONE: Yeah, I’m glad you took me moose hunting.
RICKO: You ready to head home? SIMONE: Yeah.
RICKO: Let’s bring home the meat.
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NARRATOR: This season on Life Below Zero...
when the darkness falls and the deep freeze returns,
Alaskans will rise.
SUE: It’s the things in the shadows
that tend to scare people the most.
CHIP: We get everything ready for the deep cold that’s coming,
but it’s gonna get a lot colder.
AGNES: It’s blowing away!
SUE: Winter is a long, brutal, cold, dark experience
with lots of things out there.
CHIP: Look, there they go.
DENISE: There’s always something kind of over your shoulder
in this environment.
ANDY: It goes from really good to really bad, really quick.
AGNES: Whoa!
RICKO: You got no help. There’s no 9-1-1 out here.
Whoa.
You can’t be tougher than Mother Nature.
One mistake, game over.
SUE: (whispering) I am hearing a really strange sound.
(gunshot)
Captioned by Side Door Media Services