♪ ♪
CHIP: Wow. That’s pretty harsh.
Check it out, there was snow built up
between the door and the curtain.
Its own little wall.
Ho-de-doe.
I think I could start a generator
and put it over here on the side of the house.
AGNES: Whoa.
♪ ♪
CHIP: Snow machine looks okay.
AGNES: Yeah! Don’t blow away.
CHIP: I’m not, but, man, it sure is blowing out here.
Holy cow.
♪ ♪
AGNES: Jeez, ah? Cold.
CHIP: Yeah.
AGNES: Think it’s gonna work?
CHIP: I’m getting there.
AGNES: I can’t close it.
(wind roaring)
Whoa, whoa!
♪ ♪
CHIP: Alright!
AGNES: Right on!
CHIP: We could stay in all day!
♪ ♪
AGNES: Quite a storm, ah?
CHIP: Yup. Now it’s time to put something hot into my body. Hoo.
Don’t burn your gloves.
AGNES: The wind takes your breath away, ah?
CHIP: Oh, it sure does.
The radio said 50 mile an hour with 60-mile-an-hour gusts.
AGNES: Yeah, it’s really crazy out there.
If you go outside and you have exposed skin,
you can get frostbite within those five minutes or less.
There are so many things that can go wrong,
especially if you live in the flat areas,
and there’s no trees or landmarks
you can use to guide yourself.
You could get lost or blown in the wrong direction,
so it’s kind of important to stay real close to camp
and just stay inside and keep yourself safe.
(Chip sighs) Quite a morning, ah?
CHIP: Well, it wasn’t a good night either with all that wind.
It’s kind of cold in here, too.
That’s why I left the other burner on.
AGNES: Maybe I’ll make a thermos bottle cover for our coffee.
In case we stay out longer than we think we are, we’ll...
It’s way low.
CHIP: Good idea. Yeah, make one out of caribou skin?
AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: You got some old caribou skins around here.
AGNES: Maybe something we could put into, or...
CHIP: Yeah, that’ll work. AGNES: Yeah, it’ll work.
Use it so the next day it’ll still be hot.
CHIP: Well, then, I’ll make you scraper first.
I’ll make you a scraper so you can scrape the skin
and we can just go from there.
We’ll just spend the day inside.
AGNES: We’ve just got to wait out the storm.
CHIP: Yeah.
If this storm’s supposed to last two days,
maybe we can do a couple projects, huh?
We’ll be richer at the end of two days for the things we have.
♪ ♪
SUE: We develop the skills we need
to survive the conditions we care to live in.
♪ ♪
Little bit of weather blew in.
It’s winter. It happens.
So now, I’m gonna get some stuff done.
One of the things I need to make: carbon/charcoal.
It’s something handy to have around.
Last year with my burns,
I learned I better make sure my medicine cabinet is full.
I’ve never been burnt that badly.
I slipped, my arm got stuck to the stack of the stove.
It welded my arm to the stack.
So I want to make some medicines that deal with that.
I don’t want to have to wait until I’m ill
or in desperate need to make it again.
♪ ♪
When I got burned, I made activated charcoal,
which is an ingredient in a drawing salve.
Whether it’s metal or wood, it helps draw it out.
It’s a process you do to coal, any kind of carbon,
so I need to collect more.
This is one of the big areas for my coal seams.
You can see this whole escarpment
has just got quite a bit of coal coming out.
Dark, blackish color is draining down.
That’s your active coal seam getting washed out.
I’ve got some unstable water and ice in front of it.
You can see where the water is coming through up there,
which means it’s unstable throughout the whole area.
(sighs)
The temperatures are up.
Things are melting.
I’ve got little streams, lakes, potholes.
I don’t need Little Red getting stuck.
I don’t need to drop into the river.
I have crossed this river
when it’s liquid water,
and it’s a force to be reckoned with.
I’m not gonna do it when it’s semi-frozen.
I’ve got all the great coal I want over there.
But it’s over there, and I can’t get to it.
The other way that I can get
the coal is to create it.
That’s gonna be a much safer way for me to do it.
Time is valuable to me.
I’ve only got days before I’m dark.
The more I can get done on my chore list
before I have to have artificial light to see,
the better.
♪ ♪
JESSIE: You got to be persistent to get anything in Alaska.
Persistence is all I know.
The only way I know is to keep trying.
♪ ♪
This is one of the trails
that takes me out on the Tanana River.
I’m pretty excited to get out here
and get back out in the country that it all began in for me.
Three years now, I moved out to Brushkana.
And it’s gonna feel pretty good to roll out on this river.
You know, it was the thing
I loved the most about living here,
Nenana, was the river and the travel.
There we are, we’re back on the river!
Gee.
Gee, gee, gee.
Straight, straight, straight.
I’m gonna take this slough up to the main river
and go up to a point that I knew pretty well when I lived here,
and always did pretty good catching burbot there.
So with any luck, I’ll have some fish
to take back to Brushkana with me.
Gee. Good.
It’s kind of bringing a flood of emotions back to me.
Wow, being back on these trails is just so nostalgic.
Spent eight years living on this river.
It’s taught me a lot.
Most importantly, all my experiences out here prepared me
to have the skill set and to be tough enough
that it would take to live where I do now.
♪ ♪
I haven’t been able to get out fishing yet this winter
and haven’t been able to catch many burbot out where I live.
It’s pretty much lake trout and graylings.
Alright. There’s my bait.
I got four sets I’m gonna put out.
♪ ♪
(motor starts)
Alright, start it up.
Time to get some holes drilled.
(whirring)
♪ ♪
Fishing for burbot, that’s something
I’ve really been, uh, missing ever since I’ve moved,
is having that reliable source of fish
all throughout the winter.
(motor stops)
Okay. Have my first hole drilled.
Looks like I’ll be able to make quick work of this.
Burbot, they’re a bottom-feeding fish.
It’s one of my all-time favorite fish to eat.
When I lived here, you know, I could keep these lines out
and try different places.
You know, this is my one chance to try to take some fish home,
so I’m pulling out all stops.
♪ ♪
So these lines are gonna soak overnight,
because the thing about burbot, they’re nocturnal fish.
They start feeding in the evening,
so this is a good time to get them out.
Okay, I got my first one set.
I got three more to go.
Whenever I started out in Nenana, I was dirt poor.
I had nothing but a wooden boat that I built.
You start with simple things,
but that desire is the most important thing.
I went through a lot of tough, hard times here,
and it shaped me and made me a better man.
And without the things I’d been through here,
I would have never made it where I live now.
Here I learned to dig deep and always keep a positive attitude,
no matter what adversities I go through.
And that has paid off hugely.
Okay, I got my last hole set.
We’ll come back in the morning and see if we got any fish.
Fingers crossed.
RICKO: I know North Fork country
is a small part on this planet,
but it’s my whole life out here.
When I stand on that mountain and look over,
I’m looking at my whole life in front of me.
♪ ♪
(exhales)
I read it somewhere, or seen it somewhere,
snow shoveling is the leading cause of heart attacks
in older men.
Thank god I’m not old.
Today, I want some fresh water.
I need water for drinking and doing dishes and all that.
But the problem out here is we don’t have running water
unless we’re talking about the river,
which is always running under the ice.
This river right here is the North Fork River.
Basically flows down from the mountains,
creates an eddy in front of the cabin here,
and it flows around the bend after that,
so that’s my best access to fresh water.
First, I got to shovel out the snow
to get the chainsaw working and start the process.
Diamond probably thinks I’m playing.
I’m out here at the cabin.
I don’t have any of my family, none of my kids with me.
But I do have our family dog with me,
and she loves it out here.
Okay, I got the shoveling done.
Now it’s time for the chainsaw.
(chainsaw revving)
I haven’t had real good water.
I’ve been drinking snow water for so many days now.
And that gets old after a while.
To live out here in the woods is just like anywhere else,
you’ve got to have water.
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RICKO: The river water doesn’t even look good.
It looks all yellow.
Okay, I got a plan.
This water is not drinkable, obviously, real dirty.
I don’t have no way to filter it.
So I’m just gonna fill up these barrels.
Good enough for doing dishes and cleaning or whatever,
but I’m not gonna be drinking this water, so, yeah.
I got to get busy, it’s cold out here.
You can see the color of this water.
Not exactly clear like it used to be.
I need good drinking water out here.
What I see today is not the water that I saw
growing up out here.
To me, that’s kind of alarming,
because I think it’s the weather change that we have.
A lot hotter during the summer,
starting to see a lot of these lakes start to dry out
because the permafrost is melting underneath.
It’s starting to turn like a yellowish, or organic color,
and I think that’s groundwater.
All that permafrost that’s melting,
we’re getting a lot more flowing into the river,
changing the color, changing the whole system of the river.
I don’t think it’s good for the fish either out here.
Salmon returns aren’t as good as they used to be;
not even close to what they used to be.
Okay. I’m gonna get this to the cabin.
Then I’m gonna go get more containers
and head to the hot springs
and get some fresh water for drinking.
You ready, Diamond?
For drinking water,
I know I’m gonna have to look somewhere else.
I have a good idea of where to get good fresh water,
and that’s gonna be at the hot springs, about 16 miles out.
When I was growing up,
North Fork River water was real good water.
It’s sad to see this.
♪ ♪
CHIP: I really value handmade things.
And when you make something by hand,
you make it well, and you give it to somebody as a gift,
that’s the way you take care of each other.
(wind buffeting)
♪ ♪
Sure could hear that wind, huh? Dang.
AGNES: Yeah.
It’s nice to have this little cabin
to get out of the wind and weather.
CHIP: It is.
It’s stormy out here.
You know, it’s blowing, it’s dark, it’s snowing.
I can’t see a thing.
So this time of year, we stay inside.
You take all your summer’s gatherings,
your materials, and you make them into things.
You take all your summer’s food,
and you eat it while you can’t go out and hunt and trap
and fish and do all the other things.
And you get through the dark part of winter that way.
♪ ♪
We make things this time of year.
My wife is gonna make stuff with skins.
She didn’t bring her scraper.
But I have stuff for making scrapers with.
I use scrapers on my skins when I first catch them,
and flesh off the membrane and it starts tanning the hide.
She uses scrapers to both soften the hide
and remove any further membrane that’s left on it after drying.
I’m gonna make some finger grooves right here.
They’re not really gonna be deep or, you know, sharp or anything.
But there are gonna be places where her fingers and her thumb
can gain purchase and hold this thing comfortably
for quite a while.
This is an excellent tool to have.
Making things is always peaceful.
If I got a project in front of me,
and I’m enjoying what I’m doing,
I can do it all day and all night, it’s not even work.
It’s also an excellent way to express your love
is to make things
and give things that you made, rather than things you buy.
Going around the edge here.
Taking along the edge from the inside,
and leaving the outside straight.
So it’s a chamfer.
It’s a cut on the inside at a beveled angle.
And it’s gonna be able to press against the skin
and scrape the skin without cutting the skin.
Well, there you go.
It’s sharp, it’s smooth,
it’s got a grip in your finger spaces.
Think that’ll do you some good?
AGNES: Really good. Thank you. CHIP: Right on.
AGNES: Custom fit. Thank you.
CHIP: Yeah. You’re welcome.
AGNES: Look, my fingers fit nicely into the groove.
It’s always a blessing to have a new tool.
CHIP: Yup.
AGNES: I’m gonna get a caribou skin,
and I’m gonna scrape it up
and make a thermos bottle cover for you.
CHIP: Right on.
♪ ♪
SUE: You have to be willing to adjust what you’re doing
to get what you want.
♪ ♪
Well, this looks a little promising.
I want to make activated charcoal.
I can take that activated charcoal,
make a salve,
and like when I burned my arm so badly,
there was metal and debris embedded in that.
And I had to get those to come out.
The activated charcoal, it makes a drawing salve.
It draws those pieces out.
I don’t have any more charcoal; I used it.
So I have to make the charcoal.
So, you got to use wood.
I don’t have trees, I live way above the treeline.
But this is actually a willow bush
that’s had the ability to grow.
This is the next best thing.
I’m not using it for heat.
I’m using it to make medicine.
I guess it’s giving me the medicine of losing weight
while I’m chopping it.
♪ ♪
The world evolves.
The nature of my taking care of myself evolves.
I’m getting older.
The nature of how my body’s breaking down is evolving.
I have to prepare my medicines for this old lady that showed up
where the young woman used to live.
You know why I love Halloween?
Why?
People give me Kit Kats, for free.
Son, you‘re eight, all your Kit Kats are free.
♪
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(creak)
SUE: Ooh, he’s complaining.
I would, too. That’s how my joints feel, buddy.
♪ ♪
How I feel every frickin’ morning.
Alright. Getting a lot of this extraneous BS out of the way.
♪ ♪
You want some pieces that are live; live, bendy.
You can see the leaves.
Why? It’s got some sap to it.
It’s got some moisture in there.
Get it into a pot, a metal container; lid, tight.
And you get that surrounded by fire.
That will heat it and actually burn it.
But that trapped moisture and carbon
will condense and form charcoal.
But you need some pieces with the moisture,
some pieces that are drier so you can burn.
I’ve got plenty of each here.
So it’s time to get it home.
The storm has given me a lull,
so I should take advantage of it.
Time to make some medicine.
♪ ♪
AGNES: You have to be productive
if you want to live the subsistence lifestyle.
The land gives it all to you
if you’re willing to go out there and get it.
♪ ♪
Now that I have this skin scraper, I can go on ahead
and do the project I was wanting to do for Chip.
Since it’s been so cold out, and it’s been stormy,
I wanted to have this caribou skin.
And I decided to turn it into a thermos bottle cover.
CHIP: Looks like winter’s trying to get in
through the window right now.
AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: Yeah, the radio said 60-mile-an-hour winds,
so this is the better place to be.
AGNES: Of course, I’ll always be worried about Chip
freezing to death
when he’s out here in these minus 30, 40 temperatures.
And the best thing for him to do is have something hot to drink
when he’s out there.
All I need to do is take this little membrane off,
and then I’ll be set for sewing.
♪ ♪
So I might make it about...
♪ ♪
...that much.
♪ ♪
So, you can see, that’s pretty much it.
This will help keep our stuff hot.
So I’m just gonna go on ahead
and just get it started and stitch away all the way down.
Hmm!
♪ ♪
RICKO: I love the woods.
But I really love the innocence and the beauty of the woods,
because there’s no lies out here.
Everything happens for a reason.
♪ ♪
I cut into the river to get some river water today,
but it wasn’t looking too good; real dark, murky stuff.
It’s not what it used to be,
so now I’m gonna take this 16-mile ride
up to the DeWilde hot springs
and look for some real clean, fresh water
coming out of the rocks.
Water is important to life.
So that’s what I have to do,
even it means driving 16 miles out, 32 miles round trip.
And drinking water’s important,
so going 16 miles to get it is not really crazy or anything.
You know, I have to do what I got to do.
The body needs real clean water, and everyone knows that.
Getting to the hot springs, I don’t have to use a shovel,
I don’t have use an ice pick or a saw to get to that water,
it’s right there.
♪ ♪
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RICKO: I got to fix this steering.
I’ll pull over and get it fixed before I wreck.
Okay. I almost hit a tree,
because my steering is just so tight right now.
It’s like, ugh!
What I need to do is open the cowling
and bust out all this ice that’s under there.
Okay. Pull this off.
Oh, yeah, there’s a bunch of ice down there.
I see twigs and everything under there.
All that stuff can cause problems,
especially if it hits the fan.
That fan breaks, I’m walking.
And that’s what’s causing this problem,
one problem causes another.
When I cracked it right here, snow is coming in right here,
blowing on the fan, blowing on the motor, dripping down,
all that ice that melts on the muffler
and drips down, hinders the steering.
I have to bust out my tools.
Everybody out here that travels around the woods,
they carry tools with them,
and it’s, it’s important to be handy.
You got to be handy out here.
I got to make sure my machine is running good,
because I’m a long ways from the cabin.
If I don’t fix the steering, bad weather comes along,
I’ll be stuck out here in the dark and the cold.
Got to move some of this ice out of the way.
Be nice to have, like in the city, how you have the garages,
you can just thaw your machine out,
let ’em dry out, and take ’em out again.
You really don’t have much issues
with your snow machine like that,
but out here, we don’t have garages, so we always get icing.
Okay, let me see what this feels like.
(squeaking)
It’s better.
Loosen it up.
Okay, I’m gonna put it back together and get on the road.
You have to be able to fix things on your own.
A lot of us out here in Alaska are like that.
We, um, we’re forced to be like that,
we’re forced to think outside the box
and come up with solutions.
You’ve got no help out here. There’s no 9-1-1 out here.
♪ ♪
SUE: None of us are 100% subsistence, because guess what,
I didn’t raise a sheep and knit this jacket.
But it’s close enough.
♪ ♪
Actually this guy doesn’t look too bad.
Gonna look around, I thought I saw a better lid.
NARRATOR: For Sue Aikens,
living 500 miles from the nearest hospital
requires that she be able to make her own medicine
from materials around camp.
She’s crafting activated charcoal
using an old burn barrel and collected willows.
The charcoal will help make a salve
that can draw out bacteria on a wound
and aid her survival in an emergency.
SUE: I don’t need the lid to be airtight.
I need it to convect some oxygen
so that the--whhooochh-- the fire can build.
I want it to burn hot,
I want it to really change this wood to carbon quickly.
Now let’s make some charcoal.
♪ ♪
There we go.
Alright, so now it’s a matter of getting these
nice, green pieces in here
and getting them stacked.
I’ve always done it with this two-chamber system.
I can make charcoal in the little barrel,
fire in the big barrel.
Once that process is complete, ta-da, I have charcoal.
♪ ♪
Alright.
This sucker is ready to ignite.
♪ ♪
You put thrifty on a whole new level
when you have a lifestyle like this.
And it’s helping me make medicine
to keep myself safe today.
I’ll let that burn down a little,
and I’ll keep working on my stuff inside the Twinkie.
♪ ♪
JESSIE: You’re never fully prepared
for what Alaska can throw at you,
but you have the skill set that you adapt quickly.
♪ ♪
I’m going to check my lines.
I had a nice evening with the dogs.
They’ve been sitting overnight.
You know, burbot tend to be feeding once it gets dark,
so I’ve put ’em where I think is a good spot,
and it’s kind of like this anticipation always.
You want to be successful so bad, but you never know.
I’m gonna be heading back home this evening,
this is my chance to take some fish home.
Gee, gee, gee, stay, stay.
Good, stay, stay, stay.
Good dogs. Alright.
Well, the moment of truth is upon me.
Hole number one.
(chipping)
♪ ♪
Make sure you don’t cut your line,
because that’s a good way to lose your dinner.
Another thing you got to make sure you do
is when you start pulling this up,
you don’t really dillydally around with it,
because, because you could lose your fish that way.
Oh, man, I hope I got some burbot to eat.
That will be so nice.
♪ ♪
I can tell there’s no fish on this one.
The bait’s still there, too.
Okay, I’m gonna go, just keep moving down the line
and check the rest.
Bummer.
Was really hoping that I was gonna pull fish out
on this first one here.
It’s a large possibility that the river
has just changed its course,
and that I’m not familiar with it enough right now,
and I’m trying to count on a spot that was good for me
in the past, and, you know, not living here,
it’s not like I can keep trying.
I’m starting to not have a too good a feeling
about the spot I picked out.
Okay, let’s see what we got in this one.
♪ ♪
I’m just pretty shocked so far, you know,
I just always caught a lot of burbot here.
Not sure if I did something wrong
or they’re just not here.
♪ ♪
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You know why I love Halloween?
Why?
People give me Kit Kats, for free.
Son, you‘re eight, all your Kit Kats are free.
♪
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JESSIE: Yeah, that’s a fish for sure!
Come on, don’t lose it, don’t lose it.
You got to get ’em out quick,
make sure you get that hook set in,
I’ve lost them before like this.
There we go, come on, come on, come on.
Oh, yeah!
Yes!
Alright!
It’s a beautiful burbot.
I mean, they get way bigger, but I don’t care about size.
That’s a delicious meal right there.
Alright, our luck has changed, and I still got some more.
So now I know they’re here, so I’m feeling
a little bit more optimistic about the rest of my holes now.
♪ ♪
Oh, yeah! There’s something on there.
Yeah, alright!
Another one.
Wow, that one’s really light in color, that’s neat.
That’s a little bit unique.
Burbot number two.
Yeehaw.
♪ ♪
Alright, that’s a small one, but that’s still a meal right there.
I do not discriminate when it comes to burbot.
There’s still quite a bit of meat on this
the way I do things, so it’s exciting to come back out here
and be successful again.
Well, a good day here.
I pulled all my sets, I didn’t catch any big ones,
but man, these little ones taste awesome,
so, you know, I’m after it for the food.
This has just been an awesome trip so far,
and it’s not over.
I’m gonna go cruise up by my old homestead here,
and, uh, get these cleaned up and hang out with the dogs
and have a fire and cook up some burbot.
(barking)
Let’s go.
Alright.
(bark)
Gee, gee, gee, gee!
♪ ♪
Alright, there it is, there’s the old smokehouse.
Good, ho.
Stay, stay, guys.
We’re gonna stop here for a little while.
Yeah, we’re gonna stop and make camp.
Coming back here sure brings back a lot of memories.
Spent a lot of time in this smokehouse,
put up a lot of food here.
I remember when I built this five years ago,
I dang sure didn’t think I was gonna be living somewhere else,
and, uh, yeah, it brings back good memories to me.
♪ ♪
What I feel whenever I see my old place
is, uh, somewhat of a sadness,
because I worked so hard to build it up.
Instead of processing it that way, I just process it,
and look at how much work I did that prepared me to be ready
to go and build my ultimate homestead in the Alaska Range.
This was a great place for me to practice all those things.
And make the mistakes and learn from them
and take all that knowledge and take it down there.
I look at this and I feel a big sense of satisfaction
of all the work that I did
and all the lessons that I learned here.
♪ ♪
So good, I miss having burbot so much.
So thankful that I took the time to come up here
and do what I really wanted to do, you know.
This just kind of caps off the trip for me really well.
I got fish in the frying pan, got to revisit my old homestead,
and, uh, now I’ve got fish to take home and cook there, too.
It’s fun to revisit and rekindle the bond that I have
around this country, but my bond is to the country I live in now.
♪ ♪
SUE: You don’t know where your health is gonna come from,
but if you don’t find out,
you’re gonna find out where the lack of health comes from.
♪ ♪
Now it’s time to see if the magic worked.
Definitely have two burnt barrels.
♪ ♪
When I started, I filled this bucket full,
and put the lid on, and now you’ve just got what’s in here.
This worked great for a, a tundra fix!
♪ ♪
And take this inside, get ready for the next step.
From bush to wood, to coal, to medicine.
♪ ♪
(crunching)
The goal is...
to get it to a good, fine powder.
What was kind of a three-section tree
in the middle of the riverbed out here a little while ago,
it turned into coal.
And the next step for me,
I want to make it into what’s called activated charcoal.
I have here water and lemon juice.
♪ ♪
And that’s the reaction you want.
Activated charcoal.
♪ ♪
Take a little bit like that.
That’s all you need, you wrap it up,
and it will more easily draw and suck in moisture
and taking any bits of impurities with it.
♪ ♪
The last time I made it and needed it,
with the activated charcoal,
I was in desperate need of it, it was an emergency.
But the goal is...
hopefully I don’t ever need it again.
Hopefully nobody I know does.
But I’ve got it.
And it’s not under duress that I need to make it.
It’s now right here, added to my medicine cabinet.
Nothing like being able to take care of yourself.
♪ ♪
CHIP: I like to make things.
I mean, like, my hands were built for making stuff.
So is my wife’s. She’s a very crafty person.
♪ ♪
AGNES: We almost got this thermos bag cover done.
Now that I have a new scraper,
the scraper does make the stitching a lot easier.
Scrape all that extra membrane off.
The last bit.
CHIP: There you go.
AGNES: So now all I got to do is put this, um, leather
on the top of this bag, double it like so,
and then I’ll put a piece of yarn inside here,
and then I’ll make a little slit so I can pull the yarn through.
And then when I’m done, it’ll all pinch together like this.
CHIP: I could do a daisy chain.
AGNES: Yeah, that’ll be great.
CHIP: Okay.
Basically, Agnes has made me a thermal cover that’s windproof,
fairly waterproof,
and it’s got the best insulation nature can offer,
which is caribou hair.
And that dead air space keeps it all warm.
It’ll add another 12, maybe 24 hours
to the warmth on that thermos.
Very handy tool to have, very handy bag to have.
Right on, so we need a new one.
AGNES: Try to cinch that up.
CHIP: Yeah.
My old one wore out a couple winters ago.
Yeah, and then throw that in the sled.
AGNES: Wow. Not bad, ah?
CHIP: Nope, even at 40 below your thermos will stay hot
all day long with that.
Yup, that’s nice. Right on.
This is working together, you know, I shot this caribou,
I skinned it, you scraped it and sewed it.
This will do me good, this can go right in my sled
and keep my stuff warm at 40, 50 below, even overnight.
Right on, thank you.
There’s no better way to spend a crappy day outside
to make a great day inside.
AGNES: I’m glad we had this day inside together.
♪ ♪
RICKO: When you’re surviving in the woods,
the two main things is warmth and water.
That’s what I grew up doing,
every day in search of wood and water.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: After repairing the steering
on his new snow machine,
Ricko DeWilde is continuing his quest to the hot springs
in search of fresh drinking water.
Without it, he’ll be unable to survive
the harsh winter months.
But despite having traveled these trails for decades,
no journey through the Alaskan interior can be taken lightly.
RICKO: For me to have to drive out 16 miles
to go get some water for the cabin, that’s nothing,
’cause I enjoy days like this, a little warm spring weather.
I love the hot springs out here,
boiling water coming out of the ground.
It’s just a surreal place.
It’s not everybody has, not everybody has a hot springs
in their backyard,
so I’m blessed with something beautiful like this,
so I’ll miss it.
Oh!
♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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The prequel is pretty sweet too.
♪ ♪
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♪ I only want to be with you. ♪
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RICKO: There’s a marten in that trap.
Ana baasee’, suje.
Got me a marten right here, nice.
I have traps everywhere out here, so when I’m going out,
if I’m getting my water or whatever I’m doing,
I’m usually checking traps same time.
So I like to have my traps all over out here.
Everywhere I have snow machine trails, I put out marten traps.
Helps to fill out the day.
I’m gonna load this in the bag and I’m gonna keep going,
hopefully get to my destination and get some water here soon.
♪ ♪
Yes! I made it.
There’s a lot of fresh water here.
♪ ♪
Okay. Time to fill this up.
Nice, fresh water, look at that.
No yellow.
That’s (bleep) good mountain water.
The trip to the hot springs started a little shaky.
My snow machine was acting up, my steering was bad.
I was able to break it down on the trail, fix the problem,
and everything went smooth after that.
I got to the hot springs, got the best water in the world.
I’m gonna try it.
Damn good water.
♪ ♪
Okay. I don’t think my load will make it home like this,
so I’m gonna cut this dry tree,
try to MacGyver this up a little better.
I can use wood with some ratchet straps
to secure this water so it’s not moving around,
because if I try to go 16 miles,
there’s water sliding around the toboggan,
I’ll come home with empty barrels.
So I’m gonna get me some firewood and some water today.
My late mom used to say, uh, wood and water,
that’s two things that’ll really keep you busy
when you’re living in the woods,
’cause we always grew up in the woods,
and, uh, my late brother Von, before he died,
he stayed with mom and dad until he was about 20.
And he always helped them out,
and then, uh, kind of a sad story,
but when he passed away, my mom made an Indian song for him.
For his potlatch she sang his Indian song,
and, uh, it was all about,
"I always thought I was gonna have you around,
to help with wood and water,"
so it makes me almost cry just to think about it.
But late Von helped them a lot.
♪ ♪
But I almost choke up when I talk about Von,
because sometimes I was mean to him,
and that’s what I regret now,
when I’m, like, I’m man enough to admit that.
I think back and I think all the beautiful memories,
but some of those memories bite, because I didn’t, like,
if I could go back in time I’d hold him and say I love him,
like, treat him a lot better.
We lost him to suicide, but, um, I know it’s not my fault,
but sometimes I feel like I shouldn’t have pushed him away,
like, let him follow me more.
He would have been safer.
That’s the pain I feel when I’m getting wood and water
when I think of my brother Von,
but we all live with regrets, whether we meant it or not.
We have to live with those mistakes
and, um, learn from those mistakes.
This will help stabilize the water as I’m driving.
Got me some good, fresh water, got me some firewood
in the toboggan to help secure the load.
And also I got a marten on the way,
and that’s basically a little bit of money in the bank for me,
so today was a good day.
With bountiful times, you know, your heart becomes poor,
and with times of struggle,
your heart’s strong with appreciation.
And that’s a beautiful life.
(wind whistling)
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