(gusting winds)
SUE: Wow.
A lot has changed here a little bit of wind makes a whole lot of
problem and the drifts are the gift that keep on giving.
Well, if you look where I piled all this brush it’s now created
a drift this size, this stuff is a drift magnet,
it collects the snow, if a plane hits,
from flat ground to this?
You may not survive, your plane definitely won’t.
So moving these willows is imperative
but I’m gonna have to
wait until this blow is over so my main task now is to go
make sure camp is secured and hunker down.
(theme music playing).
SUE: All righty.
This is a remote runway but even being remote.
There are restrictions put in place.
The FAA controls how it’s kept up,
one of those things is no trees and bushes on the runway.
You can see this is not the tallest willow on the tundra but
as the storms blow in, it becomes a drift,
if I can’t maintain it and somebody needs to land in an emergency,
if there’s a drift because I didn’t take care of the brush?
I’m at fault.
End of story so it’s time to get to work.
What I need to do is come through and take those out.
I can take little red, run ’em over,
I can get rid of ’em.
Smacking a bunch of these willows with little red.
They snap for the most part however some spring back up,
so when that happens I’ve got some axes.
Nature will never stop trying to reclaim its land, never.
So ever year it’s gonna try to come back,
every year I’ve gotta keep pushing it that way.
Well, I’ve cleared this area now,
I’ve got my little piles going so it’s time for me to get ready
to gather the big piles, all this little needs to make a big
and get the heck out of here before the snow and the wind
coming in covers it up and makes a big drift.
But it’s definitely, definitely looking good,
I’m proud.
RICKO: I’ve been here a lot of years so far luckily and
that’s because I have a lot of knowledge,
not something I learned on my own,
I learned this from passed on knowledge and
that’s how I stay alive out here.
(thudding)
RICKO: You could hear the air underneath the ice it
sounds different, like if you listen here...
(thudding)
You hear a chink, that’s solid.
Now listen here...
(hollow thudding)
You hear the hollowness?
That’s all the air underneath and that’s dangerous stuff right there.
People have lost their lives in front of beaver houses like this.
That’s the dangers of beaver houses is always easy to
fall in at beaver houses and it’s deep down there
so you keep poking around.
NARRATOR: Ricko Dewilde is alone in the Huslia wilderness,
as conditions are too dangerous this time of year
for his children to be present.
He’s hoping to trap for beaver for its vital meat and fur.
But despite having a wealth of knowledge in this method passed down from his elders,
the dangers of dark winter are relentless.
RICKO: When it comes to beaver houses,
especially on lakes, where it’s dead water is water danger.
The beaver, he makes it real deep in front of his house and
he creates air bubbles and he creates a pocket of air under
there to keep from freezing down,
so you have thin ice, deep water,
which is a deadly situation if you’re ignorant to it.
Okay.
Basically on his house now and
this is all dirt as you can see.
You see this stuff is made out of,
what he made it out of is willows and it’s willows from last summer,
you can tell, because it’s not dried up yet.
So definitely a beaver house.
I’m excited to put a set in there and kind of brings me back
to old days when I was a kid.
We’re about a mile from the family cabin that I’m living in now.
Brings back memories when I go through these areas,
not only of my siblings, but my late mom and dad because
they’re the ones that taught me everything out here.
Beaver snaring means a lot to me and it’s important that I do it
because it’s passed on knowledge that I’m using and if I don’t
use it and I don’t practice it, maybe I don’t pass it onto my
children and that’s what’s important for my people as far
as culture is passing on knowledge of survival.
Okay.
We don’t pass on this knowledge it fades away with us and this
is not knowledge that we gained overnight this is hundreds and
hundreds of years of knowledge that we’re passing on and that’s
like a torch and if you let it burn out it’s hard to light it again.
It’s set, hopefully it works like magic.
I see a little lodge around the other end of this area and
I’m just gonna look at it, if there’s a chance that lodge is
alive down here, I’m gonna put a set in down there too.
Hopefully I’ll have some luck, might be a big old beaver party
going on over there and I’m, I’m gonna invite myself to it.
CHIP: There’s a lot of things you can really do out there,
go fishing, go trapping, go hunting, go get firewood.
We’re gonna have an adventure every time.
CHIP: What’s up dog, how are you.
You’re a good puppy.
Enjoying the day?
(sighs)
I wish you had a shovel and you could help me out.
(laughs)
That’s all right.
Just gotta finish getting out the rest of this snow and
we’re in business.
NARRATOR: Recent storms in Kiwalik have decimated
the Hailstone’s cache of firewood and poles.
Without these materials their equipment, furs, food,
and bodies are vulnerable to winter’s wrath.
They must venture to the tree line and set up
a new camp to secure this life or death supply.
AGNES: We’re gonna be making a trail up through the mountain
and then we’re gonna be making a trail down through the river.
We plan on getting some firewood and also probably
the most important pile we bring down first would be the poles.
Getting the poles is real important,
it’s almost time to start the fish racks and the meat racks
and drying up our skins and stuff and we use those poles
we get for a couple years.
We’re running out of poles so it’s a good time to go get them.
CHIP: I’m a dig a hole right here.
And we’ll be able to make a place for sitting down and
we’ll have a place to build a fire,
you wanna put the sled right there.
AGNES: Mm-hmm.
CHIP: And put, make a, make a bed on it?
Kinda late in the day to be starting this but better than
at night, that’s for sure.
We’re gonna make a pretty temporary camp so all its gonna
really need is a place to cook and a place to sleep and
we’ll come back when we’re done.
We should have a nice stack of firewood and then
we’ll have a nice trail to go back and forth on.
Well, I saw otter tracks and there’s a otter hole over here,
if I have a chunk of fish with me I’ll put a trap there.
That’s the best thing for otters.
AGNES: We’ll just have to keep our eyes open and our ears open.
CHIP: Oh, yeah.
We’ll get a chance, there’s lots of chances to get things here.
AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: But we’ll mainline the firewood and the, um,
the poles as number one.
But anything that pops up is just gonna be dealt with as it shows up.
We’ll have a good three or four days up here and then
we can go back down to the cabin and clean up.
AGNES: Mm-hmm. CHIP: Do our thing.
AGNES: I already like it up here.
CHIP: Good.
DENISE: The harder you work for something,
the greater the reward feels.
ANDY: Laundry day, oh, boy.
Who gets to go for a run and get wood today?
Let’s find Kruger or Griz.
Wanna go for a run?
Doing laundry out at Calico Bluff is not
like laundry anywhere else in the world.
It’s a lot of prep work so Denise and I,
we like to divide and conquer.
DENISE: My version of getting the tap ready to turn
on for water, it’s laundry day.
(groans)
There we go.
Doing the laundry involves a lot of back work.
With our hand washing machine and the wringer,
it’s still all manual.
But before we can get this laundry going,
our laundry machine needs water that we have to go get
and heat it with wood that we have to go get.
So I’m gonna go get the water, Andy’s gonna get the wood and
we’ll hopefully be back here before the day is done.
Okay, that should be good, all right let’s do it.
And it starts.
Let’s go get water.
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That should do it.
This should be pretty good, Tope.
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This year was a close one.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Ooh, feel that chill?
I don‘t feel anything.
Uhh, this can‘t be good.
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DENISE: Be patient.
Wind it up again, the choke.
This will be the lucky one.
(engine starts)
All right, is it really?
DENISE: It’s all about attitude, some days,
you know, you’re a little slower than other days.
But I love where I am, I wanna be here,
there’s all the little challenges and I think those challenges,
they drive me, they keep me going.
Yay, Tope!
All right. That’s some liquid gold right there.
Let’s get that scooped up before it freezes up.
I was starting to wonder if we were gonna hit it or not.
Sometimes you gotta dig deep, you know,
you get beat down a little bit by the elements,
by everything that can happen and sometimes things do happen.
But it’s just a matter of, you know,
looking is it half full or half empty?
This really makes me think about my family in Florida and their
piles of laundry and all these issues with having to go in and
push the button to start the machine.
So they need to come help me push these buttons.
I need to get all this wrapped up and ready to head
back to the house after.
RICKO: It’s important that I trap,
it’s important that I use my knowledge that I gained over
the years from my people, that’s what keeps the torch burning,
that’s the torch of survival, you can’t just let that go out.
RICKO: Come, come, come Diamond.
NARRATOR: A day after setting his traps,
Ricko Dewilde and his dog Diamond have returned to
the first site in hopes of finding a beaver in the snare.
Ricko is counting on this timely harvest for food, clothing,
and a sense of pride during the bleak Alaskan winter.
RICKO: Okay, I’m gonna go check these beaver sets I put out
yesterday and they’ve been sitting overnight.
So hopefully I got something going on here.
My dog Diamond over here, she’s sniffing around,
she can probably almost hear them moving around and like
the little lodge here, so she thinks she’s onto something but
these animals are way ahead of her thanks to the wolves and
wolverines seasoning them over the years.
Okay, I’m gonna check these beaver snares here.
Beaver’s a big part of our diet living in the woods.
That’s a very hearty meal because that beaver works
really hard to get by in life.
He builds dams, he creates a whole ecosystem.
For the animal that only eats plants to work that hard,
it has a lot of value to its meat.
Sometimes when you look at the ice,
you can tell if there’s air bubbles,
that’s usually a good sign, just gotta clear all this snow off,
I see some air bubbles down there,
that’s a very welcoming sight.
I take off some of this gear.
Okay, see what happened, bait’s still here.
This one’s empty,
this one’s empty,
last chance, this one’s empty, man, no luck.
(sighs)
I thought I had it right but it doesn’t seem like I have it
right and the only other thing is the beaver is just so smart,
he knows not to go around this.
Okay, onto the next.
I said it earlier and I feel like I jinxed myself I said wow
look at them air bubbles in there and damn.
Nothing.
I’m not gonna talk about no damn air bubbles anymore.
I struck out today, that don’t mean he won’t come back tomorrow
so I’ll just put the set back in.
Just gotta keep trying, see what happens.
Come back tomorrow.
Okay. A new day.
Hopefully have some luck.
Check the snare.
Nothing.
Get the snares back in.
Put the other one.
Nope. Man.
Come back tomorrow and hopefully have something.
Man, not much hope when it come out that easy.
I have zero luck.
Let’s see, okay.
Nothing. Damn!
One of these days, I’ll catch one.
I thought I had one but nope.
Nothing.
Day after day, checking these beaver snares,
I can’t help but feel a little desperate here,
a little frustrated.
No luck, been a tough few days beaver snaring.
(bleep).
RICKO: About to put this set back in.
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ut to put this set back in.
This is odd for me because I’ve always had luck trapping beaver,
I always considered myself lucky with beaver and
no luck, nothing.
And I gotta start thinking real hard about what I’m doing.
Thing too is I got marten sets out,
wolverine sets.
In our culture when you hunt, when you snare beaver,
you’re not supposed to have other sets out,
and I don’t know why that’s just how the rules go.
They say you won’t have luck and I’ve had this happen before and
then I finally pulled my sets and I think I got five beaver that day.
Maybe I have to go out and pull my sets for a few days
and see what happens.
Okay.
Head back to the cabin and figure out something.
Ready Diamond?
ANDY: Life is a path that you go down,
sometimes you run into forks on that path but
it always brings you back to the main path.
ANDY: That a boy, hup, hup, let’s go, let’s go hup, hup, hup.
Hup, hup, hup.
Straight ahead, straight ahead.
Little ha, whoa, whoa,
right there, that’s a good spot, right there.
Good boy Griz.
Denise is getting water right now and, uh,
I’m gonna get wood so we can heat that water up
and then do some laundry,
it’s always a lot more work to do laundry out here than
most people know about.
Got a nice, dry tree right here but it’s leaning a little hard,
I’m gonna see if I can’t drop this as close to the trail as
I can so I can load the dogs up.
It’s a hard life out here and it’s a physical life.
But every bit of work that I do out here benefits us
100% directly, I’m not doing it for someone else,
other than Denise.
Timber!
This is a good, dead tree, now it’s time to buck this thing up
and get it loaded up in the dog sled.
A lot of the work that I do out here is because
I wanna make life good for Denise.
I like it when she’s happy.
Even though this seems like an awful lot of work, to me,
this is just a way that I show that I care about her and
I want her to be happy and have the things in her life
that make her happy.
It’s an all-day process just to go do a load of laundry.
It’s kinda crazy when you think about it but that’s
the way it works out here.
Tighten up.
Nice and easy, this is a heavy load.
Little ha.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, ho we got heat!
DENISE: Get some of that wood in here.
ANDY: You ready for more wood? DENISE: Yes. Definitely.
ANDY: All right. I got wood. DENISE: Good.
ANDY: Chuck it in, heat that water up.
DENISE: Yup. All right, excellent.
So another thing while you’re right there,
I was just putting water in the washer to get it going
and I am worried.
I think it’s on its last leg I’m afraid of it breaking.
ANDY: All right, I’ll come in.
DENISE: See how wobbly it is, and when you turn it.
This whole back point.
ANDY: It’s wobbling this way and that’s the way it wants to break.
DENISE: And I have like half weight in here right now.
ANDY: Yeah, I know, when you put the clothes in,
it’s like three times heavier.
Why don’t you, whenever you’re ready,
just empty this out and bring it over to the shop and
we’ll just beef it up.
DENISE: You think we have time for that today?
ANDY: We gotta make time for it.
DENISE: Sounds like a whole reconstruction project.
CHIP: There’s certain orders and ways that you do things
around here and the best order is to be prepared really well.
Make sure everything is 100% and then go.
CHIP: Yesterday when we were driving down here I saw otter tracks,
didn’t have really time to do anything over here,
we were trying to make a camp.
But this morning I’ve got time.
You can see here where they’ve been playing on the ice.
Right here, there’s an otter walking he’s not sliding,
there’s no skid to it and you can see there’s a second otter
over on that side over there that’s doing the skid thing.
So this guy had something.
I haven’t seen either one but that’s what the trails say.
And this is, this ice isn’t even froze over hardly,
that one over there’s not froze over so they were here recently.
But I’m gonna get started over here on the bank I see a bunch of sticks I can grab,
bust off and use to make a little enclosure.
And go from there.
I’m gonna set a couple traps, and we’ll see what happens.
If a otter doesn’t get into there like the holes freeze over
there’s always foxes coming along and if there aren’t foxes,
then there’s wolverine, and there’s marten,
and there’s wolf, and there’s other things that
will come along, and investigate it.
So the best thing to do right now is to get at least a couple
traps in and then go get my firewood and keep checking my traps.
Thanks for coffee.
AGNES: Coffee, that was a walk or what?
CHIP: Not too bad, it was just the deep snow I don’t like.
The river was clear but walking through these sloughs
or to come back here to where the sandbar is,
that was quite a slog.
AGNES: While you were gone out doing your trapping I put all
the wood gathering tools on the sled.
CHIP: I was wondering if you were gonna go sawing wood yourself.
Right on.
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CHIP: Yeah, I noticed the choke is already on too.
Wait a minute. It’s short stroking.
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AGNES: I don’t know, man, maybe I broke your choke low.
CHIP: I don’t think you broke anything dear it’s...
There must be ice in the recoil.
(bleep).
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CHIP: Hmm, dang.
That’s got ice in the recoil. Man.
AGNES: Do you want it to sit here for some more?
CHIP: To apply heat? AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: Heat that whole thing up and we’ll melt all that out of there.
I’m gonna put the fuel on the other side,
maybe aim it that way.
My chainsaw’s frozen.
It’s got a lot of ice in it.
So the best thing to do is heat it up by the fire.
And that’s one of the reasons why we made ourselves a little spot here.
A place where we can camp.
There’s a good little spot for a fire.
And if a guy needs to, he can warm his chainsaw.
If I need to warm myself or warm some food, it’s all good.
The thing is that it’s important to have a place that
you can recognize, and that you know to go to.
It’s important to have a place that goes in
and out of those steep areas that we work in.
And that place is perfect.
Give it a try.
AGNES: Right on there, warm up and glad the chainsaws running.
Now we just got to get on the snow machine and
then just go saw some wood.
RICKO: All geographical presence on this Earth is right here.
This is where I started.
When I’m moving around out here, I feel it.
RICKO: Okay.
I got a marten trap here and there’s some kind of Hutllaanee culture.
When you’re snaring for beaver,
it’s a water animal.
You’re not supposed to have sets out for land animals.
Especially marten, they say.
I don’t know why it is.
Most Hutllaanee kind of makes sense.
To me, it’s almost like it don’t make sense.
I need to do something here.
Because I’m not having luck with beaver, and my belief.
I might be jinxing myself.
It’s called Hutllaanee in our culture.
It comes from the old shamans and the elders from in the past,
and I’m violating one right now.
I’m trapping for marten, a land animal,
while I’m going after beaver, a water animal.
I’m just gonna, I’m just gonna put the safeties on
my marten trap here and snap it.
Go.
Some people might call me too superstitious,
or they might think it’s phony.
That don’t mean nothing to me if they say that.
They don’t have to believe it.
I come from old people.
I come from a strong cultural background.
It’s my way of life.
And what doesn’t affect certain people,
maybe they don’t need it that’s why.
I need this kind of luck.
It don’t look like much action here.
But, they took the baits.
Looks like the bait’s gone, gone.
It’s like a phantom beaver.
I can see signs of him, but I can’t really see him.
That beaver is seriously, frustrating me.
But I think I know what I’m gonna do.
I’m gonna use this old trick that my grandpa Tony told me about,
and I’m gonna put a foot hold trap down there using a T-stick.
I can’t let my survival skills get old and stale.
I got to stay in the game, and we don’t know what’s coming
in the future.
I know my people have survived thousands of years
out here in the woods.
It’s only right that I continue to carry that
torch of survival out here.
Okay. Tried my best.
Hopefully my luck change.
Hope for the best.
SUE: I’m not the top of the food chain here.
I’m part of the food chain here.
And how I live my life dictates whether that’s the bottom or the top.
SUE: More of them.
Where did you just run to?
Okay, I saw from back there I had some ptarmies up in here.
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SUE: When I was clearing the runway,
it evicted the birds.
I forced them to come back out here.
Fresh meat.
That, that iron.
It’d be nice to have a, maybe a pot of ptarmigan stew.
There’s a whole bunch of ptarmigans that I can just kind
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It’s getting towards dark time.
The weather’s changing.
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SUE: I’ve got this one here.
(bleep).
(gunshot)
It wasn’t ´til I got a little closer, I saw these guys over here.
So I took a chance that I might get a twofer.
Look at this fresh meat.
Yum!
It can be frustrating not to be able to get to them but see so many.
But that’s hunting. There are no guarantees.
It’s a lifestyle where your grocery store flies off.
And then you got to try and find it again.
And there’s no, there’s never a sale price.
One day, it’s on sale for one bullet for two.
And the next day, it’s 20 bullets for none.
Things are changing weather-wise.
I think it’s a good time for me to get Little Red put to bed and
get these birds taken care of.
So now, I get that runway done.
Maybe build a little fire and cook me up some birds.
DENISE: Winter is a long season here.
You better learn how to adapt to being cold and uncomfortable,
and just get through it.
ANDY: What I saw was it looks like it wants to break right here.
So if we can firm up here.
DENISE: Yeah, it’s across.
ANDY: Right, and then also keep the base from flexing,
it’ll probably be pretty good.
DENISE: I’m happy if we can salvage it and make it even better.
We’re gonna Andy-ize it.
ANDY: One of the most important things to realize if
you’re gonna live the lifestyle that we live is you have to have
a million different skills to do even basic things out here.
Let’s get those sides on.
And get them connected, and then we’ll make sure the handle
and everything goes before you get too carried away.
DENISE: Everything is, yeah. Free and clear.
ANDY: To be able to give Denise some comfort and
a few nice things in her life.
That makes me really happy and I like doing that.
(laughs)
ANDY: All right! We’re rocking and rolling.
DENISE: That looks pretty solid.
That’s great. Laundry time. I think.
There we go.
(sizzling)
That’s the sound of laundry.
My hot water tap is about to flow.
It’s actually pretty impressive.
I was very amazed at how much this little tank will, will handle.
Detergent, that should be about enough.
Okay, let me see how this goes.
I know Andy worked really hard to give me the opportunity to
feel comfortable, to feel relaxed.
And that’s huge.
Oh, that’s nasty water.
That solidifies everything about us,
and about our partnership.
And when I’m in that sauna, I’m in my flip flops and shorts.
When I’m in my Florida mode, the laundry’s going.
I’m feeling right at home, and that’s perfect.
Okay, listen, I love this sound. Listen.
(sloshing)
Doesn’t that sound good, the washing machine?
Sounds like Sunday afternoon doing laundry.
ANDY: For me, the way you show your love to someone.
You know, some people just talk a bunch.
They’ll say, "Oh, I love you."
Or whatever.
The way I do that is I try and make her life good and happy.
I put the effort into it, and that’s the way I show my love
for her and how I care about her.
Last socks!
DENISE: Last wringer.
ANDY: I want to get a sauna after this because I’m already,
sauna hot so I might as well finish the job now.
DENISE: You look like you need to go through the wringer.
Yeah. I mean, we’re done.
Let’s like enjoy the scenery.
Kick back and have a good sauna.
ANDY: Yeah, yeah.
RICKO: Athabaskan people are proven people.
It’s with our culture.
We have a culture of survival and that’s why we’re here today.
RICKO: Diamond.
Let’s go check out the beaver set.
I pulled my traps yesterday, all my marten traps.
Hopefully have a change of luck.
One of the big things we do in the winter is trap.
But when we snare beaver, in our culture,
we believe we’re not supposed to go after land animals same time.
I truly believe in Hutllaanee.
I truly believe in the old way, because that’s our people,
our life today is we had luck in the past to bring
our people generation after generation.
Ah, nothing.
Let’s see.
Oh, what do we got?
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feellike we got something.
Holy, anaa basee.
Now got, got a beaver.
Look, Diamond.
I got something, look.
Yes.
Finally have luck. Finally.
Take this snare off.
Anaa basee, Denaahuto‘.
Noye‘e.
That means thank you to the creator for giving me beaver.
Now that I have luck, I feel so relieved.
I finally got beaver and I’m super happy.
I’m tired, I really am.
I’m tired. I tried real hard to get beaver.
In the end, I finally have luck and I feel tired but
I feel so good.
I think Diamond’s excited too.
(barking)
It’s not alive.
(barking)
That’s what you’ve been smelling, huh?
We’ve got one more to check, Diamond.
(barking)
What we got, Diamond? What we got, Diamond?
Oh, look at that, Diamond.
Anaa basee Noye‘e.
Look at that. We got a beaver.
We got a beaver.
You’re not as excited?
Well, I’m excited.
Little trap worked.
I had a lot of tough luck beaver snaring,
but in the end, it worked out.
I had to think about the Hutllaanee like the old laws,
and these old lessons, and respect them.
Okay. I’m gonna load this up.
I’m gonna head back to the cabin,
start the skinning, butchering, and eating.
It’s important that we learn and practice our old cultures
and our old traditions.
And hopefully have some of that knowledge passed on to us.
Because my grandpa Tony’s no longer here with us today.
But he’s able to help me out.
That’s what’s important in life.
And that’s the most beautiful thing I could see today
is eating from the knowledge I gained from my late grandpa.
CHIP: Well, it’s work to survive out here but
it’s work to survive anywhere.
You got to roll with the punches.
You’ve got to figure out what you can and can’t do,
and you just got to keep on keeping on.
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AGNES: Wow, huh? CHIP: Wowza, wowza.
AGNES: Looks like a good tree, even that one right there, huh?
CHIP: Yup.
Thank God, they’re not the only ones on this river like that either...
AGNES: Yeah. CHIP: This the first.
AGNES: Even that one back there, eh?
CHIP: We may have to come back this far to go get this wood,
but there ain’t gonna be no sand in it.
It’s gonna be so nice for my chainsaw.
My chainsaw is thawed out.
Agnes gonna go help me.
We’ll go knock off some logs.
Go see some poles.
By the end of the day, I’ll probably have two good loads.
AGNES: Ah! Uh-huh.
CHIP: Where I want it. AGNES: Yup.
CHIP: I’m gonna have enough wood to get me through breakup.
And that’s, kind of, the goal of this whole idea of going back to
the trees, getting all the stuff,
putting everything together, assembling it here is the fact
that I can get through breakup and get through the wet time of year
until I can access wood again with the boat.
And it’s what I do pretty much every year.
I get a nice pile of wood.
What we’ll do is we’ll go back to camp and
we’ll stop by the otter traps.
I’ll show ’em to you, so in case I don’t come up here,
you’ll be able to know where they are and you can check ’em.
AGNES: Okay. CHIP: Yeah.
AGNES: That’s a good idea.
CHIP: I put traps there because I’m gonna keep returning here.
Basically what I want to do is be able to check those traps,
get firewood, get poles between my camp and the other camp.
All with the same tank of gas it’ll take me to get up there and back.
Check it out.
AGNES: Oh, cool. They go across there?
CHIP: Yup. AGNES: Looks pretty good, huh?
CHIP: If we get this load of wood home and we come back up
here tomorrow, at least you’ll know where they’re at.
AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: So if, maybe even if I go over here trekking ´em and
I don’t come back, you’ll know which way to come look for me.
Well, shall we get back to the cabin with this load?
AGNES: Yup.
Woo! We made it.
Hey, puppy.
CHIP: Yeah, look at this.
There’s enough poles now we can make ourselves a decent
little rack to get everything up and off the snow with.
AGNES: Uh-huh. CHIP: Hey, puppy, puppy, puppy.
Good dog.
AGNES: Every season will lead us to the next gathering of poles
and gathering of firewood and gathering of ice and gathering
of the skins we need to work on and it’s just our cycle.
That’s why we get our wood, so we can have a nice,
cozy fire at the end of a hardworking day.
Melt your ice and sip your tea and just enjoy life.
CHIP: We’re pole secure, we’re meat secure,
we’re firewood secure.
And we’re securely home.
To secure this stuff.
AGNES: Good work. CHIP: Yup.
Let’s go secure some dinner.
AGNES: Yup.
SUE: Once you take a big old bite and you hang on to that
wilderness lifestyle, you better be a challenge-oriented person.
’Cause it’s gonna get tough.
(gusting winds)
SUE: All righty. The storm is laid down.
It’s no longer blowing.
I’ve got some clear skies above.
It’s time for me to start getting rid of all this wood
that I’ve collected and the willows that I’ve gotten off the runway.
I think I can do a, a good fire.
I don’t need it blowing around and,
and brought back down the runway.
And any little broken part, if it finds the tundra this spring,
it’s gonna make a new bush.
Made myself a nice sandwich with the ptarmigan I got.
And sit down and enjoy it.
I’ve got the runway done.
It’s safe.
Now I’ll light the brush and keep warm and toasty while
I have a snack.
It’s not often I get to do a fire out here, a bonfire.
Lot of people get that ambiance at home.
There’s lots of trees everywhere else,
but I live way above the tree line.
I got a huge problem resolved on the runway for now.
They are plants. They will come back.
This is the tundra and nature has a tendency to reclaim what it wants.
Really doesn’t get much better than this.
I got birds, I’m eating a fine sandwich.
Everything about the tundra’s inside of it.
Everything about safety is in front of me.
And if I lean back, I’ve got some Northern Lights
I can dip into.
So you tell me how life gets any sweeter,
’cause I don’t think it does.
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