So, when I was young this sort of food was the main staple of our diet.
This is salmon, it's a kind of fish.
Give 'em a chance.
-[gags] -Hey.
As far back as I can remember, I liked salmon.
Did you know that?
You wanna try another bite?
[narrator] On this episode of Alaskan Bush People...
[Noah] White caps, that's never a good sign.
[Gabe] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Bam] Okay, we have a problem.
[Gabe] Just go with it.
It feels so good to be back in Alaska.
Honestly, you don't know how excited I am.
I'm focusing on the future, the future of Alaska.
Dang. All right, this is nice.
But a lot of things have, kind of, gone sideways.
Come on, slow, slow. Hold! Hold! Hold! Ahhh!
[Gabe] Right up there we have an old mine shaft,
where bears have been seen coming in and out.
-[bear roaring] -In the excitement I may have overdone it a little bit.
Was it a good idea for you to make the whole trip and come here?
[Bird] Here we go.
[narrator] Following a two day expedition from their remote Washington mountain,
the Browns have made landfall in the Chilkat inlet of Haines, Alaska.
[Bird] I can tell the different immediately.
If you closed my eyes, didn't tell me where I was going,
and I stepped out, I'd be like, "Alaska!"
[Rain] Dandelion pollen is so yummy.
Just breathing air that you know
hundreds of people haven't breathed before you, feels like heaven.
It so sweet though, it's so good.
[narrator] The plan, spend two days in Haines
before they embark on what could become a life altering adventure.
Two hundred fifty miles through the rough waters,
and archipelagos of South-East Alaska,
the Browns will chart a course to scout several remote locations
where Noah plans to build his family's homestead.
This trip to Alaska is life changing for the direction of my family.
This is the trip that we'll be able to mark
the beginning of Eli's Alaskan adventure.
[narrator] Their final destination, Mosman Island.
The place where Billy and Ami's journey began over four decades ago.
And where Bird hopes to find the inspiration to start hers.
This trip for me is a lot about, you know, retracing Da's steps.
Mosman was a very special place for Da.
But we do have some stops before Mosman.
Who's excited?
Haines is the first stop because, I don't know, it's very symbolic.
Haines, to an extent, is where my life of adventure, I guess, started.
[narrator] Between 1992 and 2002,
the Brown family lived in a provincial cabin
on a rugged parcel of land outside of town.
Marked only by, what the Wolfpack referred to as, The Crooked Tree.
[Bird] I was born there and we left when I was seven.
So, uh, a lot of memories.
When Bird and I think of home, this is the place.
[Bird] The house that we had in Haines seemed huge.
I could actually walk you through it.
We changed it a lot, you know, busted the walls down,
making new walls, we were always working on it.
But it was a...
I don't know, a very magical house.
[narrator] With a tight timeline, the siblings hope
to track down their old home site,
which may be long lost to history.
But first, Noah will scout an early property lead,
two miles up a complex river system.
What I'm hoping to get out of Haines is,
the same thing I'm hoping to get out of this entire trip,
it's to find a place to belong.
Maybe this will be an opportunity to get a little bit of Alaska back.
[Gabe] Something stepped here and broke these over,
you have the back bear paw.
[narrator] Spring awakens on North Star Ranch.
-[horses whinnying] -[Bam] Oh, do you want some.
Yes?
[narrator] Eager to rebuild and create an income source,
the remaining siblings continue sustaining the homestead.
But the new abundance of animal feed attracts unwanted attention.
[Gabe] Bear saw a bear the other day
trying to get into one of the feed bins.
And so, they're waking up, they're starting to roam around,
get into things, check out the lay of the land,
so I'm seeing if I can get a line on some tracks.
First thing to do when you're getting played by a bear is,
to figure out where they're coming from.
So I'm doing a little bit of tracking today, so we can figure out how to stop 'em.
Right up there we have an old mine shaft.
[whispering] Something has definitely been coming in and out.
There's fresh track over there.
That's fur.
If the bears can get to the food without us stopping 'em,
then we're not gonna have the food to give the longhorns.
And we're not raising bears up here, we're raising longhorns.
[whispering] Doesn't look like a bear's been in here.
That's not to say there isn't.
I just... It's just I don't think so.
Unless that's a bear I'm looking at.
[in normal voice] Think it's abandoned.
I hear water inside, so I think it might be flooded.
And that might be why there's nothing in there.
It's a good sign, 'cause we know that they're not
this close to the main house.
At the same time,
it's a bad sign 'cause we don't know where they're coming from.
[Bear] All right, on today's menu, chicken tortilla soup.
And the most important ingredient is...
a chicken.
If feels really great to be up Mountain with Raiven and River.
I am trying to make sure
that Raiven and River have everything that they need.
Raiven's really been wanting to cook up here,
and I want her to not want for anything.
The only thing she needs now is a chicken.
-[chicken clucking] -It's okay, it's okay. Come on, buddy.
Appreciate your contribution, little chicken.
I hope y'all guys are hungry, 'cause I brought dinner.
You wanna see me clean this thing up?
-Why would I wanna see that? -I don't know.
[Raiven] I want chicken, not a chicken.
[Bear] I don't think she's ever cooked a chicken from scratch like this.
If you're gonna go buy a chicken from a store,
then you should be willing to be able to take care of it yourself.
Uh, Raiven prefers to have her meat already cleaned and processed.
Not everyone grew up like my family and I did.
But that is the bush life.
You know, you have to raise 'em,
and you know that they had a good life,
and are well taken care of
up until the moment they, uh, go home.
Chicken heaven.
Well, I'd say right now, that this chicken is actually in chicken heaven.
Which is where all good, and bad, chickens go. Straight to chicken heaven.
'Cause there's really no such thing as a bad chicken.
The heart.
It's right there up in chicken heaven,
just eating all the grain that it can want,
looking at the blue sky's going on for miles.
And there's no one out there with a knife ready to slaughter it.
Ah, thank you.
-It looks disgusting. -I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
Looks kinda like a store bought chicken.
Well, I'm hoping that Raiven won't be turned off
by seeing the chicken cleaned and stuff,
and that she won't worry once it's in the pot.
Might of missed a little bit, but.
Yeah, it looks gross.
-[bone breaking] -[Bear] Yeah.
[Bird] This is it, Rain.
Honestly, you don't know how excited I am that you're here.
-[Rain] It looks nice. -[Bird] Right! It is nice, welcome.
Well, like, I definitely think to find the answers that I'm looking for,
sometimes you do have to go back to the past.
And I think this lake is the best way to do that.
Little, like, toddler Bird used to splash around and get way too cold in here.
And Ma would make me get out and my lips turn purple.
It's very uplifting being back to the old swimming hole.
It's definitely a different perspective,
I'm a little taller than I was, not much, but a little.
We came here so much.
We'd always be like, "Can we go swimming? Can we go swimming?"
Even though none of us could swim.
I don't know, it's definitely making me feel good.
One thing we would do is the alligator.
'Cause we couldn't go super far out.
And so you would, like, get down into the water.
Are you supposed to be getting that deep into the water?
I feel like Dr. Urban would not be liking this.
I mean, what the doctor doesn't know, doesn't hurt them.
Just might "potentially" hurt me.
[Rain] Well, being back on the Alaskan water with Bird, I am a little bit worried.
Bird just went through a major abdominal surgery
and she just had 16 pounds of tumors removed from her.
And she is not taking that seriously enough.
But Bird is definitely pretty stubborn.
[Bird] So I might not be exactly to the day
that the doctor's told me I'm allowed to swim.
Could be a couple days early,
but nothing's gonna keep me outta this lake.
Okay, let's see who can stay under the longest.
The loser has to eat something of the winners choice.
[both] One, two, three.
[both breathing deeply]
[Bird] I know being here in Haines,
and seeing all these places, it's kinda weird for Rain.
When we used to live here, Rain wasn't born and it's...
I don't know, it's hard to think of a world that Rain wasn't there.
Uh, and to be able to be here now experiencing
what I used to experience,
but with Rain, it's like I'm getting to relive it.
Yeah!
Yeah! I win!
-I got your leaf, right here. -Oh, it's pretty small.
Eat up!
There ya go.
Initiation complete.
[Noah] Dang, this is a nice area.
Some nice mountain.
[narrator] With son, Eli, left behind with his aunts,
brother Noah navigates the challenging Chilkat River
en route to the first perspective bush abode in his hunt.
Today, I'm heading up to check out pieces of property
that we're looking at.
To be complete honesty, I have apple pie hopes for this place.
It's just beautiful.
It would be a good place for kids to grow up.
If I'm being honest, I'm a little bit nervous to be going up the river.
Anyone that knows this area, knows how dangerous the Chilkat is,
with all the runoff coming down funneling into here,
it makes it where it's, not only very cold, but it's rapids.
My dad and I ran it a lot when I was a kid,
but that was a long time ago.
[deep breath] Okay.
Whitecaps, that's never a good sign.
Okay, between the sandbar, avoid the tidepool.
Not looking forward to going the other direction, but okay.
The sandbars can actually shift and change hour to hour.
So unless you know exactly where it is, and what it's doing,
and how to read it, it can be quite treacherous.
Just one wave at a time.
One wave at a time!
Okay, between the sandbar and the tidepool,
I am not sure.
I have memories of running the Chilkat with my dad.
So going into this, I know it's not going to be super friendly.
'Kay, this should do it.
The river, it goes from a gigantic lake
to a very small opening, which makes it a rapid.
But as long as you take it one wave at a time
eventually the waves will be over.
Let's do this.
Okay.
Don't fall in.
Our list of things we're looking for in a home, it's kinda specific,
great views, a house that's nice but not too nice,
not super difficult to get to,
and number one is no neighbors.
Okay.
If we can actually find a home in Alaska
I'll be able to give Eli a taste of what I had.
Maybe a better version of what I had.
Okay, I made it.
Should be...
Should be that one.
Well, let's go across.
If you're looking for a piece of property in Alaska
a lot of them aren't going to be on the market.
And that's actually how we found the one up Chilkat.
We just talked to the locals and asked around,
and eventually found someone's like,
"Yeah, I'm actually looking to get rid of my house."
This place has a nice view.
Looks like it needs some upkeep.
This is actually, like, on the water.
Dock will need to be fixed.
I would knock, but clearly this door has not been opened in a while.
Dang!
All right, this is nice.
This is an Alaskan cabin.
Nice gun rack, dang.
Well, the place is definitely big enough.
Two bedrooms.
Need to put in some insulation, close up the top.
I think that something like this
would be awesome.
So far so good.
Ugh!
Right across are neighbors.
[sighs]
This small fisher cabin, it's right on the water, it has its own dock,
it's almost furnished,
however, I can see neighbors.
I don't like to see neighbors.
If I can't stand on my porch butt naked and practice with my revolver,
neighbors are too close.
This was a good place, I like the lake,
but it's on to the next one.
But before we leave we still have a mission,
uh, we still have to find our old cabin and that's what we're gonna do.
Even if it's just a couple rocks piled up.
[Gabe] Listen to a little radio.
I don't have a radio.
-[horn honking] -So I'll be my own radio.
[in British accent] Hello, and welcome back to Washington Radio News!
We've got the nature guru.
[narrator] Fifty miles from their Washington homestead,
brother Bam makes arrangements with a local rancher
to acquire a solution to keep the mountain's predator presence at bay.
[Bam] I asked Gabe to help out with this silo project
because it's one thing if you got a bunch of deer coming around eating your food
it's different when it's predators.
A grain silo will help immensely improving things are the ranch.
We're gonna be able to store more food at a time,
and it's gonna be protected from predators.
We've been looking for some place to store all our grain and stuff,
we got bears coming around
and sniffing out all our grains.
Oh, yeah. [laughing]
[Gabe] What if I, like, try and ease it down?
-What if I catch it? -[Bam] No.
That's a bad idea.
I say we just push it over and see what happens.
Bear, where'd you come from? I thought I was talking to Bam?
I just don't have time to play with it.
With half the family in Alaska that does leave us quite shorthanded on the ranch.
There's so many things that we need to work on, but we don't have time.
It's very important that we find
the most efficient ways possible to do things.
Gently.
-[Bam] Gently, gently. -[Gabe] Ease it, ease it.
[Bam] And let go!
Piece of cake.
Step one, it's down.
Let's, uh, just roll it towards the truck.
One, two, three!
-[Gabe] Nope, too much digger in. -All right, try to spin it.
[Gabe] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Bam] A little bit at a time, don't hurt yourself.
A silo is, in one way, very heavy and in another way, not so much.
The base is what's really heavy because of the steel on the bottom.
The rest of it's really just made out of tin.
-Okay, we have a problem. -[Gabe] Just go with it.
[Bam] Hold, hold, hold.
The heavy end is still on the ground.
[Gabe] Hold that thought.
We're heaving, and we're hoing,
and we're pulling, and we're pushing
We're just really giving it our all.
I don't wanna mess it up, I don't wanna break the grain silo.
-[Bam] Gonna feel that in my 80s. -Yeah.
[Gabe grunting]
-[Gabe] Whoo! -All right.
Get your breathing steady.
Together. Together.
Together. Like rowing a boat.
Touch down! We made it!
-[Gabe] Whoo! -[Bam humming a tune]
[knocking at door]
-Hello. -[Noah] Just coming to check on ya.
[narrator] With the nostalgic hunt for their old cabin planned for the next morning,
Noah and Bird meet to make preparations for the journey ahead.
But for one of them, this might be the end of the road.
Being in this hotel room, couped up,
that's the last place I wanna be.
But going to the lake with Rain,
in the excitement I may have overdone it a little bit.
Having to, like, get places on time
and then, like, all the emotions, like, I don't know, I feel better.
Uh, but then when I quit, and I just relax and sit down it's...
It's hard and it's really painful.
But I really wanna enjoy it.
And I really want to go to see the places and see the memories.
Is it a happy thing being back here for you?
-Or is it, like, depressing? -It's both.
It's sad because...
Well, the thing is, it's not even just sad, you know,
because they're happy memories.
'Cause they're obviously not just hard because it's not like that.
But because the last time we were here we were with Da.
And we never will be again.
I knew, you know, I knew coming back to Haines was gonna be hard.
It's all the wrong moments that the sadness
is almost worse than the physical pain even.
Was it a good idea for you to make the whole trip and come here?
It's probably not a good idea, if I'm being honest.
[Bird] Dax, she told me this.
That your favorite and best memories that you have
are some day gonna be the hardest thing for you in life.
Yeah.
[Bird] And if that's true,
I wouldn't change it. I don't want to forget them.
I don't.
I wanna remember all of it, even if it hurts a little bit.
And maybe it won't hurt someday, I don't know. Probably will.
[narrator] With Bird's Alaska journey in jeopardy,
Noah attempts to give her renewed inspiration.
-This is the playground they used to play on as kids. -Birdie, it's the slide.
I can tell when someone's not feeling good.
Uh, and Birdie definitely isn't.
Not only are her physical stuff after the surgery,
like, really weighing on her, but this entire trip is really hard.
[Bird] So much smaller than I remember.
[Noah] In order to cheer up Bird a little bit,
I decided to take her to the playground where we...
Where we used to play as kids.
[Noah] You wanna go down the slide?
Okay.
Are you ready for this?
-Come on, Eli. -[Noah] Okay.
-[Bird] Yay. -[women exclaim]
[Rain] Good job.
I haven't gone down this slide in 20 years.
[Rain] Go, Noah, go.
[Rain exclaims]
[Bird] Being here at the playground is... It's amazing.
But it is...
...it's a little harder than I thought it was gonna be,
if I'm being honest.
Ready to go.
Gonna go down it?
[Bird] I guess it was a realization,
you know, because being here is taking me back,
you know, to, I guess, a simpler time when life seemed so much easier.
[Noah] Okay, so will the climb up hurt you?
Probably.
-[Noah] Would the sitting down hurt you? -Probably.
-Would the sliding hurt you? -Probably.
-Would the landing hurt you? -Yes.
It's up to you, Bird.
Think back to when you were a little kid.
You didn't think about getting hurt.
Yep.
[Bird exhales]
[Noah] Yeah.
-[Noah] Of course. -[Elijah babbles]
Yeah, we'll slide while she waits.
[Bird] I think about here all the time.
And Mom and Dad would take us here.
And we would all laugh and play.
And if I ever wanted to think about something happy
or somewhere happy, it was here.
It's just not fair that Dad's not here.
And last time we were here, he was. [sniffles]
And I wanted it to make me feel closer to Dad,
but I just realized that he's gone, I guess. [sniffles]
I mean, I do wonder that if it was so happy, why does it make me so sad
to be here and think about it?
Dad's like always with us,
but being here, you know, I definitely feel him a lot stronger.
You know, Da, he knew that he had to teach us life.
You know, life isn't always sunshine and rainbows.
And he told us you never give up, you never stop fighting.
And I know there's a part of me that has to realize that it's...
This is the now.
You know, I have to realize that we're here even if it's hard.
You know, it's hard seeing and everything.
But I just wanna enjoy and make new memories.
The laughter.
[Bird] Guys!
Don't start without me.
Being here, I know that he is...
I don't know, he's rooting for me to go down the slide.
And I know what he would say about the house we had in Haines.
Even if I'm not 100%,
at least just be able to see where the house once stood.
[Gabe speaking]
[struggling]
[Gabe] We got it up the Mountain.
So now we're gonna take this old food storage silo,
paint it up, then raise it up,
fill it with grain and laugh at all the bears who try to get in.
All right, so how do you want to do it?
How do you want to raise it up?
Pick it up?
It's always easier to knock something over
than it is to put it standing upright.
We'll just have to figure out what's a good way to raise it up.
-Nope. -Nope.
Uh, we might have to get inventive. We'll see.
Actually, if we had something heavier on this end.
If we had this secured down
and we just pulled it a little with this one.
-Pull the legs on this side. -Pull the legs down.
Clever, clever. What do we have to stake this thing down?
[Gabe] Ah, not a lot.
Are you kidding? How does that work?
Just stake it against it.
[Bam Bam] If we were killing vampires, great.
But this, no.
Seriously?
You think a 1 to 2, pound it into the ground a little bit
-is going to hold the tension of this? -Well, it's not ideal.
It won't work at all.
[Gabe] Bam has many layers.
He's like a cake, you know,
but not as sweet.
But, you know, just one of us, there's no way we're gonna get this grain silo raised.
So we're gonna have to really let sleeping dogs lie.
All right, let's give it a shot. I'm just gonna...
...put some tension on it and we'll see what happens.
-[Gabe] Just remember, slow and easy. -Slow and steady.
[Gabe] Just pay attention to the hand.
So as soon as it starts moving,
-I might call you to stop. -Slow and steady.
-Just talk to my hand. -Slow and steady.
[Gabe] Hold... hold what you got.
[Bam Bam] Is there tension?
It came down, it wanted to do it, it's sliding.
You know, we're gonna have to maybe modify our plan.
I think we just need more weight.
We need to stop the bottom from moving,
so that the top can get the raise that we need.
If we can't get the grain silo raised, we're dead in the water.
[bird calling]
[Bird] If we can find the creek,
I will be able to know where the actual house was.
[narrator] It's the Browns' final day in Haines, Alaska
and the pack has set off into the deep bush
to find the long lost site of their former cabin.
This is most definitely not the part of the creek that we lived by.
[Bird] It's been 20 years.
I'm trying not to set my expectations too high,
you know, I'm sure it's an overgrown field,
but it'd be cool if there was just something from our old life.
-[Bird] This isn't the road to the property though. -[Noah] No.
No, they punched in another road in.
-This is the property though? -Ours is just right around that corner.
[Rain] Are we allowed in here?
This is a wildlife preserve.
I come up here and our old property is a wildlife sanctuary.
I'm like, wait a second. What?
[Bird] Do we wanna, like, yell something maybe?
So we're not just walking up and get shot?
There's someone.
-[man] Oh! -[Noah] Hey.
Hello.
-Hello. -[Elijah] Hello.
The gate didn't scare you enough, eh?
My name's Noah Brown.
Oh!
Hi, there.
He's shyer than a pine marten. [laughs]
You remember pine martens.
There's one right over there. Do you want to see it?
Would the little one wanna see it?
My name is Steve Kroschel. I'm kind of like a cut off from civilization.
This is Acrilla. She loves the fireweed.
I actually eat it too.
I'm a ethologist, that's studying of animal behavior.
So I think it will go with this.
[mimics animal call]
-Keep doing that about every two seconds. -[Rain mimics animal call]
You know, walking through and seeing all the animal enclosures,
it reminds me a lot of my dad and his vision for the ranch.
[Steve] Make a howling sound.
[women howling]
[animal howls]
-She's doing it! -[laughs]
[Bird] I know Da would be so pleased
to see the property like it is.
It's like heaven on earth.
[Steve] Here.
Warning, warning. If creature comes at you,
pull back your head immediately, lest you lose part of face...
...and eyes or nose parts.
Is it a wolverine?
This is Bamp the wolverine.
And, uh... Ow! Stop it!
Stop it!
[Steve exclaims]
This is what I learned as a kid.
If you massage their gums,
they tend to go into a trance.
The sanctuary's awesome, uh, but we have a mission.
We have a goal. And we're not here to see the sanctuary.
We're here to try to find that meadow where our house used to be.
[Rain speaking]
[Steve] Oh, yes, uh...
Matter of fact, over the years, I'd find...
I don't know, little things like a pocket knife or a book.
"Ooh, this is the Browns. Yes."
-Really? -Yeah, just things.
-Car tires. -On the property?
[laughs] Yeah. I mean...
Over the years.
Steve, you know, said there might be some of our old stuff back there,
which that's very intriguing.
So the spot that we had our house and everything...
-Yeah. -...is that area still there?
Would it be possible to, like, find where the house was and everything?
Mom is doing a bit of a balancing act.
Are you hungry?
[Bear laughs]
Well, Raiven is finally finished the chicken tortilla soup.
And it's almost time to feast.
I am super excited and there's no better meat than fresh meat.
It was a little, uh, different than how, you know,
I'd typically have gotten chicken.
It's just the way you do it. It's no different than going to a grocery store
and picking up a piece of meat.
I like that we know where our chicken lived
and how our chicken was taken care and it had a good life.
All right, you'll have to be the judge.
Okay.
[coughs] It is delicious.
[groans] It's so delicious, it almost choked me to death.
[coughs]
[baby coughs]
-[Bear] Seriously. -[all laugh]
Together, Raiven and I, mainly Raiven, we fixed a delicious soup.
Delicious, delicious food.
And it just goes to show that, you know, two worlds colliding
can still come together and make something tasty.
Delicious, babe. That's really good.
The chicken tastes like chicken.
[Bear] Isn't it funny how that works?
[Raiven] Are you a happy boy?
[Bear] There's a happy boy.
[animal howling]
[Elijah speaking]
-[Noah] It's dirty, it is. -[Rain] It is dirty, but we'll clean it.
Honestly, Noah, I feel like if you put Bird and Eli in here,
we'd be moving.
-We'd be trekking. -[Bird] I agree. I think Bird and Eli should be in this.
I don't think I'm gonna fit.
[Noah] Ready, guys?
-Yep, ready. -Let's do this.
Let's go!
Let's go home!
[Bird] Steve said that into the woods,
there might be some of our old stuff.
I feel like I wanna ask him what he means,
but I don't wanna wait any longer, so we're just gonna go see.
[Bird] These trees look very familiar. Don't they, Noah?
[Noah] Yes, they do.
Wait, I hear water.
-I smell water. -Do you know what that means?
It means we're getting close.
I think it's around that 'cause you can see that there's a clearing over there.
[Noah] The question is though is it this one
or the little spot up there?
We should scout both.
Okay, so Noah, Eli, you're gonna take that road that splits off.
Bird and I are gonna go down through the devil's club.
[Bird] I think we should probably do one howl
for we found the property.
Three howls for someone broke a leg, someone's being eaten,
-just something's wrong. -Okay.
[Noah] The map that we're following to try to find the old place,
uh, it's in my head.
And I was 9 or 10 when we left.
So landscape has changed quite a bit.
You know, kiddo, I really don't think that it's this far.
That or it might be...
...back the other way.
But it shouldn't be that close to the river.
I just remembered that...
So you had to cross the creek to get to the house,
but if we follow the creek down, I think we would find it.
We have to walk slower, Bird,
'cause I know you're excited and you're getting overzealous.
[Bird speaking]
[Noah] That van.
That one looks familiar.
Especially the board up back right window.
And the river's right up there,
which makes that the Chillkat.
Then the crooked tree would be there.
But there is a fallen tree there.
If the river's there,
the crooked tree's there,
the van's there, that means the house is there.
[inhales]
[howling]
-Is that a bee or a howl? -That was a howl.
-Okay, let's go meet them, buddy. -[Rain] That was one.
That was one. That might mean he found it.
[Steve] First thing I do in the morning.
I must do this to feel better for the day.
Weighs about 120 pounds.
Got rocks in there.
[groaning]
[Noah] When you think of a bushman, that's Steve.
The only way he can be more of a bushman is if he was wearing a shrub as a shirt.
[Steve] As a test to my self-discipline,
I hang like this for sometimes a half an hour.
[groans]
[Steve] He really is living the life he wants to.
Uh, that is what Alaska is.
[Steve] Self discipline is important to me
because if you can master yourself,
you can do anything.
I'm 61.
Oh, it feels good.
Time to start work.
[Steve laughs]
[Rain] Did he find it? He howled once.
He only howled once.
-[women] Did you find it? -[Noah] Come on, I'll show you.
Do you know what this is?
-[Rain] Logs. -Okay, come here. Come right here.
We're right here. Do you see that log?
How it has a split?
This is the crooked tree.
[Rain] But where's the creek you pass?
It's right here. That's not the road.
[Rain] Oh.
-[Bird] Oh, we didn't go up the right road. -Came in from the wrong way.
[Rain] He either lost his mind or he found it.
[Noah] No, I found it.
Just trust me.
This is it.
-[Bird] This is the house? -[Noah] This is the house.
[Rain] This is y'all's house?
-[Bird] Are you sure? -[Noah] It has to be.
This is exactly it. The van's back there, the old tree's there.
That's the creek which makes this the house.
-Do you hear the river? -[water flowing]
And the memories?
And the wind.
Honestly I thought we were gonna find a field and we found our past.
We found our past how we left it even...
[Rain] Y'all left so much stuff.
We left everything that we couldn't pack in a suitcase.
I'm on this journey to just find, you know, inner things.
But this right here is what the journey is about.
Tracing Mom's and Dad's footsteps.
And this is where Mom's and Dad's journey began.
[Bird] Noah.
-[Noah] Yes. -Mom's jacket that she would wear.
-[Rain] Wow. -[Bird] I would wear this
and we would go, like, berry picking.
Hey, girls.
What'd you find?
Pictures.
-What? -Pictures?
[Noah] Of you...
...and of me.
Wow, two years before I was born.
I grew up hearing legends about Haines and stories from everybody.
Seeing it in the flesh is strange.
I don't know, kind of feel like I missed out a little bit.
Hey, look, you can see the painting in the back of The Old Man and the Sea.
They had a real childhood here before I was born.
It's strange but, um, it's even stranger that
it doesn't mean anything to me.
As much as I would like it to, it doesn't.
To be able to touch and see your childhood...
...is a strange concept for me 'cause everything from my childhood's long gone.
You know, I have a lot of different emotions to be standing here
if I'm being honest.
It's amazing to be here again, but it's also bittersweet.
It's definitely sad
'cause it was a time that's lost and I can't tell Dad about it.
-[Noah] Birdie. -[Bird] Hmm?
Is that the robot dog's head?
What did we name him?
It was Rover, wasn't it?
-Something... Yeah. -[Rain] Aw.
Should give this to Eli.
-He was playing... -I mean, I honestly feel like all of this should
just go in some kind of a Brown museum.
-Agreed. -[Rain] Same.
I will admit the trip to Haines turned out
to be just a straight up walk down memory lane.
But that's not what it's about.
For me, it's not about my past.
It's about Eli's present and his future.
-[Bird] So y'all are thinking we call it? -[Noah] I hate to say it, yes.
I'll hold onto these.
You grab the robot dog head
and the rest we'll ask permission for.
It's time to continue the mission.
And to get going and get Bird to Mosman.
Need to have me find a home for my family.
[Bird] We'll be back, house.
[Raiven] You like it?
-Put it all over your shirt. -[Bear laughs]
It's great seeing the kids expanding their families and building up the ranch.
There's a longevity to the ranch to be had.
[Gabe] Come on, slow, slow!
Hold, hold, hold!
Do not go too far!
A little more, a little more.
Hold, hold, hold!
[laughs] We did it!
[Bam Bam] We have the grain silo up on the Mountain.
Now a big step is to be able to grow our own food,
our own hay, our own alfalfa up on the Mountain.
[Ami] Half of the kids are definitely on an adventure.
They're trying to find what they want their future to hold.
I see Haines being in the future.
I feel like this is see ya later, not goodbye.
The journey's barely begun.
I think the answers are gonna be moving forward
and continuing the journey.
I don't know exactly how many places, but I know I'm gonna check them all
to be able to find where I belong.
[narrator] On the next episode of Alaskan Bush People...
[woman] There we go!
Now we're cooking with gasoline.
That has got to be freezing.
[Bear] I'm making my own bush washing machine.
I'm quite confident this will work.
[Bear chuckles]
[Noah] I'm excited about the Horse Island property.
If I step on it and I'm like, "This is home," then I found it.
[man] We want to put a little winter line up.
We've got some stuff left in town that we need to bring out.
I mean, just bring it out for ya.
We're in a bit of a time crunch.
However, if... What coach says, you keep your word.
[man groans] Come on. Work with me.
-[bull groaning] -Yo, Bear! The bulls are loose!
When one of the animals gets loose,
especially the long horns, everything stops.
[man] Gabe, get out of there.
-Move! -[bull calling]