[Bird] Hello, woods.
Bro!
What?
[Rain] Stop!
Stop!
[Bird] Not in my face!
[narrator] On this episode of Alaskan Bush People,
[Bird] 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.
[Brian] We wanna put a little wind turbine up.
We can just bring it out for you.
We're in a time crunch,
however the bush code says you keep your word.
[Diana] One, two, three!
Yo, Bear, the bulls are loose!
When one of the animals gets loose,
especially the longhorns, everything stops.
[Bear] Gabe, get out of there, move!
[Bird] Feels nice to be on a dock again.
[Rain] It does.
[narrator] It's late spring,
Noah, Bird, Rain, and young Eli
are on a life-changing mission through Southeast Alaska.
Their second stop, Juneau,
where Noah will scout a cabin twelve miles south
on the coast of Horse Island.
[Noah] My wife and I decided we need to reclaim Alaska,
and we're going to buy a piece of property.
We need to give our boys the Alaskan experience that I had growing up.
[narrator] For the remaining weeks of their trip,
the Browns will rely on their old family boat, The Integrity.
-[Rain] Wait up. -[Noah] Oh, that's it.
-[Rain] There she is. -[Bird] I think there she is.
[Noah] The Integrity is crucial to my plan
to be able to find the right piece of property for us
because if you can drive there, it's not the property I want.
There's a lot of the properties
that if you don't have boat, you're not gonna see 'em.
[Bird] Oh, I'm so excited.
[Noah] To be honest, I didn't fully believe that she was red.
[Bird] She might not be the colors we had her,
but she's still beautiful.
[Noah] We're sure she's seaworthy?
-Oh, yeah. -She's afloat.
Look at these bones, Noah.
You're literally kicking a hole in it.
[Rain] She's as sturdy as she's ever been.
There's a hole there, there's a hole there,
and part of the patches are literally coming out.
She needs a touch-up, but other than that, she's pretty good.
When I look at The Integrity, I see the fact that a bunch of the boards are rotting,
the bumper is coming off.
Makes me a little bit concerned, and kind of leery to bring my son on the boat.
I guess we should get aboard.
Before she sinks.
[Bird] So, one thing I did forget is how high that step is.
I'm not sure how you're planning on me to get up that.
[Rain] Bird just went through a major abdominal surgery.
It's stressful trying to keep her under wraps,
and calm, and you know, not twisting in any weird ways.
I can't go to the bow, I can't go to the roof.
I can't climb a ladder.
This'll get you one step closer.
[Bird] This Alaska trip, there's a lot riding on it.
I'm trying to think about the decisions I have
to, like, start a family or not
and it's not gonna be easy.
Just give me your arms.
[Bird] Oh, my gosh. I feel like I'm 80.
-I, no. [sighs] -[Noah] Can you raise your left that far?
Dad always had trouble with his knee getting on The Integrity,
so it's no surprise that in the condition Bird is
that she's having a bit of trouble.
You can just kinda look at her and see that she's in quite a bit of discomfort.
We're gonna have to come up with another way to do this.
[Bird] This is hurting me.
[mumbles]
I got you.
[Bird] I can't do that that many times, though,
'cause that really fricking hurt.
[Gabe]
[Bam]
[Gabe] It's pretty much level.
No, that's not level.
-It might seem like I'm taking more time to do something... -No, I know.
...but in reality, I'm taking less time.
I know.
'Cause the more I have to go back and fix something,
the longer it takes.
[narrator] 1,600 miles away in the Northern Cascades,
several cattle on North Star Ranch are ready to give birth.
With hopes of turning their precious livestock into a revenue stream,
Bam and Gabe fortify the animal enclosures
to keep their greatest resource secure.
[Bam] The most important thing for running the ranch
is getting the animals to a point where they're completely
taken care of and protected.
For us to be able to sell them and butcher them when they're ready.
Dude, come on.
[Gabe] Yikes, this is not the easiest measuring job I ever done.
[narrator] But for Brother Bear,
acclimating his wife, Raiven, to bush life on the mountain, is top priority.
So, we're doing this every time we have to wash the laundry?
[Bear] Uh...
I would prefer to have a little bit more of a, uh,
comfortable area to do it for you,
but this is how we did it back in Alaska.
Uh, we wash in creeks a ton.
I've been showing Raiven kinda how we did things
when I was a kid and growing up,
and we often washed our laundry in a creek.
You never know, the day might come
that the only thing you have is a creek and a thing of laundry.
Find a good creek, fill up the water.
Wash the, uh, clothes.
Just whatever kinda soap you happen to have.
[Raiven] I wonder how many, uh, things we'll be taking home with us,
excluding the laundry.
[Bear] Well, I'm pretty sure, like, the ticks, they stay in the dry areas
and up on the trees mainly.
[Raiven] Oh, like these trees?
I definitely have a lot of cute little baby outfits
that I definitely want to stay the color they came.
Uh, and I think that's kinda the challenge, you know, in the creek a little bit.
Not, I guess, re-dirtying an item as you're cleaning it?
[Bear] Takes time to scrub it a little bit.
Okay, so here is wash and rinse.
You can examine it.
I might, should have taken more time scrubbing that.,
Well, [laughs] there is a little black.
It is a little hard to get out here, it's a little cold.
I don't know how, uh, efficient it is over,
you know, a washing machine.
[Bear] Uh, I don't think that Raiven particularly loves the creek idea.
I think it's a little bi t too old-fashioned,
but Raiven and I can definitely meet in the middle
with laundry and stuff because all we have to do
is, you know, come up with something a little bit more innovative.
There you go, baby, you got it scrubbed up nicely.
Yeah, uh, see? Yeah.
[Raiven] Are your hands not cold?
Not yet.
It takes a while to get me cold, as you know.
But then I also, when I do get cold,
I kind of like it.
You wanna see me bathe in this thing?
I think it might still be a little too cold...
-[Bear] Yeah, it is, uh, it's... -...for that.
...nippy for sure.
Yeah, I mean, we got icicles in there,
so it definitely would be a cold plunge.
[Raiven] It's gonna be so cold.
[Bear]
[Raiven] That has got to be freezing.
Babe.
[Bear] I love it, makes me wanna howl.
[howls]
[Noah] So, if I can get this done properly,
then it should make everything a lot smoother for Bird.
You can definitely tell that Birdie is in quite a bit of pain.
And getting on and off the boat is going to be...
...damaging for her.
I need to be looking at the next piece of property in the next few hours,
so Birdie having trouble getting on and off the boat is kind of a problem.
Uh, not just for our schedule, but the fact she's in pain
as she's crawling her way onboard.
So, to fix this, I have an idea.
[narrator] With the upcoming journey to Horse Island,
Brother Noah rigs up a make-shift lift
to help Sister Bird safely board The Integrity
for the rest of their expedition.
[Noah] So, we should be able to use the boon
in order to be able to get Birdie on and off the boat.
I just need to make her a little seat thing.
I like to fix things and make things, and it's been a while.
And being that I'm doing it here on The Integrity,
that's kind of just home.
Just nostalgic.
There.
One more of these and we're good.
Let's see if this thing works.
Hey, Bird!
Rain!
-[Rain] Yeah. -Okay, so I got something fixed up.
Are you all set?
Yeah, super set.
[Noah] Okay.
Watch your head.
[Bird] Oh, those knots don't look sturdy.
[Rain] Can we work on a seatbelt?
[Noah] I think that would be more dangerous.
Okay, I'm gonna start the generator now and we'll lower it down.
Then Birdie gets on it.
Rain, you guide her.
[Bird] There we go.
Okay.
-Whew. -Noah!
-That hurts the stomach a little bit. -[Noah] That wasn't me.
[Bird] That's okay. I'm good.
You know, getting on the swing might of hurt just a touch,
and it's a little unnerving, but nothing is gonna stop me from the rest of this trip.
[Noah] Ready to board?
[Bird] Let go, sweetie, let go.
-[Rain] I have to guide you. -Yeah, no, I'm good.
Rain, guide her.
I'm getting mixed signals, guys, one person says not to touch it,
the other one says to touch it.
-I don't know what. -[Noah] Rain, Rain, Rain!
-[Rain] Can I touch your legs? -[Bird] Yes.
-[Noah] Rain! -[Rain] What? I can't hear you.
-On the boat... -[Rain] Yup.
[Noah] ...to pull her in. On the boat.
[Bird] So, you would think, "Oh, it's a swing,
hoists up, it's easy, it's quick,"
but no, emotions are running so high.
Up!
Rain's trying to protect me, 'cause she's been taking care of me this whole time.
Lower, lower.
Good.
Arm.
And I just, I don't want her to put too much pressure on herself
in the beginning of the trip.
I admit, a little freaky going off backwards
onto a swing off of a dock, but good job, that worked well.
[Rain] Wow, this is a full harbor.
[Bird] Throw it, I'll reel it.
Back's loose.
You good to go?
I'm feeling the pressure because this
is the longest journey that I'll be skippering,
I mean, we're going all over Alaska,
and I'm responsible for all the lives on the boat including my nephew.
Good girl.
I actually don't know if I've ever seen
so many boats in one harbor at one time before.
I'm worried about someone, like, going in front of me,
and me not being able to stop it.
There is another boat coming in.
-[Rain] There is? -[Bird] Yup.
I think you're turning too much.
-[Rain] Woo-hoo! -[Bird] Woo!
There we go! Now we're cooking with gasoline!
[Rain] One thing that Dad taught me with the boats,
is you're not supposed to be paying attention
to what every body else is doing.
You're supposed to be paying attention to what you're doing,
and so even though there are a lot of boats around,
I'm trying not to pay attention to it too much.
I think we're pretty much good to start heading out.
[Eli exclaims]
[Bird] This Alaska trip isn't even just for me,
it's for everybody else also.
How good does it feel to be on the ocean again?
Noah's looking for land.
Rain's looking more than she realizes she's looking,
and this is Eli's first time here.
The adventure has just started.
How's it going, Skipper?
Good.
[Eli] A baby island!
Yeah, that's a baby island over there.
It's right next to it's mommy island and it's daddy island.
[narrator] In Southeast Alaska,
the youngest Brown siblings set out on the open sea.
[Bird] I'm gonna go around and check the skiff.
[Rain] Okay, cool.
If something comes up, I'll let you know.
[Bird] Okay.
[narrator] Embarking on a two-hour voyage to Horse Island,
where Brother Noah will scout a property
for his family's Alaskan homestead.
-[Noah] Kiddo. -[Eli exclaims]
-[Noah] Do you know what this is? -[Eli] Yeah.
-[Noah] What's that? -[Eli] Uh...
-Anchor? -Chain.
Anchor chain, yes!
-Anchor chain. -Very good.
-[Eli] Chain, chain. -And it's attached to that anchor.
-[Eli] Chain, chain. -[Noah] Yeah, when we stop and turn off the engine,
in order to make sure that we don't wash
into something or move too much.
I always liked being on boats and on the ocean.
Uh, there's just something calming about it.
And being able to share it with Eli
at such a pivotal age for him, is very important to me.
If you have an anchor, like this.
This is your anchor, so right now, you can move, move, move,
but if we dropped the anchor, say, "Drop the anchor."
-Drop anchor! -The...
Anchor!
And it holds us still.
Now try to move.
See, you can't move as much, can you? Can you?
I'm really excited for this next chapter in my life,
because for Eli, it's still the first.
And I'd love for the first chapter of his life to have Alaska in it.
[Bear] Here we go.
[grunts]
I'm making my own bush washing machine.
I'm taking this thing right here.
I'm gonna fill it full of clothes,
Get in there.
T-shirt. [grunts]
Now, we need a little bit of this magic dust.
Think happy thoughts and clothes get washed.
Well, the idea from the old bush laundry technique,
Uh, I think it's gonna be a good idea,
and I think Raiven will like it,
'cause all she wants really is to get the clothes clean.
That's one thing, like, my old man always tried to do with Mom,
was give her, you know, the amenities in the bush.
Ha! Flawless victory, I got it.
The rocks will agitate it, the soap will clean it.
The clothes will be what needs to be cleaned.
Fill it up with water, put it in a bucket, shake it, and you got a washing machine.
I'm gonna tie it off and then drag it behind this truck right here.
It's gonna agitate it up, like this,
like a normal washing machine just goes back and forth.
And I could sit here all day and just do this,
but it's not quite as extreme or fun as what I'm going for.
Okay, I'm off!
Yee-haw. [laughs]
Unfortunately, I have no way to see this thing,
so we'll just have to check to make sure I don't leave it in the first quarter mile.
Faster we drive, the more it gets agitated.
Well, as I'm driving up, I can hear that washing machine in the back,
doing its thing, just cruising around,
letting it stir up and do its job
as I hum my old laundry man theme song,
which I haven't quite made up yet.
When washing clothes, the faster the better.
[groans] So close.
The, uh, washing machine idea was a little too extreme for the material I used.
When I was pulling along, it was just too much force.
So, the rope literally cut through the bucket,
and in turn, the bucket cut through the rope.
So, I'm back to the drawing board.
I, if I get, like, a metal trash can
or something with a sealable lid,
I think that that will actually work much better.
It does smell like soap though.
[Rain] Noah!
Drop it.
[Noah] It's going.
[narrator] After the 12-mile trek,
the Browns arrive at Horse Island.
Just over one mile in length, the island has a shallow coastline,
forcing The Integrity to anchor out.
[Noah] If we're talking, like, best case scenario,
the property itself, the bigger, the better.
The more acreage, the better, just surrounded by water.
That would be, like, perfect.
Just like old times.
I've always dreamed of owning my own island.
This is at least on an island, which is cool.
My old enemy...
...stairs.
The house on Horse Island,
uh, it has two bedrooms, it has a nice sleeping loft.
There's a workshop, uh, I love workshops.
I'm excited about the property.
He's not bad from the outside.
Foundation isn't rotting.
It has a really good view.
Hello.
I was told I could come look at the house.
It's quaint.
This little bedroom.
Huh, that's funny.
It's, like, a baby-changing station.
Bathroom.
Uh, on-demand water heater.
That's always good.
Another bedroom.
I think that this actually would probably be the master bedroom.
Another bed.
Has enough bedrooms definitely.
It's not bad.
And the property is backed up to the woods.
Okay, well.
It has a nice shop.
Shelves built it.
Once again it's like the house, it's not bad.
It's a fixer-upper.
My wife and I like fixer-uppers.
Quite frankly, uh, it's a good little piece of land.
I like this place.
I admit it's a little bit early,
but this one just is different.
Needs to be a guitar and someone singing kumbaya.
[Gabe] Oh, no.
Uh-oh.
They're not supposed to be out.
Hey, guys.
I'm in the middle of making the rounds, feeding all the animals,
and all of a sudden, I notice, "Oh, wait,
those bulls aren't supposed to be loose in the middle of the field."
Looks like they ripped through part of their fence.
Yeah, we're gonna have problems with Little Bull.
He's already a little agitated.
So, he might give us some trouble getting back in.
L, Little Bull, super unpredictable.
He's just up and coming, and he's starting to feel
all of his, his bull macho, you know?
So, he can be a little bit more dangerous.
I'm no rodeo clown, you know?
I don't wanna get rag-dolled by a longhorn,
So, I'm gonna definitely need re-enforcements.
Yo, Bear.
Brutus and Little Bull are loose.
[Bear] Well, it's definitely a pretty dangerous situation,
I've got my wife and kid literally just down there.
It'd be one thing if just Brutus was out,
but having both of the male long horns loose, that's pretty deadly.
Hold on, let's see how they react to us just edging up on 'em, come on.
Don't get too close too quick.
I'm gonna move slowly.
-[Gabe] Yeah. -[Bear] I don't wanna spook 'em.
Hang on, man, hang on.
-Gabe, keep your distance, man. -[bull bellows]
-[Gabe] Oh, back in. -[Bear] He's younger.
Brutus is, uh, Brutus is older, he's not gonna try you.
[Gabe] Watch yourself, Bear.
[Bear] The young guy, he wants to run, he wants to jump.
He wants to swing his horns around just everywhere.
So, it's extremely dangerous really, to have especially the young one loose.
Whoa, look at him go.
Yikes.
[Bear] Whoa, look at him go.
Yikes.
[Gabe] Careful.
-[Bear] Hold on. -[Gabe] Here he comes.
[narrator] On North Star Ranch,
Brothers Bear and Gabe wrangle their unpredictable long horns,
who've broken free from their corral.
[Bear] Let's get this hay done and get him in.
-[Gabe] He wants in. -[Bear] Come this way, Gabe, come this way.
Get ready to jump the fence, Gabe.
Follow me, Gabe. Follow me.
Close it, close it, close it.
Okay.
-[Gabe] Whoo. -[Bear] We got him in.
We got one down, so one to go.
As soon as Little Bull runs in the pen,
it's, for Bear and I, it's just a sigh of relief.
It's like, all right, we got the troublemaker handled.
Uh, next for Brutus.
[Bear] Hey, Brutus, you got some hay back there.
[Gabe] Let me shake my tailfeather for him.
Let's go, let's go.
Hyah, hyah, let's go, hyah.
I'm not a cowboy, I'm still learning all this range type work,
I'm a bush kid.
Hyah, hyah
But when I couldn't get Brutus to budge, it hit me,
I'm like, "Wait a second, he's a longhorn, so he's a cow.
What does a cowboy do?" You go, "Hyah."
So, you're yelling, you go "Hyah, hyah."
He just took right off.
Hyah, hyah.
[Gabe] Well, don't "Hyah" him too much.
[Bear] Hang on, he'll go. He'll go.
[Gabe] Oh, oh.
In your pen, in your pen.
It's a particularly dangerous situation
if you get in between a longhorn and where he wants to be.
Just trying to, you know, stay in his way, jockey him back and forth.
Whoo! Whoo!
[Bear] Bull's eye, get that thing closed.
[Gabe cheers]
[Bear] That's an extreme job!
-Whoo! -[Gabe] Whoo! Yeah.
[both cheer]
-[Bear] We are cowboys, baby. -[Gabe] Yeah! We are cowboys!
Brutus is in, LB is in.
It feels so good to have 'em where they're supposed to be.
Uh, now we'll just have to re-enforce the fences,
make sure they stay there this time.
-Man. -[sighs]
Yeah, and then when Brutus almost came by me, I was just like,
-I noticed, I'm like, "Get out of there!" -"These are my horns!"
-[sighs] -"You don't want none!"
[narrator] After scouting a future home for his family,
Noah connects with a potential neighbor,
one of the few residents on the remote Horse Island.
[Diana] We have a really great community.
-You know... -[Brian] Yeah.
...it's really nice 'cause everybody watches out for everybody else.
Okay, so everyone's on typical bush code then.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Okay.
[man] Seven years ago, we were the newbies,
and everybody, like, was giving us advice, you know, and...
-[Noah] Right. -And we learned a ton.
But now newcomers are coming in
and now we're trying to pass on some of that knowledge.
Meeting Brian and Diana, uh, it kind of reminds me a little bit
of the stories that Mom and Dad would tell about when they first came up.
They're from the lower 48th, came up to make their way in Alaska.
You're either born here and wanna stay here,
or you came here because you wanna stay here.
Uh, they're no different.
Do you have any problems with bears on the island?
[Brian] We had a bear that, I found her on the other side over there,
-trying to dig underneath the, yeah. -[Noah] Dig in.
-They get smart. -And I was like, I was like, "That's it.
-You gotta go, sweetheart, I'm sorry, but--" -Yeah.
You killed the bear, right?
-[Diana] We did. -[Brian] Yeah.
-I just got the hide back last week. -Okay.
Can I see the rug?
-[Brian] Yeah, yeah, come on in. -[Diana] Really, yeah.
I, um, I'm glad you said something, 'cause if you hadn't,
I'd be like, [screams]
Climbing a wall.
No, that's really cool.
It's weird, like, I don't get along with much of anyone, like, ever.
But Brian and I just kinda hit it off.
Dang, you have a garden.
My wife's like, "I wanna build a big garden."
Right, and she's like, "What do you want me to grow?"
I'm like, "Cows."
That's what he would say.
He's, he's just like people I grew up around, or grew up with.
It's just one of those people that just is Alaska.
Here's out latest project, is we wanna put a little wind turbine up
so we can harvest some of that wind in the wintertime.
[Noah] Where are all the pieces? I see the pipe there.
Yeah, and then we've got some stuff left in town
-that we need to bring out. -[Noah] Oh.
Dang.
By town, I guess you mean Juneau.
-[Diana] Yeah. -[Brian] Juneau, yeah.
Just waiting to go and get 'em.
Well, we can just bring it out for you. If you want me to bring it.
You've given me a grand tour of your place,
and it's kinda, kinda close to my heart.
My family and I put up a wind turbine out of Chichagof, near Hoonah.
[Diana] Well, we've never put one up, so if you could help us...
Yeah, we'd definitely give hand.
Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem at all.
Yeah.
-[Noah] Yeah. -[Diana] We'd love that.
[Noah] It's difficult for Brian to get to town.
They're where they are so that they're not in town,
so they only go to town as little as possible.
Being neighborly like we are, I've offered our services.
Well, if you like sockeye for your troubles, we've got some canned sockeye.
-Yeah. -[Brian] Yeah.
We do.
-Sounds like a bargain. -[Brian] All right, let's--
You, you had me at sockeye.
If our closest neighbors are the Riggins,
and they're on the other side of the island,
It's kind of, like, the perfect time
to set up some barter kind of relationship.
We'll head into town, pick up the turbine,
come back, and we'll get it installed.
Probably should have looked inside this before I brought it up
Okay, this is extreme laundry.
This is the second test, so it's test number 2.
I'm working with this metal barrel.
The plastic one just wasn't quite strong enough.
For as extreme of an idea as it is,
it needs to be a little bit stronger.
I really want to, uh, show Raiven just how much I care about her,
because, you know, she means the world to me, she really does.
She's like, you know, a jewel, a diamond in the rough.
She is like, you know, the one and only,
the beautiful princess queen.
[groans]
So, plan is to put it on the back of the truck.
Fill it to the brim full of water, add a little bit of extra soap,
and then gun it as fast as I can
with the truck all the way down the road
to try to agitate it as much as I possibly can
to maybe get the clothes clean.
Well, I'm hoping that this barrel doesn't fly out.
There's only one way to find out.
Stay strong, little barrel.
I'm quite confident that this will work
as long as it doesn't get knocked off the back of the truck.
I'm not sure what the clothes will look like at the other side,
but there's only one way to find out.
I'm gonna agitate this thing.
"Shake and shake the catsup bottle,
none will come and then a lot'll."
That's what I'm talking about.
That's my baby.
Let me check this red one, it was pretty dirty.
Yeah, I don't see a stain anywhere on it, actually.
Uh, not bad.
Just a little grass here and there.
I'm definitely excited to show Raiven the extreme laundry.
especially if it comes out totally clean,
that's really what I'm going for.
Clean laundry done extreme.
I think I, uh, would be pretty comfortable
washing Raiven's and River's clothes in here.
Not only am I doing laundry, but I'm also washing the old truck.
[narrator] Coming up,
K, back the other way. Whoa.
[Bird] Noah's the one that set up the turbine deal,
and I, I think he might have bit off
a little bit more than he realized he was biting off.
[Noah]
[Bam] This is not how I would like to repair it,
but for now, I just need it to hold up.
So, I'm just wiring it together.
I wanna do my best to make sure that
Brutus and Junior can't get out again.,
It's definitely a problem that we're putting way more
into the ranch than we're getting out of it.
It costs a lot of money
and a lot of work and a lot of time
to take care of the livestock on the ranch.
[Ami] So we have another one?
[Bam] Mmm-hmm. Right back there, see?
[Ami] Oh, my goodness.
Isn't it adorable?
Now everybody else has a tendency to view
the animals a bit more like pets.
But you have to keep in mind that it's about being self-sufficient
and for it be that, you have to be willing
to raise the animals, butcher the animals, sell the animals.
It's about continuing to build up.
So, would you want to sell that male?
Would you want to butcher that male?
And if you had to decide right now, what would you wanna do with him?
-Sell it. -As beef, or sell it as--
Sell it on the hoof.
I don't know what that means.
-That means walking, alive. -[Bam] Okay.
I should learn all the slang.
I can't help how attached I get to the animals. I love animals.
But I definitely appreciate Bam stepping up.
Eventually, you have to start letting me butcher stuff.
He's just kinda taking over from what Billy would be doing for me.
It's very meaningful for me to have the kids
take their part in making this dream come true.
You don't have to tell me who you want to die,
just tell me who I'm not allowed to kill.
And then I'll butcher the one, the, the other ones.
You'll just go out one day, and Tom won't be out there anymore.
[Rain]
[Bird]
[Rain]
[narrator] In Southeast Alaska,
the Browns have returned to Juneau
to pick up parts for the Riggins' family turbine.
We're the red one right down here.
[man] Oh, right on.
[narrator] But with daylight waning,
the instillation will have to be completed quickly
to avoid a return trip in the dark.
[Bird] It's like just, you know, it's, it's never ideal
to run the boat in open water at night.
[Billy] I can't see what's in front of me.
I want one of you on the bow,
and I don't want you to think about anything but what's in front of you.
This is serious.
[Bird] It can be very dangerous,
'cause even if you have lights, really good lights,
there's still gonna be things you might not see.
[Billy] One dead hit, it'll take the boat, and it might take us.
15, 20 minutes in this water, you're dead.
[Noah] First skiff ride.
-[Bird] Yeah, right? -You can go a little faster.
No, we're good. I got him.
Good.
If you say so, Xena.
[Noah] I know that there's some pressure to keep moving and get back on the water,
but quite frankly, uh, for me it's not about
weighing the pros and cons of helping people.
If someone needs help and I can help, I'm going to.
And we've done it before, we've put up one that was way bigger than this.
All right, there we go.
Let's get this thing put together.
-[Brian] You ready? -[Noah] Yup.
[Diana] Ready.
There she is.
-Wow. -You've got some blades.
Yeah, this should be the piece that those attach to,
and then we attach it to the actual body.
Those are for the cables.
I'm glad you've done this before.
We haven't.
It was a bit bigger, and it wasn't this kind,
-but I'm sure we can figure it out. -[Diana] Okay.
[Brian] Yeah.
[Noah] And lift.
Noah's the one that set up the turbine deal,
and I, I think he might have bit off a little bit
more than he realized he was biting off.
-[Noah] Yeah, that's it. -[Diana] That looks snug.
Now what we need to do is pick the entire thing up and we want to angle it.
And go.
[Bird] Hopefully we can get it done relatively soon.
We have somewhere to be, somewhere to go,
and he's running a little late.
[Brian] Do you wanna bring it this way just a little?
A little more.
K, back the other way.
Whoa.
[Brian] We're almost there.
[Noah]
We're off by less than a quarter of an inch.
-[Diana] Man. -[Noah] Mmm-hmm.
At what stage during the pouring process did you remove the plate?
[Brian] After two days, so...
[Noah] There's always snags whenever you're doing something,
problems that you run into, like with the base plate,
but we said that we would help with the turbine and get it up for them.
We volunteered for the job, and like the bush code says, you keep your word.
[Brian groans] Come on.
[Diana] Work with me.
Okay.
-Yay! -[Noah] There we go.
[Brian] Woo-hoo!
[Noah] Good job.
You get knuckles for that one.
It's all about the finessing.
[Brian] Good job.
[Diana] They just had to get the woman over there and she fixed it, it's okay.
[Brian] Girl power, Mama.
Diana just kinda reaches down, and she's like, [imitates part]
and it's like, goes perfectly on.
It was the most husband look I'd ever seen in a man's face
when Brian's like, [sighs] she's, like, perfect.
But we kind of need to make haste.
Two people on this pull, two on that one.
Uh, as this one's raised up, that one lowers.
So, all we have to do is walk it, basically.
-Okay. -[Noah] K, so, y'all walk this way.
[Diana] K.
[Noah] Oh, yeah, it's perfect.
[Brian] Oh, that's going down good, yeah.
-[Noah] Okay. -[Diana] Like butter.
[gasps]
-[all cheer] -[Diana] Look at her go!
[Brian] Make me some power.
[Diana] I'm excited, babe.
I am too.
[Diana] That's awesome.
It feels good seeing the wind turbine up.
Look what they put in!
-[Eli] Up! -Up, up, up, up, and away!
[Eli] Yeah!
Explaining the bush code to someone doesn't really work.
It's just something you have to see to believe.
And this is it, and I'm really glad that Eli's here to witness it.
[Gabe] Oh, my goodness, look at 'em.
Oh, I think weird without 'em.
Yeah.
I feel like a free man, just getting my braces off
and they've never felt so smooth.
There was a point I'd given up that this day would even be here.
-Look at this. -Oh, my gosh, cool.
-How are you braces? -Yeah, guys, he got braces
[Gabe] This is, like, my first day with teeth.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Smooth.
[exclaims] I can eat the whole dang thing.
I can't, wait, I can!
Yes, caramel candy.
Thanks.
It's been so long.
It's not gumming anything up.
This is a good day.
-[River playing] -[Raiven gasps]
[Raiven] Where'd Daddy go?
He went to go get our laundry.
[narrator] On North Star Ranch,
Brother Bear is eager to prove to his wife, Raiven,
that bush life on the mountain can come with creature comforts.
Say, "Hi, Daddy."
I'm kind of nervously excited to show Raiven the clean laundry.
I've been working pretty hard on it,
and I just want to give her the amenities in the bush
that she had down in the lower 48.
I wanna make sure she knows that she's with someone that can actually take care of her.
So, I test ran it with mine.
But if you approve, I can, uh, do yours and, uh, River's.
[Bear] So, these were, like, totally covered in dirt and stuff.
If you notice that it did actually get all the dirt and mud out of it.
[Raiven] I don't see any bugs and mud, you know,
flinging out, so that's a good sign.
From the looks of it now, it looks pretty clean.
A lot of people, a nice gesture is buying
new washer and dryer for their spouse.
And for Bear, he's kinda going one step further.
Wow!
I think River likes, uh, the idea of swimming in it
a little more than the laundry, but Mommy likes both.
For some people, that might not be
their cup of tea, of idea of romance,
but it's a nice gesture to makes things easier
and more comfortable for me.
Say, "Good job, Daddy."
Yeah, there's my man.
-[Rain] Yeah, we're good. -[Noah] We're good?
[Rain] Yup, good to go.
There you go.
-Oh, my gosh -I thought you were gonna catch it.
You're supposed to throw it on the boat, Noah.
[narrator] The next morning, the siblings are up early
departing Juneau for a 160-mile trek to Petersburg,
where Noah has a tight deadline
to view the next property in his search.
Let me know when we're fully loose and pushed off.
[Noah] The next property we're supposed to look at,
we have a very small window that we're going to have to be able to look at it.
And the property is first come, first serve.
So, we're in a bit of a time crunch.
[Bird] We good?
-Yup. -[Bird] We're loose.
All righty.
[Bird] Uh, do you know we're going backwards?
[Rain] Yeah.
[Bird] Okay, but there are boats behind us.
[Rain] Yup.
Uh, we're getting pretty close to the boat, I would go forward.
We're still backing up.
[Noah] Um, wrong direction!
In order to get Noah and Eli to Petersburg on time,
we have to avoid any hiccup that there's gonna be.
So, there's a lot of pressure to do everything perfectly.
[Bird] We're gonna hit the boat.
Well, that's why I don't like turning.
[Bird] Why are we not turning?
[Rain] 'Cause it takes her a minute to turn.
Just gotta trust the boat.
[Bird] Okay.
You know, I definitely think there's a lot pressure on Rain to skipper the journey.
We have a couple places coming up that are a little hairy,
but as long as we're all her eyes and ears, I think she's gonna do good.
We're just about cleared.
I was scared for a minute, I'm not gonna lie.
I thought we were gonna ram the dock, and all the boats.
But that, what makes me so good, is that I got us out of that.
-[Bird] Yes, yeah. -Wasn't that, like, a Dad thing?
[Bird] No, it was good, it was good.
This trip from Juneau to Petersburg
is the longest I have skippered The Integrity. through the roughest waters.
I'm a little bit nervous, but I definitely feel
Dad's presence through voyages like this.
I just feel like he's standing right there with me.
[Bird] The wind advisory was high today.
It's probably gonna get a little bit choppier.
There's a bunch of buoys out here,
I'm just trying to make sure we're not running into any.
[Rain] Is that The Lightweight?
[Bird] I think it could be The Lightweight.
[Bird] Yeah, it is, I see the name, it is The Lightweight.
-[Rain] It is The Lightweight? -[Bird] 100% yes.
Wow.
So, we know the owner of The Lightweight,
uh, Paul, because he helped us out
when we were first starting our hauling business.
[Paul] If you can get all these items finished in time,
I'd like to give you a shot here.
-Give me that hand. -[Paul] All right.
[Bird] And it was always wacky things.
Like, heavy things, big things, live things.
[Bam] Oh, calm down.
[Rain] I dunno, I feel like it's a sign almost.
Like Dad's trying to tell us something.
[boat horn blows]
[Bird] You know, I definitely feel like
seeing The Lightweight was a sign from Dad.
I think that he has a way of showing himself when he knows we need him.
That's insane.
What are the odds?
[Noah] I will admit that on first going out on this journey to find Alaska,
I was concerned that it wasn't there anymore.
After helping the Riggins, it makes me more confident in my decision
that Alaska's what my family needs.
Everything looks good, we let the skip out, we're on our way.
I'm anxious to get to the rest of the trip,
not necessarily skip to the end, but all the places in between.
I don't know what's waiting for me at the other end,
and I think that's what I'm anxious to see.
[Rain] I'm gonna hit the throttle up just a tad bit,
the wind's kinda pulling us around.
I am starting to feel the pressure
because this is the longest journey that I'll be skippering.
I know that Dad's up there watching me,
and, uh, hopefully he'll make sure nothing bad happens.
[narrator] On the next episode, of Alaskan Bush People
I think we found the emergency fire exit.
[Raiven] Wanna show Grammy what's in this box?
[Bear] Well, we have some pretty big news we wanted to tell everybody.
-Raiven. -Come on, I said, you--
You want me to do the whole thing?
[Ami] That's in the box? Oh, my goodness.
[screams]
[Noah] We have a long trek ahead us to get to Petersburg.
This next property in Petersburg,
it seems like it's just the perfect fit,
but we have a very small window to be able to look at it.
[Rain] Noah!
-[Noah] What? -The engine died.
It is not good.