[Noah] I like to get in jus like an aircraft designer.
We're as aerodynamic and aqua-dynamic and fashionable.
I'm working on a spear.
Spear-making is definitely something that I've done a lot.
All the guys and I have.
Ouch.
I think we're there.
Let's see what she does in action.
[grunts]
I'm liking it.
Oh, yeah.
It's working.
[grunts]
Oh!
Broke it.
[narrator] On this episode of Alaskan Bush People...
[Noah] I think that's it.
Oh, dang. Yeah, you can tell someone took care of it.
[Noah] This will be brushed and easier to walk, and there'd be stairs.
Darn it. I'm acting like I already own it.
Yeah. I said that I wouldn't leave until I found what I was looking for,
and now I can't leave until I've secured it.
Watch out.
[crying] I'm not used to feeling like this.
I think the whole trip's been overwhelming for Rain.
It just doesn't feel right being on the water without him. [cries]
[Bird] I don't know what I can do to help.
There is so much to forage here.
[whispers] Oh, yes.
Beach asparagus.
Boiling it's better, but you can eat it raw.
It's hard to describe. It's, like, crunchy,
and then it gets, like, salty and liquid-y.
Kind of asparagus-like, honestly.
[narrator] It's nearly the e of a month-long voyage through southeast Alaska,
and as Bird and Rain soak in their final day on Mosman Island,
Noah, son, Eli, and brother Gabe, are 25 miles away,
in the small peninsula of Meyers Chuck,
where a two-acre private island could be Noah's final chanc
to find a homestead before they return to the Lower 48.
[Noah] So far, the trip and experience of trying to find a house-
it's difficult.
This Meyers Chuck property is the last one that I have a solid lead on.
If this property isn't the o I'm looking for,
that completely puts the future that I wanted for my boys at stake.
I don't wanna go home without finding something.
-All right. Away we go. -[Eli] Yeah, and we can say, "Whee!"
-[Noah] Whee! -[Eli] Yeah. So loud.
[narrator] The property Noah will scout features a two-bedroom cabin
and is known to have some of the best fishing
and crabbing in southeast Alaska.
Actually, I think that's it. The on with the green roof.
[Gabe] Right there?
-[Noah] Straight ahead. -[Eli] I see it.
-[Gabe] Ooh. -[Noah] Ah, I see it, too.
[Eli] Yeah.
I was informed that this house was on an island.
I was unaware that it meant the house came with an island,
and that there's no other house on this island.
And there's no other property on this island,
that the property I'm looking at is the island itself.
That's the house.
-[Gabe] Nice. -[Eli] Yeah.
[Noah] I'm hoping that Meyers Chuck is the one
But I'm not hoping it's the one because it's the last one.
I'm not gonna force myself to like it.
I want the best for my family, and I'm going to give them it.
[Gabe] Watch your step, dude.
Watch these planks. Hang on, you stay with Daddy
I got him.
[Gabe] All the planks look good.
-[Noah] Yeah. -[Gabe] Foundation looks good.
Dang, we're up here a ways.
-[Noah] Not at high tide, we wouldn't be. -[Gabe] Oh, that's true.
-Mind if I stab it? -[Noah] Uh, yeah.
-Rot test. -[Noah] Do the rot test.
-How is it? -A little soft there. Not bad.
-What's the inside look like? -Not too bad, actually.
Oh, dang. Yeah, you can tell someone took care of it.
Nice couch. Nice framework.
Yellow bathroom.
The roof planks are good.
The floor's good.
Nice stove.
This looks really nice.
Are you sure this one's for sale?
[Noah] Yeah. For sale as is.
As is?
Gabe likes the house.
Eli likes the house.
I haven't even done a chance to say my opinion on it.
Sheesh.
Cook stove. Looks like it's propane.
A kitchen.
-And you know what else I noticed? -What's that?
-There's no rat droppings. -Yeah. No.
Usually, in Alaska, rats are a problem, mice are a problem.
That's why almost everyone has a cat.
There's no rat droppings, no rat mess, no signs of pests at all in the house.
It means the house is very well sealed, and nothing can get in.
[Gabe] Antler handles on your door cabinet.
Oh, that's cool. And they're real, too,
instead of how down south, they'd be fake.
[Gabe] What do you think of the house?
-It doesn't have holes in the floor. -No.
It doesn't have fancy massage chairs in the corner.
It's not old. Smell that?
It just smells like an old cabin.
-And look at that view. -It's a really good view.
-[Gabe] Oh, my goodness. -[Noah] That's--
-[Gabe] Wow. -[Noah] Unless I'm mistaken... Yeah.
-That's Mystery Island there. -Yeah.
[Noah] Okay, buddy. Let's go for a walk.
This house isn't large, it isn't fancy.
It's the bare bones of what you need in Alaska.
But quite frankly, the size of the acreage isn't exactly what I wanted,
which is kind of bumming me out a bit.
2.7 or 8 acres isn't a lot.
It's important to take a look at the island and see exactly how big it feels
'cause as the crow flies, it might not be very big, but walking it is different.
[horses neigh and snort]
[Bear grunts]
I could definitely use some more shoulders and hands on this job.
[narrator] 1,000 miles south on North Star Ranch, major projects stack up...
[Bear] Having to do the lion's share of the wor definitely slows you down.
[narrator] ...as the Browns eagerly await the return of the rest of the pack.
And for brother, Bear, and expectant wife, Raiven,
their priority is a permanent mountain home
[Bear] I heard back from the house-build guy today.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the conexes are feasible enough
to get the permit for.
He just talked like it would take way too long
and cost, like, double the money
and would be difficult all the way down the line.
Spent a lot of time drawing that out.
I know you did the drawing for it.
Now we're gonna be doing regular wood,
which means you have to measure and cut and use hammers and nails.
With another baby on the way, I'm definitely feeling the pressure
to have a home built as fast as possible.
The whole concept of the conex castle
was to use something that's easier to use.
You don't have to sit there and build it up.
But it's... With the permit taking that long to get
and possibly not even being able to get them approved,
the only thing we can do is move on.
We need to get a house built.
[Raiven] You know, I kind of love
-that fairy-garden-ish-looking home. -I know.
Like the old fairytales, Cinderella, Snow White.
-Yeah, kind of-- -Well, you're already a princess.
One thing that I do think we'll be able to do is make Raiven's dream
of having, like, a fairy-style home come true
'cause basically, a fairy home is like a fairytale home.
It's like a home they'd have had back in knight days,
when the world was, like, covered with magic, and fairies, and sprites,
and things like that.
We don't have fairies- that I've seen- but we do have butterflies.
I know you hate it when I say it,
but, you know, winter is just around the corner.
It's getting close.
We need to come up with a drawing as fast as we can.
For me, I want my home to be a place where I got to,
and it feels very comfortable and calm and cozy.
For Bear, as long as there's something tall he can climb up and something crazy he can do,
he's gonna enjoy it either way.
The quicker we can get this house up, the better.
-The road-- -We need the road.
-We gotta get the road and the maps out. -Yeah, true.
Yeah. We should take a look and see exactly what we're thinking
and where to put it.
Well, the road is always the first step to building a house
because you need to get to the house,
and you need to haul a lot of building material to the house site.
So, what do you think?
I might get in that kind of close grove of trees right there.
I feel like maybe if we kind of went with something somewhere over there...
-[Bear] Okay. -...that's more flat.
-[Bear] Off that way. -Or maybe even over there,
where those kind of line of trees are flat.
And I like the conex being that top point.
[Bear speaking]
[Raiven] Sure.
-[Bear] Yeah. -[Raiven] All right.
-Your escape from your wife and children. -[Bear laughs]
That clearing over there. I feel like it would be a good spot if you like it.
Yeah. Let me walk over there. I'll check it out.
-[Raiven calls] Be careful! -[Bear] Ish!
[Bird] We'll find a good one
I found some blueberries.
And have I missed this.
Fresh blueberries. That was one of our favorite things to do
when we lived in Alaska.
And just the fact that Mom and Dad probably picked
from these same bushes is really cool.
[narrator] Before meeting u with their brothers in Meyers Chuck,
Bird walks the island of Mosman one last time.
But for sister, Rain, the memories are flooding back.
-[Bill] It wears you out, doesn't it? -[Rain] Yes. [laughs]
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-[Rain laughs] -[Bill] Rain, you sit back.
-A little bit more there. -Bring it in.
-A little further. -Perfect.
What do you think, kiddo?
Well, let me just try my designated spot over here in the sunlight.
You've helped me on this more than you've helped on anything, I think.
-Yeah. -Proud of you, kiddo.
[Rain calls] Hey, Bird.
[Bird] I'll be there in one second. I have to finish this.
You know, I can tell that Rain's having a hard time.
I think the whole trip's been overwhelming for Rain.
I think Alaska has been making her think about things with, like, Dad
that she hadn't thought about.
Being on The Integrity has been hard for everybody you know,
'cause of the memories it brings up.
But I think for Rain, she's been piloting it, and we've been on the water
and the storms, and I think that that's bringing a lot of memories of Dad.
I think it's brining up that he's not here anymore.
Coming to Alaska, I knew it was gonna be difficult,
and I don't think she had anticipated that.
I'm a little worried about her. I would be lying if I said I wasn't.
[Gabe] One thing I love about islands like this
is all the, like, cool little nooks and crannies like this log here
that's, like, overgrown with moss.
There's a whole other side of the island over here.
And up here!
[narrator] In the small peninsula of Meyers Chuck,
a community with only 30 residents,
Noah and his son, Eli, along with brother, Gabe,
scout a private two-acre island.
-You wanna try a bug? -No.
Why?
[narrator] With a plan to return to the Lower 48 the next morning,
this is the only property le on his itinerary.
I like the house. Like, I like the idea of the island.
But two point whatever acres is a little small for what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for a little bit bigger.
This island is pretty wild, pretty untamed, you know. A lot of thick brush.
Plenty of room to spread out you know.
It's basically a clean slate, and you can just build, you know,
whatever you can imagine, and Noah has a pretty good imagination.
This is a little muskeg.
The cabin doesn't have running water. It's on rain collection.
It'd be awesome if this was a spring.
It doesn't look like it's running right now,
but everything else is just a little bit muddy.
But right here looks like it.
I already have it going in my head.
I wanna build a castle there, with a lighthouse on it.
I want to put rock half wall going around it, with some little outbuilding
Then we'll put a dock 'cause we need one if we're gonna have a boat.
But I want my plane too, so that dock needs to have a float plane house on it.
I wanna build a deck.
I have a lot of projects I wanna do.
And every time I see an inch of this property, I'm like,
"You know what? I can do that."
The property is only 2.8 acres, but it's all hill and valleys,
so it makes it feel like it's bigger.
Of course, over the years, it'd feel smaller and smaller as we went
'cause this would be brushed and easier to walk,
and there'd be stairs going down.
Darn it. I'm acting like I already own it.
Oh, look. Huckleberries.
You want a huckleberry?
Climb on up.
[Eli speaking]
[Noah] Well, go ahead.
-Enjoy some blueberries. -Yeah.
Right now, I'm really liking this place.
It has an awesome cabin. There's berries everywhere.
I mean, look at this bush. There's blueberries right here.
Huckleberries there.
[Eli speaking]
You want Mommy to bring her kitchen here?
[Eli speaking]
And the baby?
So you really like it here, don't you?
[Eli speaking]
[Noah] A bear paw print?
[Noah] Oh.
The entire time, I've said I would know
when I stepped foot on the property that I was supposed to have,
and this is it.
This has the feeling.
This has the feeling of going back to my childhood place.
This property is how I get back to Alaska.
[phone dialing]
[Rhain on phone] How are you
[Noah] I'm sitting at one of the houses.
Eli doesn't want to leave. I don't really, either.
[Rhain on phone] Why not?
I think I've found what we're looking for.
Quite frankly, I really like the island, and it feels right.
But I can't make the decision on my own
and go out to be able to get it without running it past my wife first.
[Rhain on phone] Which one are you at?
It was the Meyers Chuck one.
[Rhain on phone] Meyers Chuc Okay. That's the little tiny house.
It's not exactly tiny. It's just a little cabin.
The forest on the island is just like what I grew up with.
[Rhain on phone] I mean, it's a little smaller than what I was hoping for.
It seems a lot larger because of the way the island is built.
My goal has been to try to re-give you what we had in Browntown,
and this property does that and so much more.
[Rhain on phone] You know what you want,
and I know that you know what we need.
I'm gonna trust you, and go for it.
Okay.
[Rhain on phone] Stake your claim,
and then come home before you miss your second son's first step
I don't wanna leave until I've secured this being ours.
[Rhain on phone] All right.
-Eli, say, "Bye-bye, Mommy." -Bye-bye, Mommy.
[Rhain on phone] Bye, Eli. I love you.
[Elie] Love you, Mommy.
[Rhain on phone] Good job, Noah.
-[Noah] Thank you. All right. -[Rhain on phone] Mmm-hmm.
-[Noah] Bye. -[Rhain on phone] Bye.
-Yes. Let's go. -Okay.
High fives.
I cannot wait until I can be standing on this porch
with my beautiful wife and our two sons.
But before we pop open the sparkling cider,
we need to make sure the house is completely off the market.
I don't wanna leave Alaska without having secured it.
Our time here is pretty short, so you're gonna have to really hustle.
-Let's go. -All right.
[Noah] Bartering, in general is kind of the bush way
if you've a strong back and some laboring skills.
So the owner has said that if I can get them at barter,
then they'll hold it for us, and we can start the actual negotiations
of the property itself and start that whole ordeal.
And that's what we're gonna do.
[Rain] So I have something to talk to you about.
[Bird] Okay.
Okay. [exhales]
So...
After Dad passed away,
a part of me died.
I knew, I just knew than when we came here, on Mosman,
we'd find the thing that we're looking for.
And I talked to Dad, and he wanted me to talk to you.
You completed your mission.
And you helped me find God, and now we get to travel together like Mom and Dad did.
My words are true to you, and he wanted me to let you know that specifically,
and he says that he loves you, Bird.
Rain. I feel like she didn't grieve after Dad passed.
You know, I feel like she didn't give herself that time to accept it.
I feel guilty 'cause she'd be strong for m you know,
and I would tell her my concerns or my worries.
I think it just maybe it just caught up.
I think Mosman holds a lot for all of us.
Everyone is gonna have their own, I don't know, piece of Mosman hit them
because it's a very special place.
And if it wasn't for this very place and these very trees
that Mom and Dad used to look at, we wouldn't be born.
We wouldn't be who we are.
He told me that they sat here.
And that's where Dad sat, and this is where Mom sat.
[Bird] She is... I don't kno She just seems a bit off,
and I think it's just hitting her all at once.
You know, the realization of everything.
And it's hard. It's hard to see her so sad and so upset.
'Cause, like, I'm... I'm her sister, you know,
and we're supposed to be the for each other no matter wha
and be able to make each oth feel better.
And it's just hard when you can't.
It's hard when there's nothing you can do.
[Rain] It just doesn't feel right, being on the water without him.
[cries]
But I'm not used to feeling like this.
[cries]
[sniffles]
[Ami] Here, henny.
[chickens clucking]
Oops. Sorry about that little white hen.
[narrator] On North Star Ranch,
news of Rain's struggle in Alaska has reached the mountain.
[Ami] I'm quite concerned.
I'm not there with her.
And there's nothing I can do for her.
She has to tread alone.
Rainy being the youngest member of the Wolfpack,
I'm protective of her.
I guess maybe more than the others.
I don't know. I'm very protective of all my kids
even though they're grown.
I can't help but be concerned about her.
You want any? Nope. You're not gonna let me pet you, huh?
But Rain will recover and bounce back
because there's no holding us down.
There's no stopping us.
No matter what it is, you have to keep going.
You have to persevere and know that...
whatever happens God has a reason.
[Bear laughing]
I love it!
Right now I am scouting out a good place to put Raiven and I's new home,
I'm looking for a nice, like, a flat spot,
but you also want an awesome view.
Well, this spot right here is a possibility.
It's kind of flat. I can get a road built into it good.
So this is possibility number one,
but I wanna go up to the further grove of trees
and try for that spot, see what it looks like up there.
see about how flat it is.
One of the main things going through my mind
looking for the perfect piec of land is
to find the perfect spot.
We have a lot of rock area.
That's one thing I know living up in the CONEX.
It has a ton of rock underneath it.
That's why there's so many mines on the mountai
So the main thing that I'm looking for is
a spot that looks like it might have more dirt and less rock.
I think this is a pretty good spot.
Probably about our best bet.
We'd probably have to take all these burned trees out though.
It's about the flattest spot here.
Let me check the ground here.
I was just digging in the dirt a little bit
to see if I'm gonna hit a base of rock,
or if it's gonna be a good layer of dirt before we hit rock.
See, that's thick.
There seems to be a good layer of dirt which is a good sign.
Okay.
In that short of distance I got at least that deep in
and that's dirt not rock.
That's a good sign.
This area will make a good house pad.
Good news to report back to Raiven.
Are you standing on the line?
Yes. No. Maybe.
Oh, don't make me row, Noah.
[narrator] For a down paymen on his dream home,
Noah has struck a barter dea with the Meyers Chuck property owner.
Looks like tide's going out.
Yeah.
[narrator] And while Eli sta behind with Bird and Rain,
now docked in Meyers Chuck,
the brothers travel to nearby Gravina Island
to take on the job.
[Noah] This trip has been really stressful for Rain
and it's time for her to kind of decompress
and figure out what to do with those emotions.
But this journey I said that I wouldn't leave
until I found what I was looking for
and now I can't leave until I've secured it.
I wanna make sure the island is ours.
So we've set up a barter train.
Basically how it works is the owner of the property at Meyers Chuck
tells someone else to put siding on his house.
We just need to get one side completely up as soon as possible.
[narrator] Barter trains ar a common exchange in the Alaskan Bush
where several parties offer goods and services
to strike a multi-way deal.
[Noah] Back in Brown town, we needed a skiff.
Paul, how goes it?
But we didn't have anything that Paul wanted for the skiff.
I have two projects that, if you're interested, you could own them.
You're darn right I'll do it, yeah.
You've got a deal.
So, we got the skiff if we basically took on his debts
of moving a septic tank and a sea plank.
[woman] Thank you so much.
As far as I understand it's basically a barter train.
We're hauling some siding for you,
putting it up,
but the catch to it is we're packing it all in through a muskeg?
Yes.
Okay.
Is all of it like this or is it, like, hardcore muskeg?
Do I have to swim at any points or...
No, you won't have to swim there
unless you go to the backside.
-[Gabe] Oh, okay. -[Noah] Okay.
[Gabe] You know, looking at the cabin, looking at the tin,
there are upsides and downsides to tin.
Upside being it covers fast.
You don't have to worry about, you know, cutting every piece.
It normally goes up pretty fast.
Downside being it's a lot of hauling,
tin can be heavy when it bulks up.
And I don't know. Probably more downsides we'll find along the way.
Is any of the house already sided?
I think he had some up before
and it got shot up is what happened.
-Oh, yes. -Oh!
People were shooting, putting holes through it and stuff,
through the cabin and...
-Yeah. -Oh, nice.
When he was out of town.
And that was before he's fixed it up like this now.
Usually people don't shoot up houses in the bush.
I'm not exactly sure why there's bullet holes in the cabin,
but doing siding is not something we're new to.
It's something we're used to doing.
We can definitely get it up. We can do this.
Let's get to work.
-Let's start hauling. -[Lance] All right.
[narrator] Coming up...
In the back of my mind, I'm definitely worried
that we're not gonna be able to complete the barter.
[straining]
That's not gonna work.
[narrator] And later...
[Snowbird] She came to Alaska for me
and so I feel so responsible for what happened.
[Gabe] How do you wanna get them in? Just by hand or...
No, let's make something.
[narrator] On Gravina Island 35 miles from Meyers Chuck,
brothers Noah and Gabe begi work on their end of the barter train.
[Noah] I want an angle like this.
[narrator] To secure his dream home,
the guys must haul 500 pounds of tin and reside a remote cabin.
-As round as possible. -Round?
-Mmm. -Yeah.
[narrator] But with a plan to leave Alaska early the next morning,
Noah has limited time to get the job done.
Whew! Now what?
Now we have our sled.
Won't it still be heavy?
A little but not as much.
There's a muskeg in between the materials were moving and the house,
so there's a crate that the stuff is in.
So immediately my idea is to make a sled.
Something easy in order to be able to drag through the marshy land
that will displace the weight so we don't sink in deep.
So, now let's get the nail out.
You cut it here,
then cut them both in half again.
-You sure that's necessary? -[Noah] Yes.
[Gabe] I'm not sure I follow.
[Noah] Don't break anything.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa.
[Gabe] I broke it.
[Gabe] Sorry.
The boards can still be used just not for what I needed it.
I have no idea what Noah's planning on how he's gonna make a sled out of this.
Definitely have some reservations about it.
Part of me is like, "Noah, we don't need a sled."
We have these.
You sure we shouldn't just be hauling it by hand?
'Cause this is already taking a bit.
Oh, you of little faith.
I have a really good track record of being successful or correct
when I say I can do somethin
but I always run into opposition.
I believe it's probably just because I'm the youngest brother.
But it's okay.
I feed off negativity.
Set, go.
Call this the last one.
Ready, mush.
Looks like that's the trail.
We might have to blaze around with this thing though.
Yeah, let's just get over this.
-Okay. -[both] One, two, three.
Out of the way and up!
-[Noah] Ready? -[Gabe] Let's flip around.
Hold.
[Gabe] Sled/battering ram.
One, two, three.
[grunting] Go.
Sorry, Noah. Sorry.
[Gabe] We're pulling and we're pulling
our guts out
and we're just trying to get where we're going
and trying to haul the material
and the muskeg's just not letting it work.
And then on top of that, someone's already made, like, a half boardwalk,
so the sled will just get going
and then we'll run into the boardwalk
and we'll have to jockey it back and forth and I don't know.
I don't think the sled's going to work.
-It looks like we're caught. -[exhales]
[Gabe] We're just not getting a lot done yet.
We're definitely up against the clock right now.
[Bear groans] Here it goes.
[engine cranking]
[groans]
[engine starting]
[narrator] On North Star Ranch,
brother Bear begins the crucial first step of the house-building proces
cutting a half-mile road to ensure that he and wife Raiven
can transport supplies to their future homesite.
[Bear] I'm not quite as skilled at running machinery
as a lot of my siblings or my dad was.
It's not really my specialty.
I prefer to work with my hands, you know, digging and stuff.
But I'm just gonna do my bes and try to get a road in
without, one, wrecking the machine or, two, wrecking the ground.
Kick this thing in gear.
[Bear] I haven't used one of these things in a long time,
this dozer. It's not a giant one.
I remembered it being a lot bigger.
Maybe that's because I was a kid and they were bigger.
A kind of mix between the two.
One thing that Dad always tried to do for Mom was give her that forever home,
and it's a sign that I'm trying to live up to Dad's legacy.
And it's, you know, a shared dream. It really is.
All right, baby. Turn.
Building a permanent home on North Star Ranch would be
something that Dad would hav definitely wanted.
I mean, he literally with his last breaths was building the house for Mom.
And I wanna try my hardest to do the same thing.
I'm starting to get the feel for this thing.
[grunting] Go.
[Noah] Let's stop here and see what's up ahead.
[narrator] Back in Alaska,
brothers Noah and Gabe bog down,
hauling tin across a muskeg trail.
[Gabe] I don't know. It might be easier to haul it by hand.
[Noah] Like, one at a time?
Maybe.
Let's go ahead and grab it and see.
Yeah, I mean, this might be easier and faster.
I think we kind of realized fast the sled's not going to be efficient.
You know, it's a chore just to get the sled to the cabin.
Maybe just doing it by hand, a couple pieces at a time,
and then put it up when we get there.
This one's a twofer.
-[Gabe] Watch your head. -Whoa! Dude.
The sled wasn't a bad idea. It just didn't work
because of the stuff that it snags on on the walkway.
It just didn't work in this given situation
'cause we didn't have all the information.
[Noah] Okay, let's start off on the left side.
[laughing]
[Gabe] Give me six foot.
[Noah] Perfect.
[Gabe] Yeah, and I'm looking across.
That's gonna carry us the whole way.
[straining] Okay, that's not gonna work. Hang on.
I need to push myself out so I can get the tin past my ladder.
Okay, can you push us out just a little?
-I'm gonna whoop it-- -Okay, stop! Stop, stop,
[Gabe] Bad idea, bad idea.
Don't push us out at all, Noah. Okay?
-Okay. -[Gabe] Your job is to not let it push out.
I'm holding on to this six-foot piece of ti
and trying to fit it under my ladder with one hand
while I'm pushing off on the wall enough but not falling over.
Any backward motion is just gonna send me toppling over.
-Whoa, you're way down there. -Stop, Gabe.
-[Gabe] Yeah? -[Noah] Come down. I know what to do.
-[Gabe] Wait. I know what to do, too. -[Noah] Gabe.
[Gabe] Watch out!
All of the time for things to go wrong is gone and then some.
I'm a little worried that we're not gonna be abl
to complete the barter in time.
If we aren't able to finish siding the house,
we might not be able to get the property in Meyers Chuck.
[Gabe] That's not gonna work
Do you know what this is?
This is a real knife.
It says Haines, Alaska.
-'Cause I bought it for you where I got my first knife. -Yeah.
It's time for it to be yours.
You don't get to use it
-until you're a little bit older, okay? -Okay.
So I'm going to zip-tie it in,
-so that it can't pull out. -Pull out.
Giving Eli this knife, it's kind of a rite of passage
and I admit it's a little bit early.
And so I'm still safe. With him I've decided
to zip-tie it in his holster It can't come out.
When he grows up and he's able to remove the zip tie,
he'll be able to use the knife and he's ready for it.
This will be the knife that I teach you to gut with and to skin with.
-Okay. -And to hunt with.
And instead of a high five...
handshake.
[Eli giggles]
[Noah] Okay, kiddo.
[Gabe] Watch out!
That's not gonna work.
[narrator] On Gravina Island
Noah struggles to complete his end of a barter,
siding a house that towers 20 feet high.
[Gabe] You just want me to eyeball it?
[narrator] With only a few hours to accomplish the task shorthanded,
the brothers may have overcommitted.
In the back of my mind, I'm definitely worried
that we're not gonna be able to complete the barter.
The time that we have left
and the job that we have to do, it's just...
It's not equaling out.
To make it where they don't drop on our heads,
why don't we just undo these and push them up one at a time?
And then we'll put the small portions on the bottom.
[Gabe] Do...
Do you think we've done too much to do that?
No.
A stitch in time saves nine.
[Gabe] Slide it up.
[Gabe] Perfect.
I think Noah came up with a really good idea.
We're gonna put the biggest pieces of tin on the top.
That way we don't have to kick the ladder out.
So the best bet is to get the most coverage on the top
and then the little pieces on the bottom.
[Noah] Now we do the next one.
-[Noah] You got two in? -I got three in.
[narrator] With a new metho in place to put up the tin siding...
-That's that? -[Gabe] That's that.
...the brothers move swiftly on the job.
[Gabe] You got me, right?
Uh, more or less.
[Gabe] I prefer more.
[Noah] You good?
[Gabe] Uh, yeah. That's the last of it.
That's a successful barter.
Yeah. Now I can literally give my family Alaska.
Dude, for you this is, you know, it's a beginning.
-It is. This is awesome. -That's awesome.
I just feels great to have helped Noah find his new home,
and it's really cool.
Like, that's one of the reasons I came up here
was to help him, you know, realize that dream.
I couldn't be more happy with the place he found.
It's a great place. I think it's really gonna do him good.
You'll have to come visit on my island.
-[laughing] -Isn't that just cool?
-[Gabe] It is. It is. -It's small, but it's still an island.
I'm gonna call it Fantasy Island.
[chuckling]
[Noah] I had this dream of being able to have Alask
and now we've done it.
And now it's time to go back home
to kiss my wife and my son.
Next spring guess where we're gonna be?
[Noah] I just wish that people would come up and visit.
[Gabe] You know we will.
Do you think Mom would?
Oh, for sure.
[Noah] Knowing that we've accomplished our goals
and we actually now have secured a home in Alaska,
and once the paperwork closes and everything...
It feels good.
Meyers Chuck reminds me of growing up.
And it's just what I wanna reclaim.
-[Noah] Seek and ye shall find. -[Billy] That's it.
How long have we been seeking?
-We've been seeking a long time. -A long time.
Well, we found it.
It is that Alaskan dream.
Building on it and fishing
and hunting and exploring
and exploring and exploring some more.
We can name the island whatever we want,
and we can do whatever we want and...
That's just kind of a weight off my shoulders
to be able to go back to Alaska and give that to my boys.
I feel so responsible
for what happened to Rain.
She came to Alaska for me.
She wouldn't have come if it wasn't for me.
It hurts 'cause I would throw myself into a bear's mouth to protect Rain.
Quite literally.
I hope that she, you know...
I don't know. Just finds herself
and gets better.
[narrator] On the next episo of Alaskan Bush People .
This is it.
Why are you dancing?
The Alaska trip kind of set me back a little bit.
The sooner I can get a little cabin built,
the sooner I can move Raquell and the girls up here.
I wanna keep it as bush as I can.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Uh-uh.
Okay, let's get to work.
There is so much to be doing on the mountain,
but right now I wanna make sure the gold is up and running
for Rain and for Dad.
This is your thing. You were the one that saw it all piece together.
What?
I don't even know where the equipment's supposed to, like, actually be.
Oh, my gosh.
It's going off the edge!