1 00:00:02,503 --> 00:00:06,240 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,575 CHRIS: Wow, what a view! 3 00:00:11,445 --> 00:00:13,447 JESSI: I think this might be a pretty good space to 4 00:00:13,447 --> 00:00:15,482 put some snares. 5 00:00:16,016 --> 00:00:19,086 Trapping is a really important part of living a subsistence 6 00:00:19,086 --> 00:00:22,956 lifestyle and we need to be where the animals are. 7 00:00:39,339 --> 00:00:41,174 CHRIS: Man, that thing's (beep) up. 8 00:00:41,174 --> 00:00:42,342 Bears hit it hard. 9 00:00:42,342 --> 00:00:44,411 JESSI: Do you have your gun, Chris? 10 00:00:44,611 --> 00:00:45,979 Yeah? 11 00:00:45,979 --> 00:00:48,582 CHRIS: Yeah. JESSI: Okay, I'll follow you. 12 00:00:48,582 --> 00:00:50,551 CHRIS: We haven't been back to the trapping cabin since 13 00:00:50,551 --> 00:00:52,185 last year so it's very likely we're gonna 14 00:00:52,185 --> 00:00:53,787 have some bears come by. 15 00:00:53,787 --> 00:00:56,023 Best to be prepared. 16 00:00:56,256 --> 00:00:57,424 JESSI: Wow! 17 00:00:57,424 --> 00:00:59,259 CHRIS: Having the trapping cabin has been really essential 18 00:00:59,259 --> 00:01:00,694 to our survival out here. 19 00:01:00,694 --> 00:01:01,795 If it's not repairable, 20 00:01:01,795 --> 00:01:03,230 the trapping's gonna be really difficult. 21 00:01:03,230 --> 00:01:04,398 Oh, yeah. 22 00:01:04,398 --> 00:01:05,933 JESSI: What does inside look like? 23 00:01:05,933 --> 00:01:07,134 CHRIS: And to make things harder, 24 00:01:07,134 --> 00:01:08,802 we're starting to dwindle on our fresh meat. 25 00:01:08,802 --> 00:01:09,870 Oh. 26 00:01:09,870 --> 00:01:11,004 JESSI: Dang. 27 00:01:11,004 --> 00:01:12,372 CHRIS: This thing got annihilated. 28 00:01:12,372 --> 00:01:13,540 There's still some lumber in there. 29 00:01:13,540 --> 00:01:15,809 Definitely got some cleanup to do in here. 30 00:01:15,809 --> 00:01:18,011 I think that was the bottom of the window. 31 00:01:19,279 --> 00:01:21,148 JESSI: To live a life like Chris and I do, 32 00:01:21,148 --> 00:01:22,716 you have to be at your strongest. 33 00:01:22,716 --> 00:01:25,152 You have to have fresh meat coming in. 34 00:01:25,152 --> 00:01:27,321 Trapping cabin, it's our key to survival. 35 00:01:27,321 --> 00:01:30,090 It's our shelter, our home away from home, 36 00:01:30,624 --> 00:01:32,826 and the halfway point between us and 37 00:01:32,826 --> 00:01:34,661 a winter's worth of food. 38 00:01:34,895 --> 00:01:36,396 CHRIS: The front of our stove is smashed. 39 00:01:36,396 --> 00:01:39,266 JESSI: Well, part of it's okay. CHRIS: Yeah, it's not terrible. 40 00:01:39,266 --> 00:01:40,500 I can probably straighten that, 41 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:41,602 oh, look at that. 42 00:01:41,602 --> 00:01:45,238 It's full of bear hair. Bear got inside our cabin. 43 00:01:45,238 --> 00:01:47,374 I expected a little carnage out here just 'cause we were 44 00:01:47,374 --> 00:01:49,009 cutting up meat in here, 45 00:01:49,009 --> 00:01:51,178 but I didn't expect a whole wall to be missing. 46 00:01:51,478 --> 00:01:53,747 JESSI: Oh, (bleep). 47 00:01:54,481 --> 00:01:55,916 CHRIS: Usually when a bear wrecks things, 48 00:01:55,916 --> 00:01:57,784 they put their paws up onto the edge of things and 49 00:01:57,784 --> 00:01:58,785 they just push on it, 50 00:01:58,785 --> 00:02:01,288 push on it until they break the boards inside. 51 00:02:01,288 --> 00:02:03,156 So I expect that we're gonna find most of the boards either 52 00:02:03,156 --> 00:02:05,759 right in front or right inside the cabin. 53 00:02:05,759 --> 00:02:08,795 I was thinking we might be able to take stuff like this. 54 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:11,498 I don't know where it broke it from. 55 00:02:11,498 --> 00:02:13,400 Oh, right there. Right? 56 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,069 Bada-boom. We're back in business. 57 00:02:17,337 --> 00:02:19,072 JESSI: Come out here and let's see what we got 58 00:02:19,072 --> 00:02:21,074 and what we don't have here. 59 00:02:21,608 --> 00:02:25,646 Okay, so let's make space, let's shovel out some snow, 60 00:02:25,646 --> 00:02:29,383 we'll pin these up, see what we need to cut and then we're 61 00:02:29,383 --> 00:02:31,652 going to have to go and we're going to have to go 62 00:02:31,652 --> 00:02:32,886 and mill some more boards. 63 00:02:32,886 --> 00:02:35,355 CHRIS: Yeah. So, let's get to work. 64 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:38,959 JESSI: The trapping cabin is the home base out at my trap line, 65 00:02:38,959 --> 00:02:41,094 so I can just stay there for the night and get up early 66 00:02:41,094 --> 00:02:44,197 in the morning and go check my traps and spend all day out 67 00:02:44,197 --> 00:02:47,801 here instead of wasting so much time driving back and forth 68 00:02:47,801 --> 00:02:50,470 and back and forth. 69 00:02:51,738 --> 00:02:53,740 CHRIS: Let's get all of our stuff put inside, 70 00:02:53,740 --> 00:02:56,209 button it up for the night, and then we'll bug out and get home 71 00:02:56,209 --> 00:02:57,310 before too dark. 72 00:02:57,310 --> 00:03:00,113 JESSI: All right! Our stove! 73 00:03:02,683 --> 00:03:05,786 We'll head back tomorrow and we'll get this finished. 74 00:03:05,786 --> 00:03:07,254 CHRIS: It might be a little harder, 75 00:03:07,254 --> 00:03:09,723 but we're going to get this done. 76 00:03:10,490 --> 00:03:11,725 CHEVIE: You live out in the woods, 77 00:03:11,725 --> 00:03:13,326 you do stuff in Alaska a lot of times, 78 00:03:13,326 --> 00:03:15,262 you need guns, chainsaw, 79 00:03:15,262 --> 00:03:17,130 axe, snow machine, sled. 80 00:03:17,431 --> 00:03:18,965 Things do happen quickly out here, 81 00:03:18,965 --> 00:03:21,268 and you have to be able to take care of them yourself. 82 00:03:21,902 --> 00:03:23,737 All right, Ry-Ry, are you excited about getting 83 00:03:23,737 --> 00:03:24,838 this thing running? 84 00:03:24,838 --> 00:03:26,039 RYDER: Uh-hmm. No. 85 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:28,408 CHEVIE: Will freeze up in town multiple times when it's 86 00:03:28,408 --> 00:03:31,278 40, 50 below and there's no way to get water. 87 00:03:31,278 --> 00:03:34,081 So, knowing how to get it, that is a necessity. 88 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:37,417 RYDER: Snow is so hard. CHEVIE: Yeah, it is. 89 00:03:37,417 --> 00:03:40,087 It's from the little bit of rain. 90 00:03:40,087 --> 00:03:42,189 Yeah, so we're trying to go get some ice. 91 00:03:42,189 --> 00:03:44,458 We get big chunks of ice off the river, 92 00:03:44,458 --> 00:03:46,493 melt them for drinking water. 93 00:03:46,493 --> 00:03:50,363 And one of the first steps is to get this snow machine out of 94 00:03:50,363 --> 00:03:54,367 this snow bank here and fire it up so we could use it 95 00:03:54,367 --> 00:03:55,769 to haul ice. 96 00:03:56,436 --> 00:03:58,171 RYDER: I'm gonna try lifting. 97 00:03:58,171 --> 00:04:00,173 CHEVIE: Make sure you keep your back straight. 98 00:04:02,242 --> 00:04:04,311 RYDER: Let me see your hammer. 99 00:04:04,311 --> 00:04:07,681 I'm mostly focusing on breaking this tree. 100 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:11,718 CHEVIE: We can saw it down with the chainsaw if we 101 00:04:11,718 --> 00:04:14,187 absolutely have to but, all that stupid rain, 102 00:04:14,187 --> 00:04:16,923 we got in the middle of winter making this project 103 00:04:16,923 --> 00:04:18,992 a little more difficult than it usually is, huh? 104 00:04:21,061 --> 00:04:23,597 I think it's, it's broke. 105 00:04:24,865 --> 00:04:26,233 RYDER: Free? 106 00:04:26,233 --> 00:04:29,736 CHEVIE: This track is anyways. RYDER: It looks broke free. 107 00:04:32,339 --> 00:04:35,442 CHEVIE: It got a bunch of rain and ice on that clutch. 108 00:04:35,442 --> 00:04:36,977 Definitely gonna have to get a bunch of heat on it. 109 00:04:36,977 --> 00:04:38,478 You're gonna run down and grab an extension cord. 110 00:04:38,478 --> 00:04:39,746 RYDER: Uh-hmm. 111 00:04:39,746 --> 00:04:42,215 CHEVIE: You get that, I'll get the master heater ready, okay? 112 00:04:42,516 --> 00:04:44,718 Living out here in remote Alaska, 113 00:04:44,718 --> 00:04:46,453 you have to be a jack of all trades. 114 00:04:46,453 --> 00:04:48,021 You have to know a lot of different things about 115 00:04:48,021 --> 00:04:49,222 a lot of stuff. 116 00:04:49,222 --> 00:04:51,925 And teaching Ryder how to take care of equipment... 117 00:04:51,925 --> 00:04:53,326 RYDER: Get this ready. 118 00:04:53,326 --> 00:04:55,262 CHEVIE: How to warm it up, how to work on stuff, 119 00:04:55,262 --> 00:04:58,031 all those small steps of how to be successful in this 120 00:04:58,031 --> 00:05:00,200 journey are super important. 121 00:05:00,433 --> 00:05:02,002 So I think what we can do, Ryder, 122 00:05:02,002 --> 00:05:03,703 since you want to cut this tree down so bad. 123 00:05:03,703 --> 00:05:05,205 You've been talking about it. 124 00:05:05,205 --> 00:05:09,242 We'll cut it right here and we'll use it as our 125 00:05:09,242 --> 00:05:11,444 little stand for our tarp. 126 00:05:11,444 --> 00:05:12,979 RYDER: Okay. 127 00:05:12,979 --> 00:05:16,349 CHEVIE: So our tarp doesn't go all the way down on our heater. 128 00:05:17,918 --> 00:05:21,888 (chainsaw motor) 129 00:05:28,361 --> 00:05:31,231 It's just a little home to keep the heat in. 130 00:05:32,599 --> 00:05:35,836 So what we'll do is we'll fire off this master heater. 131 00:05:36,036 --> 00:05:37,470 Okay. Ready? 132 00:05:39,172 --> 00:05:41,174 Heat will solve a lot of problems when you live in the 133 00:05:41,174 --> 00:05:43,910 Arctic and this is a good way to get heat fast. 134 00:05:44,211 --> 00:05:45,378 RYDER: That's hot, dad. 135 00:05:45,378 --> 00:05:47,147 CHEVIE: You liking it? RYDER: Yeah. 136 00:05:47,447 --> 00:05:50,217 CHEVIE: Just gonna let it do its thing for a minute. 137 00:05:50,617 --> 00:05:53,820 Let it run. Hopefully it pulls over... 138 00:05:56,323 --> 00:05:58,925 ROBERT: Finding the habitat, getting the right bait, 139 00:05:58,925 --> 00:06:00,994 setting the pots right, hitting the currents right, 140 00:06:00,994 --> 00:06:02,529 having the right tools... 141 00:06:03,496 --> 00:06:05,432 shrimping ain't easy, that's for sure. 142 00:06:10,303 --> 00:06:13,173 RJ: Is this, this one we did pretty shallow, right? 143 00:06:13,173 --> 00:06:16,743 ROBERT: Yeah. This is all around 300 to 338. 144 00:06:16,743 --> 00:06:19,412 So it's definitely a little shallower. 145 00:06:21,348 --> 00:06:24,417 Coming up on a buoy. See how our first string does. 146 00:06:25,085 --> 00:06:26,786 Well, we're shooting for 20 gallons of tails. 147 00:06:26,786 --> 00:06:28,822 Ten gallons a piece 'cause that's our limit 148 00:06:28,822 --> 00:06:30,724 according to fish and game. 149 00:06:30,724 --> 00:06:32,325 RJ: You know, it's the middle of winter. 150 00:06:32,325 --> 00:06:35,595 The larger animals are kinda hard to find at the moment. 151 00:06:35,595 --> 00:06:37,330 It's probably the only time of the year that we can 152 00:06:37,330 --> 00:06:39,366 go out and get shrimp, so to be able to make the time 153 00:06:39,366 --> 00:06:40,667 to do it is really important. 154 00:06:40,667 --> 00:06:42,002 ROBERT: Come out, spend one week, 155 00:06:42,002 --> 00:06:44,938 dedicate our lives to it, go home, eat for a year. 156 00:06:46,406 --> 00:06:47,741 Nice out today. 157 00:06:47,741 --> 00:06:49,142 Love this. 158 00:06:49,643 --> 00:06:51,878 RJ: It's hung up on the bottom. 159 00:06:52,245 --> 00:06:53,713 ROBERT: I have a good feeling I know right where 160 00:06:53,713 --> 00:06:54,915 these shrimp are. 161 00:06:54,915 --> 00:06:56,950 But I've come out here with that same confidence before and 162 00:06:56,950 --> 00:06:58,618 not found 'em. 163 00:06:59,052 --> 00:07:00,921 If we don't get these shrimp on this trip, 164 00:07:00,921 --> 00:07:04,090 I don't know another time frame that I'm gonna be able to do it. 165 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:08,395 Hung up on the bottom a little bit. 166 00:07:08,395 --> 00:07:11,698 RJ: Maybe try forward and away from the cliff or no? 167 00:07:11,998 --> 00:07:13,533 ROBERT: The water's rough. 168 00:07:13,533 --> 00:07:15,068 If you don't have your head on a swivel and constantly paying attention, 169 00:07:15,068 --> 00:07:17,437 you'll sink your boat. 170 00:07:17,671 --> 00:07:18,905 There it popped. 171 00:07:18,905 --> 00:07:20,373 Hopefully, there's still five pots on there. 172 00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:21,675 RJ: It's hard to get a good coil on that. 173 00:07:21,675 --> 00:07:24,477 All that stuff was just slipping. 174 00:07:25,745 --> 00:07:27,047 Oh, yeah. That's good. 175 00:07:27,047 --> 00:07:28,448 ROBERT: Good haul right there. Look at that. 176 00:07:28,448 --> 00:07:29,683 RJ: That'll work. ROBERT: Oh, yeah. 177 00:07:29,683 --> 00:07:33,053 That's a good start for the pot number one out of twenty. 178 00:07:34,654 --> 00:07:36,790 RJ: Rope needs replaced on this one. 179 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:38,258 ROBERT: Loaded though, isn't it? 180 00:07:38,258 --> 00:07:39,292 Oh, yeah. 181 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:41,795 RJ: It's about the same. ROBERT: Good haul, man. 182 00:07:44,531 --> 00:07:46,433 Oh, the bottom came open on that one. 183 00:07:46,433 --> 00:07:47,901 The rubber probably broke. 184 00:07:47,901 --> 00:07:49,803 That's strange. 185 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:51,571 Lost out on that one. 186 00:07:51,571 --> 00:07:53,907 But it was a pretty good haul for our first set. 187 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:56,376 All right, let's go set the (bleep). 188 00:07:56,376 --> 00:07:57,510 Ready, RJ? 189 00:07:57,510 --> 00:07:58,511 RJ: Yeah. 190 00:07:58,511 --> 00:08:02,816 ROBERT: Throw! RJ: All right, we're good! 191 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:07,654 ROBERT: Yeah, if we don't get any shrimp on this trip, 192 00:08:07,654 --> 00:08:09,823 I'm probably not gonna have another opportunity to go out 193 00:08:09,823 --> 00:08:13,893 and get shrimp until the fall, which is six, seven months away. 194 00:08:15,395 --> 00:08:17,397 Okay, throw! 195 00:08:18,131 --> 00:08:19,699 We're gonna check different depths, 196 00:08:19,699 --> 00:08:21,368 check different bottom types. 197 00:08:21,368 --> 00:08:23,870 That's why they call it shrimping and not catching. 198 00:08:24,738 --> 00:08:27,240 We gotta go out and prospect. 199 00:08:30,210 --> 00:08:33,179 All right, go to the next spot. 200 00:08:35,482 --> 00:08:37,450 JOHNNY: It's not easy above the Arctic Circle. 201 00:08:37,684 --> 00:08:39,753 It's a hard life out here. 202 00:08:40,286 --> 00:08:43,790 So, the goal is to go out trapping and get some fur. 203 00:08:44,090 --> 00:08:46,359 And the animals out here that are growing with the land will 204 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:49,863 make garments that are meant to be on this land. 205 00:08:52,732 --> 00:08:54,768 This is what I what I'm looking for right here. 206 00:08:54,768 --> 00:08:56,469 I got a natural game trail. 207 00:08:56,469 --> 00:08:58,671 The animals, they continue to use this because 208 00:08:58,671 --> 00:09:00,240 the snow's so deep. 209 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,875 They take advantage of any sort of little, like, 210 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:05,712 natural trail that they make and being on the border of this lake, 211 00:09:05,712 --> 00:09:08,448 there's a lot of natural cubbies for me to 212 00:09:08,448 --> 00:09:09,949 set some traps. 213 00:09:09,949 --> 00:09:12,085 But I have to be able to find them. 214 00:09:12,085 --> 00:09:14,387 So, I'll take advantage of the bank of this lake, 215 00:09:14,387 --> 00:09:16,823 and this game trail. 216 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:29,869 I honestly think I could take advantage of this little spot 217 00:09:29,869 --> 00:09:32,439 because there's a lot of these little alders standing up and I 218 00:09:32,439 --> 00:09:34,474 can use that as a way to funnel the animals 219 00:09:34,474 --> 00:09:35,742 to the front of the trap, 220 00:09:35,742 --> 00:09:38,845 so I might, I might make that little game trail. 221 00:09:38,845 --> 00:09:43,116 You know, I gotta walk up to the trap so using snowshoes 222 00:09:43,116 --> 00:09:46,719 kinda makes a nice little trail for them. 223 00:09:46,719 --> 00:09:49,089 And what I'll do is I'll make a trail going to the front of 224 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:50,457 where I'm gonna build the trap, 225 00:09:50,457 --> 00:09:52,525 and then I'm making a connecting trail to that 226 00:09:52,525 --> 00:09:56,062 game path that I saw over there. 227 00:09:56,429 --> 00:09:59,933 The middle of winter is the prime time to trap. 228 00:09:59,933 --> 00:10:02,102 The reason is the fur is the thickest, 229 00:10:02,102 --> 00:10:03,937 and that's the type of fur that I'm after. 230 00:10:04,637 --> 00:10:06,806 It's a much better cubby than I thought it was gonna be. 231 00:10:06,806 --> 00:10:10,543 I got these six branches to work on my favor. 232 00:10:10,543 --> 00:10:14,981 The back of it is just kind of naturally encased and enclosed, 233 00:10:14,981 --> 00:10:17,684 so the animal won't go through the back and steal the bait. 234 00:10:17,684 --> 00:10:19,619 It's gonna come around to the easy access, 235 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:21,020 which will be the front. 236 00:10:21,020 --> 00:10:24,390 This is the caribou stomach from the last caribou I shot. 237 00:10:24,390 --> 00:10:26,092 It's all frozen. 238 00:10:26,092 --> 00:10:27,861 It's technically fresh. 239 00:10:27,861 --> 00:10:30,797 This is the stuff that wolverines and scavengers and 240 00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:32,098 fox like to eat. 241 00:10:32,098 --> 00:10:33,666 So, I'm gonna offer them this. 242 00:10:33,666 --> 00:10:38,471 I'm gonna throw it all the way in the back there. 243 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:40,673 I've used leg-hold traps in the past. 244 00:10:40,673 --> 00:10:43,810 And they're not always my favorite style of trap. 245 00:10:43,810 --> 00:10:46,012 So, these are body-gripping traps, 246 00:10:46,012 --> 00:10:48,515 and these are the most humane traps you can use, 247 00:10:48,515 --> 00:10:51,384 and they're my preferred trap to use. 248 00:10:51,384 --> 00:10:54,754 So, I just take this rope, put it through the hole here, 249 00:10:54,754 --> 00:10:56,022 string it through. 250 00:10:56,022 --> 00:10:57,223 Pull here. 251 00:10:57,223 --> 00:11:00,660 And what that does is compress the springs. 252 00:11:02,829 --> 00:11:04,631 So, these are compressed, these springs, 253 00:11:04,631 --> 00:11:06,466 I got a little clip that holds 'em on. 254 00:11:06,466 --> 00:11:08,067 And now it's kind of like the safety. 255 00:11:08,067 --> 00:11:11,171 This is the trigger, so if a wolverine or fox or something 256 00:11:11,171 --> 00:11:14,274 like that came through, it's gonna hit these, 257 00:11:14,274 --> 00:11:16,643 and this trap will close on it. 258 00:11:18,645 --> 00:11:21,247 Any curious animal is gonna find itself inside the body 259 00:11:21,247 --> 00:11:22,949 trap before reaching the bait. 260 00:11:22,949 --> 00:11:26,753 There's no suffer-age, there's no pain. 261 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,556 'Cause these things are, this is dangerous, man. 262 00:11:29,556 --> 00:11:32,759 I mean, this could easily break my arm. 263 00:11:32,759 --> 00:11:34,294 Something that you gotta feel confident with, 264 00:11:34,294 --> 00:11:36,796 you gotta feel comfortable with, 265 00:11:36,796 --> 00:11:38,698 or you're gonna get yourself hurt. 266 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:41,734 The safety's off. This thing is live. 267 00:11:41,734 --> 00:11:42,936 (metal clang) 268 00:11:45,405 --> 00:11:49,943 JOHNNY: Woo! That was close. 269 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:51,778 The trap's where I want it to be, 270 00:11:51,778 --> 00:11:54,047 and now it's time to just start really camouflaging it 271 00:11:54,047 --> 00:11:56,482 with spruce boughs and sticks. 272 00:11:56,683 --> 00:11:59,686 It's gonna look like maybe a weasel or wolverine or 273 00:11:59,686 --> 00:12:03,923 something dragged the caribou guts into and another animal's 274 00:12:03,923 --> 00:12:05,892 gonna come smelling it and say, 275 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:08,361 "Sweet. I'm gonna go get the rest of that." 276 00:12:09,262 --> 00:12:12,131 So, let's not pretend like they're not gonna smell me here. 277 00:12:12,131 --> 00:12:16,035 So, how do I counter that, and it's by creating my presence, 278 00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:19,072 but also an animal's presence that's been here after me and 279 00:12:19,072 --> 00:12:20,506 dug this all out. 280 00:12:20,506 --> 00:12:23,109 So, the next thing I wanna do is create that scene, 281 00:12:23,109 --> 00:12:24,344 that crime scene. 282 00:12:24,344 --> 00:12:28,181 Bust everything up, and that's why I'm taking all these sticks 283 00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:29,983 and just kind of throwing 'em about. 284 00:12:29,983 --> 00:12:33,052 Something came in here and just dug and dug and dug. 285 00:12:33,052 --> 00:12:35,054 Throw these sticks around. 286 00:12:35,054 --> 00:12:36,656 No animal is neat and precise. 287 00:12:36,656 --> 00:12:37,890 They're quick. They're fast. 288 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:39,993 They're hungry, and they're trying to get a meal before an 289 00:12:39,993 --> 00:12:41,527 animal comes up to it. 290 00:12:41,527 --> 00:12:43,796 And when an animal comes up, they're gonna say, 291 00:12:43,796 --> 00:12:47,400 "Oh, man, something cached food in this hole, 292 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,602 and it looks like an animal's already been here. 293 00:12:49,602 --> 00:12:51,838 So it's probably a safe place to go." 294 00:12:52,171 --> 00:12:54,674 I got some caribou stomach pieces right here. 295 00:12:54,674 --> 00:12:56,943 Scatter them around a little bit. 296 00:12:56,943 --> 00:13:01,247 Show them that an animal came here after me. 297 00:13:01,247 --> 00:13:03,950 The way I go about trapping is to think like the animal 298 00:13:03,950 --> 00:13:05,084 that I'm after. 299 00:13:05,084 --> 00:13:08,888 And it's a really cool way to engage with them. 300 00:13:09,555 --> 00:13:12,025 And the next that I'm gonna do is gonna be very similar. 301 00:13:12,025 --> 00:13:15,028 It's gonna be on a cut bank of the lake. 302 00:13:19,832 --> 00:13:23,503 An animal comes down the path to meet the grim reaper. 303 00:13:24,871 --> 00:13:28,174 ROBERT: The spirit behind the harvest is probably the same as 304 00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:30,510 it was since time immemorial. 305 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:32,645 We're trying to get this food the best we can. 306 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,080 And we're trying to bring it home to our families. 307 00:13:35,048 --> 00:13:36,649 Those pots that we set yesterday have been in the 308 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:39,018 water about 20 hours now. 309 00:13:39,018 --> 00:13:41,020 They could be a little wind chopped. 310 00:13:41,220 --> 00:13:42,822 I heard the forecast this morning, 311 00:13:42,822 --> 00:13:44,624 they're calling thirty-naut winds for the next 312 00:13:44,624 --> 00:13:46,259 day and a half, two days. 313 00:13:46,259 --> 00:13:48,227 And I can tell that it's starting to move in. 314 00:13:48,227 --> 00:13:50,496 It's starting to pick up right out of the east here. 315 00:13:50,496 --> 00:13:51,831 I'm scared to death of the water. 316 00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:54,367 The last thing I wanna do is end up in it. 317 00:13:55,134 --> 00:13:57,570 We're gonna go over a three-footer right now. 318 00:14:01,607 --> 00:14:03,810 I try to turn the boat around in-between sets, 319 00:14:03,810 --> 00:14:05,912 keep the boat stabilized for RJ working in the 320 00:14:05,912 --> 00:14:08,047 back deck back there. 321 00:14:08,881 --> 00:14:10,917 First buoy right here. 322 00:14:15,188 --> 00:14:16,489 This was a very deep soak. 323 00:14:16,489 --> 00:14:19,826 I set this one way deeper than I set any of the other strings. 324 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,729 Yeah, first pot. 325 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:27,867 RJ: Looks good. 326 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:31,204 ROBERT: First pot. Look at that. 327 00:14:31,838 --> 00:14:33,740 RJ: Well, we got some shrimp. 328 00:14:33,740 --> 00:14:35,608 ROBERT: That makes me real happy right there. 329 00:14:35,608 --> 00:14:36,843 That's a good score. 330 00:14:36,843 --> 00:14:40,613 Nineteen more pots to go, hopefully they all do that good. 331 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,149 And then the next pot comes up with three. 332 00:14:43,649 --> 00:14:45,785 Isn't that crazy? 333 00:14:46,085 --> 00:14:48,488 Same bait, everything. 334 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:49,922 These are spot prawns. 335 00:14:49,922 --> 00:14:52,358 These are our target species right here. 336 00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:54,460 Look at that. 337 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:56,095 A little bit of tail there. 338 00:14:56,095 --> 00:14:57,830 Well, we're shooting for 20 gallons of tails, 339 00:14:57,830 --> 00:14:59,499 ten gallons a piece. 340 00:14:59,699 --> 00:15:00,933 We can do better. 341 00:15:00,933 --> 00:15:02,168 It takes a while to find 'em. 342 00:15:02,168 --> 00:15:03,736 We're still prospecting. 343 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:06,406 We just have to work harder, find them. 344 00:15:07,173 --> 00:15:09,542 RJ: All right, we're good. ROBERT: Thank you. 345 00:15:09,976 --> 00:15:12,078 Prospecting, it's all about gut-instinct. 346 00:15:12,078 --> 00:15:14,013 With the best knowledge you have that's been accumulated 347 00:15:14,013 --> 00:15:16,482 for over 30 years, hands-on experience. 348 00:15:16,716 --> 00:15:18,684 See if we can find 'em quicker than if that was a 349 00:15:18,684 --> 00:15:20,253 brand-new rookie out here. 350 00:15:20,253 --> 00:15:21,687 We got a pot coming up. 351 00:15:21,687 --> 00:15:24,490 About 200 yards. 352 00:15:24,490 --> 00:15:26,893 We've got a buoy coming up, RJ. 353 00:15:31,230 --> 00:15:33,933 Kiska, he wants to know what's coming up just as much as us. 354 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:35,735 He loves watching that. 355 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:41,507 A lot of orange in there. 356 00:15:41,707 --> 00:15:44,076 3-38 just got a little better. 357 00:15:45,978 --> 00:15:46,979 RJ: There you go. 358 00:15:46,979 --> 00:15:48,114 ROBERT: My lucky number. 359 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:50,583 Look at that. That's a good haul right there. 360 00:15:51,617 --> 00:15:53,619 First pots we threw out were the shallowest and they 361 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:54,687 did the best. 362 00:15:54,687 --> 00:15:56,155 RJ: Yeah. You wanna do a shallow set? 363 00:15:56,155 --> 00:15:58,090 Just do a side hill? 364 00:15:58,291 --> 00:16:00,893 ROBERT: Yeah, because this is what the doctor ordered right here. 365 00:16:00,893 --> 00:16:02,261 Yeah, this one's loaded too. 366 00:16:02,261 --> 00:16:03,529 RJ: Yup. 367 00:16:03,529 --> 00:16:05,698 ROBERT: See, we're talking big prawns right here, man. 368 00:16:05,698 --> 00:16:06,833 Nice. 369 00:16:06,833 --> 00:16:08,501 We're gonna re-bait 'em. We're gonna set 'em again. 370 00:16:08,501 --> 00:16:10,303 Hopefully we find the mother-load. 371 00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:12,438 RJ: Definitely, can be a little more productive now 372 00:16:12,438 --> 00:16:14,507 that we know that they're in this area. 373 00:16:14,807 --> 00:16:16,309 Instead of having 'em all clumped together, 374 00:16:16,309 --> 00:16:17,877 we're gonna space 'em out on the same string and 375 00:16:17,877 --> 00:16:19,679 hopefully catch more shrimp. 376 00:16:21,247 --> 00:16:23,115 ROBERT: The funny thing is, we did real good here one time, 377 00:16:23,115 --> 00:16:25,585 we could come here tomorrow and not get a shrimp. 378 00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:26,986 You just never know. 379 00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:29,255 We got three more buoys we're not gonna check tonight. 380 00:16:29,255 --> 00:16:30,623 And we're gonna let 'em soak. 381 00:16:30,623 --> 00:16:33,025 Tomorrow morning, we're gonna check 'em all. 382 00:16:33,025 --> 00:16:35,461 We're always on the hunt out here. 383 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:39,966 JESSI: So many things that could happen out here, 384 00:16:39,966 --> 00:16:41,434 and if you're gonna take the risk, 385 00:16:41,434 --> 00:16:44,237 you better have the guts to back it up. 386 00:16:45,137 --> 00:16:46,539 CHRIS: Let's get a tree knocked down and let's get 387 00:16:46,539 --> 00:16:47,874 some boards ripped out. 388 00:16:47,874 --> 00:16:49,809 And let's get this trapping cabin habitable for ya. 389 00:16:49,809 --> 00:16:51,277 JESSI: Yeah, let's do it. 390 00:16:51,277 --> 00:16:52,678 What tree do you wanna get after? 391 00:16:52,678 --> 00:16:54,113 CHRIS: I'd like to cut down some deadwood, 392 00:16:54,113 --> 00:16:56,249 but there's not a lot of dead standing around. 393 00:16:56,249 --> 00:16:58,684 I'm thinking I'll take down this tree here. 394 00:16:58,684 --> 00:17:00,419 It's already leaning out over the lake, 395 00:17:00,419 --> 00:17:02,288 so it's gonna die in the next year or two. 396 00:17:02,288 --> 00:17:04,624 I figured that's a good one to work with. 397 00:17:05,725 --> 00:17:08,327 JESSI: I'll grab the axe and follow you. 398 00:17:08,327 --> 00:17:10,496 CHRIS: It's sitting on a slant, so what's gonna happen is it's 399 00:17:10,496 --> 00:17:12,899 just gonna fall into the lake and make a big mess. 400 00:17:12,899 --> 00:17:15,101 We may as well use that tree. 401 00:17:15,434 --> 00:17:17,103 Wow. 402 00:17:17,637 --> 00:17:18,804 Once we get this down, 403 00:17:18,804 --> 00:17:19,939 we should bring the snow machine over... 404 00:17:19,939 --> 00:17:21,374 Pack in a trail. 405 00:17:21,374 --> 00:17:23,709 JESSI: So, we're not working in this? 406 00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:28,014 Make sure you pack a exit out of here. 407 00:17:29,482 --> 00:17:31,617 CHRIS: This tree's a lot bigger than I thought. 408 00:17:31,617 --> 00:17:35,221 JESSI: Yeah. It's gonna fall straight. 409 00:17:36,522 --> 00:17:38,624 It doesn't have any twists or breaks? 410 00:17:38,624 --> 00:17:41,160 CHRIS: I'm gonna make the cut right, I mean, 411 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,162 there's this big knot I gotta try to avoid. 412 00:17:43,162 --> 00:17:44,931 I'm gonna cut kinda low right through where there's 413 00:17:44,931 --> 00:17:46,165 a bunch of ice. 414 00:17:46,165 --> 00:17:49,735 Cut right through about here, that's gonna start to tip over. 415 00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:51,871 I'm gonna cut about that far through, 416 00:17:51,871 --> 00:17:53,573 so it tries to stay attached when it falls. 417 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:54,774 JESSI: Okay. 418 00:17:54,774 --> 00:17:56,642 CHRIS: You just gotta be careful once it hits the ground. 419 00:17:56,642 --> 00:17:59,478 JESSI: Okay, you wanna try to, where's your exit strategy here? 420 00:17:59,478 --> 00:18:00,513 This way? 421 00:18:00,513 --> 00:18:01,847 CHRIS: Yeah. 422 00:18:01,847 --> 00:18:03,015 JESSI: Okay. 423 00:18:03,015 --> 00:18:05,251 I'm just making sure you got a nice, easy way out. 424 00:18:05,251 --> 00:18:08,087 I'm gonna skedaddle this way. 425 00:18:10,356 --> 00:18:14,260 (chainsaw motor) 426 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:16,429 About halfway through, 427 00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:18,998 I hear it. Here it goes. It's cracking. 428 00:18:20,032 --> 00:18:22,902 And, whoa. 429 00:18:24,537 --> 00:18:27,573 I felt the shelf-ice drop underneath me. 430 00:18:28,307 --> 00:18:30,109 CHRIS: I bet. I can hear all the ice cracking. 431 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:31,577 JESSI: I know, it freaked me out a little bit. 432 00:18:31,577 --> 00:18:32,979 CHRIS: Listen. 433 00:18:32,979 --> 00:18:34,981 (distant cracking) 434 00:18:34,981 --> 00:18:37,917 It's making a lot of noise right here under the ice. 435 00:18:37,917 --> 00:18:39,285 JESSI: All right, I'm moving, 436 00:18:39,285 --> 00:18:40,653 like the ice is gonna break through it. 437 00:18:46,525 --> 00:18:47,960 CHRIS: All right, it's settling down. 438 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,895 JESSI: It definitely bothered me when you first dropped it. 439 00:18:49,895 --> 00:18:51,397 It was a lot of movement. 440 00:18:51,397 --> 00:18:53,466 See the overflow over here? 441 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:55,401 CHRIS: Oh. 442 00:18:55,401 --> 00:18:57,903 JESSI: So, when that tree fell, the whole lake fell. 443 00:18:58,738 --> 00:19:00,239 CHRIS: Pushes some water up. 444 00:19:00,239 --> 00:19:02,274 JESSI: And now we're gonna have overflow. 445 00:19:02,274 --> 00:19:03,542 It doesn't look too deep, though. 446 00:19:03,542 --> 00:19:04,477 You know? 447 00:19:04,477 --> 00:19:05,745 CHRIS: What's up? 448 00:19:05,745 --> 00:19:07,079 JESSI: I just need to keep out, an eye out for the snow machine 449 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:08,581 so it doesn't get stuck in that. 450 00:19:08,581 --> 00:19:10,282 CHRIS: Yeah, at least it's up above it so the track's not getting wet. 451 00:19:10,282 --> 00:19:11,283 Cool. 452 00:19:11,283 --> 00:19:12,585 JESSI: So far. 453 00:19:12,585 --> 00:19:16,155 All right, I'll come in and I'll start chopping some limbs. 454 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:17,857 CHRIS: Leave this here for ya. 455 00:19:21,861 --> 00:19:24,764 JESSI: Oh, my gosh. 456 00:19:24,764 --> 00:19:28,734 (chainsaw motor) 457 00:19:34,006 --> 00:19:35,041 CHRIS: That looks pretty good. 458 00:19:35,041 --> 00:19:36,075 I'll kinda clean this up, 459 00:19:36,075 --> 00:19:37,443 make it a little nicer for milling. 460 00:19:37,443 --> 00:19:38,678 JESSI: Okay, here's this. 461 00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:40,880 I'll be right back with your stuff. 462 00:19:42,481 --> 00:19:43,716 CHRIS: Before I can get to milling boards, 463 00:19:43,716 --> 00:19:46,085 I have to cut a couple large notches out of the tree 464 00:19:46,085 --> 00:19:47,820 so I can fit the mill in there. 465 00:19:47,820 --> 00:19:49,789 See if the mill fits. 466 00:19:53,092 --> 00:19:54,460 There we go. 467 00:19:54,460 --> 00:19:56,362 JESSI: There we go. 468 00:20:03,102 --> 00:20:05,438 Now we're gonna start milling our very first board. 469 00:20:05,438 --> 00:20:07,339 Then we're gonna measure, and cut them to fit, 470 00:20:07,339 --> 00:20:10,376 and pin them right back up on the wall. 471 00:20:12,978 --> 00:20:14,847 CHEVIE: So, there's a lot of things out here that 472 00:20:14,847 --> 00:20:16,982 we don't necessarily control. 473 00:20:16,982 --> 00:20:18,851 But you work around all your variables. 474 00:20:19,118 --> 00:20:21,220 You come out with a good solution. 475 00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:23,456 You're educating yourself. 476 00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:25,858 Hot coming out of there? 477 00:20:25,858 --> 00:20:27,526 RYDER: It's really hot. CHEVIE: Really hot. 478 00:20:27,526 --> 00:20:28,661 That's what we want. 479 00:20:28,661 --> 00:20:30,396 It's like pulling it out of a 100-degree shop. 480 00:20:30,396 --> 00:20:32,064 Let's shut 'er down. 481 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:36,068 Ryder's learning and growing with the snow machine. 482 00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:37,136 He's fixing it. 483 00:20:37,136 --> 00:20:38,704 We'll use it to get ice and then use that 484 00:20:38,704 --> 00:20:39,905 for drinking water. 485 00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:41,874 Should look just like how it looked when it came off the 486 00:20:41,874 --> 00:20:44,510 showroom floor in 1986! 487 00:20:45,845 --> 00:20:47,313 It's part of a journey. 488 00:20:47,313 --> 00:20:48,714 Hopefully it pulls over now, 489 00:20:48,714 --> 00:20:51,617 hopefully it was just an ice situation. 490 00:20:51,617 --> 00:20:53,085 (engine starts) 491 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:55,621 All right. 492 00:20:57,690 --> 00:21:00,025 RYDER: Well, it runs. That's the only good thing. 493 00:21:00,025 --> 00:21:02,995 Or there's more good things, but the throttle is sticky. 494 00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:05,097 CHEVIE: Sounds like it a little bit, huh? 495 00:21:05,097 --> 00:21:07,199 It's always a little bit of a process. 496 00:21:07,199 --> 00:21:09,568 It's just getting it tuned in here a little bit. 497 00:21:09,769 --> 00:21:12,338 I mean, there's technical difficulties in everything. 498 00:21:12,338 --> 00:21:15,307 Even with going to get ice for water. 499 00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:17,009 RYDER: Hey, what's that thing do? 500 00:21:17,009 --> 00:21:18,410 CHEVIE: This is the slide. 501 00:21:18,410 --> 00:21:20,312 This is what lets the fuel in. 502 00:21:20,312 --> 00:21:22,081 All right, you can see right here though that 503 00:21:22,081 --> 00:21:23,916 the throttle's stretched. 504 00:21:23,916 --> 00:21:27,553 That could be from my apprentice mechanic working on 505 00:21:27,553 --> 00:21:29,889 it without adult supervision. 506 00:21:30,422 --> 00:21:32,558 He's gonna be driving it and I gotta get it to where 507 00:21:32,558 --> 00:21:33,726 I trust it. 508 00:21:33,726 --> 00:21:35,161 This is sitting up too high. 509 00:21:35,161 --> 00:21:36,996 The cable needs to be lengthened. 510 00:21:36,996 --> 00:21:39,198 But it's gotta be consistent and it's not. 511 00:21:39,198 --> 00:21:41,066 Put him in a dangerous situation. 512 00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:42,902 I'm gonna need a couple wrenches, Ryder. 513 00:21:42,902 --> 00:21:44,770 RYDER: I'll get it. 514 00:21:46,472 --> 00:21:50,242 CHEVIE: Jeez, that's tight. Let's put the cab back on. 515 00:21:51,744 --> 00:21:54,413 All right, Ryder, let's get it all the way over here. 516 00:21:54,413 --> 00:21:56,949 We're just in that big pocket of ice right there, okay? 517 00:21:58,450 --> 00:21:59,618 (bleep). 518 00:21:59,618 --> 00:22:01,987 During the winter months, ice freezes up. 519 00:22:01,987 --> 00:22:03,122 Okay, you got it? 520 00:22:03,122 --> 00:22:04,557 RYDER: Yeah. Yeah. 521 00:22:04,557 --> 00:22:06,992 CHEVIE: And, you know, after going and working and being physical, 522 00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:09,762 you just wanna drink water. 523 00:22:12,898 --> 00:22:16,869 So, my being able to go get some ice for drinking water... 524 00:22:16,869 --> 00:22:18,337 It's a necessity. 525 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:19,572 There we go. 526 00:22:19,572 --> 00:22:20,673 Ryder. 527 00:22:20,673 --> 00:22:23,209 RYDER: What? CHEVIE: Kick snow under there. 528 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,284 Okay, let's see if I get that to go now. 529 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,190 (engine revving) 530 00:22:38,824 --> 00:22:40,960 She lives! 531 00:22:41,861 --> 00:22:44,129 She's up and running now. 532 00:22:46,632 --> 00:22:48,033 Got a lot of work still to do. 533 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:50,970 Load it up with some sleds, and go find ourselves some 534 00:22:50,970 --> 00:22:53,639 crystal-clear blue drinking water. 535 00:22:55,341 --> 00:22:57,176 RJ: Big day today. ROBERT: I think so. 536 00:22:57,409 --> 00:22:59,378 I think we're gonna kill it. What's going on, Kiska? 537 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:01,747 You ready to go catch some shrimps? 538 00:23:01,747 --> 00:23:04,116 This morning them easterlies are gonna pick up, 539 00:23:04,116 --> 00:23:06,085 to 30 knots. 540 00:23:06,085 --> 00:23:08,554 It can make for a real interesting shrimp check. 541 00:23:08,854 --> 00:23:10,856 It can be dangerous. 542 00:23:18,497 --> 00:23:20,966 That wind and current doing some funky stuff here, isn't it? 543 00:23:20,966 --> 00:23:23,936 RJ: Can you turn your motor to starboard? 544 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:30,142 There you go. That'll drift nice. 545 00:23:30,142 --> 00:23:32,344 ROBERT: The anticipation associated with shrimping for 546 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:35,481 me is a lot bigger than maybe any other thing I'd do 547 00:23:35,481 --> 00:23:38,684 as far as being out in the woods or on the water. 548 00:23:39,018 --> 00:23:41,587 A few here but not great. 549 00:23:41,820 --> 00:23:43,022 Every time you pull a pot, 550 00:23:43,022 --> 00:23:45,391 you just never know what you're gonna get. 551 00:23:45,891 --> 00:23:47,927 Head up to the next pots. 552 00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:51,597 It doesn't take much wind going against the current to 553 00:23:51,597 --> 00:23:53,299 really pile these waves up. 554 00:23:53,299 --> 00:23:56,435 It just makes it like a washing machine. 555 00:23:57,303 --> 00:23:59,338 Coming up. 556 00:23:59,338 --> 00:24:01,573 We got a buoy coming up, RJ. 557 00:24:01,874 --> 00:24:03,309 There's some serious water. 558 00:24:03,309 --> 00:24:05,477 RJ: Slow down. 559 00:24:06,378 --> 00:24:10,783 ROBERT: Holy (bleep). RJ, hold on. 560 00:24:16,055 --> 00:24:22,161 RJ: (bleep). Maybe take it a little easier. 561 00:24:24,263 --> 00:24:26,231 All gung-ho about the shrimp. 562 00:24:26,231 --> 00:24:28,467 ROBERT: To cut that weight, it just shifted everything, 563 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:29,768 didn't it? 564 00:24:29,768 --> 00:24:31,937 RJ: Almost tipped the boat over. 565 00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:34,306 ROBERT: You wanna go out and get the shrimp in a storm. 566 00:24:34,306 --> 00:24:36,942 One lapse in judgment, that's all it takes out here. 567 00:24:39,078 --> 00:24:43,882 RJ: Other side. 568 00:24:54,693 --> 00:24:56,362 ROBERT: I'm on the bottom, isn't it? 569 00:24:56,362 --> 00:24:58,897 RJ: It feels like it. 570 00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:02,234 ROBERT: Yeah, I turned that corner a little sharp. 571 00:25:02,234 --> 00:25:04,303 The waves weren't that big, but it doesn't take much, 572 00:25:04,303 --> 00:25:07,139 this boat, because we're lighter on fuel and we've got 573 00:25:07,139 --> 00:25:08,640 all the weight out of the bottom, 574 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,909 and it's a little top-heavy and almost tipped a little bit. 575 00:25:10,909 --> 00:25:12,778 RJ: I mean, I almost went over. 576 00:25:12,778 --> 00:25:14,913 ROBERT: It scared the hell out of me. 577 00:25:17,349 --> 00:25:19,051 Come on, buddy. 578 00:25:20,085 --> 00:25:21,487 There, it broke free. 579 00:25:21,487 --> 00:25:22,688 Did it break the line? 580 00:25:22,688 --> 00:25:24,423 RJ: I don't know. What do you think? 581 00:25:24,423 --> 00:25:26,592 Did we lose a pot, or did it rip a hole, 582 00:25:26,592 --> 00:25:27,826 or did it just come undone? 583 00:25:27,826 --> 00:25:30,462 Right here, it was wrapped around rocks and stuff. 584 00:25:30,462 --> 00:25:32,398 It's all chewed up right there a little. 585 00:25:32,398 --> 00:25:34,099 Oh, it's got tension now. 586 00:25:34,099 --> 00:25:35,634 ROBERT: Hey, buddy, go lay down. 587 00:25:35,634 --> 00:25:36,902 RJ: The weather's picking up. 588 00:25:36,902 --> 00:25:38,404 ROBERT: It's picking up big time out here. 589 00:25:38,404 --> 00:25:40,606 Yeah, we're blowing a steady 20 right now. 590 00:25:40,606 --> 00:25:42,107 Getting a little nervous. 591 00:25:42,107 --> 00:25:44,043 I'm just trying to keep the boat calm for you, 592 00:25:44,043 --> 00:25:45,344 so we won't get sideways into this. 593 00:25:45,344 --> 00:25:46,445 RJ: Yeah. 594 00:25:46,445 --> 00:25:48,147 ROBERT: Otherwise, we're just gonna get the (bleep) 595 00:25:48,147 --> 00:25:49,982 beat out of us. 596 00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:52,284 Got some shrimp. 597 00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:53,285 RJ: That's a good one. 598 00:25:53,285 --> 00:25:54,887 ROBERT: Good one. Big, big shrimp. 599 00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:58,424 I love it. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, this one's loaded too. 600 00:25:59,191 --> 00:26:01,560 Lotta orange in there. Yeah. 601 00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,228 RJ: This is looking good. 602 00:26:03,228 --> 00:26:04,797 ROBERT: That's the best pot out of all of them, yet. 603 00:26:04,797 --> 00:26:06,965 RJ: Yeah. It's full on the first bucket. 604 00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:08,333 ROBERT: One for the books for a while. 605 00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:11,270 This is an amazing haul. I mean, I'm happy with this. 606 00:26:13,539 --> 00:26:16,542 All right, we've almost got her overflowed, RJ. 607 00:26:16,809 --> 00:26:18,777 RJ: I think this is working out pretty well. 608 00:26:18,777 --> 00:26:21,113 I'm just gonna get a nice 40-foot spread on these pots 609 00:26:21,113 --> 00:26:23,348 and do the same thing we did on the last string. 610 00:26:26,218 --> 00:26:27,453 Good to go! 611 00:26:27,453 --> 00:26:28,954 ROBERT: All right, we've got enough to feed both of 612 00:26:28,954 --> 00:26:31,356 our families for quite a while here, 613 00:26:31,356 --> 00:26:33,859 but I like to shoot for the stars. 614 00:26:33,859 --> 00:26:36,628 One more set. Five more pots. See what we can do. 615 00:26:39,131 --> 00:26:41,467 JOHNNY: Out here there's not a lot of food. 616 00:26:41,867 --> 00:26:43,735 It's all spread out thousands, and thousands, 617 00:26:43,735 --> 00:26:45,904 and thousands of acres out here. 618 00:26:46,138 --> 00:26:47,606 It's hungry country. 619 00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:51,810 And these animals work hard, day and night, to get a meal. 620 00:26:56,315 --> 00:27:00,018 That's a dead one. I need a nice, green one. 621 00:27:04,356 --> 00:27:08,127 All right, I grabbed these 'cause I wanna just be able to 622 00:27:08,127 --> 00:27:11,296 rub my hands on this spruce bough, 623 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:15,801 and it kinda will mask any human scent. 624 00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:21,106 First trap's right here. 625 00:27:21,106 --> 00:27:22,941 Kinda fooled myself. 626 00:27:22,941 --> 00:27:26,145 Just sticks, and debris, and (bleep) flung all 627 00:27:26,145 --> 00:27:27,980 over the place. 628 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:30,149 Stomach contents just kinda flung out. 629 00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:32,584 Looks like a, maybe a wolverine or something. 630 00:27:32,584 --> 00:27:35,988 I went in there and started digging everything out. 631 00:27:36,555 --> 00:27:40,125 But there's no tracks going in and there's no animal in the 632 00:27:40,125 --> 00:27:42,761 trap, which is bad news for me. 633 00:27:44,363 --> 00:27:47,366 I always like to bring a little something to kinda 634 00:27:47,366 --> 00:27:49,201 sweeten the pot. 635 00:27:49,201 --> 00:27:51,670 This here is a pelvic bone. 636 00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:54,640 You can see it's been chewed on and stuff. 637 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,476 I found this by a wolf kill sight. 638 00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:59,745 So, I'm gonna toss this over there and just kind of 639 00:27:59,745 --> 00:28:04,249 add to the scene, just lob that in there. 640 00:28:04,917 --> 00:28:08,854 Okay. I got high hopes on this one. 641 00:28:08,854 --> 00:28:11,790 I'm gonna move on to the next one. 642 00:28:20,566 --> 00:28:24,169 Looks like the trap kinda tilted back a little bit. 643 00:28:24,169 --> 00:28:25,871 I don't see any tracks. 644 00:28:25,871 --> 00:28:29,841 I'm going to go in and check it out, just kinda readjust it. 645 00:28:30,709 --> 00:28:32,644 I don't want a fallen trap, 646 00:28:32,644 --> 00:28:35,681 so I think it did fall a little bit. 647 00:28:36,782 --> 00:28:41,386 I'm gonna go in, try to get this on my hands. 648 00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:42,821 It's not gonna be perfect. 649 00:28:42,821 --> 00:28:47,226 But spruce has a pretty strong smell to it. 650 00:28:47,226 --> 00:28:49,761 You know, you could set 100 traps and maybe only 651 00:28:49,761 --> 00:28:52,164 get something in five or ten of 'em. 652 00:28:52,164 --> 00:28:54,933 You know, the odds aren't huge. 653 00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:03,642 I'm gonna let these marinate. 654 00:29:03,642 --> 00:29:06,044 Let these soak for a little bit longer, 655 00:29:06,044 --> 00:29:07,846 see if they produce anything. 656 00:29:07,846 --> 00:29:10,015 It's just a matter of time, patience, 657 00:29:10,015 --> 00:29:12,784 and a little bit of persistence. 658 00:29:15,621 --> 00:29:17,556 JESSI: We have no business being out here if we can't 659 00:29:17,556 --> 00:29:19,625 provide for ourselves. 660 00:29:21,727 --> 00:29:24,062 It doesn't matter how cold it is or how much daylight. 661 00:29:24,062 --> 00:29:26,665 CHEVIE: We've been at it for a while, huh? 662 00:29:26,665 --> 00:29:29,368 JESSI: To be strong to survive out here, 663 00:29:29,368 --> 00:29:32,838 you just have to get out there and experience that fear. 664 00:29:33,639 --> 00:29:35,674 And you have to be at your strongest. 665 00:29:35,674 --> 00:29:38,744 You have to have fresh meat coming in. 666 00:29:43,915 --> 00:29:47,052 JESSI: Wow, it actually is really, really beautiful. 667 00:29:47,386 --> 00:29:48,654 CHRIS: Yeah. 668 00:29:48,654 --> 00:29:50,756 Jessi and I worked really good as a team. 669 00:29:50,756 --> 00:29:52,924 And so Jessi and I have been through a lot together. 670 00:29:52,924 --> 00:29:54,726 When you come across a big obstacle out here, 671 00:29:54,726 --> 00:29:57,496 work hard, and not giving up. 672 00:30:00,732 --> 00:30:03,268 JESSI: There's a grouse in the tree. 673 00:30:03,268 --> 00:30:04,536 CHRIS: You said there's grouse? 674 00:30:04,536 --> 00:30:05,737 JESSI: There's two grouse in that tree. 675 00:30:05,737 --> 00:30:06,872 CHRIS: I'm gonna get my gun. 676 00:30:06,872 --> 00:30:09,107 I'd love a fresh bird. 677 00:30:16,682 --> 00:30:17,816 Do you see 'em, Jess? 678 00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:19,685 JESSI: Yeah, look at 'em. 679 00:30:19,685 --> 00:30:21,019 CHRIS: I don't think I can him 'em with this thing, 680 00:30:21,019 --> 00:30:23,088 but I'm gonna try. 681 00:30:23,088 --> 00:30:24,823 All right, let's see if we can get one of these little guys. 682 00:30:25,891 --> 00:30:26,958 (gunshot) 683 00:30:29,061 --> 00:30:30,729 JESSI: Woo. 684 00:30:30,996 --> 00:30:33,065 Well, not quite, but it's good to see 'em here. 685 00:30:33,065 --> 00:30:34,433 It's been a long time. 686 00:30:34,433 --> 00:30:35,667 CHRIS: Yeah. 687 00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:37,069 I really didn't think I was gonna be able to hit it 688 00:30:37,069 --> 00:30:38,203 with .38 but. 689 00:30:38,203 --> 00:30:39,871 JESSI: Woo. Gave me a little heart start. 690 00:30:39,871 --> 00:30:41,173 Well, next time we come out here, 691 00:30:41,173 --> 00:30:42,941 we're bringing a .410 or something. 692 00:30:42,941 --> 00:30:44,276 CHRIS: Yeah. JESSI: Right? 693 00:30:44,276 --> 00:30:45,577 CHRIS: Cool, well I'll go put the gun away. 694 00:30:45,577 --> 00:30:47,579 We'll get back to work. 695 00:30:48,747 --> 00:30:50,549 If we can't fix the trapping cabin to make 696 00:30:50,549 --> 00:30:51,750 it through the winter, 697 00:30:51,750 --> 00:30:54,686 it's gonna really hinder our ability to do some trapping. 698 00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:56,321 JESSI: All right. 699 00:30:56,321 --> 00:30:57,622 CHRIS: But it's not like we have to rebuild the 700 00:30:57,622 --> 00:30:59,725 entire trapping cabin. 701 00:31:00,125 --> 00:31:01,793 I'd like to take the small chainsaw, 702 00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:03,829 and I'm just gonna kinda, you know, kinda come along 703 00:31:03,829 --> 00:31:06,064 like this and trim and trim. 704 00:31:11,403 --> 00:31:12,637 Let's go see if it fits. 705 00:31:12,637 --> 00:31:15,273 JESSI: Okay. Put the trapping cabin together. 706 00:31:17,342 --> 00:31:19,845 CHRIS: Ha! Look at that. That's pretty good. 707 00:31:19,845 --> 00:31:22,247 JESSI: Yeah, for just picking a tree and cutting it, 708 00:31:22,247 --> 00:31:23,615 it's almost exact. 709 00:31:23,615 --> 00:31:26,017 CHRIS: I'll just trim that end off to fit. 710 00:31:26,451 --> 00:31:29,287 We can always work together to overcome obstacles. 711 00:31:40,132 --> 00:31:42,033 JESSI: That's pretty successful, Chris. 712 00:31:42,033 --> 00:31:44,236 We are back in business. I'm stoked. 713 00:31:44,503 --> 00:31:46,238 CHRIS: Good job. JESSI: Yeah. 714 00:31:46,471 --> 00:31:47,672 CHRIS: What do you wanna do next? 715 00:31:47,672 --> 00:31:49,875 JESSI: I think we need to put something in the windows, 716 00:31:49,875 --> 00:31:52,344 and then we should get the, the whole stove and put that in 717 00:31:52,344 --> 00:31:55,380 here and start warming it up and start bringing some life 718 00:31:55,380 --> 00:31:56,748 back into the trapping cabin. 719 00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:57,783 CHRIS: No problem. 720 00:31:57,783 --> 00:31:59,451 We're gonna have you out trapping in no time. 721 00:31:59,451 --> 00:32:03,121 JESSI: My goodness. I can't wait, get out of there. 722 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,262 SONTA: There's shelf ice right along the sides of 723 00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:12,330 the river that's really good drinking water. 724 00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:14,466 Do you see where it's nice and clear under there? 725 00:32:14,466 --> 00:32:15,667 That's what we want. 726 00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:17,836 CHEVIE: That's how high the water was this fall, Sydney. 727 00:32:17,836 --> 00:32:19,171 And then once the water drops, 728 00:32:19,171 --> 00:32:20,806 this ice that we're standing on falls. 729 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:23,542 So there's nothing feeding these rivers during 730 00:32:23,542 --> 00:32:25,343 the winter months, and as they fall, 731 00:32:25,343 --> 00:32:27,579 that shelf of ice is established. 732 00:32:28,246 --> 00:32:29,881 You're gonna have to hit it in a couple different places 733 00:32:29,881 --> 00:32:32,184 all the way around there to knock that off. 734 00:32:32,384 --> 00:32:33,485 SONTA: There you go. 735 00:32:33,485 --> 00:32:35,887 Yeah, stop. 736 00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:39,057 So, this is what we want, guys. Look how clear that is. 737 00:32:39,291 --> 00:32:40,358 RYDER: Clear. 738 00:32:40,358 --> 00:32:41,426 CHRIS: Yeah, look at how clear that is. 739 00:32:41,426 --> 00:32:42,494 SYDNEY: I wanna see through it. 740 00:32:42,494 --> 00:32:43,728 SONTA: You can see right through it. 741 00:32:43,728 --> 00:32:45,530 So, what's so cool about this is this is 742 00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:47,432 really pure drinking water. 743 00:32:47,732 --> 00:32:50,268 All the sediment and silt, 744 00:32:50,268 --> 00:32:54,506 settled down to the bottom and left this nice, pure water. 745 00:32:54,506 --> 00:32:56,942 CHEVIE: In an emergency situation, 746 00:32:56,942 --> 00:32:59,911 not having any way to get water, 747 00:32:59,911 --> 00:33:03,448 this ice and knowing how to get it, is an necessity. 748 00:33:04,416 --> 00:33:05,684 RYDER: Hey, that's good. 749 00:33:05,684 --> 00:33:06,985 SYDNEY: Ooh, that's good. 750 00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:08,220 There's a piece. 751 00:33:08,220 --> 00:33:09,421 SONTA: So, we'll have to chip off some of this bad stuff. 752 00:33:09,421 --> 00:33:11,089 CHEVIE: Chipping that yellow stuff off. 753 00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:13,058 SYDNEY: Yeah, it's really, it's really gross. 754 00:33:13,058 --> 00:33:15,527 CHEVIE: It just kinda naturally pops off between the clear ice 755 00:33:15,527 --> 00:33:17,128 and the bad ice. 756 00:33:18,129 --> 00:33:19,130 There you go. 757 00:33:19,130 --> 00:33:20,432 You see how it just comes right off? 758 00:33:20,432 --> 00:33:21,566 SYDNEY: Way to go, Ryder. 759 00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:23,034 CHEVIE: You get a little nervous sometimes 760 00:33:23,034 --> 00:33:24,603 when Sydney's standing on top of the ice shelf. 761 00:33:24,603 --> 00:33:25,971 You know, going to town. 762 00:33:25,971 --> 00:33:27,873 Ryder's underneath it, sticking his hand under there, 763 00:33:27,873 --> 00:33:29,875 and you know damn well that that big chunk of ice 764 00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:31,910 is probably 200 pounds, you know? 765 00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:34,012 And the last thing you wanna do is see that ice fall 766 00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:35,580 on somebody's hand. 767 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:37,849 I'll try to chip off a couple so I can warm up 768 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:39,484 a little bit too. 769 00:33:41,086 --> 00:33:43,154 Sometimes the best way is still the way that they've 770 00:33:43,154 --> 00:33:45,290 been doing it for hundreds and hundreds of years. 771 00:33:45,290 --> 00:33:47,826 That's what's gonna ensure that my kids are gathering ice, 772 00:33:47,826 --> 00:33:50,795 their kids are gathering ice a long time from now because 773 00:33:50,795 --> 00:33:53,064 it's still the best way. 774 00:33:53,298 --> 00:33:54,833 SYDNEY: You didn't know we had our own ice-maker 775 00:33:54,833 --> 00:33:56,701 out here, did you? 776 00:33:57,002 --> 00:33:59,671 CHEVIE: Ooh, look at that nice, big, piece. 777 00:33:59,671 --> 00:34:01,573 It's a lot more ice than I thought it was gonna be. 778 00:34:01,573 --> 00:34:03,074 We're able to go back quite a bit. 779 00:34:03,074 --> 00:34:04,543 SYDNEY: Yeah, we can probably get one load out of 780 00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:06,411 this whole ice shelf. 781 00:34:06,411 --> 00:34:07,612 Great job, everybody. 782 00:34:07,612 --> 00:34:10,448 CHEVIE: Big load of ice. SYDNEY: Big load. 783 00:34:10,649 --> 00:34:12,450 CHEVIE: It's kinda just close to a couple hundred gallons 784 00:34:12,450 --> 00:34:14,219 of water there. 785 00:34:14,219 --> 00:34:15,320 SYDNEY: I'm pretty thirsty. 786 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,188 I think I'm ready to go melt this ice at home now. 787 00:34:17,188 --> 00:34:21,359 CHEVIE: I, I'm ready to have a cup of hot something. 788 00:34:29,401 --> 00:34:31,836 JOHNNY: Trapping isn't going out and expecting all 789 00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:33,171 your traps to be full. 790 00:34:33,171 --> 00:34:35,907 You have to give multiple options. 791 00:34:36,107 --> 00:34:38,410 Just thinking like the animal, thinking like nature. 792 00:34:38,410 --> 00:34:41,012 There's no limit or boundary in how clever you 793 00:34:41,012 --> 00:34:42,681 can get with it. 794 00:34:42,681 --> 00:34:45,717 All right, it's trap checking time. 795 00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:50,589 I'm gonna go check the traps I set. 796 00:34:54,626 --> 00:34:56,728 I think they've been sitting long enough. 797 00:34:57,195 --> 00:34:59,397 Aw, man, the trap's been set off. 798 00:35:04,336 --> 00:35:06,504 They cleaned out, man. 799 00:35:07,572 --> 00:35:09,808 This is like wolverine behavior hands down. 800 00:35:09,808 --> 00:35:12,577 Well, they come down my trail here. 801 00:35:12,577 --> 00:35:13,912 See the little indents. 802 00:35:13,912 --> 00:35:16,448 It's pretty obvious there was a wolverine that got in this trap. 803 00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:18,783 No other animal is gonna cause this kind of damage. 804 00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:21,019 Just wreaked havoc. 805 00:35:21,019 --> 00:35:23,955 Look at this. 806 00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:25,624 No way, man. 807 00:35:25,624 --> 00:35:27,392 Look at this, dude. 808 00:35:27,392 --> 00:35:32,364 This spring went off and somehow this one, 809 00:35:32,364 --> 00:35:33,698 the safety is still on. 810 00:35:33,698 --> 00:35:35,467 This is kind of messed up. I've never seen this before. 811 00:35:35,467 --> 00:35:38,570 Somehow the safety caught back on. 812 00:35:38,570 --> 00:35:40,205 And if the trap's upside down, 813 00:35:40,205 --> 00:35:42,774 sometimes it'll just naturally just flip right onto it. 814 00:35:42,774 --> 00:35:45,076 I think that's what happened. 815 00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:48,413 So, this is kind of like a half-live trap at this point. 816 00:35:48,780 --> 00:35:51,816 One of the springs was sprung and the other one was not. 817 00:35:51,816 --> 00:35:53,652 So, the animal got lucky. 818 00:35:53,652 --> 00:35:55,654 Like do I feel upset? 819 00:35:55,654 --> 00:35:57,489 Am I, you know, mad because I didn't trap it? 820 00:35:57,489 --> 00:35:58,890 No. Hell no, man. 821 00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:01,660 I'm excited because I did step one. 822 00:36:01,893 --> 00:36:05,730 Step one is luring an animal to your trap. 823 00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:07,399 Check. 824 00:36:07,399 --> 00:36:09,134 Step two: catching it. 825 00:36:09,134 --> 00:36:11,236 Still gotta figure out step two. 826 00:36:12,203 --> 00:36:13,972 So I'm gonna take that extra bait, 827 00:36:13,972 --> 00:36:15,373 and I'm just gonna reset this guy. 828 00:36:15,373 --> 00:36:19,744 Because if a wolverine has been here, it's coming back. 829 00:36:20,378 --> 00:36:22,847 So, like, it would be silly to not set this again. 830 00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:25,817 All right, so I got some more of that same bait that 831 00:36:25,817 --> 00:36:27,318 I already chopped up. 832 00:36:27,318 --> 00:36:29,054 Sneak it back in there. 833 00:36:29,054 --> 00:36:30,355 And I'm gonna kinda leave it a mess. 834 00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:32,991 I'm gonna leave it just like it is and hope it's complacent and 835 00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:34,893 it comes back around. 836 00:36:35,593 --> 00:36:37,996 So, this is the little safety right here. 837 00:36:38,229 --> 00:36:41,399 And it latches on. 838 00:36:42,834 --> 00:36:45,437 And I might even put this body trap 839 00:36:45,437 --> 00:36:48,840 kind of like it already was, where the wolverine left it. 840 00:36:49,107 --> 00:36:51,342 'Cause this animal knows that trap now. 841 00:36:51,342 --> 00:36:54,079 So, what do I have to hide, you know? 842 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:55,947 Trap is live. 843 00:36:55,947 --> 00:36:59,184 So I'm gonna go check that other trap real quick 844 00:36:59,184 --> 00:37:01,252 that I set further down. 845 00:37:03,254 --> 00:37:05,423 These things can smell for miles. 846 00:37:05,423 --> 00:37:08,126 So got the bait at the first one. 847 00:37:08,326 --> 00:37:11,029 Why wouldn't it have gotten the bait at the second one? 848 00:37:11,529 --> 00:37:13,264 I better check and make sure there's bait 849 00:37:13,264 --> 00:37:15,500 but like a lot of times, you get your hopes up so high 850 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:20,038 it's like, "Oh, cool man, an animal visited that trap. 851 00:37:20,038 --> 00:37:23,208 So, let's go see if it visited my other trap." 852 00:37:23,208 --> 00:37:24,642 It's not always the case, you know? 853 00:37:24,642 --> 00:37:26,211 It's not, you don't get like an animal in 854 00:37:26,211 --> 00:37:29,447 every trap you set. 855 00:37:29,714 --> 00:37:33,151 No, (bleep). Look at this. No way, man. 856 00:37:38,223 --> 00:37:40,325 JOHNNY: Look at this, man. 857 00:37:40,859 --> 00:37:42,827 We got a wolverine right here. 858 00:37:42,827 --> 00:37:44,729 God, this thing is beautiful. 859 00:37:45,797 --> 00:37:47,432 Look at this thing, man. 860 00:37:49,801 --> 00:37:52,103 Oh, it's still limber. 861 00:37:53,872 --> 00:37:55,507 It must've been a quick death, you know? 862 00:37:55,507 --> 00:37:57,175 That's what you want. 863 00:37:57,175 --> 00:37:59,477 Got cocky, ate all that stuff at the first one, 864 00:37:59,477 --> 00:38:01,546 and then cruised on down the trail. 865 00:38:01,546 --> 00:38:04,149 He put his head in to reach at the bait, 866 00:38:04,149 --> 00:38:06,584 and it closed right on his head. 867 00:38:06,584 --> 00:38:08,019 It's taking a life, you know? 868 00:38:08,019 --> 00:38:09,554 But you want it to be quick like that? 869 00:38:09,554 --> 00:38:12,490 It's just an incredible, incredible animal. 870 00:38:12,490 --> 00:38:15,527 And they have this just beautiful, beautiful fur. 871 00:38:16,094 --> 00:38:19,898 This thing is gonna help me persist out here in the cold. 872 00:38:19,898 --> 00:38:22,033 It's gonna keep me warm. 873 00:38:22,033 --> 00:38:23,501 He's heavy. 874 00:38:23,501 --> 00:38:25,804 I wanna get him back before he freezes, 875 00:38:25,804 --> 00:38:29,240 and start processing it out, skin it out. 876 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:31,576 I'm proud to be a part of this animal's life and for it 877 00:38:31,576 --> 00:38:33,711 to be a part of my life. 878 00:38:35,747 --> 00:38:37,882 This guy's got a lot of fat on him, man. 879 00:38:37,882 --> 00:38:40,285 You know, it's a nice, old male and I'm happy that this 880 00:38:40,285 --> 00:38:42,253 wolverine spent time, you know, 881 00:38:42,253 --> 00:38:45,490 living a good life out on the country doing 882 00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:46,925 the stuff I like to do, man. 883 00:38:46,925 --> 00:38:48,493 You know, climbing these mountains. 884 00:38:48,493 --> 00:38:50,495 Look at it next to mine. 885 00:38:50,495 --> 00:38:53,097 That's a big whomping paw right there though, man. 886 00:38:53,097 --> 00:38:56,100 It's really cool to see a very up close and personal 887 00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:59,337 view of how these animals live. 888 00:39:00,238 --> 00:39:02,640 And with that, I get a lesson. 889 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:06,444 You know, 'cause I like to be untamed, and I like to be wild. 890 00:39:06,911 --> 00:39:09,581 It's just a beautiful, beautiful pelt. 891 00:39:09,581 --> 00:39:12,650 It's just so thick and I'm super grateful for it. 892 00:39:12,650 --> 00:39:16,554 You know, the warmth and the, the use I'll get out here. 893 00:39:16,554 --> 00:39:19,257 And, you know, it's not a traditional food for me to eat 894 00:39:19,257 --> 00:39:22,994 wolverine but I'm probably far from traditional. 895 00:39:24,562 --> 00:39:26,231 JESSI: Oh, yeah. 896 00:39:26,231 --> 00:39:28,967 Rabbit tracks are nice and thick up here! 897 00:39:30,368 --> 00:39:32,570 CHRIS: Jess is one of the toughest women I have ever met. 898 00:39:32,570 --> 00:39:34,806 She's competent. She's confident. 899 00:39:34,806 --> 00:39:36,941 And she's good with a pistol. 900 00:39:36,941 --> 00:39:38,977 JESSI: Now that we have the trapping cabin back up and going, 901 00:39:38,977 --> 00:39:40,478 this is it for me. 902 00:39:40,478 --> 00:39:42,413 Ready, set, go. 903 00:39:45,016 --> 00:39:48,119 So really the best for all of us is for Chris to take care of 904 00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:50,889 finishing the trapping cabin and I'm heading out to set 905 00:39:50,889 --> 00:39:52,624 some rabbit snares. 906 00:39:52,624 --> 00:39:54,459 That's a rabbit hole. 907 00:39:55,627 --> 00:39:57,762 The snowshoe hare dug all the way down to the 908 00:39:57,762 --> 00:39:58,830 grass right here. 909 00:39:58,830 --> 00:40:01,165 And I'm guessing just slept in there. 910 00:40:01,366 --> 00:40:04,335 Rabbit is a perfect source of meat. 911 00:40:04,335 --> 00:40:06,738 So now I'm just gonna follow these tracks before they 912 00:40:06,738 --> 00:40:10,441 disappear with the snowfall and go up into the trees. 913 00:40:11,142 --> 00:40:13,544 CHRIS: I see Jess out tracking down those rabbits... 914 00:40:13,544 --> 00:40:16,581 She's got a big smile on her face and she loves to do it. 915 00:40:16,581 --> 00:40:17,649 I'm gonna stay here, 916 00:40:17,649 --> 00:40:19,851 but I got a couple surprises for her. 917 00:40:29,727 --> 00:40:31,696 JESSI: I wanna find a place where the rabbit tracks 918 00:40:31,696 --> 00:40:34,465 are going through somewhere really, really narrow. 919 00:40:34,465 --> 00:40:36,401 They have to go through my snare. 920 00:40:36,401 --> 00:40:39,337 Hop. Hop. Hop. This is good. 921 00:40:44,943 --> 00:40:46,444 Hey, love! 922 00:40:46,778 --> 00:40:48,112 CHRIS: Hey. JESSI: How goes? CHRIS: Good. 923 00:40:48,112 --> 00:40:49,881 I got it all warmed up in here for you. 924 00:40:49,881 --> 00:40:51,716 Check this out. 925 00:40:52,083 --> 00:40:54,185 JESSI: Nice. Check that out. CHRIS: Yeah, like that. 926 00:40:54,185 --> 00:40:56,421 Just as a seat, and you can do whatever you need to do. 927 00:40:56,421 --> 00:40:57,422 JESSI: Yeah. 928 00:40:57,422 --> 00:40:58,456 CHRIS: Or you can just hop on top. 929 00:40:58,456 --> 00:40:59,757 You got yourself a nice bed. 930 00:40:59,757 --> 00:41:02,193 It's picked up in the air, so you're not gonna get cold. 931 00:41:02,193 --> 00:41:04,262 And with the nice new stove, I think you're gonna have some 932 00:41:04,262 --> 00:41:06,698 nice, warm, comfortable nights trapping out here. 933 00:41:06,698 --> 00:41:08,800 JESSI: I'm loving it. Good job, Chris. 934 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,669 The trapping cabin is stronger and better than it was before. 935 00:41:12,236 --> 00:41:14,138 I can have a real chance of bringing home 936 00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:17,475 some fresh, healthy, meat. 937 00:41:18,409 --> 00:41:20,478 ROBERT: Nice haul. Pretty happy. 938 00:41:20,878 --> 00:41:23,448 We've got dinner tonight. We earned that dinner. 939 00:41:24,816 --> 00:41:26,951 What do you think we got here total after we pluck 'em? 940 00:41:26,951 --> 00:41:28,619 Maybe five gallons of tails? 941 00:41:28,619 --> 00:41:29,921 RJ: That's what I was thinking. 942 00:41:29,921 --> 00:41:31,022 That's a lot. 943 00:41:31,022 --> 00:41:34,092 ROBERT: Heck yeah. I gotta pluck the heads off. 944 00:41:34,959 --> 00:41:37,462 The head, the body, this is all completely edible, 945 00:41:37,462 --> 00:41:40,732 and this good if you wanna make like a soup stock 946 00:41:40,732 --> 00:41:42,533 or something with it. 947 00:41:42,533 --> 00:41:44,035 The jumbo's right there. 948 00:41:44,035 --> 00:41:45,603 Imagine if you were in a restaurant and you had 949 00:41:45,603 --> 00:41:46,804 six of these with a steak. 950 00:41:46,804 --> 00:41:48,973 It'd probably be an $80 or a $100 meal. 951 00:41:48,973 --> 00:41:50,875 We get to come out here and enjoy it, 952 00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:52,810 just by putting in our own labor. 953 00:41:52,810 --> 00:41:54,412 I love it. 954 00:41:54,412 --> 00:41:55,580 You like that? 955 00:41:55,580 --> 00:41:57,215 You don't know what to think, do you? 956 00:41:57,215 --> 00:41:58,850 It's a lot of fun, a lot of effort, 957 00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:02,086 a great reward for your hard work. 958 00:42:06,090 --> 00:42:08,626 Dinner is served. 959 00:42:08,626 --> 00:42:09,761 RJ: Looks good. 960 00:42:09,761 --> 00:42:11,596 ROBERT: Thanks, RJ. I'm having a good trip with ya. 961 00:42:11,596 --> 00:42:12,697 It's been fun. 962 00:42:12,697 --> 00:42:13,765 RJ: Yeah. 963 00:42:13,765 --> 00:42:15,800 You look back at it in four or five months and 964 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,803 pull a package of shrimp out and it's all worth it. 965 00:42:18,803 --> 00:42:21,072 ROBERT: Next time I try flip the boat over, 966 00:42:21,672 --> 00:42:23,307 I'll give you a warning first. 967 00:42:23,307 --> 00:42:24,809 RJ: All right. 968 00:42:29,614 --> 00:42:31,983 CHEVIE: Dang, that's a lot of ice, huh, guys? 969 00:42:33,384 --> 00:42:36,621 SONTA: Right now we have the ice melting down in the barrels. 970 00:42:36,621 --> 00:42:39,757 But for now, this'll be enough to get us by for the night. 971 00:42:40,024 --> 00:42:41,225 CHEVIE: No chlorine. 972 00:42:41,225 --> 00:42:42,560 SONTA: It doesn't have any chlorine. 973 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:43,661 It's not treated. 974 00:42:43,661 --> 00:42:45,029 It's really good just by itself, 975 00:42:45,029 --> 00:42:48,132 and then it's extra good in other things mixed with it, 976 00:42:48,466 --> 00:42:49,600 like tea and coffee. 977 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,335 Emry, you wanna get the first little taste. 978 00:42:51,335 --> 00:42:52,437 EMRY: Yes! 979 00:42:52,437 --> 00:42:53,905 SONTA: In your baby-sized cup? 980 00:42:53,905 --> 00:42:55,440 RYDER: Then can I have the second? 981 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,541 SONTA: Sure. 982 00:42:56,541 --> 00:42:58,509 SYDNEY: From one to ten, how good does it taste? 983 00:42:58,509 --> 00:43:00,178 EMRY: Ten! RYDER: 100! 984 00:43:00,178 --> 00:43:02,447 I'm not gonna do ten, I'm gonna do 100 million. 985 00:43:02,447 --> 00:43:03,448 SONTA: Do you like it? 986 00:43:03,448 --> 00:43:04,749 SYDNEY: Yeah, it's off the charts. 987 00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:05,817 EMRY: Mama, can you... 988 00:43:05,817 --> 00:43:07,919 SONTA: Off the charts. Get some for Daddy. 989 00:43:08,352 --> 00:43:10,188 Chev, what do you think? 990 00:43:10,188 --> 00:43:12,323 CHEVIE: This right here is pure. 991 00:43:13,024 --> 00:43:15,059 SONTA: This'll last us a couple of weeks and then we're gonna 992 00:43:15,059 --> 00:43:16,794 have to go out and get some more again eventually, 993 00:43:16,794 --> 00:43:19,363 but if you ever need to use this skill, 994 00:43:19,363 --> 00:43:20,998 you'd have the knowledge to do that. 995 00:43:21,232 --> 00:43:22,633 It's gonna be there for you. 996 00:43:22,633 --> 00:43:24,669 ROBERT: I've often thought my entire life that I could 997 00:43:24,669 --> 00:43:28,473 grow up in 1500's or 1600's and been a Tlingit provider 998 00:43:28,473 --> 00:43:30,408 and warrior, and you had to work hard to 999 00:43:30,408 --> 00:43:31,676 take care of your families. 1000 00:43:31,676 --> 00:43:34,011 Well, it's not much different from this day and age. 1001 00:43:34,011 --> 00:43:36,047 JOHNNY: To put my mind in the mind frame of, you know, 1002 00:43:36,047 --> 00:43:38,916 somebody thousands of years ago, and how they thrived. 1003 00:43:38,916 --> 00:43:42,186 And I now know what that's like. 1004 00:43:43,754 --> 00:43:46,891 I mean, it is a lot of country out there for me to explore. 1005 00:43:47,258 --> 00:43:49,994 JESSI: Everything is untouched. Everything is raw. 1006 00:43:49,994 --> 00:43:51,863 Everything is an opportunity out here. 1007 00:43:51,863 --> 00:43:53,831 CHEVIE: When you're invested in whatever it is, 1008 00:43:53,831 --> 00:43:56,234 getting water or building a house, it is sweeter. 1009 00:43:56,234 --> 00:43:58,769 It's 'cause of the work that you put into it. 1010 00:43:58,769 --> 00:44:00,505 You're gonna enjoy it. 1011 00:44:00,505 --> 00:44:01,639 Captioned by Cotter Media Group.