1 00:00:03,170 --> 00:00:07,107 CHEVIE: This river just stopped flowing about four days ago. 2 00:00:09,776 --> 00:00:11,879 It's the first ice of the year. 3 00:00:11,879 --> 00:00:15,282 We gotta get out here and check this ice. 4 00:00:15,282 --> 00:00:18,352 I want to see about getting a fish net in the ice. 5 00:00:24,558 --> 00:00:27,060 Last year we had a net right here. 6 00:00:27,060 --> 00:00:29,263 This year it's not looking so promising, 7 00:00:29,263 --> 00:00:31,598 but I do want to go out. 8 00:00:32,532 --> 00:00:34,801 At least check the thickness of it. 9 00:00:37,905 --> 00:00:40,507 You have to get out on it right away. 10 00:00:40,507 --> 00:00:42,910 It's easier to set the net that way, and that's when 11 00:00:42,910 --> 00:00:44,478 the fish are running. 12 00:00:44,478 --> 00:00:46,613 If you wait for really thick ice, 13 00:00:46,613 --> 00:00:49,616 the fish are going to be gone. 14 00:00:53,987 --> 00:00:57,524 All right, there's water right there. 15 00:00:59,826 --> 00:01:02,696 Bare minimal. 16 00:01:03,363 --> 00:01:06,033 I don't hear anything cracking underneath me yet, 17 00:01:06,033 --> 00:01:08,468 that's always a good sign. 18 00:01:08,468 --> 00:01:10,537 Whew. 19 00:01:10,537 --> 00:01:13,407 Hear it crack there. 20 00:01:18,478 --> 00:01:20,747 That's pretty deep, you know? 21 00:01:20,747 --> 00:01:22,950 About over my head here. 22 00:01:22,950 --> 00:01:25,719 This is a deep river. 23 00:01:25,719 --> 00:01:28,622 Today I'm kinda rolling solo, I don't need Ryder here, 24 00:01:28,622 --> 00:01:32,125 kids here, 'cause of the danger that it is. 25 00:01:38,332 --> 00:01:40,200 If something bad does happen, 26 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,469 there's nothing that they can do. 27 00:01:42,469 --> 00:01:45,105 Nine-year-old kid's not gonna be able to pull me out of the ice, 28 00:01:45,105 --> 00:01:46,640 and you don't want your kid to witness something 29 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,743 like that happening. 30 00:01:51,111 --> 00:01:57,718 (theme music plays) 31 00:02:01,188 --> 00:02:02,756 MARIO: There is a seriousness to living 32 00:02:02,756 --> 00:02:05,759 in the interior of Alaska. 33 00:02:05,759 --> 00:02:09,262 If you're caught unprepared out here it carries with it 34 00:02:09,262 --> 00:02:11,898 really serious consequences. 35 00:02:11,898 --> 00:02:13,667 And if you're unprepared then 36 00:02:13,667 --> 00:02:16,236 you're probably not gonna succeed. 37 00:02:18,972 --> 00:02:20,107 It's cold. 38 00:02:20,107 --> 00:02:21,241 CLARE: Yeah. 39 00:02:21,241 --> 00:02:23,210 MARIO: This is not good. CLARE: This is a lot of ice. 40 00:02:23,210 --> 00:02:26,980 MARIO: I mean, we don't have any water. 41 00:02:26,980 --> 00:02:29,182 This is a problem, look at that. 42 00:02:29,182 --> 00:02:30,650 That's inches thick, so. 43 00:02:30,650 --> 00:02:32,019 CLARE: That's crazy. 44 00:02:32,019 --> 00:02:34,287 MARIO: You know, we either adapt or we have no water. 45 00:02:34,287 --> 00:02:35,956 CLARE: Totally. MARIO: We can't do this. 46 00:02:35,956 --> 00:02:36,957 CLARE: No. 47 00:02:36,957 --> 00:02:39,226 MARIO: We won't survive out here, yeah. 48 00:02:40,594 --> 00:02:43,063 CLARE: It's freezing now, which means we've run out of 49 00:02:43,063 --> 00:02:45,265 everyday drinking water. 50 00:02:45,265 --> 00:02:49,803 Number one priority is to build an arctic entry 51 00:02:49,803 --> 00:02:53,340 to keep our house warm and have water that isn't 52 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:55,776 going to freeze this winter. 53 00:02:55,776 --> 00:02:58,378 I didn't really ever like this porch that much anyway. 54 00:02:58,378 --> 00:03:01,114 MARIO: Yeah, (bleep) this porch. 55 00:03:01,982 --> 00:03:05,419 By building an arctic entry it basically provides 56 00:03:05,419 --> 00:03:07,854 an insulated front porch. 57 00:03:07,854 --> 00:03:11,058 We're gonna have to take this down and then build with these 58 00:03:11,058 --> 00:03:12,426 as the corners. 59 00:03:12,426 --> 00:03:13,794 CLARE: Mm-hmm. 60 00:03:13,794 --> 00:03:16,596 MARIO: And we don't have a way to keep constant heat in 61 00:03:16,596 --> 00:03:19,299 a separate building. 62 00:03:21,368 --> 00:03:25,038 So, we figured that, you know, use the heat that was escaping 63 00:03:25,038 --> 00:03:27,474 to help heat the water. 64 00:03:27,474 --> 00:03:30,243 Hopefully trying to solve one problem 65 00:03:30,243 --> 00:03:33,480 with a creative solution. 66 00:03:36,249 --> 00:03:39,186 Because water is life out here. 67 00:03:39,186 --> 00:03:42,322 So, let's put the middle one, that middle third one in line 68 00:03:42,322 --> 00:03:44,391 with that stud. 69 00:03:44,391 --> 00:03:45,392 Ready? 70 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:47,227 CLARE: Yeah. 71 00:03:49,996 --> 00:03:53,967 KALEB: Any time I set my traps out. 72 00:03:54,634 --> 00:03:57,637 It's just a hope that something will come along and 73 00:03:57,637 --> 00:04:00,273 want to eat my bait. 74 00:04:01,041 --> 00:04:02,676 And I'll catch him. 75 00:04:02,676 --> 00:04:04,144 GILBERT: Dad. 76 00:04:04,144 --> 00:04:08,248 KALEB: But it's a game of wits, it's not a guaranteed thing. 77 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:10,884 They're doing their best to survive. 78 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:15,856 When you do a beaver set you do four snares around the pole. 79 00:04:15,856 --> 00:04:17,524 GILBERT: Oh. 80 00:04:17,524 --> 00:04:19,960 KALEB: Make a loop on the end here. 81 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,529 Yeah, we feed it through like that. 82 00:04:22,529 --> 00:04:24,297 GILBERT: Why do you need two loops? 83 00:04:24,297 --> 00:04:27,934 KALEB: One loop hooks around those poles we have, 84 00:04:27,934 --> 00:04:30,370 and the other loop is the actual snare. 85 00:04:30,370 --> 00:04:31,605 GILBERT: Ooh. 86 00:04:31,605 --> 00:04:34,107 But what if the beaver is smarter than us? 87 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:36,343 KALEB: Then we don't catch a beaver. 88 00:04:36,343 --> 00:04:37,344 And that's okay. 89 00:04:37,344 --> 00:04:38,745 GILBERT: Yeah. 90 00:04:38,745 --> 00:04:40,881 KALEB: Our job is to be smarter than the beaver, 91 00:04:40,881 --> 00:04:43,250 and if we're smarter than the beaver we catch one. 92 00:04:43,250 --> 00:04:45,986 If the beaver's smarter than us, then we don't catch one. 93 00:04:45,986 --> 00:04:48,054 And there's a lot of smart beavers out there, they get, 94 00:04:48,054 --> 00:04:50,891 they figure things like this out before they get killed. 95 00:04:50,891 --> 00:04:55,262 And then they learn and they, 96 00:04:55,262 --> 00:04:57,531 they become really hard to catch. 97 00:04:57,531 --> 00:05:00,667 Okay, you climb on top of the box here. 98 00:05:01,568 --> 00:05:04,571 GILBERT: This is not easy because I don't have my thumbs 99 00:05:04,571 --> 00:05:07,140 in the thumb hole. 100 00:05:08,542 --> 00:05:09,676 I can get the top. 101 00:05:09,676 --> 00:05:12,179 KALEB: There you go. 102 00:05:12,179 --> 00:05:15,315 GILBERT: If weight is inside it, will it just tighten? 103 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:18,618 KALEB: Yep, see. Watch. 104 00:05:18,618 --> 00:05:20,487 This trip is important to Gilbert. 105 00:05:20,487 --> 00:05:21,855 He wants to go trapping, 106 00:05:21,855 --> 00:05:24,124 he wants to learn how to catch something. 107 00:05:24,124 --> 00:05:28,161 And 100% he knows that it's a way of life, 108 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:30,697 and it is something to be proud of. 109 00:05:30,697 --> 00:05:33,200 We're gonna put four snares on here. 110 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,602 They're all gonna be kinda spread around the tree 111 00:05:35,602 --> 00:05:38,605 a little bit, and it'll have a piece of wire like that 112 00:05:38,605 --> 00:05:41,308 to help, help them dangle a little bit. 113 00:05:41,308 --> 00:05:42,542 See that? 114 00:05:42,542 --> 00:05:44,344 And then the beaver will be chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, 115 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:46,313 chomp, caught. 116 00:05:46,313 --> 00:05:47,914 GILBERT: Ha, you just caught yourself. 117 00:05:47,914 --> 00:05:49,816 KALEB: Yep. 118 00:05:49,816 --> 00:05:53,653 Beaver are a very important aspect to life in Alaska. 119 00:05:53,653 --> 00:05:56,022 They're an important food source for many animals, 120 00:05:56,022 --> 00:06:00,026 and their fur is highly, highly sought after by humans because 121 00:06:00,026 --> 00:06:02,262 of the warmth, the durability 122 00:06:02,262 --> 00:06:06,199 and just the sleek value of the fur. 123 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:09,402 There, I think this is ready to go in the water. 124 00:06:09,402 --> 00:06:11,171 GILBERT: Rope frozed up. 125 00:06:11,171 --> 00:06:13,573 KALEB: Yep, cold out. GILBERT: Yep. 126 00:06:13,573 --> 00:06:16,176 KALEB: Probably 15 degrees or something like that. 127 00:06:16,176 --> 00:06:17,878 Really a nice day to be out. 128 00:06:17,878 --> 00:06:19,980 GILBERT: Yeah. 129 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:22,782 KALEB: Beaver pelts if properly oiled are 130 00:06:22,782 --> 00:06:25,418 completely waterproof. 131 00:06:25,418 --> 00:06:27,654 All right, down she goes. 132 00:06:27,654 --> 00:06:30,824 So, I'd love to catch three or four beavers. 133 00:06:30,824 --> 00:06:33,093 We want to make hats for everybody, and it takes 134 00:06:33,093 --> 00:06:35,896 one beaver pelt to make one hat. 135 00:06:36,796 --> 00:06:39,933 Yep, that's the bottom. 136 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,235 There we go. 137 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:45,138 That is a perfect set. 138 00:06:45,138 --> 00:06:49,709 We'll wire the bait pole to the cross pole; 139 00:06:49,709 --> 00:06:51,778 we'll be all done. 140 00:06:51,778 --> 00:06:54,547 And then we can move on to the other set. 141 00:06:56,650 --> 00:06:58,551 NATHAN: Mother Nature's deadly out here. 142 00:06:58,551 --> 00:07:00,587 And you gotta just go with it. 143 00:07:00,587 --> 00:07:04,524 And do what you can to keep those elements on the outside. 144 00:07:10,030 --> 00:07:12,565 (mooing) 145 00:07:12,966 --> 00:07:14,100 Yeah, Lily? 146 00:07:15,268 --> 00:07:18,104 You know something's going on, huh? 147 00:07:19,072 --> 00:07:21,441 Let's take a look at this partition, 148 00:07:21,441 --> 00:07:24,077 see if we can get this done this year. 149 00:07:24,077 --> 00:07:25,512 Yeah, it's a little chilly in here. 150 00:07:25,512 --> 00:07:27,414 SAMANTHA: Yeah, it's pretty chilly still in here and 151 00:07:27,414 --> 00:07:28,948 it's going to get colder. 152 00:07:28,948 --> 00:07:31,084 And last year I remember looking at the temperature 153 00:07:31,084 --> 00:07:35,689 on this barn and it was just, it was unbelievably cold. 154 00:07:35,689 --> 00:07:37,357 NATHAN: Yeah. 155 00:07:37,357 --> 00:07:39,793 We have a large barn that we're dividing in two. 156 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:42,996 It needs to be insulated, it needs to be paneled. 157 00:07:42,996 --> 00:07:46,766 Get our livestock areas in tip top shape so we don't have to 158 00:07:46,766 --> 00:07:48,668 worry about them freezing to death out here. 159 00:07:48,668 --> 00:07:50,303 (mooing) 160 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:52,138 Lily is going to give birth whenever now. 161 00:07:52,138 --> 00:07:53,273 SAMANTHA: Yeah. 162 00:07:53,273 --> 00:07:54,908 NATHAN: So we could always move her in here. 163 00:07:54,908 --> 00:07:57,110 SAMANTHA: It would be nice to have a nice safe space for all 164 00:07:57,110 --> 00:08:00,013 of them to just like be separate and hang out and 165 00:08:00,013 --> 00:08:02,248 not have a lot of loss this winter. 166 00:08:02,248 --> 00:08:04,084 Last year was, that, last year was hard. 167 00:08:04,084 --> 00:08:06,286 That was hard. 168 00:08:06,286 --> 00:08:09,956 NATHAN: I think the first thing we gotta get one panel side up, 169 00:08:09,956 --> 00:08:12,425 get the insulation up, and then panel on the other side. 170 00:08:12,425 --> 00:08:13,994 SAMANTHA: Yeah. 171 00:08:13,994 --> 00:08:16,062 NATHAN: The cold is on its way here and it's brutal and 172 00:08:16,062 --> 00:08:19,132 it's brutal for us and it's brutal for the animals. 173 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,369 SAMANTHA: I brought some extra helping hands. 174 00:08:22,369 --> 00:08:24,904 NATHAN: Huh? Hi, kiddos. 175 00:08:24,904 --> 00:08:27,073 KIDS: Hi. 176 00:08:28,108 --> 00:08:32,278 NATHAN: Last year we lost three cows, almost lost a goat. 177 00:08:34,614 --> 00:08:36,516 SAMANTHA: Oh, come on, last piece. 178 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:39,052 NATHAN: Well, we'll set those aside if we need them 179 00:08:39,052 --> 00:08:41,187 for like patch work and stuff. 180 00:08:41,187 --> 00:08:42,589 SAMANTHA: Yeah. 181 00:08:42,589 --> 00:08:46,159 NATHAN: So, Moose-Chelle was our previous milk cow, and she 182 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:48,628 gave birth in the middle of the night on the coldest night 183 00:08:48,628 --> 00:08:52,399 of the year, and Moose-Chelle's calf did not survive. 184 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:55,268 That was frozen to the barn floor when we walked in. 185 00:08:57,137 --> 00:08:58,938 So, stud's not perfectly straight, 186 00:08:58,938 --> 00:09:01,307 so let's go about there. 187 00:09:01,307 --> 00:09:03,943 When we lose an animal, it's a huge emotional loss, 188 00:09:03,943 --> 00:09:07,180 even though it's part of farm life out here, 189 00:09:07,180 --> 00:09:08,581 any of the animals that die here, 190 00:09:08,581 --> 00:09:10,216 we want it to be for a purpose. 191 00:09:10,216 --> 00:09:11,518 We want it to be planned. 192 00:09:11,518 --> 00:09:13,620 We want it to be for a reason. 193 00:09:13,620 --> 00:09:17,690 We gotta get everything fixed to make it through this winter. 194 00:09:18,425 --> 00:09:20,493 There you go. Perfect. 195 00:09:20,493 --> 00:09:22,262 Now just do the same thing. 196 00:09:22,262 --> 00:09:25,031 Do one like boom, then boom. 197 00:09:30,837 --> 00:09:33,640 CHEVIE: Some of the most dangerous times of the year in 198 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:38,344 Alaska is when ice is coming, or ice is going. 199 00:09:39,179 --> 00:09:41,748 And it creates really dangerous situations because 200 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:44,918 the ice is super thin. 201 00:09:44,918 --> 00:09:49,355 And there's just a lot of places for mistakes to be made. 202 00:09:54,294 --> 00:09:57,430 Takes a long time to be able to figure out the ice and 203 00:09:57,430 --> 00:09:59,799 what it looks like. 204 00:10:00,166 --> 00:10:03,503 When I first came out to Shageluk, um, 205 00:10:03,837 --> 00:10:06,573 and started doing this, I wasn't, 206 00:10:06,573 --> 00:10:09,375 I wasn't going out on the ice. 207 00:10:10,543 --> 00:10:13,079 For a long time, I just wasn't comfortable. 208 00:10:14,581 --> 00:10:18,017 ♪ ♪ 209 00:10:18,017 --> 00:10:19,886 (cracking) 210 00:10:20,753 --> 00:10:23,523 CHEVIE: Whoa-wee. 211 00:10:30,964 --> 00:10:32,966 Still not comfortable. 212 00:10:32,966 --> 00:10:34,300 That ice if I would have stayed out there 213 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:35,568 it would have broke for sure. 214 00:10:35,568 --> 00:10:37,637 I could, I could just feel it. 215 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:40,073 That wasn't just being nervous, that was, 216 00:10:40,073 --> 00:10:42,208 that was ice starting to break. 217 00:10:42,208 --> 00:10:45,812 So, I need to keep on looking and find a little bit 218 00:10:45,812 --> 00:10:48,214 better place to set our fishnet. 219 00:10:48,214 --> 00:10:50,950 And so, I'll just keep on moseying along the river here 220 00:10:50,950 --> 00:10:53,186 and see what I see. 221 00:10:56,089 --> 00:11:01,928 MARIO: I feel like I'm changing into a more self-sufficient 222 00:11:01,928 --> 00:11:04,430 and proficient Alaskan. 223 00:11:04,430 --> 00:11:06,466 It's freaking hard. 224 00:11:06,466 --> 00:11:10,537 Just because it's like simple living doesn't mean it's easy. 225 00:11:13,206 --> 00:11:14,607 CLARE: Do you need a new battery? 226 00:11:14,607 --> 00:11:16,476 MARIO: Yeah, this one's, like, completely dead. 227 00:11:16,476 --> 00:11:17,644 CLARE: Is that a big one? 228 00:11:17,644 --> 00:11:20,146 MARIO: Yeah. But I could have sworn this was like, new. 229 00:11:20,146 --> 00:11:22,081 CLARE: It might have gotten too cold. 230 00:11:22,081 --> 00:11:23,216 MARIO: Yeah, it's just cold, yeah. 231 00:11:23,216 --> 00:11:24,450 CLARE: Yeah. I'm gonna grab another one. 232 00:11:24,450 --> 00:11:26,586 MARIO: Oh, man the cold just zapped the battery. 233 00:11:26,586 --> 00:11:29,422 These tools aren't working at their optimal range, 234 00:11:29,422 --> 00:11:31,958 and so our battery went from being full to 235 00:11:31,958 --> 00:11:33,793 being absolutely drained. 236 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:36,863 And so, we have to have a warm place to keep our tools now, 237 00:11:36,863 --> 00:11:40,400 and we'll keep them in this Arctic entry so we can actually 238 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,270 work instead of have to figure out how to fix our things. 239 00:11:44,270 --> 00:11:47,106 CLARE: That one's charging, and this one, it's good to go. 240 00:11:47,106 --> 00:11:49,309 MARIO: Yeah, with the turrets. 241 00:11:49,943 --> 00:11:52,445 All right, we're getting it in. 242 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:57,951 So, the plan for today is to put the window on it, 243 00:11:57,951 --> 00:12:01,754 put the door in it, and plywood all around. 244 00:12:02,488 --> 00:12:03,623 Yeah, we've got a window. 245 00:12:03,623 --> 00:12:06,426 CLARE: Woo! MARIO: Woo! She's alive. 246 00:12:06,426 --> 00:12:10,396 Basically, formed our main structure. 247 00:12:10,396 --> 00:12:12,899 So, the next step is, let's do the door. 248 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:15,635 CLARE: And you want to use the workshop door. 249 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:18,104 MARIO: Right now, we don't have the time to go make a door... 250 00:12:18,104 --> 00:12:19,272 CLARE: Yeah. MARIO: You know? 251 00:12:19,272 --> 00:12:22,141 And so, we're going to use a door that we already have 252 00:12:22,141 --> 00:12:24,744 in a building that doesn't need a door 253 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:26,045 as much as this needs a door. 254 00:12:26,045 --> 00:12:27,113 CLARE: Great. Sounds good. Yeah. 255 00:12:27,113 --> 00:12:28,581 MARIO: Okay. Great. Let's go grab the door. 256 00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:30,717 CLARE: Yeah. 257 00:12:31,117 --> 00:12:33,519 I'm getting a little more nervous about our winter 258 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:39,092 out here as the heart of winter gets to our doorstep and 259 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:41,961 the Arctic entry is going to be extremely important to 260 00:12:41,961 --> 00:12:44,330 get things warm and water unfrozen 261 00:12:44,330 --> 00:12:47,433 for our animals and for ourselves. 262 00:12:49,035 --> 00:12:52,605 MARIO: Okay. That looks fine though. 263 00:12:52,605 --> 00:12:55,475 CLARE: All right, open her up. MARIO: All right. 264 00:12:56,042 --> 00:12:57,477 Sick! 265 00:12:57,477 --> 00:12:58,578 That looks great so now. 266 00:12:58,578 --> 00:12:59,812 CLARE: Woo! The other side. 267 00:12:59,812 --> 00:13:01,748 MARIO: Let's. Yeah, I don't really know what we're doing, 268 00:13:01,748 --> 00:13:04,350 but we're doing and that's all that matters out here. 269 00:13:04,350 --> 00:13:07,387 CLARE: Yeah. Yeah. MARIO: You just gotta do. 270 00:13:08,354 --> 00:13:10,290 It's looking good. 271 00:13:10,290 --> 00:13:12,692 I'm more interested in what it's gonna do for me 272 00:13:12,692 --> 00:13:14,060 than how it looks. 273 00:13:14,060 --> 00:13:17,163 And really, that's how a lot of things work up here in Alaska. 274 00:13:17,163 --> 00:13:20,667 But, you know, we're making it look nice because it's our home. 275 00:13:23,936 --> 00:13:27,006 Yeah, I was a football star back in middle school. 276 00:13:29,075 --> 00:13:31,210 Last one. 277 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:36,716 It looks good, doesn't it? 278 00:13:36,716 --> 00:13:37,884 CLARE: Yeah. 279 00:13:37,884 --> 00:13:40,186 MARIO: Let's go ahead and start insulating the inside. 280 00:13:40,186 --> 00:13:41,554 CLARE: Yeah. 281 00:13:44,791 --> 00:13:48,161 KALEB: The best way to find places to go trap, 282 00:13:48,161 --> 00:13:51,097 is to go scout in the airplane. 283 00:13:51,097 --> 00:13:54,767 I watch in the fall time because I get a bird's eye view. 284 00:13:54,767 --> 00:13:57,603 I can see straight down through the trees. 285 00:13:58,471 --> 00:14:02,275 And then I know where to go in the wintertime 286 00:14:02,275 --> 00:14:04,043 to trap these beavers. 287 00:14:08,581 --> 00:14:12,585 You can take the first whack and then I'm going to chainsaw it. 288 00:14:15,321 --> 00:14:16,956 Makes it your set, huh? 289 00:14:16,956 --> 00:14:19,125 (laughs) 290 00:14:20,059 --> 00:14:22,895 KALEB: When Beaver trapping, there's always the risk. 291 00:14:24,464 --> 00:14:26,933 That the ice is not as thick as I think it's going to be, 292 00:14:26,933 --> 00:14:29,035 and I could fall in. 293 00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:30,970 In general, this time of year the ice 294 00:14:30,970 --> 00:14:33,072 should be about a foot thick. 295 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:36,242 Which is plenty safe. 296 00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:39,212 But next to the feed piles, which is where we make our sets, 297 00:14:39,212 --> 00:14:41,514 the ice is always a little bit thinner. 298 00:14:43,483 --> 00:14:44,751 All right. 299 00:14:44,751 --> 00:14:49,522 So I've got to be super aware of what the ice is doing around me. 300 00:14:49,956 --> 00:14:51,424 GILBERT: Feel it? 301 00:14:51,424 --> 00:14:54,527 KALEB: Yeah, literally that's bottom right there. 302 00:14:56,629 --> 00:14:59,198 GILBERT: Can you go to the bottom with the shovel? 303 00:14:59,198 --> 00:15:00,900 KALEB: Oh, yeah. 304 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,202 Here's all sorts of weeds and garbage down here. 305 00:15:03,202 --> 00:15:04,270 GILBERT: How you... 306 00:15:04,270 --> 00:15:05,605 KALEB: That bottom right there. 307 00:15:05,605 --> 00:15:09,475 GILBERT: Oh my. That's real shallow. 308 00:15:10,977 --> 00:15:12,945 KALEB: This water's not deep enough for our snares to 309 00:15:12,945 --> 00:15:15,348 be open down there. 310 00:15:17,316 --> 00:15:20,119 So, I think what we'll do is we'll move out more like 311 00:15:20,119 --> 00:15:23,923 right here and see if this is any deeper. 312 00:15:25,024 --> 00:15:27,226 Because right now our snares won't really work down there 313 00:15:27,226 --> 00:15:30,129 because of all the weeds and stuff on the bottom. 314 00:15:30,830 --> 00:15:32,899 (grunts) 315 00:15:33,499 --> 00:15:36,536 KALEB: All right. That hole is decommissioned. 316 00:15:36,536 --> 00:15:38,171 GILBERT: What's that mean? 317 00:15:38,171 --> 00:15:40,473 KALEB: We're not trapping there. 318 00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:45,178 This hole looks like it'll be a lot better. 319 00:15:45,178 --> 00:15:47,780 They need to have enough room to where they can operate freely 320 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,682 without getting tangled up in the brush 321 00:15:49,682 --> 00:15:51,884 at the bottom of the pond. 322 00:15:54,353 --> 00:15:56,155 You want to go get the two bait poles, Gilbert? 323 00:15:56,155 --> 00:15:58,491 GILBERT: Okay. 324 00:15:58,491 --> 00:16:00,493 KALEB: And I'll cut us two dead cross sticks. 325 00:16:02,328 --> 00:16:04,130 Gilbert loves Beaver trapping. 326 00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:07,533 It's something that he talks about and wants to do regularly. 327 00:16:07,533 --> 00:16:11,571 So, he's super stoked to go out and do this with me. 328 00:16:11,571 --> 00:16:14,207 And I think that he's starting to get the foundation to where 329 00:16:14,207 --> 00:16:16,476 once he's able to operate the tools that 330 00:16:16,476 --> 00:16:18,544 get us through the ice. 331 00:16:18,544 --> 00:16:21,380 He'll be out here trapping the Beavers on his own. 332 00:16:24,183 --> 00:16:25,418 We'll go stand. 333 00:16:25,418 --> 00:16:26,886 Hey, Gilbert, come on. 334 00:16:26,886 --> 00:16:28,321 GILBERT: I'm grabbing these. 335 00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:31,123 KALEB: We'll stand where it's safe to rig these snares up. 336 00:16:33,626 --> 00:16:34,827 Okay. 337 00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:38,130 And then you can hold these up which that's our water line. 338 00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:41,534 So, these are all reach up above the water which is good. 339 00:16:42,668 --> 00:16:45,771 That one's open all different directions. 340 00:16:45,771 --> 00:16:48,908 Beaver will go working his way around the pole and 341 00:16:48,908 --> 00:16:51,510 he'll be caught before he even knows it. 342 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:53,646 All right, let's go set this. 343 00:16:53,646 --> 00:16:55,181 Okay, you ready for it to go in the hole? 344 00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:56,916 GILBERT: Yeah. 345 00:17:01,254 --> 00:17:02,788 KALEB: Oh, man, it's deep here. 346 00:17:02,788 --> 00:17:05,458 GILBERT: Yeah. KALEB: It's over my head. 347 00:17:06,158 --> 00:17:08,594 GILBERT: Good picking here. 348 00:17:08,594 --> 00:17:11,330 KALEB: Drops off deep here. 349 00:17:11,631 --> 00:17:13,900 (cracking) 350 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:15,601 Shooting cracks. 351 00:17:15,601 --> 00:17:18,037 (cracking) 352 00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:19,906 GILBERT: I could feel that crack, it scares me. 353 00:17:19,906 --> 00:17:21,007 KALEB: Yeah, I could hear it. 354 00:17:21,007 --> 00:17:22,008 (cracking) 355 00:17:22,008 --> 00:17:23,676 Watch out. 356 00:17:25,678 --> 00:17:27,813 KALEB: Woo, shooting cracks! 357 00:17:27,813 --> 00:17:30,316 Those get my heart to pumping. 358 00:17:30,316 --> 00:17:32,852 GILBERT: It scared me. 359 00:17:33,252 --> 00:17:36,656 KALEB: Shooting cracks are when the ice has stress in it, 360 00:17:36,656 --> 00:17:38,791 and something happens that breaks 361 00:17:38,791 --> 00:17:40,726 the surface tension of the ice. 362 00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:43,396 It relieves the stress, and it shoots cracks out from 363 00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:45,665 wherever that epicenter is. 364 00:17:45,665 --> 00:17:49,268 It's basically like an earthquake. 365 00:17:49,268 --> 00:17:51,203 We're going to put snow in the sled and haul it over here and 366 00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:53,372 then stick the snow on top of this. 367 00:17:53,372 --> 00:17:54,974 GILBERT: Ah! 368 00:17:54,974 --> 00:17:58,010 KALEB: This is a really good reminder that no matter how 369 00:17:58,010 --> 00:18:02,181 confident I am about the safety of what I'm doing. 370 00:18:02,181 --> 00:18:05,618 All right, this one's done except for covering. 371 00:18:05,618 --> 00:18:07,954 Sometimes nature just thumps her nose at me. 372 00:18:07,954 --> 00:18:10,923 GILBERT: You're making it harder. 373 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:13,192 KALEB: All right, let's go. 374 00:18:14,961 --> 00:18:18,431 And despite the dangers, we have to try our best and 375 00:18:18,431 --> 00:18:20,933 we have to put out our most honest effort 376 00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:23,369 to catch these beavers. 377 00:18:23,369 --> 00:18:24,737 All right. 378 00:18:24,737 --> 00:18:26,973 We'll get all of it on there. 379 00:18:30,076 --> 00:18:35,815 CHEVIE: There's a fine line between dangerous and safe. 380 00:18:37,016 --> 00:18:40,486 (cracking) 381 00:18:40,486 --> 00:18:43,389 And you have to walk that line. 382 00:18:45,691 --> 00:18:47,493 (grunts) 383 00:18:47,493 --> 00:18:49,295 CHEVIE: A lot of the times we do it is when 384 00:18:49,295 --> 00:18:51,998 we're putting fish nets under the ice. 385 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,169 First, we'll pull our net across the ice. 386 00:18:58,037 --> 00:19:00,706 And then we'll cut a bunch of holes. 387 00:19:00,706 --> 00:19:03,809 And I'll show you how to run this net under the ice. 388 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:05,678 Winter's really kinda happened overnight. 389 00:19:05,678 --> 00:19:08,381 It's gotten really cold, the ice is thick here, 390 00:19:08,381 --> 00:19:11,083 it really feels like a good, safe place to be able to set 391 00:19:11,083 --> 00:19:13,753 a net with Ryder for the first time. 392 00:19:13,753 --> 00:19:16,589 Let's see what kind of shape our net's in. 393 00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:18,791 In the fall, when the lakes start freezing, 394 00:19:18,791 --> 00:19:22,495 the whitefish leave and go to deeper water in the Yukon River. 395 00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:23,896 So there's only one time a year 396 00:19:23,896 --> 00:19:28,267 these fish run downriver into the Yukon. 397 00:19:28,267 --> 00:19:30,469 And that time is now. 398 00:19:30,870 --> 00:19:31,904 (sighs) 399 00:19:31,904 --> 00:19:33,039 RYDER: Let me try. 400 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:34,106 CHEVIE: Just don't drop it down the hole. 401 00:19:34,106 --> 00:19:35,808 RYDER: No. 402 00:19:35,808 --> 00:19:37,476 CHEVIE: You get a little frustrated with life, 403 00:19:37,476 --> 00:19:39,211 get a little mad at your dad, you know? 404 00:19:39,211 --> 00:19:40,613 You know how you do? 405 00:19:40,613 --> 00:19:42,882 RYDER: Hi-yah. 406 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:46,786 Oh my gosh. 407 00:19:46,786 --> 00:19:48,988 (laughs) 408 00:19:48,988 --> 00:19:50,456 CHEVIE: When they're willing and they're ready and 409 00:19:50,456 --> 00:19:53,659 they think it's fun, you better capitalize on that. 410 00:19:53,659 --> 00:19:55,928 'Cause that time's not gonna last forever. 411 00:19:55,928 --> 00:19:58,130 RYDER: The last hole finally. 412 00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:02,234 CHEVIE: Okay, ready? RYDER: Yeah. 413 00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:06,505 CHEVIE: Here it comes. 414 00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:08,174 Look. Look. 415 00:20:08,174 --> 00:20:09,575 RYDER: Oh, I see it. CHEVIE: Grab it. 416 00:20:09,575 --> 00:20:11,544 RYDER: When? 417 00:20:12,078 --> 00:20:13,479 CHEVIE: You miss it? 418 00:20:13,479 --> 00:20:15,614 RYDER: I couldn't do it, my hands are too cold. 419 00:20:15,614 --> 00:20:17,883 (laughs) 420 00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:19,418 CHEVIE: Okay, take a break. 421 00:20:19,418 --> 00:20:21,887 Now you see how it's gonna work. 422 00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:25,357 As a parent you gotta know when to push your kids just 423 00:20:25,357 --> 00:20:28,661 a little bit because it's really just a rite of passage for Ryder 424 00:20:28,661 --> 00:20:31,564 proving to himself he can do it. 425 00:20:31,564 --> 00:20:33,132 Ready? 426 00:20:33,132 --> 00:20:35,034 RYDER: Yeah. 427 00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:40,206 CHEVIE: See it? You gotta look for it first. 428 00:20:40,206 --> 00:20:41,207 Okay, you got it? 429 00:20:41,207 --> 00:20:42,641 RYDER: Almost I got it. I got it. 430 00:20:42,641 --> 00:20:44,677 CHEVIE: Okay, you know you're gonna have to push it to me. 431 00:20:44,677 --> 00:20:46,245 RYDER: Oh my gosh my hand hurts. 432 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:48,814 Ah dad hurry, please hurry. 433 00:20:48,814 --> 00:20:52,084 CHEVIE: Okay, push it to the next one, fast. 434 00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:55,154 RYDER: I'm trying to. My arms are freezing. 435 00:20:55,154 --> 00:20:56,422 CHEVIE: Pull your arms out. Pull your arms out. 436 00:20:56,422 --> 00:20:58,290 I got it! 'Kay, warm up. 437 00:20:58,290 --> 00:21:00,526 Go to the, go to the next one. 438 00:21:03,362 --> 00:21:04,597 It's good for you to know how cold it is. 439 00:21:04,597 --> 00:21:06,398 It makes you respect this water. 440 00:21:06,398 --> 00:21:07,600 RYDER: Okay. 441 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,069 CHEVIE: It'll take your life right now if you fall in it. 442 00:21:10,069 --> 00:21:12,037 Okay, here it comes Ryder. 443 00:21:12,037 --> 00:21:13,906 Looking for it? Got it? 444 00:21:13,906 --> 00:21:16,308 RYDER: Yeah. I'm holding. 445 00:21:16,308 --> 00:21:17,343 CHEVIE: Hold on to it good. 446 00:21:17,343 --> 00:21:18,344 It's slippery. 447 00:21:18,344 --> 00:21:19,512 Okay, I got it. 448 00:21:19,512 --> 00:21:20,679 RYDER: You got it? CHEVIE: You got one more. 449 00:21:20,679 --> 00:21:22,047 Go to the next one. 450 00:21:22,047 --> 00:21:23,849 RYDER: I couldn't. CHEVIE: Hurry up, hurry up. 451 00:21:23,849 --> 00:21:26,051 Fast! 452 00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:29,288 Grab the, the, the, the stick. 453 00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:30,389 RYDER: Do I pull it out? 454 00:21:30,389 --> 00:21:32,091 CHEVIE: Yeah, go ahead, pull it out if you can. 455 00:21:32,091 --> 00:21:34,226 RYDER: I couldn't. I couldn't pull it up. 456 00:21:34,226 --> 00:21:35,227 CHEVIE: Okay, wait. Wait for me. Don't... 457 00:21:35,227 --> 00:21:36,896 Don't, hold it right there. 458 00:21:36,896 --> 00:21:38,564 RYDER: My arms, I gonna go get my jacket now. 459 00:21:38,564 --> 00:21:39,932 CHEVIE: Go ahead, go get your jacket. 460 00:21:39,932 --> 00:21:43,335 RYDER: I am. You're making me die and freeze. 461 00:21:43,669 --> 00:21:48,007 CHEVIE: Ryder's my only boy and it's good for us to get out 462 00:21:48,007 --> 00:21:50,075 and work together. 463 00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:51,744 Good job, man. 464 00:21:51,744 --> 00:21:53,145 RYDER: I don't know why I'm doing this. 465 00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:55,681 CHEVIE: What? You did great. 466 00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:57,516 This is something that I would have had 467 00:21:57,516 --> 00:21:59,885 a really hard time doing without him. 468 00:21:59,885 --> 00:22:01,887 Okay, hold it right there. 469 00:22:01,887 --> 00:22:03,689 RYDER: Okay. 470 00:22:03,689 --> 00:22:06,125 CHEVIE: And now we're going to go set another net. 471 00:22:06,125 --> 00:22:08,394 All right, good. 472 00:22:09,461 --> 00:22:11,330 How many other nine year olds do you see out here? 473 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:12,865 RYDER: I don't see anyone. 474 00:22:12,865 --> 00:22:15,668 CHEVIE: I don't see anyone either. 475 00:22:18,237 --> 00:22:20,639 SAMANTHA: Whenever we lose an animal that we are not 476 00:22:20,639 --> 00:22:23,209 butchering for food, it's a huge emotional hit just because 477 00:22:23,209 --> 00:22:25,311 we put so much time and energy, 478 00:22:25,311 --> 00:22:27,780 but it's also a huge financial hit. 479 00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:30,850 We can't afford to lose another animal. 480 00:22:33,786 --> 00:22:35,354 And it's, it's getting colder every day. 481 00:22:35,354 --> 00:22:38,390 We need to get Lily in here, so she can have her baby and 482 00:22:38,390 --> 00:22:40,526 not have to worry about her losing it. 483 00:22:40,526 --> 00:22:43,162 I think that's pretty vital at this point. 484 00:22:43,162 --> 00:22:44,396 NATHAN: Yeah. 485 00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:45,531 We need to hurry up and get it done 'cause 486 00:22:45,531 --> 00:22:46,632 it's not getting any warmer. 487 00:22:46,632 --> 00:22:47,633 SAMANTHA: No. 488 00:22:47,633 --> 00:22:49,535 NATHAN: We'll start with the insulation. 489 00:22:49,535 --> 00:22:52,671 I guess we'll just go piece by piece just like we did in there. 490 00:22:52,671 --> 00:22:54,673 SAMANTHA: Yep, we'll do it. NATHAN: Alrighty. 491 00:22:54,673 --> 00:22:57,009 Cool, let's grab the insulation. 492 00:22:59,011 --> 00:23:00,713 SAMANTHA: Lily is about to give birth. 493 00:23:00,713 --> 00:23:02,781 She could be ready to drop any second now, 494 00:23:02,781 --> 00:23:04,550 or it could be another month or two. 495 00:23:04,550 --> 00:23:06,919 It's time to get this milk barn done 496 00:23:06,919 --> 00:23:08,120 and get her in it. 497 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:11,357 That way we don't have to worry about if she drops her baby. 498 00:23:11,357 --> 00:23:13,359 NATHAN: Every single piece of this farm, you know, 499 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,295 it's just a constant infrastructure work. 500 00:23:16,295 --> 00:23:19,198 Constant refurbishing. 501 00:23:19,198 --> 00:23:22,201 Re-insulating, paneling, fencing. 502 00:23:22,201 --> 00:23:23,569 (laughs) 503 00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:25,838 NATHAN: I mean, that's about half of what we do is... 504 00:23:25,838 --> 00:23:27,172 SAMANTHA: Right. 505 00:23:27,172 --> 00:23:30,175 NATHAN: Just animal housing and fencing. 506 00:23:31,577 --> 00:23:33,479 SAMANTHA: Having Lily in the milk barn is going to be vital 507 00:23:33,479 --> 00:23:36,215 because as long as she is producing milk, 508 00:23:36,215 --> 00:23:39,351 she will be around to both feed her baby and 509 00:23:39,351 --> 00:23:42,221 to provide for us her milk. 510 00:23:46,492 --> 00:23:48,427 NATHAN: Like all the way to the side. 511 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:50,529 SAMANTHA: Oh, I thought I did. 512 00:23:52,131 --> 00:23:54,566 (coughing) 513 00:23:54,566 --> 00:23:55,701 I'm pretty sure I just breathed that in. 514 00:23:55,701 --> 00:23:57,503 NATHAN: Yeah, you should, you should probably be 515 00:23:57,503 --> 00:23:58,904 wearing something over your face. 516 00:23:58,904 --> 00:24:01,173 Especially considering your asthma. 517 00:24:01,974 --> 00:24:04,143 SAMANTHA: I don't currently have anything. 518 00:24:04,143 --> 00:24:05,444 Right here, here. 519 00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:07,212 Hold on, I'm gonna have to because it's starting, 520 00:24:07,212 --> 00:24:08,314 it's getting in my eyes and... 521 00:24:08,314 --> 00:24:10,349 (groans) 522 00:24:10,349 --> 00:24:12,785 I have insulation in my eyes. 523 00:24:13,852 --> 00:24:16,121 Okay. Hold on. 524 00:24:17,623 --> 00:24:19,491 (groans) 525 00:24:19,491 --> 00:24:23,095 SAMANTHA: Blinking fiberglass out of my eyes. 526 00:24:23,095 --> 00:24:26,131 Instead of just inhaling it. 527 00:24:27,399 --> 00:24:28,734 I don't know if it'll really help with the, 528 00:24:28,734 --> 00:24:29,735 the whole eye thing. 529 00:24:29,735 --> 00:24:30,803 How does this work? 530 00:24:30,803 --> 00:24:31,937 There it is. 531 00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:33,839 NATHAN: Actually, that's not gonna work. 532 00:24:39,211 --> 00:24:41,513 SAMANTHA: It's succeeding. 533 00:24:48,854 --> 00:24:51,357 This is working out pretty well. 534 00:24:51,357 --> 00:24:53,926 (drill whirring) 535 00:24:53,926 --> 00:24:56,628 NATHAN: Yeah. SAMANTHA: Yeah. 536 00:25:00,833 --> 00:25:03,135 Hopefully this will actually like, 537 00:25:03,135 --> 00:25:06,071 retain and like radiate the heat back too. 538 00:25:06,071 --> 00:25:09,241 NATHAN: It already feels warmer than it did. 539 00:25:09,241 --> 00:25:10,609 SAMANTHA: Right? NATHAN: Yeah. 540 00:25:10,609 --> 00:25:12,444 SAMANTHA: Warm. 541 00:25:17,116 --> 00:25:18,417 CHEVIE: The water's really high. 542 00:25:18,417 --> 00:25:20,519 You have a big river to fish. 543 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:23,689 The fish could either be on the other side of the river, 544 00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:27,526 under my net, or they're just not running yet. 545 00:25:33,165 --> 00:25:36,468 All right, let's see what we got here today. 546 00:25:37,136 --> 00:25:39,872 Out here checking it by myself, Ryder's in school. 547 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:42,141 Sometimes he misses one of the checks, 548 00:25:42,141 --> 00:25:44,343 but that's just part of it. 549 00:25:45,778 --> 00:25:48,580 A lot of times I'll be pulling the net out right here. 550 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:49,882 I pull the net up like this. 551 00:25:49,882 --> 00:25:52,584 And Ryder's dragging it out that way, 552 00:25:52,584 --> 00:25:53,752 and it's a really big help. 553 00:25:53,752 --> 00:25:55,521 But I'm here by myself today. 554 00:25:55,521 --> 00:25:58,223 I gotta pull it out and drag it. 555 00:25:59,525 --> 00:26:01,593 When you're out on the land playing a sport, 556 00:26:01,593 --> 00:26:04,696 you're gonna lose some games and you're gonna lose some animals. 557 00:26:04,696 --> 00:26:09,201 Those moments where you're defeated really is what makes 558 00:26:09,201 --> 00:26:12,871 that success of pulling that net outta the ice full of fish 559 00:26:12,871 --> 00:26:15,574 so great is because you know that there's moments where 560 00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:17,843 you've been defeated and you've lost and 561 00:26:17,843 --> 00:26:20,045 you've had some hard times. 562 00:26:20,045 --> 00:26:22,381 What's important is I gotta get this untied. 563 00:26:22,381 --> 00:26:24,416 Soon as it goes loose, I gotta get over there, 564 00:26:24,416 --> 00:26:28,187 pull this net out as fast as I can, so net, 565 00:26:28,187 --> 00:26:29,955 fish don't fall out of the net, 566 00:26:29,955 --> 00:26:33,258 'cause my net's gonna try to go down river so. 567 00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:37,096 Feels pretty heavy. 568 00:26:44,803 --> 00:26:51,243 ♪ ♪ 569 00:26:51,243 --> 00:26:53,445 Oh, one little pike there. 570 00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:55,781 Not a whitefish, but it's a fish. 571 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:04,423 Little bit of slush. 572 00:27:06,658 --> 00:27:07,726 Okay, that's it. 573 00:27:07,726 --> 00:27:10,362 No whitefish today it doesn't look like. 574 00:27:10,362 --> 00:27:12,865 Caught one pike. 575 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,035 I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that 576 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:19,838 the fish aren't here yet. 577 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,743 When you do get a lot of fish and you hit the run just right, 578 00:27:24,743 --> 00:27:27,079 you appreciate it more. 579 00:27:27,079 --> 00:27:29,114 It feels good. 580 00:27:29,815 --> 00:27:31,083 You win some and you lose some, 581 00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:33,485 but you gotta get up and play every. 582 00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:35,420 All right, got everything all cleaned up here. 583 00:27:35,420 --> 00:27:37,623 Ready to check again tomorrow. 584 00:27:37,623 --> 00:27:40,392 No whitefish today, but was happy to see a fish 585 00:27:40,392 --> 00:27:41,894 come out of the hole. 586 00:27:41,894 --> 00:27:43,996 Fresh fish is fresh fish. 587 00:27:47,566 --> 00:27:49,268 KALEB: Everywhere I go and everything I do, 588 00:27:49,268 --> 00:27:53,705 I'm constantly watching out for something I can hunt or 589 00:27:53,705 --> 00:27:56,575 trap to help sustain our family out in the bush. 590 00:28:04,883 --> 00:28:07,619 You wanna check the close one or the far one first? 591 00:28:07,619 --> 00:28:10,355 GILBERT: Um, the far one because it mine. 592 00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:13,091 KALEB: All right, we're checking the far one. 593 00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:15,994 Today we're gonna peek down in the water and 594 00:28:15,994 --> 00:28:17,763 see if there's anything in our snares and 595 00:28:17,763 --> 00:28:19,831 hopefully catch a couple beavers. 596 00:28:20,732 --> 00:28:24,336 Hope the plastic isn't frozen in too much. 597 00:28:24,336 --> 00:28:26,772 And all we want to do is just peel away one corner of 598 00:28:26,772 --> 00:28:30,642 the build-up of snow and look down in the hole. 599 00:28:32,077 --> 00:28:34,112 Well, I don't think this one caught anything. 600 00:28:34,112 --> 00:28:35,914 GILBERT: That's a bummer. 601 00:28:35,914 --> 00:28:37,716 KALEB: Let's go check the other one. 602 00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:39,818 I have taken the kids out beaver trapping before 603 00:28:39,818 --> 00:28:44,022 and failed, and this is kind of our redemption pass. 604 00:28:44,022 --> 00:28:46,892 We have to try our best and catch these beavers. 605 00:28:46,892 --> 00:28:49,528 GILBERT: Peel it up. 606 00:28:50,596 --> 00:28:52,197 What do you see? 607 00:28:52,197 --> 00:28:53,632 KALEB: We did not catch anything. 608 00:28:53,632 --> 00:28:54,900 GILBERT: Oh. 609 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,336 KALEB: And I don't see any sign that a beaver has chewed 610 00:28:57,336 --> 00:28:58,704 on our stick yet. 611 00:28:58,704 --> 00:28:59,938 All right. 612 00:28:59,938 --> 00:29:02,441 GILBERT: This is not lucky. 613 00:29:04,343 --> 00:29:06,612 KALEB: So we need to pull the plastic off 614 00:29:06,612 --> 00:29:08,380 and reset the snares. 615 00:29:08,380 --> 00:29:11,917 It's not a guaranteed thing to catch a beaver or 616 00:29:11,917 --> 00:29:14,486 any animal for that matter. 617 00:29:14,486 --> 00:29:16,989 Oh, and I am not looking forward to this. 618 00:29:16,989 --> 00:29:19,258 This water is cold. 619 00:29:19,258 --> 00:29:21,293 They are doing their best to survive, 620 00:29:21,293 --> 00:29:23,629 and survival does not include stepping in traps and 621 00:29:23,629 --> 00:29:25,964 getting caught and killed. 622 00:29:25,964 --> 00:29:32,237 All right, well, this set is back in business, 623 00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:36,508 so I'll finish shoveling all this up. 624 00:29:36,508 --> 00:29:38,877 Then we'll go check the other ones. 625 00:29:41,213 --> 00:29:42,514 The other set has been waiting for us 626 00:29:42,514 --> 00:29:47,185 a whole entire day longer, so maybe, just maybe, 627 00:29:47,185 --> 00:29:50,455 it'll have a beaver in it. 628 00:29:51,490 --> 00:29:53,659 Yeah, this pond was really shallow and 629 00:29:53,659 --> 00:29:55,661 the other pond was really deep. 630 00:29:55,661 --> 00:29:58,964 GILBERT: I think it's hard work to trap a beaver. 631 00:29:58,964 --> 00:30:00,132 KALEB: Yeah. 632 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:01,533 Why do you think it's hard work? 633 00:30:01,533 --> 00:30:03,702 GILBERT: Because all the steps you have to do. 634 00:30:03,702 --> 00:30:06,071 KALEB: Yeah, that's how it is with everything. 635 00:30:09,041 --> 00:30:11,576 GILBERT: What is that? 636 00:30:11,576 --> 00:30:13,145 Do you think a beaver? 637 00:30:13,145 --> 00:30:15,347 KALEB: I don't know what was in there. 638 00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:22,788 All right, you ready? 639 00:30:24,222 --> 00:30:26,892 This could be real interesting. 640 00:30:27,693 --> 00:30:30,962 Oh, Gilbert, look at that. 641 00:30:32,597 --> 00:30:34,566 KALEB: Oh, geez. 642 00:30:34,566 --> 00:30:36,601 All right, gotta get this guy in the snow, quick. 643 00:30:36,601 --> 00:30:39,204 GILBERT: Yahoo! KALEB: We got us a beaver. 644 00:30:39,204 --> 00:30:41,406 GILBERT: That's huge! 645 00:30:41,406 --> 00:30:42,708 (sighs) 646 00:30:42,708 --> 00:30:45,377 KALEB: That's a nice medium sized beaver, I'd say. 647 00:30:45,377 --> 00:30:47,546 GILBERT: The webbed feet are cool. 648 00:30:47,546 --> 00:30:48,547 KALEB: Yeah and look on the tail. 649 00:30:48,547 --> 00:30:49,581 Look at that. 650 00:30:49,581 --> 00:30:51,616 Something took a big old bite out of his tail. 651 00:30:51,616 --> 00:30:52,851 GILBERT: What do you think? 652 00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:55,721 KALEB: I think he had a close encounter with a bear. 653 00:30:55,721 --> 00:30:58,256 GILBERT: A bear? KALEB: Yeah. 654 00:30:58,256 --> 00:31:01,993 Ah, you stinky rodent, yank him around in the snow and 655 00:31:01,993 --> 00:31:05,464 start getting his body all dried out. 656 00:31:07,432 --> 00:31:08,967 GILBERT: This is my first beaver. 657 00:31:08,967 --> 00:31:10,368 KALEB: These are the biggest rodents in 658 00:31:10,368 --> 00:31:12,738 North America right here. 659 00:31:12,738 --> 00:31:14,940 GILBERT: That's such a pretty color. 660 00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:19,044 KALEB: Oh yeah. This is the premium fur. 661 00:31:25,517 --> 00:31:28,220 Let's go. 662 00:31:31,790 --> 00:31:34,426 MARIO: In this wild country, it's really essential to be 663 00:31:34,426 --> 00:31:36,828 a good problem solver. 664 00:31:36,828 --> 00:31:39,598 Being able to make decisions quick and fast out here could 665 00:31:39,598 --> 00:31:41,967 be the difference between life and death. 666 00:31:44,536 --> 00:31:46,471 Oh, no. No. 667 00:31:46,471 --> 00:31:47,906 CLARE: Too far. 668 00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:51,143 MARIO: Too, too far. 669 00:31:51,143 --> 00:31:54,312 I didn't expect that to go so well. 670 00:31:56,214 --> 00:31:59,217 CLARE: So, we've got our framing done and we're going to 671 00:31:59,217 --> 00:32:02,220 put in our insulation next. 672 00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:04,122 MARIO: You don't want your insulation getting wet and 673 00:32:04,122 --> 00:32:06,258 potentially molding over time. 674 00:32:06,258 --> 00:32:09,194 And then you also want it to do its job to stay dry. 675 00:32:09,194 --> 00:32:11,062 And if you get that process correct, 676 00:32:11,062 --> 00:32:12,631 you're gonna ultimately end up trapping 677 00:32:12,631 --> 00:32:14,432 as much heat as possible. 678 00:32:14,432 --> 00:32:15,734 Freaking awesome. 679 00:32:15,734 --> 00:32:16,968 CLARE: Mm-hmm. 680 00:32:16,968 --> 00:32:18,470 MARIO: All right, so let's go ahead and plastic the inside. 681 00:32:18,470 --> 00:32:20,272 CLARE: Mm-hmm. 682 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,409 MARIO: Okay. 683 00:32:24,409 --> 00:32:26,978 Let's put some plastic on it. 684 00:32:32,551 --> 00:32:35,954 And this will keep moisture from building up in there. 685 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:38,056 The interior of Alaska is a really beautiful and 686 00:32:38,056 --> 00:32:42,594 unique place, and while there are harsh conditions, 687 00:32:42,594 --> 00:32:45,263 no matter what happens here, we're gonna persevere and 688 00:32:45,263 --> 00:32:46,431 we're gonna succeed. 689 00:32:46,431 --> 00:32:48,733 We're both tough people and that, 690 00:32:48,733 --> 00:32:52,137 tough times don't last and tough people do. 691 00:32:53,238 --> 00:32:54,506 There we go. 692 00:32:54,506 --> 00:32:55,540 CLARE: Okay. MARIO: There you go. 693 00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:56,541 (bleep) that. 694 00:32:56,541 --> 00:32:58,643 CLARE: Yeah. 695 00:33:00,545 --> 00:33:02,948 Nice. Perfect. 696 00:33:08,019 --> 00:33:09,221 Looks good, huh? 697 00:33:09,221 --> 00:33:10,689 MARIO: It's done. Yeah. CLARE: Great. Yeah. 698 00:33:10,689 --> 00:33:12,390 MARIO: Great. 699 00:33:15,794 --> 00:33:18,296 NATHAN: It's not easy farming in the middle of nowhere in Alaska 700 00:33:18,296 --> 00:33:20,599 through these brutal winters. 701 00:33:20,599 --> 00:33:23,268 We're doing everything we can to get our facilities in 702 00:33:23,268 --> 00:33:25,570 tip top shape, get everything insulated and warm. 703 00:33:25,570 --> 00:33:28,740 And have a good place for every animal to go. 704 00:33:31,943 --> 00:33:34,346 I mean, the plan for now is to build some 705 00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:36,248 goat play structures in here. 706 00:33:36,248 --> 00:33:37,315 We got scrap wood. 707 00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:38,416 We got pallets. 708 00:33:38,416 --> 00:33:39,518 SAMANTHA: See what we can make. 709 00:33:39,518 --> 00:33:40,585 NATHAN: Yeah, let's go grab our materials and 710 00:33:40,585 --> 00:33:41,887 we'll get creative. 711 00:33:41,887 --> 00:33:43,788 SAMANTHA: Sweet. 712 00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:46,424 NATHAN: So the indoor goat playground is important 713 00:33:46,424 --> 00:33:48,293 because when you have animals cooped up, 714 00:33:48,293 --> 00:33:49,494 they need something to do. 715 00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:51,196 They need a way to get out their energy, you know, 716 00:33:51,196 --> 00:33:52,497 if they're stuck in a room, 717 00:33:52,497 --> 00:33:54,900 it's kind of a depressing way to live your life. 718 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,801 So we're gonna try to give 'em the happy place 719 00:33:56,801 --> 00:33:58,003 to kind of hang around. 720 00:33:58,003 --> 00:34:00,272 Things to jump on, they can snuggle under, 721 00:34:00,272 --> 00:34:03,742 or get warm and just give 'em some entertainment. 722 00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:06,711 So let's start with some... 723 00:34:07,646 --> 00:34:09,014 So you're thinking one level here? 724 00:34:09,014 --> 00:34:10,348 SAMANTHA: Yeah. NATHAN: Two levels there. 725 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:11,850 This would be the lowest level. 726 00:34:11,850 --> 00:34:14,319 Have a ramp going up to the lowest level of ridge 727 00:34:14,319 --> 00:34:15,954 going to the second. 728 00:34:15,954 --> 00:34:17,289 And then like a level on top of that that 729 00:34:17,289 --> 00:34:18,723 they can just jump onto. 730 00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:20,191 SAMANTHA: Yeah, I like it. 731 00:34:20,191 --> 00:34:22,093 NATHAN: Their relatives are climbing up 732 00:34:22,093 --> 00:34:23,962 the sides of mountain cliffs. 733 00:34:23,962 --> 00:34:25,363 You don't like that? 734 00:34:25,363 --> 00:34:28,633 So we're trying to, you know, replicate that in a sense. 735 00:34:28,633 --> 00:34:31,169 I think it'll be good for 'em and it'll keep 'em healthy. 736 00:34:31,169 --> 00:34:32,904 SAMANTHA: You know, our kids like to climb, 737 00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:35,106 so that's like a whole thing. 738 00:34:36,675 --> 00:34:39,978 So we have to do this with both the goats and 739 00:34:39,978 --> 00:34:41,646 our children in mind, like... 740 00:34:41,646 --> 00:34:42,847 NATHAN: Yeah. 741 00:34:42,847 --> 00:34:45,116 SAMANTHA: I like my animals to be happy because 742 00:34:45,116 --> 00:34:47,152 happy animals produce better milk. 743 00:34:47,152 --> 00:34:48,453 They produce better eggs. 744 00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:51,256 You can taste the difference. 745 00:34:52,123 --> 00:34:56,194 Should I go ahead and cut these off now? 746 00:34:59,364 --> 00:35:01,032 NATHAN: What do you think? SAMANTHA: I love it. 747 00:35:01,032 --> 00:35:03,068 I think it's, I think it's amazing. 748 00:35:03,068 --> 00:35:04,336 I think they're gonna love it. 749 00:35:04,336 --> 00:35:05,670 NATHAN: For goats anyways. 750 00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:07,038 They wanna climb on everything, 751 00:35:07,038 --> 00:35:08,873 jump on everything, get on the highest point. 752 00:35:08,873 --> 00:35:10,575 So, we'll find out. 753 00:35:10,575 --> 00:35:11,977 SAMANTHA: Right? 754 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,082 CHEVIE: If you want to be successful in Alaska, 755 00:35:17,082 --> 00:35:19,517 you have to be able to know when to thread the needle. 756 00:35:22,287 --> 00:35:24,723 So if you're scared and cautious, 757 00:35:24,723 --> 00:35:26,992 you're gonna be hungry. 758 00:35:29,260 --> 00:35:32,330 You gotta be able to get out there when the fish is running. 759 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:37,602 How's your little puppy doing, Emmy? 760 00:35:37,602 --> 00:35:40,372 EMERY: Oh, she's good. 761 00:35:40,372 --> 00:35:42,240 SONTA: She's pretty happy. 762 00:35:45,110 --> 00:35:47,245 CHEVIE: What you think, Ry-Ry? 763 00:35:47,245 --> 00:35:50,315 Okay, I'll show you what to do, okay? 764 00:35:51,082 --> 00:35:53,918 Whether it's Ryder, or one of the girls. 765 00:35:53,918 --> 00:35:56,755 We're gonna untie that one first and you're gonna hold onto it. 766 00:35:56,755 --> 00:35:58,556 All right? 767 00:35:58,556 --> 00:36:00,425 I think it's important for the family to come behind 768 00:36:00,425 --> 00:36:02,727 the person that's doing something new. 769 00:36:02,727 --> 00:36:04,729 Okay. Come here, buddy. 770 00:36:04,729 --> 00:36:07,198 Yeah, come over. Come. 771 00:36:07,198 --> 00:36:10,935 Whether they succeed or fail, and support them. 772 00:36:10,935 --> 00:36:13,571 Go, go, go. 773 00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:17,575 RYDER: All the way to the top? 774 00:36:17,575 --> 00:36:19,310 CHEVIE: Okay, come up here, Ryder. 775 00:36:19,310 --> 00:36:20,445 Right up here. 776 00:36:20,445 --> 00:36:22,647 Grab the end of this net. 777 00:36:23,148 --> 00:36:26,084 Come grab the net, oh, one whitefish. 778 00:36:27,285 --> 00:36:29,487 One fish. 779 00:36:29,487 --> 00:36:32,390 SONTA: Only one? CHEVIE: Only one. 780 00:36:33,591 --> 00:36:35,794 Oh, two. 781 00:36:35,794 --> 00:36:38,263 Only two, but the two fish is better than none. 782 00:36:38,263 --> 00:36:39,664 RYDER: Straight now. 783 00:36:39,664 --> 00:36:41,166 CHEVIE: It's these times like this that 784 00:36:41,166 --> 00:36:44,769 you get to bond with them. 785 00:36:44,769 --> 00:36:46,971 SONTA: Nice. Look, Chevelle. 786 00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:48,573 CHEVIE: And they're constantly growing. 787 00:36:48,573 --> 00:36:50,175 They're constantly developing. 788 00:36:50,175 --> 00:36:52,110 They're always changing. 789 00:36:52,110 --> 00:36:54,779 SONTA: Good job, Ryder. 790 00:36:54,779 --> 00:36:59,017 CHEVIE: If we fished this hole and there's a lot of fish here, 791 00:36:59,017 --> 00:37:01,753 and it just gets more and more and more, okay? 792 00:37:01,753 --> 00:37:03,655 It, it'll, it's the beginning. 793 00:37:03,655 --> 00:37:06,357 And then it'll peak and you'll get lots every day, 794 00:37:06,357 --> 00:37:08,193 and then it'll just go back down. 795 00:37:08,193 --> 00:37:10,695 We'll fish the whole time. 796 00:37:10,695 --> 00:37:12,730 Wanna check this one? 797 00:37:12,730 --> 00:37:16,000 We want to develop somebody that has respect for the land 798 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,036 and is able to thrive on the land. 799 00:37:18,036 --> 00:37:20,905 It's important for Ryder to be a part of that and to know that 800 00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:23,241 and be able to feed himself. 801 00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:25,210 This one's in the middle of the river, okay? 802 00:37:25,210 --> 00:37:27,612 See how fast it wants to go down river. 803 00:37:27,612 --> 00:37:30,415 Okay, go ahead. 804 00:37:31,816 --> 00:37:35,086 RYDER: Whoa. CHEVIE: Got it? 805 00:37:44,829 --> 00:37:47,098 Go ahead and let it go. 806 00:37:49,134 --> 00:37:51,269 Okay. Come. Come. 807 00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:56,508 Okay. Come right here. 808 00:37:56,508 --> 00:37:58,576 Let's grab with your hand, help me pull. 809 00:38:07,752 --> 00:38:13,725 ♪ ♪ 810 00:38:16,494 --> 00:38:17,996 Come on, baby. 811 00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:22,967 CHEVIE: Keep pulling. 812 00:38:24,602 --> 00:38:28,273 Keep pulling over this the way. 813 00:38:28,273 --> 00:38:30,608 You gotta walk up this way. 814 00:38:31,075 --> 00:38:34,612 A lush, we got too, look at all those fish. 815 00:38:39,884 --> 00:38:42,220 (grunts) 816 00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:45,356 (grunts) 817 00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:51,396 Good load of fish there, Ry-Ry. 818 00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:57,035 (singing) 819 00:38:57,035 --> 00:38:58,469 RYDER: Oh, my gosh, it feels weird. 820 00:38:58,469 --> 00:38:59,871 CHEVIE: How many fish do we have, Ry-Ry? 821 00:38:59,871 --> 00:39:01,806 RYDER: Hmm, I don't know. 822 00:39:01,806 --> 00:39:06,077 One, two, three, four, five, six. 823 00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:09,514 CHEVIE: We got eight. Is there one more over there? 824 00:39:09,514 --> 00:39:10,648 RYDER: Yeah, there's one. CHEVIE: Go ahead and grab it. 825 00:39:10,648 --> 00:39:13,351 RYDER: I couldn't, it's tangled up. 826 00:39:13,351 --> 00:39:17,422 CHEVIE: Some years the water's too high or something happens, 827 00:39:17,422 --> 00:39:19,090 and you don't catch fish. 828 00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:21,960 But all in all, it was a huge success. 829 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,995 SONTA: That other net had more fish in it? 830 00:39:23,995 --> 00:39:25,964 CHEVIE: Yeah. SONTA: Awesome. 831 00:39:25,964 --> 00:39:28,433 CHEVIE: Quite a bit. We got one nice big lush too. 832 00:39:28,433 --> 00:39:29,601 SONTA: Oh, really? CHEVIE: Yeah. 833 00:39:29,601 --> 00:39:30,702 SONTA: Wow. CHEVIE: Good size. 834 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:33,037 SONTA: It's been a while since we had one of those. 835 00:39:38,977 --> 00:39:41,512 KALEB: You ready to skin a beaver, Gilbert? 836 00:39:41,512 --> 00:39:43,348 GILBERT: Yeah. 837 00:39:45,483 --> 00:39:48,419 KALEB: Start making cuts. GILBERT: Oh, boy. 838 00:39:49,287 --> 00:39:51,422 KALEB: Beavers are one of the only creatures besides humans 839 00:39:51,422 --> 00:39:55,727 that change the landscape around them to suit their needs. 840 00:39:55,727 --> 00:39:58,296 This beaver's life was not wasted. 841 00:39:58,296 --> 00:40:02,133 And we appreciate it coming to our set, 842 00:40:02,133 --> 00:40:05,270 chewing on our pole, and becoming a hat for survival 843 00:40:05,270 --> 00:40:07,739 in this cold climate. 844 00:40:07,739 --> 00:40:09,874 GILBERT: Look at those teeth. KALEB: Yep. 845 00:40:09,874 --> 00:40:11,242 These ones are sharp. 846 00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:12,844 My goodness. 847 00:40:12,844 --> 00:40:14,078 GILBERT: Can I try? 848 00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:15,847 KALEB: You need to learn how to skin squirrels and stuff like 849 00:40:15,847 --> 00:40:20,218 that before you get to skin an expensive hide like this. 850 00:40:22,887 --> 00:40:24,355 You did a good job helping me Gilbert. 851 00:40:24,355 --> 00:40:26,357 GILBERT: Yahoo! 852 00:40:28,126 --> 00:40:29,294 NATHAN: All right. 853 00:40:29,294 --> 00:40:31,329 Goat kids and human kids. 854 00:40:31,329 --> 00:40:32,463 What do you think? 855 00:40:32,463 --> 00:40:33,798 SAMANTHA: Oh, Cupcake's already on it. 856 00:40:33,798 --> 00:40:36,134 NATHAN: Is it cool? AUTUMN: It's really good. 857 00:40:36,134 --> 00:40:37,602 She's already on it. 858 00:40:37,602 --> 00:40:40,038 NATHAN: Yeah. AUTUMN: What's she doing? 859 00:40:40,038 --> 00:40:41,172 SAMANTHA: It's pretty warm in here too, huh? 860 00:40:41,172 --> 00:40:42,607 It's not so bad. 861 00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:45,610 AUTUMN: No, it's not so bad. SAMANTHA: I like it. 862 00:40:45,610 --> 00:40:47,779 Shall we put Lily in her barn now? 863 00:40:47,779 --> 00:40:49,881 NATHAN: Yeah, probably. SAMANTHA: Cool. 864 00:40:49,881 --> 00:40:52,116 Y'all can stay and hang out. 865 00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:53,718 NATHAN: The goats seem to be loving the playground, 866 00:40:53,718 --> 00:40:56,587 they're having a good time and it's nice to see that. 867 00:40:56,587 --> 00:40:59,791 This farm is definitely a huge work in progress. 868 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:01,759 Work is never done. 869 00:41:01,759 --> 00:41:03,061 Every day it's something different, 870 00:41:03,061 --> 00:41:04,996 every day it's a new challenge. 871 00:41:04,996 --> 00:41:08,866 And we're hoping for better days than our previous winter. 872 00:41:08,866 --> 00:41:10,568 (laughs) 873 00:41:10,568 --> 00:41:13,571 NATHAN: You know you do. SAMANTHA: She's getting spoiled. 874 00:41:13,571 --> 00:41:16,574 I don't think we're gonna have to worry about even if 875 00:41:16,574 --> 00:41:18,242 she goes in the middle of the night without us, 876 00:41:18,242 --> 00:41:19,944 like I think she's gonna be just fine. 877 00:41:19,944 --> 00:41:21,479 NATHAN: Yeah. 878 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:22,814 SAMANTHA: This is gonna help us a lot. 879 00:41:22,814 --> 00:41:25,283 NATHAN: Yeah. She looks fat and happy. 880 00:41:25,283 --> 00:41:26,484 SAMANTHA: She does. NATHAN: And warm. 881 00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:27,785 SAMANTHA: She's big. 882 00:41:27,785 --> 00:41:30,088 Yes, you hear the goats going crazy in the other room. 883 00:41:30,088 --> 00:41:31,556 They're really enjoying that. 884 00:41:31,556 --> 00:41:32,590 NATHAN: They're having fun in there. 885 00:41:32,590 --> 00:41:33,858 SAMANTHA: Yeah. 886 00:41:33,858 --> 00:41:36,961 Oh, I think, I think this was a really beautiful project and 887 00:41:36,961 --> 00:41:39,530 I'm really glad that it's done and I'm glad that 888 00:41:39,530 --> 00:41:41,866 we don't have to worry about our animals this year. 889 00:41:41,866 --> 00:41:44,002 They're gonna be fine. 890 00:41:44,002 --> 00:41:46,804 Lily seems pretty darn content in the milk barn. 891 00:41:46,804 --> 00:41:49,507 I definitely love my cows. 892 00:41:52,143 --> 00:41:54,712 Oh, my snuggle bug. 893 00:41:54,712 --> 00:41:56,814 She's so sweet when she's eating. 894 00:42:00,952 --> 00:42:04,088 (drill whirring) 895 00:42:04,088 --> 00:42:05,757 MARIO: That was the last screw. 896 00:42:05,757 --> 00:42:07,325 CLARE: Woo. MARIO: Yeah, that's it. 897 00:42:07,325 --> 00:42:09,360 CLARE: Nice. MARIO: Yeah. That looks good. 898 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,428 CLARE: Mm-hmm. 899 00:42:10,428 --> 00:42:12,897 MARIO: We can go ahead and stain it and seal it. 900 00:42:12,897 --> 00:42:15,032 There's no better feeling than, you know, 901 00:42:15,032 --> 00:42:17,368 ultimately creating something that increases 902 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:20,038 the quality of life for either of us. 903 00:42:20,038 --> 00:42:22,240 CLARE: This look nice matching the cabin. 904 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:23,908 MARIO: It means a lot when we look at these things 905 00:42:23,908 --> 00:42:26,377 that we've accomplished together. 906 00:42:28,146 --> 00:42:29,947 CLARE: All right. MARIO: All right. 907 00:42:29,947 --> 00:42:31,649 Let's finish off the door and we're done. 908 00:42:31,649 --> 00:42:33,217 CLARE: Great. 909 00:42:33,217 --> 00:42:34,485 MARIO: You know, we've come a long way. 910 00:42:34,485 --> 00:42:36,521 Every time we work on something. 911 00:42:36,521 --> 00:42:38,923 You know, we build up the little team that we are out here, 912 00:42:38,923 --> 00:42:41,726 and now that we've got another one under our belt, 913 00:42:41,726 --> 00:42:43,961 you know, we can start moving on and 914 00:42:43,961 --> 00:42:46,864 looking forward to the next project. 915 00:42:46,864 --> 00:42:48,332 All right, it's done. 916 00:42:48,332 --> 00:42:50,735 CLARE: It's done? MARIO: Yeah, it's done. 917 00:42:50,735 --> 00:42:53,838 Being Alaskan, there's really no telling what's 918 00:42:53,838 --> 00:42:56,908 in store for us and what we can accomplish. 919 00:42:59,544 --> 00:43:01,746 SONTA: I was kind of getting concerned we, we missed the run. 920 00:43:01,746 --> 00:43:03,981 So. 921 00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:06,017 CHEVIE: Officially, the, the, 922 00:43:06,017 --> 00:43:09,120 the whitefish run has begun pretty good. 923 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,056 SONTA: We should be catching for a few more days after. 924 00:43:12,056 --> 00:43:14,559 Ryder did a good job out there. 925 00:43:14,559 --> 00:43:16,461 CHEVIE: It's a lot of weight pulling that net. 926 00:43:16,461 --> 00:43:18,563 SONTA: Yeah, it's good to see him do that. 927 00:43:18,563 --> 00:43:20,364 CHEVIE: Ryder and I will remember this time, 928 00:43:20,364 --> 00:43:23,034 setting the net under the ice for the first time for the rest 929 00:43:23,034 --> 00:43:25,636 of our lives, and that's what really matters. 930 00:43:25,636 --> 00:43:27,672 Someday he'll be teaching his kids. 931 00:43:27,672 --> 00:43:29,373 That's what it's all about for me. 932 00:43:29,373 --> 00:43:31,375 So couldn't be more proud of him. 933 00:43:31,375 --> 00:43:33,177 You guys, we'll, we'll take these home, 934 00:43:33,177 --> 00:43:35,179 we'll let 'em freeze overnight. 935 00:43:39,317 --> 00:43:40,818 NATHAN: When you're out there working, 936 00:43:40,818 --> 00:43:42,887 it can get kind of mundane and repetitive, 937 00:43:42,887 --> 00:43:44,989 but in the grand scheme of things, 938 00:43:44,989 --> 00:43:46,591 we're really building a legacy, 939 00:43:46,591 --> 00:43:49,093 something to pass off to our children. 940 00:43:49,093 --> 00:43:53,297 It's just a huge lifelong project that's never gonna end. 941 00:43:59,237 --> 00:44:00,671 Captioned by Cotter Media Group.