1 00:00:03,796 --> 00:00:08,663 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:12,805 --> 00:00:14,669 ALEX: Okay, uh, I went out got a bunch of kindling wood 3 00:00:14,738 --> 00:00:17,086 earlier this morning, and, uh, I've just been breaking it 4 00:00:17,155 --> 00:00:18,294 into little lengths that will fit into my little 5 00:00:18,363 --> 00:00:19,674 stove in here. 6 00:00:19,743 --> 00:00:21,228 It was a pretty cold night. 7 00:00:21,297 --> 00:00:23,057 I'm kind of cold, I haven't really been able to warm up 8 00:00:23,126 --> 00:00:24,231 good this morning. 9 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:26,543 My feet have been cold all morning. 10 00:00:26,612 --> 00:00:29,374 I'm at a new place called Deadman Lake. 11 00:00:29,443 --> 00:00:31,583 I decided that I wanted to try an off-grid lifestyle and 12 00:00:31,652 --> 00:00:34,172 bought land unseen. 13 00:00:34,241 --> 00:00:36,312 I'm living in a backpacking tent. 14 00:00:36,381 --> 00:00:37,589 It's really small, 15 00:00:37,658 --> 00:00:39,522 it can only accommodate a small stove. 16 00:00:42,111 --> 00:00:44,630 I go to sleep cold, I wake up cold, 17 00:00:46,805 --> 00:00:49,946 I make a little fire that warms me up for ten minutes 18 00:00:50,015 --> 00:00:52,052 and that's as good as it gets. 19 00:00:52,121 --> 00:00:53,467 Living in here like this it's, 20 00:00:53,536 --> 00:00:54,985 it's pretty old, you know? 21 00:00:55,055 --> 00:00:57,505 It's, uh, just kinda cold all night. 22 00:00:57,574 --> 00:00:59,507 Yeah, I don't wanna keep living in this backpacking tent, 23 00:00:59,576 --> 00:01:01,130 so I need to find a spot and get my new 24 00:01:01,199 --> 00:01:04,857 huge canvas wall tent pitched up. 25 00:01:04,926 --> 00:01:07,481 So, I wanna find a place that's kinda got a large opening. 26 00:01:07,550 --> 00:01:09,448 I don't have to cut around and clear a lot of land 27 00:01:09,517 --> 00:01:11,347 in order to put it there. 28 00:01:12,831 --> 00:01:16,524 Yeah, uh, just grab my axe and get right to it. 29 00:01:30,745 --> 00:01:32,747 ALEX: The main purpose of this tent is that you can 30 00:01:32,816 --> 00:01:35,164 have a big wood stove inside of it and heat it up. 31 00:01:39,064 --> 00:01:41,584 I am kind of on a time crunch here. 32 00:01:41,653 --> 00:01:45,553 Deadman Lake, it's a tough place. 33 00:01:45,622 --> 00:01:48,211 Sometimes you can get cold snaps where it's 50 below or more 34 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,421 for weeks at a time, and extreme wind, 35 00:01:51,490 --> 00:01:54,010 so I need a good solid home base. 36 00:01:56,219 --> 00:02:01,707 [wind] 37 00:02:04,917 --> 00:02:09,681 ♪ ♪ 38 00:02:13,271 --> 00:02:16,032 This is the sunniest spot I've seen yet, 39 00:02:16,101 --> 00:02:19,069 and it's also relatively flat here. 40 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:20,968 I need a 16-foot circle and I think that'll fit 41 00:02:21,037 --> 00:02:22,659 in here nicely. 42 00:02:22,728 --> 00:02:24,489 The sun is just-just excellent. 43 00:02:24,558 --> 00:02:26,491 I can see the ridgeline on the other side of the 44 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:27,940 river down there. 45 00:02:28,009 --> 00:02:31,392 So, this is just about the best spot I've seen. 46 00:02:31,461 --> 00:02:33,912 Next step I'm gonna get, uh, branches from a spruce tree 47 00:02:33,981 --> 00:02:36,915 and lay them out for my floor. 48 00:02:36,984 --> 00:02:38,675 Then I'll be able to pitch the tents up, 49 00:02:38,744 --> 00:02:40,125 and then that's it. 50 00:02:40,194 --> 00:02:41,920 So, it only sounds like a few steps but each one of 51 00:02:41,989 --> 00:02:44,509 these is gonna be pretty long and involved. 52 00:02:44,578 --> 00:02:46,131 That's the tree I'm gonna use. 53 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,444 I'm just gonna get straight to work. 54 00:02:51,343 --> 00:02:53,380 A bear has his claws, 55 00:02:56,003 --> 00:02:57,901 the owl has his talons, 56 00:02:59,731 --> 00:03:02,596 the beaver has his giant buck teeth. 57 00:03:04,218 --> 00:03:06,496 You know every animal has its tool that he uses to do 58 00:03:06,565 --> 00:03:08,602 pretty much everything it needs to do. 59 00:03:09,913 --> 00:03:11,846 For me, that tool is the axe. 60 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,609 Almost everywhere I go here, I always got my axe with me. 61 00:03:15,678 --> 00:03:17,542 Okay. Here we go. 62 00:03:17,611 --> 00:03:19,578 It pretty much brings me everything I need. 63 00:03:22,236 --> 00:03:24,411 I'm gonna start from the top since they're all kinda 64 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,723 pointing downwards. 65 00:03:26,792 --> 00:03:29,070 The human bond with the axe, it's so basic. 66 00:03:29,139 --> 00:03:31,107 I couldn't live in Alaska without an axe. 67 00:03:31,176 --> 00:03:32,764 I just couldn't do it. 68 00:03:32,833 --> 00:03:36,699 The axe is the one tool that gives me the power to be free 69 00:03:36,768 --> 00:03:38,321 and survive out here on my own. 70 00:03:40,358 --> 00:03:43,947 More than anything else, it's the axe. 71 00:03:44,016 --> 00:03:46,122 This is a great start so, you know, I just gotta, 72 00:03:46,191 --> 00:03:48,124 just gotta keep working and, uh, you know, 73 00:03:48,193 --> 00:03:49,574 pretty soon in here a couple hours I think it 74 00:03:49,643 --> 00:03:51,645 should be done. 75 00:03:57,167 --> 00:03:58,445 CHRIS: You know, I was born in Alaska, 76 00:03:58,514 --> 00:04:02,138 and I love Alaska no matter what the weather is. 77 00:04:02,207 --> 00:04:03,691 But you know going out here 40 below and 78 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,383 working on things, that's just part of it. 79 00:04:05,452 --> 00:04:06,660 And if you don't love it, 80 00:04:06,729 --> 00:04:08,662 then you're going to hate Alaska. 81 00:04:14,150 --> 00:04:16,014 Get this carburetor back together. 82 00:04:17,118 --> 00:04:19,293 There's so much damn ice in it. 83 00:04:19,362 --> 00:04:21,364 Maybe it's just so cold today. 84 00:04:23,470 --> 00:04:26,680 The weather's super erratic here in Alaska. 85 00:04:26,749 --> 00:04:29,027 Mornings here are just brutally cold, 86 00:04:29,096 --> 00:04:30,822 and then we'll have these nice sunny afternoons where it 87 00:04:30,891 --> 00:04:32,824 starts to warm up. 88 00:04:32,893 --> 00:04:34,791 But then, as the sun sets that cold just sets 89 00:04:34,860 --> 00:04:36,517 right back in. 90 00:04:36,586 --> 00:04:39,244 Well, the hoses are frozen, come on. 91 00:04:39,313 --> 00:04:41,073 Piece of [bleep]. 92 00:04:43,110 --> 00:04:46,734 Whew, that gas is cold! 93 00:04:46,803 --> 00:04:49,496 Work in the cold really sucks, my hands are frozen, 94 00:04:49,565 --> 00:04:52,084 I can't feel the nuts and bolts I'm working with. 95 00:04:52,153 --> 00:04:54,535 Everything is so much more tough when it's cold out. 96 00:04:54,604 --> 00:04:57,987 I'm using a damn blow torch to keep my hands warm, 97 00:04:58,056 --> 00:04:59,264 whatever it takes. 98 00:04:59,333 --> 00:05:01,301 Everything is just totally caked in ice. 99 00:05:01,370 --> 00:05:03,268 I mean, from my steering to my carburetor 100 00:05:03,337 --> 00:05:05,926 to my electronics, to my fuel pump. 101 00:05:05,995 --> 00:05:08,722 I don't even know if this thing's gonna run. 102 00:05:08,791 --> 00:05:10,379 Everything I do out here revolves around this 103 00:05:10,448 --> 00:05:12,415 old snow machine. 104 00:05:12,484 --> 00:05:14,762 I've got to get firewood, I've gotta put trap lines in, 105 00:05:14,831 --> 00:05:16,937 I've got supplies to get. 106 00:05:17,006 --> 00:05:19,629 To me, the snow machine is a lifeline. 107 00:05:19,698 --> 00:05:21,424 Can't is not an option. 108 00:05:21,493 --> 00:05:23,323 Failure cannot happen. 109 00:05:23,392 --> 00:05:25,704 I have to get this thawed out. 110 00:05:25,773 --> 00:05:28,466 If we lose the snow machine, that's it. 111 00:05:29,984 --> 00:05:31,917 We're dead. 112 00:05:31,986 --> 00:05:34,023 All right, this... 113 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,233 JESSI: Hey. CHRIS: Hey. 114 00:05:37,302 --> 00:05:40,478 I got it all back together. 115 00:05:40,547 --> 00:05:43,515 Carburetor had a bunch of ice down inside of it so, um, 116 00:05:43,584 --> 00:05:47,416 what's going on is the snow's getting up inside the cowling over here, 117 00:05:47,485 --> 00:05:48,900 into my air-intake, 118 00:05:48,969 --> 00:05:51,627 inside my airbox is full of snow. 119 00:05:51,696 --> 00:05:54,319 Which is then going right into my carburetor. 120 00:05:54,388 --> 00:05:56,563 JESSI: How do you get the snow out of this box? 121 00:05:56,632 --> 00:05:58,427 CHRIS: Well, I took all of this apart, but I can't. 122 00:05:58,496 --> 00:06:00,290 There's no way of getting down inside of there so, 123 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,362 I think I'm just gonna keep ingesting snow unless 124 00:06:02,431 --> 00:06:04,571 I take the time to like thaw this out. 125 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,814 I don't have a shop out here to stick it in, 126 00:06:06,883 --> 00:06:08,989 so what I was thinking is, we gotta figure out how to 127 00:06:09,058 --> 00:06:11,163 get maybe the stove out of the bathhouse, 128 00:06:11,232 --> 00:06:13,649 and we can lift this thing up, you know, two, three, 129 00:06:13,718 --> 00:06:16,203 four feet off the ground, and then we can build a fire 130 00:06:16,272 --> 00:06:17,756 underneath it with a fireplace. 131 00:06:17,825 --> 00:06:19,655 Um, I don't know. 132 00:06:19,724 --> 00:06:21,346 I just gotta thaw this thing out. 133 00:06:21,415 --> 00:06:23,072 I feel like I'm gonna do more damage to it if I 134 00:06:23,141 --> 00:06:24,384 just keep running it. 135 00:06:24,453 --> 00:06:26,247 JESSI: Let's try it out. CHRIS: All right. 136 00:06:31,114 --> 00:06:34,048 KALEB: I viewed this place as a drag as a kid because there 137 00:06:34,117 --> 00:06:37,017 was nobody else here. 138 00:06:37,086 --> 00:06:38,398 As an adult, 139 00:06:38,467 --> 00:06:40,710 I have learned to appreciate this place and I 140 00:06:40,779 --> 00:06:43,679 really hope that my kids can learn to appreciate this place. 141 00:06:45,991 --> 00:06:47,821 Who do you guys think is gonna catch the biggest fish? 142 00:06:47,890 --> 00:06:49,892 ELOVIE: Me! GILBERT: Me! KALEB: You think so, huh? 143 00:06:49,961 --> 00:06:51,272 What if I catch the biggest one? 144 00:06:51,341 --> 00:06:52,826 GILBERT: What if Mom? 145 00:06:52,895 --> 00:06:54,793 KALEB: Mom's a pretty wicked fisherman. 146 00:06:54,862 --> 00:06:58,038 She might catch the biggest one. 147 00:06:58,107 --> 00:06:59,833 You better just watch out for her coming in behind and 148 00:06:59,902 --> 00:07:01,731 just knocking you all senseless in 149 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,733 the fishing department. 150 00:07:05,114 --> 00:07:06,495 BRITTANY: All ready to go? 151 00:07:06,564 --> 00:07:07,910 ELOVIE: Ready to go. 152 00:07:07,979 --> 00:07:10,809 KALEB: Fishing, here we come. BRITTANY: Alrighty. 153 00:07:15,469 --> 00:07:17,609 KALEB: Last winter, Brittany and I went out and caught 154 00:07:17,678 --> 00:07:19,508 a lot of fish at Long Lake, 155 00:07:19,577 --> 00:07:21,855 there's the spawning grounds there. 156 00:07:21,924 --> 00:07:23,857 The salmon, run to that spawning grounds. 157 00:07:23,926 --> 00:07:26,135 They lay their eggs and Dolly Varden's main food 158 00:07:26,204 --> 00:07:28,137 supply is salmon eggs. 159 00:07:29,414 --> 00:07:31,934 So, it's a great place to go fishing. 160 00:07:34,523 --> 00:07:35,731 We can get twice as many now. 161 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,595 We've got twice as many, uh, anglers. 162 00:07:37,664 --> 00:07:39,424 BRITTANY: Nice. 163 00:07:39,493 --> 00:07:40,736 KALEB: We can catch 40 this time if we wanted. 164 00:07:48,951 --> 00:07:52,368 KALEB: My goal on this fishing trip is to have a 165 00:07:52,437 --> 00:07:56,579 positive experience for my kids in regards to fishing. 166 00:07:56,648 --> 00:07:58,823 I want them to keep fishing as they grow up. 167 00:08:04,829 --> 00:08:07,038 Long Lake! Long Lake! 168 00:08:07,107 --> 00:08:10,593 ELOVIE: Long Lake! Long Lake! 169 00:08:10,662 --> 00:08:12,422 KALEB: We've got some old holes here from where we 170 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:16,254 successfully fished last time, and I'm thinking we just put 171 00:08:16,323 --> 00:08:19,153 holes in the same spots, and we'll catch fish again. 172 00:08:19,222 --> 00:08:20,465 BRITTANY: Awesome. 173 00:08:20,534 --> 00:08:24,262 All right kids, it's great to watch but just, 174 00:08:24,331 --> 00:08:28,197 he's gonna throw water up so watch out for the water. 175 00:08:46,595 --> 00:08:47,941 KALEB: There, now we can fish this hole. 176 00:08:48,010 --> 00:08:49,080 Who wants to fish it? 177 00:08:49,149 --> 00:08:50,288 ELOVIE: Me! GILBERT: Me! 178 00:08:50,357 --> 00:08:51,461 KALEB: You guys both wanna fish it? 179 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:52,877 ELOVIE: Yeah. 180 00:08:52,946 --> 00:08:54,741 KALEB: All right, let's get my fishing poles out. 181 00:08:58,745 --> 00:09:00,643 JOHNNY: You know, if it's negative 30, 40, 50 182 00:09:00,712 --> 00:09:03,301 even 60 below zero, 183 00:09:03,370 --> 00:09:06,166 I face danger at finding resources out here. 184 00:09:07,408 --> 00:09:08,824 JOHNNY: That's a huge danger to me. 185 00:09:14,277 --> 00:09:19,420 Just try to expose the surface of the ice. 186 00:09:19,489 --> 00:09:22,009 And that way I can start chipping down to the ice to 187 00:09:22,078 --> 00:09:24,356 access the water. 188 00:09:24,425 --> 00:09:25,806 Out here I don't have running water, 189 00:09:25,875 --> 00:09:28,326 I have what I call walking water, which is: 190 00:09:28,395 --> 00:09:30,742 grab a bucket, walk down to the lake about a 191 00:09:30,811 --> 00:09:32,364 half-mile away, 192 00:09:32,433 --> 00:09:34,850 chip a hole in the ice, fill it with water, 193 00:09:34,919 --> 00:09:36,472 and walk back up to the cabin. 194 00:09:38,094 --> 00:09:40,856 A task I gotta do every day out here for a basic necessity 195 00:09:40,925 --> 00:09:43,134 which is water. 196 00:09:45,826 --> 00:09:48,622 This process gets a little warm. 197 00:09:48,691 --> 00:09:51,452 The last thing I wanna do is start working up a sweat. 198 00:10:03,154 --> 00:10:06,329 You know one of the big motivations for coming out, uh, 199 00:10:06,398 --> 00:10:10,230 to the Brooks Range is to be completely self-reliant, 200 00:10:10,299 --> 00:10:13,095 and honestly there's no other option out here. 201 00:10:16,546 --> 00:10:18,410 I have to get it myself if I want water, 202 00:10:18,479 --> 00:10:19,791 if I don't, 203 00:10:19,860 --> 00:10:22,276 then I don't get water and I'm not gonna make it. 204 00:10:29,076 --> 00:10:32,632 You can feel that cold anytime you breathe in. 205 00:10:34,426 --> 00:10:37,291 It's like frosting over my lungs. 206 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,675 It was about negative 50 when I woke up this morning so 207 00:10:41,744 --> 00:10:43,332 anytime you take a breath it just kinda crystalizes 208 00:10:43,401 --> 00:10:45,506 on your lungs. 209 00:10:48,924 --> 00:10:51,892 To chip the hole completely down to the surface of the water, 210 00:10:51,961 --> 00:10:54,757 it takes about 25 minutes, 211 00:10:54,826 --> 00:10:57,104 and doing physical work in these extreme cold 212 00:10:57,173 --> 00:11:01,005 temperatures is definitely tolling on the body. 213 00:11:01,074 --> 00:11:03,939 I can feel the onset of frostbite, 214 00:11:04,008 --> 00:11:05,112 and you gotta keep going. 215 00:11:05,181 --> 00:11:07,045 You gotta keep pushing. 216 00:11:12,085 --> 00:11:16,261 [ice chipping] 217 00:11:21,819 --> 00:11:23,199 [thud] 218 00:11:29,447 --> 00:11:32,415 I hit the ground. 219 00:11:32,484 --> 00:11:34,072 [bleep]. 220 00:11:36,178 --> 00:11:40,492 JOHNNY: [bleep]. That's as far as it goes. 221 00:11:40,561 --> 00:11:42,460 I can't go any further. 222 00:11:42,529 --> 00:11:45,394 It's frozen all the way to the bottom of the lake. 223 00:11:46,257 --> 00:11:48,224 No water's coming up. 224 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:54,921 [bleep]. 225 00:11:54,990 --> 00:11:59,270 I needed to go further out. I needed to go much further. 226 00:11:59,339 --> 00:12:00,650 You can't look at things as failures. 227 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,757 You've gotta look at them as growth. 228 00:12:03,826 --> 00:12:06,311 It takes a lot of mental stamina to live this lifestyle. 229 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,730 Onward I go. 230 00:12:19,497 --> 00:12:20,740 It looks good. 231 00:12:25,227 --> 00:12:28,368 Living in Alaska I've learned patience the most. 232 00:12:28,437 --> 00:12:30,819 Nothing comes fast, nothing comes easy. 233 00:12:39,413 --> 00:12:41,381 All right, round two. 234 00:12:42,900 --> 00:12:48,043 [ice chipping] 235 00:12:48,112 --> 00:12:50,631 I've got a lotta chipping to do. 236 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:53,013 Just gotta work a little bit harder for it. 237 00:12:56,258 --> 00:12:59,261 Nature provides the best source of water. 238 00:13:01,021 --> 00:13:03,092 I could watch the snow melt off the mountains of this 239 00:13:03,161 --> 00:13:06,095 spring and goes right into this lake. 240 00:13:06,164 --> 00:13:09,581 Pure, natural, water straight from the source. 241 00:13:24,217 --> 00:13:26,219 There it is. 242 00:13:26,288 --> 00:13:28,324 Water's coming up. 243 00:13:28,393 --> 00:13:30,361 That's awesome. 244 00:13:30,430 --> 00:13:34,779 Once you break through the bottom of the ice, 245 00:13:34,848 --> 00:13:36,850 there's a suction and it kinda pulls everything up 246 00:13:36,919 --> 00:13:39,473 from the bottom of the lake. 247 00:13:39,542 --> 00:13:42,200 Clean, healthy water. 248 00:13:47,309 --> 00:13:50,968 That's incredible, and now that I've got this hole opened 249 00:13:51,037 --> 00:13:54,385 up it's a matter of hours before it starts freezing up, 250 00:13:54,454 --> 00:13:57,353 and I'd like to start working on an insulation, uh, 251 00:13:57,422 --> 00:13:59,217 plan for this. 252 00:13:59,286 --> 00:14:01,047 I think I'm gonna start using spruce boughs and grab it from 253 00:14:01,116 --> 00:14:03,877 the trees all around here, kind of bundle them up, 254 00:14:03,946 --> 00:14:07,122 lay 'em across the top, put some of that snow on and I 255 00:14:07,191 --> 00:14:09,710 think that'll be enough to insulate this hole. 256 00:14:12,541 --> 00:14:17,580 The purpose for insulating the ice hole is to prevent it from 257 00:14:17,649 --> 00:14:22,309 freezing up all the way, so I don't have to come back out, 258 00:14:22,378 --> 00:14:25,381 chip the hole all the way down to the bottom again. 259 00:14:28,522 --> 00:14:31,146 JOHNNY: Use what nature uses to, uh, 260 00:14:31,215 --> 00:14:35,219 insulate herself and see if I can do that. 261 00:14:35,288 --> 00:14:39,740 Okay. Huh. 262 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,024 It's already frozen over. 263 00:14:47,093 --> 00:14:48,404 That's how cold it is out here, 264 00:14:48,473 --> 00:14:50,475 and this is a perfect example of why I would 265 00:14:50,544 --> 00:14:52,650 like to insulate this. 266 00:14:52,719 --> 00:14:54,479 Yeah, every hour I'm gone is at least another inch 267 00:14:54,548 --> 00:14:56,550 that this freezes up. 268 00:14:57,966 --> 00:14:59,208 I like to problem solve. 269 00:14:59,277 --> 00:15:01,141 I like to try new things. 270 00:15:01,210 --> 00:15:03,385 I'm hoping that the spruce boughs work because they're 271 00:15:03,454 --> 00:15:06,906 easy to get around here, so renewable resource. 272 00:15:08,528 --> 00:15:11,013 And I think that the snow is also gonna help a lot, 273 00:15:11,082 --> 00:15:14,361 'cause I know that snow does have insulating properties. 274 00:15:17,295 --> 00:15:23,094 The sorta hope is to come back tomorrow, remove this, 275 00:15:23,163 --> 00:15:24,924 and chip through the ice, and if it only takes about a 276 00:15:24,993 --> 00:15:27,029 minute to get through then success, and, uh, 277 00:15:27,098 --> 00:15:28,548 I don't have to worry about, uh, 278 00:15:28,617 --> 00:15:32,483 chipping all the way down to the bottom of the ice anymore. 279 00:15:32,552 --> 00:15:35,865 Come back first thing in the morning and assess it. 280 00:15:39,076 --> 00:15:42,079 JESSI: Mother nature can be a really crazy lady. 281 00:15:42,148 --> 00:15:44,150 The weather is constantly changing. 282 00:15:44,219 --> 00:15:46,428 It's constantly shifting. 283 00:15:46,497 --> 00:15:49,741 Strange things happen especially out at the Cosna. 284 00:15:56,990 --> 00:15:58,923 CHRIS: Cool. Got one on there. 285 00:15:58,992 --> 00:16:01,305 JESSI: Chris and I are gonna have to thaw out the Snow-Go. 286 00:16:01,374 --> 00:16:03,134 CHRIS: Do another one. 287 00:16:03,203 --> 00:16:05,585 JESSI: Right now, we can't steer and everything's 288 00:16:05,654 --> 00:16:07,794 kind of encased in ice. 289 00:16:07,863 --> 00:16:11,004 So, we need to be able to hoist the entire Snow-Go up in 290 00:16:11,073 --> 00:16:16,389 the air and put a small camp stove underneath the Snow-Go. 291 00:16:22,498 --> 00:16:25,536 CHRIS: Okay, so I'm gonna go loop the rope up 292 00:16:25,605 --> 00:16:27,987 through the pulleys and then down to the machine. 293 00:16:29,678 --> 00:16:31,438 JESSI: This Snow-Go is really precious to us. 294 00:16:31,507 --> 00:16:33,613 We use the Snow-Go for everything. 295 00:16:33,682 --> 00:16:35,891 So, we really need it working. 296 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,135 CHRIS: This is a funky old rope. 297 00:16:39,377 --> 00:16:43,071 Okay. I'm going to take down the ladder. 298 00:16:43,140 --> 00:16:45,073 I'm just gonna try this pulley out real quick. 299 00:16:48,455 --> 00:16:49,905 Ooh, that tree huh? 300 00:16:49,974 --> 00:16:52,011 JESSI: It's a rot tree. 301 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,082 CHRIS: It's definitely rotten in the middle. 302 00:16:54,151 --> 00:16:55,600 I hope it holds. 303 00:16:55,669 --> 00:16:57,361 I guess we're gonna find out. 304 00:16:59,156 --> 00:17:00,329 All right so Jess, I'm gonna lift it up. 305 00:17:00,398 --> 00:17:01,710 You're gonna help. 306 00:17:01,779 --> 00:17:02,952 Then I'm gonna pause for just a second while 307 00:17:03,022 --> 00:17:04,471 you're holding that. 308 00:17:04,540 --> 00:17:05,714 I'm gonna reach underneath, grab ahold of the track and 309 00:17:05,783 --> 00:17:07,164 I'm gonna heave it up again, 310 00:17:07,233 --> 00:17:09,338 and I want you to just try to hook that on there, okay? 311 00:17:09,407 --> 00:17:12,962 JESSI: Okay. CHRIS: Ready? JESSI: Oh my gosh. 312 00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:14,343 CHRIS: Ready? 313 00:17:14,412 --> 00:17:20,073 JESSI: Yup. We need a little bit more. 314 00:17:20,142 --> 00:17:22,317 CHRIS: And... JESSI: Almost! 315 00:17:22,386 --> 00:17:24,871 CHRIS: Hang on. Okay! Oh! 316 00:17:28,426 --> 00:17:29,945 CHRIS: Okay! Oh! 317 00:17:30,014 --> 00:17:31,084 [thud] 318 00:17:31,153 --> 00:17:34,260 JESSI: Oh gosh. We were so close. 319 00:17:34,329 --> 00:17:41,301 CHRIS: Let's try it again, and up, and up, all right pull. 320 00:17:44,580 --> 00:17:46,237 JESSI: That's it. 321 00:17:52,347 --> 00:17:53,589 CHRIS: So far so good. 322 00:17:53,658 --> 00:17:57,697 Okay. Now, let's work on the front one, huh? 323 00:17:57,766 --> 00:18:00,838 JESSI: Chris, we have made some janky stuff in our life, 324 00:18:00,907 --> 00:18:03,289 but this is at the top of that list, I think. 325 00:18:04,980 --> 00:18:06,430 CHRIS: We'll just try. 326 00:18:06,499 --> 00:18:10,572 JESSI: I think we should get some stumps. 327 00:18:10,641 --> 00:18:12,815 CHRIS: Just hang out in case it falls on me or something. 328 00:18:14,748 --> 00:18:16,819 It's lifting. I'm stoked. 329 00:18:25,518 --> 00:18:27,727 Okay. That's as high as we can get it, 330 00:18:27,796 --> 00:18:29,349 but let's just go get the wood stove and try and 331 00:18:29,418 --> 00:18:30,695 put it in place. 332 00:18:30,764 --> 00:18:31,903 JESSI: Let's do it. 333 00:18:35,735 --> 00:18:36,874 CHRIS: Hold that for me. 334 00:18:40,533 --> 00:18:42,259 Piece one. 335 00:18:42,328 --> 00:18:47,988 JESSI: Piece one. CHRIS: Piece two. JESSI: Piece two. Piece three. 336 00:18:54,616 --> 00:18:58,171 CHRIS: Maybe I can stick the butt-end out that side. 337 00:19:04,936 --> 00:19:07,663 Okay. So, let's get a tarp, huh? 338 00:19:10,494 --> 00:19:12,289 JESSI: I would call our contraption that we 339 00:19:12,358 --> 00:19:14,981 got going on here like a tarp shanty. 340 00:19:15,050 --> 00:19:17,777 I think it's pretty janky. 341 00:19:17,846 --> 00:19:20,538 But, I trust Chris. I think it's gonna work. 342 00:19:20,607 --> 00:19:22,402 We'll just see how it goes. 343 00:19:24,922 --> 00:19:26,751 CHRIS: This looks pretty good. 344 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:28,891 JESSI: Hasn't fallen yet. 345 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,721 CHRIS: I'm about ready to start a small fire and see 346 00:19:30,790 --> 00:19:32,585 what we can get going. 347 00:19:34,621 --> 00:19:36,623 ALEX: In a fight against the Alaskan winter, 348 00:19:36,692 --> 00:19:39,350 it's, it's not a fight I can ever win. 349 00:19:39,419 --> 00:19:41,525 It's just kind of like being surrounded by an enemy on all 350 00:19:41,594 --> 00:19:44,183 sides and the enemy's just always coming in, crushing you. 351 00:19:46,012 --> 00:19:47,807 It's an Alaska winter, it's, it sucks. 352 00:19:50,154 --> 00:19:51,845 What else can you say? 353 00:19:56,816 --> 00:19:58,300 It's time to set up my tent. 354 00:20:02,097 --> 00:20:06,274 This is the same kinda tent gold miners and prospectors 355 00:20:06,343 --> 00:20:08,310 would live in. 356 00:20:08,379 --> 00:20:10,864 When they came up here and defiled the land in 357 00:20:10,933 --> 00:20:13,039 search for gold. 358 00:20:17,630 --> 00:20:20,184 This part's pretty exciting. 359 00:20:20,253 --> 00:20:21,841 I'm starting to get a sense that like wow, 360 00:20:21,910 --> 00:20:23,601 pretty soon I'm not gonna have to be fighting the 361 00:20:23,670 --> 00:20:24,878 cold as much anymore. 362 00:20:24,947 --> 00:20:27,950 I'll be living more, uh, comfortably. 363 00:20:32,748 --> 00:20:35,095 You know if I just lay this thing on the ground as is, 364 00:20:35,164 --> 00:20:37,443 and walk inside, each time I step the whole thing will, 365 00:20:37,512 --> 00:20:39,652 you know, scootch in. 366 00:20:39,721 --> 00:20:41,964 So, it's gotta be pulled out and held tight. 367 00:20:42,033 --> 00:20:44,933 Uh, a sensible approach would just be to use some heavy logs 368 00:20:45,002 --> 00:20:47,142 to get the floor staked out. 369 00:20:47,211 --> 00:20:50,249 So, I think it's time to cut more logs with the axe then. 370 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,048 I came out here to my property at Deadman Lake, 371 00:20:57,117 --> 00:20:59,430 in one of the colder parts of winter. 372 00:20:59,499 --> 00:21:02,261 I knew it'd be pretty rough. 373 00:21:02,330 --> 00:21:05,885 I survived a few days in just a really basic camp 374 00:21:05,954 --> 00:21:07,818 in the backpacking tent. 375 00:21:09,371 --> 00:21:13,099 Got some real big heavy logs here. 376 00:21:13,168 --> 00:21:15,895 Oh, yeah. 377 00:21:15,964 --> 00:21:18,069 I like a challenge and I like a little bit of misery 378 00:21:18,138 --> 00:21:20,658 but being cold nonstop, it just gets old. 379 00:21:26,699 --> 00:21:28,632 Now that won't move. 380 00:21:28,701 --> 00:21:30,496 Yeah, I think it's time for the pole. 381 00:21:31,635 --> 00:21:33,878 It's just a matter of survival. 382 00:21:33,947 --> 00:21:36,950 I just wanna get that thing up so I can get warm. 383 00:21:37,019 --> 00:21:39,298 That's all I care about, is just getting warm. 384 00:21:42,128 --> 00:21:43,888 The, uh, the roof is pitched. 385 00:21:43,957 --> 00:21:46,201 Now I just gotta tie off all these guidelines and that's 386 00:21:46,270 --> 00:21:47,927 what's gonna make it expand, 387 00:21:47,996 --> 00:21:50,550 and also give me my space indoors. 388 00:21:50,619 --> 00:21:52,656 My main goal is just to get into this thing tonight. 389 00:21:52,725 --> 00:21:54,899 It's gonna be cooling down soon. 390 00:21:58,869 --> 00:22:00,491 Whoever said haste makes waste, 391 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,012 I don't think they ever dealt with conditions like this. 392 00:22:04,081 --> 00:22:05,427 I'm out here battling these elements, 393 00:22:05,496 --> 00:22:08,465 you know, it's just, you gotta be scrappy you know? 394 00:22:12,883 --> 00:22:14,263 This is good enough. 395 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:15,541 It's pitched. 396 00:22:15,610 --> 00:22:17,577 It's all sideways and everything but, um, 397 00:22:17,646 --> 00:22:19,096 I'll be able to get my stove in there. 398 00:22:19,165 --> 00:22:20,373 So that's the most important thing. 399 00:22:20,442 --> 00:22:22,513 That's what's gonna keep me warm tonight. 400 00:22:22,582 --> 00:22:24,343 It's about to be getting cold. 401 00:22:26,724 --> 00:22:29,762 I just gotta grab the wood stove from my old camp. 402 00:22:29,831 --> 00:22:33,731 Bring it on down in my sled, get it inside the tent. 403 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,424 This is where it's gonna live. 404 00:22:36,493 --> 00:22:38,667 And the final thing I gotta do is cut the hole 405 00:22:38,736 --> 00:22:41,394 for the chimney pipe to go through. 406 00:22:41,463 --> 00:22:44,846 Fingers crossed it doesn't get crazy windy tonight. 407 00:22:44,915 --> 00:22:46,848 Just bring in the bare minimum stuff, 408 00:22:46,917 --> 00:22:49,057 just to keep me warm. 409 00:22:52,025 --> 00:22:53,475 I'll get a fire going in here. 410 00:22:53,544 --> 00:22:56,098 Put my pot right next to the stove. 411 00:22:56,167 --> 00:22:58,963 Tonight's just about getting through the night, staying warm. 412 00:23:03,589 --> 00:23:05,729 BRITTANY: When living out here you definitely learn to 413 00:23:05,798 --> 00:23:09,215 prioritize schooling, such as survival, 414 00:23:09,284 --> 00:23:13,150 and how to do things outdoors safely. 415 00:23:13,219 --> 00:23:16,015 When you live rurally, you have to teach them. 416 00:23:16,084 --> 00:23:17,499 It is not a choice. 417 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:21,710 KALEB: You've been so excited to do this. 418 00:23:21,779 --> 00:23:23,056 ELOVIE: I don't have. 419 00:23:23,125 --> 00:23:25,127 KALEB: That it's time we actually get to do it. 420 00:23:25,196 --> 00:23:27,267 A little less aggressive or you'll never catch a fish. 421 00:23:27,336 --> 00:23:29,097 Okay, watch. 422 00:23:29,166 --> 00:23:30,409 You let it soak down, 423 00:23:30,478 --> 00:23:32,963 and you let it kinda hang for a little bit. 424 00:23:33,032 --> 00:23:35,690 Then you jerk it, but you gotta be able to let the fish 425 00:23:35,759 --> 00:23:39,245 come to the lure, and then get caught. 426 00:23:41,247 --> 00:23:43,456 BRITTANY: Our trip has two points to it: 427 00:23:43,525 --> 00:23:46,010 one is hopefully we bring some fish back 428 00:23:46,079 --> 00:23:47,978 for our freezer, 429 00:23:48,047 --> 00:23:50,256 but the biggest point is we get to teach our kids about 430 00:23:50,325 --> 00:23:54,743 fishing and about getting this sort of resource. 431 00:23:54,812 --> 00:23:58,747 KALEB: Fishing like this is an exercise in patience, 432 00:23:58,816 --> 00:24:01,612 and if you're not patient, 433 00:24:01,681 --> 00:24:03,959 you're probably not gonna have any luck. 434 00:24:04,028 --> 00:24:06,686 You don't always get what you want when you want it. 435 00:24:09,758 --> 00:24:11,484 BRITTANY: We should. 436 00:24:11,553 --> 00:24:13,141 KALEB: Drill another hole? 437 00:24:13,210 --> 00:24:14,522 BRITTANY: Get another one going. 438 00:24:14,591 --> 00:24:15,868 That way you two don't hook each other. 439 00:24:15,937 --> 00:24:16,938 KALEB: Yeah, let's do that. 440 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:21,494 All right, it's time to make some more holes, guys. 441 00:24:21,563 --> 00:24:24,428 We need to fish more area. 442 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,032 BRITTANY: There goes Daddy with the chainsaw. 443 00:24:42,101 --> 00:24:43,378 Who's gonna go to the new hole? 444 00:24:43,447 --> 00:24:44,379 ELOVIE: Me! 445 00:24:44,448 --> 00:24:46,001 BRITTANY: Okay. 446 00:24:46,070 --> 00:24:48,245 GILBERT: I'm staying over here. BRITTANY: Sounds like a plan. 447 00:24:54,078 --> 00:24:55,977 BRITTANY: Fishing is kind of like hunting. 448 00:24:56,046 --> 00:24:58,842 You're not guaranteed anything. 449 00:25:01,810 --> 00:25:03,881 That's super exciting, but you have to have lots 450 00:25:03,950 --> 00:25:05,987 of patience until then. 451 00:25:12,165 --> 00:25:14,651 Ellie, you wanna go see how Daddy's doing? 452 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:15,893 ELOVIE: Yeah. 453 00:25:15,962 --> 00:25:18,206 BRITTANY: All right, reel it in first. 454 00:25:18,275 --> 00:25:20,795 GILBERT: Oh, I just saw a giant one! 455 00:25:20,864 --> 00:25:22,072 BRITTANY: You saw a giant one? 456 00:25:22,141 --> 00:25:25,662 GILBERT: Yeah. I need to catch that one. 457 00:25:25,731 --> 00:25:26,732 Whoa. 458 00:25:30,770 --> 00:25:33,877 GILBERT: Whoa. What! 459 00:25:35,016 --> 00:25:35,948 BRITTANY: Kaleb! 460 00:25:36,017 --> 00:25:37,225 GILBERT: I actually got one! 461 00:25:37,294 --> 00:25:39,503 KALEB: Wow, that one's nice sized! 462 00:25:39,572 --> 00:25:42,195 BRITTANY: Good job, Gilbert. 463 00:25:45,958 --> 00:25:47,718 KALEB: Wow, that's a beautiful fish. 464 00:25:47,787 --> 00:25:49,340 This is a trout of some sort. 465 00:25:49,409 --> 00:25:50,652 BRITTANY: I think that's a, yeah, I was going to say, 466 00:25:50,721 --> 00:25:51,895 it's a lake trout like what I caught last time. 467 00:25:51,964 --> 00:25:53,241 KALEB: Yeah. 468 00:25:53,310 --> 00:25:55,795 BRITTANY: All right, Gilbert. Go at it again. 469 00:25:55,864 --> 00:25:57,763 KALEB: Good job, Gilbert. Proud of you, boy. 470 00:26:00,110 --> 00:26:01,732 You got another one! 471 00:26:01,801 --> 00:26:03,665 Yeah buddy! 472 00:26:03,734 --> 00:26:05,287 Fish number two! 473 00:26:06,426 --> 00:26:08,152 I'm gonna call you the slayer. 474 00:26:09,878 --> 00:26:11,431 You got it now, boy. 475 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:14,089 GILBERT: Yup. 476 00:26:16,782 --> 00:26:18,438 KALEB: Man, Gilbert's kicking our butts. 477 00:26:24,410 --> 00:26:25,791 Ha! 478 00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:27,965 BRITTANY: You got one? KALEB: Yup. 479 00:26:28,034 --> 00:26:30,658 BRITTANY: Nice. 480 00:26:30,727 --> 00:26:32,867 I'm always excited when the kids and I, 481 00:26:32,936 --> 00:26:35,697 and Kaleb get to do something as a family that 482 00:26:35,766 --> 00:26:37,975 we don't always get to do. 483 00:26:39,045 --> 00:26:41,254 Yes! I got one! 484 00:26:41,323 --> 00:26:42,393 KALEB: Nice! 485 00:26:42,462 --> 00:26:44,154 ELOVIE: Aw, it's so cute. 486 00:26:47,467 --> 00:26:50,539 BRITTANY: We try to hunt most of the meat that we eat. 487 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:53,163 We don't often go fishing so whenever we get the 488 00:26:53,232 --> 00:26:54,785 chance to do it. 489 00:26:54,854 --> 00:26:58,927 It's exciting because that's changing up our diet. 490 00:26:58,996 --> 00:27:02,137 KALEB: Ha! I got one. 491 00:27:02,206 --> 00:27:04,795 ELOVIE: Mom! Dad caught one! 492 00:27:07,764 --> 00:27:11,181 JOHNNY: To me, the challenges are relative. 493 00:27:11,250 --> 00:27:13,321 Anywhere you live you'll face challenges. 494 00:27:13,390 --> 00:27:16,531 It's how you adapt to those challenges. 495 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,327 I have to learn from nature out here because there's no 496 00:27:19,396 --> 00:27:21,294 other source of information. 497 00:27:32,029 --> 00:27:35,239 JOHNNY: So, today's the day to see if my little 498 00:27:35,308 --> 00:27:37,725 insulation plan worked. 499 00:27:37,794 --> 00:27:41,314 Which was spruce boughs covered with snow. 500 00:27:41,383 --> 00:27:44,732 It's a little messier than I hoped for. 501 00:27:44,801 --> 00:27:48,459 You can see the spruce boughs, they crack, they break. 502 00:27:48,528 --> 00:27:50,669 Everything's so brittle out here. 503 00:27:52,463 --> 00:27:57,468 And the hope was, when the ice grows it'll only grow a thinner layer, 504 00:27:57,537 --> 00:28:00,092 so I don't have to chip down as far. 505 00:28:10,309 --> 00:28:11,482 That's water. 506 00:28:11,551 --> 00:28:14,796 I hit water. Awesome. 507 00:28:14,865 --> 00:28:16,625 I'm gonna fill the bucket while I'm down here and I got 508 00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:19,318 the hole opened up. 509 00:28:19,387 --> 00:28:22,424 The spruce boughs insulated it to a degree, 510 00:28:22,493 --> 00:28:24,633 there's no doubt about that. 511 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:27,947 But it has quite a bit of spruce chunks in here. 512 00:28:28,016 --> 00:28:32,331 They're super fragile with these temperatures. 513 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,713 So, if I remove these every single day, 514 00:28:34,782 --> 00:28:38,578 it's just gonna be a pile of, of broken twigs. 515 00:28:38,647 --> 00:28:40,684 I'm looking for efficiency down here. 516 00:28:40,753 --> 00:28:44,308 So, I think I'm gonna try to come up with another solution. 517 00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:50,487 You know the last time I was walking around on the big lake 518 00:28:50,556 --> 00:28:54,042 I saw a lot of circles where the caribou laid down. 519 00:28:54,111 --> 00:28:57,390 If a caribou hide keeps a caribou warm laying on a lake, 520 00:28:57,459 --> 00:28:59,772 I think it would insulate this. 521 00:28:59,841 --> 00:29:02,326 So I think that option might work. 522 00:29:02,395 --> 00:29:03,811 Got the bucket full of water, 523 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,502 I'm gonna take it up to the cabin, 524 00:29:05,571 --> 00:29:07,504 and grab that caribou hide and see if that'll work for 525 00:29:07,573 --> 00:29:11,646 insulating this water hole. 526 00:29:11,715 --> 00:29:13,959 I have to figure stuff out on my own out here. 527 00:29:14,028 --> 00:29:15,236 I don't have the internet. 528 00:29:15,305 --> 00:29:19,067 I don't have something I can just look up. 529 00:29:19,136 --> 00:29:21,000 So I'm gonna drape this over the hole, 530 00:29:21,069 --> 00:29:22,968 and I'm gonna put a little bit of snow on top 'cause I do 531 00:29:23,037 --> 00:29:25,418 know that snow does help insulate. 532 00:29:26,903 --> 00:29:30,147 It's an interesting way of life to just look at nature. 533 00:29:30,216 --> 00:29:33,150 What is nature doing? 534 00:29:33,219 --> 00:29:35,670 And I can apply these principles of what nature's 535 00:29:35,739 --> 00:29:38,742 doing to my own life, and that's how I survive out here. 536 00:29:44,472 --> 00:29:45,818 I think it's gonna work great. 537 00:29:45,887 --> 00:29:48,752 I'm excited to come back tomorrow and check it out. 538 00:29:53,239 --> 00:29:55,034 CHRIS: It's almost like the weather around here has like 539 00:29:55,103 --> 00:29:56,864 that attitude of its own. 540 00:29:56,933 --> 00:29:59,038 It'll go from 40 below to ten above and drop right back 541 00:29:59,107 --> 00:30:00,902 down to 40 below. 542 00:30:00,971 --> 00:30:02,870 If you're not willing to adapt and change your ways of living, 543 00:30:02,939 --> 00:30:04,526 you won't survive. 544 00:30:10,567 --> 00:30:13,259 Awesome. It's looking good. 545 00:30:13,328 --> 00:30:14,951 It's starting to warm up already, 546 00:30:15,020 --> 00:30:16,711 you can see it steaming in there. 547 00:30:18,506 --> 00:30:21,233 JESSI: This tarp is already too warm. 548 00:30:21,302 --> 00:30:22,890 You can feel how warm it is. 549 00:30:22,959 --> 00:30:24,063 CHRIS: That's fine. 550 00:30:24,132 --> 00:30:26,238 It's just a junk old tarp. 551 00:30:26,307 --> 00:30:27,756 JESSI: Yeah, I just don't want it to be a junk old 552 00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:29,344 tarp on fire. 553 00:30:29,413 --> 00:30:30,725 CHRIS: Yeah, hopefully everything goes and we don't 554 00:30:30,794 --> 00:30:32,485 light it on fire I guess. 555 00:30:32,554 --> 00:30:34,280 We've got five hours of wait-time to see how this thing works out. 556 00:30:34,349 --> 00:30:35,972 JESSI: Yeah. 557 00:30:36,041 --> 00:30:37,076 CHRIS: We'll come back in about a half an hour and check on it. 558 00:30:37,145 --> 00:30:38,940 JESSI: Great. 559 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,633 CHRIS: This isn't the first time I've had to thaw a 560 00:30:42,702 --> 00:30:45,119 Snow-Go out, but this is gonna be the first time 561 00:30:45,188 --> 00:30:47,569 that I sit inside and watch. 562 00:30:47,638 --> 00:30:48,881 In the past, 563 00:30:48,950 --> 00:30:50,538 I've tried to build these shanty towns where 564 00:30:50,607 --> 00:30:52,091 you wrap a tarp around a snow machine and you get 565 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,853 a fire going, and I actually lit the snow machine on fire, 566 00:30:56,613 --> 00:30:58,373 and so I've learned from those lessons. 567 00:31:02,377 --> 00:31:05,139 This sure beats sitting out on a cold stump watching it. 568 00:31:05,208 --> 00:31:06,623 JESSI: Yeah, this is going great. 569 00:31:06,692 --> 00:31:09,212 Kind of, kind of surprising. 570 00:31:09,281 --> 00:31:10,420 CHRIS: As long as it doesn't catch fire, 571 00:31:10,489 --> 00:31:12,353 I feel like I'm winning. 572 00:31:15,666 --> 00:31:17,358 JESSI: Okay, you see what I'm looking at? 573 00:31:17,427 --> 00:31:18,877 Come here. 574 00:31:18,946 --> 00:31:21,017 You see where the stack is and the smoke's coming out, 575 00:31:21,086 --> 00:31:22,190 but you see to the right of that? 576 00:31:22,259 --> 00:31:24,054 CHRIS: I'm sure it's just steam. 577 00:31:24,123 --> 00:31:25,469 That's a big puff of smoke. 578 00:31:25,538 --> 00:31:28,024 Go make sure it's not on fire. 579 00:31:33,995 --> 00:31:36,618 JESSI: Do you see that? CHRIS: Oh, yeah. 580 00:31:36,687 --> 00:31:38,448 JESSI: I just got worried, you know? 581 00:31:38,517 --> 00:31:40,105 CHRIS: Well, let me check on it. 582 00:31:45,455 --> 00:31:47,698 It's pretty warm. 583 00:31:47,767 --> 00:31:50,770 Everything's dripping. 584 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:53,601 This is looking good. 585 00:31:53,670 --> 00:31:55,465 Turns out the Snow-Go is just melting and it's 586 00:31:55,534 --> 00:31:56,811 steam coming out. 587 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,192 Uh, but it was close call. 588 00:31:58,261 --> 00:32:00,159 Had that been a fire, we could have put it out. 589 00:32:02,851 --> 00:32:04,060 Wow. 590 00:32:04,129 --> 00:32:05,889 JESSI: That's good. Really safe, you know? 591 00:32:05,958 --> 00:32:08,719 CHRIS: Close call. JESSI: Better safe than sorry. 592 00:32:08,788 --> 00:32:11,860 Thaw baby, thaw. 593 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,346 ALEX: Here in Alaska, when the going gets rough, 594 00:32:14,415 --> 00:32:16,313 I just think "Okay, just be scrappy." 595 00:32:16,382 --> 00:32:17,832 Anywhere you can get a little advantage, 596 00:32:17,901 --> 00:32:19,213 just take it. 597 00:32:19,282 --> 00:32:21,146 Get your punches in any way you can and, 598 00:32:21,215 --> 00:32:23,010 and just make it to the next round. 599 00:32:25,564 --> 00:32:27,497 I finally got a really good night's rest. 600 00:32:29,602 --> 00:32:31,535 I've been up since pretty early this morning, 601 00:32:31,604 --> 00:32:33,365 been chopping a lot more firewood. 602 00:32:33,434 --> 00:32:34,918 I'm just trying to get myself set up for success 603 00:32:34,987 --> 00:32:36,885 for the future. 604 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,405 And my quality of life is majorly improved just by, 605 00:32:39,474 --> 00:32:41,442 you know, moving into this tent and being able 606 00:32:41,511 --> 00:32:43,237 to put this stove to good use, 607 00:32:43,306 --> 00:32:46,723 but the idea that I had to put the spruce branches underneath, 608 00:32:46,792 --> 00:32:49,898 it just wasn't a good one, um, it's just not working. 609 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:52,556 The floor is not even close to level. 610 00:32:52,625 --> 00:32:55,145 But the, the real issue is that it's kinda making this a 611 00:32:55,214 --> 00:32:59,701 fire hazard because the stove was leaning on it too heavily, 612 00:32:59,770 --> 00:33:02,463 uh, it's, it's kinda causing it to burn. 613 00:33:02,532 --> 00:33:05,259 It's melted onto the pipe and it makes a bad smell. 614 00:33:05,328 --> 00:33:08,020 It's really just gonna endanger the tent, uh, 615 00:33:08,089 --> 00:33:09,677 and not to mention just make living here 616 00:33:09,746 --> 00:33:11,058 a lot more difficult. 617 00:33:14,854 --> 00:33:18,099 So, what I wanna do is address this issue. 618 00:33:18,168 --> 00:33:21,033 I think the best thing to do will be actually just to move 619 00:33:21,102 --> 00:33:22,966 where the tent is. 620 00:33:23,035 --> 00:33:24,899 Basically, we gotta kind make a new footprint for it. 621 00:33:24,968 --> 00:33:26,694 Try to get it hard, try to get it level. 622 00:33:26,763 --> 00:33:30,111 Dig down to the bare ground. 623 00:33:30,180 --> 00:33:32,907 So this is where I'm gonna put the, the tent. 624 00:33:32,976 --> 00:33:34,667 I'll leave it up where it is for now just in case 625 00:33:34,736 --> 00:33:37,049 this ends up taking more time than I expect. 626 00:33:37,118 --> 00:33:38,913 I've still got a place I can go back to. 627 00:33:38,982 --> 00:33:40,984 Kind of a create a new footprint right here. 628 00:33:41,053 --> 00:33:43,124 Uh, it's gonna involve a lot of shoveling. 629 00:33:43,193 --> 00:33:46,127 Uh, you know, it's always work. 630 00:33:51,339 --> 00:33:53,686 A few days ago, doing this work, 631 00:33:53,755 --> 00:33:55,895 I would have been like really kinda hyper aware of, 632 00:33:55,964 --> 00:33:57,345 "Okay, don't work too hard, 633 00:33:57,414 --> 00:33:59,451 don't get sweaty at all 'cause it's a real danger." 634 00:34:01,211 --> 00:34:04,042 Now, with my tent sitting there, 635 00:34:04,111 --> 00:34:06,009 and the stove, you know, just trickling away, 636 00:34:06,078 --> 00:34:07,769 staying, you know, nice and warm in there. 637 00:34:09,254 --> 00:34:11,532 Uh, I'm not worried about it, you know. 638 00:34:16,261 --> 00:34:18,435 Uh, so this is good. 639 00:34:18,504 --> 00:34:20,644 Uh, I think I can just start breaking my tent down. 640 00:34:20,713 --> 00:34:22,922 Moving it over here. 641 00:34:22,991 --> 00:34:24,545 Yeah, I think I've lived in Alaska and lived off the bush 642 00:34:24,614 --> 00:34:27,375 long enough that it doesn't upset me if my best laid plan 643 00:34:27,444 --> 00:34:29,584 totally gets destroyed. 644 00:34:29,653 --> 00:34:31,517 All right, back to square one. 645 00:34:32,967 --> 00:34:35,142 I just get scrappy and keep going. 646 00:34:35,211 --> 00:34:37,489 And, and that's gonna make me so much tougher, 647 00:34:37,558 --> 00:34:40,250 and when I take on the next bigger challenge, you know, 648 00:34:40,319 --> 00:34:41,872 I'll be ready for it. 649 00:34:41,941 --> 00:34:44,151 Yeah, that looks good. 650 00:34:44,220 --> 00:34:46,601 Cool. 651 00:34:46,670 --> 00:34:49,846 I'm not out here doing this because I'm afraid of failure. 652 00:34:49,915 --> 00:34:51,917 I'm doing it because there's something worthwhile 653 00:34:51,986 --> 00:34:53,263 that I wanna gain. 654 00:34:56,956 --> 00:34:59,373 Yeah, so now that I've, I've got my tent kind 655 00:34:59,442 --> 00:35:00,546 of rebuilt here. 656 00:35:00,615 --> 00:35:02,928 I do have a nice, flat, even floor. 657 00:35:02,997 --> 00:35:05,517 So, I'm gonna get my sled and start moving things in. 658 00:35:08,830 --> 00:35:11,592 KALEB: Bush education is about more than just reading, 659 00:35:11,661 --> 00:35:13,352 writing, and arithmetic. 660 00:35:13,421 --> 00:35:16,804 It's about learning how to catch fish, build a fire, 661 00:35:16,873 --> 00:35:17,977 shoot a moose. 662 00:35:18,046 --> 00:35:19,807 It's the school of the wilderness. 663 00:35:25,399 --> 00:35:27,953 KALEB: So far this has been a great day. 664 00:35:28,022 --> 00:35:31,163 We've been fishing here for several hours now, 665 00:35:31,232 --> 00:35:35,098 between Gilbert and I we've caught ten fish or so. 666 00:35:35,167 --> 00:35:36,617 BRITTANY: I've gotten one. 667 00:35:36,686 --> 00:35:38,964 KALEB: And Brittany's gotten one. 668 00:35:39,033 --> 00:35:40,931 Ellie, she hasn't caught anything. 669 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:52,529 KALEB: I'm starting to think we should shift our attention 670 00:35:52,598 --> 00:35:54,980 from fishing to building a fire and roasting 671 00:35:55,049 --> 00:35:56,395 some of these fish. 672 00:35:56,464 --> 00:35:58,811 Maybe it's time to enjoy the fruits of our labors. 673 00:36:05,749 --> 00:36:07,820 It's really easy to lose track of time when you're 674 00:36:07,889 --> 00:36:11,548 having a blast, but it's getting late in the day, 675 00:36:11,617 --> 00:36:14,793 it's gonna be dark soon and I need to get a fire going. 676 00:36:14,862 --> 00:36:16,174 Cook some fish. 677 00:36:21,213 --> 00:36:22,766 Gilbert, I got some little small pieces, 678 00:36:22,835 --> 00:36:24,147 do you wanna try and chop 'em? 679 00:36:24,216 --> 00:36:25,493 GILBERT: Yeah! 680 00:36:25,562 --> 00:36:27,495 KALEB: Whack this thing down right like this. 681 00:36:27,564 --> 00:36:28,841 GILBERT: Okay. 682 00:36:28,910 --> 00:36:31,085 KALEB: Remember to keep your legs spread wide. 683 00:36:31,154 --> 00:36:33,018 Then whack that sucker. 684 00:36:33,087 --> 00:36:36,401 GILBERT: Ready? KALEB: Yup. 685 00:36:36,470 --> 00:36:37,678 All right, now what we're gonna do, 686 00:36:37,747 --> 00:36:39,127 is we're gonna turn it over, 687 00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,371 and we're gonna whack it hard on the ice, okay? 688 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,442 Watch, like this. 689 00:36:43,511 --> 00:36:46,411 Good job you split one! 690 00:36:47,929 --> 00:36:51,174 Today has been a great bush education for the kids. 691 00:36:51,243 --> 00:36:54,039 Their little brains are soaking up so much knowledge. 692 00:36:54,108 --> 00:36:56,766 Learning about gathering resource through the ice. 693 00:36:56,835 --> 00:36:58,319 They're getting to learn a little bit 694 00:36:58,388 --> 00:37:01,011 about chopping firewood. 695 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,462 BRITTANY: Yeah, buddy! KALEB: Good pitch. Good job. 696 00:37:12,816 --> 00:37:14,715 KALEB: It's not important for them to learn all the lessons 697 00:37:14,784 --> 00:37:17,165 right now, immediately. 698 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:19,616 It's important to just slowly learn them, 699 00:37:19,685 --> 00:37:22,412 time after time after time as they grow up until in 700 00:37:22,481 --> 00:37:25,277 three or four years this stuff's should be second nature. 701 00:37:27,037 --> 00:37:29,074 BRITTANY: Yeah! 702 00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:32,008 KALEB: They will be very smart children when it 703 00:37:32,077 --> 00:37:35,977 comes to rural Alaskan living. 704 00:37:36,046 --> 00:37:39,395 The patience and perseverance to stick it out. 705 00:37:39,464 --> 00:37:42,674 The payoff to a lot of hard work. 706 00:37:44,262 --> 00:37:46,194 I think I was about your age when I started splitting wood, 707 00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:47,403 you know that? 708 00:37:49,059 --> 00:37:50,647 Yeah! 709 00:37:50,716 --> 00:37:55,618 BRITTANY: Yeah! KALEB: Nice job. ELOVIE: Mom! I got one! 710 00:37:55,687 --> 00:37:59,794 BRITTANY: What? Look at that. Get it out, get it out! 711 00:37:59,863 --> 00:38:01,934 Look at that, Ellie! Oh no. 712 00:38:02,003 --> 00:38:03,729 ELOVIE: Oh no! 713 00:38:06,111 --> 00:38:07,940 BRITTANY: Look at that, Ellie! 714 00:38:08,009 --> 00:38:09,010 Oh no. 715 00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:10,184 ELOVIE: Oh no! 716 00:38:10,253 --> 00:38:13,532 BRITTANY: Elovie what, pull it out. 717 00:38:13,601 --> 00:38:16,086 Elovie, who has not gotten to get any fish yet, 718 00:38:16,155 --> 00:38:17,674 she pulls up a fish. 719 00:38:17,743 --> 00:38:19,607 You got a Dolly Varden! 720 00:38:19,676 --> 00:38:21,920 ELOVIE: Dolly Varden. 721 00:38:21,989 --> 00:38:23,991 BRITTANY: It was amazing and so exciting for her, 722 00:38:24,060 --> 00:38:25,337 she was our little cheerleader all day and 723 00:38:25,406 --> 00:38:28,306 finally she's also seeing success. 724 00:38:28,375 --> 00:38:31,136 KALEB: Good job, Ellie. You caught one. 725 00:38:31,205 --> 00:38:33,241 Don't leave me hanging! 726 00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:34,829 Good job. 727 00:38:34,898 --> 00:38:37,073 ELOVIE: Yeah, baby. 728 00:38:37,142 --> 00:38:39,593 BRITTANY: Now we can walk away and know that all four 729 00:38:39,662 --> 00:38:43,769 of us had such a huge part in collecting these fish. 730 00:38:46,151 --> 00:38:48,118 KALEB: Let's see if I can roast a fish. 731 00:38:52,709 --> 00:38:54,884 JOHNNY: Java. 732 00:38:54,953 --> 00:38:57,680 You wanna help me dig this up? Huh? 733 00:38:57,749 --> 00:38:59,371 Get it! 734 00:39:02,098 --> 00:39:04,065 All right, get out of here. 735 00:39:08,691 --> 00:39:10,865 This is the coldest it's been in a while. 736 00:39:10,934 --> 00:39:13,420 We're in a pretty deep cold spell. 737 00:39:13,489 --> 00:39:16,354 With the windchill, it's around negative 70. 738 00:39:16,423 --> 00:39:18,632 So if this caribou hide works in these temperatures, 739 00:39:18,701 --> 00:39:20,461 it's definitely gonna work in, 740 00:39:20,530 --> 00:39:22,636 in any other temperature I see out here. 741 00:39:25,673 --> 00:39:26,674 Cool. 742 00:39:26,743 --> 00:39:28,711 Just like that, there's water. 743 00:39:28,780 --> 00:39:29,884 It's clean. 744 00:39:29,953 --> 00:39:32,024 It didn't take long to get through, 745 00:39:32,093 --> 00:39:34,613 so I would definitely say this was a success. 746 00:39:34,682 --> 00:39:36,512 Every season has its difficulties when it comes to 747 00:39:36,581 --> 00:39:39,584 getting water, whether it's the middle of winter or the 748 00:39:39,653 --> 00:39:40,999 middle of summer. 749 00:39:41,068 --> 00:39:43,622 You just adapt to those changes. 750 00:39:43,691 --> 00:39:46,798 Some for you Java. 751 00:39:46,867 --> 00:39:48,627 Some for me. 752 00:39:48,696 --> 00:39:50,146 You work with nature. 753 00:39:50,215 --> 00:39:52,493 You figure out how to do it, and once you figure it out, 754 00:39:52,562 --> 00:39:55,116 you learn how to be more efficient, 755 00:39:55,185 --> 00:39:56,946 and that's what I'm doing here. 756 00:39:59,535 --> 00:40:01,951 That is a damn good cup of coffee. 757 00:40:02,020 --> 00:40:04,022 Thanks nature. 758 00:40:08,889 --> 00:40:10,477 ALEX: Just getting the last stuff from my, uh, 759 00:40:10,546 --> 00:40:12,686 from my old camp here. 760 00:40:12,755 --> 00:40:14,273 It was just a couple days ago that I lived here, 761 00:40:14,342 --> 00:40:16,275 but it seems like ages ago. 762 00:40:16,344 --> 00:40:17,794 Every tool I brought has its purpose so, 763 00:40:17,863 --> 00:40:19,555 and this one served its, its purpose well. 764 00:40:19,624 --> 00:40:22,937 So, after several long nights of negative 20 and 765 00:40:23,006 --> 00:40:25,595 negative 30-degree weather in a backpacking tent, 766 00:40:25,664 --> 00:40:29,979 I'm kind of excited to move into this new home. 767 00:40:30,048 --> 00:40:34,742 Although it's kinda humbled by modern American standards to live in a tent, 768 00:40:34,811 --> 00:40:36,675 for me it's gonna be like moving into a 769 00:40:36,744 --> 00:40:39,195 five star hotel with all the amenities. 770 00:40:39,264 --> 00:40:42,543 It's a warm place, a place where I can cook. 771 00:40:42,612 --> 00:40:45,097 A place I can dry off my wet clothes. 772 00:40:45,166 --> 00:40:47,099 A place I can organize my gear. 773 00:40:48,066 --> 00:40:50,309 I'm set, you know? 774 00:40:52,933 --> 00:40:55,314 With just a few days of work, and a little bit of grit, 775 00:40:55,383 --> 00:40:57,040 you know, the whole world can change. 776 00:40:57,109 --> 00:40:59,733 That's what this lifestyle's all about, it's, um, 777 00:40:59,802 --> 00:41:03,219 you come out here with nothing and just do it all from scratch, 778 00:41:03,288 --> 00:41:06,671 kind of bring in the wonder back in life, you know? 779 00:41:06,740 --> 00:41:09,536 This is the first step on a really exciting, 780 00:41:09,605 --> 00:41:12,193 unpredictable journey, you know? 781 00:41:16,819 --> 00:41:21,789 BRITTANY: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. 782 00:41:21,858 --> 00:41:24,067 ELOVIE: 16! BRITTANY: 16! 783 00:41:24,136 --> 00:41:27,001 We have 16 fish guys! 784 00:41:27,070 --> 00:41:31,385 KALEB: Oh, yeah. We're getting some heat now. 785 00:41:31,454 --> 00:41:36,770 Just doing it hotdog style with a stick and a fire. 786 00:41:36,839 --> 00:41:38,875 BRITTANY: Having an activity with the family, 787 00:41:38,944 --> 00:41:43,362 where it's educational and it's fun and it's entertaining, 788 00:41:43,431 --> 00:41:45,675 you can't really get much better than that. 789 00:41:45,744 --> 00:41:48,713 It makes a really good life. 790 00:41:48,782 --> 00:41:51,025 Well kids, there's this saying, 791 00:41:51,094 --> 00:41:53,407 "you can either give a man a fish, 792 00:41:53,476 --> 00:41:55,236 and they will eat for a day, 793 00:41:55,305 --> 00:41:58,446 or you can teach them how to fish, 794 00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:01,001 and they will eat for a lifetime." 795 00:42:01,070 --> 00:42:03,210 And that's what we're trying to teach you guys. 796 00:42:06,316 --> 00:42:08,698 KALEB: It's just incredible seeing the transformation when 797 00:42:08,767 --> 00:42:13,531 you get kids out and teach them these fundamentals of 798 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,879 life in the woods. 799 00:42:16,948 --> 00:42:18,328 For me as a parent, 800 00:42:18,397 --> 00:42:20,883 it is so exciting seeing this progression from just a 801 00:42:20,952 --> 00:42:26,198 bumbling kid to a capable, young, adventure-minded person. 802 00:42:26,267 --> 00:42:28,097 BRITTANY: He doesn't want to end this, 803 00:42:28,166 --> 00:42:29,236 and I think that's the best. 804 00:42:29,305 --> 00:42:31,134 And he caught another fish! 805 00:42:31,203 --> 00:42:33,102 KALEB: And he just, last second, twelfth hour, 806 00:42:33,171 --> 00:42:34,379 caught another fish. 807 00:42:34,448 --> 00:42:35,414 Nice job, Gilbert. 808 00:42:35,483 --> 00:42:37,106 BRITTANY: Good job, Gil. 809 00:42:40,454 --> 00:42:42,318 CHRIS: I think it's time to get this thing outta here. 810 00:42:42,387 --> 00:42:44,251 JESSI: Sure, let's check it out. 811 00:42:49,981 --> 00:42:52,604 CHRIS: Oh, no ice at all actually. 812 00:42:52,673 --> 00:42:54,088 JESSI: There's not any, like, water. 813 00:42:54,157 --> 00:42:56,297 There's no ice. There's no snow. 814 00:42:56,366 --> 00:42:58,334 CHRIS: Worked like a charm. 815 00:42:58,403 --> 00:43:00,992 Let's drop this thing down to the ground and try it out. 816 00:43:01,061 --> 00:43:03,201 See if it'll start right up. 817 00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:06,100 This little shanty town of a shed worked pretty well. 818 00:43:06,169 --> 00:43:07,895 I mean it might have looked kinda janky hanging in the 819 00:43:07,964 --> 00:43:10,277 tree with the tarp over it, but this snow machine's 820 00:43:10,346 --> 00:43:12,969 completely thawed out, now it's gonna be the, uh, 821 00:43:13,038 --> 00:43:15,247 the real test though. 822 00:43:15,316 --> 00:43:16,801 Let's see if she starts. 823 00:43:18,250 --> 00:43:22,461 [engine starts] 824 00:43:22,530 --> 00:43:24,705 Awesome. 825 00:43:24,774 --> 00:43:26,327 JESSI: The Snow-Go works. 826 00:43:26,396 --> 00:43:27,708 We're now in the clear. 827 00:43:27,777 --> 00:43:31,125 I can exhale that breath that I've been holding. 828 00:43:34,094 --> 00:43:35,992 CHRIS: Climbing a mountain is only fun because of the hard 829 00:43:36,061 --> 00:43:37,718 work you have to put in, 830 00:43:37,787 --> 00:43:40,100 and if it was just easy every day out here, 831 00:43:40,169 --> 00:43:41,964 I don't think we would enjoy it as much, 832 00:43:42,033 --> 00:43:44,242 but the fact that there's a challenge at every corner, 833 00:43:44,311 --> 00:43:45,899 it's always a surprise and it's always an 834 00:43:45,968 --> 00:43:47,348 adventure out here. 835 00:43:47,417 --> 00:43:51,559 Alaska is the ultimate like no other place on Earth. 836 00:43:51,629 --> 00:43:53,976 JESSI: Great. 837 00:43:54,045 --> 00:43:55,494 CHRIS: Awesome, it works great. 838 00:43:55,563 --> 00:43:57,186 The steering is so easy to turn, man. 839 00:43:57,255 --> 00:43:58,428 JESSI: Awesome. 840 00:43:58,497 --> 00:44:00,361 CHRIS: Go get some chores done with it? 841 00:44:00,430 --> 00:44:03,157 JESSI: We'll, uh, plant some snares. 842 00:44:03,226 --> 00:44:04,987 Check the trapline. 843 00:44:05,056 --> 00:44:07,196 Start doing stuff with the Snow-Go since we haven't had it. 844 00:44:07,265 --> 00:44:08,542 Captioned by Cotter Media Group.