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SUE: And you'll hear me reference my paws,

and, uh, to a degree,

I'm just another animal out here on the Arctic.

I'm not another human, I'm one of the animals trying to survive.

I am a food group, I'm not top of the food chain,

so every day, every morning, every night,

I've got to look for predators.

I'm fully aware in my mind

I live in their territory, they do not live in mine.

There's more stuff that wants to eat me

than I wanna be eaten by out here.

It's always a challenge just staying alive day to day.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

SUE: Back there in the room I had just gotten to sleep,

and, I heard... (VOCALISES) ...something heavy.

You can tell that the footprints...

It's... I mean, I'm ten to one pretty sure,

it's either the wolf or the wolverine.

All animals figure out where other animals sleep,

where are they denning up, where are they bedding down...

He's testing my line.

He was here. There's no fucking time, he had time to get there.

Don't go too far.

That's exactly what a predator wants you to do.

Shut the door.

It's, uh... It's back there.

It's back there and I'm shaking a little,

but, uh...

(SHUSHES)

Right there.

(WHISPERS) Okay, whatever it is,

it's big.

The foxes have little prints, and they crunch a little, this is big.

It's... (VOCALISES)

It's going this way. When I was in bed, it went that way.

My heart is racing a little bit,

but, I mean, this is what it is, to live in the Arctic.

But for me to go out there to investigate,

that's what a predator does.

He draws you away from the herd,

from your safety zone.

And I stand my ground,

I'll look, but no fucking way I'm coming inside.

They wanna get me, they're coming right in here.

Tomorrow morning when it's light, I'll go look at tracks.

Tonight, that son of a bitch gotta get in here to get me.

Probably not gonna sleep very much,

but if anybody wants to play poker,

I got the winning hand right here.

(EXHALES)

CHIP: We don't really make a plan, but we have ideas,

and as we go along we develop our ideas

and we go with the best ones that we have.

That's always the plan.

This is one of the road houses.

It's a public shelter cabin,

and we make ourselves comfortable here,

and we leave things behind to make other people comfortable.

-Here's your Starbucks. -Thank you for my Starbucks.

I was gonna hide in here real quickly.

CHIP: We really enjoy coming up here.

Every year we make an effort to improve the place

as best we can for our comfort and other people.

A lot of other people come up here and hunt.

And we are in a very productive area.

We feel safe. This is like our insurance.

When we're working these mountains back here,

we know we can get back to this place even if we are walking

or broken down, and we know we'll be safe here,

and this is a good place if we ever have to wait.

If we have to wait for weather wait for things to be fixed, wait to be picked up.

When we dress up to go out in the Arctic, we really dress up.

If you got snow going down your neck,

you have to take the time to chill a little bit down

and change yourself out.

If you got one boot wet, take the time.

You just have to take the time.

A lot of people don't realise how much time things take up here,

and then again, it takes time to get things here,

so we're all masters of repair, improvisation, and I always tell them

if I ain't got it, I don't need it.

I kind of, sort of...

I kind of, sort of, got it all together, too.

We come down to this area

because this is where the western Arctic caribou herd winters,

it's 325,000 strong,

and there's traditional caribou hunting grounds back here.

My plan for today is to go to that mountain over there,

where all those caribou are covering the hillsides and work among 'em.

Maybe my wife will get a couple of caribou,

and we'll leave the guts and the hides in a pile,

maybe set a trap nearby, and we'll take the meats back here

and we'll butcher them down, nice and compact,

and work up a load of meats.

If not today, there's tomorrow or the next day,

we'll just keep doing the same deal.

It's coming.

I see maybe 1,000 caribou.

They're just like salt and pepper.

They're like pepper all over the salt.

There's a lot of caribou up there.

The prospects are pretty good, man.

So, what do you think, Agnes? Do you wanna go?

Are you ready to shoot? Got your ammo?

Yep, ready to go.

ERIK: There's a lot of self-reliance living out this far.

You do whatever you want with your life.

This is the lifestyle I choose to live.

It's not the right or wrong way to live, it's just the way I choose.

I live in one of the most remote parts of Alaska.

There's very few people in this region.

I don't live in a village that has any kind of municipality.

We don't have a power plant,

so because of all those factors, I have to make my own power.

Spending a little bit of money and buying solar panels is very expensive upfront,

but in the end, where you don't have to continuously run a generator,

you actually save a lot of money.

The light spectrum that we have here in spring is so intense and so long,

I don't have to run my generator at all.

I'm able to power everything in my home with these three panels.

It saves me time, I don't need to come out and start my generator,

I don't need to pump fuel, I don't need to buy fuel.

A lot of time and money is saved with these three panels.

Well, I'm gonna go ahead and check the fluid level

in all my batteries.

First one's good.

If any of these batteries get shot,

it's like the old expression, "Only as strong as the weakest link."

My whole bank will go down and it can damage my whole system,

so you have to keep up on checking them.

I'm saving and storing power in that battery bank,

so when it's dark I have enough stored power

that I can run my lights, radio, telephone,

all those things I can run in my home.

ANDY: It's all about planning ahead out here,

you're always thinking about tomorrow, the next day, the next week.

What you're gonna need, being prepared for it.

All right, looking good.

I've been wanting to get a band saw mill for a long time.

It's a tool that for many, many years now,

is gonna provide me with lumber

and the type of lumber that I want to do my building projects.

It just frees me up to be very independent in the long future.

I'm hoping that I can get in and get back to Eagle before the Taylor Highway blows in,

or a snowstorm comes in,

'cause this time of the year the weather changes daily.

The last 160 miles is on a lane-and-a-half gravel road, very mountainous.

There's no guard rails on the road, this new snow

and these warm temperatures is gonna make the road really slick.

So it's gonna be, kind of, a challenging road home for me today.

Getting some wind-blown drifts here crossing the highway.

These drifts kind of suck you in whenever you, uh...

Your front wheels hit them, it wants to just drive the wheels

right into the drift,

so you gotta keep a little bit of momentum going,

you don't wanna just ease into them,

so you just gotta, kind of, hit them hard,

and be ready for the wheel to get, kind of, sucked into the drift.

These drifts are pinching the road in pretty tight.

You gotta be careful, if you go too far off to one side,

you'll just fall off the road, off the shoulder.

Not a place to get stuck there for the night.

This would be a pretty serious situation

if you ended up getting drifted in up here at night.

Here's another one right here.

Looks like it's gonna blow in pretty good right here.

Just another day on Taylor Highway.

It never fails. There's always, always something here.

We're heading down into the 40-mile valley now.

This would be a bad place to go off the road.

It's pretty much

a 40 degree angle off the left bank here,

so if you make a mistake on this section of the road,

you might as well kiss whatever you got goodbye.

It's pretty narrow up in here.

It's about a lane-and-a-half wide.

Need a damn bicycle to come through here if it gets too much more narrow.

(TRUCK HONKS)

Come on, buddy, slow it down.

These truck drivers here,

they're used to having the whole road to themselves

and they don't like to slow down.

For someone like me who doesn't drive a lot, it scares the hell out of me.

We're on the home stretch, coming down the hill into Eagle now.

That's a good feeling.

(EXHALES)

All-in-all, it went pretty good. I'm feeling really good.

I've been watching the river conditions now.

After discussion with Kate,

we've decided we're gonna leave our sawmill in Eagle this year

instead of trying to get it downriver before the ice breaks up.

This is the end of the road for this spring, for this sawmill,

and I'll have to deal with it later on in the summertime.

Now, all I got to do is pack up the snow machine,

another hour trip home on the Yukon,

jump in the sauna, drink some beer,

snuggle with Kate and it's a good day.

SUE: I got to keep my little peepers peeled.

I got grandkids that want me to go take them to see the mouse someday.

I gotta stay alive to do it.

It's kind of eerie, I normally have my foxes...

All over they follow me at everything that I do.

Um...

But I haven't seen them, so I'm just, kind of,

wanting to really scan the area.

I mean, I got... It tells me, when they hide like that and it's not a storm,

I've got one of the top predators in my area.

My foxes are, you know, they're cute.

They're sociable and they're highly entertaining,

but one of the reasons I cultivate that friendship-relationship,

uh, they are great at warning me what's to come.

A fox will always run in the exact opposite direction of danger.

You cannot take your own safety seriously enough.

The largest thing anybody can do

to be mindful of their own safety,

get your ass up in elevation a little bit

and constantly survey your horizon.

It's a wolverine over there.

Come on, move, little fucker.

The only big black thing running.

Being stalked by a wolverine is bad news.

They are smaller than a grizzly,

but I'll tell you what, pound for pound, they'll take them on

and I've seen them come out on top.

So when I see a wolverine, I definitely see danger.

He was coming in.

Little fucker.

The minute I see him, he looked at me, he stopped, and went... (GRUNTS)

Boom. He's headed off in that direction.

It's a very smart wolverine.

Smarter than I've... And ballsier than I have ever seen one.

I need to think like my opponent does and outsmart him.

So it's like a chess match.

Right now, he's got me in a check position.

He's been studying me for a long time.

I... I'll concede that we're in a check situation,

but not checkmate yet.

ERIK: Up here in the Arctic, you know, everything's about efficiency.

You don't really put in any extra effort

or use any resources unless you have to.

In the wintertime, I do extensive trapping for supplemental income.

I have a lot of respect for all of the animals that live here in the Brooks Range,

and they are essential to my life as a subsistence user.

Animals can be used to make mitts, or parker ruffs, or hats,

and they can also be sold.

Different animals' hides are worth different amounts of money,

for instance, a fox hide is worth anywhere from $50 to $100.

A wolverine is worth anywhere from $250 to $500.

A wolf hide is worth $1,500.

I'm gonna head up the creek and check my trap line

and tend any traps that need re-baiting.

If I see some more signs,

I'm going to put out a couple more wolverine cubbies.

I've been seeing a good amount of wolverine sign this winter,

and hopefully, we'll catch something, or we'll re-bait

and catch something next time we get out there.

It's very important to check your traps frequently on your trap line.

For one reason, you have that obligation to the animals.

I don't want the animals to be in the trap any longer than they have to

before I go and humanely dispatch them.

Also, you'll lose animals, other animals will come and eat them in the trap,

or snow and ice will clog your traps, it will freeze them open

and then your traps aren't effective, so you're wasting your time anyway.

There's a grouse.

A spruce grouse is basically an Arctic chicken.

I need at least two to make a meal.

I was just coming around the corner

and I caught a little movement out of the corner of my eye.

Saw one spruce grouse and shot it.

A little supper.

Rural Alaska, most people do their bird hunting with a .22 riffle or pistol

like I just did and it's, uh,

it's not so much a sport,

it's just a kill of opportunity and a little bit of food.

(BIRD CHIRPING)

(ERIK SPEAKING)

(GUNSHOT)

A little bonus along the trail.

Shot a couple of spruce grouse

and third one that flew in the trees over here.

I'm gonna walk over there and see if I can find him and get the fourth one there.

He flew right over here.

Got him.

Good eating.

Didn't plan on shooting those grouse when I left home today,

but always have the .22 with me

and seize opportunity when you get it.

At least I'm not coming home empty-handed. Good deal.

ANDY: Things don't always go as you plan.

That's the way it is out here. You gotta adapt to things as they happen.

Out here when things break down,

it's up to me to fix them.

The next thing I need did to do is work on my Bombi.

I use the Bombi for a lot of different jobs around here.

I haven't found anything it can't pull yet.

Boats, logs, little buildings.

You know, for something that weighs about 3,400 lbs,

it's a mighty mite.

It's a track vehicle, kind of like a bulldozer.

Where we live here, it's mostly perma-frosted country.

And when that does start to thaw out in the spring time,

it's very, very wet and soft.

This is about the only thing I can use in my yard without tearing everything up.

'Cause it's got a lot of floatation,

so it's a very important tool for me to keep operating.

-Hey, can you give me a hand? -Yep.

ANDY: All right.

I was having problems with these wheels not being aligned straight

and they were throwing the tracks off.

So I'm removing these axles here

so I can clean them all up

and check 'em out and make sure they're not bent.

-Okay, you're on it. -I'm on it.

Ah, that's good. That's really easy.

-It's coming off easy? -Yep.

Whoo-hoo!

Whoo!

Okay, all right, now go back

about a foot-and-a-half, you'll see another one there.

It's actually Kate's Bombi.

We were driving along in Fairbanks

and I saw this for sale and I thought it was the cutest little thing,

so I bought it.

You know, it's sad that the axles' not cooperating,

but I'm sure Andy can fix it.

-That's it? -I think so.

I didn't know we had these.

ANDY: Well, you always told me you like a man with a big tool.

(CHUCKLING)

I think you are a big tool.

ANDY: All four axles are off now.

Hopefully, I'll be able get this thing going in another day or so.

CHIP: It's just a matter of what you want

and the things you want in life.

And this is what we like. This is what we want in life.

We like the action. We like the good food.

That's the way we like to do it.

I just wanna glass around and make myself familiar

with all the little dots all over again,

and then I'll be able to tell what's moving and what's not.

CHIP: Well, there's caribou moving down here.

Caribou are always walking.

They're always on the move every day.

And when you get them running like that,

it's almost guaranteed something's spooking 'em.

I just don't see what's spooking 'em,

and it isn't the first herd that we've seen running off that hill either.

I've seen about four other small herds run off that hill

for some reason.

They're probably a good mile-and-a-half away, almost two miles away.

So it's definitely not us.

Quite a few bunches of caribou.

Keep wards and keep going up on top

and glass around some more once we get to the top.

CHIP: This is a place we call "on high".

This is a natural, kind of, caribou trap.

The caribou take these three drainages

and they end up in this area right here.

And a lot of times we can hunt them from the rocks.

We just dress like a rock, look like a rock, act like a rock

and we get really close to caribou.

We've got... Right here is one lone female.

Look, they're coming up this way, these ones are spooking.

They're gonna start moving.

AGNES: That first one right there. CHIP: The very first one.

Look she's the fourth one back now.

The one that just turned around is a female.

Then there's two bulls and a female.

CHIP: Good drop. You see her drop?

You spined her ass.

Should we go down and finish her? She'll die.

AGNES: I just shot a female caribou, looks like she's down.

I was aiming for her shoulder,

right side, trying to get a clean heart shot,

but, uh, it looked like I hit it in the spine

and it just went... (VOCALISES)

...and it fell down with the first shot.

CHIP: Should we go down and finish her? AGNES: For sure.

CHIP: I'm gonna go up and get my machine. AGNES: Okay.

ERIK There is no schedule, it's just whatever you want.

That's part of the beauty of living in the bush

and having those freedoms.

ERIK: Picked up a couple spruce grouse here,

which was kinda unexpected.

I was going along and there was four grouse.

Grab my favourite part

of any bird or any animal, the heart.

Take the legs,

breast meat, and the hearts from each one.

These grouse, they rely on their, uh...

On their natural camouflage of their feathers.

They'll sit still and you can walk right up to 'em and they don't run away.

Most of the time, it works.

I was hanging around for quite a while

with these grouse right next to me, I didn't even see 'em.

Little bonus, little kill of opportunity,

and something to bring home on an otherwise unsuccessful trapping mission.

Voila.

My whole life, I've enjoyed being outdoors,

you know, I have an appreciation for going to a larger metropolitan city

and eating a good meal,

but I like to hang my hat in the wilderness.

I like rural living.

Hungry.

It's like midnight, got more work to do.

Everything in life is a matter of perspective and I'm learning, not knowing.

Some people are... They think it's incredible the way that I live,

or different other people who live in this region.

To me, it's just everyday stuff.

Well, this is kind of my, uh,

quick meal version of shepherd's pie,

I got potatoes with meat, grouse,

cheese on the top.

It's not the greatest meal I've ever cooked,

but I just need something to eat.

I'm just gonna devour it.

ANDY: Experience is knowledge out here,

and you'll only gain that knowledge if you gain the experience

and that just takes time.

And even then you screw up.

There were six of these.

Five, six...

No, there should be eight. I'm missing two of these long ones.

When I took the Bombi apart

and I started inspecting all the parts and pieces on it,

I found that some bolts got lost.

Where would you have put them?

-In your pocket? -No.

Okay, I'll look with the big magnet.

It's gonna be a real pain if he can't put it together,

if he can't get anything to put it together with.

It's just a magnet that holds tools on the wall

but they're wicked for looking for stuff in the snow.

Like, you just go over the snow, and it just jumps up into the magnet.

Let's check it out.

I'm having problems with the alignment on the axles.

I pulled this one axle off and it's...

The alignment's messed up on it.

It's not straight so...

Because its cocked,

the bogie wheel here is grabbing the track and throwing the track off,

and once the track comes off, then it's about a half-a-day project

to put my track back on.

I'm gonna inspect them all and clean them up

and one way or another, I've gotta make it work,

so I've got a feeling it's gonna be more MacGyvering.

(MACHINERY WHIRRING)

There are some days I feel like all I'm doing is fixing things,

but the more things you have to do out of the ordinary,

the more skills you develop,

so a lot of times when a problem happens,

it's just a matter of a minute or two, and I know how to fix the problem.

(WHIRRING CONTINUES)

(GRUNTS)

Crap.

I spend half my life looking for shit.

I think I might have better success looking through his pockets.

Well, I guess I better go deliver the bad news.

-So sorry! -Can't find anything?

No, all that's out there is just those little ones with the washers.

Okay, I'll figure it out.

ANDY: Out here, seems like I'm forever

redoing threads, or making my own nuts or bolts.

It's a pain in the ass.

More damn MacGyvering.

SUE: Do I wanna shoot everything in sight? No.

Do I need to rid myself of a top predator? Absolutely.

No different than anybody else's home protection.

My street gangs just have fur and claws.

This wolverine predator situation is,

kind of, getting on my nerves a little bit.

I have too much work to do to be held hostage by a furball.

It's time for me instead of waiting for him to come in,

I've got a beautiful, nice, warm, sunny day.

I've got a Tyvek suit, which is all white.

And I'm gonna go out to an area

where he's popped up from a couple of times,

and I'm gonna put the hunt on him.

The wolverine is doing some things that are

very uncharacteristic for a wolverine.

You know, predators are opportunists.

This is beginning to feel more like, uh,

he's targeting me.

He was by my side of the tent where I sleep

when I heard the noise the other night.

He is not just, "Let's open the tent and see if there's food,"

he is definitely

directing his attention at me, personally.

I am a food group if he needs it.

I am a lone individual culling my...

I've culled myself from the herd.

I do walk with a limp.

So all of that says, "Ooh, there's a pork chop."

It will be very offensive to him

that I've come and screwed up his den.

That is a direct challenge.

So I'm gonna get right up in his grill

and let him know two can play this game.

This wolverine predator situation is, kind of, getting on my nerves a little bit.

It's time for me to go out and push back and assert my dominance

and hopefully, in doing that, he'll stay away.

We, got, uh...

Couple of very distinctive smaller wolverine tracks.

All these little circles are prints.

But because of the light windstorm we had the other night,

it's gonna leave, uh, inverted print.

But this shows me that there are...

There's a lot of activity here.

You know, some are smaller, obviously, fox.

Some are bigger, obviously, wolverine.

But this is home central.

So this is a good area for me to take a couple of shots.

Even not seeing the wolverine jump in front of me,

by me going into their territory...

-Boom, boom, boom, boom! -(GUNSHOTS)

It's posturing and warning.

"I'm the alpha." "No, I am." "No, I am."

And then, we'll, you know,

we'll either come to a meeting of the minds.

One of us comes out the victor,

or we both say, "Fine, I have my territory, you have yours."

CHIP: Small game will get you through the time when there's no big game.

And there's plenty of time when there's no big game.

Gotta know your alternatives, you'll always be successful.

(AGNES SPEAKING)

(CHIP SPEAKING)

I just went back up

and got the snow machine with the sled,

and I'm gonna go down and go pick up that caribou.

The ultimate plan for the animal, of course,

is the caribou that we hunt at this time of year, she's a nice, fat female,

and it's the best meat, they're prime right now.

Caribou are good all the way round.

I'm skinning away.

We've got some antlers and head and some skin for bait.

What we're doing here is killing off two birds with one stone.

Basically what will happen is there'll be a gut pile left here with the skin

'cause the skin at this time of year is just not any good

and the ravens will come and they'll eat,

and they'll let the other predators round here know that

there's something up here and the predators will come up here,

and when we come around tomorrow,

we'll be able to sneak up to the same rock,

have a look down,

maybe be able to take a shot.

So this doesn't pan out in one day.

This is just our first good day of riding weather.

This is our first good day of being able to get out

and do what we wanted to do and we've waited a long time.

It's taken quite a while to get here,

and this is just the first one of several caribou that we plan on having.

The first bait that we plan on leaving behind.

We call them baits,

but it's just gut piles that we leave behind.

But it's really what they become.

We're not placing them or something,

but this is a good place.

I threw the skin on there simply to keep the ravens from eating up

and clearing off the gut pile over the next couple of days.

We made ourselves a gut pile. We made ourselves some meat.

Now we're looking to make some fur.

ERIK: The real value of wilderness is aesthetic

and it's a non-tangible asset.

The basic building blocks for living out in the wilderness is having fuel.

It's having meat to eat.

You gotta have a good supply of firewood

to get yourself through the winter.

(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)

This will be some good dry spruce.

Some high quality fuel here.

I like to be efficient. I burn fuel to come all the way up here to trap.

Fuel costs a lot of money in rural Alaska,

so I try to make the best of it and cut down a tree

you know, in an area that otherwise would be too far away

to just go to cut firewood so...

In these temperatures, that's a couple days of wood.

So it didn't really cost me anything just to knock this little tree down.

Every little bit of wood helps.

You can never have too much firewood.

I was getting pretty low on wood.

That shed, in late Fall, is filled to the top

and was heaping over with nice split,

dried wood ready to go.

At this point, we're down here pretty low, just a couple pieces left,

so went out today and cut this tree.

Got a little bit of expendable wood now. I'm ahead a couple of days.

Having an ample supply of firewood is 100% essential.

If you don't have enough firewood to make it through the winter,

it's not gonna be a very good time.

ANDY: There's a lot of different ways of living subsistence,

I'm always improvising. You gotta find a balance out here.

So, I've cleaned up all the axles,

got all the parts ready to put back on the Bombi

so she's ready to get put back together again.

If you don't like doing mechanicking, you better...

If you're gonna live out in the woods,

you better not buy any equipment.

Because you're going to be forced to

MacGyver a lot of stuff.

Out here, the trade-off is investment you have in this equipment

and the amount of work you can do without it.

Everybody comes to realise after a while

that if you don't have some of these equipment,

it's just too much work.

Kind of feeling like I'm on the home stretch here,

which is a good thing.

Often the biggest battle with any of this stuff is doing it in the right order.

One of the things that my parents taught me in life was,

"Just go do it. Don't be afraid to make a mistake, you'll learn."

All right. (SIGHS)

Think for the most part, I got this bad boy back together,

hasn't run for quite a while,

so that's the next thing, see if she'll start up.

(ENGINE STARTING)

(ENGINE STARTING)

All right! Looking good.

The Bombi is just a really important tool to me.

It's just an all-purpose vehicle

for us during the summertime.

It was a bit of a struggle,

you know, having to take parts off and find replacements,

but I've gotta say everything went back together good.

I don't have any spare parts laying around.

(CHUCKLES) I'm not missing any parts.

All-in-all, I feel like this was a good project

and a good day today to get this done.

KATE: Whoo-hoo!

ANDY: Go Bombi!

CHIP: We see a change in seasons coming

and things happening in a really fast rate.

Every day, there's something else to hunt.

Every day, there's something new to gather.

Yesterday, Agnes caught a really dandy caribou

and we left a gut pile behind,

and what we like to do is go back and look at the gut piles.

We have one in a pretty strategic place.

So our plan is to go on up there and see what fur has gone to that gut pile.

(ANDY SPEAKING)

So, we've got our gut pile from yesterday down here,

from a nice caribou that we killed,

and we were glassing to see if any fur would been on it.

Uh, from what we see, there's only been ravens on it so far.

So we're gonna come back here again tomorrow and have another look.

Today doesn't seem like we're gonna be getting out there

as much as we want to.

The weather's gonna be calming down.

It's not really the cold, it's the wind.

So we're just gonna have to sit and wait out the weather.

Um, today is

blowing... Gusting 45 and blowing 30,

and it's about zero out there.

So I think it's something like a 47 degree wind chill factor. (CHUCKLES)

Out of every good hunting day,

there's probably two days of nasty, nasty weather.

It's the Arctic.

-Pretty good caribou, huh? -This is the 3C menu.

This is the caribou, the corn and the carrots,

with whole wheat bread that you made at home.

I'd throw all this in a pot and call it good.

AGNES: We're gonna just wait out the weather and hope for the best

and it should clear up, hopefully by morning,

and we should be rolling soon.

SUE: I've always craved extreme isolation.

I like the isolation.

I love my animals, even the ones that want to eat me.

Hey, baby.

Come on, it's okay.

Well, I mean, my foxes are back,

um, that means the wolverine isn't.

Uh, you know, I had to push play.

My dominance over his dominance,

and he's left the area.

Today, the...

The whole feel is different.

There is an absolute lessening of the tension in the air

and things are back to normal.

You can't get me.

Oh, you can't get me. You can't catch me.

(LAUGHS)

The foxes, they are my social world.

Come on, dummy dum-dum.

(CLICKING TONGUE)

Right here.

People are 350 miles away.

The foxes, they're family to me.

My favourite thing about the foxes

is that they are willing to share the Tundra with me.

They're allowing me to experience

what they are, what they can be.

You know, they're not just a fur coat.

They're friends.