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NARRATOR: On this episode of
Life Below Zero,

winter prep
goes into overdrive

as the big chill
descends on Alaska.

ANDY: Last year's moose hunt
was a big zero.

NARRATOR: It takes
a village to keep
the home fires burning.

CHIP: There's no point in me
trying to get myself
a new stove

when I could just make one.

NARRATOR: Erik travels
to a bear-infested island
for his next meal.

ERIK: A sow with
two first-year cubs.

Holy shit!

Let's get out of here.

NARRATOR: And time
is running out for Sue to land
a movable feast.

Are you fucking kidding me?

ERIK: I'm here
in Kodiak Island.

Wind's blowing. It's overcast.

Had a little frost last night.

Had a bear come down the creek
and wake me up.

I've been engaged
in guiding-related activities

since spring bear season
in May.

It's late fall now.

I've been going essentially
for six months straight,
every day.

I'm really fired up
just to get out and do
a little hunting of my own

where I'm the triggerman,
and it's all about me.

NARRATOR: Erik Salitan is in
one of the most remote parts
of Alaska,

hundreds of miles
from his home in Wiseman.

But for a subsistence hunter,

the quest to stock enough meat
for winter is never-ending.

First thing when I wake up is,
here's these goats
up on the hill.

So that's pretty neat.

I'm gonna give that about
3, 3.5 miles from camp.

It's some pretty
rugged terrain

that needs to be crossed
in between here and there,

but it should be fun.

NARRATOR: Erik won't only
be dealing with
a hostile environment.

His path to the goats
is littered with aggressive
brown bears.

ERIK: I don't really like
what I have going on here.

It's a whole different world
down in the creeks.

Thick alder.

A lot of times in Kodiak,
you jump bears and deer
down in these creeks.

There's bears on the Alaska
Peninsula that can reach up to
1,400 pounds.

A little microhabitat.

You never see these animals
out on the tundra.

When the weather's bad
they're all holed up
down in here.

So, always ready
if we jump a deer,

or bear, or whatever.

I already seen a couple goats

that I didn't know were here,

and nothing real
accessible yet, though.

But goats aren't known
for living in too accessible
of a spot.

We'll keep trucking up
to that high peak
and see what happens.

ANDY: Every day brings
its challenges,

every day brings
its frustrations
and its triumphs.

Hopefully the triumphs prevail
over the frustrations.

(DOGS HOWLING)

(ALL BARKING)

ANDY: I think people
are becoming
very disconnected

from knowing
where their food comes from,

taking care of
their own needs,

preparing their own foods,
gathering their own foods.

I think that's
a very dangerous thing

for people to become
complacent about that.

Cool. That powder's working.
It's dry.

What I'm doing now is
preparing to go get our meat
for the year.

The focus on hunting this year
is gonna be really strong.

It's critical to me
that I get a moose this year.

Last year's moose hunt
was a big zero.

And we had to spend
a lot more money to bring meat
in from Fairbanks.

I've been living out here
for about 30 years,

and pretty much everything
you need to live is out here,

but you gotta go get it.

Making bullets
is just one more step

in being independent
of other people
and other companies.

To buy a box of
factory-made rounds

is close to $60
for this particular calibre,

and I can reload these bullets
for about $1.50 each.

One bullet placed well,

hopefully, will put
enough meat on my table
for one entire year.

NARRATOR: An average moose
weighs approximately
1,600 pounds,

and Andy and his wife, Kate,
will need the protein

to survive
the long Alaskan winter.

Hunting for moose
is the most frustrating thing
to do up here.

We live in an area where
moose are not
highly populated,

so you got to work hard
to get a moose here.

I'm definitely seeing
some moose tracks here.

It looks like a cow
and a calf.

So where there's cows,
there's gonna be a bull.

Gonna do some calling
for a moose right now
by scraping,

and I'll be imitating
what it sounds like

when a moose is rubbing
his antlers to clean
the velvet off.

You up your chances
of harvesting a moose

if you hunt in some of these
back sloughs.

They tend to be full of water
and very nutritious food
for the moose.

NARRATOR:
With sunlight wasting away,

Andy only has a few hours left
to find his prey.

ANDY: You know,
the stalking them
and hunting them is...

Is always the part
that takes the most patience.

It could very easily be
down here in this area.

We'll see what happens.

(COCKS RIFLE)

SUE: Maybe it'll just be
a scouting mission,

but there's no guarantees.

I mean, if you got something
every time, it'd be called
shopping.

Holy crap.

Snow on Monday.
Snow on Tuesday.

This is an absolute,

smack-in-the-head reminder.

My full-blown winter is
four or five weeks away,

and I'll be below zero.

We're not getting above zero,
no running water again.

This is my opportunity,
a storm coming in,

maybe driving
the caribou closer.

It's an opportunity for me
to fill up my freezer.

I've got a little bit
in there now.

I need to fill it.

And I've got 290 days a year
that I don't see anybody else.

So I need to make sure
I have enough food to make it.

A couple hours till dinner,

might as well go be Super Sue
in the process.

NARRATOR: Caribou can move
around 30 miles per day.

Sue has to take advantage
any time food wanders
in range.

To me, anything God makes
incredibly plentiful
on the planet

probably isn't real high
on the food chain.

Caribou tend to be
really plentiful out here.

So they know that
they don't want to be seen
by the predators,

and they get in these
little gullies, or walk
in the thick willows.

(SUE SPEAKING)

(WHISPERING)

Goddamn, he's beautiful.

(COCKS RIFLE)

Fuck.

NARRATOR: With the brunt
of winter
a few weeks away,

Sue Aikens must begin
storing meat
for the freeze-up.

No easy task
on the wide-open tundra.

(SIGHS)
It's hard to judge distance.

Oh.

I don't know what's going on.
I mean, yesterday the scope
was good.

Today it's...

Either that, or I'm judging it
way the fuck off.

I thought it was 300 yards,

but may be more.

I got one. He's down.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

This is a nice one.

Big full body.

Mature bull.

I gotta go see
about his twin brother now.

CHIP: I don't think
people know who
their next-door neighbour

is in a lot of places.

I think a lot of people live
among a lot of other people,
but they don't know anybody.

It's kinda weird.

(QUTAN WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY)

Good afternoon, Noorvik,
this is the Hailstones

looking for an empty drum.

NARRATOR:
As the winter months approach,

Chip and Agnes must
prepare to be cut off
from the rest of the world.

In this isolated community,

acquiring raw materials
often means turning towards
your neighbours.

If anybody got an old barrel
they wanna trade off

that's got at least
one good side?

I got caribou,
I've got dried fish,

I got some muskrats,
and I got a little bit
of bear meat left.

Or berries.

I will trade any of them.
I just need a drum.

Come on over to Hailstones
if you got something.

I don't wanna hear about it,
I wanna see it.

(CLICKS TONGUE) Out.

NARRATOR: The Hailstone's
semi-nomadic lifestyle

requires heat at all times
in winter.

Chip hopes to turn an oil drum
into a portable wood stove
for the sub-zero months ahead.

Something I can put wood into,

burn for a while
in a temporary spot.

You know,
where you'd put a tent.

And then lift it up
and leave the mess behind,

leave all the ashes
right there as we pack up
and go.

Also makes it much lighter
for my travels.

(DOG BARKS)

In my life I don't really
deal with money much at all.

I don't go to the store

because up here you can skip
the money part

and just go directly
to trading things.

It's legal to barter
caribou meat.

It's legal to barter fish.
It's an old system, you know?

So I can use my caribou
that I've caught out here,

and make it directly
into something

that's more viable
than the meat itself.

Hopefully they'll wanna trade,

and I'll end up with
a steel drum.

And if that doesn't work,

then I'll have to get 50
or 60 bucks and go buy one.

(LAUGHS)

(ON WALKIE-TALKIE)
Hailstone one,
this is Chuck. Come back.

(CHUCKLES) All right.

Good afternoon, Chuck.
How are you?

Hey, hey. Doing fine.

Heard you need a barrel.

I'm looking for a drum,
all right.

I'm making a stove.

Sounds like a deal
if you got some caribou meat.

I've got caribou for trade.

Bring it on over here and, uh,
I'll let you take a pick.

I'll be rolling your way.

Sounds good.
We'll see you here.

All right, Hailstone out.

(GROWLING)

CHIP: Barrels aren't easy
to come by.

They're replenished
every summer,

and if I'm gonna get
any barrels, I get them now.

Most people have a new barrel
for their stove oil,

and a lot of people have
damaged ones, rusted ones,
stuff like that.

So I can use the metal.

I can chop them up

and put them to good use.
That's my plan.

Chuck is kicking it
down the road.

I better go put on my boots.

(LAUGHS)

Oh, yeah.

What you got there?

-A hole?
-Yep. There's a hole.

-CHIP: That'll work good, man.
-Right on.

CHIP: Let's take it
to the back

and you can check out
the caribou meats.

You can pick basically
anything you want.

There's backstraps up there,
lots of fat.

Back legs, front legs.

Wow, it looks all great.

Can I come back later
and pick this one up here?

-CHIP: Yep.
-All right.

CHIP: That'll be fine.

Go get a Honda,
or a little bit of help
or something.

-That's great.
-You got a long way
to go home. (LAUGHS)

Well, let's get this thing
inside the yurt there, and...

-CHUCK: Yeah.
-Just grab one end
or the other.

CHIP: Figure out a way
to get her cut.

CHUCK: All right. Sounds good.

-Thanks, Chuck.
-Thank you.

ANDY: If you're not organised,

and if you don't have
a vision,

and if you don't know
how to plan
and have good logistics,

you won't make it up here,
I guarantee it.

ANDY:
Very few people know
how to get their food,

or how to take care
of their basic needs in life,

which are food, shelter,
and clothing.

If you don't have the ability
to do those three things
for yourself,

you're not very well prepared.

Putting up your meat out here
is probably

the most important thing
you can do for the year.

Caribou, bear, and moose
are our primary source
of protein.

So the best thing
that could happen to me
right now

would be to get
a moose real quick.

NARRATOR:
With sunset approaching,

Andy's hopes of
finding the meat

he and Kate need to survive
the winter are fading fast.

ANDY: These sloughs
are really good hunting areas,

because they tend to be
full of water

and very nutritious food
for the moose.

Young bull just came out.

He's a little too far away
for a clear shot.

Moose have great hearing,

so silence is
absolutely necessary
when you're stalking a moose.

(WHISPERS) It's really,
really wet down there.

I'm hoping I can call him
out of that wet body area,

'cause that'll be
a pain in the butt
to shoot him right there.

(MIMICS MOOSE CALL)

It's getting
a little bit dark.

I've got a good clear shot
at him, but he's in water.

I'd really rather
not shoot him right now,

but I'm not gonna be able
to wait too much longer.

(SPLASHES)

(SIGHS) I should've fucking
waited a little longer.

This moose is gonna be
a pain in the ass to get out.

He's three feet in the water

and 30 yards
out into a slough,

but he's down,
and that's good.

So I'm gonna head on back.

Get him butchered up tonight,
and then try and get him
outta here tomorrow.

Life is very physical
when you live out in the bush,

and if you're not willing to
put in the physical activity
out here,

you're not gonna do very well
out here in the long run.

(ANDY SPEAKING)

I'm gonna have to get
a winch in here
to get him out of that water.

So I'm gonna go back,
get Kate,

and looks like
got a long night
ahead of us here.

CHIP: If somebody gives you
something, you always give 'em
something back.

No matter what.

There's always a return.

(DRILLING)

NARRATOR: Chip's recycling
an old oil drum

to make a portable wood stove

he can use for warmth during
the brutal cold months ahead.

There you go.

It's really important
that you be able to do
for yourself up here.

There's no point in me trying
to earn money

to get myself a new stove
when I could just make one.

So right here
I've got my doorway.

You ain't got something,
and you want it,

you gotta make it yourself
or do without.

All the materials are
coming right off this drum.

I'm folding the edges
of the door so nobody gets cut
when we're using this thing,

and so that when
it's in my sled
and I pack stuff,

it's not gonna
slice my gear up.

This is no place to do things
half-assed. Nope.

This piece I'm putting on
right now is the door hatch.

So this'll let the door open
and close.

It's stiff enough.

It'll stay up when you open
the door... (WHOOSHES)

Or more like that.

Probably that way.
Open up, close, latch.

Put your wood in.

Over here you got a big enough
area for a frying pan.

Right there you got
a big enough area
for a coffee pot.

Right there, Grant stove.

And to think, I got a drum
with a piece of caribou,

and now I have a stove,

and what sets this stove apart
from others is,

you live in a tent
and you plan on being mobile,

you don't wanna carry
the ashes with you.

You wanna make everything
as light as possible.

Possessions are a burden
when you live out of
a snow machine and a sled.

So when we're done,
we take our pipes off.

We'll make 'em be able
to fit inside of this.

We'll probably have
three of 'em.

They'll fit inside there,

and then when we're done,
and we're getting on,

we leave the ashes behind.

It's very light.

We'll put that in our sled.

ERIK: There's a lot of
nonsense that goes around,

and people think these bears
are cuddly creatures,

but out there in nature,
you know,

they kill each other
and they eat each other.

NARRATOR: Erik's going after
one of Alaska's
most challenging kills,

a mountain goat.

Just about to start ascending
the mountain.

Looks like three goats
came around the corner.

Four goats, five goats.
That's a good omen.

I'm happy they showed
themselves there,

'cause I was about to head
around the other side
of the mountain.

Might've saved me
a couple miles walking.

I think I'm at about 700 foot
above sea level right now,

and I think those goats are...

Are maybe another good
2,500-2,800 feet above me.

So that's probably
a 2,800 or 3,000 foot peak.

Let's climb up.

We can count our steps
and figure it out.

As we work our way up
the valley here, you know,

you can see each of the little
side drainages,

and there's a lot of places
for animals to hide.

Holy shit.

A sow and two cubs coming down
the valley towards us here,
just dropping into the alders.

We're kind of wedged
in between this canyon
down here,

of fast-moving water...

And a sow
and two cubs up there.

Sort of dangerous.

NARRATOR: Grizzly bears
only produce up to eight cubs
in a lifetime.

The mothers are
highly protective
and extremely aggressive.

ERIK: They're not that fun
to play with

when you're out on a hillside
by yourself.

I'd personally prefer
to move along.

Let's get out of here.

Sow with two first-year cubs,
they're a handful.

NARRATOR: Erik can't risk
attracting the attention
of the sow.

He'll have to take
a safer path

to get to the goats
he's after.

That's no good.

The goats can do it.

I don't know how far away
we are from the goats,

but we're close enough now
that the hunt's on.

(PANTING)

Breathing pretty hard,

busting alder coming up
this mountain,

but getting excited now.

We're getting close.

I just hope there's
a nice one in the bunch.

ANDY: Every year's
a little bit different.

Some years
you work your ass off,

some years you just
skate right on through.

Just pull that over
and put that on.

It can't fit.

ANDY: Well, stop eating
lasagne, then.

(LAUGHS)

Bite me, mother-fucker.

How much more
do I have to carry?

(GRUNTS)

(KATE SPEAKING)

ANDY: No shit.
That's why I got a rifle.

There's a lot of bears
around here.

There's always a chance
that other predators,

black bear or grizzly,
are gonna smell this
and come in.

Building a fire will provide
protection from wildlife

that might be coming in
to steal our meat.

It's not going to blow up
on you.

Whoa! (LAUGHS)

Okay. It's right there.

All right.
Let's see if that works.

I'm going to get
a chainsaw winch,

tie it up to a tree
up on the bank,

and drag him out
on to some dry ground
to get this guy field dressed.

(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)

I'm not opposed to technology.
I utilise it a lot.

I have a lot of tools
and a lot of equipment here.

If you're going to work
by yourself, you need aid.

This is probably
one of the best tools
you'll ever have

if you live out in the bush.

The reason why I still
have a back is
because of this tool.

(KATE SPEAKING)

ANDY: That job's done.
Now comes the bloody part.

I can honestly say
I've never done one like this.

KATE: I know.

Most important thing right now
is to get these guts
out of the moose

so it doesn't spoil the meat.

I'm taking the heart out
right now.

KATE: It's a big liver.

ANDY: It's heavy.

There's just a lot of fat
in this moose, which is great

'cause that's what you need
in the wintertime up here,
is fat.

Gut fat's the sweet fat.

(KATE SPEAKING)

Normally when I butcher
a moose
I completely skin them,

I take off the front shoulder,
I take off the hindquarter,

and then the last thing I do
is open him up.

I'm not used to
just cutting the quarters

with the skin still on them
and everything,

and so it's just doing it
a little bit differently.

I'm doing it this way
because it's late

and we just want to
get this thing cooled down,

and we'll come back
and deal with him
when we're not tired.

Here's a kidney.

KATE: Do you want to
put that in

-with the fat?
-Yep.

KATE: Okay.

ANDY: The guts are out.
That's the main thing.

He's cooling off,
you can see all the steam
rising off of him.

I think we'll just leave him
like this for tonight

and we'll come back
and deal with him
in the light tomorrow,

when we can really see
what we're doing.

SUE: In life,
the minute you stop learning,
you start dying.

Whole damn thing's
a learning experience.

NARRATOR: At its best,
Kavik River Camp is remote,

but in winter,
it becomes a desolate outpost

where Sue relies almost
entirely on the fruits
of her fall labours.

With one caribou down,

she's got one last chance
to double her precious
reserves of fresh meat.

SUE: Walking in the water,
my pants are
about falling off.

It's really fucking hard
to get across the tundra
without being seen.

I'm just gonna have to
keep going.

-(RIFLE CLICKS)
-Are you fucking kidding me?

(RIFLE SHOT)

All right, little caribou.

Well, I got him.

Caribou number two,
double trouble, nice boy.

Well, buddy.

There's something for you.

Thank you very much.

I collect little rocks that,
to me, have a heart shape

because I don't think
a life should ever
be taken lightly.

That animal was alive
and breathing and had a spirit
and a lot of energy.

But this animal
gave up its life
so I can survive this winter.

And I'm saying,
"Thank you, buddy.
My heart to yours."

Now the hard work begins.

I'm just gonna quarter him up,
get what I can.

I am proud of myself.

I mean, let's face it,
I'm an overweight grandma

living 500 miles from anybody,

and at 50,
I'm still doing a good job
at feeding myself,

clothing myself,
and maintaining
a pretty decent attitude.

Well, time for me
to get going on this dude.

It was a two-fer,
and I'm awful wet
and I'm awful cold.

It's getting late,
so I gotta get this guy...

Gotta get this guy done.

These are some mature,
full-bodied bulls.

You know, I'm gonna get

100, 120 pounds of meat
off him.

So that's gonna cover me
for a while.

I'll see how full
my little freezie is,

get all the rest of it
back down to the quad...

(ZIPS BAG)

And I'm a set chick
for winter.

I don't see how you can get
tired of all this vista.

I got mountains with snow,
rivers with fish.

It's not a life for everybody,
but I don't get tired.

I got a 360-degree TV.

CHIP: There's been
a big shift,
since the '90s especially.

Most of the younger ones
that are graduating
high school right now

aren't gonna live like this.

(DOGS BARKING)

I was able to take
a leg of caribou
and trade it for an old drum,

'cause I didn't want to ruin
my good drums.

But I got a recyclable one
and my friend got food.

The first time
we want to stoke it and make
the whole thing really hot

so we can get rid
of any kind of stove oil
or gasoline

that may be still
sitting inside the steel.

It's kind of
a way of cleaning it,
cleaning it with fire.

We're gonna build this sucker
really hot.

I'm gonna go in the house
and go get some water,

and then I'm gonna get a tub,

I'm gonna get
my traps that I have.

And we're gonna make sure
this baby burns.

I'm heating water

so I can boil my new traps.

Last spring when I was done
trapping for wolverine,
foxes, lynx, and stuff,

I gave my oldest son
my trap set.

My whole outfit.

Kinda look on the tops
and see some of the oils
coming off of them.

These all have a preservative
on them to keep the steel
from rusting

while they're in the shop,
or in a store,

and the animals
can smell that,
so we boil it off.

Now we're seasoning the stove,

we'll season the traps.

They're gonna sit here
for about half hour,
45 minutes,

we'll take them out,
we'll rinse them.

Hey, baby.

Come here,
check out what I'm doing.
I'll show you something.

This is my new stove
I made last night.

All new traps.

Not bad, huh?

But they got wax all over them

so we pour it off.

Now, without touching 'em,
I'm gonna hang 'em up.

And you'll do me a favour?

Don't let nobody touch 'em.

Cause if they touch 'em,
what's the animal gonna smell?

Gonna smell the person,
ain't he?

And then they'll know
it's a trap.

So...

Now that we got
all the wax off,

we'll let them dry,
let them rust up a little bit.

(GRUNTING)

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

There we go.

That was a load.

Let's go inside, huh?

You ready for dinner?

CHIP: Me, too.

ERIK: I still learn things
every time I go out,

but the bottom line is,
here in nature,

it's kill or be killed.

I saw four goats now.

I saw six earlier.

I assume the other ones
are just over the edge.

They're still a long ways away
and a big vertical climb.

We're here in Kodiak Island,
sitting on the side
of a mountain

in 40 mile-an-hour wind.

Sow and cubs feeding
on the tundra down below us.

What can go wrong?
Life is good.

I'm gonna bite my lip

and see if I can't grind out
another thousand
vertical feet.

Busting up through this
almost impenetrable alder.

Alder's thick stuff.

Hard work climbing uphill
through alder.

That's goat country, though.

We made it to the alpine.

Vegetation's really
changed here.

Should be a little bit
easier walking.
Not busting brush.

Just keep on keeping on.

We've climbed more than
two thirds of the way up.

It's been a good haul.

Just hoping the goats
are still there
when I get there.

There's a halfway decent one.

I'm gonna stash my gear,
take a much closer look at
what I'm working with.

(WIND WHOOSHING)

Blowing really hard.

Pretty freaking
dangerous on these
real steep slopes here.

I'm gonna start heading down

'cause it's getting to be
late in the afternoon

and it's blowing like heck
and don't need to be up here

fooling around in the cliffs
in the dark.

It's blowing so hard,
when it gusts,

I gotta get down
right against the ground

or I'll get knocked over.

Basically just got
my butt kicked
on the top of a mountain.

(RIFLE SHOT)

Watch out.

Don't let it hit you, dude.

There goes my goat.

One-shot kill.

Up here
where it's blowing so hard,

and it's so cold, I want to
get my rain gear on,

get some protection
from this wind.

I am going to be here
for a while
butchering this goat.

I'm so pumped about this.

He's got really thick,
thick fur.

You know,
it's just a beautiful animal.

Absolutely beautiful animal.

I have to say
this is the most extreme wind
I've ever butchered anything.

There aren't goats
in the part of Alaska
where I live.

This is the first goat
I've actually shot myself,
personally.

This is a whole
different experience.

Pretty awesome.

Taking the backstrap
off here.

Tasty tender piece.

I took all of the edible meat
of the goat here.

I am loading it up
into this game bag.

I kept the meat on the bone,

which keeps it in
much better condition.

Fortunate to get the goat here

in kind of a grassy area

where all the meat
can stay relatively clean.

The wind is what I could
describe as ridiculous.

Enough to make my pack
to be 100 pounds with the meat

and the hide and the skull.

Now we gotta get back
to camp in one piece.

NARRATOR: But getting off
the mountain

could be more treacherous
than the climb.

ERIK: You gotta be
pretty careful
when you're packing,

you know, anywhere
in the 100-pound range.

It's pretty easy
to twist an ankle
or snap a leg

and it'd be a long crawl
back to the salt.

(THUNDER CRACKS)

Working my way down the hill.

It's getting dark.
It's starting to rain.

I'd rather be wet
and have a goat

than be dry
and not have a goat.

Been moving along
in some pretty nasty weather.

Climbed a mountain,
killed a goat.

It's been one hell of a day.

Not far away
from a backstrap dinner.

ANDY: We have four months
to prepare for winter here.

We have eight months of winter

and then you start
all over again.

Moose hanging
in the smokehouse

is reassurance
that I'm ready for the winter.

KATE: Hey, pumpkins.

Da-da-da-da-da!

Andy got a moose last night,

which is great, so...

Andy's just working on

an invention
to get this going.

ANDY: I came up with the idea
of building an Andy-Boggan.

So I found an old toboggan,

welded up a couple of axles
for it real quick,

put some wheelbarrow wheels
under it.

(DOGS WHINING)

And I'm gonna take
a couple dogs down there

and put them to work
hauling this moose out for me.

KATE: Let's go get a moose!

(HOWLS)

ANDY: Come on, Tope.

Good girl.

NARRATOR: If Andy and Kate
don't recover the meat soon,

predators are likely
to steal the remains.

KATE: Last thing I want to see
when we get there

is a big old grizzly
mawing down on our moose,
or a black bear.

ANDY: Straight ahead.
Straight ahead.

-(DOG WHINES)
-Good girl, Drachma.

Hey, you eat the gut stuff.

This other stuff is mine,
and you get this stuff.

Right here, look,
all this stuff is yours.

KATE: This is like
a Fred Flintstone lunch.
Yum, yum.

Everything looks good
this morning.

It looks like the ravens got
into a little, but not bad,

and everything feels
really cold.

Hindquarters have probably
the bulk of the big roasts
and things like that.

This is what your food's
supposed to look like.

(LAUGHS)

Attaboys, let's go.
Up, up, up, up.

Attaboys.

We've got about a mile
to haul this moose out,

so the idea is
the dogs do the work

and I just have to walk along
so I don't have to
pack anything here.

Up, up, go.

Come on, let's go!

Attaboys, good dogs.

Up, up, up, straight ahead.

This is a pretty
economical moose.

He's cost me one bullet,

a couple gallons of gas

and that's gonna be protein
and meat for us
for a whole year.

So the moose is in the boat,
the dogs did their work.

The Andy-Boggan worked.
So it's been a good day.

It's a long day.
I'm pretty pooped.

But the hardest part's
over, getting them out,

and all we have to do now
is hang them up
in the smokehouse

and we're set for the winter.