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SUE: (GROANS) Weather happens to be king.

Right now, it's kind of like,

a little broken blue, but a lot of fog there.

A lot of fog there.

A lot of fog there.

And that means I have to gauge how many days of fuel do I have left.

Not weeks, days.

NARRATOR: Kavik River Camp serves as a remote fuelling station and emergency depot,

197 miles above the Arctic Circle.

As Kavik's sole proprietor, Sue Aikens must ensure that the camp is equipped with fuel

and power to serve clients, and for her survival

in the harsh conditions of the tundra.

SUE: Shit.

Shit.

Fuck. Well, generator just crapped out on me.

That was a pretty quick drop in the electrics.

Well, never ends.

(GROANS) Generator has a God Box that tells you what happened.

"Why did I shut myself down?" Well, high water temperature.

First thing I notice when I'm looking at the gen is, that there's a lot of fluff.

Maybe a little bit of oil.

This is the radiator for the coolant.

Well, logic says first place I gotta look is in here,

and you can see it looks like a fur carpet in there,

something straight out of the '70s. A lot of fluff, a lot of fuzz there.

Because it's dry, because we're getting closer to winter,

it's gonna collect everywhere.

Simple fix. I just gotta give it time, cool down,

get the fuzz from the back side of that radiator, and then work on it.

Tear it apart and clean it.

So, camp will go without power for a little bit today.

Doesn't matter what I had lined out for my day, it just changed.

So just like the weather changes in a heartbeat,

you can never time a breakdown.

I'll wait till it cools down,

start wrenching on it, tearing it apart, cleaning it, and putting it back together.

CHIP: Everything has its use and its limits,

and I take them to the limit.

19, 20, 21,

22, 23, 24, 25... Oh, excellent.

So I'm gonna make a frame tent on a sled.

I live here in Noorvik, Alaska.

I have a permanent house here.

And I live in camps, rotating around,

back and forth, for seven, eight months of the year.

We travel pretty far,

and we tent out a lot.

So, it's kind of our job to utilise the resources of the area.

We gather stuff, we hunt it down, and we fish for it.

There's all kinds of stuff we do.

My wife acquired title to some properties that her family has.

The family still uses it, everybody's still welcome to.

But everybody's done it in tents, and everybody's done it

with nothing more permanent than a cache.

And, um, we're gonna do something more permanent than a cache down here.

These are the eight-foot crossbeams.

I see a lot of uses for this,

so I'd like to make this thing to where it's gonna last at least a good 10, 20 years.

I never did take a carpentry class or do anything in those kind of trades.

All this stuff is self-taught.

If I didn't do this, I'd have to pay someone, you know, 35, 50 bucks an hour.

This will be able to go from place to place,

not as, like, a regular sled with every ride of a snow machine

but as something that I would take from one place to another and leave it there.

I wouldn't play basketball on this exactly, but, um,

looks like it's definitely gonna do the job that I need it to do.

Takes time, but it's coming.

And to tell you the truth, it's a lot of work. It's a ton of work.

And this is the time of year to get it done.

JESSIE: Whenever you're dealing with four hours of daylight

and extremely cold temperatures, tasks tend to slow down.

The time up here is everything.

(DOGS BARKING)

Just getting ready here.

I'm gonna redo my whole dog yard,

so, got a lot of stuff that needs to get moved out of the way,

dogs that need to get moved.

Something that really needs to happen

so I can get focused on training here.

NARRATOR: Jessie Holmes devotes all of his time, money

and resources to his team of sled dogs.

Winter racing season will begin soon,

and getting his dog lot in working order is a priority.

It's just gonna be one clean open area with everything in rows.

It's time to step this up.

The weather has completely changed.

We're heading into early winter. The ground's freezing.

Can't take this top layer of this ground off

with these stumps out in the frozen ground,

so timing's everything, as with anything up here.

(DOGS YELPING)

-What up? -MAN: Hey, Jess.

JESSIE: Hey, how you doing, man?

You ready?

My friend's willing to help me right now.

That's huge, because this job that he's doing for me

is not something that I could do myself.

I don't own a piece of machinery.

(DOGS BARKING)

I've got way too many dogs to just have dogs strewn all over the place in the woods,

tripping in holes.

I mean, I'm liable to break my leg out here

in one of these holes this winter and end my whole mushing career.

This has gotta become professional, organised,

so I can deal with it efficiently.

To actually be able to see all my main dogs

that I'm gonna be racing this year, in one spot, is gonna be an exciting thing.

Everything in rows.

It's gonna look amazing, and it's gonna make my life 10 times easier.

GLENN: No matter how long I'm out here,

I learn and I also still make mistakes.

Time to go moose hunt.

Ammunition.

It's helpful to have some cord with me.

This is the big hunt of the year.

When I pull that trigger, that's six months' food right there.

And I only get one chance. A couple weeks here in the fall. That's it.

It's time to go get a moose.

NARRATOR: For Glenn Villeneuve,

hunting for moose is his most critical hunt of the year.

A single moose will provide Glenn with a six-month supply of meat and protein,

to help him survive through dark winter.

GLENN: So I'm heading around the lake right now hunting,

and what's different this year from most years is I got snow on the ground.

I've never hunted moose with this much snow on the ground right at the start.

If I had my choice, I'd probably rather not have the snow,

just 'cause it makes a lot of noise walking in it.

Look at this. Just came upon this moose track. This is really exciting.

A large moose walked right through here, and it wasn't that long ago.

But moose travel fast.

That moose could be a long ways from here,

but I wanna come around to the top of this little hill where I get a better view.

It's good to know there's a moose around.

(WHISPERING) I'm thinking about the terrain here,

because one of the biggest challenges of hunting moose

is getting the moose back home.

He walked right by here. Maybe I can get him to turn around and come back.

I just know I can't keep moving further away from the lake.

I have to be very careful about that.

Right now, I'm already 100 yards from the lake or more,

and if I get any further away, that's just that much further I'd have to move this moose.

I haven't heard anything for several minutes,

I'm gonna try something a little different.

I'm gonna make a cow call. See if that interests it.

(VOCAL MOOSE CALLS)

(WHISPERING) Doesn't seem too interested.

It's my first day hunting, so I'm gonna keep moving now,

just look around and see what else is going on.

(NORMAL VOICE) Walked about a mile this afternoon, first day of hunting.

Saw a few squirrel tracks, one snowshoe hare track,

one moose track. That's typical.

It's very hungry country up here.

(GLENN SPEAKING)

(WHISPERING) Right over the hill there's a big bull.

Right here. I can see a big bull through the trees.

Come on.

Oh, my safety. Jesus Christ.

Can't shoot now, he's right behind that tree.

There he goes. Damn.

(VOCAL MOOSE CALLS)

(SIGHS)

He's outta here, I can't believe it.

I actually went to pull the trigger and had the safety on.

That was a nice bull.

Okay, there he is.

(VOCAL MOOSE CALLS)

Nah, he knows I'm a person now. There he goes.

A lot of times you just have a second where you got a clean shot between two trees,

and I was following him and he actually came right between the trees.

I had my safety on.

Really messed up on that one.

It's possible that he'll come back down in a minute, but I think he got spooked.

It's important to be patient.

(NORMAL VOICE) I don't think he's gonna come back down here tonight,

and I'm not gonna follow him back further into the woods,

'cause it gets too difficult to bring him down to the lake after I kill him.

If it was easy, it wouldn't be hunting.

I'm gonna get up early tomorrow first light, head back out, who knows.

Maybe I'll get a second chance at that same moose. Maybe I'll find another one.

JESSIE: I sometimes feel like this is relentless after working my butt off,

but then I wake up again in the morning and I'm just ready to go.

It's looking amazing out here, man. This is like a 180 change.

It was a lot of work getting this ground all prepped, you know, took some time.

Totally worth it.

Now I got 50-some-odd posts to pound for these dogs,

and I gotta do it now, because ground's freezing.

All right. That's post number one, right there. That's the height that I'm looking for.

They're seven-foot posts, and I'm gonna put 'em three feet into the ground

with four feet sticking out, and off of that

will come a swivel that they can just run in circles.

Then all the dogs can associate

and I can fit all these dogs into this area that I couldn't before.

One down, 49 to go.

(EXHALES)

Good way to get the blood flowing in the morning.

End of the day, I'll have posts for all my dogs.

And I'll definitely have more muscle in my arms.

(EXHALES)

Bam.

No way to warm up out here other than a little hard work.

Layers coming off quick.

(GRUNTS)

This is a long time coming, you know, like, I've imagined

setting my dog yard up like this for years.

So to see it transpire after being in Alaska for 10 years,

for me it's like a long steep climb, and like,

I feel like I'm about to plateau here.

Age group of the dogs is coming together.

The dog yard's coming together.

I have a place that I can be permanent at and focus on my dreams.

This is gonna be my last post. One last spot.

Whoo! Yeah!

(SIGHS) Now I can get my dogs all in here, and get their bowls all out,

and get 'em set up for the night.

Yeah, puppies. Yeah.

I (EXHALES) am happy.

(DOGS BARKING)

SUE: Life is all about constant state of improvement.

I'm never totally content.

I always wanna do a better job.

Bigger, badder, bolder.

I kinda had intentions to take it easy today,

get a shower, get my laundry done,

and just rest the wing.

And about halfway through that thought...

(GROANS) The generator went down. And there's a little brain box on the gen,

and it tells me why it shut itself off. And it was for overheating of the water.

Let's start seeing what we can do.

(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

Those are helicopters.

There he is.

(SIGHS)

I can't have an air-to-ground!

My electrics are down, so I don't have communications with him right now.

My handheld air-to-ground is not serviceable.

He is coming over.

Hey, buddy. Love to talk to ya. Fucking can't.

That's a damn big helicopter. Come down and get fuel, 'cause you'll take a bunch.

That helicopter can suck down the fuel. That's, you know, $5,000 or $6,000 sale in fuel,

each time it comes in for a drink.

That's a US Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter, so hopefully nobody got hurt.

I need extension cords. I need to have communication.

He's circling, which means he wants to communicate with me.

My battery bank is working.

So whenever that happens, you gotta think on your feet,

plug into your alternative energy.

You got a copy on Kavik?

Hey, Coast Guard heli, you got a copy on Kavik?

Fuck, damn, shit.

That's what I gotta say about that.

(GRUNTS) It's not gonna work.

We missed it.

Fuck, shit, damn, cocksucker.

(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

Number one, I'm a safety resource.

My job to be here is safety. That's why I'm effing here.

So that bums me out.

From a business point of view, that bird, with one meal,

can get $5,000, $6,000 worth of fuel.

In a year where I've been injured and not making revenue like I should, um, that hurts.

There's nobody to blame for the lack of communication but me.

My backups have to have backups. And I let myself down.

(SIGHS)

So back on that generator, get it up and running as quickly as I can.

Get the electrics going as quickly as I can.

All right. Switch on.

-Start it up. -(GENERATOR STARTING)

There is air coming through, exhaust coming out.

Time for me to put the power around the camp and start checking.

Lights are coming on.

Light is on.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Okay, lights are on in here. Fan is on. The gen is running now.

We're running 119 over 61.

Blood pressure of the generator, 120 over 60, is perfect.

So 119 over 61, I'll take it.

I'm getting the fuel that is gonna enable me to make it through the winter.

That fuel plane, I have to be able to communicate.

I mean, you saw what happened when I couldn't communicate with the Coast Guard.

No idea what they needed, no idea what they wanted.

All's I know is I lost a potential sale

and made myself look bad for a safety depot.

Can't help a breakdown, but God damn it, I need a better method.

CHIP: We make our own stuff. We're always experimenting and trying new things.

If you don't mind giving me a hand for a minute here,

I need some lifting.

NARRATOR: To accommodate his family's nomadic lifestyle,

Chip will construct a mobile tent frame.

Built on a sled, the tent frame will be transportable,

and serve as a more permanent structure for their newly inherited land.

Two, three, up.

TING: Not bad. CHIP: Not too bad.

While it's light and easy to do, I'm gonna flip it over and I'll shoe the bottom.

Wow! So, you sure got a lot done.

You guys still gonna mess with them nets today?

-I think the whitefish are going by. -Yeah.

We're gonna be setting our whitefish net out by the river.

Usually about this time, we're driving our snow machines over the frozen ice,

but it ain't freezing yet and the fish are still running,

so we're just gonna go on ahead and go throw this net out,

and see what we can catch.

CHIP: I tacked down the first plastic runner on the bottom of the wooden runner.

It's called a shoe.

And what it does, it lets this have absolutely no friction.

It just slides right over ice and snow.

(WHIRRING)

AGNES: Okay, honey! We're gonna go set the net now!

TING: My mother and I are about to go set

a whitefish net down at the beach.

And, uh, before it freezes up,

we wanted to go get the whitefish that have the eggs in them.

AGNES: Right here, we'll sink our took for our post.

And then we'll go straight out that way.

Usually this time of the year, we're already fishing on top of the ice, but uh,

times are changing and have to adapt,

so here we are just putting the ice net where there is no ice.

Now let's feed the rope out slowly.

Don't get your hands caught!

I'm tying a buoy on here so the net will be marked, so nobody will run it over.

Looks like it's set pretty good. There's, um, not really any tangles.

One, two, three, go.

TING: See, I knew that was a fish already! There's a fish right there.

First fish, Mom. Look!

AGNES: That's the kind of fish I want, whitefish with eggs in 'em.

Now we could just go home, and go have whitefish dinner,

and go check if your dad needs help tipping the sled back over.

TING: Yeah.

GLENN: Details. Small things can really mess you up out here.

It's real early in the morning.

It's just starting to get light out.

I like to start hunting first thing, as soon as it gets light enough to hunt.

NARRATOR: In order to survive the long winter,

Glenn relies on harvesting a moose before the freeze sets in.

After missing an opportunity yesterday,

his window to obtain this crucial prey is getting smaller.

(WHISPERING) The important thing is to get an early start.

'Cause it takes a lot of time to find a moose around here.

Wintery morning out here.

Hard to believe that it's not even fall yet.

With this brand new snow on the ground, it'll be real easy

to tell how fresh the tracks are.

That's one advantage of it.

(VOCAL MOOSE CALLS)

This is one of the best areas where I hunt for moose.

And there's not a single moose track here today in the snow so far.

Gotta cover a lot of territory to find a moose out here, they're few and far between.

I can't believe I forgot that safety. Such a simple mistake.

But it cost me that moose.

And there's not a whole lot of margin for error out here.

Who knows, I might not get another chance at a moose this season.

(MOOSE CALLING)

That's a cow moose.

I can only hunt bull moose.

That's the regulation in order to protect the moose population.

I just heard a cow on the other side,

but that gets me excited even though I'm not hunting for cows,

because I know at this time of year,

where there's a cow, there's likely to be a bull.

This is the time of year when they're mating.

(GLENN WHISPERING)

(WHISPERING) Fresh moose tracks.

Might be able to catch up with it, might not be too far away.

These are real fresh tracks. I can tell by the snow.

I heard the cow calling.

This could be a bull headed to her right now. I'm gonna follow it.

That's a bed right there. This is where she was bedded down.

It's a cow. She's feeding on these willows.

Fresh moose scat right here in the track. This moose has just been here.

Oh, there's the cow.

Bull might be right around.

When he realises that this cow is down here, and he hears me making bull noises,

he'll think I'm a little runt bull, come down here and try and chase me off.

(VOCAL MOOSE CALLS)

I'm tracking this cow. She just keeps going further and further from the lake.

It's not gonna happen tonight.

There's no way I can move a big bull from up here all the way down.

I'm gonna have to head back down to the lake, keep hunting down there.

I just walked probably five miles,

and I came across one fresh moose track.

Takes a lot of time to find a moose, takes a lot of patience out here.

JESSIE: You only got so much energy in a day,

gotta use it correctly.

Time's a priceless commodity in Alaska.

(DOGS BARKING)

Well, it snowed pretty good last night.

More than I thought was gonna happen.

I gotta get the dog houses set up

because it's snowing and dogs don't need to be out in wet snow.

They need shelter, and that's my priority right now.

And once I get this done, I can get myself set up

to start making the swivels and get this project complete.

(WHIMPERS)

Copper. It's your house!

This is amazing, you know.

All the posts are in, you know, I'm getting the dog houses out.

It's snowing, it's time to mush.

Got my dog houses set up now, so now I can walk through my rows freely.

I'm gonna get my swivels set up, that way as it snows deeper,

I don't have to dig the chains out and raise them, or...

The dog will never be restricted.

Hey, buddy. I don't want no help. No.

One of these all assembled would probably cost about 50 bucks.

For me, like, putting it together myself, it comes out to be more like 20.

So I got these done. Time to dish 'em out to the dogs here.

(DOGS BARKING)

Something to get excited about, guys. Yeah.

Yeah, this is like putting the finishing touches on a giant project here

that I've been waiting a long time for.

This is a better system for the dogs, that way they can run in circles and exercise.

Takes a lot for these dogs to give you a 100% every day throughout the winter,

so you gotta ask for the same out of yourself.

This is what it's all about.

I'm gonna have a lot more time this winter to be on the trail training my dogs now,

because taking care of them is gonna be a ton easier.

Looking at this, I mean, it just looks amazing,

all these rows of dogs, happy dogs.

This is the kind of home these dogs deserve. I'm proud of this.

SUE: The me from yesterday is not the me for tomorrow.

That's a used model. I'm on the cutting edge.

(MAN SPEAKING ON RADIO)

-Hey, slick. How you doing'? -(MAN SPEAKING)

All righty, we'll see you on the ground.

NARRATOR: With her communications restored,

a plane carrying Sue's winter fuel supply is finally able to land at Kavik.

SUE: It is always a relief to see that the fuel plane is here.

That's gonna give me just enough fuel,

if I don't go crazy on it, to heat my Twinkie this winter.

Hey guys, how you doing? How many gallons of Jet A did you get?

PILOT: Uh, 3,200. SUE: 3,200? All right.

The nice thing about getting your fuel in winter?

Like everything when it's cold, it shrinks. When it's hot, it expands.

I can comfortably fit more into my bladder in the winter than I can in the summer.

We're all good here.

The trick with getting the fuel in, you try not to order it when you're low.

You don't wait until you're almost out to order it.

But Mother Nature has had a lot of other plans.

I've had the fuel on order for quite a while,

but you know, we've had a good nine, ten-day stretch of just non-flyable weather.

This time of year you're juggling the fates.

I've ratcheted the amount tight.

I'm working on limited funds this year.

A lot of financials went out to get the old bod fixed up,

so it's gonna be tight this year.

(GRUNTS)

All right. And that's all we had?

-This is all we had. -All right.

-If you wanna keep that, you're welcome to. -Okay.

Maybe this winter I'm gonna cut it too close on heat,

and that's gonna be the heat I need to make it an extra night.

Why waste it?

I was not very profitable this year. I had a year of healing,

which does not translate into revenue.

I'll take every single ounce I paid for and use it.

I've gotta run skint.

I've gotta run a little bit on the short end of it.

So I may let myself get a little colder.

I may let myself get a little darker.

But I have to remain profitable in order to have my business,

and I'm not gonna do that by throwing it away on heat.

All right, guys. Thank you very much. Yay.

-Thank you very much. -CO-PILOT: Absolutely.

SUE: It is a relief to know that there's fuel in.

That I've got 3,200 gallons of jet fuel.

Now I'll go work my numbers and start calculating out.

I've got 12, 15 months of planning to do.

Winter is just right up my backside. Ton of stuff to do.

CHIP: We're out in the wilds of nature,

so you never know what you'll see,

and you don't know it till you see it.

I'm just fitting the floor on.

I wanna make sure that it's a good, sturdy sled.

This'll tie it all together. Give it even more strength.

Then I'm gonna put some walls on it.

We'll hit it with a roof and cover it in canvas.

-AGNES: Looking good. Coming along pretty good. -Yeah, sure is.

-What you're up to? -Uh, I need these to stand up and...

If you wouldn't mind holding them, that would really help.

Chip's been working on his tent frame,

and he's really making a lot of progress.

He's up to the walls, and, uh,

me and Ting are gonna go check the whitefish net we put out yesterday.

All right. If you need anything from me, let me know.

Yeah. We'll see you later.

NARRATOR: While Chip completes construction of the tent frame,

Agnes and Ting take advantage of the final chance to harvest fish with a net

before the river freezes.

-I bet there's a lot of fish in the net today. -Yeah.

It doesn't look like the river is freezing, eh? No ice?

So me and Ting are just heading back out to the net. We set the net last night.

There's a whole new day, and we hope there's enough fish out there, whitefish.

The net's still there!

Hopefully there'll be quite a few fish in it.

It already looks like there's quite a few salmon right here,

and there's quite a few whitefish.

I'm gonna take my driving jacket off.

Looks like we're gonna be busy for the rest of the evening.

So this is lots of cold fun.

Oh, look at this.

Got lots of eggs.

I'm kind of glad the ice went away.

We came back from our summer camp and went caribou hunting

and here I am, having another chance to go out fishing. I might as well take it.

This is a spawned out salmon.

So what we have here is a real good catch.

Couple tubs, so, uh, we're happy.

So now that we got a couple tote loads of fish,

we're gonna head back home and go see if Chip needs help with his, uh, tent frame.

Home, sweet home.

GLENN: It's not the happy hunting grounds up here.

Game is scarce. That's the reality living up here.

Heading back out, looking for a moose.

Day after day, this takes a lot of patience.

The lake's already starting to freeze up in the shallows. Could pose some problems.

Typically when I kill a moose,

I go back to my camp, get my canoe, and use that to get it home.

This year, that could be a problem.

I'll cross that bridge when I get to it though.

I gotta find a moose first.

(WHISPERING) I gotta move through the forest like a moose.

(VOCAL MOOSE CALLS)

I gotta sound like a moose.

I just came across a moose track. This probably was laid down last night.

There's a little bit of snow that fell into the track.

It was snowing a little bit last night.

But it's pretty fresh. When I walk in this track, it's a long stride.

Look at this track. This is a big moose track.

I want this moose.

I'm gonna follow this track, and I'm gonna try to find him.

I got a hunch this moose might not be too far away.

Look at the length of that stride.

That's a good-sized animal.

I'm six feet tall, I got fairly long legs,

and I have a hard time stepping in this moose's tracks.

This is a big moose.

I want that moose.

(VOCAL MOOSE CALLS)

I really need a moose.

(MOOSE GRUNTS)

Got him.

(EXHALES)

I probably walked about 30 miles

in the last five days to get this moose.

It was a lot of work walking around in this snow.

Look at that beautiful moose.

Yeah, he's dead. Look at that.

Six months' meat right there.

First thing I gotta do is start a fire.

I need some light.

Finding a moose, getting a shot at it, killing it,

that's all hard work, but that's just the beginning.

Now I have to get this moose cut up and back to my camp.

There we go.

Okay. I got a big animal here. A lot of weight to move. (GRUNTS)

It's gonna take a lot of work, I'm gonna be up all night.

So I gotta get started.

It's a big animal, and you gotta cut in just the right place

to get stuff to come apart.

Very tough hide, this is a sharp knife.

There.

For me, this is the most important kill I make all year long.

One moose like this is enough meat to last me six months.

That's a lot of food right here, and it all paid off tonight.

I was getting a little concerned, it's getting late in the season.

There's already snow all over the ground.

I wasn't sure I was gonna find a moose this year.

But I did. And I sure am happy about it.

You know, this is what it's about.

The facts of life getting your meat, getting your food.

It's real.

There. His ribs... Nice!

Well, I got the moose all cut up.

It's in manageable pieces that I can move. I gotta head back to camp now.

I've been up for 22 hours, I walked six or seven miles today.

I've gotta head back down to camp,

get a little rest, come back up with my sled first thing in the morning.

CHIP: Part of it's keeping it real, and the other part is, uh, thinking ahead.

Having a form of imagination going on here.

Oh, wow!

-Hey, there. -You guys catch fish?

TING: Yeah. AGNES: Couple totes.

CHIP: Whitefish? AGNES: Salmon.

You get a salmon? How many? Oh, wow. A big chum.

-(GRUNTS) -AGNES: Looks like a pretty good dinner, huh?

CHIP: Yep. Those'll be excellent if you bake 'em.

AGNES: Pretty good tent frame. CHIP: You like that?

Good job!

-CHIP: You think so? -Yeah.

That's higher than I thought it was gonna be.

It'll give you storage space up above. I figure if we're gonna do this,

we're gonna do it right the first time,

so I figure the best thing I can do for you is to make as much room in here...

-Yeah. -So I'm thinking right here is gonna be a big old bed.

There'll be a nice window.

We could even put a window like over here too. Put like a table here.

Some shelving, place to hang our stuff.

Maybe even over here we could have a sink or a place to cook,

if you wanna make this into a cook shack.

And up top of here, we'll make things for storage.

Looks pretty good to me.

I'm at a point to where I can do just about anything.

I got up the structure I wanted to get up.

I'm really lucky that uh, the freeze-up went away and it stayed warm.

So I kind of beat the freeze-up.

The weather gave me a window and it's pretty nice.

This one will be ready to go once we got some decent ice down there,

and before the big snows come and make it real rough,

we'll be able to take this right down to camp.

Probably before Christmas. We could finish her out down there.

-Sound good? -Yep.

-Let's go eat some of your whitefish, huh? -Yeah.

-Awesome. -Yeah, that's what I think.

Pretty good work.

AGNES: Ready for dinner, Qutan?

CHIP: Whitefish.

CAROL: Wait, is that a whitefish? CHIP: Yep.

They're both whitefish, and they both have eggs in 'em.

This is our, um, first catch of the whitefish with eggs in 'em.

We went and put a net out yesterday,

and today we checked it, and now we're having fish dinner.

(ALL LAUGHING)

Well, this here is the end result of some

pretty good white fishing if you ask me.

They got, uh, really nice fish.

But, um, these ladies got to use a boat and go out white fishing.

Usually this time of year,

there'd be ice out on the river,

so thawing out helped me out. I got to go out here and have an easy build,

and my wife got to go out and have an easy net set

and an easy net check.

I think I saved a considerable amount of time by assembling the frame here.

It's been pretty good so far.

We'll just see how it keeps chugging along.