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NARRATOR: On this episode of Life Below Zero,

Alaska braces for the coming storm.

GLENN: It snapped!

NARRATOR: Andy's on the hunt for an elusive food source.

Might be turning into starving country for Kate and I this winter.

NARRATOR: A painful injury comes back to haunt Sue.

SUE: I got a lot of scar tissue that's preventing me from walking well.

NARRATOR: Glenn struggles with last-minute repairs.

GLENN: It's just at the limit of what my body weight will lift.

NARRATOR: And the Hailstones put it all on the line for their next meal.

AGNES: Aye Dee!

(PANTING)

I got a lot of scar tissue that's preventing me from walking well,

so I'll have to go to town to have the paws worked on,

but I don't want to go to town.

I've got to depend on somebody else.

I'm depending on a pilot to get me there,

I'm depending on the doctor to do his thing.

I'm depending on taxi cab drivers to take me around.

For a control freak,

it is really an exercise in coming to the grips

that I really have no control. That's an illusion.

NARRATOR: Kavik River Camp is surrounded by the predators of the tundra.

An injury can be a lethal liability.

There's a wolverine over there.

SUE: You know, predators are opportunists.

I am a lone individual.

I do walk with a limp.

So that says, "Oh, there's a pork chop."

NARRATOR: Tomorrow, Sue will travel to Fairbanks for a foot procedure.

Making sure camp is protected from winter threats is a top priority.

As mundane as it is, a visual on each trailer that says,

the windows are shut, the doors are shut, the wires are up,

the buildings are sealed, it's pretty serious.

While I'm gone, who is watching the camp?

Is it gonna burn down?

Are animals going to get into it?

All of that is preying on me.

There's always a million and one chores, but I'm under the gun.

So, before I leave, I've got to get this finished.

And my electrical system is hanging here.

(STRAINING)

I mean, it's just kind of ironic,

I'm going to town to have more work on the paws now.

But, I have to try and secure my line

so it doesn't yank my whole electrical system down.

The way that I busted up the feet and legs the last time,

used to have a little bit different electrical system out here,

so, I had to stack barrels and I've done it a million times

but a million and one was too much.

Something shifted and I came down.

When I came down, I landed from 22 feet just like this and then went over,

busted three bones in this leg and foot,

and fractured some in that one, and crushed all my soft tissues.

If I can't protect myself and other people, I can't be the warden of Kavik.

Simple as that.

ANDY: This is what Alaska was built on, that pioneer spirit,

that subsistence way of living, that traditional way of living.

It's slowly going away.

Not too many people want to live this lifestyle any more.

Transition from summer to fall time means moose

and right now I'm really thinking

I need to get some red meat in the freezer.

Come on, Jack! Good boy. Yeah, that's a good boy!

NARRATOR: For Andy and Kate, moose hunting provides a limited window to

stockpile red meat and protein before the freeze when resources become scarce.

ANDY: We only have about a 10-day window to hunt moose here.

We go from summer to winter really quick, our fall is only about a week

and a half long and it's time for me to go out and try and find some meat.

To do that around here means scouting, glassing,

as much country as I possibly can at one time.

And for me that means climbing up Calico Bluff.

Let's go, boy. (WHISTLES)

We burn a lot of calories here, it gets damn cold.

Without fat in your diet, you don't do real well out in this country,

so a nice fat moose is pretty important right now.

Come here, buddy.

This looks like a good place. We're gonna go look for moose here, huh?

We'll see, only time will tell.

I'm just gonna start up river and just keep working my way down river.

Bull moose are usually really dark and black looking.

Cow mooses are usually a little bit silvery.

Young cows tend to be more of a reddish colour.

So I'm basically looking for changes in colour.

Holy shit.

Looks like a cow and two calf moose swimming across the lake right now.

I can't harvest them, I wouldn't want to harvest them, but that's a good sign

that there are moose in the area.

She's gonna be putting scent out.

That's certainly going to attract other bull moose in.

I know where they took off from here

and that's also another good place to keep an eye out for a bull moose.

There's a lot of hunters going by.

Every time they come by like that, any moose that was thinking about walking out

isn't going to walk out anymore.

Pretty frustrating.

Little disappointed I haven't spotted more animals.

I'm glassing quite a bit of country here

and I guess it just goes to show that it's a pretty hungry country out here.

CHIP: You gotta get out there and earn it, but the fact is, it's all out here.

So, you get out here, you find the way to get it,

and you make a living that way.

It makes you wake up in the morning and go, "Wow, what's this day gonna be like?"

-Hi, Dad. -What's up, Pie?

What you doing?

I'm gonna make niksiks out of these for me, you,

your mom, Mary, whoever else.

And I'm gonna make gorges out of these bigger antler pieces here.

I'm getting' antlers. I'm gonna make some jiggers,

we call them niksiks around here and I'm gonna make gorges,

which are a type of traditional kind of hook.

And I'm gonna go set them down here on the river for what we call tiktaalik.

They're a large burbot. They're a, kind of like a lingcod.

I'll show you how to make tiktaalik traps

so we're not stuck with just whitefish.

So get parked and then go in the arts and crafts room.

Okay.

My parents aren't gonna be here throughout my whole life,

so as they teach me now, it's best I learn and pay attention,

and get hands on experience.

And I could teach my younger sisters or my kids or anybody that's willing to learn.

See this slight groove in the middle?

If you make it a steep groove that can snap it in half.

So, you make gentle groove and then the string will hold onto that and, like,

let's say this is a piece of meat, instead of being like a hook in the meat,

we'll slide this into the meat.

The fish will, with their big mouths as tiktaalik, will come up and they'll swallow it.

And then when they try to go, this will turn.

This will come out of the meat and it'll turn in their stomach.

-Oh. -And it'll hold them there.

What we need to do is make 20 more and we'll go set tiktaalik lines tonight

and maybe we'll do a little bit of jigging ourselves.

All right.

What I want my daughter to do is know how to fall back on the materials

around her to keep her life, what I consider, above survival.

Survival is we're making this because we have to eat tonight,

I want my daughter to live.

I want her to know how to plan ahead to make these things.

I want her to know what season to be thinking about making these stuff

and I want her to know what materials to use them on.

Because it's not only using materials, it's knowing when to be there,

what you're targeting and how to get it.

It's an education for her that she's not gonna find anywhere else.

CHIP: These are enough for your sisters and me and you

and your mom and the rest of them we'll put into traps.

(CHIP TALKING)

NARRATOR: Tiktaalik fishing is a native tradition that Chip and Agnes

will pass on to their daughters.

But a lesson on the river while the ice is still thin

could have dangerous consequences.

CHIP: Evukpuk, this is our spot.

If you ladies go freshen out five holes at least, one for each of us,

I'll get some willows over here, I'll make some rods. Okay?

(AGNES TALKING)

CHIP: Well, I got the sticks.

Well, what we have here is bait.

We have fishtails.

Okay, so, take a gorge, put it in,

and you just flip it down the deal there,

and you can leave it like this and then Ting can jig.

Okay.

AGNES: Okay, girls, let's go open up some more holes.

The more holes we open, the sooner we can start hooking.

(SCREAMS) Aye Dee!

AGNES: Shocking.

CHIP: That was the ice shifting below us.

My wife said, "Aye Dee", which is equivalent, the Eskimo equivalent of, "Fuck this."

No matter how comfortable or how thick it is,

when I hear the sound of cracking it just freaks me out.

NARRATOR: The Hailstones are teaching their daughters to fish for tiktaalik.

But working on thin ice is not without danger.

AGNES: It's been 21 years and three weeks

since my mother went out fishing her last time.

We ran two nets and me, my dad, and my younger sister,

we were just like five miles away from each other. And this old man,

he comes cruising along the edge and he's like,

"Some people fell through the ice

"and I don't know who it is!"

And I went back up to the house and I say, "Where's my mom?

"Where's my brother? Did they get back yet?"

And he was like, "No they never came back, they're still out fishing."

And right there I knew it.

And my brother was right under my mom.

I don't fuck around when it comes to ice.

CHIP: It's spooky cos, yeah, you're hearing the ice basically drop.

It's called settling.

As there's less water being introduced into the river,

there's a lot less supporting the ice.

We're just basically dropping the ice, that's all.

It make my heart beat.

It make your heart beat?

Yeah, it make my heart beat.

The ice right here is about eight inches thick. It's safe.

AGNES: You can put your jigger in.

(AGNES SPEAKING)

CHIP: You just wanna keep it moving.

AGNES: Iri, we'll go open up yours next?

IRIQTAQ: Yeah.

As we get finished with each hole, we'll go over

and let a kid start jigging there.

This type of fishing is ancient actually.

Folks around here figured it out years ago.

So, if something became a tradition, it probably worked.

And this is the essence of subsistence.

Usually at night the tiktaalik are biting

and so you tend to hook more at night.

Some nights we get a whole bunch, some nights we don't, every night is different.

If you girls just be patient,

I'll get one more hole in and then we'll get these lines to do the work for us.

So, now that we have our holes opened up and we've been here a couple hours,

we're cold, and getting hungry, and we haven't caught any fish.

So, we're just gonna leave our hooks down here and call it a night.

Don't be discouraged, girls,

just cos we didn't get nothing in the last hour.

Sometimes you gotta wait for the next school to come.

But, when the next school comes, our lines will be in the water waiting for them.

Okay, I put the last one in.

We need to start my snow machine.

CHIP: I want them to be comfortable out here.

They know that they're walking over food when they walk on a river.

I want them to know that they've got things at hand

that they can achieve anything with.

They can always win.

SUE: I love being by myself.

It doesn't mean that I'm hiding from something else that happened,

it's just where my skin fits my body.

Just kind of a last little chore.

All of my trash needs to be burnt down to its lowest ash, if possible.

NARRATOR: Tomorrow morning, Sue will travel to Fairbanks for her foot procedure.

Before she can leave, she must burn her waste to keep predators away

from camp in her absence.

SUE: And this is my collective garbage for several months.

So, propane gels at 40 below, so I'm hoping it works.

It's getting pretty cold.

But, I got some paper. I'll probably put a little bit of jet fuel on it

to give myself a little extra boom power.

But I'll go back and burn garbage

and that'll be the last of my chores for today.

The thought of actually having to leave Kavik

and be social again is terrifying to me.

Don't know how well I can do it.

Whether I like it or not, people are going to be saying hello to me

and they're going to touch me.

And that's a lot for me to process.

The object of this is to just get it in, get it done,

get it started pretty quick.

It's a concern when I'm burning the garbage,

if it's a time when the animals

and the predators are awake and roaming around. As it's burning,

of course it's gonna give off the scent of burning food.

There's not a lot of food runnin' around on the hoof out here

and all predators are opportunists.

Right now, it's cold enough, the bears have gone back to bed.

Haven't seen the wolves in a couple of days,

so I think it's a good time to burn.

Propane hopefully, it is getting cold,

but hopefully it'll light.

Yay!

You know when you leave camp all alone,

it is a total roll of the dice.

There's a million things going through your head.

I can leave and try to achieve something, but then I'm worried about

what's happening when I'm gone.

And that's a lot for me to process.

So, time for me to get the Bobcat put to bed,

shut up shop, and get to town.

GLENN: I don't have to go to work and do a repetitive job.

I do different jobs every day. I'm not relying so much on specialists

as people have to do in modern society,

I get a lot more variety in my life and that's what I like about it out here.

NARRATOR: Two hundred miles from the nearest town,

Glenn Villeneuve is without access to modern equipment.

Any construction or repair in camp must be done by hand,

using only the resources that surround him in the Brooks Range.

GLENN: This place is out of level.

It used to be perfect when I built it.

But the thing is over the years, one corner has sunk there a little bit.

And now, I can't even set down a piece of ammunition here

without having it roll off my table.

NARRATOR: With each passing season, the ground freezes and thaws,

causing the cabin to sink.

Glenn must fortify his home before the harsh winter arrives.

I can tell the whole place has tipped this way.

A little bit higher on this side.

This one here is lower than it used to be.

I need to lift up my cabin, the question is, "How am I gonna do it?"

One way might be with a lever and a fulcrum.

This is my cabin, this is my fulcrum, this is my lever.

Now, this is one way you can lift a heavy object with a relatively low force.

The length of the lever increases my mechanical advantage.

I got the model, now I gotta go make the real thing.

This is a pole that I used to hang things off of to keep them same from bears.

And, actually, I don't need it anymore.

I think I'll cut this down right here.

I got a lever, now I need a fulcrum to test it.

It lifted it.

Of course now I got the problem,

how am I gonna hold it up and work on things?

It snapped!

That pole wasn't quite strong enough.

It might be faster, and simpler, and more efficient

if I just had something I could shove in there to hold it up that high

while I work, reposition the rock.

This... This one here is the longest, I'll try this.

I cut this tree more than a decade ago in order to make a teepee pole for a teepee

I first had set up at this camp.

Then over time it became part of my meat rack.

Today, I'm gonna use it here to try and jack my cabin up.

Now, if this one snaps, as long as no part of my body is under it, I'm safe.

It broke again.

That sucks.

Because as that gets shorter,

it gets harder to lift.

Oh, I'll tell ya, it's just at the limit of what my body weight will lift.

I want it higher, I can't get the pole under.

Let's try that.

Yes!

Look at that. It's holding it up.

Now I'm gonna reposition this rock

to about this area.

I just have to prepare the ground.

I used my judgement in terms of the height of the rock,

I have to lift it up one more time, pull this pole out,

which is holding the cabin up right now, lower it back down

and hopefully it'll be level.

So with just my saw and my axe,

and some spruce poles I got right here in my yard,

I was able to jack this up.

I got it done in no time.

It would've taken me just as long to do this if I was in town using modern tools.

I got a snowstorm blowing in right here.

I got this done just in time.

I wanna go in and warm up.

That's what I love about living out here,

is the unpredictability and the excitement.

This is interesting work.

This is interesting work because out here, one day I can be moose hunting,

another day I can picking berries, and another day I could be jacking' up my house.

I find it a lot of fun.

That's the way I like to keep things out here,

fun, interesting, have a good time.

Why else would you wanna be living if you weren't having a good time?

ANDY: It takes a lot of self-motivation to live out in the bush.

You gotta be able to push yourself.

You gotta get up and get the job done.

If you don't get it done, then it's another whole year

before you can get to that project or you miss out.

Just too much traffic on the river right now.

It's no sense in me calling along the Yukon River

just for someone else to shoot the moose.

So, just planning on heading back to a lake back behind our property.

I'll look around for some moose.

Originally, I saw some cow and calf moose back on the lake,

so I know there's something living back there.

So, I figure I'll go on back and do some calling.

NARRATOR: With winter bearing down,

Andy's time is limited to hunt for moose,

which could provide enough red meat to last for the entire year.

ANDY: Back in these quiet sloughs, the best way to look for moose

is intently listening to hear any kind of twigs

breaking or any movement through the brush.

(BRANCHES BREAKING)

Another way you can get a young bull in is to imitate a call.

The cows start calling cos they want to attract a mate, the bulls start calling,

they wanna attract a mate,

and all they're thinking about is breeding.

And that makes them vulnerable.

(IMITATES MOOSE CALL)

And that's really about the best chance you have for getting

them is trying to get them to come to you as opposed to you trying to get to them.

(MOOSE GROANING)

I think the toughest thing about moose hunting

is just the patiently sitting quietly as you can.

And there's no movement, you generate no heat,

so you get cold really quick.

I'm not 20 years old anymore, I gotta think about how I do things

and do them a little bit different now than I used to.

Probably 50% luck and 50% skill,

when it comes to moose hunting.

I tend to be the kind of person that the luck...

They just don't fall into my lap,

I tend to have to work for them.

So, I've learnt over the years if you don't spend the time out in the woods

looking for them, you're not gonna get them.

SUE: A little wind under your wings and you got a lot of freedom.

And that's kind of how I feel about my life,

so it's a comfort zone.

Hey, Dirk, you got a copy on Kavik?

Are you in range yet?

(DIRK TALKING)

All righty, and you should be able to pull up.

You'll wanna be a little bit close.

I've got the pump inside, but, you know, I don't have a lot of reach.

Awesome, buddy, I sure appreciate it.

SUE: I think my window is gonna be good enough to let me go and come back,

but it's a gamble.

If you look at the whole scope of my winter,

this is not good travelling weather.

I've got one window, one shot to get out, get it done, and get back.

You know, paws crossed, that's all it is.

NARRATOR: In order to keep Kavik up and running,

Sue must travel to Fairbanks while the weather is clear

to treat the painful scar tissue in her feet and ankles.

SUE: What a beautiful birdie.

Hey, how are you doing? Long time no see.

-How are you doing? -I'm doing all right.

-Excellent. -Thank you.

Yeah, what a break in the weather, huh?

SUE: Don't know what the weather's gonna bring.

I do know that I gotta get moving or I'm gonna lose my window of opportunity.

Al lright, time to go get Ermie and get this show on the road.

This is the last of my bags.

If I can't walk, and I can't run, and I can't climb,

I can't stay at Kavik.

I can't do a lifestyle that's important to me.

Doesn't mean I won't have life,

it's gonna change the game drastically.

CHIP: I have all the material, I have all the animals,

I have all the information,

and I have the willpower and a healthy body.

So, for me, this ain't survival.

This is just living.

NARRATOR: The Hailstones have set their traps for tiktaalik

and will pull them from the ice today in hopes of enjoying

the seasonal delicacy before the fish migrate.

-You got your fishing stuff? -Yep.

Well, hopefully, we've had some luck.

AGNES: Okay then, you girls ready?

IRIQTAQ: Yeah. We're ready.

We'll go see if we get some fresh fish for dinner.

Yep, sure wouldn't mind some fresh tiktaalik.

AGNES: Yeehaw!

CHIP: Yesterday we came out here and I knocked out five holes.

And when jigging is over, and you're tired, especially for tiktaalik,

because you don't know when the school will go by.

What you end doing is just leaving them behind.

This froze at least a couple inches since last night.

I don't think we got much on this one.

AGNES: Ah, man!

CHIP: Uh, clean it out.

AGNES: Scoop it out and then we'll put it back in.

Having the girls come along with us and see what we're doing,

it prepares them for when they're married

and have their own families and stuff.

-CHIP: First one, Ting. -That's mine.

AGNES: It has two. Go ahead, bun.

AGNES: Aw. CHIP: Ah!

AGNES: Ah!

CHIP: Clear your hole and put them back.

It is kind of like Christmas.

It's one of those things, you never know what you'll get, you can't predict it.

Oh!

-(CHEERING) -CHIP: Check that one out!

AGNES: Oh! Look, Dad's got one!

Right on.

But you see what happened to him?

This is what killed him, he got greedy.

Look at that big chunk of fish in his belly.

And then he's got one of those in him sideways,

so it popped his organs.

The gorge more then did its job.

The gorge not only caught the fish, it killed the fish.

So, it did a really good job and it also kept the fish from tugging the line

and maybe freeing himself by killing him.

This is where you were fishing, huh?

IRIQTAQ: Yeah.

Give it a jerk, pull out your bait.

IRIQTAQ: Oh, oh, oh!

Oh!

AGNES: Woo! Yay!

CHIP: Wow!

AGNES: I think we have enough for dinner with two nukchuks.

It's really cool,

I learnt something new, and I learnt how to make something,

and I learnt how to make it work.

So that was even better.

And I actually caught a tiktaalik and it was something

I didn't think was gonna happen but it did.

I'm gonna put these back in and since it's so windy,

Agnes, I want to go home.

-I'm not gonna sit out in this. -AGNES: It's cold!

It is nasty.

Unfortunately, it's really windy right now

and it's gonna give us frostbite

and it's gonna be miserable out here pretty soon.

So, I put the lines back with the girls and then we're gonna head home.

AGNES: Two fish ain't bad. Two fish is real good.

Not bad for gorging, huh?

Now you know how to make your own fish hook.

Yep, and I did catch my own fish.

Well, let's go eat them, huh?

AGNES: Yep, let's go eat them.

That's probably one of the quickest fishing trips I've ever been on.

(LAUGHING)

AGNES: It's a lot of fun.

(ENGINE STARTING)

Everything kind of has a jigsaw puzzle effect in this world.

Like earlier this year, we went up and got caribou.

I took a bit of that caribou antler and then we took a tail off of a whitefish

that we've been catching in our whitefish net.

And we put the gorge inside the whitefish tail

and then we went and caught ourselves a whole different meal.

AGNES: Whoo! CHIP: Wow!

So everything has little interlocking ways of different uses

and stuff and it all comes together to make a good living,

and make a good dinner, and make a good place out here for us.

ANDY: It's all about looking at your situation, adapting,

doing things as efficiently and as economically as you can.

That's what life out here is all about, if you're gonna do it well.

So it's about 6:00 a.m. and it's time to go out and look for moose.

Generally I like to try and get a pretty early start

when I'm out hunting for moose in the morning.

They're a lot more active in the morning.

Also, there's a little less pressure from other people out on the river to compete with.

A lot of people wait until it's light.

So I'm gonna try and take advantage of some of these early morning hours,

do some floating, do some glassing,

and head back to where there were some pretty good signs

for moose and see if I get lucky.

I'm kinda in the area right now,

where we spotted a moose a few days ago.

So I'm gonna try and just float through this area kind of quietly.

Pretty tough to float silently when some other asshole comes by at full speed.

Gets pretty frustrating.

You know, we're noticing an increase in people coming out

and hunting in the area and everybody has a right to go hunt where they want,

but it definitely is changing and impacting the way we're living anyway.

That's history, doesn't matter where you go in the world,

that's the way it always seems to go.

People move in, the resources get depleted or commercialized

and they go away and then everybody is fighting for that one dollar.

(WHISPERING) Some smaller, older moose tracks right here.

At least three or four days old.

A lot of older tracks but nothing really fresh right now.

They are quite a few days old with all the leaves in them.

And you can see, you know, they're just kind of flattened out.

So, I think I'm just gonna move on out of here as quietly as I can

and then come back.

This isn't lookin' real productive today.

SUE: You know, change comes when the pain of remaining the same

is too great than the fear of change.

It's all out of my control.

-I'll take her from here, Sue. -All right.

All right. Good luck to you.

All right, thank you, Dirk, I appreciate it.

-Yeah, you bet, good luck. -All righty, bye-bye.

SUE: I'll get my bags, get in the taxi, and get to the hotel.

Feels like kind of a quick send off on Ermie

but I'll hook up with her again.

I am not somebody built for speed and agility.

I am somebody that has trained

and worked themselves for raw power.

I've got a lot of power in my legs and my feet are the fulcrum.

I'm gonna let them jam big, ugly, nasty, painful needles in my feet.

And he's gonna inject stuff.

He's gonna go through the bottom of the foot, into the joint.

Squirty, squirty.

Along that big tendon, squirty, squirty, squirty.

Along the ones on the top, squirty, squirty, squirty.

And not just one paw, but both,

because it is critical.

Tomorrow's a big day.

I gotta put the paws to bed.

If I am willing to expend this much cash, energy,

time, and effort, then yeah, I probably really am feeling hurt,

painful and less agile than I need to be to survive up where I'm at.

But, it's what I've gotta do.

DOCTOR: I'm going to do the right one first.

(SCREAMS) Ow!

DOCTOR: Move it around just a little bit.

Almost done.

(WHINCES)

NURSE: Okay, switch sides.

Get ready for a little poke.

-(GASPS) -Good job.

(GASPS)

DOCTOR: Little pressure there, move it around.

It's okay, it's all good.

DOCTOR: Okay, that's it.

SUE: That's it.

The pain I'm going through is the inability

of functionality of my feet

is to the point where I must do something or accept defeat.

I'm not accepting defeat, no pun intended.

All right, you are ready to rock.

SUE: Cool.

Very simple procedure.

Made me break down into, you know, silly Sue.

But, it's what I've gotta do.

The paws are acceptable.

They're hurting, but they're good, I can walk.

I can get back to, you know... Susie is an explorer,

and I like to climb mountains, and I like to see what's on the other side.

You have to be an active participant in your own life.

It's such a, maybe, a little procedure that looks like nothing.

But it's not nothing to me.

ANDY: There's one thing I'll say about this country out here,

there's no guarantees to anything.

Sometimes things are really good and sometimes things are really bad.

That's just the way it is out here,

sometimes you gotta bust your butt to get something done.

(WHISPERS) I've been at this now every morning, every evening,

and I'm just not seeing the activity I normally do for this time of year.

Hunting is an awful lot about patience.

But your patience starts to wear pretty thin

and I think I'm kind of aggravated

by all the traffic on the river.

(SCRAPING)

The sun is beginning to burn through.

When it's warm like this, the moose just don't move around as much.

Usually it takes some cold weather to really get them in rut

and get that mating season going.

And I'm just not seeing a whole lot of sign.

That moose is what I need right now, but this just isn't looking good.

(SIGHS) Ah, man. This is a waste of time, man.

I think I'd be better off spending time doin' other things than, than this.

I'll come back when it's cold.

I just can't remember when I spent this much time hunting

and come up with a big goose egg.

Most of the time it's just not like that.

Beginning to feel like hungry country just got a whole lot hungrier

and might be turning into starving country for Kate and I this winter.

I see no blood, no rack, no nothing.

ANDY: I'm pretty frustrated.

I'm just gonna quit hunting for a while until the weather changes.

When you're out hunting, you got good feelings and you get bad feelings.

I go by my gut feelings a lot of times and my gut feelings have been telling me

I'm kind of wasting my time out here.

It's just been too frustrating with all the traffic around here, and the weather,

and just the lack of sign of moose,

so I have a long list of projects I like to do.

So, time to spend my time doing something more productive

than sitting in the woods swatting flies.

CHIP: I want my kids to learn how to use the materials

from the land around them to continue to make a life,

to make a good living.

Not just to scratch by but to really enjoy themselves

and have themselves a good life.

AGNES: Do you girls wanna watch it?

I'm gonna cut the fish.

Is the fish in there?

Look girls, here's the hook.

AGNES: I got it out.

Holy crap.

Look when, it's bloody, when it ate it, it gets stuck.

CHIP: Showed our kids a good location.

We showed them how to make the gorges.

And we showed them how far to set them down.

They've seen it, and then they put their hands on it,

and now I think they've learnt it.

And they won't forget it.

I think this is the one that Iri caught.

It was in her trap.

She's not here right now, but she'll be here for dinner.

This is a real nice, big one, this is bigger than the last one I just did.

CHIP: Say hello.

It's about to get noisy!

CHIP: This is kind of like a turkey at Thanksgiving.

This is a taste of the season, you know?

It's fun to cook.

Hey, kiddos!

This tiktaalik looks done!

Tiktaalik smells good, Dad.

CHIP: This baby's fresh.

Mmm, did you melt some butter and stuff?

I sure did, it's right here on the table.

Mmm.

IRIQTAQ: Since I was a little girl I used to always cut up fish,

or help my mom check the net, or I just was born with fish in my hands, I guess.

CHIP: My kids are gonna learn a lesson here that the work pays off.

The effort to go out there, the effort to make the gorges,

the effort to knock holes in the ice,

it's all worth it.

They're gonna see, cos they're gonna taste it.

This is really good, Dad.

CHIP: I'm glad you like it.