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Holy crap, that's big.

How's that?

No, no, no, no, no.
.

Losing a fish from
a bad decision

is taking away my time
of being here for longer.

Oh, there's that pine marten.

I hope he never got
in my smoker

and dragged that fish out.

.
Oh, boy.

"Alone's" worst hunter
got two spruce grouse.

So here I am,

at least two more weeks
that I get to hang out.

I'm still in the game.

Hot, cold, chills, sweat.

Not a great day.

The moose could ironically be

the thing that would
take me down.

We need to officially extract
you for medical reasons.

I think that it's probably
the right call.

I just don't want it to be.

I am losing my breath.
My chest hurts like crazy.

Oh, God,
it's not getting better.

I'm not tapping out.

I'd rather die.

Here goes nothing.

Whoa!

Yes!

Holy [bleep].

This is the harshest
location possible.

We're 125 miles in
the Arctic Circle.

Never had an environment

make me feel like
a complete amateur before.

Everything is
against us out here.

Mother Nature went
and bitch-slapped me.

Looks like I got grizzlies
and wolves as my neighbors.

Holy crap.

They're just hunting
the shoreline.

Mother Nature is about
to dim the lights on us.

We're heading into
total darkness.

- Hey, bear.

The cold and the dark is
going to sap people's souls.

Really makes you wonder
if it's worth it.

There is no camera crew.

There's no support system.

I'm completely alone.

Yes!

People go in one way...

Stop bleeding.

And they come out
entirely different.

This is the most difficult

survival challenge
in the world.

$500,000.

That's completely
life-changing money.

It's beautiful.

Whoever can thrive
the longest.

They out here ought
to be afraid of me.

- Whoever can push through...

Wins.

I hope I made the right
choice coming out here.

My chest hurts like crazy.

Something is not right.

Oh, stop being a little sissy.

Oh, come on.

Just get back to work.

That's all you got to do.

I could stick this out.
I can win this.

If I do something permanent,
it's not fair to my family.

But then also, if I leave,

we can't afford
to do IVF again.

Worry about my personal health.

Get a chance of
having more kids.

I can push through all kinds
of physical pain,

but I have high blood pressure

and high cholesterol.

Oh, man, my chest hurts.

I feel like my heart's
working overtime.

I want to be here
more than anything.

I don't want to leave.

Ow.

But there's plenty of people
in their 30s and early 40s

who are having heart attacks.

All right. Let's just breathe.

Sit and breathe,

and pray.

What do I do, Josh?

Come on, talk to me, buddy.

What would you tell me to do?

Birds flying south

right when I asked Josh
to talk to me.

Gosh.
Yeah.

That's ol' big brother,
looking out for me.

I'm gonna hurt myself.

This is Isaiah.

I'm officially tapping out.

Something's not right,
cardiac-wise.

But what I'm worried about
more...

Is...

not appreciating
what I have already

and letting more damage
happen--

excuse me--letting--letting
permanent damage happen.

That's, uh--

that's not being appreciative
of what I already have.

And I have so much.

I got my bride and...

my miracle baby.

I have everything
I need at home.

The hard thing for me
about leaving is

there was
this overwhelming joy,

like I was a kid
in the woods again.

And saying goodbye to this,

it is saying goodbye to
a magical time in my life.

I loved it.

I genuinely had fun

and just felt so at peace.

I was able to talk
to my brother, Josh,

and to just hear his voice

and just enjoy this time
with him and no one else.

This place was magical.

But I have to
think of my family,

and it isn't fair to them
for me to put my life at risk

and risk them
possibly being alone.

That's not fair.

OK, guys,
this is really cool.

Check this out.

There's a moose cow
with two calves.

And they were bedded down,
sleeping,

right out here in Moose Meadow.

Twin moose calves.
That's pretty cool.

But I hope that you got
to see them for a second,

Levi and Elliot.

It was really cool.

Another day in paradise.

Well, they've run off.
Um--

sad about that,
but I slept OK last night.

I, uh, feel OK today.

Anyhow, seeing the moose
is a special treat.

That was cool.
I enjoyed that.

Thank you, God.
That cheered me up.

That was my cup of coffee,
I reckon.

So I'll go get started
on the fire.

There's a couple more things
I have to do today

on the shelter
to make it home.

I'm feeling so much better
than yesterday.

I don't think
I'm sick anymore.

I need to maintain my resolve

not to move fast
and push hard.

But I think if I just move
steadily and slowly all day,

I can do what I want to do.

It's move-in day today
for sure.

I got to finish this bed.

I'm probably the last
contestant out here

to move into
his permanent shelter.

But I wouldn't change
using it for a smoker.

I had to do what I had to do.

Oh, yeah, my bough bed.

Cozy.

I'm happy just keeping working
to work out my vision of

how to make this survival
experience play out.

And I believe in
the proactive approach,

and I want to be out here
a long time.

I want to win.

But I see myself working
too hard out here.

That's not gonna be good.

Tore off a good piece
of my thumbnail.

Ripped right through the glove.

I gotta be much more careful.

That could get infected
so, so easy.

That's not cool.

I will try to seal this cut on
my thumb with some spruce sap.

So what I'm gonna try to do is
make a good barrier

between the injury

and whatever
fish and work I do.

I'm gonna start here.

This sap is kind of fresh,

and it'll smear on pretty good.

Now there's a good barrier
between the injury

under my nail,
which is pretty deep.

I've got that pretty sealed.

So bottom line is
don't be stupid.

Don't be stupid.

I'm gonna sit by
the fire a bit,

kind of hold this
in the smoke,

and hopefully,
that'll harden a bit.

I'm not on my A-game.

My mind has been feeling
so faint.

My biggest fear is brain fog.

I've had brain fog before
in stressful situations.

It really takes away
your ability to be smart.

I'm still struggling
with the mindset

that I have to accomplish
some things.

'Cause I really don't need to--

I need to not accomplish
things right now.

That's my strategy.
It's my game plan.

But I'm having such a hard time
getting into that mentality.

I have food,
and I'm getting food,

and I have shelter,
mostly complete.

I gotta kick back
and just take it slow.

I know my main work is done.

I can afford to
just hibernate and hunker.

Look at that.

Seen their last days, though.

Ooh.

Look at that.

One classy 2-liter bottle.

I got a good use for it,
a real good use.

Oh, I found a piss pot.

Getting up in the night time,
peeing? Not fun.

That's lucky.

That's something
I was hoping to find.

Ooh-wee!

Ol' Willy got a piss pot.

First things first,
we go check out the net.

Who knows?
We could get surprised

with a fish in that net.

There's nothing in the net.

Nothing at all.

It's good enough.

It is what it is, hey?

Living on the edge here now,

Living on the edge,
day by day meals, yeah.

Gonna go to the food cache.

I'm gonna eat the last
of the whitefish.

Get that pack sack down.

Just when the predators
couldn't get any worse.

Look at all the crows.
That's a murder of crows.

Two, four, six, eight, ten...

30, 30 crows.

I better hide the stuff
away now.

Food is getting scarce.

Before I eat, I gotta set
a couple more rabbit snares

over this way now.

The land will tell you
what's available,

what it's willing to offer.

I can hear animals
moving in the nighttime,

howling in the distance.

I can see their tracks.

Every day, information's
coming back into me

and I'm building a picture

of all the movements
of the different animals.

And so I become part of
the environment.

I'm a predator, just like
the marten or anything else.

Let's hope it pans out,

'cause I need food.

I'm officially out of food.

Cutting it close again, boy.

Ah.

Another beautiful day
up here.

By beautiful, I mean...

cold as hell and rainy.

I'm about to look quickly

to see if I got anything
in my gillnet.

Real quick snare,
gillnet check.

It's actually not raining
as bad as it sounded like

in the shelter.

No action.

My snare's a little--

no, that's good.

Gillnet, what do we have?

Ooh.

We are back on
the gillnet train, baby.

Look at that lunker pike, man.

Hell, yeah, dude.

That's three days of food
right there.

Let me get a club ready
in case he moves.

That pike is
a freaking monster, man.

Look at that freakin'
alligator, dude!

Wow, pike.

I'm sorry, pike,
but your time has come.

There it is:

days and days and days of food.

Dude, if you catch
ten of these,

that's like literally killing
a big game animal.

Holy smokes, dude.

All right, I'm gonna get him
over here to the beach

because I got about

30 pounds of fish
to deal with right here.

Get the freaking smoker
warmed up, baby,

'cause we're cookin'.

It's nice having
the security of knowing

that you have food
as a backup.

Look at this.

That is so much food.

There's nothing worse
than the feeling of,

"oh, crap, I ate all my food.

I have to get up tomorrow
and grind and get more food."

There's something mental
that feels really, really good

about having food stored...

That's money.

And ready for you
when you need it

and I like that a lot.

Well, we got it all on there.

Once that's done,

everything around here has
got to get cleaned up;

try to minimize
the risk of grizzlies.

This is how you win this, man,

easy food
and low calorie burn.

I need to replicate today
about 50 more times,

and we got this.

Yeah, man.

We did it.

She's smoking.

I don't know who all
got moose out here.

But even if I don't
get a moose,

I can win this thing,
one pike at a time, dude.

Job now is gonna be to
sit in the shelter

and put wood in
the frickin' fire.

How freaking awesome is that?

While we're sitting inside,
our freaking fish is smoking.

It seems obvious that
I'm gonna eat

a hell of a lot of fish
out here.

These pike are big.

They don't have a ton of fat
on them,

but they're gonna
make ends meet for me

until I can sort
something else out.

Dang, man.

We're going to get water.

I just don't have quite enough.

Dude, it's so calm out.

There's [bleep] something big
over here

on the other side of this lake
right now.

Oh, [bleep].

Holy [bleep], that's a moose.

We're going moose hunting,
baby.

Holy [bleep].
That's a big bull.

It's deciding
what he wants to do.

He's freaking thinking
about coming this way, man.

And whichever way he chooses,
I'm gonna meet him.

If that thing turns
and starts walking along

this edge of the lake,
we will probably have a moose.

I bet he's coming this way.

And I'm gonna start
heading that way

on this side of the lake.

We're going moose hunting, baby.

Just stay down low.

Not gonna be able to
bring this camera with me.

I'm gonna set this camera here.

I can't do anything with it
right now.

I'm going along this edge
of the lake

with a--with a GoPro
on my head

to try to get that moose
to come in to me.

This is crazy, man.

That was a big old bull.

Oh, dude.

Maybe it'll come back.

I just can't see.
It's--it's really dark.

We might be able to get
this moose

when it's a lot easier,

because right now it's
freaking impossible, almost.

That moose is gonna be
up running all night.

It's really dark out right now.

It's a lot darker than it looks
like through that camera lens,

I'll tell you that.

So that was probably about
the worst possible time

to see that moose.

And I saw that moose
five minutes before dark.

By the time that thing
walked over to the right

and went into those trees,

I couldn't even see
the dark spot

with my bare eyes.

But if he stays in the area,
and I get over

on the other side of
the lake and do some calling,

I might be able to draw him out
and get a shot on him.

That'd be better than
shooting one right now.

I would have to literally wait
until morning to track it,

which would make
for a pretty grueling night

because you never know
what's gonna get on it

with all the damn wolves
and the grizzly bears.

But we're going after
that thing.

Holy cow.

That got me pumped up, man.

With this moose and our fish,

I don't know how anybody
could beat us.

Oh, my goodness.

I don't know what time it is,

but these wolves
have been howling

literally all night long.

I just wake up,
they're howling.

Go back to sleep, wake up
again, they're howling.

They keep waking me up.

I think it's getting
closer to morning.

But...

They've kept me up a lot,

just because they're so close
and it's so noisy.

I guess they're done
howling for now.

I'll try to switch it back on
in a minute

when they start again.

I got very little sleep
last night

'cause the wolves were
howling all night,

and it was just so noisy.

They would wake me up
every half hour

or hour, at least,
I would say.

So right out here,
just in front of my shelter,

there's fresh wolf tracks
this morning.

One, two, three,

and you can see his stride
going over there.

It's a wild place out here.

There's big predators
all around me.

My concern's not so much for

my personal encounters
with these critters.

My concern is that
they'll be stealing my food.

So I'm thinking
about going over

and checking the kill site

just to see if they've gnawed
the bones and stuff.

This may be all I do today,
the rest of the day.

It needs to be all I do.

I need to conserve energy
and take things slowly.

I've grabbed my bow.

And I'm gonna head out into
Moose Meadow

near the moose kill.

I'm going around
the river route--

same route I took
when I ambushed the moose.

It's really quiet out,
really quiet, really overcast.

It's like
there's an unnatural hush.

Yeah.

Guys, I see fresh
grizzly tracks.

And it's a big one.

Fresh claw marks.

You can see it
just chipped up the sod.

I think that was today.

I might be, like,
literally right behind it.

Yeah, I'm following his tracks.

This grizzly just went down
through here,

right on my tracks,
and he's not afraid of 'em.

Wouldn't be surprised
to come around the corner

and there he is.
They're that fresh.

I have become sure

that someone else
killed big game out here.

I mean, I'm not the only one
seeing moose.

And that works on my mind.

Because if someone has
killed big game,

the two of us could just
be out here forever.

How long could this go?

Someone might be
out there right now

beating me with fish.

It simply means that this is
gonna be a long process.

I have to make sure that
I'm up for that process.

I have to beat that man.

I can see right away
coming up to the kill site

that something's been on it.

Its rib cage is gone.

This is where the rib cage
was sitting.

This is crazy.

The rib cage is gone.

What could carry off its
whole rib cage besides a bear?

That's all that's left.

That's the only scrap
of moose left

is those three leg bits.

So my guess would be that
a bear carried it back in there

and stashed it,

in which case,
he's probably nearby.

It's probably dragged it
back into those willows

and stashed it, eating on it.

I'm just gonna keep up
some talking

so that I don't surprise
anything.

If a grizzly is laying up
near a kill,

that makes him more dangerous.

So my risk level out here
escalated a little bit,

but I'm gonna try to
just maintain

a heightened level of
awareness

and try to deal with things
as they happen.

Something might be over there,
in the bushes.

Guys, I'm gonna keep talking.

I'm gonna make my way
out of here

because I know a bear has
been on the kill.

I think it's a good idea to
back out,

get back towards camp,

make sure everything's good
there.

I'm gonna leave, leave, leave.

A grizzly has been on
the moose kill.

Don't know what to
make of that.

So right now,

I'm gonna show you guys
what I've been doing

every single day, constantly,

that keeps the bears at bay.

See this little dead stick
right here?

This dead stick here
will hold scent for a long time

because it's dead, it's porous,

and it'll hold scent
for a long time.

So what you do is
real technical.

Um...

Now, that dead stick will hold
that scent for a long time.

And what that does,

that tells the bears that
this territory is mine.

What the bear does is,
he's walking along

and he thinks he smells food
coming from my camp.

He's like, [sniffs],
"I smell a camp."

And he comes up here and he
thinks, "maybe I'll go in there

and explore,
try to get something."

And he comes up to this stick--

And he sniffs it,
and he's like, "oh!

A dangerous male lives here."

And it starts a seed of fear
in his heart.

Then he thinks to himself,
"But how big? Can I take him?"

And he looks basically
at how high

you've peed on the stick.

Now me, I can pee pretty high.

So he looks at how high
you've peed on the stick,

and he's like, "there's no way
I can take him."

And he wanders off
the other direction.

That, ladies and gentlemen,
is a scent post.

There's decent-sized
bear tracks

that I've seen three times now
close to my camp,

and I've never seen him
out here in daylight,

but he is hungry.

He's in his hyperphagia
feeding mode

before hibernation.

How long is it before he says,

"screw it, I'm gonna go get
whatever that is in camp"?

It's my territory.

My territory.

Let the moose hunting begin.

The sun's just popping up
over these--

look at that.

Beautiful Arctic morning.

Dude, it's so frickin' quiet
right now out here.

It's insane.

This is exactly
the kind of territory

you'd want to find a moose.

They like the marshy stuff.

They love these lakes,
eating the aquatic vegetation.

And if that happens,

that's the golden ticket
on "Alone," man.

Just can't hear
anything moving at all.

You pull off
a big game animal,

you got a damn good shot.

I'm gonna head back.

I'm just gonna keep my eyes
peeled for that moose.

And next time I see him,

hopefully I can
get a shot at him,

because there's still
a lot of sign back here.

We have a long time
to get this moose.

I just want to get back and get
some more wood on the smoker.

To outlast
these nine other people,

that's a feat, man.

For the most part,

my energy level's holding up
pretty good.

It's a learning curve.

Everything is
a little bit harder here

than you would think
it would be.

But I think I'm starting
to get a system down.

Right now I'm just gonna
keep focusing on fish

because that's what I got,

and we'll see what other
opportunities arise

in the near future.

Once I get all my ducks
in a row,

I think I'm gonna be
in good shape.

There's
a freaking grouse somewhere.

We're gonna grouse hunt
in our camp, dude.

It just flew off
but I saw where it went.

Hunting has always
really excited me.

To go one-on-one
with an animal,

there's an adrenaline rush
I get.

They live in
a specific environment,

and they're damn good
at navigating it safely.

It's in this first
leaning tree.

Got 'em.

And I lost my arrow
way out in the lake.

Oh.

Sorry. Sorry, bro.

Come here.

Oh.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you, grouse. Oh, wow.

I'm so sorry.

We just got our first grouse.
Look at that thing.

I'm gonna get this cleaned up,
add it to my food stash,

and we can eat it tomorrow.

I'm really excited.

Amazing.

Mm, yeah.

Want to take a look at
that yummy goodness?

Grouse broth. Mm-hmm.

All fatty and full of protein.

Yeah.

Just gonna warm up my belly,

feed my mind, my soul,
and my body.

I'm plowing through
these two grouse

almost as fast as I did
that one grouse.

My body is demanding more
for sure.

Oh, well.

All I can do is
keep trying to feed it.

All right, how we doing, broth?

Oh, that is good.

Mm-hmm.

All right.
Back to work I go.

Let's go get some grass.

I'm gonna pick
some of those seeds.

I had doubt
I would be able to hunt

to be able to feed myself
out here.

Shooting these two birds,

those doubts are starting
to go away.

I don't feel a big drag,

and my confidence
is starting to build.

I'm gonna pick grass

and see if I can make flour
from the grass seeds.

I got my Arctic entry
done today.

It's important to have
all this stuff buttoned up

before the snow falls on it.

And this is about
to get brutal.

Let's head back.

I hope this works.

This would just be
a really cool option.

With the grass seed,
gonna pull it off the stalk,

grind it down to a fine powder,
and cook it up.

If this works,
I'm just gonna spend

the rest of my "Alone" days

grinding flour
and making bread.

You can live forever on flour.

Well, not really.

Protein's pretty important.

But it'd definitely
make me smile.

Have the taste of home?
Hell, yeah.

I miss my home and my man.

I got a damn fine husband.

The hardest thing
I ever have been through

is my husband's stroke.

He was a completely
healthy man.

All of a sudden,
he grabs his head,

and he's screaming in agony.

I finally call a life flight,

and it's four hours before
they could get to us.

By the time he got to
the hospital in Anchorage,

the pressure was so severe
they had to drill holes

into his skull to relieve it.

Well, it's feeling floury,
that's for sure.

You need a little bit
of moisture.

And then, after that,

he spends an entire winter
in the hospital

and I spend an entire winter
alone at the lodge.

All right, well,
that's what I have

is that little patty
right there.

Gonna put it on some coals.
See what happens.

I had to take care of things
around our remote homestead

that, physically,
I was not prepared for.

And if I didn't do them,

we would have lost
our livelihood.

It was the biggest
strength-building exercise

I've ever done in my life.

Well, I'd say it's done.

It was definitely
a self-discovery

that, yes, I can do this.

When the need arises,
I am a fighter.

Hmm.

It has potential to be
very bread-like,

but the consistency is weird.

There's this ball of stuff
that doesn't chew.

I think I'd like to do it

but eliminate that roughage
that was in there,

go down to the fine powder.

Not giving up on it,
but it's not quite there.

That's where we stand.

More geese coming by.

Ooh, big old V in the sky.

Awesome.

They're saying "get your
shelter done. Winter's coming."

Every day, blessed with
beautiful wildlife scenes--

every day, multiple times.

Just incredible.

Truly incredible.

Top priority today is trying
to find something to eat.

Gonna make up
another lure here now

and go try for a pike.

I think this should do it.

If you was actually
in a plane crash, whatever,

you're gonna only do
the things

that you really need to do
to guarantee survival.

For me, it's all strategic,
essential needs.

I'm not gonna waste no time
carving out forks

and different things
like that.

Whatever I need to craft,
either to, like,

protect me from the elements
or help me secure more food,

that's all I'm gonna focus on.

But that's where the fish are.

That's where we gotta go.

All right, here should be
a good place.

On this journey,

I want to test myself
right to the full limit.

I want to go as far as I can
every day,

and there's nothing
to stop me yet.

Let's check out the short cast.

I think about the family
and all that back home.

But, like, there's not nothing
to stop me from continuing.

As a fisherman, I'm used to
being away from my family.

And it's not easy,
but I'm used to it.

Oh, that's a good cast.

If I win this money,

this will allow me to get out
of the fishery earlier.

I'll be able to spend
more time with my family.

This is our nest egg.

So I'm getting
really excited about it.

Pike. Oh, pike there.

Oh, there's a pike.

Oh, I lost him!
.

That's a good cast.
That's a good cast.

Ooh.

Ooh, get him up there
on the shoreline.

Get him on the shoreline.

Don't lose this one.

Got to be careful of this.

Oh, shoot.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah!

We got breakfast.

Woo.

When we needed it, we got it.

How great is that?

Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I still got a couple rabbit
snares and squirrel snares

to check yet,

but I can breathe a little
sigh of relief here now.

Taking time to clean this up.

We're good for two more days.

So it gives me a chance,
you know, in two days now

to catch something
for the third day, right?

So-- so that's real good.

My cache is working good
with them marten around.

So you've got to protect it
very well.

Everything looks safe
and sound. God bless.

Had some weird dreams.

Had a lot of thoughts
of Chinese food.

Oh, God, I love Chinese food.

So salty.

So full of carbs, protein,

salt, oh, flavor.

Oh, but the funny thing
about that is,

my last Chinese,

the fortune cookie said
something along the lines of,

you're soon going to
be traveling

and gaining
new cultural insight.

The cookie knows, man.

Don't ever argue with
a fortune cookie.

OK, argue with them,

'cause a lot of the times,
they're really dumb.

But this cookie knew for sure.

OK!

I want to braid up
a couple snares,

see if I can get that beaver.

OK, let's try
this braiding thing.

I haven't caught a fish yet.

I've virtually given up
on trying to fish this lake.

It's just trying
to eat my gear.

I haven't gotten any other
source of protein

beyond these birds,

but there's these
beaver slides everywhere.

All righty. There's one.

Snares are gonna be my best
bet to get this beaver.

I need to catch him on land.

I can't shoot a beaver
that's in the water.

I've tried that one already.

I am braiding snare wire
because you get more strength.

If I were just to use
a single strand,

he would snap it
like it was a hair.

Beaver would carry me
a long ways.

When you think of how far

one of the game birds
has carried me,

I get five to seven days
out of it.

A beaver? I can make it
another 30 days, no problem.

There's another one.

Go to the river.
Set up some snares.

There was a time
I wasn't even a hunter,

when my husband and I
first met.

Got that trail there,

and then another one over here.

I think we'll start
with this one.

When we first met,
I was a vegetarian,

I was anti-gun,
I was anti-hunting.

I actually was a card-carrying
member of PETA.

And he helped me discover
the love of the outdoors,

and I took it
to the very next level.

That looks badass to me.

Give it a go.

After the stroke, physically,
there was no paralysis.

He was so blessed
on that front.

But running a fishing lodge is
a very demanding job for us.

We have a mortgage payment
holding us down.

That's a good spot right there.

And to win this money would

allow my husband and I
to retire.

There's number two.

I miss my husband.

But to better our world,
this is where I need to be.

Oh, man, I hope that
catches that beaver.

Fingers crossed.

Gonna get this thing
plucked.

We are not wasting
one bit of this baby.

There we go.

How about this?

One Cornish game hen.

that's looking just like it
came out of a package, dude.

This will be different.

We've not had birds yet
since I've been out here.

A lot of sodium
in the blood of birds.

We need this thing.

I was beginning to wonder
if there were actually

any grouse at all in my zone.

It's good to see that
as the weather turns.

That's a big-time
winter food source, man.

Grouse is on the fire.

What do we do now to wait?

I think I'm gonna go try to get
that arrow out of the lake.

This morning, I'm just out

walking along
the edge of this lake.

And what do I see?

My arrow right there,
just out past the ice.

There it is.

I'm just gonna tie a paracord
up to a stick,

throw it out there, and see
if I can somehow lasso it.

I need that damn arrow.

Coming in hot.

Busting up that iceberg.

All right,
so we're just past the arrow.

Today, here it is,
ice on the lake.

That's nuts.

We're against the arrow.
It's coming.

That just tells you how fast
everything can freeze up.

Ooh, I just lost it
at that ice.

Winter is here.

We got to turn
our food production up

if we're gonna
make this happen.

Stay right there.

Hopefully,
that moose comes back.

But I'm not going
moose hunting

with one broadhead.

Yeah, man.

Ooh.

To have that back
means a lot to me.

And to have that back, too,
is very valuable.

That moose could come back
at any moment.

Go hang this paracord up,

eat some grouse soup.

Maybe I'll get
another shot at him.

Let it cool off,
and then I'll pick through it.

But I'm excited to get on
the bird program.

What the hell was that?

Oh, dude.

There's a freaking wolf
right on the other side

of the river right here.

I heard the howl.

There's--
there he is right there.

He's right there,
a big black one.

Look at that, dude.

There's another one.

A big white wolf, man.

Whoa.

Ooh, there's another one.

This is crazy.

Wolves all over the damn place.

They're, like, straight
downwind of me right now.

They know I'm here, man.

Dang, man.

I gotta get under some cover.

I think I am food right now.

Holy crap.

I don't know if I should
be scared or not.

Wolves all over the damn place.

I'll sit here and wait.

Holy crap.

That's freaking fantastic!

Dang, man!

I loved that.

This is freaking awesome, dude.

Wolves freaking howling
100 yards away from me--

that's like a dream come true.

Holy cow.

They shot up into the trees.

Let's hope they stay
on that side.

That was freaking awesome, dude.

That's gonna be hard to top.

All right, let's go back
to the shelter.

Man, we're in the Arctic

with wolves howling
at close range,

hunting the--

they're just hunting
the shoreline, dude.

This is freaking awesome.

I have so much more
in my tank.

I'm mentally prepared
for 100 days.

Slow-cooked grouse,
here we come.

Wow.

All I got to do is keep warm,

keep the firewood stash up,

and keep occasionally
getting food.

Mm.

Dude, we're rocking, man.

That was a damn good leg
right there.

Just look where I'm to.

Isn't this freaking amazing?

This is awesome.

Hope you're enjoying it
as much as I am.

Man, what a view.

It's so cool.

I think we're ready to go
check our snares and net.

We got fish for breakfast
in the cache,

but we're gonna check
the rabbit snares.

There's a lot of competition
for food

out here on this land.

And we got a snare up here.

Everything is trying
to kill something else

so they can survive.

I think I got a rabbit.

Look what we got.

Oh, boy.

This is a real blessing.

Two good meals.

Two fantastic meals!

"Fantastic" is the word,
not "good."

God, that'll lift your spirits
to the moon.

That's the way I operate,
just enough to keep me going.

Meat back on the menu, boy.

Thank you for sacrificing
your life for me.

God bless.
That's the way nature works.

That's fantastic.
What a blessing.

Being on the land
is spiritual because

you're co-existing
with nature.

When you're on land alone
for a long period of time,

you kind of get in
the rhythm of nature.

A pot full of rabbit, boy.

I'll enjoy this meal,
I tell you.

We're gonna try this right now.

And that's kind of spiritual
in a way.

Look at that.

Mm.

It's so good.

It's so delicious.

When you're in a area and
there's only so much game,

you've got to try to get every
calorie you can from that game

because you've got
a limited supply there.

So you can't waste nothing.

Ultimate right there.
Look.

Oh, my God!

Savor the--
savor the moment here.

Ooh-wee.

Oh, my goodness.

I am full.

Ooh.

And rabbit again the next day,
so...

Two more days!

There they go.

That may be the last of
the geese. I don't know.

Whew.

Cold, frosty day,

but a beautiful morning
in the north country.

This is what I dreamed about.

This is exactly what I dreamed
about right here.

This is awesome.

That pink sky is beautiful.

I've decided to thatch
the shelter today

as the top priority

because it's gonna rain, snow,
or something.

And this stuff is still
kind of wet

but, hopefully, just dry enough

for me to make this happen.

For those of you who think

"Alone" is contrived or fake,

I want to tell you
just how alone this is.

It's my world, my domain.

And there's no nothing.

It's just me and my wits
and God

and whatever
we can do together.

It's just us.

I like it.
I like it that way.

I'm really happy with
how it's gonna look afterwards.

We're gonna have to lay
some poles on it

so the thatch doesn't all
slide down, though.

The tarp will definitely
go over it,

and then at least
spruce boughs.

Altogether, it ought to make
a fairly good insulation.

The word "shelter" implies
hiding and shivering.

But I'm not here
to hide and shiver.

I'm here to live.

And I have a home to live in.

This is an actual home.

I want my wife to look at it

and say, "I'd stay there
with you."

'Cause that's, to me,
the definition of success.

Yeah.

Bet you've never seen
a bushcraft shelter like that.

That's the shelter I wanted.

Not "shelter," home.
That's my home.

Out here, my experience has
been a reflection of my life

the past few years.

This is how hard I work.
This is what I do.

I just work this hard
all the time.

And what I really hope is that

I'll be able to stay
long enough

to where I can kick back
and enjoy the rest period.

And I think in the quietness,

maybe some good things
could happen for me.

Brothers!

The time has come,
this new village,

which shall be called
Fort Moosehead!

Place the moose head.

It's very heavy.

Place it anyways.

A little to the left.

The other left!

That looks pretty good.

Now, when the torch of fire
cross the threshold

of Fort Moosehead,

our spirit has entered.

We have lit the first fire

in the hearth
of Fort Moosehead.

It's a time
for great rejoicing.

Great rejoicing!

Welcome to winter.

Winter arrived.

It's snowing pretty good,
still.

This is gonna complicate,

and this is going to help.

Oh, my God.

Hey! Hey!

I better go check
the fish lines.

Is this string busted?

Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

What happened?
.

This is
some fresh beaver sign.

I'm gonna set a trap.

Holy [bleep]!