All language subtitles for Hard.North.S01E03.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-MGHW.Hi

[uplifting music playing]

Look at this weather,
it is turning quick.

[Margot] The winter,
it's pretty harsh.

Just the cold in itself
is a challenge every day.

Pretty freaking cold right now.

[Emilie] It's -45.

The cold has an
impact on everything.

Working in the winter up here,

the snow and the ice,
everything is more difficult.

The cold up here
keeps you humble.

It will be a huge challenge.

Oh shit, man.

Oh my god, man,
that's a lot of water.

[sighs]

I can see so many things
going wrong already.

[Gilbert] It's all smashed.

[man] Okay. Stop!

This wall is falling right now.

If it falls, we're
all fucked, though.

[Billy] Oh my god.
Oh! I am done.

[theme music playing]

[soft music playing]

[Matty] Newfoundland
has a very unique draw

and a power over the people
that are born and raised here.

No matter where I went, it could
be other side of the world,

I was always proud
to be a newfie.

A good Newfoundlander is like a migrating
bird, they always want to come home.

I've been back here
now for four months,

and I'm more dug in now
than I ever have been.

There's no going
back for me anymore.

[upbeat music playing]

This is the master bedroom.

Guest bedroom.

As soon as these three walls go up, it's
going to feel like a different space.

It's going to really turn into a
little house as opposed to a cabin.

It's gonna look good, man.

This is one of my
best buddies, Adam.

[Adam] Let's go ahead
and get this tacked down.

He's up here to give me
a hand with this project,

to speed up the process.

And right now we're
racing against winter,

racing the first big storm,
so his help is vital.

With a second guy up in the
woods doing stuff like this,

it goes more than twice as fast,

especially when it's
a very capable person,

it's three or four times
faster getting everything done.

Plus, it's enjoyable
having your buddy around.

Last time I saw Adam was up
in the Arctic, in Paulatuk.

We were on a Northwest Passage.

So, it's a bit of
a reunion, too.

[soft music playing]

We were attempting to row
the Northwest Passage,

over a 2000-mile journey
across the Arctic Ocean,

in homemade rowboats we built ourselves,
with really no rowing experience.

Lowest point of that trip, by
far, was when Adam injured himself

and we had to part ways in
Paulatuk, and I continued on alone.

It's the first time we've
been back together since.

You think you'd ever see me again,
Adam, last seeing ya in Paulatuk?

Oh, I figured you'd frickin'
wash up on shore somewhere.

[laughter]

[uplifting music playing]

[Matty] It's a great feeling standing
back and watch it come together.

Now that the wall is framed up, you can
see where the windows are going to be.

I can already picture standing there
in that room, looking out the window

at the woods in the morning.

[chainsaw buzzing]

This is how we're going to raise
that wall, a few of these logs.

Not sure if it's going
to work, but we'll see.

Okay, we'll lift
up from the center.

[sighs]

There you go.

[tense music playing]

The plan is to use a 4:1 pulley
system, hook up to this tripod

and connect that to the wall,
and hoist all the weight up...

while Adam secures it.

All right, that should do it.

Hopefully, it's going to make
pulling this wall up super easy.

Yeah, you know, we don't have scaffold
or high lift or anything like that here.

So, you got to get
kind of creative

when working in the backcountry.

- [Matty] I think we try it.
- [Adam] Just hold it steady.

We don't want this to
slam down onto the deck.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Matty] Good. Hold.

[Adam] Okay. Okay, stop!

She's up.

And yeah, looks good.

It went up real easy.

I was somewhat skeptical of
this thing coming on my head,

but it went good,
I'm happy with it.

I can really see the scale of
the cabin with the wall up.

That's a big wall,
a 20-foot wall.

That's great.

Two more walls up and we
start working on the roof.

[intriguing music playing]

[Billy] I've got a river
that runs through my land.

It's hard to get
across. It's a barrier.

And it's a problem because I know
there are some very good trees

on the other side of the river
that I could use for lumber

for my future projects, and
I really want to get there.

I've never built a bridge in my
life, it will be a huge challenge.

I'm thinking to build a bridge here
because the river, it's more narrow.

It looks like 20 feet.

[soft music playing]

I'm going to be careful because I don't
want to get through the ice on the river.

So, this part of the land, I
barely have visited, you know.

One base will be here, and the other
end of the beam will be over there.

Oh, shit, man.

Oh my god, man,
that's a lot of water.

[grunting]

Did I get wet?

Oh yeah, maybe a bit, but I've
got some waterproof boots.

Yeah. Okay, so I will
have to be very careful.

Whoo!

All right, this is a very nice spruce,
perfect to build the beams for my bridge.

[chainsaw buzzing]

People think living in the
nature, it's suffering.

For my part, it's not.

Even if it's hard
sometimes, I'm happy here.

Timber!

Whoo hoo! [laughter]

Oh, wow, that was a good one.

Whew! [laughter]

Oh, man. Happy.

Beautiful tree.

[upbeat music playing]

Building a bridge like
this, it's a huge project...

but I really want to make it
big because I want it to last,

I want it to be strong, and
to use it for years and years.

[chainsaw buzzing]

There we go.

Whew! Very happy.

Very great. Beautiful
log. It's just gorgeous.

And it smells good. [laughter]

[soft music playing]

On each side of the bridge
where the footing will be,

I'm going to make a big fire in
order to melt all the ice and snow,

just to see if the
ground is level.

Very important. Otherwise, the
bridge would be... like this.

I really want to have
this base very flat...

because I don't want the foot
of the bridge to collapse.

So, right now, I'm
going to let it burn.

It's going to be big.

[soft music playing]

[Margot] Winter in the
Yukon, it's pretty harsh.

Just the cold in itself
is a challenge every day.

Your fingers are frozen.

Just walking outside, when you have like
three to four feet of snow, it's harder.

Everything is more complicated.

In the winter, to get water, I need
to find a good spot on the river...

where the ice is thick enough
and where it's safe to travel on,

and drill my hole.

You need to drink, right? So...

You gotta get your
water somehow.

It just takes a lot
more effort in the bush.

It's a little more harder
than opening the tap.

Living in town or living in the
city, I don't think I could do that.

I think living this kind of life makes
me stronger, when I'm own my own.

I like to be challenged.

Obviously, winter is not smart
at all for any log building.

[soft music playing]

Usually, people start in
the summer or in the fall,

and then, your cabin
is ready in the winter.

But in my case, I had to start here
pretty late, winter was already started.

And I can't wait to move in because
it's pretty freaking cold right now.

The last couple weeks,
I got the floor done.

The walls are almost done,
I just have one row left

until I can start on the roof.

I just built those tripods because it was
getting too heavy to lift them up by hand.

[upbeat music playing]

Every step, I'm extra cautious.

They're heavy logs. And
if I'm crushed under logs,

nobody will know that I'm hurt.

[creaking]

That's the kind of crack
you don't want to hear.

Fuck!

I just have to adjust
them all the time.

They are useful, but
also a pain in the ass.

[chuckles]

Okay.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[uplifting music playing]

It's getting cold now, so it's
getting harder to work with the logs.

The logs are frozen, so
it's hard to nail them.

You have to be always careful
to not make a mistake.

It's looking good. I just
have to cut that piece

the right length so
it fits in between.

If I cut too short, I have
a big gap in my corner.

If it's too long, I can't drop it
in, so, it has to be kind of perfect.

[suspenseful music playing]

You don't want to make mistakes.

I can't just replace that log
with a two by four or whatever,

I have to go cut another
tree, and drag it back,

and cut it all over
again, and bring it up...

so you can't make mistakes.

[chainsaw buzzing]

Oh.

Nice.

That was the last row.

So, the walls are done.

[soft music playing]

It was a lot of work.
It took a lot of time,

a lot of logs, a
lot of swearing.

[chuckles]

I'm not going to put too
much time on the roof,

I'm just going to have
a little temporary roof,

so I can actually move in and start
living in the cabin for the winter.

And then, in the spring, when it's
warmer, I will do a proper roof.

[soft music playing]

[Gilbert] Ready? All right.

- Oh, wow, this is heavy.
- Yeah.

[Emilie] That cold is brutal.

Good thing we have a
pencil and not a pen, eh?

It would have been frozen.

Today's definitely been
the coldest of the year.

It's -45.

We haven't had a really cold day
yet, and I'm glad we're having them,

because our rivers and
lakes need to stay frozen,

so that we can use our skidoo
and go up to our cabin.

And, this is the best time to
haul some stuff, in the winter,

because we can use a snowmobile.

[Emilie] So, the plan right now
is we need to build a flat sled,

so that we can bring really
heavy things to our cabin.

The most important item that we need
to bring is our brand new stove.

A wood stove is the heart of the cabin,
like it's what keeps you warm and dry.

So, we need a stove to survive.

Ever since moving here, like having
these -40 and below temperatures,

now, I'm realizing how much the
cold has an impact on everything.

Pressure's on.

Is that gonna work in this cold?

[chainsaw buzzing]

Gotta warm it up.

[upbeat music playing]

Wow, that looks really good,
Gilbert. You did really well.

You don't want to
make it too wide.

Make it too wide, it's
going to become a problem.

You're gonna hit trees.

[soft music playing]

I learned this from my uncles,
and my dad, and my mom.

She's a really good carpenter.

[Emilie] Something that's really
important to Gilbert and I

is to really teach our kids all
these skills that can be lost.

You're gonna hammer this in?

[Emilie] For them to learn their roots,
not a lot of kids get that opportunity,

you know, be really
hands on like that.

- Nice job, Annie.
- Good job, Annie.

Mikael, you want
to come help daddy?

Mikael.

I think he stops functioning colder
than -40, just like the chainsaw.

[chuckles]

[soft music playing]

[laughter]

I can't use this hammer anymore.

Like, what's wrong with it?
Did it shrink or something?

- Yeah. It was too cold.
- In the cold?

[Gilbert] The wood shrunk.

Oh my god, no. [chuckles]

[sighs]

If it's too cold for the kids
and it's too cold for the hammer,

I think it's time we
maybe call it a day.

Hopefully, by morning,
we'll be able to pack it up.

We're going to put it
to the test tomorrow.

[soft music playing]

[Billy] What I like the most about
living in the woods in wintertime

is the silence, the quiet.

This is the most precious
thing to my heart.

[Matty] Just be alone with your
thoughts and be alone in nature...

just spend multiple days, weeks even,
and not hear a single voice from anyone.

[Emilie] It just feels good
to be in a very quiet place...

where you hear your own
heartbeat, you hear the wind,

and you just feel so at peace.

[upbeat music playing]

[Billy] The fire has been
burning for about three hours.

The ice and snow
needed to be melted

in order, you know,
to level it...

and everything is thawed,
so I'm very happy.

The other fire did a
very good job. Whoo hoo!

[chuckles] Very easy.

I'm going to set up the base of
the bridge, which is called gabion.

It's like a cage
with rocks inside.

So, gabion will stay there and
it will hold the bridge forever.

[laughs]

Look at this! It's just,
whew, between the lines.

[chuckles] So happy.

Perfect. Look at this!

So now, I just need to
fill it up of rocks.

A lot of it.

The best way to find
the rocks, it's here,

in the river,
underneath the ice.

Oh, it's very cold.

Yeah, there's about
two feet of water.

I just put my hip waders on.

All right. You know there
will be rock fishing.

[suspenseful music playing]

I wouldn't swim in
this water. Oh, man.

It's colder than I
expected, actually. [laughs]

But, you know, the
work has to be done.

There is no shortcut when you are
in the bush, it's so much work.

[grunts]

But it is great to have this
feeling of self-reliance.

I just love it.

All right. It's done.

A few hundred pounds of rocks.

So heavy.

[laughs]

Oh, man. Way more
rocks than I expected.

Oh.

Now, two beams.

One, two.

Going across.

And that will be it, the
base of the bridge. Whoo.

Next step, I'm going
to bring the big beams

using the snowmobile
pulley system.

[chuckles] And it's
a big, big job.

[soft music playing]

- [Emilie] Is this a new stove?
- [Gilbert] Yeah, it's brand new.

Whoa! That's heavy.

[grunting] Yeah.

Cast iron.

The plan is, we're going
to be hauling that flatbed

to bring our heavy-duty
cast-iron stove to our camp.

I'm worried about it
because it's glass.

What if we break it?

[Gilbert] Be very gentle.

[Emilie] Getting the stove
to our cabin is very hard

because it's very heavy, but
we need a stove to survive...

to be dry, warm, it's essential.

- How's that?
- Looks good.

I can see so many things
going wrong already.

Oh, boy.

[engine starting]

All right. Ready? Mount up.

[uplifting music playing]

[Emilie] Everywhere on the land here,
there's trails, there's old trails

from hundreds of years
ago, there's new trails.

So, we've been using a mix,
and now, we'll be doing

a bit of a new trail, so
we'll be cutting through,

and making our own
trail to our cabin.

[thudding]

[Gilbert] I hit a tree.

[Emilie] That hit
pretty hard, eh?

All right, let's
go check it out.

Oh, no.

Our horse broke.
Both of them broke.

Oh, man.

[Gilbert] It's all smashed.

[Emilie] I'm glad
the stove looks okay.

I mean, this is not so bad, but
the stove would have been terrible.

[Gilbert] Yeah, the trail's
too tight. [Emilie] Yeah.

So, I guess we'll have
to remove that one.

- This one, too, right?
- These two. Yeah.

Want to go remove that
one over there? Yeah.

So, do I just cut straight
across or like a V...

Like a little angle.

Emilie's always
trying new things.

The chainsaw, one thing.

Chopping down some trees.

- This big one?
- This big one, yeah, then we're good.

[chainsaw buzzing]

I feel like I've been
relying a lot on Gilbert,

and I've never used a chainsaw.

Yes, it's intimidating, but
I don't want to be someone

that he has to do
everything for.

So, I'm really trying to
learn as much skills as I can,

and now, I feel like I'm a
little bit more self-reliant.

- Good?
- That's good. Yeah.

It's already getting colder, eh?

- Let's go before the nighttime comes.
- Yeah. Before we freeze.

[upbeat music playing]

- [Emilie] Are we stuck?
- [Gilbert] Yep. We're stuck.

We're gonna have to
lighten the load.

Okay.

Oh! [chuckles]

Want to reach that one
first, the heavy one?

The heavy one, okay.

[suspenseful music playing]

All right, now, we can go like
this. We can grab a two by four.

You stick it in here,
and then, you just...

like that.

So, as you're driving,
you want me to do that?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

[engine revving]

- That went pretty good.
- That was good.

[soft music playing]

[Emilie] We've had a lot of
challenges today, some delays.

It's getting pretty
late in the day,

and I can already feel
the temperature dropping.

So, by the time we
would make it to camp,

if we were to keep going,
it would be so cold.

So, we're going to set up
a camp right in the trees,

and yeah, we'll start
up again tomorrow.

[Gilbert] The best fire starters,
these little branches here.

[Emilie] Gilbert's spirit name
basically means fire keeper.

He can make a fire out of
anything, anywhere, anyhow.

He just lights it
up within seconds.

So, it's really fitting.

[soft music playing]

Coffee tastes really
good right now.

When you spend the
whole day outside,

your food tastes better,
your sleep is better.

- [Gilbert] Like the fresh air.
- [Emilie] Yeah. Fresh air feels good.

- I love it.
- Yeah.

[Emilie] It's such a beautiful
night. Lots of stars.

So, we're just going to relax, and
recharge, and admire the beauty of it.

We have everything we need.

We have our shelter, our warmth.

We have each other.

We got a lot done.

And there's more tomorrow.

[upbeat music playing]

Last one. Ready?

[man] Okay, pull.

[sighs]

Yeah, I got a new friend in.

Alex is my partner.

We've been together
for a year now.

He lives in the bush
too, hunting and guiding.

And he came here to spend
some time in the bush with me.

It's good because he is just coming
in when I'm going to start the roof,

so it's going to be a good help.

[Alex] She's already
got the walls up,

and she's been working
pretty hard on this.

It's been quite a big job.

And it's nice I can
give her a hand.

[Margot] It's very important to me
that the person I want to be with

can share this part of life with me,
because it's, it's not just a hobby.

It's, it's me, it's what I want
to do, it's how I want to live.

We're good partners.

[soft music playing]

- Push it my way?
- Yeah.

- [Margot] Okay, stop. Is it holding?
- [Alex] Yeah.

[Margot] Is it high
enough on your side?

Sure a workout in itself, to
climb in and out of this now.

Yeah.

Close to where I'm building,
there is an old trapper cabin.

It's an abandoned cabin.

Everything was left behind.

So, this place is pretty
much my hardware store.

I'm hoping I can salvage
this door for the new cabin.

It looks like it's
in pretty good shape.

It's not rotten.
It's a good find.

It's going to save me
a couple hours of work

that are going to be useful
for something else, for sure.

It's not everywhere in the bush
that you have the chance to have...

an old cabin like
this, full of treasure.

So, if you have it, use it.

That will be perfect.

Yeah. I think that
should be good.

It's time to cut the
hole for the door.

We're trying to square the
door as much as we can,

but we're not squaring
it from the floor

because the floor is
probably not level anyway.

Everything is crooked, right?
It's logs and it's bush carpentry.

I spent so much time
working on those logs.

Everything is nice and tight.

And now, I have to cut
that big hole in the wall.

If I fuck it up, the
hole is there forever.

So, it's kind of nerve wracking.

[chainsaw buzzing]

Whoo hoo!

Damn!

It's a door.

[Margot] It's a door.

Oh, man. That's great.

Feels like it's a,
an actual cabin now.

It was just a pile of logs, and now,
it's a pile of logs with a door.

That's sweet! Great.
And straight-ish.

[chuckles]

[suspenseful music playing]

Fuck!

Fuck! This wall is
falling right now,

and I'm scared it might roll because
it kind of moved hard when I pried it.

- No, don't do that.
- No, I'm just checking.

If it falls, we're
all fucked, though.

When I pried the two by four,
the logs moved a little bit.

I don't want this
wall to fall down.

Not good.

[soft music playing]

[Matty] I wouldn't
change my life.

Absolutely love it up here.

The best part is really feeling like
you have everything you need around you.

It's about simple things, standing
back in a nice little warm cabin

and just, just being
there in the moment.

[door creaking, closing]

[Matty sighs]

You got everything out here.

You know, when you really boil it down,
like, all we're really meant to do

is what you're doing out here,
is, you know, hunt, fish, trap.

Feed the fire.

Doesn't get more basic than
that, really, you know.

There's a lot of sacrifices
that come with it,

but I mean there's a whole
lot of pay offs also,

just like waking up
every day as your own.

This is it for me.

Wild boy for life.

Only part missing from this
whole equation is a good woman.

- Absolutely.
- A good partner.

It would be that much better.

A couple of dirty little barefoot
kids running around, potato sacks on.

Oh, man, I would raise some
feral ass kids up here.

I know.

That's really what's missing.

- That's coming, too.
- That's coming, yeah.

All right, let's track on.

[upbeat music playing]

Yeah, I'd say it's
looking pretty good.

It's a real-looking
roof. Solid, man.

Having Adam here,
it's going way faster.

He's a professional carpenter. I
mean, I'm a professional... hillbilly.

It's really starting
to look like something.

You can really feel how big
the space is going to be.

It's a whole 50% extra
to the size of the cabin.

I mean, it's a small house now.

It's so exciting.

Some heavy clouds.

[suspenseful music playing]

[wind blowing]

There's a Newfoundland
snowstorm on its way right now.

Supposed to blow hard, you know,
over two, three feet of snow.

You shouldn't be roofing in the middle
of winter back here like we are,

but if we don't get it sheeted
and shingles on before sundown

and the storm gets here, it's
going to be just a damn mess.

Look at this weather.

It is turning, quick.

[Adam] And we're losing light.

The shingles got
wet and they froze.

And the tar really doesn't
like to stick to a wet shingle.

[rhythmic music playing]

Working in the winter up
here, the snow and the ice,

everything is more difficult.

Keeps you humble, that's what it does,
the cold up here keeps you humble.

These shingles have got to
get on before the snow comes.

I was looking at
the radar earlier

and we got 30 miles an hour
winds coming in tomorrow.

[Matty] Yeah, man. This is right
down, right down to the wire.

If there's ever been a trial by
fire for a hastily built roof,

it's going to come
in the next 24 hours.

[Matty] Yep.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Matty] Around here, you get bad
weather. And when it blows, it blows.

We got the roof on just in
time. And then the storm hit.

[wind blowing]

The weatherman wasn't lying, this
storm is definitely blowing proper.

And I woke up very happy when I
seen that fresh bed of snow...

to know that the shingles were on
tight and done the night before.

We didn't leave anything undone.

[Billy] When I'm here, I
don't miss too much the city.

You know, I miss
mostly the people.

I miss my friends.

[Margot] I really like my
solitude in the bush...

but I also need company just
to share the experience.

[laughter]

[Matty] I'm not one of those weird hermits
that want to be completely isolated.

I still love my family.
I love my friends.

I still want to be connected.

[upbeat music playing]

[Emilie] Today is a really nice day,
couldn't ask for any better weather.

We're going to finish our travel, and
hopefully, we'll make it all in one piece.

- [Gilbert] All right.
- [Emilie] Okay.

You think you can make
it? That's really steep.

We have a big hill at the end
to go up to get to our camp.

I'm anticipating some
issues, some challenges.

Gilbert's already flipped out on
a steep hill with that skidoo,

so, you gotta be careful
how much you're carrying.

Probably better if I come off,
and then I'll meet you at the top.

- [Gilbert] It would be easier that way.
- [Emilie] So, I'll see you up there?

It doesn't look super
steep, but it's steep enough

for it to be a problem when
you have that much cargo.

There's so many things that can go wrong.
I just don't want Gilbert to get hurt.

[engine revving]

So far, I think it's okay?

Oh my goodness.

Ooh! Oh!

Oh, that looks so
heavy. Oh my god.

[suspenseful music playing]

- [Emilie] Oh, no, it came off.
- [Gilbert] It came off!

- [Gilbert] The cable snapped.
- [Emilie] Yeah.

I'm surprised it didn't slide
all the way down the hill.

Man, I'm happy I
wasn't on that skidoo.

Like, the runners
were just going up.

- Ooh, I would have been so scared.
- [chuckles]

[soft music playing]

All right. We're almost there.

Yeah, we can just leave it there because
our camp is close, we drop this off.

Okay. And then, you'll come
back to get that one over there?

Yep.

[Emilie] You think it's just bringing
lumber there, building a cabin,

put the four walls and
the roof and you're done.

But there's a lot
more work behind it.

Lots of obstacles and lots of travel and
I'm glad I'm getting to experience it.

[Gilbert] Our camp is close, we're
lucky this didn't happen further away.

[Emilie] There's still
a lot of work to do,

but I feel like the
biggest piece is done now.

Like, we were waiting for the winter
to be able to haul all the heavy stuff.

- Good. It made it.
- Yeah, it made it.

That's a big load
off my shoulders.

I feel like the most important piece that
we needed for the cabin is the stove.

I'm really happy it made it.

Gonna be a lot easier
to travel back home now.

Yeah, and the trail's
made. We're good.

[Emilie] We've made it just on time today,
that we can get back before nightfall.

And we'll get to see our
kids before they go to bed.

Let's go home.

- All right, let's go.
- It'll be quick!

[suspenseful music playing]

So, see that bent?
Because I just cut.

I'm scared and there's nothing
to hold on right now in between.

So, pfft.

And... camping all winter.

The remedy is to not cry.

And to try to nail something
inside to hold the wall together.

So, hopefully, it's good enough.

- Want to try hitting there?
- Yeah.

[dramatic music playing]

- It's working.
- Yeah?

Take a look.

See how it's... you
think that's good?

Yeah, I think that's way better.

Not too scary anymore.

[rhythmic music playing]

Done.

Now, it's going to be great.

I can be way faster now that I don't
have to climb in and out all the time.

The next step is I have to
start putting the purlins.

The purlins are the beams that
go across the cabin length.

[Alex] There we are.

[sighs]

[Margot] And on top of the
purlins, I need some poles.

A few years ago, part of this
valley was burned in a forest fire.

So, there's thousands of little
dry poles like this around here.

And they're perfect for
the roof of my cabin.

This one right
ahead of me is good.

[Alex] I'll cut this one.

[soft music playing]

So, I'm cutting a bunch of poles for
the temporary roof that I'm building.

So, those poles are going
to be holding the tarp.

That's pretty much the last step
before being able to finish the roof

and moving in.

[grunting]

About 20 on each side.

[rhythmic music playing]

So, once all the poles are nailed
down for the temporary roof,

just gotta put a tarp over,
then I can actually move in

and start living in the
cabin for the winter.

Then, I can just focus on
trapping and go have fun.

[indistinct chatter]

[soft music playing]

[Alex] I'll hold it and you
pull a little bit tight.

I'm pretty tight on
that side. It's great.

Amazing.

It's not going to be a very
great insulated roof, obviously.

It's just for now, to
have a little shelter.

And in the spring when I have
more time and it's better weather,

I can build a permanent roof.

[uplifting music playing]

All done.

The roof is on.

It's a big
accomplishment, I'm happy.

Now, I just gotta put that
door in, put the stove,

probably a window,
and it's good to go.

And this was just a couple
of trees around here,

and now, it's, it's starting
to look more like a home.

Like a dream home.

[soft music playing]

[Billy] So this is the second
beam that I cut for the bridge.

To get the log on the other
side, that's about 20 feet.

So, with the rope,
on the other hand,

I'm just going to take
this log... [whistles]

all the way to the other side.

It's going to work.

[rhythmic music playing]

So now, I have got to pull
fast enough to make sure

that I've got enough momentum to
get this log across the river.

It's very important because if
this big piece of log gets stuck

in the middle of
water, I am done.

[speaking french]

[engine revving]

Oh my God! Oh! Ah!

[suspenseful music playing]

Merde.

No.

I was just too worried I did
not have enough momentum,

but I had too much momentum.

The good news is, I got
it across, okay, so...

but the bad news is, well, the
other end, it's almost in the water.

I don't know how, but I will need
to lift it up and put it back here.

One step at a time.

[soft music playing]

This is the first
bridge I'm building.

I'm learning a lot here.

I'm always asking myself,
how can I solve this problem?

Come on, come on, come
on, come on, come on.

Go, go, go, go, go! Whoo!

That's good.

Whoo!

I just do my best. That's it.

I'm not a bridge builder,
I'm just a guy in the woods.

[chuckles]

[uplifting music paying]

Whoo hoo!

[engine revving]

Whoo!

[chuckles]

It looks level. Wow.

I'm building a bridge...

in the middle of my land.

It's amazing.

You know, I see it now and I say, oh,
wow, this, this is another part of my land

that I will be able to see and to travel
and to get the woods and everything.

It's a new world, you know.

[chainsaw buzzing]

[soft music playing]

It feels so great just to work on
my land, to keep this place alive.

This is the moment of truth.

[uplifting music playing]

Building a bridge, it just
inspired me to dream big.

I'm dreaming about exploring,

I'm dreaming about taking
care of this part of the land.

Dreaming about what's next.

[Matty] Everything's
tougher in the winter.

We're really threading
the needle with this wind.

You have to be really careful.
Anything can go wrong.

Gilbert, do you need help?

[Gilbert grunting]

You're working at heights, you're
working with heavy, awkward things.

[Billy grunting]

God, the nearest
hospital's hours away.

[Margot] Here, if I just want
to be warm, it's not easy.

It's a mess.

The nature is not the enemy,
okay, but is not the friend.

I cannot get through.

Fucked that one up good.

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