Life Below Zero (2013) s01e06 Episode Script

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(DOGS HOWLING)
ANDY: Today I'm gonna get over
and start doing some logging.
I have a really limited amount
of time to use the snow
and the ice on the river here.
Right now, the days
are getting longer.
Because they're getting longer,
they're getting hotter.
That means my trails
are going to start
deteriorating very quickly.
I pretty much have about
a two-and-a-half week
window right now.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
Goddamn fucking snow.
ANDY: Came into the wood lot
this morning
to start taking down
some big trees
and as I pulled in, uh,
I got into some deep snow,
I hit a piece of frozen ground
and it threw the snow machine
off to the side
and I kinda did a roll-over.
ANDY: I don't know
how the hell
I'm gonna get this shit
out of here now.
Son of a bitch.
(GRUNTING)
Son of a bitch.
(ENGINE STARTS)
ANDY: For all
my building projects
for the upcoming season
and all the lumber
that I want to make
it's going to be really
critical that I get, uh,
50 or 60, what I call
saw logs, large logs that
I can turn into lumber later.
(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
ANDY: Yeah, baby!
You're ready to go.
Come on, baby!
There she goes.
Yeah, baby!
There's a satisfaction that
I get in providing for myself
as much as possible.
SUE: There's never any
guarantees in life.
It doesn't matter
where you are, who you are,
how you live.
But the kind of guarantees
that I get tend to eat you
for breakfast and spit
you out for lunch.
SUE: Again, I appreciate it.
The fuel is going to
make all the difference
in the world for me
being able to keep
doing do what I do.
Okay, I think
we're ready to pump.
-Okay, here we go.
-All righty.
If you can turn the fuel
alone, you can do it.
-Awesome. All right.
-TREVOR: It's your fuel.
Show me where to go
and what to pull and
SUE: I had to have
the fuel flown in
and it finally arrived today.
After weeks of calling
and waiting for the weather
to clear
and conserving all the fuel
I had left living in the dark
and knowing that, you know,
the very next thing
is your heat's gonna go.
It was pretty scary.
(MOTOR RUNNING)
-SUE: You ready?
-We're ready!
One, two, three
-It's a huge sense of relief.
-TREVOR: Awesome!
Huge, huge load of stress
off my shoulders.
It's been a long time waitin'.
Waitin', waitin', waitin'
Let's make sure it's going in
the bladder.
Bladder starting
to fill up a little bit.
This fuel is going to enable
me to get the gen going,
keep it going, uh,
so electricity, fuel for heat,
fuel for my equipment.
Good deal.
13,400 pounds.
13,400 pounds.
2,000 gallons.
You guys saved
my little biscuits.
You guys always
make sure that I
keep my 10 fingers
and 10 toes.
TREVOR: So, we'll see you
on the next trip.
All right, fly safe guys.
Yeah, just 'cause the fuel
is in the bladder
has nothing to do with being
at the point of consumption.
Bobcat needs fuel. I can't
get it out of the bladder.
I have to put it somewhere
else to get it out of that
and into something else.
I need it for my heat.
It has to come from there to
there, from there to here,
from here over there, into
the tank, then I get heat.
Ah, just got a lot of ice
build-up preventing my forks
from staying in place,
and they won't lock in,
so I'm going to try
and clear it a little bit.
See if I can't,
uh, reattach it.
Motherfucker!
Son of a bitch!
Cocksucker!
(SCREAMS)
Ahh!
It's hard not to get crabby.
I mean, my brain is
still a little frazzled.
'Cause it was, you know, it's
a lot of stress to be under.
I try not to let it
actively bother me,
but I'm human
I It does.
CHIP: Folks around here have
treat me no different
than they do a native
from a different village.
They look at me for what I do
and how I contribute
and they always
honour a provider.
Does that look good?
Here let me inspect.
No more dust.
CHIP: This hunt is one
of the funnest hunts
in the year for our family.
We've entered
into light winter.
And basically, right now
what we need to do
is be able to get with the
herds as they're gathering.
Traditionally, folks around
here, these Inupiaq, were,
um, semi-nomadic.
They would pass, uh,
the freeze up
in the dark winter
and then they would be back
out on the land, um, trapping,
hunting, fishing
and gathering.
Me and my wife, we make
a conscious decision
to go about hunting things
kind of an old fashion way
simply because
those older ways work
and worked really well.
We prefer to be out,
and we'll throw the tent
and such on the sleds.
We'll pack ourselves up
and we'll be gone until
we fill our sleds
then we'll return home.
Here we are in Noorvik,
and basically,
this is the route that we've got
and I'll follow
and our first goal is to get
to, uh, right here
and that's where
we'll put up our tent
and camp for the night.
Once we progress
across the peninsula,
we'd be able to hunt seals.
We usually hunt
between Deering
and the shelter cabin
in the area
where we like to summer hunt,
and well out here,
out here be monsters.
Could take a day,
could take a week.
But we're going to be
there till we're done.
This is, uh, caribou sleeping
bag so we'll be nice and warm.
This hunt we wait
for, we prepare for,
it's the most exciting hunt
of the year.
It takes like a week
ahead to prepare.
Bitch! Get off there.
Do you need
a cheater bar?
I need a cheater bar
and a cheatin' wife.
CHIP: Everything's
got to be ready.
Unfortunately,
these are machines
and we have no control over
when they decide to quit,
-but we keep on 'em.
-Did it screw on?
-It will.
-Let's just screw it on more
CHIP: Just be patient, son.
We have no mechanics
around here,
so everything we do
we have to do for ourselves.
Before we can leave
for these kind of hunts
we have to have our machines
working in a perfect order,
we have to have our camping
gear in perfect order
and when this stuff
is all ready
then we'll be off
for this nice fur hunt.
(CLINKING)
Okay.
This one is still good
and this one gotta
get replaced.
Just want to get
this fixed up right away
and get on a trail and get
on our way to camp.
Yeah.
ERIK: People always kinda
laughed at me
'cause I lived out here
and thought it was funny,
but, you know, what's the norm
to one person
is very different to the next.
ERIK: I'm a trapper.
I'm a subsistence hunter.
I'm a fisherman.
It's how I make my living.
Last time I was up on
the trap line,
I seen some wolverine sign.
I made a few more sets
the last time I was up there,
I'm excited to get up there
and check 'em and,
and maybe catch a wolverine.
They're a mystery
to a lot of biologists
'cause they're so hard
to photograph,
they're so difficult to see.
They're a difficult animal
to hunt or trap.
They're incredibly powerful,
they can actually bite
the springs of the trap
with their jaws
and release themselves.
They'll eat anything.
They can crack the femur
of a moose open
and get that marrow out.
They're an unbelievably
tough animal.
They're not an easy animal
to take down
and they're an animal that is
almost never dead in a trap.
(GUNSHOT)
There's always a mixed emotion
when I catch a wolverine.
It's an animal
that's, uh, you know,
it's not seen very often,
it's a really special animal.
I got a lot of respect
for the animal
and it's kind of sad to me to
see it die at the same time.
ERIK: (SNIFFS)
Beautiful wolverine.
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah. That's a
That'll work.
Nice male wolverine here.
Gulo Gulo.
Pretty happy.
I'm gonna go home
and skin this guy out.
KATE: This is
the ultimate dream.
To live in a little log cabin
in the middle of nowhere
with the person
that you love dearly.
ANDY: Why don't you
give me a hand?
KATE: What with?
Uh, I want to go over
and start gettin' logs
for the green house today.
Oh, okay.
So you can give me a big hand,
just clearing brush
and throwing stuff
out of the way.
It's a nice day, let's go
over and spend some time
over in the woods.
-Okay.
-(HOWLING)
(ENGINE STARTS)
ANDY: It'll be a nice day.
We'll go out and spend some
time in the woods together.
We don't spend a lot of time
doing projects together.
I tend to work alone
most of the time.
But when I need a hand she's
always willing to jump in.
So the plan here, Kate,
is, uh, I wanna,
I wanna work on
this tree here.
This dry, this dry one here
and then, uh, maybe
this second dry one
right here. Thanks.
So why don't you
stand off that way,
actually go over there,
you know how to work
that come along.
Remember how you work that,
you gotta throw the little
lever where the spring is.
-So you can crank it.
-I'll try.
Why don't you take up the
pressure on that if you can.
I'll give it a go.
Just get it kinda snug
so the tree can't go the
other way any more than it is.
ANDY: You gotta move
the spring.
The little black spring.
Yeah, hang on,
I'm looking.
Right on the handle.
Go straight down from
your hand six inches.
It doesn't do anything.
-Kate, you see that spring.
-Yeah.
See how it's got a lever
there. You just push it over.
Oh, okay.
That makes it crank
that way.
When you want to go the other
way, you flip it back over
and then you have
to hold that. Just crank
it up until it's snug.
What Kate lacks in knowledge
and ability
she more than makes
up in willingness.
And if you're willing to get
out there and try your best,
that's all that
matters in my book.
(CHAINSAW WHIRRING)
ANDY: All right, you're ready
to go. Come on, baby!
There she goes.
-(CREAKING)
-KATE: Run, Forrest!
ANDY: Yeah, baby!
Hey, I'm pretty happy
with the way that fell.
Hey, babe! This is what
I'm going to use
for skidding them out.
That's how you just put that
up, run that one through it.
Right, pull it up tight.
Then you get it parallel
to this one
and then I'll pull the
snow machine up.
KATE: So where do you want
this to go? That way?
ANDY: No, just don't do
anything right now.
You gotta be fucking
kidding me!
Jesus fucking Christ man!
Fuck you, you goddamn
fucking prick!
Hey Kate, bring my chainsaw
over here, would ya?
ANDY: You come here to log,
I can't get into these timber
because there so much downed
trees from the ice
that knocked everything over.
Just a pick-up-sticks and
Of logs, buried and frozen
in the silt.
One fucking stump in
the whole goddamn forest
and I got a snag on it.
Fuck you!
(ENGINE ROARING)
-ANDY: Hit the throttle.
-KATE: What?
Forward.
Okay, easy!
You're going to fucking run
me over. Jesus Christ, man!
This fucking place
is not gonna fucking work
for doing all this logging,
man. This fucking sucks.
ANDY: Come here to log,
I can't get into these timber
because there's so much downed
trees from the ice
that knocked everything over.
It's just a pick-up-sticks
of logs buried and frozen
in in the silt.
I'm just fighting that.
Every time I make a cut around
here, I'm fighting that.
Sometimes I get pretty
frustrated with it.
ANDY: Put it back in that log
like I had it!
Jam it into that log.
All right, get out of the way.
Just let me pull it.
Pull backwards! Backwards!
Fuck!
ANDY: There you go.
Well, he barks, it's
all right. I'm used to that.
This fucking sucks.
(WHIRRING)
Why don't you meet me
at the bottom of the hill?
No problem.
ERIK: I have all the respect
in the world
for these animals.
I choose to be out here,
they don't have a choice.
They gotta just keep at this.
They gotta keep
at the survival game,
or they're dead.
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello?
ERIK: I'm a trapper.
I'm a subsistence hunter.
I'm a fisherman and it's
how I make my living.
The wolverine was
a large adult male,
it had long hair,
it had a good diamond
on the back.
A gentleman who is a friend
of a client of mine,
he had heard that I had
some high quality hides
and he wanted to purchase
a wolverine, hide and skull.
I will have the wolverine all
prepared and packaged up.
Have a great day, sir.
ERIK: Nice male
wolverine here
A good one, we earned him.
Put on quite a few miles
and finally we got him.
He'll be on a stretcher
board by bedtime.
A lot of this stuff out there,
hunting and fishing,
is luck, to be honest,
but where the skill comes in
is seizing opportunity.
This is the most tedious
part of fur handling.
Fleshing, turning lips
and ears.
Need to have absolutely
all the membranes off
the inside of the hide here
or it turns in from a
From a very nice
and valuable object
to an absolutely
worthless one.
So
Pinning this wolverine
hide to the stretcher
so it won't shrink down on me.
The idea is to let air
get to everything.
Just gotta let it dry
and then, uh,
we'll turn it first side out
after the skin is dry.
I'm boiling this wolverine
skull for quite a while.
It's got muscle and tongue
and brains.
Boil all that off and clean it
up and use this old fork
that I never use to eat.
Wolverine is an
impressive animal.
Pretty tough, everything
about 'em is tough.
Cleaning the skull
is even tough.
This job is, uh, on a scale
of one to 10
on the fun scale is a 10.
As in, no fun.
CHIP: This is a way of life.
This isn't just a job
or an occupation.
Every day I have to do
something that benefits my
household and my family.
I've gotta keep them warm,
I gotta keep them fed.
CHIP: I'm making a target
for my wife
so she can zero in
her new scoped rifle.
I have an old glove
that my wife used
for skinning caribou.
This is getting recycled too.
And when she's real good
and ready, she'll pop it.
I'm just gonna go on
ahead and load it up.
In our culture,
it's not unusual for the women
to be shooters.
This is a 7.62x54
Rem Mosin Nagant,
and it has a PU scope on it
and I bought it
for a seal hunting gun.
(GUNSHOT)
AGNES: Wow!
The first time I shot, I shot
towards the heavens.
(LAUGHING)
Yeah, no dents,
no scratches, no cracks.
Pretty good, I'm happy.
Now let's see how it fires.
Let's go on ahead
and check it out.
Hopefully it'll work better
because I have the scope on it
for the long distance shot.
Since we only have a couple
boxes of this kind of ammo,
we better be conservative.
AGNES: Yup.
Here it goes.
(GUNSHOT)
-(GUNSHOT)
-CHIP: Oh, man.
-I'm gonna try one more time.
-I would try again, exactly.
(GUNSHOT)
CHIP: Exact same hole,
let me see.
AGNES: Here I thought the gun
was gonna shoot to the right
but I guess when it's angled
like that,
it actually shoots
to the left, yeah?
CHIP: Your very first shot is
directly in line
but it was elevated.
Your second shot
was two inches off
and two inches low.
Try and make one more circle?
Yeah! Let's make one
more circle and try it again.
AGNES: We're doing pretty
good. I like it.
Try one more time
at a different circle
and this time I'll try
for three bullseyes.
You know, for a fact,
you hit that, ah, empty bottle
or you hit that balloon,
that glove balloon there.
-You're going to have a seal.
-Yeah.
That seal, that's the
size you want.
(CHUCKLES) This is awesome.
AGNES: Okay.
(GUNSHOTS)
(GUNSHOT)
Oh, dead fucking on.
Dead on!
Right dead in the middle
of the target. That's a 10.
I see it!
(GUNSHOT)
Good one. That is sweet.
You are a much better shot
than me.
AGNES: Bullseye!
CHIP: Bullseye!
I'm pretty happy
with this rifle
and hopefully we'll come home
with one or two seals.
SUE: The fact that I've got
such bad conditions
doesn't stop me from doing
what I need to do.
It's working smart,
not working hard.
SUE: I get frustrated,
I'm human.
But some days,
you just got shit work to do,
and you can't stop
for nobody's business.
But for me to be able to do
what I do here I have to stay
in a fairly positive
frame of mind.
Even under
negative circumstances.
Doesn't matter
what the temperature is,
what anything else is,
you know,
you just, whatever
the conditions
you gotta get it done.
With the Bobcat up
and running,
the first thing I'm gonna do
is move that 200-gallon tank
to the bladder so I can
pump fuel into it.
These forks go into those
holes so I can lift this up,
go out, put fuel in it,
come back, fill up this tank,
front tank
and have enough fuel
so that for the next couple
of months
when I get the heaviest
amount of snow
and some really bad
blizzard conditions,
if I can't get the Bobcat out,
I can still carry a pump and
make sure I got fuel.
SUE: What the motherfuck?
Motherfucker!
You never, never, never,
fucking ever,
leave these open.
That means all the prime
I had is now gone.
All 92 foot.
It's hard not to be very
frustrated at this point.
I specifically left all 92
foot of line primed
and shut off.
Pumps been run,
lines left open.
When I was back in Fairbanks
for my ankle surgery,
some dipshit broke in
and stole my fuel.
Dry, dry, dry.
There's where our fuel is.
To add insult to injury, those
morons left my fuel lines open
and that line may
have lost its prime.
When I talk about
priming the line,
the only way to really
describe it is
if you go to your faucet
in the kitchen
and you turn it on,
water comes out.
That means your
line is primed,
it is full of the fluid
you're asking it to give you.
If you pull open the faucet
and you get (EXHALES) air,
you've lost your prime
and it's now air instead of
the liquid you wanted.
So I left my line primed and
shut so it would hold it.
It'll be bad
if I've lost my prime
and that fuel is not in there.
Is that running?
Move it a little It's open.
(WHIRRING)
Don't make me fucking
prime you.
I'm so fucked.
Right now I'm trying to pump
fuel through 92 foot a line.
Usually, this 92-foot
of line is primed.
That means it's full of fuel,
so you already have
the suction to pump.
But the son of a bitches
who broke into the camp
left my lines open.
Come on
Come on, come on, come on!
Come on, come on,
come on, come on,
come on.
Come on, oh, yes!
Keep doing it. Keep doing it.
It's wanting to.
Come on.
See if it'll catch.
Come on you fucking bitch.
Yay!
It's going some.
Better than it was.
It's not great,
but it is running.
That could've been
really fucking ugly.
(CHUCKLES)
And I'm glad it wasn't.
A little priming I can do,
that whole line, oh, my gosh!
I gotta use about
1,000 to 1,100 gallons of fuel
out of the bladder
today, hopefully.
And, uh, get it dispersed
around camp.
Well, we're getting fuel
in the heat tank.
Once I get all my fuel moved
around to the right places
where it needs to live,
then I can get lights back
on in the house, electricity.
Trying to get as much as I can
done before it gets too dark.
KATE: We're not living some
kind of fairy-tale here.
We do have our issues
at time to time.
So, some days a diamond,
some days a stone.
-Watch your legs.
-Got it.
Kate and I are gonna
go on a little getaway
to the Tatonduk River,
it's kind of a surprise
birthday for her.
This is the pendant I just
made for Kate's birthday.
It's a piece of argillite
set in silver.
These are the finger
bones of lynx right here.
Long finger bones.
And, uh, I'll surprise her
with that sometime
this evening.
KATE: Andy and I are getting
ready now to just do something
for the two of us.
Instead of hard work all the
time, it's what we usually do.
Goin' running today?
You want to go running today?
Yeah?
It's kind of fun to just
go for an overnight
somewhere different.
It's our kind of holiday,
I guess.
We don't get to go very many
places together
and this is kind of
a nice little way to do it.
You'll be sledding
now today, doggy.
ANDY: Taking two teams out
is a little bit more chaos
originally when you
first get started.
But they settle
into it pretty quick.
And it's a lot more fun
for Kate
if she can mush her own team
instead of riding in the sled.
ANDY: Atta boys!
KATE: It's wonderful to be
gettin' away for a night,
just Andy and I and
Life is good.
Oh! It's open!
(GASPS)
It's gorgeous!
It's just beautiful to
be able to get away.
Love it. Forget about work.
Even it's for 24 hours,
it's good for your soul,
it's just good for everybody.
KATE: Living in the bush
sometimes is considered
very, very romantic.
Just you and the man
that you love.
But sometimes, I tell ya,
24/7 with one person
can be a test of patience.
Sometimes I get pretty
frustrated, pretty uptight,
uh, pretty keyed up,
when things aren't going well.
I'm not a person who holds
my emotions inside of me
and sometimes that's really
hard for people around me.
Kate knows that too,
she knows, she knows that
sometimes she just
has to walk away.
I know it's kind of
hard on her to have
to put up with that.
There you go, full go,
here's a nice big one for you!
Atta boy. Good boy.
ANDY: There you go, Burgis.
How you doing, bud?
You kind of pooped out too?
There you go, Carby.
Get these guys fed up and go
inside and have a hot toddy.
And celebrate Kate's birthday.
Maybe I'll get a candle
and get Kate to blow it out.
And then I'll sneak
a present to her.
What do you think of that, T?
Should we sneak
a present to Kate?
I think Kate would like that.
What do you think, T?
We'll surprise her.
-Cheers.
-Cheers, my love.
Happy birthday to you.
Early.
Oh, thank you!
-What do I get?
-BOTH: (CHUCKLING)
You get to give
me a back scratch.
-Someday.
-Come on.
Nah.
Come on, give me
a back scratch.
Screw the back scratch,
there's something in there.
Awesome! Is there, is there
Wait a minute, wait a minute,
you can't, you can't
open that yet.
Okay.
-Just good wishes.
-Yay!
-Oh, my God.
-(CHUCKLING)
This is so beautiful.
Bone, is that bear bone?
Here. It's
That's, that's the lynx bones.
I love it.
-I was a good girl this year.
-Yay!
-Happy birthday to you.
-Thank you.
Thanks for putting up
with my shit.
-I've been doing that
for 10 years.
-ANDY: I know.
ERIK: Alaska's a harsh place.
It's, uh, the climate's harsh.
The culture
can be harsh in ways.
You like it or you don't.
It's the only place
that I could live.
I'm getting ready to
package up this nice
wolverine here.
This gentleman called
and would like a wolverine.
So I'm gonna ship
that to, uh, a tannery
in Anchorage, Alaska.
And then that tannery
will tan the hide.
And then they'll send
that to a taxidermist
that I've recommended.
And then they will
ship it to him.
I sell the majority of
my hides to my clients.
And, uh, taxidermists,
things like that.
I do, upon occasion, sell them
to fur buyers in Fairbanks.
I'm gonna take this lynx
and a couple of fox
into Fairbanks here,
see if I can't get a halfway
decent price for 'em.
Rolled into Fairbanks,
I'm just heading over here to
Bill Wivoda's Arctic Raw Fur
Company.
I'm gonna see
if he's interested in buying
a couple hides from me.
He's known to feed out
a couple extra dollars
to young trappers
to keep them interested,
and keep them positive,
and keep them trapping.
-Hey, Bill. Doing good.
-Hi, Erik, how are you?
Got some critters
for sale there?
Oh, just a couple.
Just a couple.
A couple of fox and a lynx.
I see you did it
for taxidermy.
Still got all the claws.
Did you turn the ears?
Turned the ears,
I turned the lips,
and I skinned all the feet and
I did that with the foxes
and everything I have I try to
get the most I can out of it.
If you ever see anything
I'm doing wrong, Bill,
you tell me,
'cause I wanna try and put out
the best fur I can, you know.
I'm up north of the
Arctic Circle there and
BILL: I would maybe tack these
legs out a little bit more
to where you don't have skin
folding back in like that.
Tack them out a little bit
so they dry better
and they're spread out
and same with the fox.
Glad you left the feet
on there, it helps.
Easier to sell it.
Handling this stuff correctly,
you know,
out of respect for the animal,
you're killing this animal
out of respect for the animal,
you use it properly,
you don't waste it.
I mean, you're doing
everything, everything right.
I think that's very important,
you know,
to have that respect
for using this resource.
It's always nice to speak
with a, you know,
I hate to call Bill
an old timer,
but, you know, an older guy
that, uh, that really knows
his trade and Bill's sort of
teaching me little nuances
that otherwise I wouldn't have
anybody to teach me.
Just an excellent job of
handling, again, the split
ears, all the eyelids there.
I can go 60
a piece on the fox.
ERIK: Okay. How about the
How about the lynx?
Bill: If I was just grading
this on the fur quality,
I'd probably go around 150,
but seeing as you got it
mountable
and went to all the extra
work, I'll go 200 for the cat.
Hey, thanks a lot,
I'll take that for sure.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
I'm really happy Bill paid me
a more than fair price
and he was very complimentary
of my fur handling.
I take a lot of pride in that.
I'm leaving here with money
in my pocket and good feelings
and it couldn't have been
a better experience.
CHIP: The truth is,
this is a renewable resource.
The truth is we take only
what we need.
This is part of nature.
Everything dies. Everything.
CHIP: Three weeks here
together of parts,
effort, money,
arranging our house
and preparing for what we like
to do at this time of year.
We're out for fur, maybe
some fat female caribou,
if we're lucky we'll see seals
on the way down
to where we're headed,
and if we're lucky, on the way
back we'll see seals.
Keep going
AGNES: Just need extra rope
for this one now
and we're pretty much ready.
CHIP: Yep. We need to tie down
the gas right here.
AGNES: Real excited.
I can barely wait.
I can, I shouldn't say it.
But I could almost
taste the blood.
We usually leave kids
behind this time of the year
'cause it's usually
a rough trip.
We go for miles and miles
camping out wherever.
This can be like a couple of
days, it could stretch out
for a couple weeks.
CHIP: The materials that we
want right now that are good
for this time of year are
gonna make us some money here
in six or eight months when
the tanning time comes around.
We'll have good food to eat
until then,
and we'll have a lot of
adventures to talk about
when we're done with it all.
This is ready, Agnes.
This one is ready.
We need to tie down
a little bit of gas.
The basket sled is ready.
Hitchin' up the rides
and leaving.
The normal journey is probably
about three to four hours.
Um, if we have to take longer
because we're zig-n-zaggin'
or goin' slow
for various reasons.
It could take all day.
AGNES: Well, we're just about
to set up camp real quickly.
We're a bit too tired,
so we're just going to pitch
camp and call it a day.
We actually have quite
a bit of travelling to do.
We got a little bit
of some rivers
and a little bit of mountains
to get through
and we decided that since
this is where we are
when the sun is going down
past the horizon
this is the best place to be.
So the time to set up is now
and be comfortable
rather than, uh,
have a hard time at it.
We're putting up
our tee-pee.
It's kinda of a shelter we can
put up anywhere
if we're out fishing, if we're
up on the mountains hunting.
Whatever we're doing. This one
here is a very good,
very good tent to have.
Goes up quick,
doesn't require stakes.
I'm using my sled for a bed
and I want
to slide it in first
before I put the skin on.
AGNES: It's gonna be a little
lumpy, not too bad.
Trying to get most of the snow
off so it don't turn to water,
freeze us to the sled.
(LAUGHING)
CHIP: We're just wasting
daylight here.
AGNES: Yeah.
We use the tarp
as an extra layer.
In case it gets windy and then
we put the canvas over.
Then we'll make something nice
and warm to drink and um
Eat a little something
and crash out and
try again tomorrow.
Ah, these
are musk ox skins.
These are what we like
to use for bedding,
me and my wife here.
And this here is the
best sleeping bag ever!
Made by me.
I'm going to go shovel
snow around the edges
to keep the edge down so the
wind doesn't lift the tent.
And uh, if you want to fire up
a couple of candles
and, uh, pull out some tea.
Have some tea and go to bed.
Today we've been riding,
we did the sea,
we've done the hills,
we've done rivers,
we've ridden just about just
about every trade possible
that you can think of
including a lot of rocks
And we're pretty beat
so we're gonna finish up camp
here before it gets dark
and go to bed.
-Are you tired too?
-(CHUCKLES) Yes.
I think I'm tired.
CHIP: Oh, yeah.
Just gonna
turn these off, yeah.
CHIP: Yep.
SUE: Civilisation down south
in the real world
is far different
than Kavik-zation.
You know, off I go!
It's always an adventure.
The gamble paid off. I risked
that, ah, 12, 15 gallons
of fuel to do the runway
and, uh, it did come in
so now I'm finishing up
the oil change
and, uh, gonna go ahead
and see about cranking
this bitch over.
Man, I've had this old
generator off for a few days
so here's hoping
it turns back on.
This generator has been
running long, long, long,
long, long, long,
long, long time.
And without being rebuilt.
So, it's always a risk,
you know.
I've got older stuff here
This is uh You know
Stuff
I always say if it fit
on the Mayflower
it comes out to Kavik.
I mean, it should go good,
but until you hear it purr
and see the numbers
I don't know You know
Breakers can go, lines can
get condensation,
split, an animal can chew it.
You know, any number of things
can go wrong.
All right, the oil level
looks good.
Here we go!
The test
Here goes nothing.
(GENERATOR STARTING)
Whoo-hoo! I got the
generator working.
This is the part
that really matters.
We'll push it down, see if
I can send the power out.
(LAUGHS) I see a light.
I see more lights. Whoo-hoo!
Awesome.
Check that out.
Are you happy, little foxy?
Look at that.
Hot damn.
Now we're cooking!
Let's go see what
it looks like all-lit up.
Look at that.
We got the electric dance.
(LAUGHING)
I can throw that down now.
We got light!
Look at that!
Pretty different.