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00:00:00Coming up on Mountain Men.
00:00:13Dead or I was done, we've been in Nome for a little over a week now resting up the dogs.
00:00:18Right now I'm about ready to take off and head up to Kotzebue.
00:00:22Let's go, guys.
00:00:23Do the things nobody wants to do, and he'll make money.
00:00:32That's two ounces of pure gold.
00:00:38All right, boys.
00:00:39You want to skin a Martin?
00:00:40Yeah.
00:00:42So even just a tiny slip of that razor blade can make a huge hole really fast,
00:00:47and it decreases the value of the hide drastically.
00:00:51Damn, that is a time.
00:00:59Holy...
00:01:00Nome, Alaska is a remote frontier, locked in snow and ice.
00:01:14No roads reach this rugged coastal town.
00:01:16You get here only by boat, plane, or behind a team of sled dogs.
00:01:25It's best known as the legendary finish line of the Iditarod.
00:01:30Good job, guys!
00:01:33Perfect.
00:01:34And just one week ago, Lauro Eklund wrapped up his second run of the epic race.
00:01:42Finishing an impressive 14th out of 33 mushers.
00:01:46All right, Lauro!
00:01:48Hey!
00:01:50Woo!
00:01:52All right!
00:01:53Woo!
00:01:53Woo!
00:01:54Woo!
00:01:54Woo!
00:01:54Yeah, buddy!
00:01:55What's up, man?
00:01:56Woo-hoo!
00:01:57It's been a part of the longest Iditarod ever.
00:01:59I don't know if it'll ever be repeated and be one of those kind of weird Alaskan legends.
00:02:03So it's cool to be a part of a little bit of history here.
00:02:11But when the cheers fade, most mushers gather up their dogs and fly home to all corners of the state.
00:02:17Everyone this year, except Lauro, who held back with a new adventure in mind.
00:02:24Iditarod's done.
00:02:25We've been in Nome for more over a week now, resting up the dogs.
00:02:29Right now, we're about ready to take off and head up to Kotzebue from Nome.
00:02:34The small town of Kotzebue is the starting point for the Kobuk 440, a mid-distance sled dog race held in the northwest Arctic.
00:02:42Often called the toughest race above the Arctic Circle, many mushers use it as training for the Iditarod.
00:02:49But this year, it's Lauro's final race of the season.
00:02:54Running Iditarod and about to go run to Kobuk.
00:02:57I haven't been home in, like, a month and some change.
00:03:00So as a musher, I mean, the show doesn't stop.
00:03:04The life of a musher is also expensive.
00:03:07Flying his whole team to Kotzebue would cost more than $3,000.
00:03:10Instead, he flew six fresh dogs into Nome and will make the 350-mile journey himself to save money and get the new pack race-ready.
00:03:22The dogs have finished the Iditarod.
00:03:24I've got about seven of them in the team, and they're kind of my core seven.
00:03:27They're some of my best dogs on my team.
00:03:30And youngsters that I brought up, my yearlings, I have about six of them.
00:03:34Let's go, guys.
00:03:35The best training is the travel of your team.
00:03:39We're putting some miles on, getting them warm down.
00:03:43The biggest part is just seeing the land.
00:03:46I've never been from Koyuk North to Buckland over the ice.
00:03:50This is stuff I've heard from my dad.
00:03:52You guys ready?
00:03:52While Laura won't be pushing the team at race pace, the uncharted core still promises to be an epic challenge.
00:04:11Spanning the rugged Seward Peninsula, crossing the icebound Tuk-Ti-Sea, and ending on a remote jagged edge of Alaska's northwest coast.
00:04:22Well, back on trail right now.
00:04:27You know, it was 12 days of grinding it out during that Iditarod, and I got that finish line.
00:04:34I was ready to be done.
00:04:36I don't know if I had another day in me, but, like, the next day when I woke up from, you know, sleeping for a little bit,
00:04:42I thought to myself, man, I'm kind of missing being part of that trail.
00:04:49It's just really nice to be out here again.
00:04:51We got, oh, just a gorgeous sunny day out on the Gnome Road, heading out towards the Topcott Hills.
00:04:58Spring's starting to spring around here, but the more north we go, the more that winter's grip is holding pretty strong.
00:05:05Pretty much out here just chasing that long white line, you know.
00:05:21All across America's cattle country.
00:05:27I see a couple young gabs here on the ground.
00:05:30As spring draws closer, so do the predators.
00:05:33Threatening both livestock and the people who live and work in the shadow of the mountains.
00:05:40Well, as you can see, it's pretty bare down here.
00:05:46Including new ranch owner and veteran lion hunter, Jake Herrick.
00:05:50Got absolutely zero snow down this low.
00:05:54Who's out on patrol early, taking care of some unfinished business right in his own backyard.
00:05:59We're getting really, really late into the season right now, and I'm really having trouble turning this tom up again.
00:06:07One week ago, holy ****, look at the size of this thing.
00:06:13A lion sighting by Jake's neighbor.
00:06:15That is impressive.
00:06:16That thing's just as big as my hand.
00:06:19Turned up a beast of a cat.
00:06:21He's moving.
00:06:23In an epic chase.
00:06:25No.
00:06:26Hey, hey.
00:06:27Damn it.
00:06:28That hit a major dead end.
00:06:30I don't see a cat at all.
00:06:32I'm not sure what the hell's going on.
00:06:33I don't even know if they got a cat caught.
00:06:34And Jake's been hunting for a rematch ever since.
00:06:39This isn't over.
00:06:43This is an extremely large tom.
00:06:46This is definitely top of the food chain.
00:06:48He's very capable of taking down a calf.
00:06:51We've got calves all over the ground down here below me.
00:06:54Definitely not ideal.
00:06:56It's kind of crunch time right now.
00:06:58It's the last part of the season, and it's kind of do or die whether I can get this cat pushed back up onto the mountain or not.
00:07:04But we're not going to quit until we do.
00:07:10It's definitely nice to be getting into a little bit better snow here.
00:07:15Look at that right there.
00:07:17I've got a cat that just jumped onto the road right here.
00:07:19It's coming down.
00:07:21And I can see right up there it's actually leaving by the tree.
00:07:24That thing is super fresh.
00:07:37Uh-oh, I think Tripp even smells it.
00:07:40Definitely a super fresh track here.
00:07:43But, uh, this isn't the big tom I'm after.
00:07:47Jake might be looking for the big one, but this track isn't big enough.
00:07:52That kind of sucks, but as fresh as that is, I need to get these dogs out.
00:07:56Get this cat pushed up onto the mountain.
00:07:59No matter the size, a predator is a predator.
00:08:01And it's his job to keep them as far from civilization as possible.
00:08:06We're going to let out Tripp, Mardell, and Nanny today.
00:08:10Hunt them up.
00:08:11Good dogs.
00:08:12Good dogs.
00:08:13Well, they definitely like the looks of that.
00:08:17Hunt them up.
00:08:21We've got our own herd about four miles from my house.
00:08:24And I realize I do have some pressure here to get this cat pushed back up onto the mountain where it belongs.
00:08:35I've got Mardell, Manny, and Tripp lined out.
00:08:38I just need to, uh, keep up with them.
00:08:41And I need to get up this boulder here.
00:08:48This is definitely going to be a little bit interesting.
00:08:51Kind of got to shoot here.
00:08:52I think I can get up it, so.
00:08:54Hopefully I can get out the other side.
00:09:09Man, that's super slick.
00:09:11Nothing about staking a claim in Alaska's unforgiving wilderness comes easy.
00:09:27It has, and always will be, a fight for every inch.
00:09:36It's a gamble that Brett Bonn and Ivy O'Gwen know well.
00:09:39But fortunately, their latest bet on new trapping grounds is already paying off.
00:09:45It's been a really good season so far.
00:09:48Having this new area to trap in has been awesome, and we've got quite a bit of work done at this place.
00:09:56It's still not anywhere where we want it to be, but we've got it cleaned up pretty nice.
00:10:03And, um, at least it's functioning in here now, and it's livable, and we've been able to operate and work our trap line out of here, and that's been such a blessing.
00:10:13Two years ago, they bought an abandoned trapper's cabin sight unseen.
00:10:20It took months of hard labor to make it livable.
00:10:25So far, some good.
00:10:28Miles of cutting and sawing to blaze a fresh trail from their homestead.
00:10:33Shoot.
00:10:34And a heavy dose of patience, waiting for Mother Nature to freeze up a safe passage.
00:10:40Ice ain't ready yet.
00:10:43But three weeks ago, after a brutal 50-mile push over snow and ice, they finally opened their outpost cabin and the newest stretch of their trap line.
00:10:53It's been, uh, great to have this season to finally operate and get to this point where we can trap this new area.
00:11:06All right. Do you need anything?
00:11:08Nope. Good. Looks good. Thank you.
00:11:11Welcome. Big breakfast for a big day.
00:11:15With just one day left in the trapping season, today marks the end of a short but profitable run in this new wilderness.
00:11:23Trapping here at the outpost, we're approaching 60 Martin here.
00:11:27A lot of time and work, but it's paying off. We're catching a lot of fur.
00:11:31Our Martin catches have been really high this year.
00:11:33For us to hit our record numbers for the season, we still got to finish strong.
00:11:37Pull the last of the Martin sets, check a few Wolverine sets, and just kind of run the circuit.
00:11:43It's all ready to go for today.
00:11:45It's been a lot of work getting this outpost cabin cleaned up, and it's just been really fun for us to finally be at this point where we're, uh,
00:11:53enjoying what we've kind of dreamed this area could be like.
00:12:00Looks like it's going to be a nice day today.
00:12:03You ready to go?
00:12:04Yep. Let's get on out of here.
00:12:07Leg up!
00:12:07With 70 miles of traps to check and pull, the plan for today is simple.
00:12:19Travel fast and leave nothing behind.
00:12:21A whole lot of nothing.
00:12:37Wolverine and Martin season's coming to a close here, so we're just going to be pulling these traps today.
00:12:43We work really hard to have great chances at crossing paths with Wolverine, but they're probably one of the top three most difficult animals to trap because they're super elusive and they have such a large territory that they cover.
00:13:02Leave all the bait for them so they get a free meal to get used to the set for next year.
00:13:06All right. You ready?
00:13:09Yep. Let's go check the others.
00:13:22It's 20 below in the Alaskan interior.
00:13:27That's a bit brisk today.
00:13:29And that's good news for Trapper Chance Painter.
00:13:35Getting more Martin basically every time that I go out.
00:13:39When it gets cold, the animals get moving a lot more just so that they're staying warm.
00:13:44So hopefully it stays like this.
00:13:48There's a lot on the line for the 29-year-old homesteader.
00:13:51With a young family to support, he's aiming to make $7,000 from fur this season.
00:13:56A goal he can hit if he hauls in 50 prime Martin pelts.
00:14:01But so far, he's not even halfway to his quota.
00:14:05So far this season, I've got about 20 Martins, which isn't bad, but it's also not fantastic.
00:14:13Two weeks ago, he went out on a limb.
00:14:16This is going to be the running pole.
00:14:19That's what the trap is going to sit on.
00:14:21To carve five miles of new line.
00:14:23You'll wire your trap up here, put your bait here, and he's going to realize that there's
00:14:28no way to get here without coming up this pole.
00:14:33And now he's back with fingers crossed.
00:14:36Right now, I've got lots of traps out there.
00:14:39So I'm feeling pretty hopeful that this area is going to produce some more fur.
00:14:45Well, hell yeah.
00:14:47We're already getting Martin.
00:14:48Every Martin you get is basically a $100 bill.
00:14:52Oh, that one's fur is really nice.
00:14:54I love Martin.
00:14:57Trappers prize this tree-dwelling predator from the weasel family for its soft, dense coat,
00:15:02which is both warm and highly valuable in the fur trade.
00:15:06All right, let's get him out of the trap and put some more bait and reset this.
00:15:13With just two weeks left in the season, Chance needs to make the most of every minute on the line,
00:15:21especially if the catch is picking up.
00:15:24Every Martin that I can catch, you know, will help us get through the rest of the winter.
00:15:29I mean, we came to Alaska to do this, so it's a nice feeling to actually have furs come off of your own line.
00:15:38Putting in all the work, putting in more miles and getting more traps out is really showing.
00:15:43It's a lot of hard work, and sometimes it seems kind of like you're in a really long tunnel.
00:15:49But, you know, that struggle of getting to where you're wanting to go
00:15:52is what makes the feeling of reward, like, really prominent.
00:15:56I definitely have learned a lot this season just about the behavior of a lot of the animals I'm trying to trap.
00:16:04Every time you come out here, you can basically learn something about how to become, like, a better trapper.
00:16:11Like, I don't have anybody really to hold my hand and show me how to do things.
00:16:15So a lot of your lessons are learned through failure and then overcoming those failures.
00:16:21Sometimes you just got to use, like, your intuition.
00:16:24Well, I'm feeling pretty good about this trap, but I got lots of miles to line to cover still.
00:16:30Deep in the Salish Mountain wilderness, with the winter trapping season winding down,
00:16:50it's time for Paul Adzak to get cooking.
00:16:53Good to be home, huh, guys?
00:16:55And after a week setting snares on a neighbor's ranch...
00:16:59Come on out!
00:17:00He's got just the right ingredients to launch a fresh batch of his trapper-trusted homemade lure.
00:17:07We'll leave you stinky guys out here.
00:17:11Ooh, beautiful fart squirrel!
00:17:14In a win-win deal to help a buddy clear some nuisance animals from his property...
00:17:18Look at that!
00:17:20Boy, that's beautiful fur.
00:17:22Paul pulled two skunks...
00:17:25Hey, look at that!
00:17:27...and a half-dozen muskrats.
00:17:30That's a really good start.
00:17:32But at this time of year, it's not just the furs that he's after.
00:17:37It's the musky scent glands that make a powerful attractant.
00:17:41Yeah, it's a pretty good day.
00:17:43I got some glands, you know, for the lure that I need to make, and pretty profitable so far.
00:17:48Look at that, there's a gland right there.
00:17:53So I got a little jar I'm saving up right here.
00:17:56All these little glands.
00:17:59These here are actually going to go into a coyote lure I'm going to make and test next year.
00:18:04But I need them now, because the springtime is when those glands are big.
00:18:10The muskrats are breeding, and they use that for territorial purposes, and finding a mate.
00:18:22Fur is at the best.
00:18:26And the glands are at their biggest.
00:18:27It's a win-win.
00:18:36Flip these right here, let them dry.
00:18:40Get these beaver tails skinned out.
00:18:43Here.
00:18:45Good lure calls for several key ingredients.
00:18:48First being the fat off some aged beaver tails.
00:18:52The fat, right here, this grizzle, goes into this right here.
00:18:57This oil.
00:19:02It gets rendered down, and that's part of the base in my backcountry call lure that I've developed.
00:19:10The pungent, unctuous goo is made using parts of several animals he's trapped this season.
00:19:17Right, so now we got castor and oil sacks out of the beaver.
00:19:25Make a cut.
00:19:28And there it is.
00:19:30So the oil is actually really important to the beaver.
00:19:33He'll spread that oil on his fur, and that sheds the water, kind of like water off a duck's back.
00:19:40For me, it makes the lure last a little bit longer in rainy weather.
00:19:43That's a lot of oil.
00:19:47Nice.
00:19:48I just need a couple more ingredients, and I can go ahead and make that backcountry call lure and get it out to a few trappers.
00:19:55In Alaska, trapping season is nearing its close.
00:20:11First piece of fur of the day.
00:20:18And Brett and Ivy are pushing for one last big haul before time runs out.
00:20:23Got a nice Martin.
00:20:24Very nice.
00:20:27Beauty.
00:20:28Awesome.
00:20:29Great to be on the board.
00:20:32All right.
00:20:34Let's go check the others.
00:20:35Martin are a great source of income for us, so it's always rewarding to see one in our traps.
00:20:45Another nice Martin.
00:20:49Real nice one.
00:20:52Yeah.
00:20:53Especially here at the outpost, because there's been a lot of buildup for us to get out here.
00:20:58There you go.
00:20:59And start trapping this new area and see what it holds.
00:21:03All right.
00:21:03Let's get those other traps checked.
00:21:06And it's been producing really well, so it's exciting that all our anticipation, hard work, and dreams to get this place up and running and explored is coming together.
00:21:23While the area might be producing good fur, Mother Nature hasn't made it easy this winter.
00:21:32Oh.
00:21:33That used to be a big rock.
00:21:37I do have a wolf trap right over here.
00:21:40You're sure it's this rock?
00:21:41Yep.
00:21:42This is a very unusual year.
00:21:44The river was frozen over and we were running it.
00:21:46And it just got so warm for so long and the water just flowed right over the top.
00:21:51Now we got three to four feet of ice over the top of what we were already running on.
00:21:55So this is crazy.
00:21:57But there's a lot of dollars under here.
00:21:59We're going to have to get this trap out.
00:22:01All right.
00:22:03It's a pain that we have to do this, but it's crucial and we can't leave our equipment here.
00:22:10Hatchet, hammer.
00:22:12Let's start ice sculpturing.
00:22:14People might think, you know, you've got to wait until it thaws out to get out here.
00:22:17But when these rivers start thawing, you can't travel them anymore.
00:22:20So we've got to capitalize on the river when it's frozen and chip away one trap at a time.
00:22:27And while the conditions are great and we can travel.
00:22:29In Alaska, trapping seasons winding down, but Brett and Ivy are still fighting to pull every last trap.
00:22:46Cutting through three feet of overflow to collect a single piece of metal buried by the constant freeze and thaw of wild weather.
00:22:56I don't want to hit the rock, so we'll take the axe next.
00:23:08Hit it with your axe and then you knock those big chunks loose and you pick those chunks out.
00:23:12Get the big ones and then you can shovel out the smaller stuff.
00:23:15Take your tail player off.
00:23:17Actually, you've got to make yourself a big enough hole so you can get down in there and still work on the next layer.
00:23:22You just keep going.
00:23:24Digging for buried treasure.
00:23:26We've just got to get this trap out from underneath the ice.
00:23:30It's a lot of work, but either you do it now or you'll lose it forever.
00:23:36Wait, what's that?
00:23:37Was that wax paper?
00:23:39No.
00:23:39Because when it starts going, you ain't going to even be able to get on the river.
00:23:43So it's now or never, basically.
00:23:45Oh, you hear that?
00:23:47There it is.
00:23:48See it?
00:23:48Yeah.
00:23:48Right there.
00:23:49Look at that.
00:23:51So here's the ice level, trap level.
00:23:56How deep?
00:23:57Yeah.
00:23:57Right up about here is how much ice flew over the top of that trap.
00:24:05All right.
00:24:06We located the trap.
00:24:08Now we get to the chain.
00:24:10Now we're on the final stage here, just the hook.
00:24:13A little rapid tap, tap.
00:24:15Oh, there she goes.
00:24:17Nice.
00:24:19Got it.
00:24:20Good job.
00:24:21Sun's starting to come out.
00:24:23Let's go check the rest of the traps and hopefully we don't have any more like this and start picking up some fur.
00:24:29Awesome.
00:24:30Look at this, wolverine tracks.
00:24:49Looks like two of them.
00:24:50See how thick it is?
00:24:52Went right across the trail.
00:24:54Yeah.
00:24:55Double wolverine.
00:24:56That's fresh, too.
00:24:57Crazy.
00:24:59Well, that's a good sign.
00:25:00There's a couple sets right up here.
00:25:02Hopefully we catch one.
00:25:03Yeah, let's go see.
00:25:04Hanging on by a toehold in the rough and tumble terrain of the tobacco roots.
00:25:25Jake's taking the hardest path, betting it's the fastest way to run down a lion.
00:25:33All right.
00:25:44That's not the steepest thing I've been through, but not the most ideal.
00:25:50Says I'm 700 yards from the dogs.
00:25:52I can't quite hear them yet, but they're treed, so I just need to get up to them.
00:25:57Three of his most veteran dogs, Manny, Mardell, and Tripp, are more than an hour into a hunt
00:26:04and climbing into the snow-covered elevations where the lions have the advantage.
00:26:13All right, let's see what the hell we got going on here.
00:26:17That's kind of weird.
00:26:18I've got Mardell and Manny treeing up here about 500 yards, and it shows that Tripp's trailing by them,
00:26:24so I need to get up here and see what the heck we've got caught.
00:26:38Oh!
00:26:41Uh-oh.
00:26:42That's not good.
00:26:47We've got a second cat here, and I can tell you that just off the size of it.
00:26:51We've got the big tom just came into play here.
00:26:55Toes the size of my thumb, and the hole it's putting in the snow is bigger around than my fist.
00:27:01I don't know who's on what cat right now, but I've got a giant tom lying up here.
00:27:06I need to get up here and see what the hell I got going on.
00:27:09Good dog!
00:27:23Good dog!
00:27:26Manny and Mardell are onto a cat.
00:27:28I can see I've got a young tom lying caught here.
00:27:32But Tripp is nowhere in sight.
00:27:33The dogs did a hell of a job.
00:27:36They covered a lot of country.
00:27:38A young cat that definitely needs to learn his lesson early.
00:27:42It's time to pull these dogs and get them on the trip and see what we got going on here.
00:27:47I'm definitely not liking this situation, so I need to find Tripp as fast as I can.
00:27:54Good dog!
00:27:55Hey!
00:27:55Come on!
00:27:56Come on!
00:27:57Come on!
00:27:58Come on!
00:27:58Come on!
00:27:58Come on!
00:27:59Come on!
00:28:00Come on!
00:28:00Come on!
00:28:00Come on!
00:28:00Come on!
00:28:01Come on!
00:28:02Come on!
00:28:0322 miles out of Nome, Lauro's stopping down for the first break of his 350-mile run to Cutts-A-View.
00:28:20Whoa, whoa!
00:28:23The Safety Roadhouse is a familiar landmark and checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail.
00:28:28But today, it looks nothing like it did eight days ago.
00:28:31Safety's all boarded up, and there's nobody there.
00:28:35There's no bunch of lights and cameras there waiting for you.
00:28:38Now it's just like, you roll through, and you're just like anybody else.
00:28:43While there are no race officials or vet checks, the dogs still need a rest and high-protein snack.
00:28:51Whoa, whoa, whoa!
00:28:52Gotta hustle!
00:28:53Gotta hustle!
00:28:53Gotta hustle!
00:28:55Gotta hustle!
00:28:55The trail's been nice.
00:28:56Over here, we got about another 15 or so miles to Top Cotton, where we'll be, uh, guys calling in a night there.
00:29:06So about another two hours.
00:29:08It's kind of nice to not be having any pressure or anything out there on the trail.
00:29:13We're just really enjoying everything.
00:29:16By the way, these guys are all really wanting to get going here.
00:29:19They've been sitting around for a week,
00:29:21so they're just anxious to go.
00:29:25There it is.
00:29:36While the trail's been smooth up to this point,
00:29:39from here, it veers into notoriously dangerous territory.
00:29:46That's where I'm about, you know, five below six below right now.
00:29:58We're in what's concerned the blowhole.
00:30:02The infamous blowhole is where brutal Bering Sea winds slam the coast,
00:30:07sending temperatures plummeting to bone-chilling lows.
00:30:10You know, you never know when it's going to start,
00:30:13but we're getting a little bit into the blowhole right now.
00:30:16But one thing about doing this whole trip
00:30:19and the stuff pushing for, like, younger dogs,
00:30:23this team is they get used to this sort of thing.
00:30:25It's kind of almost pre-, you know,
00:30:28pre-programmed them to get ready for the coast.
00:30:32While Alaskan huskies might be built for the cold,
00:30:35humans are not,
00:30:37which is why locals in this area built a string of shelter cabins,
00:30:41offering refuge to mushers braving this route.
00:30:45Well, right about there on the bottom of that cliff
00:30:49is the top-top shelter cabin,
00:30:52which is what we are aiming towards.
00:30:56And these shelter cabins, you know,
00:30:58they're kind of owned by the community,
00:31:01and that will help us be nice and cozy here
00:31:04in about an hour or so.
00:31:06So we're going to be marching through this,
00:31:08and it's going to get a lot of chillier.
00:31:10It's going to be a lot colder ride the next few days,
00:31:13but, eh, that's how it goes.
00:31:16It's a bitterly cold day in the Yukon Koyukuk,
00:31:29but chance is on fire.
00:31:32Well, looky here, Martin number five.
00:31:35That was a nice one.
00:31:37Riding high on the hottest winning streak of the season
00:31:40on his brand-new trapline.
00:31:43This morning's been going pretty good.
00:31:44I've already picked up five Martin.
00:31:46And we've got a few more miles.
00:31:48I'm excited to go check and see what's out there.
00:31:52This line's really starting to put out a good amount of fur.
00:31:55I'm glad that I ended up putting it in.
00:32:01I knew that this area was going to be a good spot.
00:32:04It's surrounded by black spruce and white spruce,
00:32:07and there's water nearby.
00:32:09This is, like, prime Martin country.
00:32:13Man, we're really starting to stack them up today.
00:32:16Finding a jackpot like this gives Chance a huge boost this season.
00:32:21But it's a balancing act to make sure that it'll pay dividends now
00:32:25and in the future.
00:32:27If you trap all of them, you won't have any to trap the next year.
00:32:32I keep track of where they catch males and females and how many of each,
00:32:37so that if I go over a certain ratio of males to females,
00:32:41then I will pull my traps in that area.
00:32:45You don't want to decimate their populations.
00:32:47I'm getting pretty close to the end of the line here.
00:32:52This is the last trap I got.
00:32:55I'm feeling pretty good about getting this many Martin in a single day.
00:32:59And if things stay the same in terms of how many I'm catching,
00:33:02I'm feeling pretty confident that Soraya and I are going to be able to meet
00:33:05our 50 Martin goal.
00:33:10Well, very nice.
00:33:12Got another one.
00:33:14Got seven Martin this run.
00:33:15That's pretty damn good.
00:33:17Catching seven Martin today.
00:33:19I'm feeling pretty excited to come home and show my wife and kids.
00:33:23You know, it's a very high job satisfaction to be able to provide for them.
00:33:28And it's kind of crazy that just a few short years ago,
00:33:31we didn't even have a cabin or anything like that.
00:33:35We were just living in the wall tent.
00:33:37You know, we came up here to be fur trappers.
00:33:39And something that I always wanted to be was an actual real fur trapper
00:33:44ever since I was a little kid.
00:33:46And it's nice.
00:33:47I think we're going to make some good money on our furs this year.
00:33:51It's kind of surreal, but I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.
00:33:56All right, let's start making the journey home.
00:34:00Start scanning some of these Martin.
00:34:14Back in Montana, hunters and trappers may have stronger stomachs
00:34:18than the rest of us.
00:34:19Oh, this one here has got a lot of pressure on it.
00:34:22But even the toughest isn't immune to the smelliest stuff in nature.
00:34:27So with the skunks, I really don't like to skin them on the inside of my shed
00:34:31because if something happens, then my shed is ruined.
00:34:34I got to work in that.
00:34:37With skunk scent added to the mix, Paul can market a more potent lure.
00:34:42But first, he has to extract the glands that produce the skunk's powerful defensive spray.
00:34:48Go slow.
00:34:49The sacks at the base of the tail are protected by a thin membrane that's easily nicked by a blade.
00:34:56So I got to have like the steady hand of a surgeon when I'm coming through around these pods.
00:35:01The last thing I want to do is poke it and get squirted in the face or waste the essence.
00:35:07The smell is the worst part, of course, but it's the smell of money.
00:35:12Lure made from skunk essence is much more valuable than the standard formula,
00:35:18meaning Paul can charge a premium price per jar.
00:35:23That right there is all essence.
00:35:25I use a syringe to go ahead and extract the essence.
00:35:28That's the best way to do it and the most efficient.
00:35:30All right, so hopefully I don't get...
00:35:34There we go.
00:35:37Oh, look at that.
00:35:40Oh, look at the amount of essence in that one pod.
00:35:45So this is the stuff that you smell when you're driving down the road and you get sprayed by it.
00:36:00There's nothing better to reach your nose than that skunk smell.
00:36:04And those molecules, they'll go right through the air and you can smell them really good a mile away.
00:36:10And that's exactly what I need in my lure to go ahead and draw these predators in.
00:36:15Do the things nobody wants to do and you'll make money.
00:36:28There we go.
00:36:29That's two ounces.
00:36:30Two ounces of pure gold.
00:36:34That's really good to see at a time like this, when I need that essence.
00:36:45In Alaska's frozen backcountry, the last day of trapping puts everything on the line.
00:36:51Got a fresh wolverine track coming right down the trail.
00:36:55Nice.
00:36:56But with fresh wolverine sign all around,
00:36:59Brett and Ivy are hoping to score one last top dollar fur before the season ends.
00:37:04Got lots of sign here.
00:37:09Got lots of sign here.
00:37:13Oh, yeah.
00:37:15Look at that.
00:37:19Look at that.
00:37:31Look at that.
00:37:32I was hoping we would have caught one of those.
00:37:34Yeah.
00:37:35Oh, it's really pretty.
00:37:37It's got a blonde.
00:37:38Nice wolverine.
00:37:39Gorgeous.
00:37:40Yeah.
00:37:41This is great.
00:37:42Outpost is producing.
00:37:44Martin, wolverine.
00:37:45It's just great.
00:37:46And it's been fun to trap new area and then be super successful in it producing.
00:37:51It's really cool.
00:37:52Yeah.
00:37:53Wolverine.
00:37:54One of my favorite animals to trap.
00:37:55It's a good one, too.
00:37:56It's big.
00:37:57All right.
00:37:58Good work.
00:37:59Absolutely.
00:38:00It was exciting, too, because you see the fresh tracks.
00:38:03And they're coming straight up to our line and our sets that we have around the corner.
00:38:07And so it just gets really exciting as you're traveling, rolling up, just like the anticipation
00:38:12of that catch.
00:38:13You know, is it going to be in there?
00:38:15Did all your hard work pay off?
00:38:17And then you come around the corner and see it laying there.
00:38:19It's just like finding a gold mine, you know?
00:38:22Yeah.
00:38:23No, it gets you excited.
00:38:24So great way to wrap up the day.
00:38:26Yeah.
00:38:27Good job.
00:38:28Thanks.
00:38:29Good job.
00:38:30Nice work.
00:38:31Let's zip back to the cabin.
00:38:32Mm-hmm.
00:38:33The outpost, it's been a huge addition to our trap line.
00:38:35It's really allowed us to expand and it really pulled our whole season together.
00:38:39All our hard work, all our investment into this place, it's finally paying off.
00:38:44And it's really only the beginning because we just started trapping out here and there's
00:38:48still so much more expansion we can add to this region.
00:38:51One of our best years yet trapping is just a super year and I can't wait for next year.
00:39:10Back in Montana, every bit of animal fat has been scraped.
00:39:15Look at that, got a good pile of fat there.
00:39:18I think we're going to get that on the stove here and get it cooking down.
00:39:23And tossed in the pot, where Paul's good old mountain chemistry is cooking up a surefire
00:39:29critter-catching formula.
00:39:31Oh, look at that good stuff there.
00:39:34A lot of steps go into making this.
00:39:38It's kind of like frying bacon.
00:39:40You throw that bacon in a pan, it sizzles and it fries up and then you've got all that
00:39:44good bacon grease afterwards.
00:39:46Right now what I could do is I could combine the other oils in the shop here.
00:39:52I got a bunch of different oils that go into this and a few other different ingredients.
00:39:57Two of these.
00:39:59So I'm not going to reveal everything that I'm putting in here because I can't tell all my
00:40:04secrets, you know.
00:40:05One of these.
00:40:07Two of this.
00:40:10And then four ounces of this one.
00:40:13So now for the ingredient that I will share with you and that's skunk fat.
00:40:28Then we'll mix it all together.
00:40:33While the fats and castors stew, Paul prepares to extract the final ingredient.
00:40:42When I add the skunk essence, I don't want to do that in the shop.
00:40:47That'll just ruin the ambiance of my shop.
00:40:51Back a couple hundred years ago, back during the mountain men era, these guys, the old trappers,
00:40:57they didn't have the internet or catalogs on their telephones.
00:41:01So they had to come up with the different smells and the recipes, you know, to go ahead
00:41:08and attract these animals.
00:41:09And that tradition is still basically alive today with, you know, lure makers.
00:41:15All the steps of doing this, you know, to catch the animal, to harvest the glands and then create it.
00:41:22And then a whole year later, use it and then catch another animal with it.
00:41:27To me, it's just the most amazing thing.
00:41:29While raw meat is typically used to bait a trap, it's the pungent lure that draws animals in from afar.
00:41:38And skunk essence carries farther than most.
00:41:42Man, that looks awesome right there.
00:41:45So this is the part that brings all the magic together.
00:41:48And that's putting the skunk essence into this lure.
00:41:51Now for the gold.
00:41:55So without the skunk essence, it's not a long distance lure.
00:41:58It would work right now as far as catching a coyote or something like that.
00:42:02But with the combination of oils and the other smells that got in it,
00:42:05then I add the skunk essence, it's going to pull in critters from a long ways away.
00:42:09All those smells I put in there are going to become one.
00:42:14And that's what makes this lure so good.
00:42:21Now I need to go ahead and just let this stuff slow cook for just a little bit.
00:42:26Let it gradually come together as one.
00:42:30When lion hunting with hounds, one-on-one is never a good way for a dog to be caught.
00:42:48Oh .
00:42:50And right now, Tripp's alone on the mountain, chasing an elusive tom.
00:42:56God, that's super weird.
00:42:59Tripp just went quiet again.
00:43:02It's like, he starts treeing, he pulls off of the tree.
00:43:05He starts treeing, he pulls off of the tree.
00:43:08Jake's following along on GPS while he races in as backup.
00:43:12And is finally closing in.
00:43:15All right.
00:43:16So he thinks it was in that tree right there.
00:43:19No reason why I know that's because I can see all the snows tore up.
00:43:22Right now, I don't see a cat in that tree at all.
00:43:26Not saying there isn't one.
00:43:27I need to get up here, get underneath this tree, and see if there is a lion in it.
00:43:36Oh, gal.
00:43:38Interesting, interesting.
00:43:40So I'm pretty sure we've got a cat in this tree.
00:43:43And at least climbed it.
00:43:44We've got snow knocked off the limb here, here, as far as up as I can see.
00:43:49Just like something was climbing up that tree.
00:43:52So I'm going to have to make a loop around here, look up into this and see if I can't spot a cat.
00:44:01This 100% has to be that tom.
00:44:04I found that big gas track right back there.
00:44:07It's giving me flashbacks last week.
00:44:09And I'm not liking it at all.
00:44:12The last time they tussled with this big tom, it was there.
00:44:17And then it disappeared.
00:44:19The dogs had him caught here for a minute.
00:44:22Then he jumped over to this tree right here.
00:44:24And he got into this little one.
00:44:26Disappeared.
00:44:35Damn.
00:44:37That is a tom.
00:44:40Holy .
00:44:44Trip man just got super, super lucky.
00:44:48The last thing I ever want to do is let one dog loose on a tom.
00:44:53That's an absolute giant cat.
00:44:56Trip's only about a 45 pound dog.
00:44:59This cat's probably 150 plus pounds.
00:45:02It would not have been an equal match.
00:45:04And it wouldn't have been good.
00:45:06There's no mistaking him.
00:45:11He's got a foot the size of a frying pan.
00:45:13And his head's bigger than mine.
00:45:15So that's an absolute giant cat.
00:45:18And I cannot tell you how happy I am to see it this high on the mountain.
00:45:22These dogs trail the hell of a long ways.
00:45:24I'm going to have to backtrack and pick up Mardell and Manny on the way out of here.
00:45:29But Trip did a hell of a job catching this big cat all by himself.
00:45:32That's two cats one day.
00:45:34And this is the cat I really was wanting to get out of here.
00:45:37So we got him pushed back onto the mountain.
00:45:39Trip, you did good.
00:45:40Good boy.
00:45:41Come on, Trip man.
00:45:42Good boy.
00:45:43Come on.
00:45:51As a new day breaks on the far western coast of Alaska, Laro's team is well rested and ready to get back on the trail after a night in relative luxury.
00:46:03We spent the night at a shelter cabin here.
00:46:07These cabins are maintained by the locals.
00:46:09It's all put in local money, donations and stuff maintained.
00:46:14I'm going to ask you guys to come in through the shelter cabins.
00:46:19We got firewood right over here.
00:46:22We got an extra little bit of fire ready for somebody else.
00:46:25And this thing is small, tiny.
00:46:27It heats up perfectly.
00:46:28Out here in the coast, you know, these are very well maintained.
00:46:32This right here can be a situation of life and death.
00:46:35And one thing here, a fixture of all these cabins is there's wood and you always try to not burn through all the wood.
00:46:43One thing is, these things are super well insulated.
00:46:46It doesn't look like much on the outside, but it's well taken care of.
00:46:50Laro's on day two of his journey north, pushing into the unknown toward Kotzebue, a remote village where his next race kicks off in a week.
00:47:00You got to see, this is all sea ice right here.
00:47:03So all this is sea ice.
00:47:06And this coast can bring nightmares, you know, terrible stories.
00:47:10I've heard all the stories from my dad, other fellow dead rock mushers, the locals and stuff right here.
00:47:16Inuit hunters and hardcore mushers have long respected this ice.
00:47:21Its hurricane force winds can appear without warning, turning a bluebird day into a fight for survival.
00:47:29But while the weather's in his favor, Laro's pressing on.
00:47:33About 240-ish miles to go, we are going to get taken off and head on out.
00:47:39All right, guys.
00:47:42All right.
00:47:43Ready?
00:47:44All right.
00:47:45All right, Alden.
00:47:46All right, Alden.
00:47:47All right, Alden.
00:47:59Up in Montana's Salish Mountains.
00:48:12This stuff should be ready now.
00:48:14Paul's new batch of lure is slow roasted to perfection.
00:48:19Oh, yeah.
00:48:21Whew.
00:48:22Holy cow.
00:48:24That stuff is loud.
00:48:27Good night.
00:48:29My old trapping mentor had a saying, trappers don't die, they just smell that way.
00:48:34That's going to look good on the shelf.
00:48:38I tested it myself, but I want to put it in the hands of a few different trappers around
00:48:45the country to go ahead and test.
00:48:48Trying a new lure for guys is risky.
00:48:53And I just want everybody to be confident that it's going to work.
00:48:58And then after all that's done, I could go ahead and start selling it to trappers as soon
00:49:05as I get the results back.
00:49:11All right, let's get some of this stuff bottled up.
00:49:14So it's liquidy right now.
00:49:17It's a liquid, but what's going to happen as it cools, it's going to become a pasty, a solid.
00:49:24So the four ounce jar is going to be anywhere of $25 to $30.
00:49:29So with what I made up today, it's approximately $400 to $500 worth of lure.
00:49:36First jar with the label of backcountry call.
00:49:42That right there is money.
00:49:44Beautiful.
00:49:45So I'm feeling really, really accomplished today.
00:49:48All the different critters that were caught this year that goes into this little glass jar
00:49:53to make this potent lure.
00:49:57Awesome.
00:50:01It's a new beginning, but then at the same time, it's an end to a wonderful season.
00:50:08It just doesn't get old.
00:50:09Life doesn't get old when you're a trapper.
00:50:12Back in the frigid Alaskan interior, with Seven Martin in the bag.
00:50:25All right, boys.
00:50:26You want to skin a Martin?
00:50:27Yeah.
00:50:28Everyone in the painter household wants to help preserve the valuable fur.
00:50:33Let's take the traps off, then.
00:50:34Skinning Seven Martin in a day is definitely kind of a lot.
00:50:36Do you want to grab a different one?
00:50:37Mom's going to skin this one.
00:50:38Nubby, can you pass little brother on Martin, please?
00:50:39So Ray and I both processed them together, but it's definitely very chaotic with the kids
00:50:40around.
00:50:41Oh, wow.
00:50:42Great.
00:50:43Can you put them down, please?
00:50:44Uh-oh.
00:50:45Why are you saying, uh-oh?
00:50:46Uh-oh.
00:50:47Boys, you're getting yogurt all over the Martin.
00:50:49It'll be nice when they can actually skin something with us.
00:50:51Sure make this go a lot easier, wouldn't it?
00:50:52So it's a different one.
00:50:53Mom's going to skin this one.
00:50:54No, but can you pass little brother on Martin, please?
00:50:55So Ray and I both processed them together, but it's definitely very chaotic with the kids
00:50:56around.
00:50:57Oh, wow.
00:50:58Great.
00:50:59Can you put them down, please?
00:51:00Uh-oh.
00:51:01Why are you saying, uh-oh?
00:51:02Uh-oh.
00:51:03Boys, you're getting yogurt all over the Martin.
00:51:05It'll be nice when they can actually skin something with us.
00:51:11Sure make this go a lot easier, wouldn't it?
00:51:13So to skin the Martin, I like to use razor blades because they are really precise and
00:51:18accurate for skinning such small little critters.
00:51:21And I cut into its little paw right in the middle, and I slice all the way up its leg,
00:51:26and then I pull its whole skin up over its little front arms.
00:51:30Since we're tube-skinning them, basically slipping a shirt off of them.
00:51:35It just takes practice.
00:51:37Ideally, we'd like to have our furs with not a single nick, no imperfections at all.
00:51:42So even just a tiny slip of that razor blade can make a huge hole really fast.
00:51:47And it decreases the value of the hide drastically.
00:51:51We want them to be in good shape.
00:51:54Let's see how it looks.
00:51:57It's nice.
00:51:58I finished them too.
00:52:00You finished yours too?
00:52:01You weren't doing one.
00:52:03It's nice.
00:52:04It's big.
00:52:05Ah, finally.
00:52:06Good work.
00:52:07So now that we've got these two Martin skinned, we're going to start up the pickle so they
00:52:12don't dry out before we flush them.
00:52:15The pickling solution is just water and white vinegar.
00:52:19It kind of helps set the fur, and it also helps neutralize any bacteria.
00:52:24We found it makes everything easier, and it makes the leather thicker feeling.
00:52:29Yeah, it does.
00:52:30It makes it feel thicker.
00:52:31I think the acidity helps it absorb the brains.
00:52:34Here, can mama sit next to you?
00:52:37Next.
00:52:38So now that the Martin have been soaking in the vinegar solution, you're just going to
00:52:44gently squeegee it out.
00:52:46Whenever you're doing like mousse and whatnot, you know, you can like really wring it out,
00:52:50but you really cannot do that.
00:52:53With Martin, you'll damage the fur too much.
00:52:55Learned that the hard way.
00:52:58After the hides are pickled, fleshing is a critical step that removes the remaining fat and tissue.
00:53:06Because we tan all our furs, we flush all of them so that the brains can actually penetrate
00:53:11the leather, because they can't penetrate all that thick meat and membrane.
00:53:15You want to get as much as you can, but you don't want to like scratch it so hard that
00:53:20you will damage the hide.
00:53:24I'd say this Martin is ready to go in the brain.
00:53:35Typically, we get brains from animals that we kill.
00:53:39The brain is an oil that softens it and starts the tanning process.
00:53:45There's like a bunch of Martins.
00:53:46I'm just going to use this whole thing.
00:53:48Chance is making up the brain solution where you basically just smash it up and mix it with water.
00:53:53Make sure it's real mashed up.
00:53:55You just want to get them into like as small of pieces as you can.
00:53:59And that's usually sufficient to saturate the leather.
00:54:03So now we're just going to let these soak.
00:54:05And then after you've brained it, it's time to start working the hide.
00:54:10It's a two-cat day back in Montana.
00:54:24Mardell!
00:54:25Manny!
00:54:26God, it says they're right here somewhere.
00:54:28Mardell!
00:54:29Manny!
00:54:30Come on!
00:54:31But after Tripp's heroic one-on-one with a giant tom, it's time for the team to reunite
00:54:39and quit while they're ahead.
00:54:41Come on!
00:54:42Hey, there's Manny!
00:54:43Come on, Manny!
00:54:44Mardell!
00:54:45Where's Mardell?
00:54:46Come on, Mardell!
00:54:47Come on!
00:54:48Good girl!
00:54:49You two left Tripp with the big cat.
00:54:52They must have been back on that first tree that we were at and heard me yelling at Tripp
00:54:57down here and started coming back towards me.
00:54:59So it's good to have them all back.
00:55:01And I can't believe that we were able to get both those cats pushed off.
00:55:05When I started this journey today, I figured I had twice the work ahead of me.
00:55:09But we knocked out two birds with one stone today, so that's a good thing to have happen.
00:55:14They did a hell of a job today.
00:55:15Come on, dogs.
00:55:16Let's get you home.
00:55:17That's it.
00:55:18Mardell!
00:55:19Here.
00:55:20Mardell!
00:55:21Come on!
00:55:27Oh-ho!
00:55:28There we go!
00:55:29That's a good sight to see.
00:55:31This is a cat I've been after for a while now.
00:55:34So to turn him up and get him pushed back that high onto the mountain is definitely a good
00:55:39feeling.
00:55:40And after today, I've come to the realization that that cat not only is a big badass hunter,
00:55:47he's a hell of a hider.
00:55:48He knows all the tricks.
00:55:49If we run into him into the future, I know that I'll have to look hard to find him.
00:55:54Hell of a day, especially with the season winding down.
00:55:57Time to get home, feed the dogs, and get back at it tomorrow.
00:56:04Daylight is fading over the Alaskan interior.
00:56:11And while there's still plenty of work ahead to finish processing today's catch,
00:56:16the new bounty of fur bodes well for the rest of the painter's season.
00:56:21I think it's looking pretty good.
00:56:23All right.
00:56:26Voila!
00:56:27All right.
00:56:29That's a nice Merton.
00:56:32It's soft.
00:56:33It's gorgeous.
00:56:34I'm going to add him to the cluster.
00:56:39Look at that.
00:56:41I can't wait for all those other ones to be done, Terry.
00:56:44It's amazing.
00:56:45We're well on our way to get our hold of the Merton that we're wanting to get this year.
00:56:51At the beginning of the season, my main goal was to catch 50 Martin.
00:56:55It's about five grand worth of fur.
00:56:58And there's still a few weeks of trapping left.
00:57:00So if the numbers stay consistent, I think we'll probably hit the goal that we want.
00:57:04Yeah, I feel like we had a really good year this year so far.
00:57:07Lots to look forward to with the new barn and then the trap line and the new baby.
00:57:12Yeah, it's very exciting.
00:57:15It's kind of nerve wracking a little bit, but you know, I feel good about everything that
00:57:20we've gotten done.
00:57:21It's been a lot of work.
00:57:23It's been an incredible amount of work, actually.
00:57:26We came to Alaska with like your typical Alaskan dream, I would say, to have the homestead and
00:57:33the trap line and kind of like a traditional family type way also.
00:57:37It is fulfilling to get closer to that dream.
00:57:42I feel like living in the woods off-grid makes us a lot happier living like this.
00:57:47And I hope that it does for the kids too.
00:57:50I love living in Alaska and trying to live as natural as a human life as I can.
00:57:57To survive out here in the winter, I think more than anything, it takes stubbornness and
00:58:01just not giving up.
00:58:03It's a lot of hard work, but it's about being free.
00:58:07And I don't think there's anywhere else that we'd rather be living or raising our children.
00:58:12In Northwestern Alaska, the only thing you can count on is that fair weather never lasts.
00:58:31100 miles down, with 250 more to go, the wind is howling, and the joyride is over.
00:58:47But Laro's new team is rising to the challenge, proving their mettle when it matters most.
00:58:55These guys, you know, a lot of my Iditarod veterans, they know the wind.
00:58:59And for my youngsters, they've never seen wind.
00:59:01We don't get that up in Fairbanks at all.
00:59:02But this training comes from traveling.
00:59:04You know, traveling the dogs, taking them out to learn this environment, learn where we're at.
00:59:10Getting into that wind, that sideways wind, getting on them and stuff, you know, they learn.
00:59:16Laro's running seven seasoned Iditarod veterans.
00:59:20But six young dogs are still in training.
00:59:23He's using the long haul to Kotzebue as a proving ground,
00:59:27where every challenge on the trail becomes a lesson for the rookies, gearing up for their first race next week.
00:59:33Being able to travel, see new environments, see new conditions, is what is going to make a successful team.
00:59:41We had a little windstorm through there, but now it's dead calm.
00:59:59And up top on this hill, we had no wind, we had a beautiful spring sunset,
01:00:06so I let the dogs loose to hang out.
01:00:10But you know, they spent, already spent half a month on trail,
01:00:14and now we're spending a few more on trail.
01:00:16So it's kind of nice just to let them just hang out and be dogs for a little bit.
01:00:21It's time for them from being battle-hardened, uh, Iditarod dogs to just playing around,
01:00:30just being a regular dog, just hanging out and just chilling.
01:00:33You know, these guys, these guys earned it.
01:00:35I swear, they worked their asses off this whole season.
01:00:39Yeah, these guys are just enjoying some R&R and bonding as a team and as a pack.
01:00:45It's pretty, pretty cool to get off these on the trail.
01:00:49It really does feel like, you know, they know who their team is and family and stuff.
01:00:54It has to be a bond, you know.
01:00:56I know other Joe Schmo can ask my team to do what they did.
01:01:01All righty.
01:01:04With spirits high, Laro's plan is to push through the night, if the weather holds.
01:01:11You know, I'm feeling pretty relaxed and, uh, ready for whatever's ahead and looking forward to the next half.
01:01:23Next time, on the season finale of Mountain Men.
01:01:29This is the culmination of the season for me right here.
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01:01:39Really had hopes for this, Dad.
01:01:43Chewed up, knocked down, tore up absolutely everything that's in there.
01:01:52Spring bear season's coming.
01:01:54And, uh, at this juncture, I still don't have any place to cook and eat.
01:01:59Talking with Nancy about me doing all this traveling, it's getting harder for me to do.
01:02:08You think you want to take my lines over?
01:02:11I was like, I can't do it anymore.
01:02:13This could potentially be the last cat of the season.
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