Northwoods Survival (2024) Season 2 Episode 4

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00:00I like to do all the things that needs to be done.

00:02Help! Help, guys! Help, guys!

00:04Guys, come on!

00:07It's already getting really dark and very cold.

00:10Temperatures are dropping really fast.

00:14Days are shorter, so you spend more time alone in the cabin.

00:19This is one of these moments I would love to have someone close by to help me out.

00:24Yeah, I'm alone.

00:26Okay, no, this isn't working.

00:30I know you're never going to admit that you're cold.

00:32No.

00:33Back in the day around here, they just built with whatever the hell they had.

00:36They made it work, and I need to do the same.

00:38Or else before you know it, I'll be back in the city working a real job.

00:56The cold is the most dangerous thing in the Yukon in the winter.

01:14If you're not prepared for it, it can be a pretty situation pretty fast.

01:30Firewood is the most important thing here.

01:32If I don't have wood, I'm freezing.

01:38I always have a big pie ready just in case I break my leg and I can't go outside and cut firewood.

01:43Or if it drops to minus 50, the chancel won't start.

01:46You always have to make sure you have a safety pile.

01:50I'm planning on trying to find a little more efficient way of getting firewood.

01:59Right now, I'm just putting firewood in my dog sled, but I can't hold a lot of wood in one trip.

02:06So I want to build a little sleigh that I can pull behind me so I can double my load and I can be more efficient.

02:13A big fire took place on the trapline a few years ago, so there's a huge section that is burned.

02:29When I first came here and I saw the burn, I was like, oh, frick, there is nothing here.

02:32It's just this big dead land, but it's actually perfect.

02:36I have an endless supply of firewood and a lot of building material.

02:57It's essential for this lifestyle to know how to build things out of nothing.

03:03I can't just bring planes with all the lumber I need.

03:07It would be way too much money and it's just not possible.

03:11And building something from nothing, just a couple burnt poles, it's pretty rewarding.

03:28Looks more like a sleigh now.

03:31Looks good.

03:34I always think about my dad when I'm building stuff like this.

03:38I learned a lot of things from him.

03:41We used to build things like this together.

03:45He thinks it's a beautiful life that I chose and he's happy for me.

03:50It's hard when we can't be together all the time, but I'm happy I can do things that I know he would love to do.

03:56Hey, bud. Hey, bud. Hello. Okay.

04:02I'm using the plastic runners that are made for dog sled, so it's super, super, it's perfect.

04:09Nice.

04:10I think that's the weakest part of the sleigh here. If something breaks, I think that's going to be that. All the weight is going to be on here.

04:30I'm excited to try this. I think it's going to be fun, even if it's a disaster.

04:36That's a disaster.

04:39Say it.

04:43Come here.

04:44Hey, baby.

04:46Oh, you're so happy to go.

04:49You have a lot of things to say today.

04:52These dogs are Alaskans.

04:55Timber, it's not your turn.

04:57And they've been sled dogs for generations and generations.

05:02Yes, Lumi, we're going to go.

05:04Running and pulling, it's a big part of their identity. If they wouldn't run, they wouldn't be as happy.

05:12Guys, line up, line up, line up, line up.

05:16Okay, well, we'll try that.

05:24Okay.

05:26The trails around here are very curvy and hilly.

05:29Good boys.

05:31That's the part I'm a little bit worried about.

05:34Up, up.

05:36Oh, yeah, that's heavy.

05:42Up, up, up, up, up, up.

05:46Come on, up.

05:49Come on, Gabe.

05:50Up, let's go.

05:52Okay.

05:54Okay.

05:56Good boys.

06:02Hola.

06:04Hola, guys.

06:08Oh, that was pretty, pretty good.

06:10That curve was actually pretty chill, so it's more solid than I thought.

06:15It does look good, but tomorrow I'm going to cut a bunch of firewood and see how it goes when I'm loaded.

06:20That's the true test.

06:21This is winter at the log cabin.

06:34It's windy, it's cold.

06:37There is so much snow.

06:38And it's pretty hard to move around, but I love it.

06:44Okay, so that will be the floor.

06:48This is going to be at least 20 feet high.

06:50I'm going to build a solar panel system.

06:52Having electricity here on my land, it will just change everything.

06:56Oh, there's so much noise stuck there.

06:59For me, it's not a sin to be more modern, to use solar panel.

07:05For years, I used to light candles only.

07:09I know candles.

07:10I've done it.

07:11I've done it.

07:12Yeah, yeah.

07:13I've done it.

07:14I've done it.

07:38Five feet I would say.

07:41It's so important to keep busy, mostly in the wintertime, because days are shorter,

07:48so you spend more time alone in the cabin.

07:52So yeah, keeping busy, it's very good for the mental health.

07:57That's good enough.

08:00Those branches are in the way.

08:03I need to cut them off.

08:0920 feet from the ground, at least.

08:24All righty, yep, that's high enough.

08:30I'm dreaming about, you know, a radio, lights, everything will be somewhat comfortable inside.

08:38It's life-changing, actually.

08:45Parfait!

08:49Hey, man.

08:50Woo-hoo-hoo!

08:51Hey, the first one is done.

08:53Very relieved.

08:54Great.

08:55Okay, next one.

09:00This is one of these moments I would love to have someone close by to help me out.

09:04But, yeah, I'm a load.

09:11We depend a lot on food off the land.

09:24It's what we mainly feed our family.

09:26But you never know what you're going to get.

09:29You really need to work for it.

09:33The trip to Holly Lake is very long and it's a very cold ride.

09:40In the wintertime, it can take anywhere between four to six hours to travel to.

09:46We're very far from home here, but there's a reason why we travel very far.

09:53There's really big lake trout here.

09:54There's pike.

09:55Minus 40 and it takes a while for everything to start.

10:05Oh, wow.

10:08All right, ready?

10:11It's very cold and it's been cold for multiple days.

10:17Minus 45 to minus 52 with wind chill.

10:21We're going to put the first pole.

10:24It's brutal.

10:25But, you know, food is medicine and it's important to fuel our bodies with good food.

10:30It's way better to eat brook trout, you know, from the river than eating a fish stick from a box.

10:36How many?

10:37I think we need 12 holes.

10:39Okay.

10:40Okay.

10:48All right, go.

10:49The plan today is that we're going to put a stick through the ice and then we're going to get two white sticks

10:55and we're going to guide the stick under the ice with a rope attached behind that stick until the rope is on the other side.

11:03And then we tie the net after we're done that.

11:08Now, bro, who taught you to do this?

11:11Both your mom or your dad?

11:12Both.

11:13Sometimes in modern day world it's really hard to keep some traditions going, but doing it is keeping it alive and I think this is a great way to do it.

11:22All right, now I'm going to push it in like this.

11:29You see it?

11:31It's hard because it keeps freezing over and it's really deep in there, right?

11:36Yeah.

11:37Can you wiggle it around a bit?

11:40Okay, I think I'm holding it right now.

11:42All right.

11:43I'm going to push it.

11:44Okay, I feel it.

11:45Yeah.

11:46I'll put it there and I'll go to the next hole.

11:49Okay, I already lost it.

11:51I'm just trying to feel for it.

11:57Yeah.

11:58I don't see it.

11:59Do you still have it?

12:00Nope.

12:01Okay, no, this isn't working.

12:04I know you're never going to admit that you're cold.

12:06No.

12:07I don't mind putting my hand in there.

12:10It was probably not a good idea to do that.

12:12All day.

12:13All right.

12:14We'll have to go to Plan B.

12:28Living on a little island out the coast of Newfoundland.

12:31Boats are everything.

12:33All in your supplies, getting firewood.

12:36Everything out here happens by water.

12:42Having a motorboat out here, wintertime, full-time job.

12:45Every day I got to come down here, bail her out.

12:48Make sure it's not frozen.

12:53Yep.

12:54Almost out of the gas again.

12:55Story of my life around here.

12:57One of the biggest costs out here is gas.

12:59Not just burning gas to do things.

13:01I got to burn gas just to go get more gas to burn.

13:04Put me in a poor house before I know it.

13:08It'd be really beneficial to me if I had a boat

13:11I was able to get around in and do some work in

13:13that didn't require any gas at all.

13:15Just like the old timers back in the day.

13:18So I've been working on a special litter project.

13:20So many hours here to put into this tedious as hell and dusty.

13:35But it's going to be worth it in the end.

13:37It's like a new take on a traditional boat.

13:41Traditional Newfoundland Dory built in a modern way.

13:44Traditional Newfoundland Dory is a working boat.

13:47And back in the day around here that's how all the fishermen would travel.

13:51That's how they get all their supplies.

13:53That's how they make their money.

13:54Old skippers around here have been using dories forever.

13:57Really good in the rough water.

13:59And yeah, this thing would be a little workhorse for me.

14:01The outside of the boat would be done with fiberglass and epoxy.

14:07Traditionally this boat would have taken an entire winter to build.

14:12To do it like this I could knock it out in maybe a month.

14:17This little piece right here is going to be what's going to hold yours.

14:20Normally you buy little metal doohickeys here to hold yours.

14:24Back in the day around here they didn't have a store to buy metal doohickeys at.

14:28So they just used just a couple sticks.

14:32They just built with whatever the hell they had.

14:34They made it work and I need to do the same.

14:36Or else before you know it I'll be back in the city working a real job.

14:48That's the boat right there sir.

14:50It is like a giggly feeling to see it all come together.

14:54And this thing started like a pile of plywood and some paper plans.

14:58Now it's a living thing.

15:00Very, very happy the way it turned out.

15:02The big hurdle now will be getting it out of here.

15:05We are on the second story of the house.

15:07It's kind of like a ship in a bottle.

15:09It's stuck in here.

15:10The only way to get it out is to blow a hole inside the house somewhere to get it out.

15:14And this is where I'm thinking.

15:20And long term, the only thing I'm really worried about is the roof sagging down on that wall.

15:26Let's get some 2x4s and brace this up.

15:29It's not much of a brace job.

15:31It should hold.

15:32It's not much of a brace job.

15:33It should hold.

15:34Woo!

15:35We got daylight.

15:36Woo!

15:37That came out perfect.

15:39No problem getting a bone out of here now.

15:40It's a whole different house all of a sudden.

15:41What a view.

15:42All right, let's get this girl out of here.

15:44All right, let's get this girl out of here.

15:51Days are short.

16:14days are short in the Yukon in the winter you don't have a lot of daylight to do all

16:25the things that needs to be done so if you can save time it's gonna help you

16:44it's been pretty cold it's a little bit stubborn the priority for me in the winter is to stay warm

16:57so cutting firewood is the number one chore that I have to do I want to be more efficient and bring

17:06big loads of firewood so I don't have to travel so much working with a chance on the deep snow

17:13um I'm just careful because I don't see where my feet are so I don't want to get my feet down there

17:21hey buddies so it's slow process but uh we'll get there

17:28number one

17:31I don't want to go through too heavy for the first time I'm trying the sled so I'm just gonna go like

17:35yeah five or six logs in the sleigh just to try it out

17:43that's my work to get the logs out and then it will be their work to pull us out of here

17:56that's the last tree I'm cutting for today I think I have enough for one load I want to solve that tree

18:02as close to the trail as I can because I'm pretty down with that snow but I don't want to land it on the dog

18:10so I'll be careful

18:11oh boys

18:21well

18:28now we can try it but I think I'm a little bit optimistic

18:35I think it's gonna be a little too heavy

18:40oh maybe not

18:44I think we'll give it a go

18:47enough

18:50it's gonna be very heavy for the dogs

19:02there's a couple big hills to climb to go back home so that's the part where we'll see if we're too heavy

19:10or not

19:11hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop

19:12hop guys, hop, come on

19:13come on

19:14come on boys

19:15hop

19:16hop

19:17hop

19:18hop

19:19come on guys

19:20I know it's hard

19:21hop

19:22come on

19:24hop

19:25come on

19:26hop

19:27hop, let's go

19:28hop

19:30hop

19:31hop

19:32when I get tired of loneliness I just keep myself busy because it's not the equation

19:46of body it's mostly your mind so you've got to take care of your mind

19:53Well, today, the support is done, so now it's the platform.

20:03But man, that's trickier, because it's bigger, it's huge.

20:13These clouds, they're not good.

20:15There is no wind, even the birds, they're just hiding because there will be a big storm

20:20coming in.

20:21So, I've got to do it fast.

20:25Doing the solar panel system in the winter, well, this is maybe not the best time of the

20:29year to do it, but I don't have the luxury, you know, to wait and wait and wait until

20:33it gets warm.

20:35It's Quebec, half a year, it's winter, so you've got to work your way around and do what needs

20:42to be done.

20:43Oh, that's not too bad.

20:49Come on, big guy.

20:54Hey, man, I really don't want it to fall over me.

21:04That's pretty good.

21:06Oh!

21:07Holy smoke!

21:08That was close.

21:10Pushing yourself too hard can be dangerous, because nobody's around here.

21:14I am by myself.

21:15Man, I lost my grip.

21:20Man!

21:21Yeah!

21:21Woohoo!

21:22Yeah!

21:23Man!

21:24Yeah!

21:25Man!

21:26Yeah!

21:27Man!

21:28Yeah!

21:29Oh!

21:30Man!

21:31Yeah!

21:32This!

21:33Oh!

21:34Okay.

21:35Yeah!

21:36Oh!

21:37Okay.

21:38I need a board here.

21:39It will be like a safety rail.

21:42As the day goes, you get more than a safety rail.

21:45Oh!

21:46Yeah!

21:47Oh!

21:48Yeah!

21:49Oh!

21:50Oh!

21:51Oh!

21:52Oh!

21:53Oh!

21:54Oh!

21:55Oh!

21:56Oh!

21:57Oh!

21:58Oh!

21:59Oh!

22:00Oh!

22:01Oh!

22:02Oh!

22:03Oh!

22:04Oh!

22:05Oh!

22:06Oh!

22:07Oh, oh!

22:08As the day goes, you get more tired, so it's easier, you know, to do a mistake.

22:17You know, when I get tired, frustrated, I just think about a very good moment I've had

22:22on this land, and it just helps me to get through.

22:26Okay, when I first, you know, thought about it, I said to myself, ah, easy.

22:33Never easy.

22:37But still, this is why I like it here.

22:40I'm running always new stuff, so every effort, every job you do here, there is a reward.

22:47Last nail.

22:48This is a very big reward, this one.

22:55This is so great, man.

22:58It's very steady.

23:05First thing that will be the solar panel to set it up.

23:08Put in the light inside and make it, you know, make it like home.

23:14When you're out here on the land, you really have to adapt because not everything goes according

23:27to your plan.

23:30This is going to go like that every time we release the rope, it's going to look like

23:35this.

23:36And we're going to pull the rope, it's going to crawl forward.

23:39And then we release the rope, it's going to keep doing this, so it's going to keep crawling

23:44all the way to the end there.

23:48Oh yeah, it fits.

23:50Just right.

23:51Just right.

23:52Just right.

23:53It was meant to be.

23:54See?

23:55All right.

23:56Let go.

23:57Here it goes.

23:58See?

23:59It's crawling.

24:00Yeah.

24:01It's so cool.

24:02Oh, I hear it.

24:03This is a lot quicker than moving a pole under the ice.

24:13OK, it should be at the end now.

24:15All right.

24:16Right here.

24:17Do you see it?

24:21No.

24:22I think instead of doing another hole, just bring your chainsaw, let's make this one longer

24:43and we'll pull it out sideways.

24:44Like that, you'll have more chance of finding it.

24:47I'll go get my chainsaw.

24:48What?

24:49I forgot at the camp, it was warming up because of the ice.

24:52Are you serious?

24:53Yeah.

24:54Shh.

24:55It's really annoying.

24:56We need to not be out in this temperature.

25:01It hurts my face.

25:04I can't see it anywhere here.

25:10Like, I'm not going to keep making a whole bunch of holes.

25:13So maybe I'll try to back it up a little bit and see where it is.

25:17Oh my God.

25:18Oh my God.

25:19I think we lost the jig.

25:20Oh my God.

25:21Gilbert attached part of the string in the sled and I guess he forgot about it when he

25:36took off and then the jig followed him.

25:43Oh.

25:44What happened?

25:45Oh.

25:46You had it tight in the sled?

25:47Oh.

25:48Oh, that felt really funny.

25:49The sled felt funny?

25:50Yeah.

25:51Yeah.

25:52This would be why.

25:53Oh, look at that.

25:54Okay.

25:55All right.

25:56It's going to go in.

25:57Try to aim for the holes that we made.

25:58I guess that's the best we can do.

25:59Yeah.

26:00All right.

26:01Yeah.

26:02It's moving now.

26:03Gilbert?

26:04Huh?

26:05Once the rope is through, is it going to be pretty fast to put the net in?

26:20Uh, I don't know.

26:21Maybe another, an hour maybe?

26:24Oh my God.

26:25We don't have an hour.

26:27It's already getting really dark and very cold.

26:32Temperatures are dropping really fast.

26:34Okay.

26:35It should be about there.

26:37Yeah.

26:38Right here.

26:39I think I hit something there.

26:40You have it.

26:41I think I hit it.

26:42Let me check.

26:43Oh .

26:44There it is.

26:45Yeah.

26:46Finally.

26:47I'm going to feel relieved when I see it coming out of the ice.

26:50It's not out yet.

26:52Yeah.

26:53Yeah.

26:54Yeah.

26:55Yeah.

26:56Finally.

26:57I'm going to feel relieved when I see it coming out of the ice.

26:59It's not out yet.

27:00Yeah.

27:01Yeah.

27:02Yeah.

27:03All right, Pardis, it's done.

27:24So you want to go warm up?

27:27Yeah.

27:30So tomorrow morning, we'll just throw in the net, and we'll get some fish in the afternoon.

27:37I hope so.

27:48If I was living in the city, I could never afford a home, let alone an old home and a big old boat.

27:54There's a dream come true, but also a little bit nerve-wracking and sketchy.

28:00She was a priest.

28:10It's definitely steeper than I thought.

28:12I should have cut these poles longer, then it would have been a more gentle slope.

28:16Worst case scenario, she'll come crashing into the second story like a freight train.

28:20I think she'll take the drop, honestly, but who knows.

28:23I'll probably leave a bit of paint behind.

28:24Living out here like this, I've really gotten used to just getting to work and getting the work done.

28:35That does come back to play your n**** sometimes.

28:40That's your hole, boy.

28:41All right.

28:44Only one thing left to do, and that's hook up some ropes.

28:47I need some way to hold the boat back from just sliding down, crushing itself or crushing me.

28:56Ooh, I'm life.

28:57Now that I'm down here underneath this boat, I'm starting to wonder how good an idea this really is.

29:16One of these is supposed to pull on, and the other one is supposed to hold the a** in back.

29:20But, let's see.

29:21I forgot one thing.

29:24The last, the most important thing.

29:29They say it's bad luck to put a boat in the water that's not christened.

29:32God bless this boat.

29:34God bless Gallows Harbor.

29:37That's bad luck.

29:39That goes...

29:41Ooh!

29:44Let me try that again.

29:47God bless this boat.

29:48God bless Gallows Harbor.

29:52Well, we're cursed.

29:54We're going to the bottom.

29:56It's going to be a wet one.

29:59All right, little girl.

30:00This is it.

30:02We hope it works.

30:03There are no here in a sec.

30:04Okay.

30:18It's working.

30:19I need to see the little friend.

30:24I need to see the little friend.

30:29I need to see the little friend.

30:34Whoo!

30:36Hell yeah.

30:37Look at that.

30:39Soon as she's out in the wild, she looks like a whole different crap all of a sudden.

30:44I'm not an artist, but I mean, look at that.

30:46That's poetry. That's real-life poetry.

30:48An old, traditional, built Dory, modern times,

30:51built in a hundred-year-old saltbox house that was about to fall down.

30:56Now she's starting to spit out Dory's out of her.

30:59Doesn't get much better than that.

31:01This house is living the dream right now.

31:03So am I.

31:04I know, it's heavy. Come on.

31:16Come on, boys.

31:17It was very heavy for me. It was pretty steep there.

31:22I had to pull first so the dogs would get the pressure release on the harness

31:26and feel that they could go again.

31:28I'm not going to do it alone.

31:31Up, guys. Good job.

31:34Okay.

31:35Okay.

31:37Good boys.

31:43Having the dogs with me here is a big upgrade,

31:45but they are also very unpredictable.

31:50They're not.

31:52You have to be ready to, at some point, they can be like...

31:55Up, up, guys.

31:56Start doing whatever they want to do.

31:58Come on.

32:00Come on, Ico. Stop me.

32:02Okay, up.

32:05Come on.

32:05Okay, up.

32:06Some days they're off.

32:07Some days they're happy.

32:09Good job, guys.

32:11They're not machines.

32:12Huh.

32:13They're animals.

32:18Hey!

32:22Enough!

32:25Guys, come on!

32:26Hey!

32:28Hey!

32:29Mirak!

32:30Guys!

32:30Hey!

32:33Enough!

32:34Enough!

32:39Guys, enough!

32:41Get out of here!

32:44Enough!

32:45No question.

32:46What the f***, Len?

32:47No question.

32:48What the f***, Len?

33:15Enough.

33:16Enough, f*** now.

33:18Okay.

33:25It was pretty stressful.

33:27Mihak wants to be the boss and Jake wants to be the boss.

33:30If they decide they want to kill each other,

33:32they will in a couple of minutes.

33:34So you have to...

33:35Almost home.

33:36...react very fast and try to separate them.

33:39Hi boys, come on.

33:41They're wild animals,

33:43so it's good for what I want them to do

33:46and they're very good at their job.

33:48Almost home.

33:49But, uh...

33:51Almost home.

33:53It can be challenging.

33:59Hop, hop, hop.

34:00Hop, hop, hop.

34:01Good boys.

34:08That was quite the rodeo.

34:10It was almost a perfect run until these guys decided to f*** me up.

34:17But the sled is good.

34:19It worked in the uphill even though it was pretty heavy.

34:22I think I loaded up a little too much.

34:25But it worked.

34:26Yeah, I'm happy I can use that now to do firewood and pull heavy loads.

34:31So, that's the good part.

34:33And the dogs.

34:34I'm a little bit disappointed.

34:37But it's smashing.

34:39It happens.

34:40Well, I woke up this morning and, man, there is so much snow.

34:58One of the biggest snowstorms in this century.

35:02Hey, man!

35:05There's so much snow.

35:06It's crazy.

35:07Got to get my solar panel.

35:12There we go.

35:16Okay.

35:18All right.

35:27Oh.

35:28So much snow.

35:30So I'm glad I put some gaps between the boards.

35:34That was...

35:35That was wise.

35:37There we go.

35:43The screws cannot get through this frozen wood.

35:47It's like steel.

35:48This is not the perfect time to build this kind of platform, but this is the perfect time for me because I want my battery and I want my electricity.

36:07I need a goal. I need a purpose. I need a motivation.

36:09If you don't have a purpose here, you can get mentally lost, honestly.

36:15Yeah!

36:19Woo!

36:20That's good.

36:22Honestly, I have no clue what I'm doing.

36:24But I like to improvise.

36:26Even if it's not maybe the best idea ever.

36:29I just, you know, I like a good challenge.

36:36I feel excited.

36:40Give it a try.

36:42Okay.

36:43Oh, it's working.

36:54But, man, it's heavy.

36:56Oh, man.

36:5860 pounds.

37:01There we go.

37:03Yippee.

37:04There we go, man.

37:14It looks nice.

37:20Just in time for the sunshine.

37:24The battery is on.

37:25And now the last step.

37:27This is pretty cool.

37:293, 2, 1.

37:31Oh, yeah.

37:34Oh, I see some lights.

37:36Oh, yeah.

37:37Christmas tree.

37:38It's working.

37:41This is, wow, such an improvement of this cabin.

37:46It's like everything is now possible here.

37:49Lights, fridge, music, radio, bring it on.

37:54But not too much, though, you know?

37:56Because, man, it's still a cabin.

37:58I really want to keep it simple also.

38:02Simple, but easy living.

38:07Oh, wow.

38:09This is beautiful.

38:11You know, the more I work on this cabin,

38:14the more it gets beautiful.

38:16This is great.

38:18Yeah.

38:20It's magic.

38:21The ice is around four inches thick just from overnight.

38:22This is the way it is when you're out on the land.

38:23It's never just comfortable.

38:24You're always going to be uncomfortable and facing the harsh elements.

38:25This is the price that you've got to pay to be able to eat off the ground.

38:26You're always going to be uncomfortable and facing the harsh elements.

38:27This is the price that you've got to pay to be able to eat off the ground.

38:31And harvest.

38:32Hopefully, we'll get something.

38:34I can't really be of much use to you.

38:35The ice is around four inches thick just from overnight.

38:42This is the way it is when you're out on the land.

38:45It's never just comfortable.

38:47You're always going to be uncomfortable and facing the harsh elements.

38:51This is the price you got to pay to be able to eat off the land and harvest.

38:56Hopefully we'll get something.

38:58I can't really be of much use to you.

39:00Yep.

39:01I'll just tie it.

39:03Because I'm not indigenous and I don't have a commercial fishing license, I'm not allowed

39:07to put in a fishnet.

39:11That's something that Gilbert is allowed to do as an indigenous person.

39:17Right here is good.

39:19I'm very respectful towards that.

39:21I warm up my hands first.

39:22Here, come here.

39:24This one's frozen.

39:26But I do wish I could help Gilbert more.

39:29Yeah.

39:30Is it warming up?

39:31Yeah, it's warming up.

39:33Because I'm trying to feed my family.

39:37And this is a part of Ontario that you can't rely on the store to feed your family.

39:43Just tie it like this.

39:45Good.

39:46It's ready.

39:47Shit, it's already frozen here.

39:48I know.

39:49You're going to pull the rope?

39:50Why don't you just tell me if it tangles up and I'll come back?

40:03I'll show you right now.

40:05I'm going to take the bottom here.

40:06I'm going to put it in here.

40:07I'll show you all the time.

40:08I'm going to put it in here.

40:10So, I'm going to tie the bottom here.

40:12there you go that's it that's it that's all we just wait that was a lot of work

40:42we're gonna create this little shelter that's gonna block the wind from coming in

40:54we've been out here already in the minus 40s and now it's that much colder it's minus 52

41:03there's wind and gilbert's gonna be pulling out really cold fish out of the water

41:08so you're just helping you so that's gonna take a while and the risk of him having a frostbite on

41:18his hands are pretty high so you know we want to make sure to try to keep warm as best we can

41:23it's a nice spot we just put the net there I'm gonna start the here oh there's a fish already

41:35oh my god that's a huge one oh my god oh my god

41:43oh

41:47what

41:49oh wow wow look at the face

41:57whoa I'm like scared to gut that thing

42:02I don't know if I've ever seen a trout that thing

42:08I don't know if Sparky's shaking because he's cold or excited

42:12are your hands okay

42:15we're almost done the net so we got three damn I thought we were up there you go we started off

42:29strong I'm happy it's a successful netting we didn't get quite as much as we thought but we

42:39didn't get zero so the one big fish probably gonna feed us for a couple days food off the

42:45land like it's medicine it's really important that our kids eat that because that's what's

42:51gonna keep them strong and healthy

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