My god, you have a lot of work to do over here.
Yeah. That's okay.
I knew it was gonna be a lot of work,
and it's so much more work than I thought it was gonna be.
Yeah. Is this the spot right here?
This is gonna be the spot, yeah.
Still a bit more clearing to do, but, yeah.
Have a cabin up here, kind of a deck going out.
Good view of the strait out there.
Little shop over there,
bar and bowling alley probably over there.
Right on, right on.
Yoga studio for the ladies.
Cool, yeah, you need a lot of wood, dude.
Yeah. There's definitely no shortage of lumber here,
but it's, getting it to the spots.
With winter coming faster than I want,
it's pretty dire right now.
I need to get a small little starter cabin
before winter hits, but I have zero experience
in building a house from the ground up.
I need lumber, I need wood.
I got a plan.
I've been wanting to build a logging trailer for a long time.
The log hauler. We're gonna do it.
Sammy said he's got material,
sounds like curly's gonna dump some trees for me,
I haven't had time.
I figure get some beams for you,
I need framing material for my additions and stuff, too,
and boardwalk material, so.
Yeah, I'm really glad you brought up the,
you're ready to do the log hauler,
I think that'll speed things up.
All right, well, hey,
let's get the hell out of here and go find Sam because...
Okay.
Yeah. You got a lot to do here, man.
If I have any chance of beating winter,
I'm gonna need a lot of lumber.
Today marks the first day of my cabin build.
Our last bear hunt was a bit of a fail.
I can get in my own head,
and that is when I start making bad shots and bad decisions,
so I just need to calm down when I'm hunting.
This is more about just killing a bear;
it's more about just proving to myself
that I've still got it.
I'm just returning to the same place
just because we hope to just kind of stick
where we've seen the freshest sign.
Because a killer always returns
to the scene of the crime.
All right, we'll just sneak in here.
Fishing's coming up, bear season's ending,
it's kind of like crunch time to get another shot at a bear,
and so we're gonna go out now.
See if there's any prints out here today.
This deer print looks like it's running.
Running from a bear.
Their toes are spread, so that means
that they're just really on a mission to get out of here.
- Yeah, but look... - Like they're running.
They're five foot apart, dude,
they jump from right there to right over here.
There's a couple sets,
so, like what were they running from? I mean...
Fresh bear tracks right here!
Right past where... Ha, right where we are...
Where we want to go.
They're a little tiny, but they're probably
the same bear that you shot at the first time.
He's not scared off at all, he's still coming here.
This is a good spot.
Check out a spot over here maybe in the...
Let's go find a little spot.
The tree line or something.
We should probably get out of this area
where he's gonna be smelling us.
That's good, that gives me a little more confidence.
That confirms it, Breanna.
Your instincts are definitely right,
and we're staying right here, man.
This is the spot.
Yeah, look at this little dandy of a spot right here.
Yeah.
You got wildflowers.
We can get up against this spruce tree right here.
Yeah, I think this is perfect.
Look where you can see, too. You can see everything.
- Let's make it happen. - Yeah.
Even though this spot is a really good vantage point,
it's still really far away from where we would see a bear.
It's kind of nerve-racking.
I have lived in port protection my entire life.
I've heard people say, you know, like, you were born here,
don't you realize there's so many more things out there?
You know, I get it.
I went, I traveled, I looked,
I didn't like what I saw, I came back,
and it feels good, it feels like the right thing to be doing.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm just gonna make sure we can get a log
up on this damn thing.
That is 51 1/2.
I'm gonna make an a-frame,
and it's gonna have a winch attached to it.
So, Troy and I are both building houses
out here on our properties,
and building this log hauler is gonna be really important
for getting lumber for both of us.
Yeah.
And then the winch will actually be down there?
Well, the winch might be mounted up,
up on this post here.
Okay, now I'll go back
and see how far it is to the end of the trailer.
We don't want too much sticking out
once you get a 16-foot log in here.
Right.
That's 15. That's not bad.
In order to build a cabin, I need wood,
and that's really where the log hauler comes into play,
it helps me get the wood to the wood mill.
Sam's a huge help.
If it's not gonna work, whether it looks pretty or not,
he's, he's gonna let me know.
Basically, this is gonna enable Carl
to pull a log up on here, dump it in the water,
he can take them to the sawmill,
and he can get his house finished.
- Yeah, and Troy's. - Yeah.
- Well... - Or start it.
Yeah, or start it.
Real important for, you know, people like me
that actually have some knowledge
to pass along as much as I can to these younger fellers
so they can be successful.
If you're not, you end up moving back to town
where you can get a, you know,
a job at a burger stand or something.
All right. Mechanical advantage, man.
I'm telling you young fellers.
If you don't use it, you're gonna end up like me.
Barely able to walk.
It's not so much that Alaska is paradise,
but it makes you unfit to live anywhere else.
We live a pretty rough-cut lifestyle out here.
You got to be resourceful.
All I can say is never stop learning
till they plant you, or they might as well plant you now.
Perfect size.
Yup, beauty. All right.
Like I say, not building a piano.
This is beach gravel.
It is an excellent building material
that we can source locally
that, just takes a little bit of blood, sweat and tears
as opposed to the almighty dollar.
That's gonna be good and solid.
I'm gonna work on a little wood deck extension,
and I should be able to keep 41/2 to 5 cords
on the front porch.
This will allow me a large enough insurance policy
that if I'm laid up for a month or two,
I'm not gonna freeze even if it's the middle of winter.
This is only about 7 1/2 here.
It's, it's usable.
It, it'll work.
All right, let's see if we stayed in line.
We'll lift it over.
Roger, Roger. Three, two, one.
See what we got here.
I got a problem.
Low on the center one?
But maybe 'cause this corner's high.
Yeah.
Well, crap.
We've got a problem.
There it goes.
Bull's-eye. Good deal.
Went right where I wanted it.
Carl, he's gonna get quite a few boards out of this, I think.
Carl, he's pretty busy and anxious to get some trees
over there to the mill to saw up,
and he should get three or four 12-footers out of this
pretty easy, I think.
A good start, to a pile of boards for his house.
I get a lot of enjoyment out of doing this.
Oowee!
That's gonna make some nice boards and that,
some fine lumber.
Pretty decent log.
It's already dry, too.
You don't have to worry about no shrinkage.
No man wants to worry about shrinkage.
That's a start.
We'll find another one.
Well... I guess I'm ready.
I think it's gonna go fairly easy maybe.
There she goes.
Shhh...
My!
That one, as you can see, didn't make it
all the way down to the ground,
and I got to try to tie that thing up
without killing myself.
What the hell was that?
Whoa! Well, this is just kind of a... A mess.
This tree has been a freakin' pain in my ass,
ever since day one.
I ain't gonna let it get the best of me this time.
That thing is way too slippery, I can't get no traction.
I told Carl I'd pull these out to the road for him.
Don't do much logging anymore.
Too old for it.
Too busted up.
What I'm doing right now, you know,
it makes me happy to do it
because for the younger generation, Carl,
he was just a little guy when I first came out here.
Him and all the other boys were running around,
and look at him now, he's building his own empire.
You know, we need more young people like that
in port protection,
otherwise the place is gonna just die off.
I want to see him succeed.
Yeah, it's kind of funny, I mean,
I used to be the new kid on the block.
I was young and feisty and full of piss and vinegar.
Now I'm becoming one of the old-timers around here.
Jeez, it seemed like I was 35 the other day, and...
Now I'm in my late fifties.
Time flies too damn fast.
Carl will be pretty happy with this.
He should get quite few boards out of this.
Come on.
We got 'em.
Get in there.
Got to have a stick.
Now that I got these logs done,
I'll be exchanging this chainsaw for my rifle.
It's deer season.
Did he hear you?
Yeah, I think your correction
is gonna be just nipping off the outside of that.
Yeah, I'm just gonna shave,
just gonna shave that one up.
That last piling.
Saw blade.
I like center bubble.
I like center bubble a lot.
Well, that's one major piece down, darling.
I have no idea how many deer I've seen
along this stretch of road over the years.
You just never know where they're gonna be standing,
I mean, it...
That usually happens when you're least expecting it.
Deer season is like better than Christmas
to most people out here on prince of wales, you know,
I mean, we all been waiting for it for a long time.
Yeah.
I can smell the heart and liver already.
I definitely can take a shot from this vantage point,
I feel like, so I definitely feel more confident.
Hopefully a bear will come out.
Packed them up for the airplane float.
This is the start.
The wrong side.
We have to weld that together, up there.
There's gonna be a piece up there.
This is the actual a-frame.
It's gonna sit up high, tipped slightly forward.
This a-frame, it's gonna be approximately eight feet
off the trailer bed, which will give us a pretty good angle,
we'll be able to pick up the, the front of the log
and with just a small ramp,
slide them up onto the boat trailer.
Yeah, it's gonna be 50, over, over 50 inches.
And I think it is, just by looking at it.
Did you already... these are the ones that are going in here?
Yeah.
This log hauler is gonna move the log,
get them to the sawmill.
It's gonna be an important resource for Carl.
He's finishing his house up and whatnot,
and young Troy also needs lumber.
It's gonna be like a tripod.
That's tipped forward a little bit.
Did you win your race?
What's that?
I thought you just got done with a bike race
or tour de France.
This is my new welding hat.
So, what is a welding hat?
It keeps the sparks from going down the back of your neck
and you don't have to take it off when you put your helmet on.
- Very cool. - Yeah.
And you can ride a bike way faster.
Streamlined. Aerodynamic.
It's not a bicycle hat. I'm not in the tour de France.
I'm, I'm just getting rugged up to do some welding.
I've never taught anybody to weld before.
First time for everything.
Now see, I'm gonna hold the torch at about that angle.
I got you.
Okay, so before we weld this out all the way,
I think I'm gonna have you run yours down this side.
I don't really know anything about welding.
You want to keep a molten puddle.
Yeah.
You'll know you're moving too fast
if it starts to look funny.
It's not a, it's only a little tiny, tiny thing.
I, I think the most intimidating thing about welding
is just spraying molten metal all around your hands
with a load of electricity.
Let's see.
All right.
So, you're right in that area, about?
- Yeah. - Right there?
About the right angle?
Yeah.
Okay. I don't want to screw up.
Let's see.
It is going slow, but that's how it is.
It'll go slow until it doesn't.
Then all of a sudden, he'll be here,
and we'll need to shoot it quickly,
so it'll speed up real fast.
Breanna.
I see a bear. I see bear.
No.
Yeah. It's a nice one, dude.
You got to get the rest.
Got to sneak up on it, Oliver.
Crouch down.
Shut up.
Stop talking.
We're, we're scoping all the way.
I don't want to lose this one, so just...
Get a round in the chamber.
Just take a deep breath, let half of it out.
I don't think so.
I thought that was a good shot, too.
I mean, they run away sometimes
if you don't hit them right in the right spot.
Where were your crosshairs at
when you pulled the trigger?
I saw all black, so, I mean,
I feel like that's what you told me to do, so.
All right, all right, well, cool, man.
Like...
Let's go over there and we'll get a check for blood
and see if we can see where the hell he went.
Shoot.
I really think I hit it this time, like, I really do.
Do you? Well, all right.
I feel way better than the first time.
Right on.
Well, if you're confident with your shot, I'm confident, okay.
All right, we are gonna go and check and see
if that bear got hit or not.
I hope so, because that is the nice big one
that we were looking at.
Try to shove us on out. Whoa.
Where was it exactly?
I think if we would, we would see some blood around here
if I had hit him, so.
See something maybe.
I think I missed another one.
To realize that it's me or something that I'm doing wrong,
it, it really hurts deep down because you just like,
you've defined yourself as this hunter
and this great, like, outdoors man and stuff,
and then you see yourself fail
in a way that is just really hard to take.
So bummed, dude.
I know, I don't really know.
The second time.
I just want to throw this gun in the water.
I don't even want to use it anymore.
Well, I mean, if you think it's the gun,
we can go shoot at the range and kind of see
if it's, you know, the gun or you.
I mean, that's kind of harsh, but.
Yeah, I know, I don't want it to be me.
No, of course not.
Well, baby, pretty happy with our foundation.
- Here to there. - Yes.
Love the smell of red cedar.
Now that I've actually got, quite a few projects
moving towards my wood collection and storage.
I'm gonna actually be able to keep a wood splitter on site,
which is a first.
I've never really been able to even think about a log splitter
until I got to this point in my infrastructure.
Well, nice, doll.
That's about what I was thinking, I tell ya.
Okay.
Time to go, grab the log splitter
and start trying to get that assembled, I figured we can...
Okay.
Hoist it up.
Sounds good.
I'm pretty damn psyched
to see this whole operation come together.
Fresh activity.
See where a big one's
been going back and forth through here a lot.
There's a deer bed right there.
Those are fresh.
A lot of deer sign in here.
There's definitely bucks in this area.
See some pretty fresh tracks where he's been moving around.
He's living in here, it's just a matter of where.
You can see he's been going
back and forth through here regularly,
and hopefully we'll just catch him when he's coming through.
Deer hunting, you got to have a lot of Patience,
it's like fishing.
Usually when I'm sitting there looking for deer,
I'm just, wherever I'm, I'm looking over,
just keep scanning it, you know,
and hope something pops up.
Welding.
Just watch your puddle.
Nice and slow, yeah.
Looks good.
The basic idea is weld an a-frame
to the front of the skiff trailer,
mount an electric winch to that with a couple pulleys up high,
and then we should be able to just pull logs on.
Sweet and simple and easy.
That actually looks quite professional.
- That looks great. - Yeah.
Now look at those, that's beautiful.
That was, yeah, that looks way better.
It's such a thing of beauty.
So, you're a frickin' welder now, dude.
Looks kind of like Sam's.
You can weld anything you want.
Thank you, Sam. Thank you.
Yeah, looks good.
Surprisingly.
I let Carl work on this end up here,
and I'm gonna do the same thing with you I did with him.
I'm gonna let you run a few beads.
I'm, nervous about everybody sitting there
watching how bad it's about to come out.
No pressure, but Carl got it right the first time.
Don't say that.
I'm gonna be the laughingstock out here.
I don't know what you're doing wrong.
Okay, just point it right at that thing.
I don't know what's going on, Troy.
What the heck am I doing wrong?
It doesn't want to arc right off the bat.
Well, don't know.
It's on the wrong pipe?
We're hooked up to the wrong thing.
We don't have a ground.
Well, see, it's always something simple.
- I feel a little better. - Yeah.
You know, five minutes later and about 20 attempts
we finally figured out that we had to move the ground clamp
over to the pipe that we're actually welding.
Okay, go for it.
Is it there?
Caught my glove on fire.
I caught the glove on fire.
Never seen Sam do that, of course.
I don't think Carl did it either.
That one felt really bad.
They don't have to look absolutely perfect.
They're only little, tiny welds, so.
Give me an attaboy. Give me an attaboy.
That's a good boy. Such a good boy.
I've been thinking about a log hauler for a long time.
It's something that, I definitely need.
The new house, new property, and a lot of projects,
I need a lot of wood, so.
Hopefully this is gonna solve that problem.
Look at that, looks like you've been welding
for 20 years.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Yeah. Sweet.
Did I pass?
Yes.
On that one.
It's all you.
Tag in.
Look at that.
A little easier that time.
If these young people don't learn how to, survive
out here in port protection,
then they'll move and leave,
and port protection will just be like a ghost town,
maybe a tourist trap in the summer or some damn thing.
- How's it going? - Hey, hey, hey.
It's Morgan.
Hey, hey, hey.
You get done?
Yeah.
Well, everything passes muster.
Nailed it.
Yup. Nailed it.
Yup, well I'm happy.
You guys look like you got a lot accomplished.
It's taking shape, anyways.
Yeah.
I feel like I'm confident enough just doing that
that I could stick some metal together
and make something solid.
You, both of you guys absolutely can.
All right. Okay, let's, I'm gonna throw a rope over this,
we're gonna stand this up to see what it looks like.
We've got the a-frame built
and the winch is mounted.
We still haven't put power to the winch, but that's okay.
No.
No, it don't. Now walk that back.
Yes, we can actually mill lumber.
And build houses. That is amazing.
Yeah.
I don't even see where I hit it. Did I hit it?
I don't know. Shoot again, man.
No, dude, you didn't hit anything at all.
Didn't hit it at all? What is going on?
I don't know, dude.
I really don't know. Maybe I'm just, like...
You're not hitting very good right now, that's a fact.
I think you should probably just shoot it
once or twice to see if, where it's at on paper for you.
There you go.
Just anywhere it'll fit.
Just like that, that, that's fine.
So heavy, it ain't gonna be bouncing around.
When I was just a little boy and I first got here,
port protection was full of old timers.
I can remember things they told me about this cove
or finding a fish,
you know, what kind of wood to use when you build this.
Basically, I'm a by-product
of these people that were tough as nails.
I'm in the process of doing the same thing
that the old timers did with me.
I'm ready.
Okay, go ahead.
Looking good?
Now that is how you haul stuff out of the skiff
without busting your tail
by hauling it all the way up
and back and around and through and forward.
I love our hoist.
I can't wait to split wood with this thing.
Ha ha ha ha! Nice.
That is what we like to see.
I mean, two bullets sitting there pretty much holding hands,
you can't go wrong with that.
Just embarrassing, honestly.
Yeah, this sucks.
I was really hoping that it was the rifle and not Breanna.
- It's okay. - But I don't know why.
Hey, it's okay.
But, it's something that we're gonna have to work on
and just, you know, have her, have her practice a little bit
and get the bugs out of her system.
I think it's probably time to move.
Go find a different spot.
You know, I had some pretty high hopes of eating liver tonight.
I ain't gonna give up.
You're gonna have to ride back here
and hold stuff, though, probably, Troy.
You gonna be able to hold on to these two?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Just sit on it, Troy. - Yup.
Put your foot on that.
Come on, big dog.
I don't see any seat belts back here.
Okay, it's ready to shoot.
Okay.
See the flinch?
Yeah, I saw that.
That was what's gonna make you miss right there,
exactly what's gonna make you miss.
Just take your breath
and just remember to slowly squeeze the trigger.
Okay.
But that was the flinch
that we're worried about right there.
Because at 200 yards that kind of stuff right there
is what's the difference between a hit and a miss.
There you go, that's, that's ideal right there.
Okay, I think I can try a bullet now.
Okay.
Well, slide her back, put her forward, put it
there you go.
I think you hit it, man.
Let's go down there and check it out.
Dude.
I can already see fresh marks on the target, dude.
Yeah, it is where I hit.
Sweet.
Dude, badass.
Well, that's cool. All right, well, you're get
definitely getting there, man.
I finally started hitting the target
and getting a really good grouping,
and so that definitely makes me feel better.
I can calm down,
so that's just what I've got to do going out there now
is I just need to go get back in a spot
where we know that there's the bears,
and I just need to calm down and take a good shot
and take my time with it.
You're hitting, we know it, let's go show it.
Hopefully a bear will give us another shot.
Please, bear, give us another chance.
There's a few deer in here and they're moving around.
Hopefully we'll see some.
To determine whether or not it's a buck.
I'm gonna use my scope, just gonna look at it.
Pretty good size, whatever it is.
Well, we got a Doe there.
Maybe she's got a boyfriend.
Because where there's does, there's bucks in the area, too.
There's another one right there in the ditch.
These are definitely does.
As you can see, there's no antlers on them.
Can't shoot either one of them.
Well, that was nice to see anyway.
Gives a guy hope anyway.
Yeah, they've seen enough, they're out of here.
One starts moving, it's like they all do.
It's kind of weird.
Wherever there's food, that's, that's where you'll find them.
You just got to keep looking for them.
Hopefully I can get a nice buck.
Walk up here a ways further.
I'm just gonna keep on working the area here
because I am burning daylight.
They like to bed down out there.
Pretty early in the season,
I mean, we got tons of time left.
Hopefully we'll have some good luck.
Okay, we'll get this pulled up.
You only got a little bit more.
But I got to back it out a little.
Yeah. Let it out.
Firewood out here is the bottomless chore,
it never ends.
But actually I've put a great deal of thought
into how to best accomplish that chore
that I know is never gonna end,
and I think I'm just about top notch
on getting her all squared away
so that I have to touch each piece of firewood
about a third of what I used to.
It backlashes.
Keep going.
Let's roll.
Keep, keep clear.
Pull.
Set it.
Pull.
The hat made it.
Hey, got to keep my head from being sunburned.
All you guys need to put on these,
then you'll really be cool.
Get my fonzie jacket.
You didn't tell us we needed those yesterday
when you were showing us how to weld.
Got to have a fonzie jacket.
I see, I see how that works.
Just laugh at the new guys.
Yup.
Log hauler build has always been on my list.
The construction of this little a-frame,
it could get moved from trailer to trailer
with, you know, very few modifications.
I would say this is kind of like a legacy.
I'm sure this thing will be around for years to come,
long after I'm gone.
Okay, I got it.
Now somebody put the strap on it.
That looks good.
Good god, look at this thing.
My heavens.
There's one thing.
We didn't put a spot to put the battery on the trailer.
Bet you if I stand here and scratch my ass long enough,
I could probably figure that one out.
Well, if your battery cables are long enough
to reach this height right here...
- Yeah. - We'll just...
- Yeah. - Flip this bucket over
and set the battery on the bucket
while you're doing your, your yarding.
Definitely forgot to make
some sort of mounting system for the battery,
so now we're gonna have to disconnect it
every time we want to move the trailer.
You're not gonna be tall enough to do that one.
I know I'm not tall enough for that.
Snap that bad boy in there.
So, now we're pulling 8, 9,000?
9,000.
Now we're pulling 9,000.
How's that bucket working out?
It's working.
I kind of like this, the pin doesn't fall out.
See if it actually turns on or not.
For sake.
Are you kidding?
Battery cables do not fit.
My god.
There aren't any bigger?
No, they're all the same size.
They're all the same size.
Yeah.
Keep going.
Okay!
Let it out.
There we go.
When it comes to, dealing with my winter wood,
I think, I'm gonna be in the chips
all the way through February.
Now you can toss them right where the splitter is.
Boom, ready for splitter.
I like that.
I want to see if it's copper. It's copper.
Is it? Perfect.
You'll be able to peel that out of the way.
Every time I hook a battery up,
I run into this problem, I feel like.
The best part about copper
is you can fix it with a pocketknife,
it cuts pretty easy, so, simple solution, quick fix.
I want to see if this thing works.
It's killing me.
You're killing me, smalls.
I don't know if it's gonna work.
Let's see.
- Rrrr! - Ha ha ha!
Ooh, look at that.
Look at that, man.
Let there be power.
- It works. - Indeed.
Cool. Nice.
I'm pleased as punch.
I wouldn't be doing this without Sam right now.
Troy wouldn't be doing this without Sam.
There's no way to express how much he's helped us out here.
I mean, he's, he's exactly the guy we needed for the job.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Sam, thank you as well.
I would say thank you, but.
- Well, we'll get there. - Yeah. We'll get there.
Yeah, no, you... One day we'll find something
for you to thank us for.
It just so happens that Carl and Troy
are, are young enough now,
they've got any number of years ahead of them
where they're gonna be figuring out all kinds of things
just to make their lives easier
or just how to do something right
without making 10 mistakes
before you actually get it right.
Well, I think we should go, make this thing do its job.
Absolutely. I'm down.
Smells good out here.
I see a bear.
You're annoying.
The reason I think I'm missing
is I think I'm just getting into my own head.
Like, I can get myself, like, really, like wrapped up
in, in my own thoughts,
and Oliver can kind of like get excited,
and it like, I feed off of it,
and so we just need to calm down.
Well, nothing's changed.
- No. - That's good.
I think morning's good to be here, just to see.
Got to start practicing
getting up early for fishing anyway.
I know.
We're way out of practice for that. We're way out.
Draggin' ass.
Dude, there's a bear right there, Breanna.
We see a bear.
Shh.
Came out, it's that one, same one you took a shot at.
Shut... okay. Got it. Shh.
Okay, I'm sorry. I'm excited.
I'm really nervous, dude.
It's at 130 yards, dude.
He left.
Probably went in the wood.
A, dude.
Just give it a second.
So annoying, dude.
Let's crawl back, grab the backpack.
So sick of this.
Just couldn't get a shot at it
because it just went back into the woods,
so, just gonna have to sit and make sure that it comes back,
hope that it comes back out.
You know, I can't really like blame myself
for not just taking a shot at it,
because, I mean, that, that was what I did wrong before
and I blew up the spot,
so it's like I just wanted to see
if maybe the bear would come back out.
And we might be able to get a better shot at it.
I feel like this is a perfect spot to be.
Let's make it happen.
Yeah, the bear will give us another shot, I think.
Curly went out and dropped
four nice spruce logs for Troy and I.
And we'll try and get them off the road.
Get those on there, let me bundle these up real quick.
I think we're ready.
Getting this log hauler done
is a big step to really building my future
here in port protection.
Give it some gas, man.
This is not an easy place to live.
People come out all the time
thinking they can live in a tent on the beach,
and not all the time successful.
Okay. That's good, back her down.
I have seen a lot of people come and go.
Ha.
- Look at that! - Ha!
We made a log hauler.
How's your back feel?
Hell, yeah, Sam.
Hey, I'm not hurting at all.
- Nice. - It's great.
You know, it's, it's hard,
you have to have the drive and the motivation,
the want to go out there and make things happen.
I like to think of myself
as the guy that makes things happen.
You know, if I want something, I'll get it eventually.
It might take me three, four years to, to do it,
but eventually I'll get there.
I'm not in any rush.
Holy cow.
We got mushrooms.
Look at them.
Big old cluster of chicken of the woods mushrooms.
There's a score.
Might not have got a deer so far,
but I got the mushrooms to go with the liver and onions anyway
when I do get a deer.
Living in port protection,
you can go out and do this pretty much anytime you want.
The land will provide for you.
Not easy, but the bounty is worth every bit of it
that, that you receive.
Doesn't get any better.
Just, like, getting irritated,
like, I'm really irritated with this.
I'm getting kind of over it, honestly, like...
Unfortunately we do have to stop here at some point
and go get the boat ready.
It's kind of getting to be crunch time on fishing season.
There still is fall bear season,
so, I mean, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah, there is another chance to take a crack at it, so.
Yeah, and we know, we have all this knowledge now.
I've made mistakes on this bear hunt,
but you don't get better by giving up,
so I'm just gonna keep trying.
I mean, with the amount of life we see
around this part of the world,
I feel very fortunate
just knowing that I'm never gonna starve.
I mean, there's always something to eat around here
if things go bad.
It's just living out here in this beautiful place,
you just can't go wrong,
I mean, getting a bear or not getting a bear,
you still live here at the end of the day.
Quite a long ways we've come in six years.
We've done all right, baby.
I'm gonna play with my new toy a little bit more, yeah.
Okay. And you're never gonna let me
play with that, are you?
Sure, I'll be gone sooner or later,
you can fire it up.
I have no desire to live anywhere else.
If I want to be able to continue hanging my hat here,
I have to make sure that I'm capable
of taking care of business.
For me, that means making sure that I get done now what I can
to make tomorrow easier.
I would say that there are no trees safe in the forest.
Not anymore.
Yeah.
Here's to many, many boards.
- Yes. - Yes.
I might not actually be able
to teach everybody everything,
but if you teach them not to be afraid
to dive into something that they don't know anything about
and make a few mistakes,
that's probably one of the most important things
you can teach a person.
I think that we should all teach the younger generation
how to be successful.
I don't have to worry about you pestering me now
until you break it, so.
See you soon.