Alaska the Final Frontier (Clip) | Alaska: The Next Generation

Trying to raise family in Alaska. Not exactly safe. You just need to keep your eye out. That's why I start packing a little bit bigger gun. We really came out here just to follow our dream of living the subsistence life. If I was a brand new rookie out here, I'd be scared to death. It is great living, but it's easy dying out here as well. All of our hands have a little blood on them, and if the predators aren't out to get you, the weather is.

Okay, you're gonna want to watch out. Are we going to build, like, a little railing on the porch or anything? I don't know about a railing, but I was thinking, so the roof will hang over right here. We'll have two posts coming up. I like your idea. This is very much bigger than your average dog house. I want the three bigger dogs to all be able to fit in there together.

Olivez, come here...and provide a space to get out of the rain, out of the snow, and out of the elements. Should love on Olivez. She's having a pretty rough time getting around with all those puppies sitting on her tummy. How many puppies do you think she's going to have? Seven or five. Seven, or five? She's planning on a two hundred thousand hundred. Yeah. Yup. Too many.

All right, Olivez, we got to get to work because we're going to take the trees that we got. We're going to cut them the length and strip the bark off of them, with some draw knives. That doesn't have to be perfect, we just want enough off to where the moisture will not stay in there and rot. You want some help? Yes and no. Yes and no? Yeah.

Watch. Do you want to try? You can always get that with a [inaudible]. Will you turn my [inaudible] like this? Can you skoot the, can you skoot the log that way so I can roll it? You can always hand her the chainsaw. Not this time around. To gain knowledge as a child, of how to do adult things that is so valuable. Like all of these skills, these are things that typically aren't really taught in school.

That part's kind of hard because it's got knots in it. Here I'll turn it and maybe try, like this part. Okay? I think I got all the easy stuff and you got all the hard stuff to do. You're doing pretty good. I got easy stuff. Oh, you did? Oh, okay. Lily is checking it out. See where this one is? Right there. I went in from the side at an angle. You see how solid that is? That ain't moving.

Wow. This is going to be fantastic. I like being away from people. Like being away from modern technology. I like to disconnect, create my own world. Now live like people lived in the past. All right. Coming up to the snare line. The first one right there. Easy enough. It's empty. My paycheck out here doesn't come in the form of money. It comes in the form of meat and I need to find more meat.

I need to center it a little bit more. All right. Keep on checking. You know, it's interesting, because I made these paths with my snowshoes and now I don't need snowshoes anymore because it packs down and it freezes overnight. And the solution here is kind of do the same thing. They just go in the same exact place. So they're making little highways, I'm making little highways. Everything I do out here, I'm learning from the animals.

See what's happening here? Nothing. Trap looks good. No new tracks at all around it. Keep on checking.