Mountain Men (2012–…): Season 11, Episode 1 - Forever Free - full transcript

Tom and Nancy Oar prepare for winter. Jake Herak goes on foot to battle the thick fog and harsh mountain terrain in the hunt for Moose. Josh Kirk tries to place a 150 year old cabin in the centre of hos bisonranch.

-This season...

I need to go.

...On "mountain men"...

My plan for this winter
is to get everything here

At turtle island
ready for freedom camp.

Everybody's living.
They could be living better.

There's a legacy here for me
and for my whole country.

People are depending
on this meat for survival,

More now than any other time.

So as designated hunters,

we need to push hard
And keep hunting



I need to get this outpost
livable before calving season.

That's freedom,
and it's a lot of work.

But we're not willing to trade
our freedom for convenience.

Let free or die, no matter what.

I bred lefty and marlene,

And we ended up
with a batch of 13 puppies.

Here it is, here it is.
Come on.

I need to make sure
that they're out there Chasing mountain lions.

So time to train up
some puppies.

Well, I've never had
any health problems.

I've always been
real healthy all my life.

This has been a big shock to me.
It's been really kind of hard

To just stop doing
what you've always done.

As the first freeze
of autumn sets in,



A ritual as old as time
is under way --

Hunters stocking up on meat
for the coming winter.

And for a seasoned mountain man,

That means the day begins
before the sun rises.

I'm hiking to the top
of the mountain here.

It's getting to be
about daybreak.

5 miles up above
the ruby valley,

Jake herak's pushing hard
into the wilderness.

I've got a really short window
of time to harvest some meat.

He's been stalking out
for several weeks...

But coming up empty.

I'm running short on time.

And it's pretty urgent
that I get this done today.

Jake knows when the snows
come, he will once again

Be chasing mountain lions
up these hills,

Pushing them away from
the valuable livestock below.

And now that his team of hunting
dogs has nearly doubled,

It could be
his busiest season ever.

I bred lefty and marlene,

And we ended up
with a batch of 13 puppies.

We decided to keep
and train five of them.

And they've been
keeping me busy, busy.

Elk's definitely
a number-one priority,

Being how it's about
three times as much meat

As I'm gonna get off a deer.
That's enough meat for me

And anika to get by
for a whole year.

Elk are savvy and skittish.

Bagging one takes
stealth and skill.

But jake's got one advantage.

Years spent running lions
in these mountains

Have made him a master
at reading the land.

So I need to get my butt moving
and get up there to the top.

Most of my hunting
is spot and stalk.

That means I spot
the animal long

Before I put the hunt on it.

So I want to get
some elevation under me

So that I'm able to see
these elk

Working back
into their bedding grounds.

Oh, man.

Damn it!

I worked my ass off
to get up here.

This fog's rolling in.
I'm not gonna be able to see

More than 50, 60 yards here
very shortly.

All of a sudden, I'm literally
just being swallowed by fog.

With hunting season
in full force across montana...

I'm on my way
over to my brother's house.

He got a deer.

And I'm gonna go
and skin it for him.

...Legendary mountain man
tom oar

Is also stocking up
for success.

Hunting season's going now,
so we've got to gather the hides

That we're gonna use
for the rest of the year.

Tom's expert craftsmanship
is in high demand,

Thanks to a new business venture
he established last spring.

Bear skin.

The trading post
is doing really well.

But it's been real hard
to just try to keep up

with making stuff
and supplying it.

Hey!

Howdy.

To help keep up
with the demand,

Tom relies on neighbors
like his big brother jack

To keep the pelts rolling in.

Looks like a nice big fat one.

They hunt them, and he skins,

Fleshes, and tans them
to sell at the trading post.

You think we ought
get to skinning it?

Yeah, might as well.

You came
all the way over here.

Tom prefers to do
his own skinning

With a primitive stone blade --

A tried-and-true technique
that results in a hide

Just the way he wants it.

Steel knives
have a tendency to -- to cut.

The stone knife, as you can
kind of see here,

Is relatively dull.

Most hunters pride themselves

On how sharp
their skinning knives are.

The skinning goes faster,

But it's also very easy
to cut a hole in the hide.

The fewer the holes cut,
the more pristine the hide,

And the more valuable
it will be when tanned.

Think you got a pretty nice
hide with no holes in it,

Except for the bullet hole.

All right, buddy, I got one nice
doe skin to tan up.

What we're trying to do
is bring as many skins in

As what we can bring in
and preserve them

And have them ready for when
we really get into the tanning.

Thanks for making good use
of that skin.

Well, yeah.

We'll turn that into money.

While the mild temperatures
of fall linger

Across much of the country,

Winter is closing in fast
in the wind river range.

I've got to get this cabin
moved asap,

Because last night, it dropped
10 inches of snow.

And I don't know when the next
storm's gonna be coming in

And how much snow
it's bringing.

With 600 bison
to protect this winter,

Josh's planning on creating
a permanent outpost

Deep in the heart of the herd.

And now in the wake
of the storm

the job Just became
priority number one.

I've got my wife, bonnie.

Charles, my father-in-law,
he's here to help.

Also my buddy randy's
gonna be here.

So it's gonna be
a community effort for sure.

So, guys, what we're gonna do
is, we're gonna shore this up.

I want to put a board here
and a board here.

I want to keep
that structure intact.

The cabin is a 20,000-pound,
150-year-old homestead

That currently stands
uninhabited

On the outskirts of the ranch.

If josh can move it 3 miles,
it could become a new outpost

That will help him
protect the herd.

Last year, we had
major issues with predators.

Golly.

This is a yearling calf.

This is definitely wolves.

It's a day-to-day struggle,
so I set up a tepee.

And staying in that tepee
made me realize

How important it is
for my presence to be out there.

The cabin is a far better
long-term solution than a tepee.

So we're gonna do
these braces on every corner.

But brittle with age,
it has to be well prepped

Before they can even attempt to
lift it onto a flatbed trailer.

All right, we're gonna do
these other corners now.

One wrong move, and the
entire structure could collapse.

We're talking about lifting
a 20,000-pound log home,

And you don't just lift
that up off the ground.

You got to make sure
that the structure is sound.

Perfect

The weakest point on this cabin

Is the front, where there's
a door and two windows.

By using the angle
with these 2x8 boards

On the front of this cabin,
it's adding strength.

Josh's friend randy

Helps install
the final layer of bracing.

Okay, we want to put
these straps

All the way around it,
to about right here.

And we want to cinch it up
really good.

We'll tighten the piss
out of it.

You ready?

Yeah.

You can start cinching.

And that just holds it
from going any--

You know, any other way.

One more.

Oh, there we go.

That's pretty dang tight.

Yeah, that's better.

All right.

You get on that side
and start lifting, And I'll jump
in this over here...

-Okay.

..And just see
what's gonna happen with it.

The first test is to see
if josh and randy

Can get enough leverage
with two forklifts

To simply break the structure
free from the ground.

The danger is,
it could fall apart,

So we've got
to be super-careful.

This building hasn't moved
since 1886.

It's seen over 150 winters.
A big moment.

I'm gonna take it up
little by little Charles, keep an eye
on that floor.

Go down on your side
a little bit

Floor ain't coming.

In wyoming's
wind river range...

...Josh's first attempt to move
a century-old homestead

Is off to a rocky start.

Floor ain't coming.

The floorboards are breaking
free from the structure,

Putting the integrity
of the entire cabin at risk.

-Guys, I'm gonna set it down.

Fortunately,
josh's friend randy

Has a lot of experience
moving old homes.

So, randy, what you think
about this floor?

Well, josh, a lot of the floors

Are built after the cabin set.

So you got to wrap cables
underneath them

To hold the floating floor in.
We'll go underneath the cabin.

And we'll ratchet it up
And that cable

will hold that floor up.

Two half-inch steel cables
are fed under the cabin

To add support
to the floorboards.

Oh, yeah!

That's probably good.

We've got the cables cinched up,
everything's tight.

Look like it's gonna hold.

It's time to get this cabin
up off the ground.

All right.

Moment of truth.

We're good.

Nice!

That worked good.

Floor structure
is perfectly sound.

I'm ready to start Stacking cribs, man

me too.

All right.

Let's get 'er done.

The next challenge is
to raise the cabin high enough

To get a flatbed trailer
underneath.

Think about lincoln logs.
They're flat lincoln logs.

And we jack it, put more under,
jack it up, put more under.

Step after step,
we slowly work around the house.

So far, so good.

-About one more, and we're
gonna be high enough.

There you go.

You think we can get
a trailer under it?

I think so.

Well, I'm gonna get
the trailer, and let's find out.

Sounds good, buddy.

It's noon by the time
they're ready for the flatbed.

And while snow was
their adversary this morning,

Rising midday temperatures
have created a new problem.

The sun is coming out
from behind the clouds,

The snow is melting fast.

It's getting muddy,
and I've got to get this cabin

On the trailer fast as I can
before we get stuck.

Right now, it's inch by inch.

Josh, come on back.

Come on back, come on back.

Okay, cut it the other way.

Good.

Perfect.

Once the trailer is centered,

The cribs are removed
one by one.

We're going down.
Watch out.

I'm all the way off.

I guess all we got left to do
is strap her down

And try to get her out of here.

Ready?

All right, we good?

Tight and right.

It's a couple miles back
to where we got to get to.

Slow and easy.
Here we go.

This cabin is a little
over 17 foot wide,

And we're not
driving on asphalt.

So we've got to be
super-careful.

We've got a journey ahead of us.

At the oars'
montana homestead,

Tom's 42nd winter in the yaak
is off to a strong start.

All right.

He scored two new hides
this morning

And is working to preserve them
before rot sets in.

If you don't handle these skins
when they're fresh,

They'll spoil on you.
These hides need to be fleshed

And dried, or else
you're gonna lose them.

Tom prioritizes
a pronghorn hide

Over his brother's deer skin

Because it's more difficult
to preserve.

With these skins, the first
thing you have to do

Is get the meat
and the fat all off of them.

All right.

I got the pronghorn all fleshed.

Now I have to take the hair off,

but

these skins are very thin,

And when you scrape them
on a frame,

They have a tendency to tear.

So what we do
with the pronghorn skins,

We soak them in warm water,
and then I'll be able to

Throw it up on this block here
and just scrape the hair off.

We got the pronghorn
soaking in water,

So that should be just right,

And I'll go get the deer skin.

We'll start working on that.

Nestled in the shadow
of the great alaska range

Is the expansive
susitna river valley.

More than 300 miles
of glacier-carved waterways

Are home to a bounty of fish
and wild game.

Which is why designated
hunters martha tansy

And her 12-year-old daughter,
elli, journey here every year...

This is really nice habitat.

They got food, they got water,

And they got shelter
all right here.

-..To secure meat
for their athabascan elders.

Being designated hunters

our goal Is to get as many animals

We can to feed
as many people as we can.

They arrived two days ago
to set up a base camp

That will serve as their home
for the next three weeks.

But they have yet
to make their first kill.

I think let's kind of skirt
to the left,

Get up on this ridge,

And then work our way
to the top of it.

And this year,
the pressure is on,

With a goal to harvest
2,500 pounds of meat.

-Just about done.

1,000 pounds more than

What they brought home
last fall.

There's a lot of people
depending on us for this meat

To feed them
throughout the year.

So this is vital.

Oh, man. I can see
the whole valley from here.

This is a really good spot.

Let's take our packs off
and get comfortable

And just...

Just sit and see
if we see something, okay?

Up on this knoll,
I can see for miles around me.

So when I'm out here glassing,
I'm looking for movement.

That's the first thing
I want to see.

Let me know if you see
any, like, white

Or gray stuff pop out at you.

-Okay.
-Okay?

Caribou start forming
large herds

As they migrate south
for the winter.

Anticipating and learning
how to intercept these patterns

Is knowledge that's been
passed down through generations.

Elli and I have been
coming out to this area

For hunting
for a long, long time.

The larger the herd,
the easier they are to spot.

But timing is everything.

-The caribou haven't
quite herded up yet.

They're just still in little,
like, 5 to 10 caribou groups.

It's kind of hard
to find them right now.

It's kind of just praying you
come across them, pretty much.

Mom.

I think I see something.

-Do you see that lake
over there?

Looks like it's caribou.
Maybe two.

Yeah, little white things
moving. Good spotting.

Those are way away
down in there, elli.

The caribou are grazing
in dense brush

More than a mile away.

Closing the distance without
losing them will be difficult.

And even if martha
and elli get lucky,

They'll face another challenge.

-If we do get them caribou,
it's gonna be hard

To get the buggy down in there.

But who knows? We may not
even see any other caribou

Other than these
this whole trip.

So...Yeah.

We've got enough
daylight left that I think

If we start working right now,
we can work our way there

Until we get close enough
to make a shot.

Got some ground to cover.

In alaska's susitna valley...

-Let's be really,
really quiet, okay?

..Designated hunters
martha and elli

Are closing in on the area where
they last spotted two caribou.

This looks like
the same lake

That you saw the caribou at.

Just one will provide
enough meat

To feed five elders this winter.

But with the sun low on the
horizon, they have to work fast.

I'm hoping they're
somewhere here still close.

And so we're just kind of really
keep our eyes open,

Looking around,

Just in case they pop out
right in front of us.

Oh, I just see their butts
going over that hill.

Right at the end
of that open spot.

Yeah, I see them.

Drop our packs right here.

So be quiet
going through this brush.

All right, let's move out
this way, okay?

-I think they're gonna be
right on the other side

Of this little ledge, okay?

As I poke up over
this little ledge,

I can see there's two caribou.
There's a bull and a cow.

If mother and daughter
time it just right,

They could each score a prize
and twice as much meat.

And soon as that cow
gets broadside, elli,

You can take your shot.

And I'm gonna get the bull
right after, okay?

Okay. Fire when ready?

fire when ready.

All right.

Mine's laying down.

Yep, yours is down,
and mine is down.

Good shooting, girl.

Thanks. You too, mom.

Elli has been hunting
her entire life.

She is right there with me,
and she's taking game.

She is a hunting partner,
you know. She's not a little kid

That I got to
hold her hand anymore.

-Each caribou will provide
close to 200 pounds of meat.

But the huge haul is far
too heavy to pack out on foot.

It's gonna be a long night.

And it's gonna be challenging,

But it's gonna be worth it.

And it's gonna feed
a lot of people.

Back in montana...

All right, finally.

.Jake's back in the game.

The fog's lifted,

And I can actually see out
across these flats.

Visibility is restored,

But the day
is winding down fast.

Sunset is just two hours away.

-I'm just gonna settle in here

And see if I can't get
something spotted.

There's a lot of
little finger draws

Where these elk like to hide,
so...

right there.

Right there,
I've got a herd of elk.

They're jumping into
that draw right there.

I'll bet they're gonna
hold up right there

Once they get off that ridge.

I just need to cover a couple
miles across these flats

And make it out
to where they are.

No time to waste.

It's definitely a risk

To try to cover so much country
this late in the day,

But I need to take advantage
of this opportunity

Before it gets dark.

This wind out here
is howling right now.

I think we've got
a big front coming in.

That's something I'm gonna
have to play to my advantage.

Jake needs the headwind
to stay in his favor

To have any hope
of a clear approach.

An elk's sense of smell is 1,000
times more acute than a human's.

I´ve got those elk bedded just on the
other side of the ridge here.

9 hours and 12 miles
into the hunt...

..Jake is starring
down the prize

He's come all this way for.

All right, she's down.

I can't tell you the relief
I have the second

I squeeze that trigger off

And I watch
that cow roll over.

There's several other elk
exploding out of here,

But the day was successful.

I set out to get some meat,
and I just accomplished that.

Holy crap. This elk's getting
bigger and bigger

As I get up on her.

Oh, yeah, that's a nice girl.

If I had to guess, this cow
probably weighs 650

To 700 pounds.

I'm losing light fast,
but luckily for me,

I shot this thing
just in enough time

To quarter it out
in the daylight.

When I'm solo hunting, I always
just take the four quarters off,

The backstrap.
Then I'll reach around then

And snag out the tenderloins.

And by doing this, I'm able to
actually pack an elk by myself.

Big old slab of meat there.

A lot of good steaks.

If there's one thing I learned
over the years,

It's being persistent.

All right.

Now it's time to get
my butt up and out of here.

This season, we've got a lot
of puppy training to do.

I need to make sure
that they're out there

Chasing mountain lions.

So time to train some pups.

Hunting season is
when tom and nancy

Earn a good portion
of their yearly income

By processing a bounty
of local game.

Hey!

Are you ready for this?

All right. Here we go.

So far, they've been
so flush in pelts and hides

That they're
running out of space.

Yeah, these are ready.

These strings are really tight.

That's just right
for dehairing.

Yeah, if we can get these done
and out of here,

We can bring them other two
skins in and get them done.

Most of the hides that we tan
go to the trading post.

Willy makes rawhide mattresses
and lines them

With our brain-tanned buckskin.

The hides have been drying
the stove for several days.

But before they can be cut off
the rack and stored,

All the hair has to be removed.

All right.

If you'll grab a couple
of scrapers, we'll get at it.

Thanks.

The primitive scrapers
are crafted from elk antlers

And fashioned with
a steel blade,

Which does the dirty work.

Not only does it
take the hair off,

But it takes the epidermis layer
off the leather

At the same time.

So it has to be
a very sharp blade that you use.

The sharper, the better.

-Once fully dehaired,

The hide can later be
brain-tanned into soft leather.

Did we get
to our 300,000 scrapes?

I think we must be
pretty close.

You have 10 to go,
and you're done.

Okay

All right. Let's cut this sucker
down and fold it up.

Okay.

It's lots of hard work
to do this.

But that's what it's all about.

All right, we just need to
bring them other two skins in.

It's a good haul
for a single day

And a promising start for an
all-new season in the mountains.

All right.

It's a crazy thing to do,
but I love what I do, so...

I'm gonna keep doing it
as long as I can.

They all need to dry.
Your stove all set?

Okay. Let's go home.

There isn't a day that goes by
that I think,

"wow, I got all this
to do, you know?"

That's what keeps me ticking.

On the open plains
of wyoming

josh's wide load Is making
slow-but-steady progress.

They're 2 1/2 miles
into the cabin move,

But conditions are changing
by the minute.

I've had a lot of snow,
it's melting fast,

And it's really muddy
and slippery.

And with a half mile
still to go,

They're facing
their biggest obstacle yet.

I've got to go over a culvert
that's got water

Running through it.
So it's not gonna be easy.

The culvert is a narrow
8-foot-wide land bridge

With a 6-foot drop-off
on either side.

Randy, I need you
to go around me

In case you need
to pull me forward.

Okay, I'm coming around you.

To cross it
in these conditions,

Josh needs to balance the speed

Of his 20,000-pound load
with momentum.

Too fast,
and he could slide off the edge.

I got to catch this culvert
just right,

Or the cabin's
going in the ditch.

But too slow, and he might not
make it through the mud.

Here we go.

Come on, come on.

Gosh damn it.

I'm not gonna get
any traction on this mud.

In Wyoming's
wind river range...

She ain't coming
out of this hole.

Josh's cabin
is going nowhere.

Yeah, I'm stuck.

The truck's not gonna move.
We're gonna have to hook up

To the forklift
to get this cabin across.

Pulling this cabin like this,
it's a dangerous move.

If we get too much speed,
we're just gonna slide.

But right now
I don't have any other choice.

While a forklift
can provide a tow,

It will reduce josh's control
over the steering.

If we lose the cabin here,

There's gonna be
no way to retrieve it.

The forklift's telescopic boom
allows it

To pull from a distance.

And its dual anchors provide
increased traction.

Slow and easy.
Here we go.

There's no telling if it can
handle the 20,000-pound load

Until they give it a go.

Come on. Pull.

Pull. Get it low.
Go low with it.

Go low with it.
Come on, baby.

Come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on.

Pull it, pull it,
pull it, pull it,

We're good, we're good.

I love you, randy.
My man, my man.

-Hey, I wouldn't go that far

Home is
right around the corner.

I can see the cabin site.
Come on, baby.

The final stretch is a
250-yard push straight uphill.

I'm almost to the top
of the hill.

We got it.

We finally made it
to the homestead site.

It feels good to be
walking on level country.

All right, let's drop
this cabin.

Are we off the trailer?

Yeah, we're clear.

Okay, go forward.

You're out from underneath it.

Side by side and crib by crib,

The cabin is lowered to
its final resting place.

Lowering the cabin, right now
I'm just trying to focus.

If we lose the cabin now,
everything was for naught.

A little more,
just a hair more.

That's it.

What do you think, josh?

I think it looks good.

Man, I can't say how much
I appreciate you guys...

Coming out here, helping out.

Heck yeah, anytime.

With the cabin
on solid ground

Has a new permanent base
of operations

josh now To protect his bison
for years to come.

It's been a long, hard day,
but the seed is planted,

And now it's gonna flourish.

Back in alaska's
susitna valley...

I'm hoping that I'm going
in the right direction.

The trek back on foot
took martha and elli

Nearly three hours.

And now they're inching their
way through the pitch black...

I don't remember this
when we were hiking in.

Trying to locate
the two caribou

They scored earlier today...

It's pretty deep.
I can't see the bottom.

Before the predators do.

I'm kind of concerned about
bears and wolves out here.

But we have to take it slow,
just take it easy.

Elli, can you hop out

And see if you can see
how deep it is, okay?

Okay.

Martha's a
U.S. Army-trained mechanic

Who built her custom
rock crawler by hand.

And while she's got the
confidence to conquer unknown,

She has the knowledge
to know her limits.

Oh, it's a little deep,
but not too bad right there.

I'm gonna make
my way out, okay?

Okay.

I just don't want to
go bombing through this,

You know, and having water
coming up

And getting all in my snorkel
and everything else,

And then it's game over.

Oh, that's looking
a little bit deeper.

All right, elli, stand back.
I'm gonna come forward.

I'm glad that wasn't too bad.

The dirt trail
only takes them so far.

To reach their kills, the rest
of the way is all off-road.

From here, it's just gonna be
boondocking

Across this brush.

Oh! That was bad.

cause it's not
a nice flat trail to follow.

I think this is
the right way.

This is crazy.

Oh!

Yeah, I'm not
feeling good with this.

Can you hop out and take a look
and see what's going on?

Help guide me up this hill.

Okey dokey.

What do we got?

Go ahead and come
straight up, mom.

Okay.

How we looking?

Stop!

Your tire's Coming off the ground.

How we looking?

Stop!

Deep in the alaskan bush...

Your tire's coming
off the ground.

Hunters martha and elli
are on the edge...

Oh, my god.

Trying to navigate up a hill
in the pitch black...

All right, which way
do I got to go?

Turn hard right and back up
a little bit.

All right.

And retrieve the two caribou
they killed earlier

Before the predators
beat them to it.

It's just too steep
of an angle

That we're trying
to get up and over.

So I'm gonna back up
and have elli kind of guide me

And then take this little knoll
on a different angle.

All right.
All right, I'm going forward.

Left.

Left more?

Looking good, mom.

-Yeah, it's feeling
a lot better in here.

I think that's the worst of it.

All right, hop on back in then.

Okay.

That was close.

Oh, yeah.

Whoo! Good spotting.

We got to be getting close.

Once they reach the hilltop,
they know they're close.

Can you shine the spot lamp
up on the trees?

-But to locate the exact spot
in the dark,

They're scanning
for a white shed antler

They left high up
in a nearby tree.

It's hard to see
anything in the dark.

So I'm gonna have elli
look around with the spot lamp

And just see if she
can see it somewhere here.

Is that it up there?

Yeah, there it is.

One box checked, huh?

So they've got to be somewhere
right around this area.

Let's get out and check.

Oh, I see it. Right over here.

Luckily their two kills
have been left undisturbed.

But that doesn't mean
that predators

Aren't lurking in the area.

I don't really feel
that comfortable right here.

You know what I mean?
There's all this brush.

And it's high enough where
if a bear just came up on us,

We wouldn't even know.

We've got bears
and wolves out here.

And, you know, these animals
have been down for a while.

And they're probably, you know,
putting off a good smell.

The safest plan is to winch
the animals onto the rig

And haul them back to base camp
to gut and process.

I'm so grateful to be able

To have this rear winch
on my vehicle.

To move big heavy stuff
is a big challenge for us,

So anytime I can use
a mechanical advantage, I do.

You good, elli?
I'm gonna lower it down.

Okay.

Getting these two caribou,
this is huge.

Having these animals
and being able to share them

With our community,
it's -- it's a big deal to us.

Pretty cool.
Two caribou in the trunk.

Hop in, and let's try to
make our way out of here.

Good job.

All right, you too.

This is really important
'cause there's

A lot of people depending on us.

The goal is to, you know, get as
many animals down as we can,

Be able to feed as many people
as we can.

This is vital.

Next time on "mountain men"...

Yeah, once we get these cows
up below the sheep...

What the

Crap, harry,
our camp is tore up.

That's bear tracks
right there.

-Oh, yeah,
definitely bear tracks.

Oh, here's a good spot.
I'll pull in right here.

Oh, that's way flat.

Oh, my...

Well,
normally this time of year,

We're pulling sleds
behind the snowmobiles.

A bit of a hill there, huh?
-Yep.

But we don't have no snow this
year, so now we're walking.

Watch the hill.

You're gonna roll!

Go, go, go, go!