AMELIA_STRASSBURG COLTON HAZEL_STRASSBURG ISAAC_BIGGER_BOY_PHILLIPS JODY_POTTS_JOSEPH JOEL_JACKO JUSTIN_PHILLIPS LOUISE_MOSES MAN MARVIN_AGNOT STEVEN_TIG WOMAN JODY POTTS JOSEPH All right, let's go! Let's go, good dog. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Our first mode of transportation was dog team. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I love traveling by dog team, it's my preferred method of winter travel. Good dog. It's really important to be able to have that dog team to get from point A to point B. Whoa. But these are really hardy, strong dogs that are really made well for this kind of environment. Let's go. The Yukon River really is our super highway. We typically have trails up and down the river. Whoa. But this year the river is so full of jumble ice, it's really just super rough. It's hard on snow machines, it's hard on bodies. Whoa, whoa! The dogs wanna go their speed and you know, I, for me going across jumble ice it's really important to try to go slow. Let's go. Hike, hike, hike, hike, hike, hike, hike. It's definitely really important to expose my dogs to a variety of terrane in their training. Whether it's you know, climbing hills or winding trails. Good dogs, wow. There are places where the dogs power is hard to control. Holy moly, you guys are flying. Whoa, whoa, whoa! JODY POTTS JOSEPH Ugh. Woah. All right. Woah! Woah! Ugh, they're strong. That was just a wicked corner, just too fast going downhill and whipping around a corner and you know, trying to slow them down but clear the corner, so. The most important thing is to never let go of your sled. Let's go. My dog team, they're young and they're training. You have to be really patient, their gonna get better and better and more used to doing this and it'll just become natural. JOEL JACKO The trail I'm going out on was like the old native dog sled trail. JOEL JACKO It become pretty grown over, you know in the last fifty years, and I've been kinda slowly cutting it out, but it's still pretty rough. Shall we continue? To me, the trail is actually very important 'cause I use it all the time for hunting and stuff. Just keeping the trail open, it's like almost like a survival thing. Back in the day, there was no vehicles out here and not really any boats, um and everyone just walked everywhere. Trail connected all the other little communities, up and down the lake basically. It was like a highway. All right, this is the creek I need to cross. There used to be a tree down right here, you'd be able to walk across the tree. It's not very high right now but in the summertime, if this thing floods, I mean it comes way up. It washed out that tree that was going across it. This tree crossing was pretty vital. Ugh. You definitely don't want to get your feet wet. You can lose a hand and still walk home but you can't really lose a foot. Ugh. So, I'm gonna have to figure out something else to do here. So now that I'm up at this high point, I'm almost wondering if I should try to make the bridge up here. Cause if I kept it up here, you never have to drop down into the river and you definitely wouldn't have to worry about it washing it away. Definitely be a more permanent solution. Kinda like that, actually. So, I think that tallest tree right there that's big enough, dredge the gap and then go from there. MARVIN AGNOT We're coming out here to Roundtop. MARVIN AGNOT Out from the village, beautiful protection for some snares that Justin's setting out, a little bit of trapping. MARVIN AGNOT Are you excited? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yup. MARVIN AGNOT I am too, I really am. This is it. JUSTIN PHILLIPS We'll take a gander up here. Today our game plan is gonna be setting fox snares on Round Top and hunting as we go. MARVIN AGNOT All right. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Take a gander down this way here. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, we'll walk down that way. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Here's the trail where we could try, looks like a too good game trail. MARVIN AGNOT And nice and narrow where that fox will snag his, gizzy. Looks like a good dandy spot. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT I'm gonna hold it. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Fox fur is very valuable and warm. Yeah, so if you just hold the trap right there. The wire trap, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. I got it there. So, it's got more to hold on too and you just twist it together after. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. I enjoy this. This is a blast. JUSTIN PHILLIPS I'm going after furs to try and get a good collection going. Make some fur hats and fur mittens out of this stuff. MARVIN AGNOT That would work. Well, should we walk down one spot, see if we find another trail? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT All right, we can do that. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Something just like that. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, that was a good spot there. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT We'll come back tomorrow and check them out. STEVEN TIG Right over there's where we saw those Doyonh tracks. STEVEN TIG Even marten in here. STEVEN TIG Doyonh, marten, so we'll stop set up a conibear for Doyonh. STEVEN TIG It's a dangerous trap but I'll show you how to set it safely. STEVEN TIG You know for myself and my daughter, it's a good learning lesson to show her tactics of snaring and trapping and what not. HAZEL STRASSBURG Where did that fish come from? STEVEN TIG Oh, this one we caught last, in the beginning of winter with our fish net. Good stuff. Try this one. HAZEL STRASSBURG Mm. Oh. STEVEN TIG Curl up your nose hairs? HAZEL STRASSBURG What is that? STEVEN TIG It's lure. That's bait and that's lure. And this, that smell is gonna go in the air and they're gonna be able to smell that long ways out there. HAZEL STRASSBURG Who taught you this? STEVEN TIG Um, lots of different places, people. I pick up what I can from who I can. Not one trapper will ever know everything about trapping. So, the more people you learn from, the more you'll know. Cause every trapper's got different tricks. Nice and stinky, I throw that back in there. And now we're gonna get into the dangerous part. And this is where you gotta pay attention. So, when we set this trap, we make sure those safety's up there on top. This is the most dangerous trap, in my opinion that I use out here in these woods. It's called a conibear, three thirty. Damn hard to get this off by yourself. So, if you're out in the woods trapping and you get that thing stuck on your arm, you're more than likely gonna wear that thing all the way home and then have to get someone to help you at home. Come over here and hold this up for me. HAZEL STRASSBURG Okay. STEVEN TIG I got it, don't worry now okay. Safety's are on. Hold it, yeah from that side, don't put your arm through. All right. STEVEN TIG Whoa (bleep). See if it wasn't for those safeties, I probably would have caught my hand. Now it's dangerous baby. Now we can definitely get stuck. So, from here we're gonna take this and put this in here. All right, the springs are off. See those safeties? They are off. This is a live set now. And now we gotta definitely be careful around there. One last thing we can do. Since that smell is so far down in there. Take a little bit of this lure and stick it on a stick up here, nice and high. The more I teach my daughter right now, you know the less she's gonna have to rely on a man or a husband or what not later on in her life. Smelly stuff baby. HAZEL STRASSBURG Yup. Tried to hold my breath. STEVEN TIG Get a good little glob on there. She's gonna have all this knowledge herself. You know, that's what I want all my kids to do is you know, take orders from nobody, just be independent. Know how to do all this types of stuff themselves. All right, showed you how to do conibears, now I gotta show you how to do a marten trap. HAZEL STRASSBURG Yup. STEVEN TIG Pretty confident, you'll be able to pass this down someday. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Whoa. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Good dogs. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Right back here there's a bunch of rabbit trails, so I'm gonna set a couple snares there and just let my dogs chill for a little bit. Okay, I'll be back. My goal is to have my team be more patient. You behave. You behave. While I'm doing things like cutting firewood, or setting snares, or hunting. You can see all the rabbit tracks here and you know that birch branch bent over there with all the nubs kinda chewed off. I mean it's like they're eating here so, it's a good spot. My mom taught me to set snares and I had my own snare line through here and up that trail when I was a little girl. I set the snare in the rabbit trail. And I'm gonna set a few and I'm always happy for one but one will feed our family one meal, so be nice to catch more than one. Snaring rabbits is a really important skill to have I think. You never know when life may require us to go back to the old ways. There you go. It's set. Let's go! So, while our rabbit snares are out, I'm gonna go ahead and go cut a few trees down for the load of firewood. Firewood in the winter is pretty much a never ending chore so, this will be also be good training for my dogs pulling some weight so, it's a win win for all of us. Whoa. All right, okay you guys. You're gonna chill here for a little bit. Just chill for momma. It's really important for me to get these dogs more familiar with stopping and the kind of lifestyle that our family has. As a baby, our family pretty much just had dog team in winter and canoe in the summer. That's how our family traveled around in the mountains and out on trap lines. And that's where I got this deep connection I have with this land. Next tree over here. Feels so good to be on my traditional land with my dog team and checking out places where I've heard stories about from elders that, you know, are important, I think, to reconnect to. And bring our people back, too. Good dogs. All right dogs, we'll be leaving soon. So I'm gonna go ahead and just head home with my dogs and I might get something in the next few days. And hopefully we'll have dinner. Good dogs. Wow. JOEL JACKO So, I'm gonna have to find a couple of big trees that are gonna stretch the distance. JOEL JACKO So, I'm gonna knock this tree down and I'm gonna try to get it to fall into the river. JOEL JACKO I mean the closer I can get it to the river, the better. JOEL JACKO I like building stuff. And I like building stuff outta nothing. And it's also serving a purpose. Just this simple bridge is gonna be a lifesaver. JOEL JACKO Holy crap. Won't even budge. Oh man, that is really freaking heavy. Wow. Normally whenever I'm building, I use standing dead trees and the tree is relatively light. There's not any standing dead trees around. So I basically have to use live trees and they're super heavy. I'll get a couple logs across the river and then I'll mill another tree for actual decking and then nail it on the logs going across the creek. Ah, it's manageable there yeah. MARVIN AGNOT We're going over to our snares we set yesterday. MARVIN AGNOT Just down the beach a ways. And on the way we're looking for fox on the beach and this is a good spot where they hang out. Perfect spot huh? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah, this is good. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Should be moving around in here somewhere, huh? MARVIN AGNOT Should be. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Right there. MARVIN AGNOT Oh right, here you go. Well, no activity on him. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Looks like nothing went by last night so hopefully something goes by soon. Looks like nothing. MARVIN AGNOT Moved it. Yeah, I still see the wire, it's in a good spot. The snares in good shape. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah, it wasn't bumped. MARVIN AGNOT No, so we'll just leave this alone again and um that's all we can do. MARVIN AGNOT Not every trapping is a success. For, um, me to be a part of what Justin does, you know it's how I was brought up. You know, we're always tight family. We're always helping each other and our family, this is how it was. We still carry that tradition pretty strong. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Look at that. It's the bed. MARVIN AGNOT Oh yeah. This look like a fox hole. Doesn't it look like he sleeps right there. JUSTIN PHILLIPS You can even see fur right there. See the fox fur? MARVIN AGNOT Oh yeah. We'll just take off and go around the corner. We'll go on the beach one more time to see if we see any fox on the beach. JUSTIN PHILLIPS A lot goes through my head when I'm stalking up on something. Especially when I get to the point of knowing where it should have been. Did it run? Or do I keep going? MARVIN AGNOT Fox over there on the beach. MARVIN AGNOT Got him. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Got a nice red fox. It's not cross or silver. That's what we normally get out here on Roundtop. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT We were coming up to the bitter end. MARVIN AGNOT Served a purpose. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Ready to go grab the fox. MARVIN AGNOT Good job Justin. JUSTIN PHILLIPS I love it being out in the world and just following everything. Trying to track everything down, see how they're living and, whatever free time I have I would be hunting if I can. MARVIN AGNOT That's a nice one huh? So far, looks pretty furry. JUSTIN PHILLIPS All right. MARVIN AGNOT Well. What do you think of its hide? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Not bad. MARVIN AGNOT Not bad huh? JUSTIN PHILLIPS This will make some good tops of hats or cuffs for gloves, anything. MARVIN AGNOT This is a good start. JUSTIN PHILLIPS I'll take what I can. MARVIN AGNOT Oh yeah. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Think when we get home tonight, I can skin it. Not too heavy, very fluffy. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. STEVEN TIG Use this to wire it on the tree. All right, pull on it. STEVEN TIG All right, oh, if it hold you up it can definitely hold a marten up. STEVEN TIG It's gonna have that bait hanging down right here. STEVEN TIG I set a bunch of different traps for various types of fur bearing animals. STEVEN TIG Marten and the wolves and the wolverines, we don't eat those animals, we just use them for the fur. Hazel, she's a super smart girl. STEVEN TIG And she picks up on things real fast. It's real important that my daughter learns as much as she can. Even if it's stuff that normally a hundred years ago, she might not have learned. HAZEL STRASSBURG I'll look. STEVEN TIG Got him? But times are changing, kids are changing, and you just have to change with it. HAZEL STRASSBURG Is it hard when you, if you get caught. STEVEN TIG Push on that. Push it down. HAZEL STRASSBURG Wait, which way do I go? STEVEN TIG See, now you're not so scared of it. As long as hand's not in the middle, you'll be all right. Always push that pin from the bottom. Now this one, this is just, see, one twist, that's all. We want this one to fall off easy. So when that marten get caught, he's gonna tug around, he's gonna be able to fall out of there. Now that marten trap is live, the baits live. I'm gonna need some stink stuff. Smear it around, get that smell all over the place. All right, that's a marten set. We just gotta get the heck outta here and give these animals time to come around and find these traps. Good job baby. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Right now, I'm getting my dog sled ready. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So I need a few things I need to change out. Daylight's burning. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Today I'm gonna run my dogs out to. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Check my rabbit snare line. The dogs get really excited when I'm hooking them up and so it's gonna be a little bit of like mad chaos until we start running and then they're just happy to be running. Hey, hey, hey, hey, calm down. Whoa, come on. Having a dog team is an incredible amount of work but it's totally worth it. All right, let's go! Let's go. Good dogs, good dogs. When I'm out on the trail doing my hearts work, I'm just so happy. So, the snares have been out for several days now. Typically, you don't go out and check them every day because you don't want to disturb the area and put too much human scent down. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Empty. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Empty. It's not all luck, you definitely need some skill level out here as well. But ultimately, you're at the mercy of what the land is offering. Check, check. JODY POTTS JOSEPH That one's empty. All right, last snare. Oh, not good. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Oh, looks like it got tripped up though. Woah, woah, woah, woah. My trap here got sprung and so I'm gonna repair it. It's good for them to learn to be patience and hang out while I'm doing my snaring and trapping. It's good training for them. That does it. I've checked all my snares. That's ready, hopefully rabbit will come along. The dogs are learning to chill out a little bit so that's good, I'm gonna head home now and call it a day. All right. Let's head home! All right. Let's go! It may take time, it may take patience. Luck out here is really dependent on your relationship to the land and animals. JOEL JACKO There we go. JOEL JACKO Ten feet (3 meters). The river doesn't look like much now 'cause it's super low. In the summertime it, it's way deeper. Still don't wanna be wet, pretty vital crossing right here. So, I think if I do an actual bridge with a platform, it'll just last longer too and then just a single long. It's safer. I just need some decking now. I meld most of my house. Pretty much everything but the interior side, I meld with this chainsaw. I think this thing is older than I am. Holy crap. Like starting a car. Walking on a log is always sketchy, you know, going across the river. So putting decking on there is just gonna make it a lot safer and easier. Wow. We have a little more melding to do and then nail it on there. Call it a day. STEVEN TIG Well, the snow's not too deep. STEVEN TIG So, you're gonna have to find a good, nice area like this with a big tree. STEVEN TIG Nice clean ground under neath it, clean it up a little bit, and you tap on it, tell it, Watch over me, please . STEVEN TIG Before you even start trapping or anything, you gotta know how to survive out here. STEVEN TIG You can't survive a full night in negative fifty without a fire. If you don't have any survival skills for this type of country then, you know, you're not gonna make it when things go bad. You're gonna have a tough time and you might not make it back home so I gotta teach my daughter these survival skills. STEVEN TIG This is something that you absolutely have to know if you don't know how to survive in the woods, you're not going to make it a full night when you do break down. When your snowmobile can't make it home again. See that match right there? HAZEL STRASSBURG It smells like camp. Smells good. STEVEN TIG Oh, we start putting stick on there, don't wanna smother it. Don't wanna smother it. All right, baby. This is something you always gotta remember, all right? Things go wrong all the time out here, baby. Think you're gonna know what to do? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG When it does happen, you're gonna be ready. Let's go take a walk up here and check on this marten trap. Sitting a few days, hopefully we had some luck. Go ahead go first, it's your marten set. There's tracks right here. Then around there's some more tracks. HAZEL STRASSBURG Dad, it's a marten! STEVEN TIG You got one, baby. HAZEL STRASSBURG Yay. STEVEN TIG Wow, that one looks huge. HAZEL STRASSBURG Got my first marten. STEVEN TIG Try to squeeze that trap, get that trap off its foot. Squeeze those springs shut. C'mon. Squeeze, squeeze. HAZEL STRASSBURG I can't do it. STEVEN TIG You can, watch the bait you're getting the bait all over your head. Ahh. Okay. HAZEL STRASSBURG I can't. STEVEN TIG All right. See, squeeze real good, it's off. STEVEN TIG Dotson'. STEVEN TIG He knows we had luck. Ravens, they always mean good luck. Next time you're hunting you see a raven fly by, pray to that raven. Good luck sign, baby. HAZEL STRASSBURG I want to keep it. STEVEN TIG Yeah. Pretty animal that's for sure. HAZEL STRASSBURG Maybe we could make like a hat, or something out of the fur. STEVEN TIG I hope so. You don't eat those animals we use them for the fur. I just love the little moments I have with my daughter. Just the little conversations I have with her, the questions that she asks. She's just an amazing girl, I enjoy all of it. This is a big marten right there. Good job, baby. STEVEN TIG First sooge. STEVEN TIG And now, I hope you get trapping fever. This is all you're gonna wanna do all the time. HAZEL STRASSBURG My dad is a good teacher because he taught me a lot of things. I like trapping marten because its fur is beautiful and soft. HAZEL STRASSBURG I have trapping fever now. STEVEN TIG Pretty awesome, baby. Pack him up. Start making our way back. STEVEN TIG Nothing in the doyonh set over there. STEVEN TIG So, make our way back towards home. I got my traps laid out now and now it's just an ongoing process from now on, checking them, adjusting them. HAZEL STRASSBURG I wanna get more of these. JOEL JACKO I'm just trying to flatten this out, get all the small bumps and then the knots out of here. JOEL JACKO So that the decking has somewhat of a flat surface to sit on. Just getting this bridge across the river has always been this huge obstacle. It's a huge thing just 'cause it opens up this whole area of land basically. JOEL JACKO It's something the whole community can kinda use. JOEL JACKO Staying dry, it's the name of the game. You gotta keep your feet dry. It's pretty cool to me that I can build this bridge and it's not gonna just help me, it'll help other people. It could be, like, a lifesaving thing especially in the wintertime. You know, I'm bridging the gap here. Come here. Yeah. Yeah. You don't like it, huh? Hm? That's a good bridge. Good, uh? This is gonna cut so much time off the trail. Like, because after that log washed out you had to, like, go up and down the creek and try to find a spot to cross. And this is right in the trail so like, this will be great, especially in the summertime, because the water comes up so much. So, I got the bridge finished, it looks good, it's pretty solid. I actually think the bears are probably gonna use it too which is good 'cause the bears help keep the trails clear. I mean it's good, solid. I like it. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Go check out those reefs around behind the island? MARVIN AGNOT Along Roundtop? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. We can go do that. MARVIN AGNOT Sounds like a good idea. We'll just go out and look for sea otters out there, uh? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Okay. Cool. Ready? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yup. MARVIN AGNOT Now that we got a fox, we're on our way to go get a sea otter. JUSTIN PHILLIPS The tide right now is perfect for hunting sea otter because it's low and there's a lot more at low tide. If you're not a quarter Alaska Native you're not eligible to hunt sea otter. I got a good feeling about today. I'm able to hunt them and not everybody can. And their fur is very valuable and warm compared to other furs. There's like three deer laying right on the beach up here. MARVIN AGNOT There is? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. The sea otter is just, in my opinion, so much better. MARVIN AGNOT Snipes right there you see them? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT In some villages there's some people that. MARVIN AGNOT Still eat the snipe. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Could've had about twenty of them. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, you could've had a load right here. That's a lot of cleaning. JUSTIN PHILLIPS I would say I belong in nature. JUSTIN PHILLIPS That's when I feel. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Most alive. MARVIN AGNOT All right. Let's go look for a sea otter. JUSTIN PHILLIPS [inaudible] right there. Two of them. JUSTIN PHILLIPS That's a big one there. MARVIN AGNOT He's by himself? Yeah. You got it? JUSTIN PHILLIPS They both have babies. MARVIN AGNOT Oh. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Hopefully, there's another on the back side, we could still go to the beach if we're able too. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Our Alutiiq people use sea otter in their clothing if they're able to get it just because of how warm it is and I know they use seal a lot, for the waterproof around their kayaks and everything. I really want sea otter fur the most out of everything just because they're a lot bigger than everything, the furs really soft. Lets go take a look right up and over this way here. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. I got a good spot right there. I think we could be able to sneak in the top there and spot them right over the edge. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Be able to see the whole backside from up there. MARVIN AGNOT Right there, there's one. Right there. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Let's go right over there in that rock there. MARVIN AGNOT Got it, yeah! What hurrah, woo! JUSTIN PHILLIPS That's a nice one all by himself. MARVIN AGNOT Nice shot. Yeah. Let's go get it, eh? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. I love hunting with my uncle Marvin and just getting him all happy and everything about it just makes me feel great and I would do it every day if I'm able to. MARVIN AGNOT Okay. How we doing there? We good there? Oh, yeah. That's a dandy one, isn't it? Boy, that's a nice color on that. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yup. MARVIN AGNOT Really nice. That's a good feeling for me to see Justin's sea otter success that he's been wanting to do and get. How's that? Perfect, huh? JUSTIN PHILLIPS I lost my brother a few years back and we did everything together, from hunting, fishing, spending our whole lives together. Me and Marvin miss my brother a lot, he was there with us on everything we did. I'm pretty sure he would feel very happy for what I'm doing. I know for damn well if he was here, he'd be doing it with me. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. That looks pretty nice, Justy. Eh, you did a pretty good job of cutting. Perfect square. All right. Very good, Justy. Get this home now and, um, start looking into pelts. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yeah. LOUISE MOSES Hey. STEVEN TIG Hello, girls. HAZEL STRASSBURG I got my first sooge. LOUISE MOSES Woah, your first marten awesome. Congratulations. STEVEN TIG What'd you think, Amelia? AMELIA STRASSBURG Let me pet him. STEVEN TIG You wanna pet him? Okay. You love the sooge? AMELIA STRASSBURG Uh huh. Yes. STEVEN TIG Good job, baby LOUISE MOSES Yup. STEVEN TIG Proud of you. LOUISE MOSES Really proud of you. STEVEN TIG It's a good first step right there, catching your first marten. Catching a lot of firsts now, baby. HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG Knocking them out of the way. Hazel, she is easy to teach, soaking everything up, doesn't question nothing. Just okay, that's the way it is, daddy said. Boys, you know, How come dad, why not? 'Cause I said. LOUISE MOSES You did a good job congratulations. I like it. Just what we needed now we gotta get it skinned out and ready to make a hat. But we need three. So, your luck better not run out girl, better keep trying, okay? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. LOUISE MOSES While we still got time. STEVEN TIG Good job today, baby. Proud of you. JUSTIN PHILLIPS It soft? COLTON [inaudible] WOMAN Nice and soft. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Say otter. Say otter. COLTON Otter. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yup. WOMAN Yeah, otter. COLTON Otter. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Thanks for coming along with me, unc, and helping me get my otter, using the skip and everything. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, yeah. I know I see that this is a nice hide, nice and dark. JUSTIN PHILLIPS You wanna go hunt a otter? ISAAC BIGGER BOY PHILLIPS Uh huh. JUSTIN PHILLIPS Yup. You're gonna come with me pretty soon and we're gonna hunt them. MARVIN AGNOT Can't wait to see when you guys put it together. I'm happy for that the kids are happy. Make their own hats and mittens. You're gonna learn too, gonna get the otter. Justin's a very important part of my life. We've done a lot together, you know, me teaching him the ways of how I was taught. He's really grown up. I'm happy to be a part of his growing up. STEVEN TIG My daughter Hazel, she's a strong little girl. Lot of the things that I learned, you know, out here in the woods is what my grandma Hazel taught me growing up. As much as I can teach her. STEVEN TIG I wanna give her the love of the woods. STEVEN TIG Right now and just try and grow that in her. MAN You sweet puppies. I know [inaudible] JODY POTTS JOSEPH The dog teams put away and now it's time to run the pups. Puppy training. Just really excited. JODY POTTS JOSEPH To have this litter because they're my future dog team. And seeing them progress into, like these great working dogs is just so satisfying. All the work I put into them as they're growing and until I start working with them in harness, it's just such a really awesome, awesome feeling to see these dogs develop, grow and progress into being awesome working dogs who are healthy and happy. All the work totally makes it worth it. [SNAP IN] MARVIN AGNOT First time using it? JUSTIN PHILLIPS Mm hmm. MARVIN AGNOT And it's a pretty soft hide. I had never done this even growing up as a kid. Maybe I just never really paid attention but I never done it. JUSTIN PHILLIPS When I was Isaac's age I was living in Anchorage so I couldn't do much hunting up there. I lived down here until I was, I don't know seven years old and then we moved out to Anchorage and stayed there until I was about fourteen is when I was finally able to come down and shoot my first deer. Isaac is six now and he got his first deer already. Just because he can learn at a young age, of what we do. I love living here, I'm pretty sure the kids love it. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. It's a nice place to grow up and I'm very happy with what we got now and for them to be a part of fishing and growing up at a young age. JUSTIN PHILLIPS The tail is the fun part. MARVIN AGNOT Not too much fat, huh? JUSTIN PHILLIPS So far. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, that's pretty good. Got quite the sharp claws, long. There we go. JUSTIN PHILLIPS There's the tail. MARVIN AGNOT Sure is plenty of fox. I like it.