24 Hours Hunting, Trapping & Cabin Building in Remote Alaska.

Well guys, everything's going to be frozen solid here in just a few weeks. We're going to go out, catch our dinner, start working on the cabin before it's too late. Pretty bird. Frozen a little bit. I have some earthwork I want to get done for our new cabin. I'm going to go back and get to work. A bunch of birds here. I'm going to take the meat off of them and then grind it up to make some burgers for lunch. And then I'm going to take the bodies and I'm going to boil it down for some bone broth. Definitely going to keep all these feet for the broth. This one here is actually a ruffed. You can tell by the back tail. Really pretty. Little bird. Boil these quick. Peel the outer skin and then cover it all with a little water. I'm gonna save the heart and the liver and we're gonna throw these in here too. And we're also gonna put a couple strips of bacon in here. It's great. We're gonna make some lunch. I think I'm gonna rehydrate some of these wild foraged morel mushrooms to go on top of this. And we're gonna make like a patty melt. This is definitely gonna be more than we eat. We'll probably just, I don't know, probably freeze some of that. Open this dill pickle kraut that Lena and I made. This tastes like breakfast sausage. You think? Yeah, it's really good. I should go out one day and try to get lemons. A bunch of them? Yeah. Sourdough is really good. Tastes like French onion soup. Yeah, it looks, it tastes like a piece of bread that's been soaked in onion soup and then dried. Well, that was a great way to use those wild birds. We're going to get started back in on building our cabin. Before I do, I'm gonna clear some land before the snow flies so I'm gonna get to it. Boys a treat first. How about you Ike? You want a carrot? No moose this year but we got a bear, a bunch of fish, plenty of meat for winter. It may not be what we'd like but it's what we got. We'll see if we can get it done this winter. This thing is way newer than I'm used to. This stuff does. We'll figure it out. Let's clear some land. I spent a lot of summer days in Maine pushing over trees with an old bulldozer Amy's grandfather had given us and ended up clearing about 10 acres. Took me a lot longer than this so but had a lot of fun we started working on this cabin last year it got delayed we wanted to make it a log cabin and we wanted to use a thick log so it took us a while to source them but we finally found some they'll be here in the spring i'm just going to get as much done now as i can to get ready it'll be real nice to have this open sunlight here in the winter makes all the difference i'm going to take each tree push it down then i'm going to use the bucket to break all the dirt and roots off it i'm going to stack in a pile over there and then i'll come back with my chainsaw cut it up with firewood. This thing's a lot nicer than what I'm used to. Even got heat. I like trees around the cabin. These ones are gonna go. Step on the truck. Knock over some trees. Yeah it's gorgeous. Nice huh? It's got heat and everything. Get rid of this one. Wyatt and Ike are gone but the two little half-lings don't mind this at all. It's harder to pull a stump without the leverage of the tree. This old chicken coop, that way I have room to get a truck in here. It's way more satisfying than it should have been. Make a spot for next year's garden. That's the one. Verge looks concerned. way better i've been wanting to do that since we bought this cabin our cabin was built in the 80s it was a homestead then later a farm they had all sorts of animals here and when they built it this was all opened up but it was later abandoned and then everything grew up so it's really nice to start seeing that view again this is going to be the cabin's new driveway so i'm just going to strip the tundra get it ready for gravel driveway i think i'm going to make it a horseshoe tundra is It's just like a big carpet that comes up in big sheets. We're open. I'm gonna grade this out tomorrow, but I think we're good for now. View from this cabin's gonna be epic. I'm gonna go work on some firewood, and then let's go see what's in our traps. That's way more open, huh? Even get the mountains from behind here. See if we got anything. You wanna carry the pack? First one, let's go give it a check. Come on then. We got one. Yay. First trap and a nice little beaver. Let's get this guy out of here. There we go. Nice little guy. Turned into a really nice day. Hopefully we have a few more. Nothing in that one. Check the next. Look at that guy, huh? Gotta get a thicker string. Let's go and check the other trap. Check the last trap? Yeah. It's two beaver and seven grouse. All right. And it's already ratcheted. Let's go cook these up for dinner. Arm breaker. Beaver's lean. All right, I'm gonna start processing this beaver. We'll definitely save the hide, of course. We're also gonna save the tail because the tail's really good. Yeah. Yeah, you wanna smoke it? Beaver's one of those things where a lot of people know you trap them, but they're actually delicious to eat. They're really, really good. And the pelts are great for baby wraps and traditionally used that way. They're really good at keeping things dry, keeping dampness out. Those tails were really prized too because that was basically all just fat and collagen. So if you're thinking about it, if you're living off the land and winter's coming around, trapping beaver was good not just for the pelt, but for the food. Got my two pelts, bunch of meat. We're gonna go in and make some dinner. Ready to eat. Let's get it warmed up in here. Okay, so I'm gonna debone this beaver, grind it up, and then we're gonna make a pot pie out of it. Couple strips of bacon in here, then we're gonna grind it up. I think I'm going to put morel mushrooms in here, some potatoes from the garden, and I might scoop some of the bone broth from our spruce hens to use as a liquid. Dig in. You gonna try it? I'm on fire. You like it? You do? Oh, cool. I know you like. I've never had beaver this way. No. Better than smoked or you like smoked better? No, this is great. That meat grinder's revolutionary. Yeah, it's great. There's nothing wrong with that. No. No, it's good. We're going to be eating that all week. That's a giant Popeye. Well, that was really good. If I didn't know that was beef, I would just say that's beef. But that was a long day. It's somewhere around 10 o'clock. We're all tired, so we're going to call it a night. Hey guys, this is Amy and Dennis from Hold Fast Alaska. We are a small family living in the eastern interior, building a subsistence homestead. Thank you guys so much for watching. We hope you enjoyed that video, and we'll see you on the next one.