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That's a rough life to live when you have to provide everything for yourself. They make it look easy, but we don't see the times when they strikeout and are starving.

Those few families that still live in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge where only something like 8 families are still allowed to live there and are grandfathered in.

They are so remote that when the show goes from one cabin to the other it is usually in the 75 and up mile range between those families. They live in log cabins they build themselves, hunt for subsistence living, trap in the winter to make money to pay for the few luxuries we lower 48 folk take for granted-----and they pay a huge premium for the things flown in.

Heimo and Edna Korth have been living like that for well over 40 years and the youngest on the show is a 20 year old who recently built his own cabin over a 2 year period and survives by trapping, hunting and fishing. That kid is mature well beyond his years.

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Posted by Good Times

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Posted on 1/10/19 at 7:20 am to gumbo2176

I watch and enjoy the show often. The hard work ethic is real. Nothing comes easy.

I’ve realized that the best part of the show for me is the attitudes and life philosophy that are shared.

“Don’t fear death, all things die. Fear the pain that gets you dead”. Chip

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Posted by gumbo2176

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Posted on 1/10/19 at 8:09 am to Good Times

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The hard work ethic is real. Nothing comes easy. I’ve realized that the best part of the show for me is the attitudes and life philosophy that are shared.

On the show "The Last Alaskans" that couple, Tyler and Ashley Seldon recently had a baby girl that they are raising out in the Wildlife area and just like the youngest person on the show, Charley Jagow, their trap lines were destroyed in the big wildfire.

Now Tyler is cutting new trails to run his dogs to trap and Charley was gifted the late Bob Harte's trap lines by Bob shortly before his death and they are still in good country with no burn. I'm sure there will be maintenance needed on Bob's trails since he'd been sick and not using them for the past couple years.

At least on the show "Life Below Zero" some of the people profiled are near civilization like the Hailstones, the Ouray's and that big ole boy who's wife has been sick for years. And even then, it's a life many people wouldn't want to try.

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Posted by bengal1982

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Posted on 1/10/19 at 3:02 pm to WPsportsman

they have laws and if you follow the show will learn
some areas of Alaska each person child or adult are allowed 5 caribou per season, and water crossing is part of the migration, geese and ducks are limited too and your right some families are grandfather in due to ancestors

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Posted by gumbo2176

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Posted on 1/10/19 at 6:30 pm to bengal1982

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our right some families are grandfather in due to ancestors

Yep. Agnes Hailstone, Chip's wife is one of the native Alaskan's and she, her son and daughters can hunt things non-natives can't. That is especially true for hunting seals from what I gather. Chip stays home while his wife and oldest son go on their hunt.

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Posted by Smell the crawfish

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Posted on 1/10/19 at 7:22 pm to gumbo2176

I love the show because there's never a dull moment. I have often wondered how I would do out there, but that thought quickly vanishes as I fluff my pillow and pull the covers up as I get ready to watch the remaining part of the show! LOL!

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Posted by gumbo2176

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Posted on 1/11/19 at 8:41 am to Smell the crawfish

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I have often wondered how I would do out there, but that thought quickly vanishes as I fluff my pillow and pull the covers up as I get ready to watch the remaining part of the show! LOL!

I know I have wondered how I would have done in their situation, but the reality of it is I'm now too damn old to even think of trying to undertake such a lifestyle.

I'm as old as Heimo Korth and he's been out there since the 70's living in some of the most remote area of the world. In the beginning of the show "The Last Alaskans" he narrates part of it saying their home in the Wildlife Refuge and it is an area the size of S. Carolina, with only 8 families allowed to live in it since the gov. stopped letting people set up households there. Let that sink in for how remote they are.

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