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northern frontier,
narrator:
On the Western Hemisphere's
northern frontier,
the race is on.
- You're going into the bush.
It's you against Mother Nature.
Mother Nature is unpredictable.
♪
narrator: And the most
ambitious company on the ice
roads is Muskie Creek.
♪
- My problem right
now is that we have
so much forecasted right
now and so many commitments.
I'm short on drivers.
We've got seven loads
to load tomorrow.
My name is Bill Danh.
And I'm the operations
manager here at Muskie Creek.
Apparently, there's an air
leak on the air tank.
Did anybody do
anything about it?
Our primary goal is to service
northern communities
via winter road access.
With about six weeks
of winter roads,
we have to slam these loads in
as quickly and as efficiently
as possible.
Some of the communities
that we go to,
their only source to get
food, building materials,
is by local roads.
♪
It's crucial in that
short window that we have
we get as much freight
up into those communities
so that they can sustain
for the next year.
♪
- Bill.
- Todd.
Nice to meet you, buddy.
- Nice to meet you.
- Yeah.
- Heard a lot about you.
[rock music]
- I'm Todd Dewey.
And I come from
a little town called
Port Angeles, Washington.
[horn honks]
Sweet [bleep].
After spending five, six years
up here being on the ice road,
you know, it becomes
a part of you.
♪
I'm taking on this
challenge this year
because I have a chance
to actually make some money
and build a nest egg
back for me and my wife now
and buy my own big rig.
- Muskie Creek, we have
a very good reputation.
Whatever we commit
to, we fulfill.
We don't leave a load behind.
So Garden Hill is where
your load is going to be going.
- OK.
- And then from there,
you're going to cross the ice.
Then you're going to travel
down here to St. Theresa Point.
That's going to be where I need
you to pick up the back-haul.
- OK, you got it.
narrator: Todd's burning
800 miles to Garden Hill.
Then he's crossing Island
Lake to pick up his back-haul
in St. Theresa Point.
- It's loaded.
It's ready, secured, just
need a load of screw piles.
They go into the ground.
- You can't start the building
until those are in, right?
- There's a housing
shortage in Garden Hill.
So all loads, materials,
it's all critical.
- Gotcha, 10-4.
- My biggest
concern is that he
may have lost his edge.
I really can't afford
any mistakes to happen.
- You know, I'm coming
up here with a super set
of skills that not a lot of
guys have.
[horn honks]
I'm 51 years old.
I don't know if I've
got what it takes
anymore to do these roads.
But I'm going to hit it hard.
And I'm going to see if I can
make myself some good coin.
Am I nervous?
Absolutely.
See if an old man's
still got what
it takes to get the job done.
♪
- The road is
in rough, rough shape.
See, you can't see [bleep]
like that right here.
There's a lot of pieces
on here, heavy items.
If they fall off,
there's no way
I'm going to manually
and physically put
them back on my load.
It's getting a lot
worse now, buddy.
You feel that right there?
Yeah, yeah, that's--
that's getting rough.
♪
[metal screeching]
And I have definitely
got something going
on with my load in the back.
The drill bit is
sticking out about a foot
on the passenger side.
This is not good.
♪
She is cold.
♪
Well, this is screwed.
This wood beam had slid
out of here almost a foot.
Here's a better visual.
The wood has slid this far.
Half the problem is
that it's so cold
and the deck is so slick,
and these pieces of wood
are just sliding
right on the deck.
If it pushes too hard and
slides with too much momentum
and busts these straps,
that whole thing's just going
to slide right off the side.
And this whole pallet
of these drill bits
are out in the middle
of the ice road.
That's not good.
Well, I got an idea in my head.
I don't know if it'll work.
But it sure is worth a try.
[chains rattling]
Here it goes.
Whoa, you gotta love
the ice roads, right?
OK.
Now we can link these two
together so it's double-locked.
Pull the slack out.
♪
Double-linked that.
Those are bound.
In theory, as I'm
backing the truck up,
that chain is going
to come tight.
And it's going to pull
that load on the trailer.
That's what I'm
hoping will happen.
OK, this is it.
We're going to give her
hell and give her a try.
I hope this works.
to slide tons of steel screw
piles back on his trailer.
- Oh, come on,
you son of a bitch.
[intense music]
♪
[metal creaking]
[bleep] yeah.
It looks like it moved.
[bleep] yeah.
It slid right here.
You can see.
This block-- see how far
that block is sticking out?
This block was sticking
clear out here.
So this whole thing is now
slid right back into position.
Now I'm going to re-rig it.
And I'm going to try to do
the same thing to the front
and get it pulled over.
Tell you what,
nothing like being in the bush
and figuring [bleep] out.
That's why I love
being on the ice roads.
♪
All right, re-rigging.
♪
OK, round two.
♪
[metal creaking]
♪
♪
Oh, hell yeah.
We are back on the trailer.
That's what the ice roads
are all about, baby.
Figure [bleep] out,
and just get it done.
♪
Get my load strapped
and head back on the road.
[rock music]
♪
I'm ready to roll.
Mission accomplished, baby.
My load is nice
and straight back there.
I'm ready to put
some miles on here
and get this load
into Garden Hill.
Just another beautiful
day on the ice roads.
♪
[intense music]
♪
narrator: Approaching Island
Lake outside Garden Hill--
- The ice
crossing just opened up.
It's only open for light
traffic, which means that it's
not open for full weights yet.
- The ice is not as thick
as it's supposed to be.
I hope you have a will in place
set up for your family,
because most likely you
ain't making it home.
That's what could go wrong.
It's life and death up here.
[intense music]
♪
I'm a little
concerned right now.
I'm not hearing a lot
of noise out of the ice.
♪
The cracking of the ice
is always spooky.
But that's part
of the ice crossing.
You want to hear it cracking.
That actually means that the
ice is really, really strong.
When you can't hear any noise
at all, that's not a good sign.
I don't like that.
I don't like that one
single bit, not at all.
narrator:
Cracking sounds indicate
the ice is flexing
to relieve stress
from the truck's weight.
If the ice is too thin or too
weak to flex under the stress,
it could shatter,
releasing Todd and his truck
into the clutches
of the deadly frigid depths.
♪
- And off the ice.
Hell, yeah.
Go get my next load
and turn and burn.
♪
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