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- This is He-Man country here.
We're looking at 100 days,
and I know how cold it gets around Christmastime.
We might be seeing 30, 40 below zero.
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I wanna prove that I'm the 100-day man.
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My name's Roland Welker,
and these are my ten items
that I take for 100 days alone in the Arctic.
I'm gonna try to go in the order of importance.
The axe.
If I had one thing to take in the woods,
it would be the axe.
You can do everything with the axe.
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Never go in woods without axe.
Number two item, fire.
Ferro rod--I like ferro rod with no handle
because, after a while, they get pointy on one end,
and I just stab 'em in a hunk of wood
and turn that piece of wood into a handle.
You gotta have fire.
We might starve, but we ain't gonna be cold.
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Number three is my two-quart pot.
I really like this one because it had
the handles back here too so you can drink at it.
These ones with just a bail,
you only got one option to grab.
I really like the handle on that.
Just what I wanted for my pot.
My next item--belt knife on the hip--number four.
I like to just be able to pull out a knife.
You know, all the frontiersman and woodsmen and old-timers
throughout the ages, you know,
they always had their axe.
They always had their knife on their hip.
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Big sheath, low-riding sheath.
Sleeping bag, that would almost be number five
before the hunting stuff.
I mean, you gotta have bedding, man.
I went with rectangular bag, minus 30, synthetic fill.
It gives me more padding between me
and whatever I make for my bed.
Here's my Leatherman. We'll call it number six.
I chose the Wave for a couple different reasons.
It has scissors.
I wanna trim my beard with my scissors.
You see the other folks last year,
when you got a lot of beard,
then you got a lot of ice in it, and I had a case made.
Good snap-- it ain't gonna come off.
Good, heavy leather ain't coming off my belt.
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Think that was six.
I went back and forth with net so many times in my head
because I know net has fed a lot of men in the north.
It's a little flimsy, but I've seen
a lot of big fish caught in a small net,
but I've never seen a small fish
caught in a big net, so I'm hoping to get
little fish and big fish.
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Snare wire.
Trapping rabbits took many a men through the winter
throughout the ages as well.
I got big plans for all that. Gonna do lots of snaring.
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Bow and arrow.
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I haven't archery hunted for a long time,
so as soon as I knew that I was selected for this,
I went out, and I purchased a bow
'cause you ain't gonna get a big game kill
without your bow.
Quiver cut to just the right length of my arrow,
and then I wrapped it in leather to deaden the noise.
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I don't wanna lose no arrows,
and I don't wanna make a noise.
That was number nine.
So now we're down to ten-- the secret weapon.
When I'm in Alaska or anyplace cold for a whole winter,
I know one thing.
You know, we all might not get as much to eat as we want,
but you need a lot of wood.
You need fire, fire, fire, fire, plus making shelter.
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It's a old-time crosscut saw.
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I'm gonna build a log cabin,
and I'm gonna burn lots of wood in it
with that baby right there.
I think...
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That's gonna seal the deal.
We get a moose, and we get a big pile of wood,
and we're just gonna Cadillac.
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Well, there's my ten items.
That's the winning team.
Showtime.
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