- Just saw a giant porcupine on the road.
I'm comin' to find it.
(foliage rustling)
there it is.
There it is.
Look at him.
A giant.
Hey buddy.
Look at him.
It's a porcupine.
He's staring' at me.
He's staring' at us.
He's outta here.
(laughs)
That was cool.
Saw a real porcupine.
I never seen one of those before.
- It is cloudy out today.
This is a first for our trip.
Okay here is the deal, we're going on a crazy, crazy
beaver home adventure right now.
And it's kinda creepy out with the clouds,
so I hope it's not raining out there.
We're gonna go jump in a pond
and try to get into a beaver home.
(laughs)
And then we're gonna go do some other fun stuff.
We have about an hour drive 'til we get out there.
Lincoln's getting some healthy drinks first.
What do you got there bud?
- Chocolate milk.
- [Dad] Chocolate milk!
That's my chocolate milk.
- No its mine now!
- Okay we're driving out there
and we found a giant bird on top of a nest.
Look at that nest!
Think it'll attack me, Lincoln?
There's a power line, oh boy.
(loud chirping)
Okay. Okay.
Okay, I see ya.
Where's he goin'?
Where you goin'?
He's comin' back around.
He's comin' back.
He's comin' back around.
He's comin' back around!
(loud chirping)
Woah!
Alright we made it up here,
we're going to take some four wheelers down there
and check it out and scope it out first
before we take all the tools
'Because I wanna see this beaver home.
I've never seen one up close.
I don't even know what it'd look like.
It's gonna be down there.
This thing's a little bumpy,
this is not like the Can-Am we've used at in St. George.
(motor revving) (excited yelling)
(funky music)
Way down there, you see that?
That's the current home for all the beavers.
I don't think that we wanna mess with the current home,
but an old home on the property that's abandoned?
I think we're good.
Alright boys, we're gonna go find the beaver home.
You go catch some fish Lincoln, alright?
- Yay.
- You see a beaver home?
There's a couple. There's one right over there,
then there's one over here.
The story is, if you stick a paddle in the hole
or tap it on there, then somehow it'll hear you
and growl at you maybe.
If there's something in there.
These both should be abandoned,
'cause there's the other home that's bigger
that's over that way but we wanna test it out first,
before we pull out a chainsaw.
Beaver home number one, this is a 30 year old beaver dam.
Beaver home, there's a difference.
- [Woman] Can you see how,
like where the hole is right here?
- [Man] Just right in here?
- [Woman] Yeah, you can see 'Because it's clear.
- [Man] That's the actual hole where they go in.
So they swim in under the water.
- [Woman] Oh my god.
- [Man] Okay guys, look at this.
We've gotta paddle all the way in there.
That's how far the paddle was.
(laughs)
Lincoln caught one, he's caught one.
It's a Nike running shoe.
You need to move to Alaska so you can catch more shoes.
Alright here's the next home.
Looks muddier.
Does it look muddy to you?
Is it just 'cause of the rain?
- It could be from the rain.
(grunting)
- [Man] Did you see the beaver
- [Man] Look at that pile of mud and spit from
the beavers and sticks.
Paddle's in.
I don't hear any growls.
- So, there's nothing in there.
- I'm not sure how confident I am in our scientific test
here of sticking a paddle in a beaver home.
I feel like there's gotta be some other way to
figure out whether there's a beaver in.
They had to clean some of the beavers
out of this pond a year or two ago.
And they thought maybe there was going
to be a couple of them.
They took out thirteen different beavers.
And there's still beavers in here.
We're going to see if we can get this underneath it.
Watch out.
Watch your head.
- Okay, let's see if we can do this.
Here we go.
- [Man] Look at those skills, Carrie.
I'm jumping in.
- [Woman] Woo!
- [Man] Here we go.
You see these sticks right here?
We have to get through this
all the through the slew to the end.
That is where the beavers are.
This is a big canoe to be going
through this little slew.
I'll need to put the camera down and help.
Okay, we're coming up on it.
I don't know where it would be in here.
This looks like the moat.
A beaver moat of a tree.
I don't think we can make it over that.
Okay, look at that.
Their moat is super effective.
Wait, look at those giant trees.
Do we have to go all the way down there?
- No, it's here.
- [Man] This is it?
- [Woman] Hmm Hmm. (affirmative)
- I see a little bit of the hole.
- You see?
Down there?
- Right down there?
- [Woman] I think that's it, yeah.
- [Man] Ooh, there's the entrance.
That is it.
I'm scared.
Beavers.
So, there's their home.
It goes down there and somehow goes up around.
It looks like we could walk around it a little bit.
There's the active beaver hole.
This is an adventure.
We're going to shore.
We're walking on top of the beaver home.
How fast are they on land?
Oh, there's there home.
Okay, I see it.
It doesn't look as maintained as the other one.
She's on top of it.
- [Woman] Oh no.
- [Man] I'm on top of it.
- [Woman] Well, here.
- It's quiet in there.
- [Woman] There's a bull - a frog.
- [Man] A Frog.
- [Woman] That scared me.
I was like, "Ah, the beaver!"
- I'm thinking their living in that other one.
This is a mystery.
No signs of beaver.
Head's up.
If we are going to take apart a home,
I'm thinking that old one over there is
probably the place where we start.
(dramatic music)
- Alright, mission complete.
We made it now, we have fifteen minutes
to get to the local store.
It's down the road and they have burgers
and all kinds of stuff.
We're hoping that we can make it before they close.
I know it looks, like, beautiful and sunny
like the middle of the day but,
it's about 9:15 at night right now
and the thing closes at 9:30.
So, we got our broken shovel
all kinds of stuff.
We just gotta get out of here and go eat.
Let's see if we can make it.
- [Man] We made it.
We made it to the lodge.
There's that guy.
He's walking.
We made it to the lodge.
We gotta get in there and see
if they'll give us food.
Because right now is the cut off.
I think we made it fast enough though.
We have two minutes to spare.
Oh yeah, look at this place.
This is legit.
Look at that bird up there.
Oh yeah, dogs.
Real dog.
Are guys still open?
- [Employee] Yeah.
- We're good, they're gonna feed us.
This place is so cool.
You gotta see this.
Check out the roof.
Check out the ceiling.
Dollar bills everywhere.
All over the place.
Look at the wall.
What is this?
A game room?
Oh my gosh, even down this wall.
Everywhere.
Woah, this place is cool.
A bear on the wall.
This guy on the wall.
Ptarmigans on the wall.
Salt Shakers.
Teddy Bear.
Snow Shoes.
License plates.
Not responsible for women left overnight.
I don't really know what that means.
Pigs
Plates.
Is that toilet?
Plants coming out of it.
Bed pan.
Another bed pan.
Look at that moose.
I wanna touch it.
Maybe the coolest restaurant I've ever been to.
And we're about to eat and
see how good the food is but,
I gotta get beaver off my hands.
I don't know what show we're watching in here but,
at one point, when I was eating my pork sandwich
I looked up and there was a severed finger
on a plate.
No joke.
I don't what it - Starz, Encore, Western.
Western shows.
It was pretty funny.
Deal.
We just ate and it was really good.
We have some dollars.
We need to have 'what's inside' dollar on the wall here.
There's so many dollars.
If any of you ever come to the Chatanika Lodge in Alaska,
you've got to come and check out the
'What's Inside' Dollar.
Maybe add your own dollar.
This place is cool.
Lincoln, does that sound good?
Basically, what he's trying to say is
he's really tired and we need to get him home
and get to bed.
Lincoln is defacing currency right here.
This is illegal.
What's he up to over here.
Oh no, not George Washington.
This just does not feel right.
Oh, that's cool.
You put an L on there and you put Link.
Oh boy, I know what that is.
It's a scribble.
This is the worst dollar.
They're going to take this dollar off the wall
and they're going to turn you
in to the Police.
- [Woman] I think it's great.
I think you did a good job.
- [Man] Aww, see, she's so nice.
- [Employee] What's Inside, 2017.
- [Man] Nice!
Dolla, Dolla.
This is the best game right here.
Just a random exercise machine from the 70's.
There's your Alaskan air conditioning.
Look at this room!
We found a crazy one and look what we found.
A big mouth Billy bass, oh yeah.
Wow.
- [Lincoln] This chair could come out
from under me.
- [Man] That was not amazing.
- That was more than amazing.
That was awesome!
- [Man] There's Santa.
This is Rudolph.
Another grizzly.
Buffalo.
Creepy owl right there.
Is this not one of the coolest
restaurants you've ever seen?
If you come to Alaska, if you go to Fairbanks,
go out of your way and come and
see this random place.
You won't be disappointed.
(Techno Music)
- And this is where we end this Vlog.
Feels like it's the longest Vlog ever.
But, we gotta go home and get some sleep.
- It's ten?
- [Man] It's ten o'clock.
10:42.
- What?
- Something like that.
It's late.
Good night, guys.
I hope you enjoyed this beaver day.
See ya.