DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): I'm Dave Brown an AMI presenter and lifelong city boy who loves the creature comforts of urban living. - One hot dog please. - Yes, sir. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): And I'm Lawrence Gunther, professional tournament angler, outdoor enthusiast, and devoted conservationist. DAVE BROWN: I've been all over North America in the last 15 years but never to the North. - I've traveled the world, but have yet to set foot in the Yukon. DAVE BROWN: I feel the pull of the North, and now it's time. We're on our way to Whitehorse and Dawson City. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Knowing the Yukon is full of fantastic lakes and mighty rivers I was up for the journey. DAVE BROWN: So come with us as we taste local food-- - That is unbelievably good. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): --meet Characters and hear their stories-- - Welcome to Claim 33. - --on an adventure of a lifetime-- - --that we'll never forget. DAVE BROWN: This is postcards from the Yukon. We're both excited as you meet at the Ottawa airport. It might not be arctic chills running down her spines as we make our way down to the plane, but we can feel that we're about to embark on something special. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Tall guys like us have to watch our heads when we duck inside. But once we're in our seats, we're ready to go. DAVE BROWN: Eight hours later, we're in Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon. Nestled in between mountains, this could be any small city in Canada. But add a little frontier flair that hearkens back to the Klondike gold rush, and I can't wait to strike it rich prospecting. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Along the fast-flowing Yukon River is where our adventure begins. I've got to get on the water and fish for lake trout and Arctic grayling. DAVE BROWN: At the waterfronts we take in the endless hours of daylight. This could be a challenge for an albino like me. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: It's so warm. Unbelievably, it feels like Florida. - Well, Lawrence, take a big, deep breath of that air, eh? - It's nice, nice and fresh. And that's clean air. I mean, this air traveled across the Arctic Ocean, right? So I don't think it's picked up too much impurities. - Yeah, all right. Well listen, let's start the adventure. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Right on. - It didn't take us long to get out of Whitehorse, our first stop of the journey. We're off to Muktuk Adventures. Right now we're on the side of the Alaskan highway, big puffy clouds in the sky, mountains in the background. It's pretty gorgeous, but what's going to be really fun today is an opportunity to go play with some Huskies at Muktuk Adventures. - I've been a guide dog user for 31 years. And it's so neat to meet dogs that enjoy their work. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): As we stroll down the road into Muktuk, over 100 Huskies serenade us. DAVE BROWN: Lawrence, the welcoming committee is here. We've got just dogs as far as the eye can see, just kennels and dirt-- oh there you go. - I think I'm going to bring one home. It's going to be my back up guide dog. I just have to pick one that's not too fast. - Yeah, we're going to build our own sled team. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Owners Manuela and Jeff Larsen also greet us. - Oh, we're so excited to meet dogs. Can't wait. - Can't wait to show you. It will be a great day. We're going to have so much fun. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): As a dog lover, this place is heaven. I chat with Manuela about the kennel and its origins. MANUELA LARSEN: We specialize in Alaskan Huskies. We have at the moment 140 dogs. About 85 of them are still working dogs, and the rest is retirees. And then there's seven puppies right now. We started off as a racing kennel like the previous owner. And so Paduna Frank Turner, he used to run in the Yukon Quest. That's what this place started off. He started with a racing team. And then he decided, I'm going to have my racing team. And everybody that doesn't want to race, I'll take tourists out. Because they still love to run, they're just not into that racing mode. And that's how, you know, it was mainly a racing kennel, but some tourism on the side. And then over the years when frank was getting older, it became more and more of a recreational kennel taking tourists out in the winter time. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Manuela tells me the plan for our visit. MANUELA LARSEN: Well, we're going to visit the puppies for sure. Everybody loves puppies. And it's a very important part for socializing them is that they meet as many different people as possible while growing up. So we'll spend some time with them, and we'll definitely go for a walk to the river. So you'll feel that energy when they get to go running. And you feel they go back and forth, and back and forth, and they come to see you. And then you hear him splashing in the water. It's going to be real fun. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): The dogs knew something is up as Jeff walks through the yard to let five Huskies off their chains for our river walk. Lawrence and I set along the path with Manuela. - Hi there, Cindy. Hi there, Cindy. - This walk in and of itself is a treat for them as well. MANUELA LARSEN: It's like it's a time, you know, where they get to run around and stretch out, and just enjoy their time off in the summer. We said earlier, we don't pull them or have them pull things in the summertime, because they will overheat. But more than just the physical stress, is also mentally. When we work in the winter, we're going down here, they're hooked up in the line. So there's no peeing on trees. There's no turning back. They have to stay focused. And always forward. Now they can be ahead of us. They can be behind us. They run circles. They pee on every tree. It's really that mental break as well, to just be kids. - Yeah we think about that a lot, right? Like, I think we talk about it-- I talk about it with guide dogs all the time. - Yeah. - This idea that it's so strange to think that a dog can distinguish between playtime and, and work time. But they really can. - They can, yeah. And I think it's important that they have both. OK, so we're right up there at the edge of the river now. This is the Takhini River. This is where we go sledding in the winter time. So this is will be solid frozen in the winter, about three feet of ice. And that's where we take the dog teams on. So it's really flat for the mushing, so everybody can do it, like, everybody. - And the dogs, the dogs enjoy the water? The Husky's a water dog? - Yeah some of them are, some of them not as much. And you can see, like I'll go in the water with them. The water is not really deep getting there. So if you guys want to take your shoes off, you know, put your pants up a little bit, we can waddle through the water through the island there, and the dogs will be running back and forth between us and Jeff. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): I roll up my pants. Lawrence follows suit. Or maybe I should say trousers? - Oh yeah, I see a little dip for our toes here. Dip a toe in the water. Dip, dip, dip, dip, a toe. So in this moment, I am pure city boy. You said the water's not so cold. I'm like, the water's cold. - And a nice squishy bottom, eh? - Yeah, the bottom is nice and squishy on your feet. - Fawn. Fawn has to go around so she doesn't to go in the deep water. Good girl, Fawn. So there's Fawn getting her kibble, and off she goes again. Beasley, Beasley's constantly standing next to you. - It's such a sweet experience. - It is, it's pretty fun, hey? Just hearing them splashing in the water. And you can tell, too, it's not cuddle time for them. Like, let me go back and visit them in the yard, you'll see they're in their house. They'll roll over. That's, you know, like petting attention. When they're on their walks it's their playtime. They wouldn't come and sit down next to you, and it's like OK, pet me. It's like, no, this is play time. - Cuddle time can be down the road, here, so-- MANUELA LARSEN: Yeah, cuddle time is down the road. - I would give that a crack, too. What was the importance of sled dogs in the Yukon, for all these years the territory has been developed? MANUELA LARSEN: It was just getting places in the winter time. Like so many places, especially, like, the further you go north, there was no roads. There is no ways. So you can't get places. Lots of those people had horses, but the horses don't work very well in the wintertime. And rivers are frozen. And that's pretty much the only way you can travel is by dog team. Like, not as much right here is Whitehorse, but a little further north, people go to the hospital and go to school with their dog team. That was the only way of transportation they really had. - I am in paradise. In this moment, I'm sitting in the shade and I've got a little, tiny puppy asleep on my lap with her head on my arm. Manuela, who are these puppies and how old are they? MANUELA LARSEN: They are 20 days old today. And so their mom Tink is actually one of the rescues we have here. And so they hopefully be sled dogs, when they're grown up. They won't be working until, like, the next winter. And we have three boys and three girls. And the one you're holding right now is Sparrow. - And Sparrow is all pretty much fast asleep in my arm right now. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): 11 years ago Manuela arrived from Germany on a work and travel visa. - I came to the Yukon to work at a different place, actually, to work at a horse farm. And I ended up here totally by coincidence. And when I came here it's just really, it really felt like home. It's like, you've got 140 dogs. They love you unconditionally, no matter your mood they're just, they're always there for you. And I just really enjoy spending time with them, being out there working outdoors, you know, being in the elements. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Meeting her future husband at Muktuk made the move permanent. Lawrence and I joined Jeff Larsen in the main yard for one more immersive husky experience. - So Jeff we understand you can talk dog. Can you show us, man? Can you teach us how to talk dog? - Well I'll give it my best. There's no guarantee, but we'll see if we can get them all to howl. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Sounds good. - So you've got to start very lightly, and then we'll see if we can lead them on. [HOWLING] JEFF LARSEN: There goes Danya. [HOWLING] - Well, I thought we had pretty good harmony, personally. - I think we should start a band, man. An a capella group. - Yeah, we'll call it Hide Your Dog. - I think it's be awesome. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Learning to talk dog rounds out our day at Muktuk, and we're off. - So how many dogs you think you met today Dave? - Oh, like seven or eight I got pretty close with, so that leaves how many to get to know further? - About 135, big guy. - All right. We'll have to come back some time. - I think we'd better book a month. That would be fun. I would do it. - How can you say your favorite part of the day wasn't holding 20-day-old puppies in your arms? And on your lap? And they're licking, and they're whining, and they're clawing. But what I've also got to say is taking that walk down to the river, and getting my feet of water, and the dog splish-splashing around me. Oh, that was cool. Oh, that was so cool. - To meet people who care so much about the welfare of dogs is amazing. I mean, these people are rescuing dogs from all over the Yukon territories, all over Canada. And they're paying for the whole thing through tourism. It's a real dedication of love to animals. It's beautiful to see. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): We'll be right back with more "Postcards From the Yukon." Welcome back to "Postcards From the Yukon." I'm Lawrence Gunther with Dave Brown, visiting a corner of Canada known as the Wilderness City, Whitehorse. DAVE BROWN: We're at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Center. You're hearing a power saw in the background, because we're going to explore some first nations woodworking today, looking at some traditional boats that used to be used on the rivers here. - Transportation by boat for First Nations people was really their most efficient way of getting around. They depended on water for movement and for food. So learning how they built their boats and having a chance to participate in that is going to be really exciting. I'm looking forward to this a lot. - I'm Charlene Alexander. I'm the executive director of Yukon First Nation's Culture and Tourism Association. We are hosting a Canada 150 project called Don Kwanje A-naan, which is-- means "voices across the water" in Southern Tutchone one of the lang-- one of the indigenous languages of Yukon. It's a project that is a celebration of traditional watercraft of Canada's north. We have a team of boat builders and artists who are building four traditional watercraft, including a birch bark canoe, a dugout canoe, a spruce dugout, an Inuit sealskin kayak, and a moose skin boat. Like many indigenous people across Canada, it's about revitalization and bringing back those skills that were lost as a result of colonization. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): I meet Wayne Price. He's making a spruce dug out canoe for the festival. WAYNE PRICE: I've been carving totem poles and dugout canoes since I was 12 years old. - So you've got a bit of experience here. - Yeah, I've made a few chips. - Made a few chips, and some boats came as a result. - Yeah, the boat you have your hand on is my 11th dugout that I've ever built. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: And how big is this boat? WAYNE PRICE: This is a 22-foot Tlingit-style river canoe carved out of spruce. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So what kind of tools would you use to make this? M not just using sharp stones anymore are you? - Oh, no. This is called an elbow adze. - Oh, wow. Look at that. - This Is a branch of a tree. This is the branch. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): One side of the v-shaped branch fits in my hand, and the other side holds the blade. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So you're scraping with this? Pulling towards you all the time? WAYNE PRICE: No we make chips with that. We're standing up and-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Just chopping? WAYNE PRICE: Yeah. It's all tied all together with a piece of string. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Up here? WAYNE PRICE: Yep. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: But how do you shape these sides here? Like this is a perfect thickness all the way through. How do you manage that? How do you get that? WAYNE PRICE: Well, you can feel with your hand that we use a-- we drill a-- will actually drill it full of holes. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: OK. Oh, there's a-- WAYNE PRICE: There's one. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Little dowels. WAYNE PRICE: There's dowels. And those dowels are one inch long. And when you put those dowels in, then you got to feel-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: They're coming out this side. WAYNE PRICE: So when you get to the end of the dowel on the inside, then you know you're at one inch. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So the dowels are your indicators. WAYNE PRICE: Yes. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So you don't need fancy micrometers or special gauges. - If you're a good dugout builder, a piece of string and a stick. - It's all you need. - It's all you need. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: This is for the boat? - Yes. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Wow. - Yeah. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): I've barely introduced myself to Connie Jules, and she has me helping her move the moose hide that she's fleshing. With the hide draped over log frame, Connie gets back to work. - You have to be pretty strong to be able to do this. I'm cooking with the iron. - That's what that was. I could hear it sizzling, and I thought what-- - So that cooks top layer of skin. - Just so you can scrape it off a little bit. And what are you scraping with? Can I feel that? - I'm scraping it with-- - What is this tool? - We call it in our language a kahana, but-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Oh, it's like a-- yeah it's like-- CONNIE JULES: We call it a log scraper. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): I feel the long blade between the two handles that Connie pulls down the hide. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So that's why you have it on this round log here? - Yes. - So you can use that. But it's not very sharp, is it? CONNIE JULES: No, it's dull. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: You don't want it sharp. - You don't want it sharp because you'll cut it up. - You'll rip the-- you'll rip the skin all-- you'll shred the skin. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): It will take three hides to cover the wooden boat frame. - Well, it started to rain outside. But of course, knowing me, I found the tasty treats. I'm here with the Winnie and Sam, and you guys have a very special ice cream you're making. Can you tell me about it? What kind of berry you're using and a little bit about it? - Well, we call it the soapberry, but Sam's going to teach me the proper Tlingit word for this berry. - The Tlingit language is [NON-ENGLISH] - [NON-ENGLISH] DAVE BROWN: [NON-ENGLISH] - [NON-ENGLISH] DAVE BROWN: [NON-ENGLISH] - You whip it to make a whipping cream. - When you want to give it-- you want to give it a little, a quick whip here so we can get the sounds? WINNIE: It works faster. DAVE BROWN: So it gets nice and thick, and creamy. - Yeah, so there's nothing in here except the berries and the water, the juice from the water. Later on I add some sweetener. - So I would be remiss if I didn't ask permission. Could I please have a taste? WINNIE: Of course. DAVE BROWN: Big metal bowl. I'm just going to get a little bit on my plastic spoon here. There you go. Got a nice little plunk there. Take this to my lips. Yep.You can taste a little bit of that bitterness, but a little bit of that sugar, too. And the texture, it almost tastes a little bit like, like a whipped cream, like a nice homemade whipped cream. And WINNIE: Loaded with vitamin C. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): And Winnie sends me off with a jar of her soapberry preserves, a perfect memento for the day. - Oh that's so kind of you. Thank you very much. WINNIE: You're welcome. - Lawrence, I really thought you were going to get in one of those boats, get in the river, and sail away. I thought you were going to leave us. - You know, to hang around with people like that, that have so much nautical experience, so much passion for being on the water, and understanding the importance of connecting to the water, it was like a dream come true. I don't know about you, Dave, but I just loved it. DAVE BROWN: Yeah I thought it was really neat. And just seeing kind of the different cultures from the territory, who all wanted a boat, right? 14 different First Nations cultures in the territory, they all wanted to build a boat, but they did it in a different way. And that was so cool, making the best of what they got. Let's be honest, Lawrence. That soapberry ice cream, that was pretty good too. So, good eats, good adventures. This one's going to keep going. - Yep, yep. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): More "Postcards From the Yukon" coming up after the break. Welcome back to "Postcards From the Yukon." I'm Dave Brown with Lawrence Gunther, checking out Canada's smallest territory. - You know Whitehorse seems to be just any size 30,000 people town in Canada. I mean, it's got all the stores, all the amenities. If it wasn't for the mountains and the beautiful river flowing right through the middle of it, you could be anywhere in Canada. - The size of the town? I'm actually impressed. It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be. But everything is a walking distance, which in a little village community is always kind of nice, when you can go for a stroll to get places. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): We found another amazing spot along the Yukon River. DAVE BROWN: Well, Lawrence. Miles Canyon. Take in this wood suspended bridge over the water, electric blue, sort of emerald water. It's gorgeous. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Why is the bridge creaking so much? - OK, yeah. This wood bridge is creaking quite a bit, Lawrence. I'm getting a little nervous. - So Dave, the trick is, when you're crossing a bridge that has a lot of movement, is you stagger the length of your steps. So two long, a short, two long, a short, two short. That way it doesn't start to bounce. OK, let's jump. Ready? One, two. - Yeah, we'll just dive in, no problem. My fear of heights will be totally fine. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): We are safely back on the riverbank, and my knees have stopped knocking. - Fishing is our next stop along the way here. And to say that I'm an amateur fisherman, even that would be a stretch. To say I'm a beginner fisherman, that would be a stretch. I am a pure-- a newbie, a flounder. I don't know. What's the smallest form of fish? That's about what I'd be in the fishing game. So I'm kind of hoping with an expert like Lawrence Gunther on my side, maybe we can bring something in. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: I get a chance to teach my friend here, Dave Brown, how to catch a big fish. Or a fish. Any fish would be nice. Let's go fishing. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): We arrive at the perfect spot with the help of Up North Adventures and our guide, Mark Zrum. - Well guys, we made it to Fish Lake. - Excellent. MARK ZRUM: I'm going to get you a couple of life jackets. We'll get them on you. And then we'll get the boat in the water and go fishing. - Sounds like a plan. - We're going to fish today for lake trout first. And then we're going to try some arctic grayling. - You let me know how I can help, Mark, getting the boat in the water, buddy. - Well, I'll get you to hold the rope when I back the trailer in. And when the boat comes off, just pull it in the shore. And then we'll all pile on and disappear down the lake, OK? LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Sounds like a plan. - And I'm just going to look pretty. - Hey, someone has to. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): With the boat in the water, we climb aboard and start to cruise across the lake with Mark at the wheel. MARK ZRUM: Fish Lake, it's right next to Whitehorse. So the lake itself is about 11 kilometers from one end to the other. And it's this big sort of almost kidney-shaped lake. You've got basically mountains on all sides. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Mark stops the boat. And finally, it's time to fish. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So Mark, what are we rigging up for here today? - OK, well we're going to fish for lake trout first. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Let me feel what you've got going there. MARK ZRUM: This is what I call a Little Lindy line. And what it is, is about 24 inches of 30-pound mono filament. At one end, you've got a hook, straight hook with some beads and a gold spinner. So you want to feel that? LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Yeah. MARK ZRUM: So what we'll do is we'll put that on-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: With a loop at the end of the line, here, to clip it onto the main line of the fishing rod. MARK ZRUM: OK, we're going to fish, oh, 14, 10 to 14 feet of water. and that seems to be where the fish are right now. And then we're going to put a freshwater smelt on. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: OK. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): And we're ready to troll. Mark drives the boat slowly while Dave and I gently drop our lines into the lake. - Nice to be on the water, feeling the waves gently rock the boat, hear the splash of the bow as it cuts through the water. And the hum of the motor, the chirp of the fish finder. All's we need now is to scream of the drag. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Working as a guide, and on his own time, Mark spends about 200 to 300 days a year in the outdoors. - You live up here because it's a lifestyle. You live up here because you like the outdoors, you like the slower pace of life. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): This is the dream. I'm fishing and chatting with a fellow outdoor enthusiast. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: And you must have seen a lot of changes over the years. - Yeah, there has been a lot of change, a lot of subtle changes that most people wouldn't notice. I don't know how anyone can deny climate change. Last winter we did get a little bit of cold weather in March, but we also had 78 and above in January. And that's not normal for here LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): This puts pressure on the resource. We'll do our part for conservation and practice catch and release today. Meanwhile, I give Dave a quick lesson in trolling. - OK, so finger on the line, finger on the line, right there. - Yep, got it. - Flip that bail arm over. Flip the bail arm until it clicks. OK, now this way and then-- - OK, will do. All right. Make sure the bail arm's open. Arm's open. Go this way, and then-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: There you go, OK. Leave it, leave it, leave it, leave it, leave it, leave it. OK, clip it over. DAVE BROWN: Done deal. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: All right. Hang on to that. DAVE BROWN: Will do. MARK ZRUM: You're baited up, there, Lawrence. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Thank you. - It's good to hang out with the pros. - Fish on. - 20 feet. He's coming up. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: He's diving down. He's going down. He's going down. He's giving me some head shakes, giving me some head shakes. MARK ZRUM: Bring the tip up, tip up, tip up. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: There he is. He's at the surface. MARK ZRUM: And got him in the net. - And in the net. Yeah. Yeah, Mark. Good job, buddy. Thank you, thank you. All right. Finally I figured it out. Let me feel him. Let me get him. MARK ZRUM: Just watch? LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Yeah, I got him. MARK ZRUM: That's about a pound and a quarter lake trout. - There we go. MARK ZRUM: Give him a kiss. - All right. OK. Now, OK, there he goes. MARK ZRUM: OK, he's gone. - There he's going. Now Dave's got one. Yeah, Dave. MARK ZRUM: Keep your rod out that way. Reel faster, reel faster. There you go, that's it. Now I'm gonna come around behind you here. Just keep reeling, keep reeling. There he is. DAVE BROWN: He's a heavy sucker. MARK ZRUM: There he is. Bring it up, bring it up. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Oh, Dave, that could be the biggest one. MARK ZRUM: There's another fish. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Oh yeah. Definitely, yeah. MARK ZRUM: Let me get him off the hook, Dave. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Mark holds up my first fish ever. What a rush. When the skies opened and the rain pours down, Mark decides it's time to move. - OK we're going to pull them in, we're gonna strip down those rods, and then we're going to go and see if we can catch some grayling. Try for those puppies. - I'm good for that, Mark. I want to catch an arctic grayling. That's on my bucket list. - OK, guys. We're at the spot. We're going to get out our ultralight rods. Four-pound test. Some little panther Martins. And then we're going to get close to shore. What I'm going to do is put one of you up on the bow, so don't fall off please. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Dave, you hear that? - I'll do what I can. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: No, I'll go on the bow, buddy. MARK ZRUM: And we'll put one guy at the back. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): We're casting in this spot, continually putting our lines in the water and reeling back in. MARK ZRUM: OK, we're in fishing country. Get out there. Do something. Be useful. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): I'm on the bow, ready for my first grayling. And Dave's busy casting off the back of the boat. MARK ZRUM: Someone catch a fish. - I'm just casting out this really light lure. It's a little spinner lure. It probably got maybe 1/16 of an ounce, on what they call ultra light fishing tackle. So the rod is as bendy is a willow branch. Fish on. - OK, just bring him in slow. Bring him up to the tip. - Oh my god. - Bring up the tip. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Oh my god. MARK ZRUM: Bring up the tip. I can't see him. I got him. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: You got him! Yeah! MARK ZRUM: Grayling. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Oh my god. Oh my god. MARK ZRUM: OK, got him. Got him. here you go. Look at the fin. - Look at that. Look at that beauty. Oh look at the size of those side fins. MARK ZRUM: Just hang onto him. - He's going to jump in a second. Look at that big dorsal fin. It's like a great big feather along its back. Oh, he's beautiful. He's going in. Bye, little fella. Bye, little fella. Oh, yeah! Mark, thank you. Thank you so much. - Good on you. - Oh, man. That felt good. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): And with that bucket list fish caught, we call it a day and head back to shore. - Nice to be back on dry land again. Fishing with Lawrence and our guide, Mark, was really cool. Awesome to get the perspective from experts, from dudes who spend all kinds of time on the lake and really enjoy themselves, and gave me all kinds of little pointers. Whether it was reeling out or reeling in, or just being patient, and learning how to enjoy the day. - My first arctic grayling. You know, I've been listening to people catch these things on TV fishing shows all my life, from Red Fisher when I was a little kid, you know, from all the way along. And you can't catch these fish in Ontario. You have to come to the territories. You have to come to the Arctic to catch an arctic grayling. And I did it. - I'm thinking I may possibly become an outdoorsman, ever so slightly. At least, like, maybe my big toe. - This has got to be one of the best Yukon adventures I'll ever do in my life. It is so much diversity, so much opportunity, so many new experiences every day. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): We're off to the next stop we'll be back after the break with more "Postcards From the Yukon." welcome back to "Postcards From the Yukon." I'm Lawrence Gunther with Dave Brown. We're traveling and tasting the best that Whitehorse has to offer. - Today we're at Cafe Balzam, and we're going to be experiencing crepes. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: And we're going to meet someone that's taken French cuisine and combined it with wild, organic, harvested food, grown locally right here in the forests and the fields of Whitehorse, Yukon. DAVE BROWN: No need to double check the address. We are literally at the end of the road. - All this fresh air is giving me the appetite of a bear. Roar. - Hey, good morning, Karina. Thank you. - Good morning DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Cafe owner and chef, Karina Lapointe, greets us. - Welcome to the Yukon, guys. - Yeah, thanks so much for having us. It's great to be here. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Originally from Quebec, she spent the last seven years in Whitehorse, exploring and creating. - You can play around, like it's like a tortilla. Sometimes you can make sandwiches, I make pizza. You can make sweet, savory, you can explore. It's just like you can create so many things out of a crepe, because it's basically just like a flat bread. For me it's important also to buy local, and use as much local as I can. It's pretty fun to play around and, you know, blow people mind. - We finally made it behind the table. We're getting a promotion in life, Lawrence. Karina, before we actually get to the cooking of the crepes, because we want to so badly, but we need to talk about the ingredients that we have on the table in front of us first. KARINA LAPOINTE: OK, we start with the crepe batters. We have the sourdough batter. The sourdough is important in the Yukon. If you're been here for one year, you're sourdough. That's how they call you. So that's a reminder on the crepes here. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: That would make us tender feet. DAVE BROWN: Yeah very much so - So here, Lawrence, I'll give you the bowl and a whisk, and you're going to make the great crepe batter. - Oh, we're putting Lawrence to work. Here you go, buddy. You're earning your paycheck now, big guy. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: You'll let me know when we're covered in crepe batter that I'm done, right? DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Lawrence is pretty good with the whisk. Karina adds water and dry ingredients to the mix. Time for me to get to work at the round, flat-top griddle made especially for cooking crepes. - I'm just going to do a little pour here. There you go. Onto the griddle we go. KARINA LAPOINTE: Go ahead, go ahead. Very good. DAVE BROWN: All right so it's about five inches in diameter right now. KARINA LAPOINTE: And then you take your little rake. - Yeah I'm on my rake, and I go clockwise to flatten it out, right? KARINA LAPOINTE: Yeah. Very good. He's managing very well. - I think he's done this before. - I've eaten crepes before. I've never made them. So it's been on for a few seconds now. Should I, should I get underneath and try to give it a flip? - Yeah. - OK, then right about in the middle? - Yeah. You got it. DAVE BROWN: Oh, come on, come on, come on, get off, get off. Yeah. There we go. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Good job, bud. KARINA LAPOINTE: I think he's ready to put on the plate. - OK. So I'm just getting my wooden spatula underneath. - You want me to hold it here? DAVE BROWN: Yeah, just hold it right there, Lawrence. Watch your fingers I might burn you just a little bit. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: That's OK DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Karina shows us how a pro uses the griddle to whip up one of her specialties. DAVE BROWN: I see that's how pro does it right there. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): She adds raclette cheese, mushrooms, spruce tips-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: That's a Yukon crepe. KARINA LAPOINTE: That's definitely a Yukon crepe. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): And wild boar. - Wow, that smells so amazing. - Yeah it's gonna be very tasty. - You just flipped over the crepe, so all the fillings now inside. So it almost-- it's almost like a little omelet almost. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Karina splits the crepe for us to share, and adds the final local touches, dandelion mustard and birch syrup. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Get the forks, Dave. - Forks? I'm just going to go in there like a trough. It's gonna be a feeding trough. - You can take it with your hand as well. - Yeah, we can? - That's what I'm going to do. - All right. Go for it, Dave. - Careful. It might drip all over you. - It's fine. - There's a sandwich. - That is unbelievably good. - It's like you're eating the wild. It's absolutely amazing. - Thank you so much for not just letting us taste your amazing creations, but showing us how you make them. - It was a real pleasure. - I don't know if I'm quite ready to be a crepe maker. I think I may be needing to stick to French toast and pancakes in my home cooking experience. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: The crepes tasted like an amalgamation of different cultures. I mean, you had the crepe. And you had the local wild food. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Meeting Karina was our last stop before flying out to Dawson. - Whitehorse is a cool town. It lived up to the hype and then some. - You know, you could come back here and you probably might just stay. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Here we are in Dawson, Yukon. My goodness. Walking on an old boardwalk. - What's also neat is when you're on most of the streets, they're gravel. So you're hearing a crunch, crunch underneath your feet no matter where you're walking. It's pretty-- it's pretty neat. - I'm standing downtown Dawson, Yukon territories, just up from the Yukon River, where the Bonanza Creek flows into the Yukon River. And back in 1897, they found gold in that there creek. And a year later 100,000 people showed up to get their share of it. Well, we're a little bit late, but we made it. - I feel like I got into a time machine. And I've always been pretty game with the idea of time travel. There's a saloon maybe about 40 feet behind me. And from where we're standing you can just hear the slightest bit of dueling piano. I feel like I'm ready to go get some bourbon in me, go have some firewater, and just go have an adventure. And maybe, you know, have a little six-shooter shoot out as well. - As much as I'd like to think I'm going to find myself a big pile of gold and leave here with a bag full of it, I doubt that's going to happen. But we are going to meet an interesting gentleman who's going to take us out on the river and show us a salmon wheel. Now, that's pretty cool technology, - I have no idea what a fish wheel is. I know nothing, de nada, zero. As far as I'm concerned, a fish wheel is something they use for obese fish, so we can get more exercise, kind of like a hamster wheel. Lawrence, this is it, man. Fishwheel Charter Services. - This should be good. - Oh man, river boat tours. Here we go. - We're going to get on the Yukon. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Tommy Taylor is the only First Nations tour operator in Dawson. He runs a 24-foot flat-bottom riverboat. - Hello, there. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Hey, Tommy. - How's it going? - How are you doing, sir? - Good. - Nice to meet you. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Tommy grabs us a couple of life jackets, and we're off to start our voyage. TOMMY TAYLOR: I was born and raised on the Yukon River. My father, David Taylor raised me on the Yukon River. Buy Salmon fishing, hunting, and this river is 2000 miles long. There's gravel bars here and there. There's islands in the middle of the river. Both sides of the river, mainly the Yukon River, are high, rolling hills not mountains. - Tommy, I'm sitting here, you know, on your boat. The motor is off. And I'm hearing this hissing sound, like we're in a big you know Alka-Seltzer commercial. What's going on? - That's the glacier silt from White River. It fills up the Yukon from shore to shore, top of the river to the bottom of the river. It's glacier silt. That sand is so fine. Listen to it. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: It kind of sounds like static, but it's not static. - This river boils, so it rolls. As it rolls, it hits the boat. And the silt's so fine it hits the boat. That's what you're hearing. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): I thought I was losing my mind. The glacier silt also makes the water brown and murky. - Tommy, I'm hearing all sorts of moaning and groaning out there. I think we've arrived at your fishwheel. Could you please describe it for us? Tell us how it works, you know, the history and what it looks like. - The fishwheel was invented in 1884 by Chinese. Came to North America in the early 1900s. It's very fragile. It's made of one type of wood that's all spruce sapling. It runs automatically by water currents. The horizontal board from the braces to the basket, is the paddles. On the inside raft, under water going to shore, we have a wire mesh under water, anchored. As the salmon swim up along the shoreline, it bumps into this wire mesh because the water's too silty and dirty, and they can't see the mesh. The bumps into this wire mesh. It guides them into scooping basket that turns counter-clockwise. The basket scoops them up. We have a holding box on the raft. As the wheel turns, the salmon slide down the trough, fall into the holding box. The biggest salmon ever seen come out of the Yukon River caught by the fishwheel weighed 94 pounds. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): No salmon yet, so Tommy takes us back to shore. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Thank you, captain. Really appreciate you taking us aboard and giving us this tour, and introducing us to the water in the history of the place. - You're welcome. - And your waterwheel, very fascinating. - Very cool. - Fishwheel. - Fishwheel. - And your fishwheel. [LAUGHTER] LAWRENCE GUNTHER: After walking alongside the river, crossing over the river, we finally got on the Yukon River with Tommy Taylor and his Fishwheel Charter Service. DAVE BROWN: The fishwheel was nothing like I expected it to look like. It was just wood. And it was two baskets that were on opposing ends, spanning about 20 feet in length. So kind of big, open, wide, and webbed. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): More Dawson City to come after the break on "Postcards From the Yukon." Welcome back to "Postcards From the Yukon." I'm Dave Brown with Lawrence Gunther, on the trip of a lifetime. We're in Dawson, a town that got its start during the Klondike gold rush. DAVE BROWN: Looks like we've got some original buildings here, Lawrence I say that because they are dilapidated. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Are these the kissing buildings? DAVE BROWN: I think that's it. You want to give them a feel? LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Absolutely, man. I've been looking forward to this. So the permafrost melted under these things, and it shifted. - Yeah I think it just totally destroyed the foundation. So I say they're dilapidated, because the outsides look a little bit run down. But, as you say, the foundation shifted, so they're tipping right into each other. So where is the gap? - It's just a few feet back this way, Lawrence. We walked by it. It's where the two buildings are kind of intersecting. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: My god, there's like 20 centimeters at the bottom. And you go up a little ways, and there's almost no space between them at the top. DAVE BROWN: It's pretty neat. And it's one of those things that kind of shows you that this town is old. What do you say we keep walking along? - Let's do it, man. Let's go. - I know that there is quite an artistic culture that exists today in the Yukon. A very large number of artists per capita live here. Whether that be Whitehorse or that be Dawson, it's a place that seems to inspire creativity. But that dates right back to almost the inception of people arriving in Dawson. They call this the writer's block, Lawrence. Why do you think that is? - I think this is where the Robert Service and Jack London cabins are. - Two great authors. What do you say we split this one in half? - I'm taking Jack London, buddy. He's my hero. - All right. Robert Service it is for me. - All right. We'll catch up with you later, pal. - Absolutely. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Jack London moved up here when he was 21, right at the height of the gold rush, found himself a little cabin in the middle of nowhere. They found that cabin 40 years later, moved it into town. HELEN WINTON: OK, so Lawrence, let's head towards the cabin over here. - Oh, I'm looking forward to seeing this cabin. - Now, it's just a little bit taller than you, fortunately. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Helen Winton is my interpreter and guide at this museum dedicated to Jack London. He - Was the most popular writer of this time. He was the first American author to make a million dollars for his writing. And he came up here in 1899 to get rich with gold. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Just like the other 30,000, 40,000, 100,000 people that were looking for gold, eh? - Exactly. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Wow. The cabin is really small. It's maybe 10 by 10 feet. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: These are the original Jack London Yukon logs. - Considering that he was here less than a year, he has managed to describe the North better than almost anyone else, besides-- or together with Robert Service. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): We duck inside the low door and step into the past. HELEN WINTON: There are some artifacts in here that may or may not have been left behind by Jack's crew. We have no way of knowing. But they were definitely here in 1936. One is just to your left, which is an old stove. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: That's a stovepipe. and it's going right up through this log roof. My goodness. So you've got a metal stovepipe, about eight inches in diameter, coming down here to this iron stove. It's really more of metal stove, isn't it? HELEN WINTON: It's more of a tin stove. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: A tin stove. And it's sitting on rocks? HELEN WINTON: Yes. The rocks, I guess, for fire prevention, plus the rocks would build up heat. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So Helen, were would Jack have slept in this little cabin? HELEN WINTON: Well, if we move over here just a ways, he would've slept on one of these two handmade beds. If you just put your hand down, you'll feel-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: These are just logs. HELEN WINTON: They are. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: This is not a springed mattress. - No spring to them whatsoever. - I can't imagine sleeping on these logs. - Well, put your hand just ahead of that. What's that? LAWRENCE GUNTHER: That's an animal hide. HELEN WINTON: Yes, it is. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: What would that be? - This is a fairly large caribou hide. - It's soft. HELEN WINTON: It is soft. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: But it's thick, too, right? Like that's almost like an inch thick. HELEN WINTON: It could be moose, but I think it's caribou. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: So that's stretched out on the logs. And that would be the mattress and retain the heat? - Yeah. - That's beautiful. I could do that. The guy is a true hero and a true legend. It was really an honor to be in that space. - One of the things that we're going to be experiencing today is learning about Robert Service. I think I remember in high school reading some of his poems. But the guy's called the Bard of the Yukon, the Shakespeare of the Yukon. That's wild. So I'm really curious to learn more about his work, his writing, and who he was. This is the Robert Service cabin. It's not very big, is it? JUSTIN APPERLEY: No, it's not. It's quaint, it's romantic. - And it's all wood, right? - Idealistic-- oh yes, it's all wood. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): At this Klondike national historic site, the Dawson time capsule continues. On the porch of the cabin, I ask the Parks Canada interpreter, Justin Apperley, to describe his unique wardrobe. - Oh yes, OK. Well, I have my gray three-piece suit on right now. I have a nice historic watch over here, which opens up. DAVE BROWN: The flipping old pocket watch. It's old-school, yeah. - I have the nice leather boots with the lace-ups. Yeah, you know, you've got to look the part. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Topped off with a Derby hat, Justin shares the Robert Service story that started in 1908. He was an adventurer. He had dreams of travel when he was just a young buck in Scotland. And he wanted to become a cowboy. Eventually he decided at the age of 30 to go back to basics, and walk into a bank to become a bank teller. And that's actually what brought him up to Dawson City. He didn't come up for his poetry. He came up as a bank teller. DAVE BROWN: The Robert Service cabin, is this actually where he lived? JUSTIN APPERLEY: This is exactly where he lived. Yes. Follow me. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): We head inside to explore this preserved gem. JUSTIN APPERLEY: This is his living room, yes. It really is, in a way, a live-in studio. So he moved in here. He plastered up his own wallpaper on the walls. And he actually even wrote with charcoal all on the walls. We actually have a little piece of his handwriting here. It says, "Rebuffs are only rungs in the ladder of success." And, you know, he liked to circle the rhymes that he loved, and he crossed out with big bold black lines what he didn't like. So it really was his live-in studio. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): We step into the tiny bedroom. - He lived simply here. He has his fur gloves and fur cover, bedspread. - Now, we'd be remiss if we did not at least get a little bit of one of his verses from you. - OK, well I'll just give a little touch on his most famous poem. It's one of my favorites. It's "The Cremation of Sam McGee." "There are strange things done in the midnight sun, by the men who maw for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The northern lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest it ever did see was the night on the marge of Lake Labarge, I cremated Sam McGee." DAVE BROWN: Wow. After hearing Justin read, even just a few lines of the poem, I had this flashback to, oh yeah, I did hear this. I did read this in high school. I just never put it together that it was Robert. Service. Kind of spooky, kind of eerie. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Join us after the break for more "Postcards From the Yukon." LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Welcome back to "Postcards From the Yukon." I'm Lawrence Gunther with Dave Brown in Dawson, home of the Klondike gold rush over 100 years ago. - I'm ready to go hunt for some gold. I'm looking for some Yukon bling. I feel like my whole life's been building towards this opportunity. It's my chance to stake my claim and take what's mine. - You, know I may not stand much of a chance at finding that gold gold in those there pans. But I'd be happy to shovel my gravel into Dave's pan, let him do the work. DAVE BROWN: Finally, the stop I've been waiting for, Claim 33 Gold Panning. Lawrence, let's strike it rich, big guy. Ginny Burkard-Holl greets us. - Welcome to Claim 33. - Thank you. - This would've been one of the very first claims state, because we're not that far. Discovery Claim's just five kilometers up the road, so this would have been busy, you know, the first day. And they mined here until the late 70s. And then the owners turned it into a visitors' spot. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Ginny and her sister took over Claim 33 in 2009. The yard at Claim 33 is littered with artifacts. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: We have old engines. One of our most popular exhibits is a Dodge Power Wagon 1947 truck that was used by the White Pass and Yukon Route. And then there's a 1916 Buick convertible touring car behind us that was a Dawson City car, brand new originally, very expensive car. There's a collapsed cabin in the yard that's an original stampeders' cabin. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): Ginny's family has been in the Yukon for three generations. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: It's all about the gold here. Dawson City would not be here with the gold rush. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): And now she teaches folks from all over the world how to pan for gold. DAVE BROWN: It's go time. We're in front of a trough filled with water. We are going to be gold panning. Ginny, what do you have in your hands? And what are you about to walk us through? - Well I have two gold pans with dirt and Klondike gold in them. DAVE BROWN: Guaranteed? GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: Guaranteed. DAVE BROWN: All right. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: One for you, Lawrence. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Thank you so much. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: One for you, Dave. DAVE BROWN: Oh, it's heavy. So the pan's about the size of a typical mixing bowl, give or take. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: These are traditional Klondike gold pans. Here we only use steel. Gold is 19 times heavier than water, six times heavier than your typical dirt. Everything else will wash away in your pan, and the gold will stay. It's just that simple. - We'll see if it's that simple for us. - Well you want to put water in first. - OK, OK. And how much of the ball should be filling up? - About a third full. Now shake it hard, side to side. You want to hear that rattling in the pan. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: I'm rinsing now. I'm rinsing dirt out of my little crescent moon shape-- - Yes - Of dirt and gold there in the bottom of the pan, just giving-- trying to get rid of some of the sediment and dirt. And then I'm going to get some more water in there and do some more pan action there to-- GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: You're just going to try to shimmy your dirt out. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Get the gold to the bottom, separate the dirt out. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: Four or five shakes is good. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: All right. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: Pour it out and dip again. LAWRENCE GUNTHER (VOICEOVER): We continue to dip and wash our pans until-- GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: You've got a piece of gold there showing up. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Do I really? GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: It's actually trying to move out, so pick up a little water. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Tiny bit of that water, just a little bit? GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: Shake it down into that crease. Perfect. Now if you feel in that crease at the front-- - Right in here? - Little more, little more. There's your gold. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: That's my gold? GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: You just press down on it with your finger-- LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Yeah. - And it's hard. And just lift up your finger. And there. - That's a clink right there. Yeah, that's beautiful. GINNY BURKARD-HOLL: That's a very technical term. DAVE BROWN: Thank you for the introductory lesson into gold panning, Ginny. - You both did great. - Yeah, well thank you. - Great direction. - Ready to really go get it now, absolutely. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Lawrence and I head up Bonanza Creek road to a real free claim to put our newly learned skills to the test. DAVE BROWN: This is it Lawrence. This is our opportunity. Claim Six, free gold panning. What kind of tools do you have ready? - I got my spade. I got my pan. That's all I need, buddy. And the container to put the gold in. - There we go. I got my pan. I've got a stick that I found on the side of the road. I don't know what I'm going to use it for. But it's going to be awesome. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: I can hear the river. DAVE BROWN: So just like Jenny taught us, fill the-- fill the pan to about halfway. Shake everything up to the front. - Well I thought I'd go somewhere maybe where no one has tried before, which is probably highly unlikely, but a little bit away from the river, into some of the stream bed here. But it is really hard going. I think I'm going to scoop myself up some of this rock here, pan it, get some of these big rocks out here. Is that gold? No. DAVE BROWN: Oh, Lawrence, I just slipped a big old rock, got lots of sand. Almost looks to be untouched sand. This is going to be it. This is going to be where I'm going to get me my nugget. - Rinsing my pan trying to get that sediment out, get that gold level right there in that corner of the pan at the bottom. - It's harder in a less controlled environment, eh Lawrence? - It just takes time. Let me get this last little rinse out. Have a peek at that. DAVE BROWN (VOICEOVER): Nothing but dirt in Lawrence's pan. - The only difference between panning for gold with Ginny versus panning for gold with Dave is that I have to trust Dave, that he's not just stealing my gold. Dave I washed another pan. Have a look, buddy. Any color? - Lawrence, it's looking like a lot of brown, a lot of dirt. I don't think there's any good yellow in there for you. - I don't know how people make a living at this, man. It's insane. - My pan's barren, too. But at least I found this big old chunk of fool's gold, so that counts for something. Lawrence, I don't know about you. My feet are freezing, and soaking wet after being in that water. - Next time we're waterproof shoes, buddy. - I don't own waterproof shoes. I'm an indoorsman. You're an outdoorsman, I'm an indoorsman. What did you think of that experience? - It's a lot of work. That's a lot of work. Can you imagine doing that every day of the summer from sunup to sundown? 14, 16 hours a day? - Well, no actual gold, but at least the memories were golden. All right, Lawrence, let's get out-- get off the riverbank. Why don't you grab my shoulder or just-- - No, you go ahead. I'll follow you up. - All right. Lawrence, that's it. There's no more of the Yukon to prospect. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: I think we did this whole river. What's next? - Well, I think going home is going to be the next thing. But before we do return, make our glorious return to the national capital region, what was your favorite part of the Yukon Territory? LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Well, I'm torn. Catching my first arctic grayling was amazing. Oh, he's beautiful. But meeting all those First Nations, Inuit, and indigenous people that were building those boats, you know, that moose skin boat, the dugout canoe, the birch skin canoe. And meeting Connie working on that moose hide. I think she was the hardest working person there. Amazing. DAVE BROWN: Yeah, she really was. I'm a little bit more self-centered, I guess, maybe a little more of a cuddlebug. Meeting those 20-day-old Huskies was pretty cool. Who's a good puppy? But what was really cool was being out here with an outdoorsman like you, spending some time on the lake fishing, catching my first two fish ever. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: Dave, that could be the biggest one. MARK ZRUM: There's another fish. LAWRENCE GUNTHER: You did well, my friend. You did well. - Yeah. - You did well. - Well, again, it's thanks to your guidance, Lawrence. I wouldn't have been able to survive the Yukon without an outdoorsman like you. - Well let's get you back to the airport and back to urban civilization. - That sounds good. ANNOUNCER: Hosts Dave Brown, Lawrence Gunther. Producer Lisa Nault. Director of Photography Darcy Detoni. Editors Darcy Detoni, Sebastian McKenzie. Graphics Mike Smith. Integrated Described Video Specialist Emily Harding. Audio Post Bruce Baklarian. Associate Producer Tessa Lai. Post-production Supervisor Jennifer Johnson. Senior Producer Michelle, Dudas. Director, Production Cara Nye. Director, Programming, AMI-tv Brian Perdue. Vice-President, Programming and Production John Melville. President and CEO David Errington. Copyright 2017 Accessible Media Inc.