Snaring Small Game | First Good Snow 

This is fast becoming my favorite RU-vid channel. Great film work, editing, music and interesting topics. Wishing you nothing but success Ed. 👍🙏

I've done fair amount of hunting but I've never snared. It saves on lead and it's cleaner. Glad your getting some snow. I'm surprised YT isn't hollering! I'm not sure how people think food gets to the table. Take care and see you next time.

That rabbit will be some good eating!!!! The snow looks wonderful.

You have to have the best view of the lights ever. It's just perfect!

I can't get over the spectacular views you have from your cabin. You can even hunt in any given direction with a 1000+ meter clear sight picture...from the comfort of your cabin!!! All that work establishing that FOB of yours is definitely worth it brother

New music on this video! I love it! Good choice!

I like when you add the date, and sometimes a caption so I understand what I am looking at! 🤣😂 love your channel!

Staffan Carlen makes good music! Quick work on the bunny. The snow commeth to the mountain! 👍😎🇨🇦🐇🐇❄❄❄❄❄ Always AWESOME videography. 🙏💫

Ed i am loving your channel sir Keep up the great work . videos are so good thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing Ed!!!!

Happy veterans day!.. hope you are doing great! Thank you for your service and sharing these videos!.. love watching

Hey- new music!!! I like it! 😊 Thanks for the video, Ed. 😊

I watch old reruns of Alone. They catch all their own food in the wild. It's so hard to watch cute bunnies getting killed but with the economy the way it's going all of us might have to start hunting and trapping to survive. Good information Ed.

I like the new music but love the old. Hello from East Texas! Love your content!

The intro music was fantastic. The northern lights were so pleasing to my eyes. I surely miss them. Totally awesome you got a couple rabbits. Plus the lesson on how to clean them. Ed, you certainly are in your environment up in the mountains. Thank you for sharing a piece of your life with us.

Outstanding video. Thanks for sharing.

that was a great video ed. you getting good at this my friend. enjoy the winter.

Hi Ed, we just subscribed to your channel. You have one of the most scenic locations I have seen and you do a great job filming it. Very polished! Cheers from Ontario, Canada and see you on the next one.

You have a little paradise there! Awesome! Greetings from the Netherlands.

Really enjoy your channel on yt. Great music as well. Keep them coming.

Love the new music as well as the old! Always love the lights,the reds were almost lightning..ish.

appreciate the snaring lesson....thanks for taking us along

Love the music, makes your videos epic. Awesome catch with the bunnies, we raise our rabbits Quite delicious. Can’t wait for the next one. The northern lights are incredible

Love those northern lights! When I process small game weather it's for food or fur, I use anvil type pruners for feet removal. Helps save your blade and is a time saver as well. As always another great video!

Love your channel, love it even more when it's snowing. Really quick work cleaning up those bunnies.

Another good video. It has been a dream of mine to live in the bush in Alaska since I was little I currently live off grid in Idaho but it’s not far enough out for me. Thanks again for the vid. God bless.

Hey Ed, was wondering if those Alaska Bunnies have lice. In Wisconsin our cotton tail rabbits do. When hunting them I would recover the bunny and hang it on a branch and grab it on the way back home. That way once their body temp drops the lice jump off. As a kid i had many meals of rabbit pot pie! In the winter i spent most week ends hunting bunnies and grouse with my Border Collie and Lab mix. Back then at a young age i used a single shot 410. Great memories with those 2 faithful dogs! Love your videos!!!

The new music was nice! Sounds positive! Your etho standard music or sounds are a little dark vibe based. The preparation of your meal in the bunny mansion kitchen was also nice to watch. Bunny shoes because you can make a shoe out of one bunny? I remember my first 3 week school internship in a big restaurant with traditionell german food on the table. I was 14 years old. This internship should help a young soul to find a job for the future. I had 3 of this while I was in School. I had to put smal holes into the bunnb or rabbit back and then puting 1 centimeter sticks pure porkfett stripes into the holes then this bunny was cooked in the ofen....I never forgot my first bunny :-) Wild flesh is the best God has to over. The flesh fiber and the food that this wild life consume is chemical free and taste awsome! Cooking videos also would draw more women into your canal :-) But please wear a nice Cook cheff uniform and hut! I can send you one from Germany!

Like the intro music.

Just loving this!

Love the new music 🎶

So far you are my favorite you tuber Love your videos I'm new to your channel I stumbled on your channel.

Thanks Ed, another great video. Your place never gets old.. such a awesome location. Man it has to be hard to leave it for a month to go to work..

Incredible northern lights show. Nice job on the rabbits. Starting to look a lot like winter Ed..i know thats how you like it.

The "ladder thing" In germany everyone how has to stepps on ladders have to make a 2 hour coaching "for the safty first ladder" using. One of the insurance worker comps gives the training. One of my colleg fall from 4 meters..broke his back. As a privat person its also good to know how to work secure on a ladder. Tipp 1: When stepping on a roof- make sure that the ladder is ca. 100 centimeter longer then the roff so you can keep a hand on the ladder when you step on the roof 2: We instale a big metal hoes under the roof and bin the ladder to that thing. That makes sure that the ladder cann fall to the left or right or down.. 3: After law- in Germany every roof must have a secure system where you can hook into. Of course this is not easy but build but if you have a strong roof structure with a monster log- you could drill a 2 centimeter hole through the metal the insolation and through the log. Then you bring a monster screw (lets say 30 centim oder however the log is thick- and bind it t ogether. On the roof you make sure that it is water proof with silicon and so. Eyebold? On top of the roof you have now the first security system. Of course you could instal such a system in the mittle of the roof and in the sitting position like you do it reaching the point and there you conect yourself and then you can start the work...The wind is also danger. I had to work on 100 meter high buildings. Sometimes the windwafes hit me like on the beach! Of course the right shoes...Frank

Awesome video! Thank you for explaining how you did everything.

Love those northern lights and I like the new music in the beginning 👍 Have you ever considered putting a cover over the snowmobiles?

Alright...hang on just a minute! Diggin the music but just not sure it's your vibe! You're the Mountain-By-God-Mariner after all 😁😉 Incredible light show! And the snares were a success...that's great. Will you show how you cooked them? So many possibilities! Yummm!

Those northern lights are just something!

Ed do you live on what they call Bald Mountain? If that is true, you live on a very beautiful place! The views you get from where you are located goes for miles and miles. Even all the way to see Denali how wonderful that' is!!!!😂

I bet those rabbits made a good dinner

Those views❤

last "architectural thoughts" Cabin insolation: Its clear that the builder had build the cabin for 3 season using. I know some YTer canals that had build a cabin or even a home in the coldest parts of alaska. They created the buildings in the best insolation quality floor roof walls all the classic idems like mudroom and often with shutters bear proove and so on. All waterpipes inside to building for protection- some had build a fantasic foundament dry cross circulation for air. Some had 2 windows for better insolation. Dry cabins are often build for the 3 season time- hunting fisching and so on. Off course the position on top of the hill makes the cabin the worlds best hunting stand with 360 suround view. Moose and other fine food on feeds in focus of the kal 50! Perfect spot! In the building industry we call a optimizing of a structur "revitalize" Some empty building will be a Hotel other micro appartements. Using the structure and make more out of it. Building for 365 in extrem cold -scandinavia Bawaria Alaska sibiria- have small windows to reduce the cold pressure into the home- small windows a "Must have" Big monster windows panorama style is a sign for the 3 season use of a cabin. The goal is to change the 3 season bbuilding in a 4 season building. Wind-power snowpower in your eara is hard core. Time affort money logistics "only 2 hands" on deck- weather dictator- a special program needed or kreative improvisation to make the best out of it stepp by stepp. Architectural thoughts- starting with a question: Has the walk around the cabin the terasse or veranda the same logs the same foundament like the rest of the cabin? If not is it possible to strengthen this part of the outdoor of the cabin with own tree logs? You have nice logs not so fat but strong and big enough to use them you need another bigger tool to make them "building material". Think about this: If the structure can carry some more 300-400 Kilo weight- then you could build another skin wall or second wall in the northside and use this place with the RV toilett or a composite WC and showerroom. I thing part of the old shower house could be used for the first part. The new second skin would be a strong barrier between the outside and insie the space the air would reduce the pressure of cold into the wall and the windows. ou need not more so much wood for the heating. Many had build a second skin around a "summer cabin" to have a better insolation. Often they started with a muddroom. And if you feel the wind of change after building the northside with a barrier- you could go on and build the next skin later when you have money and power and time or even helpers. Wood has a big heat storage capacity. Log houses are real hot buildings and they regulate even in summer the humidity in a home. Big panorama windows are wunderfull for the view but they are a great luxury in the artic space where you live. Idea: When you have time you take out one of the monster panorama and fill the space with a strong wood insolation the wood fiber has the power. To do this you would reduce heat losses through the window- and you create a natural heat storage IN the wood slates. Even 10 centimeter slate is enought for the inside- the outsiide needs extra water proove slates (natural oil for impregnation or fire) and to cover the microspace between the slates (lets say12 cm by 2 or 3 cm vertical so the water can run faster and nail a 3 cm slate over the contact line to close it for rain) The winterproove loghouse from Albert Einstein is still dry and has no fungi after 100 years. He had 10 cm logs with slates outside and inside. Made a perfect insolation that can breath and regulate. You can safe the panorama window for the next skin wall and integrate it into the now wall. Also you could build shooting windows like in the castles and hunting spaces if you love to shoot from the toilet or from the shower :-) Or while you make coffe 🙂 If you can insolate the floor from the outside and make is more wind proove then you would have a better athmosfähr in the home. There where the biggest space is on the terasse of veranda- there I would build the combi muddroom/waterstorage/ Shower. The other space around the cabin like a walk around in a U-form. You could walk and watch have enough light and you can shoot if youl like to. The walls you could use as storage space. The roof in such a angle that the snow load could slide like a racing men on a ski. Windows as you can affford them. The inside windows- you can open them if you will let heat to the walkaround- and you build a door into the new space. Ventilation will be possible and in summer? The new skin would be a protection for the cabin it brakes the sunpower and the sun is not more hitting the inside like bevore. If you like this ideas- and you have fun to create a YT dialog then make a 5 Minutes video about the foundament of the cabin so that I and others can see in what kind of stone rock the logs are grounded and how the transoms are. I thing that is is possible to make the walkaround stabil with not much money. T-beams out of your own wood- bound to the rock- 3-4 pices per side. Also space that you could use for fire wood storage for 2 month or so 🙂Love Frank with fun in creating ideas to "make the place a better home"

Fried, baked or stew? Happy to see that you got to the catch before the critters

Hello . My dream❤😢. I am french . I do not speak english . I follow you from Reunion island in the Indian Ocean. Good continuation 😁👏👏👍👍. Mathieu

Any update on the new sled yet ? Love the night time lapse videos. As always great videos, narration is the best.

Hi Ed, two bunnies is fine, they will make a good meal or two. Anything on your new snowmachine? Thanks for sharing.

I am always surprised you don't toss somethingover your equipment. Or build a shelter of some sort. I know you do not have a ton of flat ground to build on!

Congrats! You’re batting .500 on the bunny highway. Happy to see you wearing gloves while processing the bunnies. Nobody wants a jab in the backside if you don’t have to. I’ve preached till I’m blue in the face to my son about it (retired nurse here). Intro music was great! Nice change of pace. Don’t get me started on those Northern Lights 😍. Thanks for letting us hang out with you.

Ran across your channel few months ago,Very interesting videos, can you go into detail about how you got the land? Did you build the cabin? Details on how you transported all that out there? What's your closest neighbor? Thanks Brett from Catawba, NC

I’m sure you’re getting socked in up there around Denali finally. My son’s grandparents were on FaceTime showing us the snow they got in Anchorage. Wish we had some of that in Jersey!

Bunny for dinner. Always delicious 😋

I Liked your old music much better

I have paused before the bunny butchering to ask , how do you get internet !? Now back to the show to see what you are doing for dinner .

Great video.... what is your favorite way to cook rabbit meat???

I just stumbled on your channel a few months ago and I've been enjoying your content. Do you have any trail cameras that you'd recommend as a decent quality and reliable unit? Thanks for making these awesome videos sir.

Did you film Aurora Boreails at normal speed or fast? It was stunning.

I like that sled can you tell me if they are in our local wasilla Ak.

What brand of pants are you wearing? They look like heavy canvas with cordura wear points.

PS: I forget to ask why you dont protect your skidis from snow??? Or does that not matter? Frank

How did you get all the building materials up there to build your house?

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Huge improvement in intro music. Now maybe work on moving the mic away from the heavy breathing 😤

Hey Big Ed Happy Holidays to to you buddy....