History’s Alone season 11 episode four ended with Timber setting up to take another shot at a moose. Episode five, “Something in the Air,” immediately reveals the outcome of Timber’s latest encounter with a moose.
Episode five also checks in on Michela, Dub, Jake, and Isaiah. When the episode starts, there are seven survivalists still sticking it out in Inuvik, Canada, in the Arctic Circle. By the end, we’ve bid goodbye to another Alone survivalist who taps after experiencing overwhelming loneliness.
(Recap ahead which means there are spoilers from episode five that aired on July 18, 2024!)
Timber – Age 35, Salem, Indiana
Day 14, 12:03pm – Timber’s arrow appears to strike its target, and he can hear air bubbling in the moose’s lungs. The moose manages to run a few feet and falls, and Timber’s ecstatic that he pulled off a big protein win. Alone estimates the animal’s weight at 1,200 pounds.
Timber has a massive job ahead of him and immediately sets to work. Bears will smell the fresh kill, so Timber makes a fire next to the body. He’s considering working all night to prepare the moose, and he hopes for cold weather.
7:13pm – He’s finished the top half of the moose and is going to wait until tomorrow to finish the job. It’s a one-mile hike back to his camp, and he’s already tired. Plus, he’s making himself a target of bears and wolves trekking around with the meat.
10:37pm – Timber’s back in his camp, debating working through the night or waiting until daylight. With so many bears in this area, Timber knows he needs to build a cache and get everything squared away in the next couple of days.
Day 15, 11:14am – Timber spent the morning finishing butchering the moose. Vultures pick at the carcass as Timber returns to camp to build a food cache cold storage. He spent the night worried about bears finding his meat, but so far, he’s been lucky.
His biggest concern is preserving the meat in this warm weather. It’s cool on the north bank of the river and Timber digs into the bank to build a storage area. Timber burns a lot of calories, but it’ll be worth it if he has meat he can count on in the coming weeks. He also notes that he needs to save the meat from the moist climate and the threat of bacteria.
11:51am—Killing a moose has increased his pressure to win. He cuts logs to size, using them as walls of his cold storage. At this point, he wants colder weather to set in quickly.
1:23pm – He places the final logs and adds stakes in front, creating an 8” thick front wall. Timber lines the inside with boughs and places the meat inside, even though it’s not quite bear-proof yet.
2:08pm – Timber declares Fort Moose Meat is finished. It’s an impressive cache; one of the best in Alone’s history.
Day 16, 5:09pm – A mink is eating Timber’s meat in his cache. He chases it away and reveals it’s been there two days in a row. The mink ate part of the moose heart, and Timber decides to start work on rendering the fat. He can’t build something mink-proof, so he needs to find a solution to the problem. Timber realizes he needs to make containers and render all the fat since it’s the most attractive thing to animals. He’s going to cook as much of it as he can each day.
Day 17, 10:16am – Timber’s built birch bark lard canisters and continues to render the fat down pot by pot. He’s using his shelter as a smoker for the moose meat. Timber shows off huge hunks of meat. He’ll strip them thin, place them on skewers, and hang them in the shelter.
Timber has seen big bear tracks close to his cabin and is torn about smoking the meat in his camp. However, it’s really his only option.
2:17pm – Timber shows off rows and rows of meat hanging from his cabin’s roof. The smell’s almost overwhelming as he starts the fire. Timber recalls being suicidal in his teen years thinking he couldn’t be enough for God or people. Now, he feels joy in his soul that he exists.
Michela – Age 33, Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, Canada
Day 15, 9:28am – Michela uses a piece of black carbon to keep her toes dry since she’s been wearing boots nonstop. Back on Day 10 she cut a game trail, and on Days 11 and 12 she started working on setting snares. Now, she checks a snare and discovers something has taken her bait.
The traps are all empty and she’s heading back to her shelter when she hears a grouse. She misses with two arrows and spends time tracking them down. Michela admits she’s feeling a bit of anxiety but is trying to stay hopeful.
Day 16, 1:24pm – She finds a nest and will use it to help start a fire on a cold day. She shows off a moose hair that’s in it before getting back to work cutting poles for her shelter. Her simple A-frame attached to a tree isn’t quite finished, and she’s fashioned it so that trees provide a windblock. It’s small but she’s okay with that since it’ll be easier to heat.
Michela reveals she wanted to experience city life, so she enrolled in college, played sports, and went to parties. One day she had a mental breakdown and was hospitalized. Returning home to the quietness of nature helped her recover.
She hears a noise and pauses working on her cabin to watch a marten hunting a rabbit along her trail. The marten runs off after killing the bunny, providing Michela with a meal. She gently works on keeping the rabbit’s skin intact. The liver looks healthy, so she slices up the rest of the rabbit.
3:46pm – Cooking’s finished, and the rabbit is delicious.
Day 17, 4:46pm – Michela spots a family of swans, and admits she wants to start a family. Next, she sets up a squirrel pull in an active squirrel area. She’s feeling incredibly alone and doesn’t like it. Her emotions are all over the place, and she believes this loneliness must be similar to what it was like to be taken from your family and placed in a residential boarding school.
She talks herself into staying one more day.
Day 18, 9:23am – Michela checks her fishnet, and she’s caught a huge fish. However, she releases it because she wouldn’t be eating it with joy.
9:51am – She doesn’t want to have another mental breakdown and decides for her own mental health she needs to tap. The social isolation aspect was too difficult to handle, but the competition made her understand who she really is in her heart.
Jake – Age 42, Fremont County, Idaho
Day 15, 2:17pm – Jake’s still in pain four days after sitting on a rock and snapping his tailbone. He’s not worried about the injury, but it is something that slowed him down for a couple of days. Jake says he’s fine now and checks his net, hoping for a big win.
He’s still yards away when he spots two fish in his net. Jake’s finally found the perfect place to put his net. He pulls in a pike with a burbot in its mouth, probably from the pike trying to eat the burbot after it was caught in the net. Jake can’t stop laughing over his good luck after a rough start.
He taught himself how to make a gill net after losing his fishing line, and it’s really paying off. Alone notes these fish will provide 2,430 grams of protein.
Dub – Age 44, Frederic, Michigan
Day 15, 2:49pm – Dub’s still working on his shelter after the coldest night yet. (It was 39 degrees.) He uses a wattle and daub (mud and grass) technique on the back wall near his chimney. He believes it’s almost irresponsible to kill big game in this weather since it’s not cold enough yet to preserve it.
Dub has placed spruce boughs and horsetail over his shelter for insulation, and he puts his tarp over that. It’s a small shelter but super insulated.
“If winter came tomorrow, we would be fine,” says Dub.
Day 16, 4:23pm – Dub has seen fish in a specific area and is using the whitefish he caught on Day 11 as bait. There’s a school of whitefish in front of him, but apparently, they aren’t into cannibalism.
Day 17, 3:26pm – Dub’s losing it a bit, dropping a beat while he welcomes viewers to Alone’s first rave. His shelter’s filled with smoke, and he blames his weirdness on smoke inhalation. Fresh air will do him some good and he heads out to fish.
Dub has lost 20 pounds since Day 1 and needs protein. He vows to shift his focus to food as he carves an L7 trigger rig that will automatically set the hook on a pike. Dub decided at age eight to be a pro fisherman and bought a bass boat. He’d risk all his money to pay entry fees into competitions and collected soda cans to turn in for refunds as his backup to buy fuel if needed.
Dub sets his hook and reels in a pike. He celebrates and then quickly sets his line before cleaning the fish. Something triggers his spring pole, and he pulls in another large pike. It’s lunchtime!
Isaiah – Age 35, Ghent, West Virginia
Day 15, 4:12pm – Isaiah shows his nieces and nephews how he brushes his teeth. Survivalists are allowed toothbrushes but not toothpaste, so Isaiah subs in charcoal.
5:21pm – Isaiah continues to work on his shelter – specifically his fireplace. He’s named his shelter The Bunker and brags it will have the best fireplace if he doesn’t kill himself from hauling rocks first. His fireplace is a combination of rocks and wooden stakes. While working, Isaiah reveals one of his best decisions was joining the West Virginia Air National Guard. He believes his military experience gives him a leg up on his competitors.
8:48pm – He’s pleased with his fireplace but hasn’t eaten. The last time he had protein was on Day 6.
Day 16, 12:37am – Howling wolves wake Isaiah and they sound close by, but he can’t really tell. He admits wolves scare him and knows he needs to get his shelter done soon. The howling will keep him awake for the rest of the night.
9:01am – Isaiah’s exhausted after the roughest night to date. The wolves never stopped howling, but none came close to his temporary shelter. He vows to do as much as he can today to finish his permanent shelter. It’s a large shelter and he decides to cut off corners to make it easier to heat. He hasn’t gone after fish or game yet; he thinks working on the permanent shelter’s more important. His shelter’s cut down into the earth and when he’s done, it’ll be bombproof.
It starts raining but he’s a long way from being done. With his tarp blocking the rain, he does a dance to celebrate being able to stand up in his shelter.
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