N Dave,
This show must be produced by someone from Los Anchorage. The part that gets me is that people are always "dangerously low on food, or about to run out of wood." All this happens in winter when it is 35 below and they stay outside at night without a tent. Either these people are the losers of their village and need the money provided by being followed around by cameras all the time, or the whole thing is made up by someone who has never been in the Bush. I agree with you completely.
By early September, the montra in the North is "now I need to get a moose and 8 cords of wood."
