Tonight YUKON MEN continues on Discovery Channel, and fans are waiting to see how Charlie’s emotional decision to take back the trapline from Nations will play out when he calms down and thinks it over–or had he already thought it over when he declared his intentions at the end of the show last week?
Charlie had been given a great honor by the keepers of the family trapline in question: to keep the trapline going and, therefore, keep it in the family. There was one stipulation: Nations should be allowed to use it if/when he was ready. And, after having kept and cultivated the trapline for a decade, Charlie honored the agreement and turned the trapline over to Nations when he requested it after returning following a 12-year absence.
But, Nations has not honored his side of the deal.
The reason it is so important to continue working the trapline each season is because if it is unused, unkempt and falling into disrepair, it is free game. Someone else can claim it and begin to use it. And, when Charlie reluctantly, but dutifully, turned the trapline over to Nations, he was obviously concerned that that would be the exact scenario that would play out, despite Nations’ assurances to the contrary. Still, Charlie even provided Nations with traps to get started, giving him no excuse for not picking right up where Charlie was leaving off and keeping the trapline going for the current season.
That was not what happened, however, and Charlie found last week that, in fact, the trapline was becoming ragged and overgrown, and the footprints of many animals made the picture even more clear: The trapline, under Nations, was now defunct and, as such, open to challenge. And, as fans of the show know, that challenge may be coming from none other than Charlie himself. Tonight, according to Discovery Channel, on episode “Gut Check”:
The pressure is on Nations, when the Moores head out for the first major dog sled race of the season. Stan faces a hard decision when one of his dogs falls ill. Charlie has had enough once he sees the state of the trapline he handed over to Nations.
It is hard to blame Charlie. If he goes through with his challenge, it may cause some bad blood in Tanana. But, on the other hand, if he goes through with it, the matter will be settled once and for all–and instead of worrying that “his” trapline could be usurped at any moment, Charlie could, with a successful challenge, be firm in the knowledge that in fact “his” trapline is actually his.
Time will tell; stay tuned.
YUKON MEN airs on Discovery Channel on Tuesday nights at 9/8c.
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