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Building Alaska Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Family Legacies
Tue, Jan 5, 201640 mins
The three teams kick off their builds in remote Alaskan settings. The projects include a family legacy cabin in the Wrangell Mountains, a guest cabin in Eagle Song and an island getaway near Juneau.
Episode 2
Alaska's Frozen Highway
Tue, Jan 12, 201640 mins
Three teams continue their builds in unique, remote Alaskan settings. At this stage, they're staking the areas, going on supply runs and digging foundation holes. One team finally makes it off Alaska's frozen highway.
Episode 3
Bumps Outs and Burls
Tue, Jan 19, 201640 mins
One Alaskan builder's team loses hands to volunteer firefighter duties and another faces a big change in temperature that changes his focus. Rough seas and some bad math put one build team behind schedule.
Episode 4
Hello Hoonah
Tue, Jan 26, 201640 mins
One builder encounters record-breaking spring temps at the build site while another looks the other way when it comes to code on his guest cabin. One team is almost stranded by tides at their island getaway.
Episode 5
Location, Location, Location
Tue, Feb 2, 201640 mins
Mike and his crew scramble to save the peonies in Eagle Song, Dave and Hans's 50,000 lbs of material make it to shore unharmed on Shelter Island and Adam does some precision work on his cabin in the Wrangell Mountains.
Episode 6
Whackin' and Stackin'
Tue, Feb 23, 201640 mins
Mike's plans to catch up backfire in Eagle Song, Dave and Hans start laying the floor while having fun at their client's expense on Shelter Island and Adam battles 100 years of brush for his family cabin in the Wrangell Mountains.
Episode 7
Plywood Don't Lie
Tue, Mar 1, 201640 mins
Mike gains ground, but can he keep it by only laying plywood over the cabin's foundation? Dave and Hans revisit their build and realize they've got a lot of work, but not much time. And Adam faces his biggest fear about the build.
Episode 8
Cody Save the Day
Tue, Feb 23, 201640 mins
Mike's son Cody comes up with a fix to peel logs for their cabin build in Eagle Song. Dave and Hans work through extreme weather and muscle heavy beams up to the second floor. And Adam is a bag short of cement for the foundation.
Episode 9
Lofty Goals
Tue, Mar 1, 201640 mins
The builders make progress peeling and stacking logs, but heavy fog puts one supply boat journey in jeopardy.
Episode 10
Alaskan Mobile Home
Tue, Mar 8, 201640 mins
While one builder falls further behind schedule due to wet weather and unforeseen obstacles, the others work on transporting materials to their build sites.
Episode 11
The Big Lift
Tue, Mar 15, 201640 mins
It's time for rafters and roofing for one crew, while another tries to set the extremely heavy ridge beam until help arrives. Another crew transports logs and gets the massive cabin floor laid out.
Episode 12
Lost in Logs
Tue, Mar 22, 201640 mins
The build crews set ridgepoles, deal with last-minute design changes and come up short when crucial logs go missing.
Episode 13
Alaska Bush Approved
Tue, Mar 29, 201640 mins
It's do or die time for all of the builders as the tides and weather prepare to change.
