Rob Bauer has spent the last 15 years living deep in the forested foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, running a remote 98-square-mile trapline as a proud First Nations member and seasoned trapper who has built every structure on his homestead — from his log cabin to his smokehouse and shower shack — using timber he harvested and milled himself. With no utilities, no shortcuts, and no backup, Rob relies on spring water, generators, and the old-school skills passed down to him as a boy, trapping muskrats with his uncles and watching his grandmother sew fur by hand. He spends most of the year alone on his 98 square miles of wilderness — no neighbors, no safety net, and no desire for either — and for Rob, that isolation isn’t a hardship; it’s exactly the life he chose.