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Three new build teams arrive to their build sites and begin building their unique cabins in the remote Alaskan wilderness. Josh Tousignant and his crew make the long trip from Palmer to Cordova and arrive on site to begin building the slab foundation for their clients' two story cabin. John Donkersloot and Heather Rough drive their 40 foot shipping containers for their cabins foundation up to their mountainside build site in Seward. Chris Maynard and his crew fly out to build materials and install helical piers for his foundation on Trinity Lake.

At Trinity Lake, Chris and Joe begin to chop down an 80 foot tall spruce tree when it begins to fall to early, and then later have repackage their materials after a helicopter struggles with their first delivery. Over on Mt. Ascension, John and Heather fall behind building the floor system of their cabin because of the rain and will need more help to get back on schedule. In Cordova, Josh and his team must forklift their materials up the muddy driveway to the build site after the semi gets stuck at the bottom, and a complex build plan with tons of parts and pieces threatens to shut the site unless the team gets organized.

This week, Josh and team begin working on the interior walls and installing second story floor joists for their Cordova cabin. Chris Maynard begins to build a dock for his float plane when he runs out of lumber, and has to adapt when the framers he originally hired don't show up on Trinity Lake. John and Heather work with their friends and family to get ahead by building a dormer wall and installing the loft flooring, but will mis-measurements and mis-cuts keep them further behind than ever?

The build teams are building high in the sky this week. Chris Maynard and team prepare for two intense helicopter deliveries of roof rafters to the second story floor of the cabin, and Greg precariously scales a raised rake wall to nail it into place. John and Heather work on finishing up the roof by installing the insulation and metal sheeting when the forklift won't shift gears and threatens to knock over their timber frame. Josh and his team work from jagged pallets lifted two stories high by their forklift and rickety ladders late into the night to finish the three gable walls for Keith and Kathleen's cabin.

With all three builds running behind schedule, the teams all rush to get ahead. Heather's daughter Reghan comes out to help with insulating the walls, John and Heather build a water catchment system but discover they aren't getting enough water pressure, and John installs the cabin's ridge caps on the slippery tin roof in the rain. Chris Maynard and team install his new roof rafters using a toy slack line, Chris later becomes an air taxi service in order to fly as much help out to his build site as he can, while Greg and Ivan wait on a delivery of a main deck beam lovingly nicknamed "Big Bertha," and Chris' windows are delivered by helicopter in a dilapidated crate that swings violently in the wind. Josh comes dangerously close to tipping over his forklift and knocking over a gable wall while trying to lift a 600 pound purlins and later discovers that the purlins have been installed incorrectly.

John and Heather's build is put on pause as they try to figure out how to install their drywall without covering their timber frame, a new team member comes to their rescue to help them finish framing their walls, and they get a late delivery of lumber to finally finish the decking system. Chris Maynard and team are growing tired. The delivery of Chris' windows spin violently in the air, Joe and Duane work on the steep roof installing the metal roofing tin, and the team works on finishing the insulation and the tongue-and-groove walls before Chris runs out of time and money. Between the rain flooding the inside of the cabin and bears eating their supplies on site, Josh and team also have to contend with his tools breaking and going over schedule as winter looms around the corner. Josh hires additional crew to help him finish the roof system, dormers, and the deck in time.

Time is running out for all builders to complete their projects. At Trinity Lake, Chris Maynard enlists help to install solar panels that will create DC power for his cabin and sets up cameras to watch for bears, while Greg and Ivan work fast trying to finish the interior tongue and groove paneling for the cabin's roof. Outside Cordova, Josh works on the custom log stairs as Jeremy takes his time to precisely cut and build the cabin's custom windows. On Mt. Ascension, John and Heather's build site is flooded and they must rebuild the road to their cabin. Later, a window doesn't fit the cabin, and too much pressure on freshly built custom concrete counter tops causes problems.

The builders are in the final push to finish their cabins before winter strikes. Josh fights rain and wind to install the wood stove and finish the roofing tin, and Chris rushes to install kitchen counters before company arrives.

Three new teams, three new builds, and countless challenges ahead. Rookie builders Matt and Amy Hill snowmobile their materials across the frozen Safari Lake landscape, and find out building in the snow is more complicated than they planned. Professional builders Dan and Mike Owens mill the lumber needed for their build at their sawmill before working with a snow cat to haul all their materials out to their build site outside Petersville. First-time builder Jackie Keizer hires a team of professionals who struggle to bring out an excavator and help her dig the foundation on steep, muddy terrain inside a rainforest 30 miles from Ketchikan.

At Jackie's slippery build site, the team works to finish the subfloor and start raising walls, but rain and mud hinder the team at every step. The Hills work through freezing Alaskan temperatures to finish installing their foundation, but digging out their supplies and a fallen tree under three feet of snow and a fallen tree stops the builders in their tracks. The Owen family works to overcome missing pieces of their log walls, being a man down, and the ever-painful Alaskan winter weather.

The Hills race to finish installing their floor in order to avoid delaying their scheduled wall delivery, which leads to an injury on site. Jackie and her team work through the rain to get as many layered walls done as possible to make up for lost time the week before, but they run into problems when their build materials start to fall apart. At the Owen's build site, the team struggles to install the loft floor joists and tongue and groove flooring before a snowstorm could bury them.

This weekend, the Hills work on their first floor framing and deck so they can meet their goals of sheathing and framing the second story, but work slows to a stop when their tools begin to freeze. Back at the Owens' build site, the team works on installing the second story gables, dormers, and roof rafters, when they accidentally cut through one of the cabin's electrical wires. Jackie and her team work to finish the cabin's roof structure, but mis-measurements and communication errors begin putting team members at risk as they install rafters and corbels high above on makeshift platforms and slippery decks.

At the Owens buildsite, the team is working to finish the roof, but multiple falling objects, miscutting the metal roofing material, and cold winds and white out conditions make the job perilous. In Moser Bay, Jackie and her team struggle lifting the 250 pound stove from the bay up to the cabin, discover they have the incorrect nails to install their windows, and accidentally install the floorboards of the deck incorrectly. The Hills arrive at their buildisite to their materials buried under the snow, run out of screws in the middle of installing their rafters, and lift their second story deck beam and accidentally warp the metal holding.

At Jackie Keizer's buildsite in Moser Bay, the team delivers the cabins French Doors to the buildsite, but during installation they find the frame fits incorrectly. Meanwhile, Jackie works high above the ground installing soffiting in the eaves of her roof as she races against the clock, coming closer and closer to building over schedule. At the Hills build site in Denali, spring has come early and the snow is melting fast. A snow machine delivery runs into problems on the melted trail, while Amy find out they are missing a crucial component to the cabin electrical system; jumper cables that connect the inverter to the batteries. At the Owens build site in Petersville, the team is installing windows when Kyle (who has just returned to the site after healing from a car accident) slips and falls on site . Then, snow melting quickly on site creates treacherous takeoff conditions for Marc Hamblen, who needs to fly his plane out of the site or become stuck in Petersville until next winter.

At Jackie Keizer's Moser Bay build site, the team is installing the cabinets, refrigerator and propane stove when they hear propane leaking somewhere in their cabin. At the Owens' build site, the team installs roofing insulation, frames their interior walls, runs electrical, and finishes the tongue and groove walls. But melting trails makes the delivery of interior cabinets and appliances dangerous. At the Hills' build site, their delivery of tongue and groove paneling for the ceiling of the cabin is behind schedule and the installation of the wood stove's chimney is not going to plan.

The build teams continue to struggle as their build seasons come to a close. Jackie's nail gun breaks while finishing up her built-in banquette seating, she runs low on time when building the loft railing, and it becomes a mad dash to finish up the interior of her cabin before her family arrives to see it. The Owens must chop through ice and snow to build stairs for the front porch and break down some tongue and groove wall paneling in order to install a missed outlet in the bathroom. They are at risk of not finishing their clients' cabin before the snow machine trails melt. The Hills brave one more journey to their buildsite to finish the maple plywood wall panels, their kitchen countertops and appliances, and finish up all the floors and interior designs before their friends arrive.