a shady past and is not above stealing and trying an insurance scam. Walter "Walt" Kupfer Walt (Moultrie Patten) is a rugged but friendly fur trapper, and love interest of Ruth-Anne Miller in later seasons. He was addicted to his work as a stockbroker in New York City and retired to Cicely on the advice of his doctor "more than 30 years" ago. Mike Monroe Mike (Anthony Edwards) is a hyper-allergic lawyer turned climate activist. He is initially nicknamed "The Bubble Man" by the citizens of Cicely. Mike comes to Alaska to escape the pollution that gave him multiple chemical sensitivity. Maggie O'Connell, attracted by Mike's show of courage in battling his illness, encourages him to come out of his airtight house more often, and they briefly become a couple. In an apparent inversion of "Maggie's Curse," Mike's symptoms suddenly vanish, whereupon he leaves town to join a Greenpeace ship at Murmansk, much to Maggie's disappointment. One-Who-Waits One-Who-Waits (Floyd Westerman) is Ed Chigliak's spirit guide, the ghost of a long-dead chief from Ed's Native American Bear clan. Richard "Rick" Pederson Rick (Grant Goodeve) is Maggie O'Connell's first-season boyfriend. He dies at the end of the second season when an errant satellite falls on him during a camping trip. After his death, it is revealed that he was a compulsive sex addict who cheated on Maggie with hundreds of other women. In one episode after Rick's death, Maggie encounters one of them face-to-face where they discuss Rick's relational complexities. Leonard Quinhagak Leonard (Graham Greene) is a native medicine man, Marilyn's cousin and Ed's mentor. He is also the local totem pole carver, which is featured in an episode where he creates a totem for the Whirlwind family, which rekindles a long-running feud between the Raven and Bear clans. Elaine Schulman Elaine (Jessica Lundy) is Joel Fleishman's fiancée/ex-fiancée. She is first heard in an outgoing message on an answering machine, and first appears in the season 1 episode "Russian Flu", when she visits Joel in Cicely. After breaking up with Joel by letter in order to marry a retired judge, she visits Joel again after the death of her husband in the season 2 episode "Roots". Rabbi Schulman Schulman (Jerry Adler) is Joel's rabbi from New York City. He inexplicably appears to Joel in "visions"—and also once to Michelle Capra. Sergeant Barbara Semanski Barbara (Diane Delano) is a rugged Alaska state trooper