Being in the adventure business has given us the chance to rub shoulders with many bigger-than-life characters who are an inspiration to all of us. Chief among these is Norman Vaughan whose “Dream big and dare to fail” motto made him the living epitome that attitude means everything. He started young, training his first dog [...]
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The man who taught the Pope how to control Satan
Posted by brucegs13 on July 11th, 2010
Wintergreen Team Finds Wooly Mammoth … at Target
Posted by brucegs13 on June 30th, 2010
“Baby Mammoth Heads To Paris.“ That’s not a headline you see every day — at least not since mammoths became extinct about 10,000 year ago. This week’s press announcement of a frozen prehistoric mammal’s transport from the Russian Arctic to a French research center caught our eye because it involved polar fossil collector Bernard Buigues. [...]
The Most Amazing Sled Dog in Polar History
Posted by paulschurke on June 25th, 2010
Meet the world’s most accomplished sled dog! We first met him in spring 1985. We called him Sam. He went on to make canine history in a big way. We were on a 5-month, 5,000-mile dogsled trek across North America — from Duluth, MN, to Barrow, AK, the northernmost village in the USA. Our team, [...]
Posted in The Adventures, The Arctic, The Dogs 
Tags: Beaufort Sea, Cold War, Dew Line, Ely, Lead Dog, Minnesota, North Pole, South Pole, Will Steger 
4 Comments »Summer Adventure Travel Tours at Wintergreen
Posted by brucegs13 on June 10th, 2010
or What Happens At Wintergreen in the Summer? Well, when we’re not sitting around the hacienda sipping mint juleps with the sled dogs, we enjoy some of the most spectacular canoe adventures the world has to offer — right here in our back yard! And you can too. A couple of openings remain available on [...]
Wintergreen’s Adventure Diplomacy Expedition Commemorated in Anchorage
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
When we dogsledded and skied from Siberia to Alaska 20 years ago in our effort to help re-open the U.S.-Soviet border in the Bering Strait, little did we know that the project would someday be memorialized in a very unusual way. But this week we got a call from Alaska Airlines to tell us that [...]
Adventure Story – Pyta Boy’s Long Walk Home
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
Can dogs really find their way home over long distances a la “The Incredible Journey” and “Old Yeller”? Migrating birds & butterflies certainly can — over thousands of miles. But according to the database in the book “Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals” (1999), most accounts [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Adventures, The Dogs, The Tales Tags: Eskimo Dog, Incredible Journey, Old Dogs No Comments »The Wacky Side of Polar Adventure Travel
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
Buried somewhere in the windblown snowdrifts along the north shore of our continent is a motorcycle. Some 30 years ago, it was destined for the North Pole until it’s driver, a Japanese adventurer, quickly realized that motorcycles are worthless on the fractured pack ice of the polar sea. Perhaps he knew his scheme was ill-conceived [...]
Posted in The Adventures, The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Actic Tales, Arctic, Polar Advenure Travel, Wacky 1 Comment »Adventure Travel Tour/Dogsledding – 2010 Guest Testimonials
Posted by brucegs13 on May 31st, 2010
The following , which is a shameless plug for Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge, are slected quotes from 2010 season guest letters and evalutations. GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT FOOD, BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS, AND THE SINGING OF THE DOGS . . . IT DOESN’T GET MUCH BETTER!!! Great people, great food, beautiful surroundings, and the singing of the dogs…it doesn’t [...]
Wintergreen Guides Share Dogsled Wedding and Epic Adventure Honeymoon
Posted by brucegs13 on May 31st, 2010
We’re very proud of our 12-member guide team here at Wintergreen. They’ve not only been heralded as the ‘best in the business,’ but their adventure livelihood is also their lifestyle. Consider our senior guides Amy Voytilla & Dave Freeman. After a 4-year courtship that involved 5,000 miles of canoeing, kayaking, and dogsledding together, they celebrated [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Adventures, The Lodge Tags: Dogsled Wedding, dogsledding, Honeymoon, Wedding No Comments »
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