And speaking of “It’s Raining (on) Cats & Sled Dogs,” we’re pleased to announce that our summer sled dog kennel can now be turned into an instant typhoon on hot days. With the flip of a switch, our Arctic dogs get a cross-cultural Southeast Asian monsoon experience. The sprinklers are part of a wildfire deterrence [...]
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Wintergreen Sled Dogs Get a Taste of the Tropics
Posted by brucegs13 on July 7th, 2010
Posted in The Dogs, The Lodge 
Tags: Arctic Dogs, balsam trees, Firewise, Gunflint Trail, Minnesota, Sled Dog, sprinkler systems, wildfire, wildfire deterrence system 
No Comments »Wintergreen’s Chef Bernard Now Offers Gourmet Cuisine Summer and Winter for Adventure Travellers
Posted by brucegs13 on June 3rd, 2010
Wintergreen’s Master Chef Bernard Herrmann is one of the world’s top 100 French chefs, was knighted by the French premiere for his culinary excellence and helped launched Julia Child’s career by serving as one of her sponsors for admittance to Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. He has worked at some of the most exclusive restaurants [...]
Posted in The Chef, The Lodge Tags: Adventure Travel Food, Chef Bernard, Four-star Meals, Gourmet Food, Northern Wilderness Food 1 Comment »Animal Encounters of the Third Kind
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
Sled dogs have plenty of encounters with each other and their human companions but they’ve also have occasional encounters with wild animals. Wintergreen mushers were stopped by a moose on the trail several years back. He hoofed the snow and cast a few threatening glances but eventually sauntered off without incident. Other mushers have not [...]
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 »Top Adventure Tour Nets Wintergreen a Top Sled Dog
Posted by brucegs13 on May 30th, 2010
When Outside Magazine ranked our “Dogsled Trip with Polar Inuits in Northwestern Greenland” among it “Top 25 Adventues of a Lifetime,” we were honored. But an even greater gift from Greenland were the litter of sled dogs pups given to us in the northernmost village in the world. They’ve proven to be a wonderful addition [...]
Posted in The Dogs, The Lodge Tags: Canadian Inuit Dogs, dogsledding, pups, training pups No Comments »Sir David Attenborough’s Visit to Wintergreen
Posted by brucegs13 on May 24th, 2010
Today’s headlines includes news that among the “Top Ten New Species” discovered last year is the world’s largest carnivorous plant, the “Attenborough Pitcher.” Hmmm…that rang a bell for us. When Sir David Attenborough filmed his “Life of Mammals” series for Planet Earth (2002), he came here to Ely to film timber wolves at Ely’s International [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Dogs, The Lodge Tags: Canadian Inuit Dogs, dogs, dogsledding, Eskimo Dog, pitcher plant, Planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough 1 Comment »
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