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
It’s Raining Cats & Sled Dogs!
Posted by brucegs13 on July 7th, 2010
Hundreds of sled dogs were pressed into duty during WWII for search and rescue missions throughout Greenland, Canada and Alaska. But they also saw duty on the Western Front in one of the least-known stories of sled dog heroics that involved one of the most amazing adventurers Wintergreen has ever had the honor of being [...]
Posted in The Arctic, The Dogs, The Tales 
Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Battle of the Bulge, Canada, France, German Army, Greenland, musher, Newfoundland, Norman Vaughan, parachutes, Section Eight, Sled Dogs, Toul, US Army, War Dogs, World War II, WWII 
2 Comments »Ghost Ships of High Arctic
Posted by brucegs13 on June 18th, 2010
The Bermuda Triangle holds nothing over the high arctic when it comes to mysteries at sea. In fact, two of Wintergreen’s favorite arctic adventure haunts, Russia’s Barents Sea and Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands are sites of those mysteries. The first involved Sir Hugh Willoughby, a British sea captain who set sail on the Bona Esperanza [...]
Posted in The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Actic Tales, Adventure Travel, Arctic, arctic adventures, Barents Sea, Barrack Obama, Bermuda Triangle, Bona Esperanza, Captain Edward Belcher, Explorer, Ghost Ships, HMS Resolute, Jackie Kennedy, Northeast Passage, Polar Advenure Travel, President Hayes, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Queen Victoria, Resolute Bay, Resolute desk, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Svalbard No Comments »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 »A Tragic Arctic Love Story
Posted by brucegs13 on May 26th, 2010
An Arctic tale discovered, researched and told by Paul Schurke In 1897, three Swedish explorers led by Salomon Andree took off from the Arctic in a hydrogen-filled balloon named the Eagle in an attempt to fly over the North Pole. Sadly, they were never seen alive again. But the tragic story gained a romantic twist [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Arctic, The Tales Tags: Arctic, Explorer, Love Story, North Pole No Comments »Never Let Go of the Dogsled!
Posted by brucegs13 on May 24th, 2010
A humorous, almost disastrous true story from Paul Schurke …. Though dogsled adventure tours has been a way of life for my family and I for nearly 30 years, I first learned the art of mushing back in the late ’70s from the famous adventurer Will Steger. My wife Susan and I lived in a [...]
Posted in The Dogs, The Tales Tags: Canadian Inuit Dogs, dogs, dogsled, mushing, survival No Comments »
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