“Is this for REAL?” my wife Sue & I kept asking each other last week while romping with polar bears on Hudson Bay. A dozen of us took part in Wintergreen’s pioneering venture with Churchill Wild at their lovely Seal River Heritage Lodge in northern Manitoba to hike the Arctic Ocean shore amongst polar bears waiting [...]
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Polar Bears galore!
Posted by paulschurke on November 1st, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, The Arctic 
Tags: Adventure Travel, Arctic, dogsledding, polar bears 
1 Comment »Luck o’ the Irish finds the “Polar Time Capsule”
Posted by paulschurke on October 3rd, 2010
Luck o’ the Irish finds the “Polar Time Capsule”
The 1986 dogsled trek that Will Steger & I (Paul Schurke) led to the North Pole was oddly fraught with inexplicable curiosities and encounters. Perhaps the most unlikely upshot involved a humble piece of plumbing pipe. Enjoy this bonified ‘believe it or not’ tale at www.dogsledding.com/gnablog!
Posted in Featured Posts Tags: Adventure Travel, Arctic, dogsled, dogsledding, North Pole 4 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 »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 [...]
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