“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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dogsledding’
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 »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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