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Snowshoes: An Arctic Traveler’s Best Friend
Every once in a while I see dramatic photos of the Brooks Range Mountains layered with a plush carpet of snow in a magazine or book. Heck, even some of my own photos resemble a dog musher’s paradise....
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Snowshoes and the Arctic
“When are the trails going to be groomed up there?” the gentleman on the phone asked for the second time. “They aren’t,” I replied again. “Are you sure they aren’t groomed at all?” he second...
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Breaking Trail in the Arctic
“You want a pair of what?” Bob questioned me on the phone. “One pair of six-foot by 10-inch snowshoes, I just have a gut feeling I’ll need them this year,” I explained. And honestly, if it weren’t...
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Mountain Hardwear Windstopper Pants: Now Known as Mountain Tech Pant
Rather than going into details and specs of the Mountain Hardwear Windstopper Pants right away, let’s first talk about the harsh environment that I dragged them through on a 100 day solo dog sledding...
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Sub Zero Down Bootie Tested in Sub Zero Temps
There’s nothing better than kicking off your boots at the end of the day and wrapping your fingers around a hot cup of java while relaxing in front of a warm fire with your feet comfortably cocooned in...
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The Monkey Man
Long ago, an Inuit man told me the secret of staying warm in the arctic: “First, eat lots of muktuk (raw whale blubber) and second, wear soft, clean, lightweight clothing.” The old timer covered his...
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Tales of the North: Lost Without Snowshoes
It was an eerie, soul piercing howl that had a strangely cheerful melody to it. I figured the wolf was lonesome, shunned from his pack or injured, but his song seemed to agree with me. It lifted my...
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The Secrets of an Ancient Art: Iverson Snowshoes
The first conversation I ever had with Bob from Iverson Snowshoes, it seemed like he was revealing the secrets of an ancient art to me. He explained in detail the weight distribution formula that he...
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