Wilderness Adventures Updates and News
Updates from the wilderness, and as I promised, keeping you in the loop with news from home! Where should I start? Oh, yeah, YOU! I really want to thank you, my community of folks that are sticking with me, during what I am sure is to be a laughable start (someday!). Knowing you are there, waiting to hear what's up, it means everything to me.
I have been learning (as you all well know) all I can, and as part of that learning I must to more than read and practice~ I must DO IT! I feel like all of my hero-mentors have ganged up on me this!
Danny Brown posted “Because You Matter” on April 11th; The Sales Lion by Marcus Sheridan posted on 12 April, “The Uncomfortable Road to Success: A Story About You and Me -The Sales Lion”; John Falchetto, Expat Life Coach, posted “Why Commenting Isn’t For You” on April 18th ; Jonathan Fields posted “If Buddha Was CEO: The Four Immeasurables in Business” on April 20th ; Scott Stratten, UnMarketing keeps me coming back to try and keep trying to figure out the strange and often indecipherable (to me!) Twitter (!); HubSpot’s Day Camp Quick Wins with Kyle James and Colleen Carney on April 20th and yesterday morning April 21st, Danny Brown posted “You Don’t Have To Die to Live.”
So. I am commenting now, it is hard, harder than I even thought it would be. I guess, I didn't give you all much of a break on not commenting before I tried to do what I was asking for! I am still hoping for some questions I can answer and the bright light to turn on and tell me the direction I need to be going with all this new information I am being immersed in, but for now, I'm happy to be right here, learning as much as I can to catch up.
Other News: I am still dreading Spring. (I'm not the only one!) The "boys" are worried about our range horses, as always in the spring months. The sun is gaining such strength, so fast, that this is the crucial time to keep a close eye on them. They seem to enjoy the sun and heat so much after the bitter cold of wintertime, they will stand there, nodding off (literally!) soaking up the rays... and starve themselves to death. Or maybe really get the urge to do the itchy-shake-n-scrub on their backbones, wiggle around, give themselves a good rub on the ground, only to find they have wiggled themselves into a hole in the pethy snow and ice, and wont be able to fight their way back to their feet, lay there, and die. (Don't fret, that is what we are here for- to make sure that doesn't happen!)
Our airstrip is the only maintained airstrip during the winter and it was starting to feel a little soft when we took off the other day, time to strip it down to dirt. (safety first, folks!)
Survival & Guide Training: The New Session is to begin in May 2011 and we are already getting things ready for the new trainees to arrive. It's always exciting to have them arrive, but as a mom as well as the Manager and one of the Boss's Trainers, it can also give me some worries. "Is this individual going to be a positive addition to the team?" "Is this individual really have any concept of how hard our lives really are, or is it just a tv-envy dream?" and onto that of course is, "Will this person help make a client's Alaska dreams safe and do everything and more to help make them come true?"
Horse Trip! (This is our family-battle call to bring in our new horses) We are already researching, inspecting, buying and planning the gather to bring in the new horses to add to the herd. The last few years, we have been building our mares numbers and we are really hoping to find a worthy stud this year. (BTW, this is a great opportunity for a late- spring grizzly hunt or a horseback Fishing Adventure on this trip, if anyone wants to be part of that!)
Contest: The 7 Days in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve on a Guided Horseback Fishing Adventure Contest will end and the winner will be drawn out of a black hat on May 1st, by yours truely! If you haven't entered, make sure you do and don't leave your friends out!
What about you, any thoughts on what you wish I had kept you in the loop on?
~Want to be part of it all?
I am, Alaska Chick.
“As you look, really look, and find no words; feeling both, your heart healing and filling to an inner bursting point and feeling that your soul has been laid open to the breeze and wind like a raw wound. This takes you beyond the physical, past the mental; this is the spiritual element. This is Chisana.”
My name is Amber-Lee Dibble and I am the Manager at Pioneer Outfitters. We are located in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve, our nation’s largest, most unexplored, unexploited and untouched National Park.
I am Mom, the Manager and the lead Guide of the Extreme Pro Team Guides. Born a Capricorn 1, Week of the Ruler, on the Day of The Indomitable One.
Pioneer Outfitters has been taking people into the wilderness of Alaska on horseback for Spiritual, Pleasure, Gold Panning, Glacier Exploring and Historic Trail Pack Trips, as well as Big Game Hunting and Survival & Guide Training since 1924. We, our family and our horses have always lived here year-round. As we make our life, we make our “living.”
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