Horseback Adventures, Alaska Big Game Hunting, Life in the Bush by Alaska Chick

Horseback Adventures and Hunting Updates for Pioneer Outfitters

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 ~Hi there, everyone! Wow, the year has gone by in a flash, so far! Holy-Smokes! We are stepping up from the normal, "We only have 8 weeks to get everything we want done for summer, move, move, move!" to "MOVE! BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!" stage of our year and really, it's great. I can't wait to meet those of you who we are already expecting and those of you who just love to be the surprise! Now, here are the updates for the business at hand today.

Pioneer Outfitters Updates

Master Guide Terry Overly of Pioneer Outfitters in Alaska has held strong and sure against the poor economy for years. After 7 years of holding back increasing the prices of all the Adventures, Excursions and Big Game Hunts, I was informed this weekend that the new prices will go into effect November 1st, 2011.

Any Adventure, Excursion or Big Game Hunt booked with a full deposit before November 1st, will be booked at (2004) current prices. Any trip booked after November 1st, will be booked at the new prices. (~I will be adding them to the prices pages on the website!)

Adventures Updates

We have new shorter vacation-fit Adventures! We have newly scheduled shorter trips for those that want to experience the Last Frontier and to get off the beaten path to do it.

Using the Chisana Mail Plane Schedule, of Monday and Thursday weekly, and a schedule of events instead of only a route and destination we were able to create 5 Day Horseback Adventures that will give you the taste of the wild freedom and immense area of the Wrangell St. Elias National Park.

Pioneer Outfitters Hunting

The Challenge has brought the excitement back into the hunting community. We are already setting up high mountain camps and keeping our eyes on those great white dots on the mountain sides.

The Park has the largest concentration of Dall Sheep in North America. With the constant threat of taking Dall Sheep off the non-resident big game hunting list, the APHA (Alaska Professional Hunters Association) is gearing up and gathering more information and support to protect the hunters, resident and non-residents, rights.

Last Minute Tid-Bit!

Two aircraft, a Beaver and a Cessna 185, were chartered into Chisana loaded with Alaska Native leaders, the National Park Service and Fish and Game Biologists to chat with the Chisana residents about the Chisana Caribou Herd. This is great news, folks. The Chisana Caribou Herd is the only known true Mountain Caribou Herd. It has been on a permit-basis-only since 1994 and since 1995 there have been NO permits issued.

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.”