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

Alaska Hunting and Adventure Updates, Not Quite From the Field...

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Updates, Not Quite From the Field...

Every day we get closer to being in the field. As much as I have come to love the experiences I have, the connections I’ve made and treasure, and the lessons I learn, the joy I feel for the others I see here or there,... I have to say, I can’t wait! I am getting Ready To Go!! I guess I was more focused on my posts and the people I have only started forming friendships with. (not to mention, snort, I’ll be sleeping in ALONE for the first time since LAST hunting season! ~ We HAVE to move into the Castle, somehow! ~I need some rest!)

I guess my stir has gone crazy...I’m outta here.

I woke up this morning and it still hadn’t stopped raining. Last year, I’d been so wet for such a long period of time, it took six months for my skin to smooth those little wrinkles you get in your fingertips out!  I’ve been sitting here, (in various chairs trying to find one that didn’t leave me in agony!) doing what I do, since the end of January of this year! Thunder misses me. I miss Thunder.

Reminder! Price Changes are Approaching!

Any Pioneer Outfitters Adventure, Excursion or Big Game Hunt booked BEFORE November 1st, 2011 with a deposit, will be booked at the listed prices for 2011.  Any Trip or Hunt booked after November 1st, 2011 will be booked at the new prices, this will be the first price increase in 4 years.


New Hunts, Better for You, Better for the Land

We are focusing our future hunts on 20 Day and 30 Day Hunts. Master Guide Terry Overly has been debating the pros and cons of this move for the last few years. With our move on line and becoming more active on the internet, the interest has been overwhelming with family groups the biggest supporters and bookings for 2012 and 2013 at this point, at the end of July, 2011.

Pioneer Outfitters goal has always been to make sure a client or guest enjoys every aspect of this great land and it’s opportunity. We believe removing the “time-crunch-oh-my-God-how-much-money-did-I-spend-pressure,” will only increase the pleasure and success of any Alaska big game hunter after a tremendous experience.

The Mount Sanford Tribal Council in Chisana

Five representatives including Gillam Joe, from the Mount Sanford Tribal Council will be flying into Chisana within a couple of weeks to bare witness on the state of the Chisana graveyard on the original plot of what was then, Shushanna. Master Guide Terry Overly, blood brother since they were boys, to Gillam Joe, myself and the Chistochina Clan members will travel by horseback across the Chisana River to the site and will camp until all of their traditional ceremonies are completed.

The Alaska Commercial Services Board Meeting.

The new proposal for the changes to the Pioneer Outfitters Survival & Guide Training course. Re: Alaska Assistant Big Game Guide Training Course.

The proposal offered to the board, outlined the justification, plans and future of on line training made available to trainees. The curriculum will be taken from and expanded on our existing curriculum including, as well, any potential problem areas in (mis-)understandings of legal or land and game laws and regulations.

The Written Study Guide. Covering all necessary and pertinent legal, ethical and moral standards the guiding industry is based on.We have confidence that this two-part study program, divided between on line written material which is fully necessary to study and understand clearly, which our proposed on line classes would accomplish and the trainees could do in their own homes, at their own pace (with a time constraint of 4 to 8 weeks).

To a trainee’s arrival in Alaska for the second part of their training, much better prepared for the seriousness and responsibility in their goal to become an Alaska Assistant Guide.

You may be interested in more about Pioneer Outfitters and it's standards and how we work. Here are a few posts I have written in the last few months that focus on exactly that;

• Big Tips On Big Game Hunting in Alaska
• The Big 4 ~ Pioneer Outfitters
• 6 Points Your Guide Should Want To Know About You
• Alaska Guides and Outfitters, THI -vs- BSYW?

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.”