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

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I shared, today, one of the lessons I have learned in the last year on line.  My 13 year old son, “humphfed” down next to me and said that often heard (in my house with a 7th grader) refrain, “I don’t know what to write!”

Do you want to know, what I have read, on line, about “I don’t know what to write!”? They say that happens to everyone. Just write. Take a break, go for a walk, sit down (with a pen and paper, if you want) and write. Anything. One sentence. No spark? What else, write the first thing that comes to mind, even if it makes no sense... write.

I have shared so much with my family here in Chisana, over the last year, of what I have learned. I am not sure why this one time is going round and round in my mind.

I told a friend recently, I feel just exactly as excited right now as I did more than a year ago for my life and our future. I can’t wait, each morning to see what the day will bring. I can’t wait to read what some of my friends have written. I can’t wait to see if some tiny missing piece of information, the answer to some question, might be answered or explained in a little bit different way...

An Adventure. My entire life is an Adventure. I live in the wilderness of Alaska. I am a licensed Big Game Guide. We hunt and use pack horses as well as riding horses, our own range horses, that live here in the interior of Alaska with us year round, on all of our trips. We haul water, cut firewood and trap fur. I do not recall ever feeling so very strongly, that my life is an Adventure, as I do now.

As you have most likely noticed, Alaska Chick’s Blog as well as the entire Pioneer Outfitters website is undergoing a “face-lift.” Even if you have looked around in the past, please feel free to investigate again. I am trying to sort out the piles of information I poured into HubSpot’s CMS a year ago.
I really would love to hear your thoughts about the changes. Is it any easier to use? Did you find the information you were looking for? Could you read it easily? Should I include more video, to the different pages, do you suppose? More slide shows, or do you like the pictures simply posted? Most importantly! Do you see (above) one or two rows of the main menu?

I’m still pretty excited about 2012 as well, I’ll have you know! I just had to add that because my son came home from dinner at the Lodge tonight and said to me, “Don’t you think it is sad that the center of our universe exploded a few years ago and it will kill everything for sure now?”

Huh. (I couldn't think of a better response.)

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.”