tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79948052339606892642024-02-18T23:13:32.606-06:00Steger Mukluks and MoccasinsPatti's StoryStegerMuklukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566423139350560800noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994805233960689264.post-22442933811221058762016-07-20T08:49:00.000-05:002016-07-20T09:16:42.462-05:00Patti's Story Part 16©<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><b>Arctic Hares </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I was having a difficult time yesterday giving you the location of the run in with the Muskoxen but I finally found a better map. My diary is not as complete as I would wish. I'm not a writer. Will recorded everything. He wrote in his diary every morning, a kind of discipline that he has always exercised. He has been helping with details. Before our meeting we had crossed the Lewis River earlier in the day and met this bull some miles further up the river.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The presence of wildlife was centered around Lake Hazen. Freshwater Hazen is about 45 miles long, 7 miles wide and 900 feet deep. The Glacial Rivers flow into the lake and the water flows out the Ruggles River to Chandler Fjord on the SE side. Near the west end of the Lake we encountered beautiful white Arctic Hares. Arctic Hares can be as long as 28" tall and weight up to 17 lbs. When there's snow on the ground they are camouflaged. We did not see any of the legendary herds of Hares but did come upon a number of smaller groups. I had never seen big white rabbits in the wild. It was so wonderful!! They seemed mythological!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">We are walking along these tabled, stepped moraines. In the distance I can see 3 pure white Arctic Hare statues, sitting perfectly upright looking straight ahead. They think they are camouflaged but there is no snow. The dogs haven't noticed them yet. We grab Blackie and Oscar and get them clipped in and are just trying to get Chester clipped when he catches site of them and starts running. Zap bursts after him. They get amazingly close to the Hares before the hares realize their dilemma and bolt up the moraines with the dogs in pursuit. There was no </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">concern that the dogs could catch the Hares but we needed to get the dogs under control. Hares are very fast!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I was holding on to the remaining boys while Will took off after Chester and Zap. Up and over a huge moraine would go the Hares and then disappear on the other side. Next Chester and Zap would run up and over and disappear. Then Will would run up and over and disappear calling their names louder and louder. Then I would see the hares reappear running up and over the next stepped moraine and disappearing. Following them, the dogs appeared though further behind, still in the hunt and then disappear. Behind them would go Will, up and over and disappear. Then again the Hares would reappear and repeat the same, Chester and Zap again and Will following. It was completely hilarious. I wish I had a movie to show you. Eventually Zap emerged off to the right side, heading back my way. He knew he was in trouble and elected to circle route himself back. I called him and as he lumbered back to me I could see Will still running after Chester. Young Chester. Lots of energy. Will finally caught him and returned. He didn't see the humor in it at the time. I might not have if I had been the one chasing them. It was wonderful!!</span></div>
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StegerMuklukshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566423139350560800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994805233960689264.post-37358369344345420302016-07-19T09:12:00.001-05:002016-07-19T09:18:40.547-05:00Patti’s Story Part 15©<br />
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In the first photo I'm sitting at the base of Rollrock Glacier. <br />
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I have my all purpose mug out for a drink of the glacial water melting down the side where I'm sitting. Incredibly amazing to be able to say that I got to do that. I'm 64 years old now. In this picture I am 30 years old. The glaciers in these photos have dramatically receded. I'll have to do some more research on that.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The second photo shows another river crossing. We wore tennis shoes in rubber boots for much of this trip. It was a lightweight system and worked very well. The tennis shoes dried quickly overnight. We had been carrying our hiking boots but eventually left them at one of the camps. They were heavy and never dried out. Interesting that much of the gear we assumed would work did not. You have to be open to new ideas, listen to everyone with Arctic experience!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The third photo shows the dogs and me hiking. The forth is an incredible shot of a valley of Arctic Poppies on our route as we descended to Lake Hazen.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The last photo is one of my favorites of Zap and Blackie. Oh my noble boys! I loved those dogs. They were amazing.</span></div>
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The following are photos from our packing trip en route to Lake Hazen through the mountains, along the Rollrock River and around glaciers. Not much explanation is needed.</div>
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Some of the dogs stayed with Sean the Camp Manager and Mary the Cook at Tanquary. We took Blackie, Zap, Oscar, Chester and Creswell. You can see them pictured here on the tundra. Handsome boys all! Our packs were all heavily loaded as we headed out and up the Rollrock Valley, along the Rollrock River in sight of the Rollrock Glacier. The Valley was filled with Arctic Cottongrass as you can see from the second photo of me with the dog.</div>
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The first glacier we encountered was Steeprock. Steeprock and Rollrock both poured out from the mountains, into the valley and met the Rollrock River. We had some difficulty after rounding the front of Steeprock. Instead of being able to follow the riverbed we were forced to climb the rocks to the glaciers edge and hike the moraine which was not difficult once you got up there. As glaciers recede they deposit rock and sediment debris called moraines. You can see this in the third photo even though its a bit dark. This is most difficult for the dogs. We stayed together and helped them each maneuver around boulders and over the rocks. The top was fairly even and walking improved.</div>
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I make a note in my journal about our amazing dogs and all they have been through. They’ve traveled in trucks and trains, been flown all over the arctic in helicopters,Twin Otters, Hercules Aircraft, commercial jets, ridden in boats, pulled sleds for thousands of miles and now they are packing through the high Arctic. The tales (tails) they could tell. An occasional pun is good.</div>
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Under these rough conditions it’s necessary to continue traveling until you find a suitable place to put up a tent. Some days it’s sooner than expected and other days it seems to take a very long time. We made our camp between the glaciers along a beautiful glacial stream. I spent the evening making notes on how to improve the design of the dogpacks. We had tested them in Minnesota before leaving but it was impossible to imagine these conditions. As a designer I don’t think there has been anything I’ve ever created that I did not feel compelled to continue improving.</div>
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<b>Arriving Tanquary Fjord Camp on the 4th of July </b><br />
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Good morning! Our next move was to prepare to walk the rest of the way to Tanquary Camp. In order to make the trip we had to abandon our sled. We intended to go back by boat and retrieve it later which we did. We began the long hike with backpacks on ourselves and the dogs. We each had to manage as much weight as we could carry. As part of our gear I had designed and made saddle packs for all of the dogs. It was a welcome change for them the be free of the cold water and then being loose on land! Wow! The weight they carried didn't dampen the thrill of freedom! The trek took us two long days. We three Americans and all of our American dogs except Creswell arrived at Tanquary Camp on The 4th of July! How apropos!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">We found a fairly flat spot a good distance from the main camp. When you have dogs, any barking can be an annoyance. We were always conscious of that fact. It helped that our sleep routines were opposite. We made a comfortable camp and then walked to the mess hall (quonset building) and enjoyed something more extravagant than the rice, noodles, cheese and beans we were accustomed to. We were also aware that the following day Bob would be flying out and we would be traveling alone for the foreseeable. Our last supper together. The only other American influence in this midst was a helicopter pilot named Webb who had married a Canadian woman and became Canadian. The next morning we said our sad goodbyes and Jim Webb flew Bob back to Eureka Weather Station where he would catch a Twin Otter to Resolute Bay, then a Commercial flight from Resolute Bay to Yellowknife and on and on south. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Moving quickly we packed up. Breaking camp in high speed winds is treacherous mainly because you cannot set anything down or it will blow away. Gone. Will left early to find a route, heading out with the wind at his back. The winds from the west were blowing the ice into the east shore. We hitched the dogs in double tandem with a long lead rope to the sled, a system that gives them more leverage under these conditions. Some of the pools of water had gotten so deep that even with all of us pushing and pulling, we had trouble getting the sled through. Concerned with deep water and having lost sight of Will, I snapped a rope onto Blackie and Buster who were leading and led the team through the maze as Bob wrangled with the heavy sled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">We were nearing the shoreline before we finally caught sight of Will. He was off to the right standing next to some heaved ice, or jumbled ice, that had been pushed into shore. We headed towards him, pushing and pulling. That ice was our bridge to terra firma. The storm was winding down, we estimated the winds were less that 30 mph. We had traveled for about seven exhausting hours that day. Happy to be on land and safe, we found a reasonable spot and made camp, taking a well deserved rest. We were tormented throughout the 'night' by screaming Jaegers, large aggressive birds trying to drive us away. It seemed the safety of land suddenly had a cruel surprise for us.</span><br />
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The first photo shows how deep and difficult the icy melt water had become. We struggled more and more. Spring roars in the Arctic. Streams that are ankle deep one day become impassable waist deep torrents the next. The second photo is Bob, after we reached shore, standing at the edge of an ancient tent ring. It was so remote that we assumed it was undocumented. The stones would have anchored the base of Musk Oxen hides that would have been stretched over a bone frame. The third photo is a Jaeger in flight.<br />
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We had been traveling for about 12 days when we ran into the wide open lead pictured here. I estimated it to be about 50' across. As was our habit when running into these ever widening leads, we would split up and ski or run along either edge looking for a narrow place to cross. One of the phenomenon in this pristine place is sound clarity.We could be long distances apart and still have conversations albeit with enough volume. At The Big Lead, (named after Robert E Peary's Big Lead during his North Pole Expedition) we failed to find a better crossing spot. Bob and I returned to the spot where Will was standing staring at the other side of the lead. Our other option is normally to calculate wind direction and start heading with it towards shore. Traveling along, hoping the wind would not shift in the opposite direction, it was our likely opportunity that the wind was pushing the ice into shore and we could step onto land. </div>
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Will kept staring at the other side of the lead during this 'option' conversation. Then he said, 'I think that long piece of ice might be detached from the side.Here comes life again... it did not appear to be separated to me but as we stood looking at it, it magically started to move away from the side and floated free. Whatever you want to call this, life seems full of these events. They never cease to stun me! We were there the day and the very moment that the ice detached. I cannot calculate the odds on this happening at just that moment.</div>
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We tied a pail to a long rope and took turn tossing and trying to get the pail flopped over the top to the opposite side of that ice. The object was to get the pail filled with water and it would act as a sort of hook. We were laughing with amazement and made a contest of it. I won! I'm pretty proud of that. We managed to wedge the length of it to either side, creating a bridge. You can see in the photos how long it was! Will and I used ice screws to anchor either side. I went across first and the job of getting this expedition going again began. Last across were the dogs, the sled and Will who had been photographing the entire event. </div>
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My reading menu for the 1980's and 90's had been pretty much exclusively composed of Old Arctic Manuals. It was a consistent diet of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration going as far back as the Franklin Expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and as recent Sir Ranulph Fiennes Transglobe Expedition and finally The Steger North Pole Expedition. Most of the earlier books had rather tragic endings with descriptions of dangerous or deadly conditions. I never felt in danger at any time with one exception... which I will describe in a later Part yet without number. It involved a lone bull Muskoxen during our 300 mile packing trip. Steger North Pole Expedition was the official name of the expedition. The name was morphed around by others. I was still involved in those first North Pole organizing years after this 1982/83 expedition. National Geographic Society was onboard early before any team members were selected. Thanks is due to famous National Geographic Photographer Jim Brandenburg for making this connection. He even lent Will a good suit for our first meeting in Washington D.C. Then NGS Expedition Editor Bill Graves arranged for and sponsored our travel with the purpose of interviewing prospective Steger North Pole Expedition team members. Bill told me one day that the reason they were sponsoring Will's North Pole ambition was because they believed he had what it took to make it, he had that rare quality, a kind of laser focus. They were precisely correct!</div>
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It was shortly after that time that I ended my participation. From that point I consulted with Will on gear when asked and sewed some of his personal items. I did not make mukluks for The North Pole. My sponsorship of Steger Expeditions began with the 1,600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland. It was the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history at that time in 1988, a training expedition for The International TransAntarctica Expedition and for all of his subsequent expeditions. </div>
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You can see from the first photo that the Fjords were beginning to form leads. This happens at major melt points on either side of the fjords where water is flowing at a rapid rate and the ice is no longer attached to the land. The melt freezes and melts and freezes creating the fracture that eventually looks like the photo you see here. That is the simplest explanation. Here we have run into our first Lead. You can see it's easy to negotiate this one. Run and jump! There are no dramatic stories to tell at this point. The travel is fast and the conditions are alternately rough/icy and wet. The temps are above freezing most of the time. The salty ocean water freezes at 28.8ºF / -1.8°C instead of 32ºF / 0°C. We are traveling about 10 hours each day during nighttime in 24 hour daylight. As I wrote before, it is colder during the night hours and better for the dogs. We take turns skiing lead.<br />
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Fresh water! In the land of ocean ice and brackish water your source of fresh water is a short climb to the top of an iceberg where delicious pools of crystal clear water await you! Best water in the world without exception! Being out, especially this far, is very peaceful. It's very moment to moment. There isn't much conversation. You simply keep going forward.</div>
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Last night was spent Googling maps of Ellesmere Island with limited success. I am no Cartographer but have given this my best shot. This is a topographic Google Earth map with no locations on it so I have plugged in all of the important bits for you. Ellesmere Island is a mountainous place reaching altitudes of up to 8600'. It is 75,767 sq miles of rock, gravel and glaciers. Estimated population of 146.</div>
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We departed Eureka Weather Station on June 13. With a heavily loaded Komatik we headed out over gravel onto the watery ice of Slidre Fjord. Throughout this trip over the Fjords, keep in mind my explanation of the lightening speed of the Arctic Spring melt and the same for Fall freeze. I'll let this map be my offering today. The route is in red and blue. The first leg is negotiating Slidre Fjord, Greely Fjord and Tanquary Fjord over open leads and much water to reach Tanquary Camp. On arrival at Tanquary Camp, Bob caught a ride back to Resolute Bay as planned and headed home to Ely. Will and I rested the dogs for a few days and prepared for the next leg, a 300 mile dogpacking trip north through the mountains and around Lake Hazen and back to Tanquary Camp.</div>
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On the morning of June 5, 1982, I caught my next flight to Yellowknife, the NWT Government Capital and then on to the long flight to Resolute Bay. Resolute is very close to the fabled Northwest Passage. The transplanted temporary workers in Resolute Bay often referred to it as a 'gas station/gravel pit' or 'the armpit of the north'. They worked at the airport or one of the Government facilities. It's basically all gravel bar. I stayed at Jesudason's Bed and Breakfast in the Inuit village a couple miles from the base where life seemed pleasant and active 24 hours a day in the land of the midnight sun. Schedules were kaput. There were polar Bear Alert signs everywhere. Serious Polar Bear awareness required.</div>
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On arriving, my agenda required that I contact the Manager of Borek Air, give him the bottle of whiskey that I had brought along for this purpose and he would get me on one of his resupply flights to Eureka. I wonder if its still done that way? I finally found this fellow in the Arctic Bar near the airbase with a few under his belt. I politely endured a few crude suggestions to the tune of 'For some people a bottle is enough but I'm thinking it may not be enough for you!' I turned around and returned to the village. Sadly, as much as I would have loved to... I could not afford to shred this guy, I needed a ride. I can zip it when I have to. There weren't enough women up there then. He apologized after he sobered up. I guess that's something right?</div>
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Resolute Bay village was significant because this is where I first met an older Inuit woman named Annie who allowed me to spend a day with her sewing Kamiks, sealskin boots. Her daughter spent the day with us interpreting. Before tape measures there were hand measures and string or rope probably sinews. To measure the length of my foot, she had me place my hand on a piece if paper. She marked the back of my palm. Then she instructed me to roll up and over on my middle finger to the second knuckle and she marked that. Magically that was the correct! That was the length of my foot! So simple! Next she showed me how by holding my fists together, the circumference measurement was the ankle opening needed for my foot to fit into a boot. These are a couple of examples she used, there were many more. THEN she whipped out her tape measure laughing!! We laughed a lot that day. She was so sweet and dear, I appreciated every minute we spent together. </div>
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Years after I started Steger Mukluks and had been sponsoring mukluks to Will's expeditions, I returned to Resolute Bay while working on his 1995 Arctic Project Expedition. I took a pair of Steger Mukluks to Annie. <a href="http://www.alpenimage.com/about" target="_blank">Gordon Wiltsie</a>, the team photographer, came with me to meet her and get a photo of us together. I have it in my boxes of photos to be cataloged but it seems I'm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot" target="_blank">waiting for Godot</a>. Gordon is an Internationally famous Arctic Photographer. Google him! He's an old friend, much accomplished. Gordon, if you're reading this, any chance you still have that picture?? I know it's a long shot.</div>
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I started teaching at Lynx Track Winter Travel School as a novice assistant in 1978 and eventually became a course leader. I would spend my winters in Ely and the rest of the year at my tiny home north of Colfax, Wisconsin where I made my living with my small design and sewing business named Canvasback Company. My dear friend Bob Cary created the wonderful Canvasback logo you see here after I moved to Ely. My permanent move north with my two small sons happened in Fall 1980 when I boxed up our belongings with the help of one of my girlfriends. We packed up our red 1949 GMC pickup truck with the split windshield and rolled north. That was a great truck. We all have a lot of fond memories traveling in that old red truck. This bit is for anyone who wondered. I'm from Wisconsin.</div>
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I'm heading out intending to spend the better part of a year in the Canadian Arctic. On that day, with the help of two friends, we pack 500 pounds of gear and three women into an old Ford. Overloaded. We happily travel southwest, then west, then north intending to deliver me and all this gear to Winnipeg International Airport. The next step is to get to the border crossing and hope it all goes easily. I don't want to have to unpack all these bags. We arrive late in the day at International Falls and on our first attempt are turned back because I need a one year tourist pass and they can only give me a three month. We turned the car around and had to re-enter through the American Border. The trooper walks out and asks for our ID's. (We never got that far on the Canadian side before we turned back.) That's when we discover one of my friends had forgotten her drivers license and in fact had no identification at all. It took some talking but we eventually were allowed back through. We had to drive all the way to the North Dakota border and the Pembina crossing to get the right pass. We first stop in to the US border patrol to let them know my friend has no ID so they will let her back through later that day. My paperwork is finally generated at Pembina and we continued on north to Winnipeg. </div>
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Today I would know that if I had 500 lbs of gear to move I would head for Air Cargo. I wasn't sure what I needed to do when I arrived at that airport. Thanks to all of the friendly and understanding Canadians who directed me. 'We have a novice American here!' I tend to learn things the hard way. Once the gear was all packed properly, dropped and paid for, we went for a meal and said our sad goodbyes. They dropped me off and I waved as I walked into the main terminal with my backpacks and a one way ticket north. I checked my overweight pack. They decided not to charge me, I must have looked that tired and pathetic. The next step was to go through security. Back then it was pretty simple but not so simple for me that day. I had a rather large hunting knife in a sheath in my small carry-on pack. Novice all the way! I can still picture that security officer pulling that big knife out of my bag and the reaction. 'Ms Steger this knife needs to be in your checked baggage. Please take it to the ticketing desk and ask them if they can locate your bag.' I apologized profusely and ran back and caught my backpack just in time. I've never tried to board an aircraft with a hunting knife in my pack since then. See .. hard way! </div>
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I boarded my flight! Yes I boarded my flight! This first leg was to Edmonton, Alberta. I've had to dig out my old journals because many of the details are gone from memory. It feels often that my life has been a long series of fateful events. I was getting settled into my seat and said hello to the man seated next to me. He introduced himself. His name was Hank Killian. He was famous in the scientific community for his many years studying Polar Bears. Polar Bears had been my only serious concern. I was dumbfounded. You can learn a lot about Polar Bears in a few hours. Thank you!</div>
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This is part of the story of how I came to create the Steger Mukluk Company. These are excerpts from my notes on the Steger Mantell Steger Expedition 1982/83. I'm the last Steger, the physically weakest member, not the mentally weakest. Team members Included Will Steger, Robert Mantell and me along with ten most excellent K-9's. Zap, Blackie, Oscar, Chester, Creswell, Marty, (I'll have to ask Will the rest of the names... I can see them all but after all these years cannot recall my own name sometimes) We were very young back then... reminisce. This was years before simple communication, the new GPS's and satellite phones. We carried a crash locator that could only be detected if the batteries were working and if a jet happened to be flying right over us. We all signed off on our obvious risk which included a statement on how we would like our bodies disposed of in the event. </div>
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I learned most of what I know about how to live under extreme cold conditions from that Expedition. We had more know how and guts than money in those days, We ran a winter survival school with dog teams outside Ely, MN called Lynx Track Winter Travel. It never occurred to us that we could not do anything that we dreamed up and oddly we did just that. For this first trip we had a small group of product sponsors that included Science Diet Dog Food, Twinings Tea and Carnation Milk. There were no cash sponsors back then. The years of the high profile, sponsored, Steger Expeditions were yet to come. I sewed for months preparing clothing, dog gear, sled bags, sleeping gear as well as alterations to nearly everything else. One particular failure was some parkas that looked like you could roll up in and survive a storm in. Instead they were too stiff and tunneled cold air. How things work. Why things work. As a designer I'm constantly looking for the answers to these questions while trying to balance function with beauty. Function first. The outdoor clothing and gear explosion was at it's infancy. So much yet to come.</div>
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Today is Monday June 13. It was close to this date in 1982 that I had completed a garage sale to make enough money to get myself from Ely, MN to Resolute Bay, Canada. Located in the then Canada's Northwest Territories it is now renamed Nunavut, Canada as of 1993 - correction (<span style="font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">it was in 1999, not 1993. - thank you Caroline Dennill! Much appreciated )</span>. It is the largest portion of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. We will get the maps out soon so you can get a better feel for distances. Along with a couple friends and a heavily packed car. We headed for Winnipeg, Canada where I would board a flight for Yellowknife and Resolute Bay, NWT.</div>
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I chose this photo to start because it symbolizes so much. The extraordinarily cold weather and difficult conditions were expected. I sewed most of our clothing and gear. Some of it worked and some of it, sadly, worked less well than hoped. In this photo I'm wearing an anorak that I designed from a new fabric called Klimate. It was an early competitor with Gore-Tex and the breathable, synthetic, high-tec fabric revolution. I wished for a front zipper every day that I was the lead skier. Not enough ventilation. The frost you see is simply from breathing. You can see my eyelashes are caked with frost. I would have to take off my mitt and thaw them with my fingers to slide it off. There was no discomfort involved and I think it makes for a real glamorous look right?! </div>
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I'll finish this note with a quick statement about my love for natural fibers. I have technical fabrics in my footwear line but most of it is leather and canvas. We have some technical pieces in the clothing too. I'm old school and love my cotton and my wool forever. I love it because it's comfortable, doesn't pick up body odor like a magnet and wears like iron. I wear technical too and appreciate it especially for it's lightweight quality. Right now... I'm wearing all cotton. Made in the USA!</div>
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