Patti's Story

Patti's Story Part 1

Hello Everyone!! 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...

Patti's Story Part 2

Good Morning! Here we go! BackgroundI started teaching at Lynx Track Winter Travel School as a novice assistant in 1978 and eventually became a course leader. I would spend my...

Patti's Story Part 3

The Land of the Midnight Sun - Resolute Bay  On the morning of June 5, 1982, I caught my next flight to Yellowknife, the NWT Government Capital and then on...

Patti's Story Part 4

Loving and Leaving Resolute Bay My stay in Resolute Bay lasted 5 days. I met interesting and not so interesting people. I made friends with people who I kept in...

Patti's Story Part 5

Ellesmere Island Overview 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...

Patti's Story Part 6

Over Melting Ice      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...