I remember we were up in the Northwest
Territories and we met this elder and we
talked to him for a long time and he got
this really sort of sad look in his eye
and I just was asking you know what are
you thinking and he just said my people
they’ve they can’t hear the land anymore
when you’re traveling by dog team you
hear the land you see every Rock every
tree and the land speaks to you and you
can hear it the points of our
expeditions isn’t necessarily to do a
first or to do some route the fastest
possible it’s really just to to get out
there and witness the environment and
then traveling by dogsled just allows us
to get into places that we wouldn’t see
normally the last expedition we did was
the North American Odyssey so Dave and I
traveled
11700 miles across North America by
kayak canoe and dogsled I I don’t think
I could spend three years doing
something if I didn’t see a direct
benefit to you know someone else besides
just me
we had about 85,000 students from 600
schools across the country following our
journey and through our interactive
website we see our role as getting in
there early on and getting kids excited
about the outdoors excited about wild
places so that they’ll want to go out
later on and experience the wild places
themselves
you can’t tell you a classroom of 25
third graders on a 12,000 mile journey
but through technology we can bring them
along with us then they learn so much
more than if they’re just reading
something from a textbook that
interaction is really key the excitement
of the kids is contagious it gives me
hope for the future you know we have to
make these kids believe that they can do
whatever it is they want at one point I
was a fourth grader sitting in a
classroom just like them and I wanted to
be an explorer now I am and they can do
it too if they want to
you
Territories and we met this elder and we
talked to him for a long time and he got
this really sort of sad look in his eye
and I just was asking you know what are
you thinking and he just said my people
they’ve they can’t hear the land anymore
when you’re traveling by dog team you
hear the land you see every Rock every
tree and the land speaks to you and you
can hear it the points of our
expeditions isn’t necessarily to do a
first or to do some route the fastest
possible it’s really just to to get out
there and witness the environment and
then traveling by dogsled just allows us
to get into places that we wouldn’t see
normally the last expedition we did was
the North American Odyssey so Dave and I
traveled
11700 miles across North America by
kayak canoe and dogsled I I don’t think
I could spend three years doing
something if I didn’t see a direct
benefit to you know someone else besides
just me
we had about 85,000 students from 600
schools across the country following our
journey and through our interactive
website we see our role as getting in
there early on and getting kids excited
about the outdoors excited about wild
places so that they’ll want to go out
later on and experience the wild places
themselves
you can’t tell you a classroom of 25
third graders on a 12,000 mile journey
but through technology we can bring them
along with us then they learn so much
more than if they’re just reading
something from a textbook that
interaction is really key the excitement
of the kids is contagious it gives me
hope for the future you know we have to
make these kids believe that they can do
whatever it is they want at one point I
was a fourth grader sitting in a
classroom just like them and I wanted to
be an explorer now I am and they can do
it too if they want to
you
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