This “Bear Tale” comes to us courtesy of the Plummer family. The "old stove" is currently on display, together with the narrative to follow, at Great Bear Lake Lodge.

In late June of 1976 a group of 4:

While we have published a number expedition logs, or trip journals as we call them over the years, it’s not often that we come across one detailing a trip on the lake during the winter months.

Although we don’t have much in the way of detail regarding just who these hardy adventurers are, one thing we do know is that they hail from Great Britain, and are experienced Arctic travellers, having done something similar on Great Slave Lake a couple of years prior to this adventure. In fact, one or more of this group may have also travelled to Antarctica.

Over the course of 11 days, they walked and skied approximately 102.4 nautical miles – or approximately 118 statute miles (a nautical mile is equivalent to 1.1508 statute miles) – across the frozen surface of the lake from Cape MacDonnell, down the Keith Arm to Deline.

Excellent New York Times article written by Peter Kujawinski.

Louis Ayah (1857-1940) was a Dene prophet and spiritual leader.

Shot in the early 1960’s on 16mm film, this 27 minute promotional movie came to GBLO courtesy of Lori Volp - Director, Knowledge & Insights Dairy Management Inc. - National Dairy Council; American Dairy Association.

Featuring both a website: www.srrb.nt.ca - and a Facebook page, the content focuses on sharing information about the wildlife and harvesting of same, throughout the Sahtú Region of Denendeh, in the Northwest Territories.

After an absence of 187 years, professional hockey finally “came home,” and played what could be described as the winter classic of the century.