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- Dogs -- Breeds
Dogsled racing is a winter sport where a team of dogs, usually high performance mixed breed dogs called Alaskan Huskies or Eurohounds, pull a sled and driver (called a musher). The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is perhaps the most famous of these races. Dog sledding is an ancient form of transportation and still a very effective way of moving freight across this type of terrain. - Lauren Hutton -- Model Lauren Hutton
Lauren Hutton was one of the first "supermodels," a cover girl and cosmetics spokeswoman since the 1960s who is instantly recognized by her gap-toothed smile. In the '70s and '80s she dabbled in the movies, including memorable roles in Little Fauss and Big Halsey (1970, with Robert Redford), American Gigolo (1980, with Richard Gere) and Once Bitten (1985). In the '90s Hutton made a comeback of sorts as a mature model and TV talk show host (1995). She was temporarily sidelined in 2000 because of serious leg injuries from a motorcycle accident, but has since continued her career as a model and cosmetics pitchwoman. - Nell Shipman
Pioneering female director Nell Shipman was so little known to the big-city film critics that the trade magazine Variety's 1928 review of The Golden Yukon billed her as Neil Shipman. Most existing evidence indicates that Golden Yukon was the reissue title of Shipman's 1923 film The Grub Stake, which had bombed at the box office during its first run, reportedly because of an unscrupulous distributor. Shipman plays the leading role as an innocent young girl who marries an Alaskan saloon owner, only to find out that the marriage was a phony and that her new husband expects her to "service" his customers. Escaping this fate, Shipman falls in love with another man, whereupon she learns that her "sham" marriage to the saloon keeper was actually legal and aboveboard. Only the death of the villain solves this dilemma, but before this fortuitous happenstance, the heroine runs off to the woods, where she makes friends with a likeable bear and gets mixed up with a crazy miner who strikes it rich. With more subplots than an Erich Von Stroheim picture, The Grub Stake may well have been Nell Shipman's most ambitious picture, if not necessarily her best. - Nell Shipman -- Films
Nell Shipman adamantly refused any alliance with the major studios, which would then have a say about the content of her films or her direction. In 1917, she turned down an attractive seven-year contract with Samuel Goldwyn that would have brought her fame and fortune. She instead promoted independent cinema at a time when the major Hollywood studios were emerging and starting to take over the American film market. She got involved in all aspects of filmmaking, from scriptwriting to direction, production and even distribution. The arrival of talking films in the 1920s, along with the emergence of the major studios, was a serious blow to independent film, which would quickly become marginalized. This transition was difficult for Nell Shipman, as for many other film stars from the silent era. - Robert J. Flaherty -- Nanook Flaherty
There is an astonishing sequence in Robert J. Flaherty's "Nanook of the North" (1922) in which his hero, the Inuit hunter Nanook, hunts a seal. Flaherty shows the most exciting passage in one unbroken shot. Nanook knows that seals must breathe every 20 minutes, and keep an air hole open for themselves in the ice of the Arctic winter. He finds such a hole, barely big enough to be seen and is poised motionless above it with his harpoon until a seal rises to breathe. Then he strikes and holds onto the line as the seal plunges to escape. - Big White -- Big White Ski
Big White is a top destination ski area that doesn't get as much attention as fellow B.C. resorts Whistler and Blackcomb, but is the second largest destination resort in the province. Dry powder falls early and often, averaging over eighteen feet each winter, and attracting skiers from all over North America. Big White's 2,050 feet of vertical drop is served by nine chairlifts including three high-speed lifts which reach bowls well above the tree line. Snowboarders are welcome, thrive in the steep bowls and dry powder, and can enjoy a brand new snowboard park. Big White ... offers thirty kilometers of groomed cross-country trails.
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