Meet our 2010 Staff

*Please note that our committed trip leader assignments are usually decided upon in the months of April & May prior to each operating season.

 

The North has always been, and probably always will be, a meeting place for unlikely characters. Throughout circumpolar history, many a famous alliance - both holy and less savory - have been established around remote campfires, in musky trappers' cabins, on the steps of trading posts, and the dark corners of northern pubs.

 

People who meet as strangers in the isolated climes share the common bond of the immensity of the northern experience, and usually become fast friends for life.  Knowing this, we at Great Canadian nurture each and every guest with the confidence that we will become good friends ... forever. 


'Tundra' Tom Faess
Owner-Operator / bush pilot / lead guide / field logistics manager / ex-outhouse hole digger ... he washes dishes sometimes, too! Following in the legacy of his father, this will be Tom's 46th year working as a bush pilot, guide, operator and field manager throughout northern Canada.

 


Field Manager - Steve Maclachlan

Hailing from Saskatchewan, Canada, This will be Steve's eleventh season working for Great Canadian. A local northerner, Steve is an aircraft engineer 'deluxe' who has worked from Antarctica to the High Arctic; and is a experienced remote camp manager. Welcome back again, Steve - don't know what we would do without you!!

 

As wilderness guides and bush pilots, we have spent many years designing and leading unprecedented adventures to some of the most remote, least explored regions remaining in Canada.  Using the very best of modern technology and combining it with two generations of experience and knowledge allows us to present distant travels in safety, style, and with charm.


Trip Leader - Kristopher Everatt
Kris is a guide & biologist from the Yukon Territory who is passionately dedicated to wilderness and wildlife conservation. For ten years he has guided visitors on expeditions throughout the Yukon & NWT, as well as conducting biological surveys of populations of several large carnivore species. Welcome to the team Kris!


Trip Leader - David Olson
David first joined us client on our wilidfe trips, ans that when we decided that he really 'fit the bill'. Holding a degree in photography from the Colorado Institute Of Art in Denver, and a graduate in environmental biology and animal behavior - David is published & respected professional whose patience and presence as a photo leaer will greatly enhance our trips!

To accomplish this end, we have the privilege to work with some of the best guides available - for we at Great Canadian know that we are only as good as the leaders whom represent us...  


Trip Leader - John E. Marriott
Currently considered one of Canada's leading wildlife & nature photographers, John will be co-leading our autumn 'Caribou, Musk-oxen & Northern Lights' expeditions in Nunavut. His work has been published in Canadian Geographic, EXPLORE, Backpacker, Beautiful British Columbia, Our Canada, OWL, and Outdoor Photography Canada magazines. He has published two best-selling coffee table books and five photography books in total. John has led photo tours to Knights Inlet, Churchill & Jasper. Welcome on board John!



Wolf Tracker - Colin Benell

We have commissioned wolf tracker Colin Benell to help us locate active den areas for our 'Dance with Wolves' trips in July. Colin Went to school for wildlife ecology at UW-Madison, and has worked for wolf research and management projects in US southeast (Red wolves), US Midwest, and US northern Rockies.  Welcome on board Colin!



Although we are each educators in our respective fields, we never lose focus on the fact that we too are students of the mysteries of nature. 

While exploring together with you, we will learn and each share new discoveries, and trade the passions of our life's' experiences...

 

 

So, in the flickering firelight and the quiet of the Arctic evening, Come and warm yourself by our fire.  Let us spin some tales of old.  Let us read to you a bit from the journals of the early explorers, and share with you the stories about their often strange fates & remarkable discoveries...

 

Come join us, and allow us share with you some of the amazing things we have learned about the special relationship between the peoples & wildlife of this remote and magical land....

 

To read more about our field ethics - click here!

 

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Musk-ox, Moose & Inuit History
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Still undecided? Click on any of the faces below, and let our past clients & trips leaders tell you about their trips with us to the Canadian Far North!


Barry Girard


George Nagel

Noelle Tufts

Steve Lybeck

Tundra Tom

Bob Gainer

Steve Barger
Photo copyright Art Wolfe Inc.
Art Wolfe

Andy Kammer
Martin Haefele


Dr. Ella Trussell


Brad Armstrong

Rita Marett

George Archibald

Chris Crowley
Andrew Macrae
Andrew Macrae
Bill Mullins a-smiling on the tundra - photo courtesy Beverley & Allan Morris
Bill Mullins

Julie Yamaguchi

Glen Grambo

Courtney Milne

Adele Curtis

Eric Peterson
Photo copyright Art Wolfe Inc.
Alan Weisman
Photo copyright Mountain Light Photography
Galen Rowell
Scott Schrader
Scott Schrader
Photo copyright Annika Brodén
Annika Brodén
Photo copyright Art Wolfe Inc.
Christian Heeb
Photo copyright of Bill Silliker, Jr.
Bill Silliker Jr.

Lonnie Brock

Dr. David Mech - photo copyright IWC
 Dave Mech
Lee Mann - photo copyright Annika Broden
Lee Mann

Jay Dickman

Terry Elliott
Photo copyright Art Wolfe Inc.
Dennis Fast
Allicia Kelly
Photo copyright Charlotte Richardson
Steve Maka

Come warm yourself by our fire.
Great Canadian Wilderness Adventures
Phone: 1-800-667-9453 (Canada & USA)
Overseas Phone: +807-662-4512
North American toll-free Fax: 866-416-5548
Email:
tundra@thelon.com
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