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  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-209

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ALASKA'S PANHANDLE
DVD-408 · 80 Minutes Total · $24.95 This DVD includes the 2 programs shown below!

Flying Alaska's Panhandle
50 minutes · 1979

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-606

History and spectacular views of Southeast Alaska are seen as Exploration Northwest cameras board two Cessna 185 float planes on an expedition to Ketchikan and Wrangell in southeastern Alaska.

A stop to fish in Humpback Lake produces lots of cutthroat trout.

Tlingit Indian Joe Williamson wears his native costume while drumming and chanting.  Ruins of a Tlingit village add to the history of the area.

Originally aired under the KOMO title “Flying Alaska's Panhandle and Humpback Lake”.

One Man's Survival
  30 minutes · 1975

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-111



Gary Anderson of Seattle recounts the dramatic, true-life story of his 38-day survival ordeal in the wilderness of northern British Columbia.

Gary survived the light plane crash that claimed his father, but he had no food or matches, and only light clothing.

Exploration Northwest cameras retrace his 30-mile trek down the Alsec River where, unable to go further, he built a shelter of moss and sticks and lived there until he was found by a pilot by chance.

His rescue made worldwide news.

ALCAN HIGHWAY
DVD-411 · 90 Minutes Total · $24.95 This DVD includes the 3 programs shown below!

Alcan Highway
  30 minutes · 1975

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-806

Historic 1942 film of the Army Engineers' construction of the Alcan Highway is featured in this trip with Lynden Transport Incorporated on the 1500-mile Alcan Highway from Dawson Creek to Fairbanks, with stops at Fort Nelson, Watson Lake, Contact Creek, Whitehorse, ghost town Kluane, Beaver Creek and Tetlin Junction.

Here's an excerpt from the program, by narrator Don McCune:

“The Alcan Highway is the miracle road hacked out of the wilderness as a military expedient between Dawson Creek and the Interior of Alaska, when the Japanese invaders held the islands in the Aleutian chain.  Faced with a land invasion through Alaska, the United States realized the need for an overland highway and a string of air bases to the arctic.  It was started in March, three months after Pearl Harbor.  The wilderness that up until then had been penetrated only by a few Indians or an occasional trapper, now resounded with the growl of crawler tractors and the roar of trucks.  The objective was to punch a road through 1400 miles of the most rugged terrain on the continent and to do it as quickly as possible.

Plunging northward with all the reckless determination of a bull moose, the Alaska Highway is a strong taskmaster, especially for those who tackle it driving an eighteen-wheel truck.  We'll ride along with them on a winter run over one of the most fascinating and dangerous highways in North America.

Fueled by pipeline fever, the rush was on to the far north slope with cargo pouring in from the lower 48 states, creating what was to be the biggest shipping project in history.”"

Sourdough Rendezvous
30 minutes · 1972

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-310

Contestants from Yukon Territory and Alaska meet in Whitehorse in 1971 for sled dog races, backpacking contests, and sled-dog pulls to celebrate the coming of Spring.  It's still an annual celebration.

ARCTIC OIL 1
DVD-503 · 90 Minutes Total · $24.95 This DVD includes the 3 programs shown below!

Long Haul North Part 1
30 Minutes · 1971

Not available on VHS videocassette.

The overwhelming task of transporting supplies to Alaskas north slope and the struggle to set up a community in the vast wastelands of Prudoe Bay are seen in this Hercules Operation using 8-10 Lockheed planes working around-the-clock with 5 round-trips from Fairbanks daily.

Also, a tugboat journey during the 6-weeks that are ice-free between Point Barrow and Prudoe Bay aids the effort.

Long Haul North Part 2
30 Minutes · 1971

Not available on VHS videocassette.

A truck-convoy takes supplies across the Brooks Range on a 400-mile ice road from Fairbanks to Prudoe Bay in 15-days. Not open to the public, this road is traveled only by convoys carrying their own fuel, food and sleeping quarters. /P>

Cat Train To Kugrua
30 Minutes · 1978

Not available on VHS videocassette.

The task of moving tons of drilling equipment to Alaskas north slope using caterpillar-treaded vehicles traveling through storms at below-zero temperatures also poses the challenge of not disturbing the natural environment. The cat train is equipped with fuel, food and sleeping quarters.

AUTO RALLIES
DVD-810 · 90 Minutes Total · $24.95 This DVD includes the 3 programs shown below!

Norwester Auto Rally
30 Minutes · 1970

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-810

The Rainier Auto Sports Club sponsors the Norwester, a 900-mile, 3-day auto rally that tests the skills of the driver and navigator.

Filmed in Washington June 1970, the original broadcast master was erased.  This program was re-mastered from a film workprint and an audio-cassette recording of the narration.

1973 Olympus Rally
30 Minutes · 1973

Not available on VHS videocassette.

The Puget Sound Sports Car Club sponsored the northwests first professional rally with a 2-day endurance run teetering on the edge of thousand-foot cliffs on the backroads of the Olympic Peninsula.  38 sports-car teams participated.

1979 Olympus Rally
30 Minutes · 1979

Not available on VHS videocassette.

The driver keeps the car on the road and the navigator keeps it on course.  When that formula goes out the window, look out!  The odds of finishing the Olympus race are 20-30%.  Rally master John Nagle and driver Jim Nagle are featured.

BACKPACKING
DVD-201 · 80 Minutes Total · $24.95

“Bounded on the south by the lowlands of the Chehalis Valley, on the east by Hood Canal, on the North by the Strait of Jaun de Fuca, and on the West by the Pacific Ocean, Washington's Olympic Mountains stand alone, isolated from other ranges.  Dominated by the triple-crowned and glacier-clad Mount Olympus, its eastern flank parallels the upper Hoh River Canyon along a chain of peaks known as the Bailey Range, by which it is possible to cross the Olympics from north to south entirely in the high country.”

"Leaving the Canadian border at Manning Park, the hikers enter the Pasayten Wilderness where they soon buckle down to the rigors of the trail.  Crossing Harts Pass on the third day, they stopped to set up another camp.  Looking back they will discover that happiness has something to do with simple things, which in the wilderness, is often cloaked in beauty.  From Hopkins Pass the Pacific Crest Trail switchbacks sharply above and west of the amphitheater contain Hopkins Lake to The Devil's Stairway."

BICYCLING THE NORTHWEST
DVD-404 · 90 Minutes Total · $24.95

Mount Rainier Bicycle Trip
30 Minutes · 1979

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-306

Put on your bicycle helmet and join cyclists on a sun-filled, 3-day, circumnavigation of majestic Mount Rainier, beginning in Enumclaw and ending 175 miles later at Paradise at the foot of the mountain.  You'll see the mountain from every angle and learn of its geological formation and history.

Released in honor of Mount Rainier National Park's Centennial.

Originally aired under KOMO title “Pedaling to Paradise”.

Whidbey Island Bicycle Trip
30 Minutes · 1974

Not available on VHS videocassette.

his bicycle tour of Whidbey Island traces the rich history of Whidbey Island with stops at Columbia Beach, Langley, Holmes Harbor, Greenbank, Freeland, Fort Casey, Rhododendron Park, Penn Cove, Coupeville, Capt. Whidbey Inn, Oak Harbor and the Ebey homestead.

Oregon Coast Bike Trip
30 Minutes · 1979

This program has not been released (made a part of our stocked product line) on VHS videocassette.

Cyclists travel the 400-mile historic U.S. Highway 101 along the Oregon coast from Astoria to Bay City, Tillamook Valley, Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Yaquinna Lighthouse, Beachside State Park Hecata Head and the Dunes National Recreation Area, where they stop for a dune-buggy ride.

CANOEING
DVD-202 · 80 Minutes Total · $24.95 This DVD includes the 2 programs shown below!

"Five hundred miles north of the Canadian boundary, British Columbia's Caribou Country is a canoeing mecca, where outdoorsmen can discover the solitude of wilderness.  This paddle-and-portage adventure reveals the grandeur and beauty of this quadrangle of lakes in the Bowron Lakes Provincial Park where expert and novice alike can discover the solitude of wilderness in a setting of untouched grandeur."

"Taking no chances, we moved the canoes well above the high-tide line after being dropped off by the Lady Rose, and found Gibralter Island a good place to camp.  Like the rest of the Broken Island Group, it is part of the Pacific Rim National Park.  Lying on the stormy West coast of Vancouver Island, The Broken Islands occupy the middle part of Barkley Sound."

CAPTAIN PUGET SHOW
DVD-101 · 74 Minutes Total · Black-and-White · DVD · 1958 ·$19.95   Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-213

This item is included in our Captain Puget Fan Kit™ -- a great gift for a Captain Puget™ fan!

Clutch Cargo Cartoon · 20 Minutes · 1963 · Color
"The Cliff Dwellers"
Clutch Cargo, and his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot, crash-land their plane near an abandoned Indian village . . .

Space Angel Cartoon · 24 Minutes · 1964 · Color
"Incident of the Loud Planet"
Blast off with Scott McCloud as "Space Angel", along with Taurus and Crystal, for this adventure into outer space, where they encounter unidentified signals that jam communications!  Aboard their ship "Starduster", they find the source of the signals and reunite a long-lost scientist with his family.

CHRISTMAS
DVD-410 · 90 Minutes Total · $24.95

Seafaring Santa
30 minutes · 1971

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-117

Cast off with a Seafaring Santa and travel by boat to visit children of British Columbia's Gulf Islands and Washington's San Juan Islands.  The 'sleigh' is a former RCMP patrol boat.  This joint effort between the Bellingham Jaycees and Victoria Jaycees is still an annual event.  Scenes filmed at Roche Harbor, Friday Harbor, Kuper Island, Telegraph Cove, and Shell Beach.

Here's an excerpt from the show by narrator Don McCune:

“Santa travels by boat instead of the traditional reindeer and sleigh, to bring Christmas to the remote islands off the Northwest coastline in the San Juan Islands and the Gulf Islands of Canada.  The journey of 300 frequently-storm-tossed miles encompasses 11 ports of call with over 1,000 gifts to children on both sides of a friendly border.

Owned by skipper Corey Norgaard, the BLUE FJORD was once an RCMP patrol boat, built in 1939.  Her 63-foot hull is designed to accommodate the choppy seas of the inland Strait.”

A Northwest Christmas
30 minutes · 1974

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-114

The remote North Cascades town of Winthrop, Washington, built to resemble a town of the Old West, is the setting for a special holiday adventure.  Step back in time as Exploration Northwest film “Christmas at the End of the Road”".  A family sets out in a horse-drawn sleigh to cut their Christmas tree the old-fashioned way, and then attends the school Christmas pageant.

Originally aired under the KOMO title “Christmas at the End of the Road”.

Icicle Santa
30 minutes · 1976

  Also available on VHS videocassette VHS-510

Climb aboard Santa's sleigh (an Air National Guard cargo plane from Anchorage) as Santa visits native children from Alaska's remote villages gathered at St. Mary's Mission at the Kuskokwim River Delta near the coast of the Bering Sea.

Here's an excerpt from the show by narrator Don McCune:

“Wintertime air navigation does have its problems, particularly when you are playing Santa's helper in the far reaches of the 49th state.

For hundreds of Eskimo and Indian kids in the remote villages of Alaska, the fact that Christmas comes a little early each year is not so much in deference to Santa's travel plans, as bad flying conditions.  For without Rudolph's magic nose, there is no way they can guarantee a safe landing when the weather closes in.

This week: A look at Christmas in the frozen vastness of the Arctic where Santa's sleigh is a ski-equipped C- 123J cargo plane, flown by members of Alaska's Air National Guard.”

COLUMBIA RIVER HISTORY
DVD-203 · 90 Minutes Total · $24.95

"The COLUMBIA went on station in 1951.

Standing alone with her feet in the sea, the COLUMBIA greets the groping fog, her ear-splitting blast audible for four miles.

Approaching the bar, the weary navigator can see the staccato wink or slow beam.  With its flash, the light identifies itself.  The mariner relaxes; he now knows where he is.  For almost a century, there has been a lightship here.

The time will come when the COLUMBIA will no longer stand guard on 'calamity corner'.  As the last of her kind, her days are numbered."

"Primed for battle, the Columbia River meets the sea as an adversary; a confrontation whose history is one of destruction, and whose peace-keeping is a never-ending struggle.  Over the years, those who must contend with the Pacific as it batters the Northwest coastline have come to endure its nasty temper, and if possible, outlast it.  Destruction Island, Cape Foulweather, Cape Disappointment, even the names suggest the degree of struggle. The storms are capable of striking with mindless ferocity.

The Coast Guard's Grays Harbor Lifesaving Station was established in 1898 and its suicidal motto was 'You have to go out, but you don't have to come back.'"

DESERT RACES
DVD-405 · 90 Minutes Total · $24.95