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Article: CHILL FACTOR DOG SLEDS AND IGLOOS IN CANADA'S FROZEN NORTH.(Travel)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- February 19, 2006
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Byline: Bill Becher Correspondent
CHURCHILL, Manitoba - A pale-green curtain of light shimmered over the tundra where caribou and polar bears roam.
I was on the shore of frozen Hudson Bay to experience three things I've never done before: building an igloo, mushing a dog sled team and watching the eerie green northern lights dance in the night sky. The Fire and Ice Adventure with outfitter Churchill Wild is a chance to see the harsh but starkly beautiful arctic life firsthand.
A town of less than 1,000 people, Churchill was once on the front line of the Cold War and the site of a big Strategic Air Command base. Now it's reinventing itself as a ...