Mike,
This is such an absolute blessing. Thank you, with all of the gratitude in our hearts here in Chisana for sharing Stand for the Man in Black with the world.

Leadership, as in everything in our lives and existence, begins within and grows from what is inside us as individuals. There is so much still in this great and wondrous world I have found through Social Media that I am still yet just a newborn with and in. However, one lesson that I have learned and has imprinted on my soul is the fact that none of us, not one single person in this great world ~ is alone.

Chisana, Alaska and this incredible wilderness that we live in is what I do know. The incredible history of the prospectors and frontiersmen and women who came to this unforgiving and wild land searching for something unseen and only felt to their very centers shaped Pioneer Outfitters and through them all, helped me to become a person that could not only dig and find that leadership inside myself to share with others but helped me to guide others along that path.

Stand for the Man in Black is our fundraiser to replace the airplane lost to fire. This is the total and completely transparent truth. But over the last 2 weeks, as we were searching for the range horses to bring them home, the spring wrangling stretched into days, wranglers were unaccounted for as they searched deep in the wilderness, channels of icy water flooding and eating away the bridges and earth brought home straight to the heart the fact that the #1 reason and need for this fundraiser is safety. Safety for the range horses, the people who live here and above all else, the people who come to this great Park to explore and discover. Safety.

If we could each reach out and touch those connected to us, to allow them to know who and what Pioneer Outfitters truly is and stands for, standing together to Stand for the Man in Black we can not only safely do what we were born to do and give back an incredibly generous man his heart but above all else, watch over and provide the comfort and security, the safety for any who wish to explore our greatest National Park.