As is the case with so many of my online friends, I can’t remember *exactly* when I met Amber-Lee Dibble. It just seems like I’ve known her forever. I am fairly certain I met her over at Gini Dietrich’s popular Spin Sucks blog. In fact, Gini featured Amber-Lee in the SpinSucks Follow Friday series last year. I feel like I’ve just kind of known Amber-Lee forever.
I remember the first time I got to hear Amber-Lee talk about what her life is like up in Chisana, Alaska, working for Pioneer Outfitters. It was a video and her vivaciousness jumped out of the screen. Then Amber-Lee wrote a book talking about her combined role as a marketer, a mom, and a big game guide. In what is predominantly a man’s world, Amber-Lee is a boss, but she is not afraid to show her sweet side, her sentimental side. As I read Amber-Lee’s book, which she so kindly gifted me, I thought how rare the Pioneer Outfitters experience is these days. There aren’t very many people who can show you how to survive in the world’s wild places. To be able to dabble in that world is a real gift.
Recently I started seeing Amber-Lee post a lot about something called Stand for the Man in Black. She was posting a lot of pictures of her with master guide and her surrogate father Terry Overly. I clicked to see what was up. What I learned is that last September, the Pioneer Outfitters aircraft exploded. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this aircraft for Pioneer Outfitters. Chisana is not a place that makes itself accessible. In order to get food, find missing horses, and help rescue lost or stranded people, the aircraft is vital. Pioneer Outfitters has been hanging on these last several months but supplies are limited and their way of life just may not be sustainable without a new aircraft at hand.
This is where you come in. This is where we come in.
The money that Pioneer Outfitters needs is not over the top. They need $250,000. You could look at that objective as just being for an aircraft, but that’s not really true. That money is what is needed to keep a rare way of life intact.
Amber-Lee, my friend and a real role model for me, has started an Indiegogo campaign to raise these funds. She is working so hard. So very very hard. And she is graciously thanking EVERYONE who supports her. But she isn’t to her goal yet.
I know that money is tight for a lot of people right now. If you can’t donate, would you consider sharing the campaign? You can do either one here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-for-the-man-in-black
Remember, in an effort like this, no amount of money is too small a contribution. If we all say, “Well, my $10 can’t do anything,” then nothing will occur. If we all say, “I’ll add my $10 or $5 or $1 to the bucket, it will add up,” then we can help Pioneer Outfitters get what they need so they can continue giving people the experience of a lifetime.
It’s a pretty easy trade, don’t you think?
Marjorie!!
Thank you, my dear friend, for this. It humbles me in a way I can only hope you understand. That there is such absolute goodness in this world. That alone is what I work and live for everyday. To bring that beautiful realization to others who may have not found it yet.
Grr! Yesterday we fought all day to save a great range horse. Each time I came back inside and settled down to connect with you and so many others, I found myself pulled away again to convince this young horse that she would live. We were successful, mind you, but I failed to get here!
Thank you for reminding us all, that absolutely there is NO gift too small. We have received some incredibly generous contributions and they are breath taking, but it WILL be the $1., $5, and $10 donations that accomplish this task set before us! Please understand this… it is the hundreds of small heart-felt donations that will kick the “go-go power” into high gear and help us to get our message to the entire world.
The fundraiser is trudging. I will not say “stalled” as each time this
word comes to me ~ another beautiful human stands up to stand beside us.
~ I can admit here, as I am unafraid surrounded by those I have met
through Social Media, I am not enough. I can see, I know deeply in my
heart that will not permit untruths; that this fundraiser IS the right
thing. I know that the fundraiser is NOT a selfish endeavor thinking
only of Pioneer, or even Terry…
It is for the continuation of all
Terry and his Team does for ANYONE. Not just our own clients and guests,
not only for the family, team and community (tiny though it is). It is
for ANYONE. Hikers exploring the largest National Park. Mountain Bikers
in some sort of a challenge or race, snow-machiners coming into or
passing through our block of mountains to visit friends or family during
the dark and unbelievably cold winters and pilots flying high and low
exploring in the ways that their own souls call to them. Terry has never
hesitated. The National Guard, regional Flight Service stations,
families of the missing, Air Search and Rescue; they ALL call on Master
Guide Terry Overly, The Man in Black ~ one of the last true Alaska Bush
Pilots to help them to locate and save those in need. The truth is the
number one lesson we all learn here at Pioneer- is always, People come
FIRST.
I would like to share with Terry the force that has saved my own
life (I believe this, Johann)- Social Media. Please, people of the
world, Stand with us.
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