Arctic Sleep News

 
Grand Junction explorer goes offroad to Alaska, Canadian Arctic
Denver Post
The former master of death-march cycling — starving, riding days without sleep in minus-50-degree temperatures for a thousand miles across Alaskan tundra — has found a new world and it's more about floating than fighting. Even though he's discovered ...


 
BedTimes Magazine
Kingsdown videos highlight gel benefits
BedTimes Magazine
Titled “Cool Wave,” “Arctic Wave” and “Chilly Wave,” each video explains in simple terms the various gel technologies in Kingsdown mattresses and pillows. The videos feature Dr. Robert Oexman, a chiropractor and director of the company's Sleep to Live ...


 
Certain items required to survive camping
St. George Daily Spectrum
Sleeping bag: Bring the appropriate bag to sleep in. Bringing a bag designed for arctic nights to a summer campout in Southern Utah is tantamount to the kind of torture routinely used at Gitmo to extract intel from terrorists. It is bad enough that, ...

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Insomnia Leads to Childrens' Book for Evanston Collaborators
Patch.com
Evanston residents Steve Fiffer and Keiler Roberts hold their book, ARCTIC BEARS CHASE. Steve wrote the words -- using every letter of the alphabet in order -- and Keiler illustrated. One night in 2006, Evanston author Steve Fiffer couldn't sleep.


 
Taking the long way home: Mushing across the state part 2
The Arctic Sounder
I stopped around 2 pm and set up my Arctic Oven. I wasn't messing around today. I got the dogs fed and bedded down, pulled out the lofty sleeping bag and took a nap. Oh man, that was a sweet, warm nap. It started to cool a bit in the evening around 6 ...


 
New York Times (blog)
The Civil War's Rip Van Winkle
New York Times (blog)
So it's a testament to the Civil War's otherworldliness that real life imitated great fiction in the remarkable story of Isaac Israel Hayes, one of America's most famous early Arctic explorers. It's unclear if Hayes ever read Washington Irving's ...


 
Scientific American (blog)
Following the Ice: Greenland
Scientific American (blog)
By now, the sun was coming up, the brief Arctic night was over. Back in my tent I tied a bandanna around my eyes and went back to sleep. It was my hundredth day in camp. This year's field season will bring new adventures, challenges, and scientific ...

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