Nate Sheppard is a multimedia creative with a focus on video and music production. Based in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Nate was the 2019 recipient of the Northern Arts Council’s Indiviual Artist Grant and has worked on a wide range of projects including directing a feature-length documentary, creating an online arts festival, and producing cinematic poems and dance films, designing escape rooms and 360 virtual tours, and performing music on stage and online.
I've been following Pete and many others since the mid 1990s, learning about their castle progress, personality, trials, and perseverance along the way. You have to love the American spirit. Very inspiring!!!
Hey nate. Great video. Ive always herd of this place and never seen it. Great to see your still in town. Havent probably seen you since graduation. Keep up the great work.
Just to clarify, I'm a different Nate Sheppard who moved here 10 years ago, though I have met the Nate Shepard that grew up here. I'm glad you enjoyed the film!
❤ I believe 💯 What you see in the dead of winter on a Snowmobile is absolutely Beautiful and Amazing!! The Forest or Woods, Painted in a Fresh Blanket of Snow is Mesmerizing! Get out and Go Snowmobiling!!❤
Great video! To truly appreciate what we have, it's important to understand where it all began. Much respect to the old pioneers who built something from nothing.
I grew up in Central NYS, the heart of NY’s lake-effect snow belt region, wherein the air of the W->E flowing jet stream captures significant moisture from the “slow to freeze over” Lake Ontario, which when said moisture-laden air mass flows east over land and encounters the elevation changes of the Tug Hill Plateau, the moisture is then ceremoniously dumped as hundreds of inches of “lake-effect snow” It’s sad, that in so many areas that were previously considered to be part of this snow-belt, that the last 30-40 yrs have seen a significant reduction in annual snowfall and the winter activities such as snowmobiling, skiing, etc have thus suffered significant financial declines
The first motorized vehicle I drove myself was a big yellow Ski-Doo in North Dakota. I was in the 2nd grade. The feeling of operating a big machine and making it do what I wanted (even if it was just throttle and steering) was so...powerful. It set me on a course through life that has continued with my fascination for electromechanical stuff. Thanks, Mom and Dad!
Great story about the origins of the snowmobile which I newer know but I do have few original B/W large pictures of the snowmobile from FWD located in Kitchener ON, Canada.These pictures are possibly fro 1930 or so. I know that large corporation don't invent anything, most inventions come from single private individuals and corporations only take over the idea. This video cleared all for me. Thank you
That’s pretty cool the founder is looking down saying” I knew they were gonna take off” I hope he realizes that it’s just like cars and motorcycles or anything else for that matter some people are going to do well with it and a few people are going to screw themselves up, but the good bad far outweighs the bad. Just think of all the people that have been taken to the hospital from other problems like slip and falls. And all the babies that have been Born because they were able to get to the hospital by snowmobile when vehicle couldn’t begin to make it through.I’ve never rode one, but I sure as hell would! In a heartbeat! Ha ha!
While Bombardier as a youth made a snow vehicle when he was 15 in 1922 he did not make his first snowmobile until thirteen years later in 1935 when he was around 28 which he patented in 1937 according to the Bombardier Corporation on their official company website however Bombardiers company timeline puts the first real Bombardier Snowmobile as the 1959 Sk-Do. Again these are the official timelines from the Bombardier Corporation and not mine or some other less empirical internet source. These Bombardier contributions were significant and the timelines do at times run parallel with Carls however Carl Eliason does hold the earlier US patents and did start manufacturing them well before the others. Both regardless are very important contributors who led the way to what we have today. Prior to Eliason and Bombardier, loggers and explorers were using steam powered tracked snow vehicles such as those already being produced commercially in 1918 by Lombard and others. If you look at some of the old Polar Expedition archives you can see photographs of these early steam powered sled engines in use minus the cabs being unloaded from sailing vessals. You could say that Eliason and Bombardier downsized them to be more appropriate for personal use and in tight spaces making them available to many more people. Best!
