Owner Tim Redington is a lifelong commercial trapper and fisherman who spent his childhood on homesteads in Knik and at Flathorn Lake, Alaska. He migrated to the Copper River Basin in the 1990s. During the long Alaskan winters, dog mushing was the Redington family's main mode of transportation. A dog musher since before he could walk, Tim (like all the Redingtons) is a familar name in sprint dog racing circuits, placing several times in the World Championships and the North American.

The Redington homesteads were raw, uncleared land, and everyone in the family had a job. The boys helped their parents raise dogs, clear brush and trails (including parts of the Iditarod Trail), and build numerous cabins and camps. The entire family worked year round, feeding themselves and their dogs, navigating wilderness trails, crossing lakes and dangerous rivers that flow into the Cook Inlet. They preserved all their food, sold hides, performed rescues for the U.S. Army and learned to make do with whatever was available.

Providing for themselves was an every day and often harsh reality; besides hunting, trapping and fishing, the boys cut wood all winter long, feeding the three hungry woodstoves that heated their first family home, a large U.S. Army wall tent (to this day Tim says he, "hates tents"). Learning what they could from the local Natives and Sourdoughs, they sewed winter gear out of animal furs and built everything, including their own dogsleds.

Tim's mom, Violet Redington, was respected and loved for her supportive, kind nature, her fearlessness, her work ethic, her creative cooking skills, and her bountiful flower gardens. Joe Sr's role in establishing the Iditarod Race is known to dog racing fans around the world -- he's called the Father of the Iditarod.

Vi and Joe Redington Sr. passed away in recent years. CampRedington.com is dedicated to their memory and to the preservation of the Alaskan homesteader spirit. The Redington family legacy is part of all Alaskan's cultural heritage.