Aside from several newspaper adventure stories and an article on cross curriculum approaches to learning for Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound, Mr. Worple is a first-time author. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin Stout and taught for over thirty years, retiring in 2017. Along with his wife and two children, he lived in Alaska for twelve years. He now lives in the Northwoods of Wisconsin where retirement has allowed him the opportunity to write about his adventures in wilderness Alaska.