I (Matti) spend my New Years Eve celebration together with Sten and a group nice Frenchmen and French women, the family Abiteboul-Rouzier. So how do you spend a New Years Eve with a French group? The answer is easy, Champagne! New Years Eve was only one of four days on this tour. The first day
The last days of 2009 became bitter cold but very beautiful. I (Stina) together with Heike and Monika from Switzerland spend the last 4 days (28-31 Dec.) of the year with dog sled in the forests of Jokkmokk. We spend the first night on reindeer skins in a tent tipi heated with a wood stove.
For a couple of days we travelled with dog sleds in the forests of Lapland. We lived a simple life with nights in a tent tipi and one night only with the moon and the stars as a roof. We got some great days in good company in the snow covered forests of Jokkmokk. On
“Finally” the cold arrived! -20°C. Now the ices become thicker and safer. We have had some problem with all the water that came upon the ice with the “warmer” temperatures we had for the last days. Hopefully the cold weather will stay for a couple of days. We train the dogs as usual but Stina
It was time again to end another sled dog season up in the mountains. I loaded the snowmobile, cleaned out the room and it was time to leave Saltoluokta Mountain station. It’s always a bit sad that the season ends, all the nice guests and the staff at the station but of cause also because
We are now in the end of the season. The weather has turned and it has been raining a bit. On the 28th of April we chose to lie still instead of fighting against the elements of nature. Instead we, Anette from Dagens Nyheter and me (Matti) chose to start early the next morning. Saltoluokta
This week’s direction was set to the north. Peter and Diane (New Zealand), Ulla (Sweden), Hadewych (The Netherlands) and Florian (Germany) joined at Saltoluokta and become this tours group together with the dogs. The plan was to follow the Kingstrail north from Saltoluokta to Abisko. We drove from Stora Sjöfallet further on through Teusavagge. When
Stina arrives to Saltoluokta with her huskies and the whole “family” is together again. Claudia and Aldo from Switzerland and Malin who had practical training at the mountain station were our guests for the following four days. With five dogteams we drove south along the Kings trail. First to Sitojaure then Aktse, laidaure, Aktsenjunjes and
Elin and Tove, both from Sweden arrived to Saltoluokta Mountain Station. Elin was here last year to and followed us on the “Northern Kings trail” tour that goes from Saltoluokta up to Abisko. Tove has been with us on three different tours before and has also been on two husky tours with other companies. This
Already during our first dinner together the level of topics was set. Wild discussions on a high level. During this tour as many others the conversations hovered from politics, ethics, nature, culture, careers and the whole spectra down to so low jokes that I had to stand on my knees to understand. I off cause