Last week I was out on my first dogsledding tour for this season – together with the Dobbs family from Australia! Peter, Gemma and their kids Haydn, Jarron and Kylie are on a five week journey through Scandinavia. Gemma had… Read More »First weektrip of the season!
Starting this season, we will organize the Arctic Lapland bushcraft course in cooperation with Extra Bushcraft & Survival from The Netherlands. During an exciting week, participants will learn how to be comfortable in a meter of snow and very low… Read More »Arctic Lapland
Sledding season has started! Even if it has been possible to drive a sled for some time now, I kept postponing it, because one is able to train more dogs in one go with a quadbike. But one frosty morning… Read More »Sledding season has started
This week Kristien had a holiday from school and she helped me training our sleddogs. As we wanted to train only one team a day instead of the usual two teams, we drove a big team. So, how many sleddogs… Read More »Big teams
Today we got about five centimeters of snow. Magic! The world looks so much different when it’s covered in a layer of fluffy white snow. Ran 12 km with one team and 18 km with the other. The dogs ran… Read More »Snow!
The dogs are trained in two teams in front of a quad bike. They are running up to 18 km now. This week we got the first snow. Even if it is only one cm or so, it makes it easier on… Read More »Autumn training
Finally we decided on the names for the puppies. As the mother is part Greenland, we decided it should be Greenlandic names: Nanu (polar bear), Nilak (ice) and Nivi (girl) for the girls and Nuka (little brother) for the boy.
Last wednesday Liss got 4 puppies. Liss has been with us since 2008. She is probably the strongest dog in the pack and the bossiest fur sure. My old lead dog Malfoy is the father.
Autumn training has started this week. We train the dogs with a quad bike, which is pulled by a team of 8-9 dogs. On the picture, Kotas, one of last years pups, takes a well deserved brake – like all his… Read More »Autumn training has started
In the last days of summer (actually the first days of the autumn) I took the opportunity to make a 5 day hike in the mountains. I started in Kvikkjokk and walked to Staloluokta over Sulitjelma, about a hundred kilometers… Read More »Mountain hiking in Padjelanta