Arctic Adventure

Torneträsk is Sweden's sixth largest lake and is situated just 30 kilometers northwest of Kiruna city surrounded by a majestic mountain scenery. Every spring, these ice fishing occations blossoms up with thousands of sports fishing enthusiasts interested from near and far to fish arctic char on the frozen lake. Even during the first week of May, ice may be sufficient to be able to get out on the lake ice to fish this very special fish species called arctic char. There are also daily ice fishing trips to this arctic char fishing eldorado with departure from Kiruna, which can be booked through Kiruna Guidetur.

This time of the year here is high season for Icefishing with a wide range of icefishing tours that starts from Kiruna. Weather conditions are perfect for activities outdoors and still the cold nights make it possible to travel on snow and ice until the end of april. A very common activity here among tourists and the locals are all the numbers of icefishing contests happening here every weekend. When you participate in a icefishing contest you competite with tousands of other icefishing at the same time on a given area on a lake or river ice. Most of the icefishing contests here are a exciting event during two hours of competition. Then you participate in a lottery and a prize ceremony where the winner and hundreds of participants get awards. One of the biggest icefishing contests happens in Killpisjärvi, northern Finland, some 300 kilometers drive from Kiruna, Sweden. Here, around 6000 ice fishermen participate at the ice in an outstanding ice fishing competition. Read mor...

This time of the year here is high season for Icefishing with a wide range of icefishing tours that starts from Kiruna. Weather conditions are perfect for activities outdoors and still the cold nights make it possible to travel on snow and ice until the end of april. A very common activity here among tourists and the locals are all the numbers of icefishing contests happening here every weekend. When you participate in a icefishing contest you competite with tousands of other icefishing at the same time on a given area on a lake or river ice. Most of the icefishing contests here are a exciting event during two hours of competition. Then you participate in a lottery and a prize ceremony where the winner and hundreds of participants get awards. One of the biggest icefishing contests happens in Killpisjärvi, northern Finland, some 300 kilometers drive from Kiruna, Sweden. Here, around 6000 ice fishermen participate at the ice in an outstanding ice fishing competition. Read more here! ht...

Dog Sledding in Lapland, Mush with your own team of Husky Sleddogs and enjoy our winter Sleddog experience in Kiruna, Northern Sweden, Lappland. Here you will find all from short husky tours to visit the Jukkasjärvi Icehotel with a husky tour, or get out icefishing with a husky tour on a frozen lake, to overnight husky safaris to the high mountains.

Kebnekaise is the highest mountain in Sweden. The Kebnekaise massif, which is part of the Scandinavian Mountains, has two main peaks, of which the southern, glaciated one is highest at 2,097.5 metres above sea level as of August 2014. The northern peak is 2,096.8 metres and free of ice.

Again, we went out on a Aurora Expedition tonight, 2019-03-18 and this night we start up in heavy  snow storm but with the weather forecast saying it will get colder and hopefully that comes with a clear sky. So it did, around kl. 22.00 there come up northern light (aurora from a clear sky). We got a glimpse of it in about 3-4 minutes before it disappear. We still have cold nights around -15 C tonight. Tomorrow we will head out snowmobiling and maybe some nice icefishing on a frozen lake in a neighbourhood. Good night!

Welcome to the original Icehotel, located in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden - 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. https://www.icehotel.com/ Book a Snowmobile tour to the Jukkasjärvi Icehotel http://www.kirunaguidetur.com/

Yestarday 2019-03-17 we went out on a snowmobile tour together with Kiruna Guidetur to the Icehotel. You can still visit the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi until the end of April. I highly recommend this snowmobile tour with Kiruna Guidetour to the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi. Guided tours everyday with start outside entrance to the Icehotel 12 o´clock.

We went out on a tour called aurora colloseum together with Kiruna Guidetur, and these are the pictures taken from that night. It was a nighrt with wonderful northernlight, it was magic! Here is still possible to see and experience the northernlight until en of April.

Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna от Roger-K Olsson на Rutube If I had a brand that I would need branding for I would do some awesome commercials for the branding! And If I would do any commercial film for the reason of branding, I would hire these guys. What an awesome show! Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna, Sweden. Read more here and meet the professional snowmobiler Rasmus Johansson https://www.instagram.com/rasmusjson/ Following links are videos uploaded from the Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna 2019-03-15 https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-freestyle-event-from-kiruna.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-show-in-kiruna-city-2019-03.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-backflip-jump-kiruna-city_15.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-backflip-jump-kiruna-city.html

Snowmobile Freestyle Show with Winter X-Games Celebrity in Kiruna, Sweden от Roger-K Olsson на Rutube Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna, Sweden. Read more here and meet the professional snowmobiler Rasmus Johansson https://www.instagram.com/rasmusjson/  Following links are videos uploaded from the Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna 2019-03-15 https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-freestyle-event-from-kiruna.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-show-in-kiruna-city-2019-03.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-backflip-jump-kiruna-city_15.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-backflip-jump-kiruna-city.html

If I had a brand that I would need branding for I would do some awesome commercials for the branding! And If I would do any commercial film for the reason of branding, I would hire these guys. What an awesome show! Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna, Sweden. Read more here and meet the professional snowmobiler Rasmus Johansson https://www.instagram.com/rasmusjson/  Following links are videos uploaded from the Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna 2019-03-15 https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-freestyle-event-from-kiruna.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-show-in-kiruna-city-2019-03.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-backflip-jump-kiruna-city_15.html https://arctic-charter.blogspot.com/2019/03/snowmobile-backflip-jump-kiruna-city.html

Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna от Roger-K Olsson на Rutube   If I had a brand that I would need branding for I would do some awesome commercials for the branding! And If I would do any commercial film for the reason of branding, I would hire these guys. What an awesome show! Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna, Sweden. Read more here and meet the professional snowmobiler Rasmus Johansson https://www.instagram.com/rasmusjson/

Snowmobile show in Kiruna city 2019-03-15 от Roger-K Olsson на Rutube. Snowmobile Freestyle event from Kiruna, Sweden. Read more here and meet the professional snowmobiler Rasmus Johansson https://www.instagram.com/rasmusjson/

Snowmobile backflip jump - Kiruna city 2019-03-15 (2) от Roger-K Olsson на Rutube Watch professional snowmobilers flip and fly. An awesome show in the city center of Kiruna today.

Watch professional snowmobilers flip and fly. An awesome show in the city center of Kiruna today.

Riksgränsen, The National Border in Swedish, is a ski-resort in Kiruna Municipality, Lappland, Sweden, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. The skiing season is from February to June. From end of May the lifts operate under the midnight sun.

It comes more snow out there tonight! However, we have it warm and comfortable here in the sauna after an outstanding dinner with reindeer filet, potato gratin, black currant jelly and rose wine. We are some friends who sit in the sauna and enjoy memories from the past week. Cheers!

Here are some examples of fine craftsmanship typical of the Sami tradition and culture here in Kiruna.

  What a wonderful portrayal of life from Sápmi. A big thank to you Erika Larsen for the documentary "The Reindeer People".

Ski-doo 850 etec (RAW)

From Nikkaluokta, 60 kilometers outside Kiruna you can go out into the mountain world on skis, with snowmobiles, husky, or summer time hiking. Here there are several high mountains and stunningly beautiful valleys for the true wilderness tourist. Sweden's highest mountain range with mountain peaks over 2096 meters above sea level is 28 kilometers away from Nikkaluokta.

A beautiful winter landscape in Nikkaluokta, 60 kilometers outside Kiruna, this season

A wonderful spring day in the Kuttainen 220 kilometers northeast of Kiruna city. We are out on a ski trip along the border river between Sweden and Finland and photograph this view.

Kiruna church in a cold winter night.

A wonderful spring day in the Kuttainen 220 kilometers northeast of Kiruna city. We are out on a crosscountry ski trip along the border river between Sweden and Finland and photograph this view.

There is still chance to experience the Northern Lights in Kiruna, and you can also stay overnight in a Igloo, or in such a cabin with fireplace in the middle where you can enjoy the heat and at the same time experience the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) through large pannorama windows in the roof. Book your stay in Kiruna in a cabin inspired by the traditional Sami tipi tent with Kiruna Guidetur.

We have now entered the winter season's second phase as we have lighter days and longer days with the sun which has begun to give warmth, but we still have frosty nights a month yet.

There have been some unusually hot days for the season in the normal cold winter town of Kiruna. However, there will still be many nice days of this year's winter season, maybe even until the end of April.

What a fantastic start for your winter vacation and the way to see the aurora night here in Kiruna. This sledgedog taxi is starting at the Kiruna airport and heading to the Jukkasjärvi Icehotel were the adventures just begin.

Again 11/3-2019 An amazing dancing aurora from a clear sky this night when we were out on a snowmobile trip along the Torne river valley.

It come a lot of snow and the wind blow up to storm. Snowstorm hit Kiruna in two days and nights but the local snowcleaning staff made it very good and nothing of the infrastructure was neither paralyzed nor delayed, everything works as normal here.

Snowmobile safari /expedition at the river ice between Kiruna and Jukkasjärvi with Kiruna Guidetur. March 2019.

Snowmobile safari /expedition at the river ice between Kiruna and Jukkasjärvi with Kiruna Guidetur. March 2019.

Snowmobile safari /expedition at the river ice between Kiruna and Jukkasjärvi with Kiruna Guidetur. March 2019.

Snowmobile safari /expedition at the river ice between Kiruna and Jukkasjärvi with Kiruna Guidetur. March 2019.

Snowmobile safari /expedition at the river ice between Kiruna and Jukkasjärvi March 2019.

This picture is from a icefishing competition arranged in Kuttainen, 220 kilometer outside of the Kiruna city. Icefishing is made on the Muonioriver that makes the border between Sweden and Finland.

  From November to March locals are very issolated people living here through the cold and hash winter season. But in the month of March people put together their picnic, brings out the snowmobile from the garage and get out for icefishing. This is a common hobby for the most locals, here is also icefishing competitions arranged every single weekend in some of the many villages surrounding this arctic region.

Once again a wonderfiul morning here in the mountains.

We'll, here is a detailed description of the project! http://www.ruhtabursa.com Furthermore, there is a development plan produced as a strategic research in regional development.

Here is a unfortunate white mountain grouse hit by a car, find along the mountain road. Anyway we have a good poulation of these white mountain grouse again after it has been almost gone some years. Much poular wildlife activity is the white mountain grouse hunting season.

I do lot travelling by car along mountain roads here to reach out to the reindeer herding occations. In winter time we use to collect all our reindeers and count them for to send the numbers to the government. Since some years we must also feed our reindeers out to the mountains since we have almost no whitemoss left for the reindeers to eat. The climate change has made it hard for the reindeers to survive on its own. There is more worthless grass growing on the mountains and that competite out the important reindeer feed, the whitemoss. Because of 0.4 degree warmer temperature we have got 11 new herbs and grass sorts growing up with longer roots than the whitemoss has. That kills the whitemoss.However, here is a couple of pictures a january night that says some about how much snow it can be here near the border between Sweden and Norway.

   Hi!  I am Roger K. Olsson For us humans here on earth, life is relatively short. The time we have here on earth, we should take care of it in a good way. Moreover, here is little about me. I am a former elite sportsman in olympic biathlon, and when I start the high school I went to the sports high school in olympic biathlon, I was one of 12 choosen in Sweden. For now that was a long ago, and I have left it behind me, I am no more active in any sports at all. I made my studies in regional development at the University in Uppsala, Sweden, I do got education in 3 years to become a project leader, and I have been politically active for 4 years after studies.  My profession now is based part time  in mill renovation works here in the iron ore company of Kiruna, Sweden. Also, I belong to the minority people here called Sami people, who have the rights to own reindeers, so I am a reindeer herder too. I spend many days of the year up in the mountains here in Sweden a...

What a wonderful nature it is. This picture makes me dream away!. It is a cold winter morning in the lower mountains from a snowmobile tour in February.

Nice view! Out from the window from my breakfast table an early morning around Christmas time! We feed red deer over the hash winters here at home.