Arctic Adventure

Kiruna church in a cold winter night.

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.

Once again a wonderfiul morning here in the mountains.

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.

We are in Kiruna, Sweden now and tonight it will be a nice dinner and party. We will heat the sauna and drink Redbull and vodka, and the world's best beer.

Snowstorm and poor visibility early in the morning when we travel over the mountain on snowmobile. But it clears up to the day and the visibility gets better. We manage again without having to orient ourselves with the help of gps.

Climbing up mountains with snowmobiles in deep snow can be a real adventure in itself. Here it is also a densely overgrown low mountain that we have climbed this wonderful morning.

A winter landscape covered in deep snow in February near the border between Sweden and Norway. A wonderful morning on the way to a higher mountain to look over the reindeers.

Here we look for the reindeer down in the valley from a higher mountain to see that everything is calm and peaceful. It usually gives an idea of how the reindeer are fed from the ground, then they keep calm.

The wind has blown away much of the snow on the high mountain in mid-February. But winter is not over for it, it will snow many days yet, several months, and we will have snow left until mid-May.

My friend just arrives home from being to the reindeer herd on the mountain. We live in a cabin for the season on the mountain and have a 40 minute snowmobile ride every day to the reindeer herd. Today it was -28 ° C cold and windy.

Ready for an evening trip on snowmobiles across the mountain to feed the reindeers.

Join us during our journey in Arctic Lapland and experience an odd lifestyle and everyday life from the eyes of reindeer herders. You'll get the opportunity to take part of the experiences and adventures that we encounter in a hard everyday life characterized by a hash, cold and difficult winter in the mountain world northeast of Kiruna, the northernmost of Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Through this blog, we will share many highlights from a reindeer herders life through a whole year. You are welcome with any questions to linership@yandex.com  We will try to answer all questions, just remark your letter "Arctic Adventure Lapland Blog" Sincerely Roger K. Olsson

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