Arctic Adventure

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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