Arctic Adventure

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.

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

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.

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.

Late in the evening in the mountain cabin when the sun goes down.

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.

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.

A few days on the mountain can be fabulously beautiful, this evening in February was a wonderful evening to stay little bit longer than usually on the mountain.

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.

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