Well it’s my last day with Hannah, Malfoy, Zaki and Tovak so feeling a bit subdued as I harnessed them up for the last time. The cabin last night was really nice with a fantastic view out of the window. Michael and Gurt from the team gave Torbin a rest and cooked fresh salmon from the lake for supper. It was delicious. As it had snowed during the night, Linda used the snowmobile to make a path for us across the lake, but unfortunately she got stuck so Torbin had to help her out. You can’t beat dog power! However, before [View Full Entry]

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Now getting quite proficient at harnessing the team and even Tovok acknowledged me for the first time this morning when I came to harness him to the sled. Really starting to bond with the dogs; their total devotion to pulling the sled is phenomenal, you can’t help but respect them. Also you have to admire their knack of being able to pull something like 200Kgs and crap at the same time! I couldn’t do it; well not intentionally anyway. We travelled a long way today and part of the journey was from a frozen lake up a very long steep hill. [View Full Entry]

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After feeding the dogs and eating breakfast it was time to summon up the courage to go for a Number 2. The toilet is of course outside and is basically a hole in the ground. That’s not really the problem; it’s more the temperature in there. At -15 degrees and with the floor like an ice rink it’s not the place to take any reading material with you. When the cold air hits your bare legs and exposed derriere there’s a strong incentive to get this activity over and done as quickly as possible! And then it’s a case of washing [View Full Entry]

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Awoke and helped prepare breakfast while the some of the others fed the dogs. We harnessed up the huskies and set off by about 10 O’clock. Harnessing the huskies is quite a challenge as you have to make sure that you put the correct harness on each of the dogs and also ensure that you put the lead dog on first (and take them off last at night) as they keep the other dogs in order. If you put one of the rear pulling dogs on first then all hell breaks out. To harness dogs you have to unclip it from [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 After taking off like bat out of hell the huskies finally settled down to a steady trot as we initially travelled through a picturesque forest with its snow covered fir trees glistening in the sunshine and then down over a frozen lake. Snow started fall and it started to get colder, in fact cold enough that I had trouble talking that is unusual for me. I had just started to relax when the dogs turned suddenly to the right - and I didn’t. But remembering the first rule of sledding, I hung onto the sled and as I fell [View Full Entry]

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It was an ambition I'd had for many years so on the 21st February I embarked on an adventure to take a team of Huskies across the Arctic Circle. As there was no electicity, never mind web access, I had to save my experiences in a hand written notebook until my return. I arrived at the base camp after a flight via Stockholm to a small town called Kiruna located in northern Sweden well inside the arctic circle. Kiruna is a mining town which is why there is an airport located there. By the time I arrived it was getting quite [View Full Entry]

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