Arctic sleddogcenter

As always during christmastime many families from england and france are visiting Harriniva and of course there must be some huskydriving as well. 4-5 dogs manage easily to pull 2 adults and for the kids there are 6-8 dogs pulling the sled with 3-5 kids and a driver. Most challenging thing for the last few days was to keep the kids warm enough as temperatures went down to almost -30...
Next week I'll be on 5 day safari again.

Santas little helper Hilla

I wish everybody a merry christmas and a good start to 2013!

Arctic sleddogcenter

First 5 day trip of the season went well, nice guests, dogs in good shape and temperatures between -10 and -27...

stakeout at Tervakumppu cabin

Keeping your guests and dogs well fed is one of the secrets of a successfull trip, so for the guests a good breakfeast, lunch on open fire, tea/koffee time after arriving at the cabin and then a traditional dish for dinner. For the dogs it will be soup in the morning, a pice of frozen meat for lunch, soup after arriving at the cabin and then a rich meat/dryfood meal for dinner.

Pyttipannu

Chicken couscous at -25

Arctic sleddogcenter

First overnighttrip of the season went well, dogs were in good shape no team was slowing down towards the end. Trails were quite challenging, as it hasen't snowed for many days, and all ditches that were open during the warmer days of last week had frozen again leaving quit a bumpy ground to drive over... So some of the guests also made the experience how fast the team can disappear if you fall off... No team and no customer was hurt as the customers actually drove actually really well, controlling speed all the time sometimes the timing with the balance just wasen't good enough to prevent a fall :)
On the second day they could also get a first feeling what it means beeing in temperatures that are lower than your freezer at home! -27C!!!

Sun at its highest spot...

For me it might be that on friday I saw the last sun of the year, so even with very stiff fingers it was worth taking a picture.
Tomorrow I'll start to the first 5 day safari of the season, it feels really nice to start going on longer trips again, specally knowing that the dogs are in really good shape to start.