New Year - New wesite

Finally  I have managed to get a new website up and going. Check out the www.undervegs.no site.

Changing weather

Focus the last week has been planning our upcoming sleddog race, Troms Quest, but it is difficult to get going with trail braking when weather is changeing all the time. Arriving home from christmas holiday in Sweden the 29.dec we had zero snow and green fields, one week later we where swimming around in 1m of soft snow, and today it is warm and raining again... To morrow we go out to start the trail braking, and hopefully the conditions will stabilize and give us some good weeks of training and racing.  

On Troms Quest I will work as race leader, so I don´t get the chance to race my self. Aslak will take care of racing the adults on the 160 km while Our Australian Friend Donald McIntyre will race the youngsters on 55 km.

Longer distances

Yesterday we had our first long training trip. We combined the training with freight transport of firewood to Dærtahytta. Aslak first did one trip out and return from Dividalen to Dærtahytta, then the dogs got a 4 hour rest before I took the same trip once more. The conditions where perfect, full moon, hard trails -10 c and no wind. The dogs were doing fine and did not seem to tired. The last leg was covered in the same speed as the first. I was specially happy to see that all the seven youngsters in the team managed the long distance, Kari even did the last two legs in lead.

Troms quest

The new sleddog race in the region is getting closer. I was out to day braking trails and preparing some tricky parts of the route. 

Training is going well and we have tried to so several shorter runs this week to keep the dogs happy and motivated. I have spent some time finding new trails and Gunnar is getting really good in finding a good route trough dense forest and other places where a dogteam in never meant to be...

Check out the new website of Troms Quest. www.tromsquest.com

First trip with the sled for the season. We had a grate trip to the mountains of above Devddes. To say that is was good snow conditions is maybe to much, but it was posible...
The young dogs handled the long trip well and had their first experience of deep snow, bue ice and overwater.

Two new puppies arrived yesterday, one of them is on his way to Svalbard in a few weeks, ut the other is going to stay with us. They both have the same father, Rumba from Mats Petterson in Kiruna, but the mothers are different, Sara from Sigbjørn Solvang and a lead dog of Wenke Offerdal.

Summer 2008

Time is running fast as usual. The summer is used for as much different activities as possible, but of course I would have liked to do more of everything. Highligts has been WW kayaking course, two weeks of guiding around in Troms, as much PG flying as possible, one week in Danmark and some nice trips with the family in our nearby area...