10. Januar 2010 It has for some days very cold here in Germany, but only at the weekend, there was the hoped-for real snow. Yesterday and today I have completed the first training session for the upcoming tour.
I would not put up as a wimp behind the dog when the dogs are gone by 10 meters.
31. Januar 2010 At the end of the week and on weekends it was snowing hard. It is only slightly below zero, but fortunately little wind. The sun winks through the clouds. I pick my way straight through the middle of the fresh snow.
run on the roads is so without any problems.
The snow cover is closed before me. In Germany a dream. The drivers have not easy to drive these days - so I heart.
The day before my departure, it should matrimonial snow, but it was just cloudy. In Lapland I will find better weather, the sun is shining. In Helsinki, it's just a little cold.
Saturday 13.3.2010
I am awakened at 4:05 clock. Otherwise I never hear the alarm clock, because that is the time for the woman. Today I wanted only to get up at half past five - it's enough.
First of turn on the computer and see what does the weather in Finland. But it looks good and the flight will also go on time. Two coffee and it's time to haul the stuff to the car. The ride to the airport is almost as usual - almost Dutchman on the road.
At the check-in we are ten minutes before it opens, and after ten more minutes I drop off my luggage. Time for a cigarette before I go to breakfast at the fast - food chain to which no one goes by and watch the planes.
The last cigarette before entering the transit area, the time became long. Wait appears longer and longer. The guy behind me, a little hectic, complains the staff, but they can not do anything, maybe it is them equal.
On the way to the plane I find a smoking lounge - well now the very last. There will be no way until I reach my goal, but I don't know at this moment.
The bus brings us to a remote stand. Because of the heavy traffic we raise about a quarter of an hour off later. Why I'm so thoughts? I haven' to do anything other today than to fly.
After the start I can see the site of the new runway well from above. Under construction are already two overpasses on the motorway. Above the clouds the sun is shining and I am much closer to my goal.
The first contact with the roommates I have survived - they seem to be OK!
Sunday 14.3.2010
In the morning we are picked up by bus to the lodge. We take our equipment to the sled and the dogs.
The sleds are new and look different than I do.
They have flexible blades made of aluminum and are lighter.
My dogs are Hullu, Hayat, Kodiak, Zoltan, Zar and Branco. Let us hope that we are a good team. That the slide does not go so far as I can see the first tight curves. Often I am in deep snow and the sled was called out. The solution I have not yet. 35 km we drive to the Kuusijärvi.
Monday 15.3.2010
We drive over larger lakes and 55 km long distance to Kirkerön Vuokratupa (Fin: Cabins for rent in Kirkerö).
The water hole in the lake froze deep and is open from us with a "drill" and a heavy rod.
Wasser we desperately need for the soup. Wood for the sauna heating and cooking, we prepare then. There is still wood, but next coming peaople need some also. The Outhouse is given the name of Toblerone. There I give myself a headbang (wood on wood) at the entrance. This cottage will used with bent knees!
Tuesday 16.3.2010
On Tour today it is cold and windy. Snow kicked up by the wind and continues to dog and clothes. On a long trip on the Palojärvi we reach after 68 km the Galtotieva place with the cabins. Our teams will be staked out. The snow is deep, below at the lake.
The dogs would pull the sled with the anchors. Branco began to howl because he must lie on the back corner of the square. The trip was good. The sled can be steered, you must use the brake only.
We have electricity and I can charge the batteries. In the evening we gone dinner in the restaurant at the gas station. The station is on the road in 93 to Kautokaino, accordingly, is labeled a lot in Norwegian and the prices at the pump in NOK.
Wednesday 17.3.2010 The morning before breakfast is fresh, -15 ° C. wir gehen wieder zur Tankstelle. After the daily routine, clothes and stuff tow to sled, pack, harness dogs and at the same time to position all the teams at the gang lines, drive over the Ruijantie, the main street.
Today we drive 80 km to Hirvasvuopio, that is half the distance between the Palojärvi and Kilpisjärvi. Most of the time we drive on a scooter-Trial already above the tree line. Branco has bitten through his neck line and is always left out. Zar running for the left of the gang line. It looks like this from the Danube. My dogs are after the trip a little tired. This is probably also the ineffective refinement on this attribute.
The water is taken out of the river. I am not quite well as I can see how thin the ice is. Chr. kicks off the ice with his foot and we draw the water with the buckets directly on the River.
At the roof of the cottage is a solar panel, here it is electric light. The pleasure lasts a long time. Suddenly it is dark. We are looking for head lamps and candles.
I feel the tour in the bones.
If I am quiet at the entrance I have the feeling that the cabin is moving under my feet. We are only 1.5 km from the Norwegian border. Phone service is possible, but only enough for SMS. In the evening we have to minus19 ° C
Thursday 18.3.2010
As we start this morning we have record cold in minus35 °C as we go to the dogs. Zar I will now go left and right Branco. In the Long distance we have before us, the better. I can now use no chaos. After a few hours I get the mountain ranges that come in sight, familiar.
It continues for hours until we reach the mountains in Kilpisjärvi. A steep descent then leads us through the forest outside the town. After the long distances on the plateau a welcome change for us. The dogs romp out and hunt down the mountain. S They want to be slowed down to a safe accessible and sweet tempo and just be faster than the sled. The fine branches of the trees are another reason to take the sunglasses.
Kun enkelit matkustat – When angels travel, then the sun shines.
The dogs we have brought to their places and we are on the way home. I have a feeling the chill is gone from us expect us to 5 ° C, but it is still 9 degrees below zero. In between, I fone home in Germany, we have services for mobile phones.
House No. 13 is huge with lots of room for us, no one has to hack it wood or cooking.
Here is our Depot. Reto and Thomas bring food and spare clothing.
Friday 19.3.2010
Morning departure to the lake. The dogs are hard to stop and hunt on the ice, snow fed. Across a river, we leave the lake and soon turn towards the West in the botany. Heinz, our guide, digging with his hands a trail for the dogs through the deep snow on the slope. The cold wind bites through my gloves.
Fortunately, I have heating pads for the gloves on - very comfortable. Below the pass we have already seen the Skidoo.
There we go up? The dogs do that easily. At the top we will see the Pältsä hut, our first quarter in Sweden. Here in the cottage, there are cases of disease - a virus. The "Stugavärt" points us to our own kitchen area and a separate toilet. The patients are subsequently found it had to be very jolly.
Saturday 20.3.2010
The night on Pältsä was cold. Most of the routes we travel in deep snow on a snowmobile trail. Height of the range of 1000 m. There has not snowed expectations and predictions, we had only sun. The dogs have plenty of work to do, they obvious like it. On Rostujaure at night a cold wind is at about -20 °C.
Sunday 21.3.2010
A long way we went over the tree line. „Unten am Wald hat's Elche" (down at the forest are mooses) Heinz say's. We have them in back not seen, but for a rapid descent. The weather is great, the yesterday foretold snow, not us.
The dogs are running well when we come to the Torneträsk
The ride on the lake excites me not so much the snow is blown away and we go on the bare, deep black ice. I do not trust them. After 84 Kilometern, many on the lake, the dogs of Heinz have any tired and need to be conducted. The wind is cold.
The tent, a two-man igloo, I share with Christian. The assembly is a little chaotic, in part because it started to snow just before arrival. At the campfire we enjoy with chubby 10 degrees below zero and snow our chili con carne. Later we have the tent.
I need a long time until I massaged into the sleeping bag and was asleep.
Monday 22.3.2010
The night was a bit uncomfortable and uneven. II have better stayed in a tent on snow. Overnight, it snowed 10 cm. At half past five we go out from the sleeping bag into in the cold clothes. Quickly grab all, take down the tent, wet and rolled up in the sledge store. The first drive off already, the dogs romp and tear on the ropes. My sled is still open I'm looking for new gloves in my bag. The old one could be wet inside. Quickly prepare even heating pads and plug into the jacket. My fingers are cold. The gloves plug fits into jacket while driving I can not search. When I close my sled dogs jump in the ropes.
Without gloves on I startet. It's snowing, so the hands becomes not dry. So I strangle the gloves over the fingers.
The route will not end up to Abisco and is cumbersome with snow and wind. There is no trail on which we can drive. Above the lake there is nothing to see, we have only the south bank of orientation.
Relief it is only when we come in Abisco in the bay. under the road from Kiruna to Narvik it a subway, so we do not need to cross the street. On the streets of the town we drive towards the station. The cars pass first left then right. Five sled's come across the railway crossing then go down the barriers.
Lea and I have to wait until the long freight train to Kiruna by. We have to cross the street yet. The barrier goes up and after a few seconds the light will blink again and the barrier goes down. Again, wait until another long freight train towards Narvik. I give the cars behind us sign so that we can cross with no problems over there. Heinz has already spoken to the drivers on the other side. The others are already waiting for us. It must begin to go fast so the dog teams do not biting each other.
When can I start driving again is on the dogs all right. There is a trail which leads us to Abisco Jaure. After six hours we reached the cabins on the lake.
Tuesday 23.3.2010
In the morning at breakfast, it starts to snow. It is pleasant to breakfast in a warm cottage. My sled is close to the hut and is loaded quickly.
The trip starts easily through the forest. Soon we have the first climb which is to create well by the dogs. This morning we have only -8°C. After another climb we reach a small uninhabited reindeer station. The view showed us a great wide valley. Now it's all downhill.
The temperature rises in the sun above the freezing point, but the wind is still cold. I like it here in the mountains. A steeply sloping hillside in front of us. One after the other disappears behind the edge. That's fun, the dogs give back full throttle. Below is reached break. After two minutes it gets very quiet.Our 42 dogs lying in the snow and rest, without barking? Something I have never seen before. The pause was long.
On the ice forms of water. The ice crossings are getting longer. I make many videos and pictures. In places I can see deep into the ice, with its cracks and air pockets.
On a huge hummock, the camera I do not have on hand, but my foot on the ice brake, it did happen to me. I was beaten there by sled on the ice.
The dogs have previously made a small bow to run around outside. Tell that to the sled.
I call Hullu and Hayat several times so that they stop, until then, me and the sled drag lying on the ice. A few hundred meters further, we reach the cottages.
Again, there are diseases. We get WC No. 3, known as "No. 3", and the Council to rub our hands with the disinfectant. It is nothing other than methylated spirits (we only need coke ....)
It is the last night in a hut near the dogs, pity, we had a good time together.
Wednesday 24.3.2010
After breakfast we start the last time, then on the ice. We are expected 11 am at Nikkaluokta.
Here, all equipment is loaded with the dogs on a VW bus with a trailer and a truck. Go back to Äkäskero in Finland. On the road sees us for a moose.
This sunny day ends with dinner at the Advanced-house.
Thursday 25.3.2010
After common breakfast we picked up at 9 clock by bus. In the camp, the sled's are checked cleaned and prepared for further use. Then we get the obligatory soup in Kota. We work for soup.
We have much time to adopt to us about the dogs.
I also ask for the 3 puppies we meet in summer, and Heinz tells me that they are above the Yukon Kennel. There, I have also found - a little bigger.
Together, we have not seen Christian, we go 8 km from the camp to the lodge , one behind as the geese on the dog and Skidootrail. After that I was ready.
After the shower is not much time to lavish seven course menu. After the meal, and some "Oluta (Fin - beer) only berth is announced.
Friday 26.3.2010
Late getting up was announced, I'm still early on the legs. After a long breakfast, we go into the cottage. Christian is on the way to the ski. -8 °C, it is very warm outside. In the early afternoon, we decide the sauna inflame. At noon we were there and also went through the ice hole into the lake. After the soup in the restaurant we go for a little walk around the lake. In front of the hotel, we talk with Heinz and Petra in the sun. In the evening I return my equipment.
Saturday 27.3.2010
Breakfast until 9 am, then we drive to the airport to Kittila,, where we start together the way home via Helsinki.
Finally Finally, I would like to thank everybody who made this trip an enjoyable experience:
The team in the Lodge and in the dog camp,
my fellow passengers for help and always willing to listen,
the dogs that us have passed through the botany,
Heinz, our leader. He led us responsible and made sure that we do not starve.
It has for some days very cold here in Germany, but only at the weekend, there was the hoped-for real snow. Yesterday and today I have completed the first training session for the upcoming tour. 
At the end of the week and on weekends it was snowing hard. It is only slightly below zero, but fortunately little wind. The sun winks through the clouds. I pick my way straight through the middle of the fresh snow.
run on the roads is so without any problems.
In the morning we are picked up by bus to the lodge. We take our equipment to the sled and the dogs.
The sleds are new and look different than I do.
They have flexible blades made of aluminum and are lighter. 
We drive over larger lakes and 55 km long distance to Kirkerön Vuokratupa (Fin: Cabins for rent in Kirkerö).
The water hole in the lake froze deep and is open from us with a "drill" and a heavy rod.
Wasser we desperately need for the soup. Wood for the sauna heating and cooking, we prepare then. There is still wood, but next coming peaople need some also. The Outhouse is given the name of Toblerone. There I give myself a headbang (wood on wood) at the entrance. This cottage will used with bent knees!
On Tour today it is cold and windy. Snow kicked up by the wind and continues to dog and clothes. On a long trip on the Palojärvi we reach after 68 km the Galtotieva place with the cabins. Our teams will be staked out. The snow is deep, below at the lake.
The morning before breakfast is fresh, -15 ° C. wir gehen wieder zur Tankstelle. After the daily routine, clothes and stuff tow to sled, pack, harness dogs and at the same time to position all the teams at the gang lines, drive over the Ruijantie, the main street.
The water is taken out of the river. I am not quite well as I can see how thin the ice is. Chr. kicks off the ice with his foot and we draw the water with the buckets directly on the River.
At the roof of the cottage is a solar panel, here it is electric light. The pleasure lasts a long time. Suddenly it is dark. We are looking for head lamps and candles.
As we start this morning we have record cold in minus35 °C as we go to the dogs. Zar I will now go left and right Branco. In the Long distance we have before us, the better. I can now use no chaos. After a few hours I get the mountain ranges that come in sight, familiar.
It continues for hours until we reach the mountains in Kilpisjärvi. A steep descent then leads us through the forest outside the town. After the long distances on the plateau a welcome change for us. The dogs romp out and hunt down the mountain. S They want to be slowed down to a safe accessible and sweet tempo and just be faster than the sled. The fine branches of the trees are another reason to take the sunglasses.
Kun enkelit matkustat – When angels travel, then the sun shines.
The dogs we have brought to their places and we are on the way home. I have a feeling the chill is gone from us expect us to 5 ° C, but it is still 9 degrees below zero. In between, I fone home in Germany, we have services for mobile phones.
House No. 13 is huge with lots of room for us, no one has to hack it wood or cooking.
Here is our Depot. Reto and Thomas bring food and spare clothing.
Morning departure to the lake. The dogs are hard to stop and hunt on the ice, snow fed. Across a river, we leave the lake and soon turn towards the West in the botany. Heinz, our guide, digging with his hands a trail for the dogs through the deep snow on the slope. The cold wind bites through my gloves.
Fortunately, I have heating pads for the gloves on - very comfortable. Below the pass we have already seen the Skidoo.
There we go up? The dogs do that easily. At the top we will see the Pältsä hut, our first quarter in Sweden. Here in the cottage, there are cases of disease - a virus. The "Stugavärt" points us to our own kitchen area and a separate toilet. The patients are subsequently found it had to be very jolly.
The night on Pältsä was cold. Most of the routes we travel in deep snow on a snowmobile trail. Height of the range of 1000 m. There has not snowed expectations and predictions, we had only sun. The dogs have plenty of work to do, they obvious like it. On Rostujaure at night a cold wind is at about -20 °C.
A long way we went over the tree line. „Unten am Wald hat's Elche" (down at the forest are mooses) Heinz say's. We have them in back not seen, but for a rapid descent. The weather is great, the yesterday foretold snow, not us.
The dogs are running well when we come to the Torneträsk
The ride on the lake excites me not so much the snow is blown away and we go on the bare, deep black ice. I do not trust them. After 84 Kilometern, many on the lake, the dogs of Heinz have any tired and need to be conducted. The wind is cold.
The tent, a two-man igloo, I share with Christian. The assembly is a little chaotic, in part because it started to snow just before arrival. At the campfire we enjoy with chubby 10 degrees below zero and snow our chili con carne. Later we have the tent.
I need a long time until I massaged into the sleeping bag and was asleep.
The night was a bit uncomfortable and uneven. II have better stayed in a tent on snow. Overnight, it snowed 10 cm. At half past five we go out from the sleeping bag into in the cold clothes. Quickly grab all, take down the tent, wet and rolled up in the sledge store. The first drive off already, the dogs romp and tear on the ropes. My sled is still open I'm looking for new gloves in my bag. The old one could be wet inside. Quickly prepare even heating pads and plug into the jacket. My fingers are cold. The gloves plug fits into jacket while driving I can not search. When I close my sled dogs jump in the ropes.
Without gloves on I startet. It's snowing, so the hands becomes not dry. So I strangle the gloves over the fingers.
The route will not end up to Abisco and is cumbersome with snow and wind. There is no trail on which we can drive. Above the lake there is nothing to see, we have only the south bank of orientation.
Relief it is only when we come in Abisco in the bay. under the road from Kiruna to Narvik it a subway, so we do not need to cross the street. On the streets of the town we drive towards the station. The cars pass first left then right. Five sled's come across the railway crossing then go down the barriers.
Lea and I have to wait until the long freight train to Kiruna by. We have to cross the street yet. The barrier goes up and after a few seconds the light will blink again and the barrier goes down. Again, wait until another long freight train towards Narvik. I give the cars behind us sign so that we can cross with no problems over there. Heinz has already spoken to the drivers on the other side. The others are already waiting for us. It must begin to go fast so the dog teams do not biting each other.
When can I start driving again is on the dogs all right. There is a trail which leads us to Abisco Jaure. After six hours we reached the cabins on the lake.
In the morning at breakfast, it starts to snow. It is pleasant to breakfast in a warm cottage. My sled is close to the hut and is loaded quickly.
The trip starts easily through the forest. Soon we have the first climb which is to create well by the dogs. This morning we have only -8°C. After another climb we reach a small uninhabited reindeer station. The view showed us a great wide valley. Now it's all downhill.
The temperature rises in the sun above the freezing point, but the wind is still cold. I like it here in the mountains. A steeply sloping hillside in front of us. One after the other disappears behind the edge. That's fun, the dogs give back full throttle. Below is reached break. After two minutes it gets very quiet.Our 42 dogs lying in the snow and rest, without barking? Something I have never seen before. The pause was long.
On the ice forms of water. The ice crossings are getting longer. I make many videos and pictures. In places I can see deep into the ice, with its cracks and air pockets.
On a huge hummock, the camera I do not have on hand, but my foot on the ice brake, it did happen to me. I was beaten there by sled on the ice.
The dogs have previously made a small bow to run around outside. Tell that to the sled.
I call Hullu and Hayat several times so that they stop, until then, me and the sled drag lying on the ice. A few hundred meters further, we reach the cottages.
Again, there are diseases. We get WC No. 3, known as "No. 3", and the Council to rub our hands with the disinfectant. It is nothing other than methylated spirits (we only need coke ....)
It is the last night in a hut near the dogs, pity, we had a good time together.
After breakfast we start the last time, then on the ice. We are expected 11 am at Nikkaluokta.
Here, all equipment is loaded with the dogs on a VW bus with a trailer and a truck. Go back to Äkäskero in Finland. On the road sees us for a moose.
This sunny day ends with dinner at the Advanced-house.
After common breakfast we picked up at 9 clock by bus. In the camp, the sled's are checked cleaned and prepared for further use. Then we get the obligatory soup in Kota. We work for soup.
We have much time to adopt to us about the dogs.
I also ask for the 3 puppies we meet in summer, and Heinz tells me that they are above the Yukon Kennel. There, I have also found - a little bigger.
Together, we have not seen Christian, we go 8 km from the camp to the lodge , one behind as the geese on the dog and Skidootrail. After that I was ready.
After the shower is not much time to lavish seven course menu. After the meal, and some "Oluta (Fin - beer) only berth is announced.
Late getting up was announced, I'm still early on the legs. After a long breakfast, we go into the cottage. Christian is on the way to the ski. -8 °C, it is very warm outside. In the early afternoon, we decide the sauna inflame. At noon we were there and also went through the ice hole into the lake. After the soup in the restaurant we go for a little walk around the lake. In front of the hotel, we talk with Heinz and Petra in the sun. In the evening I return my equipment.