Construction of the Snowhotel

The construction of the Snowhotel started around the end of November when we had consistent temperatures below 0°C, in addition to already having some snow fall. Most of the snow used in construction is actually pumped down from a mountain lake about 150m above sea level and then fed into a big snow cannon. In […]

Autumn training begins

After a short holiday I returned to the training camp in Pasvikdalen to help my colleagues with the Autumn training of our 150 Alaskan huskies. The training regimen we use here follows a similar style to the one we used at my last place of employment, which I wrote about here. We have about 40 […]

They grow up so fast!

Now that I’ve got a little spare time, I’ve finally managed to collect all my puppy photos into one easy to view album! This litter of seven pups comes from Sexy (mother) and Josef (father). The ages of the pups in these photos range from about 2 weeks old at the start of the album […]

A catalogue of Arctic flora from Finnmark, Norway

Over the last few months I have been taking pictures of the flowering plants here in the north of Norway. I have been pleasantly surprised at the large number of these plants that reside in a place so far above the Arctic. While the summer here is short, the sunlight certainly isn’t (well except for […]

Husky Hikes & Puppy Pics

Summertime is quite relaxed in the dog yard, it is a well deserved vacation for the dogs after they have been running all winter. During the summertime our work in the dog yard revolves primarily around keeping the dogs fed and watered, as well as taking the young dogs for hikes and looking after the […]

Back in the Arctic!

I’m now back in Northern Norway but this time in a town called Kirkenes – which is about 15km from the border of Russia. I’ve taken another musher job at the Kirkenes Snow Hotel. It’s pretty much the same type of work as the one in Tromsø but this one has a few more dogs […]

Farm Life in Southern Norway

It’s time for another Nordic Life update! Seeing as it has been close to 6 months since my previous blog post I thought now would be a great time to post a little about where and what I’m doing. I’m currently living on a farm in a town called Hønefoss just a short drive from […]

Touring Northern Norway

Finally I got around to posting many of my photographs from my time spent travelling around Northern Norway. I visited quite a few towns in the north and would have to say my favourite place was Lødingen. It’s a tiny village situated at the intersection of five fjords, so you can imagine it being quite […]

Autumn Work!

The blog updates have been few and far between because I’ve been out of town completing a long and extensive Autumn dog training period in Målselv. We took all 86 adult dogs out there around mid-August to begin the training after a long (and well deserved) summer break. Our daily training routine consisted of feeding […]

The Estonian/Italian Mountain Expedition

A few weeks ago myself and one of the other handlers (plus Troy the dog) hiked up the big mountain behind the property where I live. To reach the top of the mountain takes just over 2 hours. The first stop was a lake with a mailbox where you can ‘sign in’ and let people […]