I travelled to Narvik by train, which took 2 days in each direction (quite a distance, see map). On the way there a I passed Linköping, the city where I should move to three years later, asking myself the question, why almost all cities in southern Sweden do end on -köping? Maybe to confuse foreigners...??

To cut the dull story, here is the tour: The sled-dog tour itself was basically heading from Bjørns farm in south eastern direction on the lake Altevatn, and then to return. Quite a good thing to start with, not too difficult to drive, but quite rewarding landscape.

• 1996-12-25 to 27: train ride to Narvik, bus to Setermoen, car to Innset (a maximal boring way to spend the trailing Christmas days)
• 1996-12-28: crash-course in how to handle sled and dogs (well, not literally; although there was not much space between me the the house when starting off) and short tour to the Gaskas cabin
• 1996-12-29: Gaskas cabin - Lavuo, including polar-light show in the late evening
• 1996-12-30: Lavuo - Politiodden cabin
• 1996-12-31: hole day in the cabin, because of nasty weather. Plenty of time to prepare the new-year party...
• 1997-01-01: new year, new weather: day trip on the lake, south-eastern direction
• 1997-01-02: back from the Politiodden cabin to the Lavuo, having really lousy weather.
• 1997-01-03: back to Gaskas cabin, sending a help call to Jutta to fix some beer for our return tomorrow
• 1997-01-04: back to Bjørns farm.
• 1997-01-05 to 07: train ride home

• Bjørn has two homepages: BjoernKlauer.de (which has a couple of aliases) and Hundeschlittentouren.de , both of them written in Germain. Nevertheless, you can look at the nice pictures 8-)
• The description of our tour is here
• The weather in Narvik , which is at the coast, that therefore you might be cheated by the warm temperatures there 8-) Look at Kiruna (Sweden) instead....

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first meters on the sled 1996-12-28	morning enthusiasm 1996-12-29	colourful sky 1996-12-29	in the Lavuo... 1996-12-29
...not too bad 1996-12-29	sesame street 1997-01-01	Lotte 1997-01-01	almost home 1997-01-03