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I wonder when I might have to stop this kind of thing. Each trip takes a bit longer to recover from and this one has been longest. I also wonder at the changes I am seeing in the Arctic. There seems to be wider temperature swings than you might expect, open water where you would expect ice...

It was made by a company called Snowsled and was supposed to be a lot heavier duty but because the runners were blown and hollow they wore through very quickly. I wasn't impressed. The Toboggans, being flat, spread any wear much more evenly which for the mixed surfaces we move on is useful...

I have to admit, the hybrid SkiShoes have piqued my interest. I used a pulk on my first trip but it did not do well on the roads where the toboggans seem to fare much better. https://www.ice-raven.co.uk/html/2012-expedition----arctic-norway---part-one.html

The final trip report is available here now. https://www.ice-raven.co.uk/html/2023-expedition---kittila.html

Interesting that the European tradition is skis while the Americas used snowshoes. There is also the regional differences between reindeer and dog sledding. I have never learned to ski and am rather suspicious of them. Far too many images in my head of people returning from skiing holidays...

Should all be there. follow the link at the bottom of the page.

I've just finished the trip report for our trip to Kittila this February. I'm not going to try and post it all up on the forum because it's a nightmare keeping the picture links live so I'm linking you to the first page here: https://www.ice-raven.co.uk/html/2023-expedition---kittila.html Hope...

Giving this thread a little bump as it's got so many useful things in it.

Following the thread we have added blood coagulating products to all our first aid kits now.

I think Vilhjalmur Stefansson said something like "An adventure is what happens when someone does something wrong."

They do but I have turned that feature off because my dietary requirements are very specific. I would rather know something is missing and replace it myself, than find out they had replaced it with something that contained onion ( Which could end my trip. ) That is one of the reasons being...

It is, isn't it? Right up to the point of getting an order confirmation I was expecting it to wimp out at some point but the only thing it wouldn't do is let me apply for a loyalty card. ( Which might have been useful to keep an order history if we go again next year.)

What an age we live in? I have just ordered all my food and fuel supplies for the trip for collection from a local supermarket 1300 miles away at midday on the day of our arrival. I'm able to do this on a Finnish website, even though the only word I know means "thank you", because Google...

Biggest challenge for me as a photographer is to keep the cameras running at sub zero temperatures. I've developed a few tricks over the years and I'll be trying a few new ones on this trip. You can see some of my solutions here: https://www.ice-raven.co.uk/html/challenges.html

They are great aren't they? Did you get the lined ones or the unlined?

Thank you very much.

That is useful. It looks a lot more comprehensive than the site I was using.

My glove and mitten system has developed quite a bit over the years, particularly because one of my main reasons for being in that environment is Photography. As such I am often handling cold lumps of equipment that have fiddly controls and that leads to conflicts between insulation and...

Useful details though.

Do you mean these...