Swedish Lapland 2007

[Fenlander]

Just returned from a 2 week trip to Swedish Lapland with Frogfish.

Here are a few pictures.....

On top of a mountain at-15 with a considerable wind chill

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Having a warm brew

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Creating shelter from the wind

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Our main method of transport

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Jokkmokk Saami market 2007

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Inside a Saami kota

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A traditional Saami meal of bread, butter lingon berries and Reindeer bllod pudding stuffed with pieces of fat

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Nils-Henrik Tejlus and Rune Stokke (both of whom feature in "Eld" the Saami book of fire) demonstrating how they use the long log fire called "Nuorssjo".

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The view inside my snow hole

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Frogfish demonstrating how to make fire from green birch

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Myself and Frogfish ice fishing

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Warming by a fire outside the shelter we built last september

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Frogfish stitching my finger after an accident while making a knife

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I bought 2 blades from Leif Carlsson http://www.leifsknivar.com/ at Jokkmokk, and using curley birch and moose antler, completed one knife.

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A view from the dog slege

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Finally, we undertook some experiments into complete submersion at -30 degrees for an article we are writing.

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and here's frogfish after completeing his part of the experiment

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[BushTucker]

Oh you looky b******d, would love to do that, pm me info if you have any.

 

[tanto]

Looks like you had a great time!

 

[dommyracer]

NIce one kev. Not sure I fancy the swimming though.

Are those mukluks on your feet?

 

[Simon E]

Great pictures M8, how about a little more info on the Sami log fire if you can.

 

[Fenlander]

NIce one kev. Not sure I fancy the swimming though.

Are those mukluks on your feet?

Yes of course they are!.......where else would I be wearing them

Seriously, they are Canadian army mukluks and well worth every penny. I bought them from Crown Surplus, based in Canada.

 

[jasons]

nice pictures kev would love join you next time you go

 

[BorderReiver]

Great pictures.Thank you.

That was a fair sized dog team that you had;much more fun than those noisy machines isn't it?

When you tried to kill yourselves with hypothermia,were you still out in the wild,or were you near buildings?

 

[hammock monkey]

awesome trip..respect!

 

[andyn]

AHHH its a Yeti!!! Hope you managed to escape him.



That looks like a amazing trip! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Fenlander]

Great pictures.Thank you.

That was a fair sized dog team that you had;much more fun than those noisy machines isn't it?

When you tried to kill yourselves with hypothermia,were you still out in the wild,or were you near buildings?

We were several kilometers from habitation, but had a vehicle parked close by just in case

 

[fred gordon]

Looks like you had a great time in a beautiful part of the world. Thanks for sharing.

 

[AndyW]

Looks so good out there.

Can see me having to sort a trip out soon!

 

[familne]

Fantastic pictures! Brightened up a dull morning!

I'm very envious

 

[Big Bad Stu]

The pictures made me smile on a day when (after a cold) breathing is hard work!

Stewey.

 

[Chopper]

You certainly had a great trip, the snow reminds me of here last week.

My five year old daughter thought that the last pic was Harry from Bigfoot and the Hendersons.

 

[leon-b]

looks like you had great fun mate, that finger looks painfull though
leon

 

[TobyH]

I'm reasonably new to this sort of thing, but that looks like a fantastic trip. The problem I have at the moment is working out exactly how you organise that sort of trip. I'm never sure where I can go to practice my newly learned skills, and I can't even think about how you go about doing something like that abroad.

So, is it just a matter of turning up somewhere you like the look of and running off into the woilderness with free abandon, or (as I think might be the case) is there far more planning!

I'd be interested in finding out about people/companies that do this sort of thing abroad too...

Apologies if this is a bit of a hijack!

 

[Fenlander]

I'm reasonably new to this sort of thing, but that looks like a fantastic trip. The problem I have at the moment is working out exactly how you organise that sort of trip. I'm never sure where I can go to practice my newly learned skills, and I can't even think about how you go about doing something like that abroad.

So, is it just a matter of turning up somewhere you like the look of and running off into the woilderness with free abandon, or (as I think might be the case) is there far more planning!

I'd be interested in finding out about people/companies that do this sort of thing abroad too...

Apologies if this is a bit of a hijack!

Hi Toby,

I have a couple of friends there and can base myself with them. I would post this as a new thread in the forum because I think it will generate a lot more help and advise

 

[TobyH]

Thanks, will do!