The remaining members of the group -Albert and Pako – arrived yesterday evening and we are now ready to start the adventure.

Today was about finalising the purchase of food, getting an update ice and wind report from the Finnish Meteo and do a bit ot tourism as well. We started our day with a walk to the town from Alex’s cabin – a 4.5km of icey road and after breakfast and initial shopping we went to visit the Official Artic Line located in a town 15 km north west of Rovaniemi.

Kemijoki river

Pako and Albert

Walking the Kemijoki

Walking down to town

Tomorrow we will depart early from Oulu for the initial 20-25km of the traverse. The ice thickness varies from 10 to 45 cm in some places so we will need to keep an eye on water patches and holes. We are carrying a small but strong tent and one petrol cooker for the 3 of us, in order to save weight to sail through the fine ice.

In the Arctic

Direction in the forest

Lapland tipi

For the traverse we are using special Finnish home made pulkas – provided by Polar Guide Logistics. 

The real adventure starts in 12 hours.

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