Day 4 – Somewhere in the Bothnian gulf… and moving slowly

Last night was cold and wet inside the tent. Minus 15 to be more specific and of course it took us nearly 2 hours to get moving this morning. Everything it wasn’t inside the sleeping bag was frozen, so the first thing we did was to sort out the MSR petrol stove and melt some water to drink something hot.

At around 10:30 or 11 we left the site heading north towards the next waypoint.

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Pako Crestas

Today was a bit cold today but snow conditions were ok to progress. We managed around 16 km in the day and we decided to stop and recover, dry the stuff properly and have an early start the next day. And we did that – we found an island there protected from the wind where we set camp in a small hut we found over there.


We had some dry food and noodles and went to bed at around 8 pm. Tomorrow we’ll need to catch up with the miles we cut short today.

We still have around 80 km to go and the pace is not right there yet…

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Day 3 – Rovaniemi – Oulu

Today is the start of the traverse from Oulu so last minute preparations at home before heading down to Oulu, the starting point of the adventure. We plan to cross over to Kemi in a 4 or 5 days depending on ice conditions as well as ice. If we are doing alright with these two then we will include additional waypoints in the GPS to reduce the length of the straight imaginary lines we are taking. Lets see how it goes.


Alex Simòn i Casanovas will drop us by the Oulu Marina today. The drive is around two and a half hours South West of Rovaniemi.

After a  slow start we’ve finally get there by 16:00 so we start the traverse and in less than 3 hours we are already in the tent, melting ice.

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Preparing the tent for the night

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Morning views

After a couple of hours of melting water and getting ready we are inside our sleeping bags and ready to sleep. Tomorrow weather forecast is not bad: no clouds, mild wind and temperature of -9C so we expect the snow to be firm for a quick progress with the sled.


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