This weekend (April 05/06) it’s time again for Spitsbergen’s biggest dog sledge event, the famous Trappers Trail race. This time, records have been broken before the race even started: No less than 22 teams with 38 mushers and 199 dogs have signed in to participate. This is an all time record until now. The Trappers Trail race is an annual event since 2009.
As the weather forecast is pretty good – overcast, but little wind – the teams, organisers and visitors are looking forward to a great dog sledge weekend. The route is on Saturday from Longyearbyen via Todalen and Bødalen to Kapp Laila, where Longyearbyen Hundeklubb has got a hut, where the particpants will stay until Sunday. The route back is going through Fardalen and up the rather steep slope to the pass over to Longyearbreen. The total distance is 75 kilometres.
Good trip! Looking forward to it …!
Just after the start of the Trappers Trail in Longyearbyen (2013)..
By the way, my new book is in print and it can now be ordered 🙂 it is a photo book with the title “Norwegens arktischer Norden (3): Die Bäreninsel und Jan Mayen”, with German text Click here for further details!
This and other publishing products of the Spitsbergen publishing house in the Spitsbergen-Shop.
Norwegens arktischer Norden (1): Spitzbergen
Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German. [shop url="https://shop.spitzbergen.de/en/polar-books/70-norwegens-arktischer-norden-1-aerial-arctic-9783937903262.html"] ← Back
Lofoten, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen from the air - Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German, but there is very little text, so I am sure that you will enjoy it regardless which languages you read (or not).
The companion book for the Svalbardhytter poster. The poster visualises the diversity of Spitsbergen‘s huts and their stories in a range of Arctic landscapes. The book tells the stories of the huts in three languages.
Comprehensive guidebook about Spitsbergen. Background (wildlife, plants, geology, history etc.), practical information including travelling seasons, how to travel, description of settlements, routes and regions.
Join an exciting journey with dog, skis and tent through the wintery wastes of East Greenland! We were five guys and a dog when we started in Ittoqqortoormiit, the northernmost one of two settlements on Greenland’s east coast.
12 postcards which come in a beautifully designed tray. Beautiful images from South Georgia across Antarctica from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea and up to Macquarie Island and Campbell Island.