Big-time Lofoten during these great days! It was already a good start, with Sea eagles and stunning Trollfjord in Raftsund. On the little, lovely island of Skrova, we got the next northern lights and the opportunity for some good walks and hikes.
The northern lights in the evening in Kabelvåg were really pure magic. Level 6 on the famous scale from 0 to 9. And everything beyond 6 is really, really rare.
Huts are places of longing, dreams and adventure in Spitsbergen’s beautiful landscape. Even if the modern visitor’s eye may mostly be directed towards nature, most will have an open ear every now and then for exciting survival stories about explorers and expeditions, adventurers and trappers.
These huts are silent witnesses and and every one of them tells a little part of the whole story. The little book “Svalbardhytter” and the poster that is part of the same project make these fascinating places accessible for everyone.
From remote ruins, just traces in a few cases, to “famous” trapper huts such as Fredheim in Tempelfjord and Bjørneborg on Halvmåneøya, the war weather station Haudegen, the former scientific base Würzburger Hütte on Barentsøya and Hammerfesthuset, Svalbard’s oldest building.