Time flies

Time simply flies! One year passing by an a blink. This blogg is more a place for keeping some memories then active updating a running diary. 2013 went in a blink. Rasmus had moved up to Svalbard and life started in a new pace for both of us having more time together and beeing able to share everyday life again. And of course we starrted a new project:builing a new cabin.

Holidays in Germany

After finishing our dog-yard, we traveled to Germany to visit my family. We first spent 3 days in Mainz at my dads place. He had been really nice and organized a barbecue inviting most of the relatives I wanted to see the first day we were there saving us from the stress to drive around like idiots to manage to visit all and usually not managing due to a limited time there. We had a really nice and cozy afternoon/evening with a lot of good german food (sausages! whatever is sold under this name i Norway simply can´t be compared), talk and laughter. It´s good to see family now and then! Usually I´m quite fine to live far away from them, but sometimes I do miss them and enjoy the little time I have together with them very much. We were lucky and my sister with her family came one day early back from holiday due to bad weather and we got a chance to visit her. Always good to see the whole bunch of "Kreisels". Of course I also met with my long time best friends Jan and Tina. Tina came all the way from München this weekend - thanks a lot. Even if we all changed during the years and see each other only occasionally, it still feels very comfortable to be with them and I still feel they know me better then most other people. There just is something special with friends who one has known through many years and since school. Probably it means especially much to me who has been moving so much and didn´t have a stable social environment since the start of my studies 12 years ago. I also met with the third good friend I still have contact with from school times - Tine - and some of her children. Strange to see how different lives turn out to be between myself and friends I´ve been to school with. It´s good that people are different, have different opinions and live different lifes. How boring the world would be otherwise. The cultural part of the few days around Mainz was visiting a medieval market and an old castle. I always loved these markets when I was a child (and later as well) and wanted to show one of them to Rasmus. We enjoyed our time talking quite some time with a guy who was extremely enthusiastic and knew a lot about the middle ages in Europe and gave us a lecture about how both weapons, armour, clothes and food varied through time and what was the background and consequences. I really enjoy to talk to people who are so enthusiastic about a subject and quite clearly spent time learning a lot about it. The same for some of the people who keep some old crafts alive. After the few days in more southerly parts of Germany we drove with my mum northwards, visiting a forest area called "Harz" on the way. I can´t deny that Germany has beautiful areas. We visited a wooden church - a bit of a curiosity in Germany where most churches are build in stone - a place where they make glass objects by hand, a big water reservoir and a climbing place. Arriving at my mums place we again had to convince her that we really were there to help with some work and not only to have a good time. A compromise was that we worked 2 days cutting and sawing our way around her garden and went 1/2 a day on a little trip. It is very satisfying to help her and see how much can be dine in such a short tie that she can´t do alone.

Dog-yard building - or something like holidays

Since 10 days Rasmus is up on Svalbard and we have started rebuilding the dog-yard. The first 2 days went mainly with driving materials, carrying materials and walking around the area and discussing what to do and how. The last part is still not entirely finished and we only decided on where to move the lower fence to and to tear down 2 cages. Until we are working on this we will keep on discussing the rest. We have until the 3rd, than the dog-yard needs to be usable again since we need to move our dogs there from out neighbours dog-yard. Since we have "holidays" we are not as productive and effective as we could be and everything takes a bit longer. So even if we usually work at least 8 hours with the dog-yard each day, we also spent time reading, talking, training dogs and simply enjoying live. We have not been on any trips yet, but we still hope we´ll finish in time to be able to at least go on a few day trips. We both enjoy working together on our new home and looking forward to see if everything will be working the way we hope during winter. We have the challenge that usually a big snow drift is building up inside the dog-yard during winter. With the changes we make we hope, we can avoid that the run-yard will disappear during winter from now on. Our tasks so far are: tearing down the old fence on the western side of the dog-yard (done) and building a new one several meter away and somewhat higher up using a wider mesh-size (in progress), tearing down 2 cages (done) and changing parts of the remaining cages so the wind can pass trough more easily (in progress and under discussion on how much needs to be changed), level the ground, building a bigger gate for a tractor to come in and extending the dog-yard towards the eastern side (under discussion). Oh yeah, we also need to build more dog houses. Tomorrow our pups will come up and we are looking extremely forward to finally get them here! Rasmus parent were taking care of them the last weeks and I can´t wait to see how much they have grown and how they are now! Tøtta (formerly Comkom) is adapting well to her new life with us and is already integrated in the pack. She is a quite problem-free lady and as long as the others don´t pick on her, she is kind and friendly to every other dog. Only Unna, our little dragon, does not like her. But she does not like any other female except her sister, so no big surprise really. Training-wise Tøtta needs to catch up with the rest. But she is so eager each time we go out, that we are sure this won´t take long and we see that she improves each training. Pictures are on the left.

New puppies and a own cabin!

Now it is definitely time to write again. Again, quite a lot has happened since I wrote the last time. The latest and most important new is that we finally are owner of our own cabin with a dog yard in Bolterdalen. Even if we lived in it the whole last year, it feels really good to call it our own now. It´s the red one on the picture and our part of the dog-yard (on the right hand side of the cabin) is more or less covered with snow - still. So our next project is to move the dog-yard a bit and change the fence-type, so we hopefully can use it the whole coming winter.

To celebrate, we bought 3 new dogs :0). 2 Puppies and 1 adult female, that we hopefully can use for breeding next year. Seems we kind of on the way to fill up the new dog yard. While I was on the mainland, Rasmus sister got married. It was a very nice celebration with a party on friday on the their parents farm and a more fancy ceremony and dinner - followed by another party of course - the day after. This way we also had a chance to see all relatives this summer, which we otherwise wouldn´t manage. Summer is normally the time for Rasmus family to spent time at the cabin/cabins in Hvasser, where we had our wedding last year. There, big parts of the family meet each year. This year we will not have time to join, since we gonna be busy up here, building dog-houses and repairing the dog-yard from winter damage. So it is lovely to meet everybody now - even if it just was a short weekend. Besides helping to prepare for the wedding, we had time to pick up our new dogs, take some small walks and enjoy the summer - especially I extremely appreciated some warm days warm enough to jump in the river that passes by the farm. Even our pups and Tøtta (renamed from Comkom) went swimming with us.

What else happened since february? Rasmus was up here relatively often and we had a wonderful time around easter, first beeing on a trip with friends and later having first parts of mine and then Rasmus family visiting. It was very satisfying to be on a trip for several days with our own dogs! Our own team! The distances we covered each day weren´t any to brag about, but that didn´t matter. All that mattered was being out with them and being together and with friends.

End of april, I spent 8 days on a research vessel again with AB330. This time not as a student, but helping-teacher. It was a good cruise and I really enjoyed the time working so closely together with others from our department and the students. I´m extremely bad to keep myself motivated when I´m working alone, but working together with and for others is completely different. It is fun! And inspiring.

Sunny weather and spring again!

After being vary bad in upgrading this homepage, it´s definitely time again now. After a autumn were Rasmus and me did not see each other that much, now he has been up here quite a bit since christmas. So live slowly falls in place. I also finally got excepted officially as a PhD-student in january - more then a year after I started. Not entirely the universities fault, since it took me quite a while to figure out what I actually would be doing. But now I have a proper project plan that is realistic and that I hopefully will manage to follow. I will look at meroplankton. This are organism, that live parts of their life planktonic - that means floating in the water column. Mostly these are larval-stages of benthic organisms or fish. Many of them are very pretty, but quite small as well. I will try to find out when which species occur in the fjord and what some of these larvae feed on. The main challenge will be to find out who is who, since far from all of them are described so far.
This weekend Rasmus came up for 4 days and combined it with taking part on a conference about energy- and environment in Longyearbyen. Yesterday we went with a friend of mine and her visitor to Tellbreen to see if we could find an ice-cave there which Pernilla knows from last year. We were not as successful as hoped, but had a very nice trip anyway. Waking up this morning the weather was fantastic and we went for a short walk up the hill behind the cabin. Tomas, who has 2 dogs together with his girlfriend in the dog-yard with ours, accompanied us. Now we are at UNIS working. But since it started snowing I don´t really mind - especially since I took a day of from work last tuesday to go sledding since the weather was very nice. These are the advantages of being PhD-student. Very often I am quite free to organize my time.

Eike

A lot of things happened the last 6 month

So, a bit back-dated update fro this homepage. A lot of things happened the last 6 month: Rasmus finished his master-degree, we bought 6 additional dogs, we got married, Rasmus started to work in Oslo and I moved to a cabin in Bolterdalen.
Since i did not write anything since april, I might as well start with May.
I took part in one of UNIS intensive courses and a part of it was field work in Billefjorden. At the same time I took the first samples for my own PhD (followed by more or less monthly sampling until january this year and now bi-weekly sampling until at least summer).



Rasmus was working hard on his thesis during that time which he delivered end of june. I had quite some work with my first teaching experience for the IPY-fiel school at UNIS in july, which was a really nice experience and I both learned a lot and had a lot of fun from working with so many people from different scientific disciplines. Since I was occupied, Rasmus, having "holidays" now, worked both on the house in Trondheim and started organizing our wedding on the 30th of july. I have to say I was quite impressed how much he worked and got done!

The wedding was a success! We were very lucky with the weather and caught the one sunny weekend on Hvasser this summer. We have to be grateful for a lot of help from family and friends which made everything running very smoothly. And it was wonderful to see so many of them! Something we usually never have enough time for in our quite busy life.



Back on Svalbard I finally got the chance to move out of Longyearbyen and into a cabin with my 4 dogs - and of course the result was: more dogs :0). We bought 6 wonderful dogs from Spitsbergen Experience and are very happy now both with renting the cabin from them and the new-commers to our little family.


Unfortunately they did not get all the training they should have during autumn, since I was a lot on field-work. But they were running often enough to be happy and that´s the most important thing. It´s quite often it feels like each day is far too short to manage everything with both job and dogs and most of the time social-life is sacrificed. But I would not want it differently if that would mean not having the dogs. It was sad that Rasmus wasn´t up on Svalbard more often, but just started in a new job, he needed to be at the office in Oslo. It´s important to have a work that is meaningful and being smarter than me in this respect, he decided not to have a brake from his field before he had worked at least one year in his profession.
Especially during dark season, sometimes it was tough with him so far away. usually I like the dark season, but there was quite some periods with bad weather were it really was dark this year and I needed to fight a bit with myself to convince me that it was good for me to be here on Svalbard. I friend of mine was living with me in the cabin so it was not so lonely all the time and we had a nice time.

This christmas was the first time we spent christmas just us two together - only our small little family of 2 2-legged and 10 4-legged beings. It was wonderfully calm and peaceful and we enjoyed not to have the travel-stress that usually accompanies this time. Even the weather was showing a nicer side with around 20 degree minus and clear sky - not dark at all anymore with moonlight, northern lights and stars! And it was quite social as well with all our wonderful neighbors in Bolterdalen. Thank you for a nice time!

Life starts to be a bit more organised

Eike:

Time for a bit update with pictures i guess. Life on Svalbard starts to be a bit more organized and definitely less stressful than it was the last 2 or 3 years. And things start falling into the right places: a job I like, a place to live, a place for the dogs and Rasmus visiting. It also starts to get lighter during the day. Nothing that can be called proper daylight yet, but close to dawn :).


Until now Storm and Lang have been brought up by plane and enjoy being trained with a bigger team now. Storm was on his until now longest trip last week that was around 25km. No sign of being tired afterwards. Gonna be interesting to see how his sister is doing when she comes up in February. Until easter they should be old enough and trained enough to come with us on longer trips.
I enjoyed the time with Rasmus up in LYB for a while. Within the week we were out dogsledding several times, on a skiing-trip and walk up Sukkertoppen. The weather was nice with comparably little wind, quite often clear sky with moonshine and northern light and nice temperatures between minus 6 and minus 27. My 30th birthday was wonderful: no stress at all, a long breakfast, a talk on the phone with my family, a trip with the dogs and Rasmus and some food at Tommy and Jannes place (where I have the dogs) and a nice and calm evening. What else could I whish for? All the thing that make life worth living for: Rasmus (the best birthday-gift I ever got and will get), family, friends, the dogs and trips outside. Just in what order all this comes I can't really tell, but together it makes life a wonderful thing.
To come out to Bolterdalen to train the dogs was a bit of a challenge until now since we were dependent on others to get a ride. But now we are the lucky owners of a snow-scooter and finally independent. That will make life a LOT easier from now on. Looking forward to fly up to LYB again in 2 weeks (I'm in Tromsø now for a workshop) and start to be out with the dogs regularly and make a proper training-plan for our small ones.

Svalbard in the dark

Eike:
Now I'm back on Svalbard. And there won't be any pictures for a while since it's dark. Not a big surprise really. But that is the reason why I will be a bit more inside than usual for now. It's not so exciting to go hiking when I don't see where i go. And since I don't have weapon yet I shouldn't really go outside town alone anyway. Grrr.
But well, anyway managed one short ski-trip (with a dog i front), 2 sledding-trips and one short trip on foot within just a bit more than a week. So probably no reason to complain really ;).
It was really nice to be able to help training dogs with mine (ohoh, here I guess Rasmus will complain) still on the mainland. Looking forward to get them up in January.
It is definitely good for my work to be up here compared to sitting i Trondheim :). It's a bit easier with just a few minutes to work and not so much other obligations otherwise.

Beeing at home, first sledgtrips of the year, and trips

(Eike)
From the first of november I started my PhD. Fortunately I am allowed to work at home the first month. We still had quite a bit to do before everything was ready for the winter. Of course the first snow came before we had managed to gather together everything outside - so this time we actually were happy that the first snow disappeared again after 1 week and we could collect rest-materials from the dog-yard and other things that needed to be stored away for the winter. But now the snow is back and skis and sledges (borrowed one) were taken out of the storage. Wonderful to be able to train dogs again with Kari and some of Johns dogs!




The pups have grown up to wonderful young dogs with loads of energy, good coordination and good behavior. So now it was about time to test them in harnesses. Many might say we should have waited, but we believe that like for children training for young dogs is good as long as it is not overdone. We consider the training to be important to strengthen bones, paws, muscles and mind, prevent later injuries and to give them a chance to develop their coordination and endurance. Our aim is that every time they are out now they have fun (!) and energy left over when we come home. Beside the short trips in harness with the team we still let them run free a lot so they can train themselves on their own premise.

Besides work/university and the slow progress in putting everything in place both in our cabin an the room in AA, we manage to be out with the dogs close to every day and were on 2 weekend-trips so far. One weekend was supposed to be a working-weekend, but the result was more a nice social weekend with a bit of work :). Well, it's nice to meet friends as long as I'm in Trondheim. Soon I can't meet them so easily any more.

Back in Trondheim.

Now I'm back in Trondheim enjoying time with Rasmus and the dogs. The course at UNIS was quite a lot of work, so right now it feels good to turn down the speed a bit and take some hours each day to recharge the inner batteries and enjoy life. AND: the first snow has come!!!
Both dogs and we enjoy it. Everything becomes so much nicer.


But first a bit about the cruise and the rest of the course. On the cruise our working-group mainly saw the inside of the boat and the coldroom. Most of the time we ran feeding-experiments with Mertensia ovum, a ctenophore earlier believed to be only Arctic, but recently also found in the Baltic Sea. Besides the jelly, we had a lot of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) stomachs to look at – or better inside. Why? We wanted to find out what they had eaten.
Even with most time spent inside the boat, we had some nice experience. We saw both polar bears, walruses and wales. The closest encounter was with the polar bear. While lying in the polar ice with the boat tied to an ice floe, we first saw a female with 2 cups. We had both polar bear guards on the ice and on the bridge, so everybody working on the ice had plenty of time to go on board the ship again. Since we wanted to continue working we sadly had to chase them away. The next polar bear came during night and I have to admit that my first thought wasn't very positive when we all were woken up by the call “polar bear right beside the ship”. But the grumpiness about being woken up soon disappeared when I saw the bear right beside the boat, just a few meters away form all the excited student. Somehow I had expected it to be bigger, but still impressive. They are simply beautiful animals and quite curious beings as well.
Back from the cruise the next two weeks were mainly lab-work, analyzing data and report-writing with a bit of time for eating and sleeping in between. One day-trip to Grumantbyen with the boat and some hours walking up to Platåfjellet was the only freetime-activity worth mentioning. But these to trips were soarly needed to keep up some kind of motivation.
Even though I won't be able to use the course for my PhD (which is supposed to begin in november), I probably got something out of it in terms of knowledge and that I got to know the people I most likely gonna work with. Being in LYB before moving up there also gave me a chance to organize a bit – not much but a little is better then nothing.

Back in Trondheim I realized that there was a lot of things that should be done before I moved – preferably before beginning of november. So I right now I regret taking the course before we had finished all the fixing and building we still need to do on our cabin. But luckily Rasmus is more positive and has more energy than me right now after his 2 week-trip in Finnmark with his friend Morten. Have to admit that I'm quite jealous ;). Seems he had a wonderful trip.

Weekend with perfect sunshine

(Eike:)

Waking up on Saturday revealed a bright blue sky and a sun that warmed the ground that already had started to freeze.
We were several students taking the same course that had agreed on meeting at 11 o'clock to go for a walk. At halve past eleven we started up towards Larsbreen and Trollsteinen. Some clouds starting seeping into the valley behind us, but all day they stayed there and we were looking down at a white maze covering the fjord and valleys around. Mountaintops pierced through the cloud-layer and the scenery was beautiful.
As soon as we lost sight of Nybyen I felt like I could breath deeper and easier. Strange, but is always has been like that. Also the last times I was up here. Longyearbyen isn't particularly beautiful – but the areas around are! We crossed the glacier and went up Trollsteinen. Eating our lunch at the top we enjoyed the amazing view. For me especially the snow seem wonderful. Not much, but the first snow had already covered the mountaintops and given them a brighter appearance. Finally looking at glaciers and snow again! What a wonderful feeling!


We went around the ridge and down via Longyearbreen. We took quite a steep way down and heard afterwards that it look a bit hazardous. Well, seeing it from down at the glacier I had to admit that i probably would have thought that it must be some stupid idiots going down that way if I had seen ourselves ;). Well, well, it didn't seem so steep while we were there and it was quite a bit of fun sliding down the mountainside. We also saw loads of plant-fossils from about 60.000 years ago which are transported by the glacier downwards to the moraine-area.
We met some student climbing into the melt-water-channel on the glacier. I really need to learn how to secure ropes in the ice!

It was a wonderful feeling not to have to worry about tourists that might not be satisfied with the trip. I never enjoyed this trip so much the last time I was up here taking the same route as a guide with a group. One should never turn a hobby into a job!
It also feels good to know that I'll start in a fast job soon. 4 years without being constantly worried if there will be enough money at the end of the month and a proper project to work on will be fantastic. One stress-factor eliminated for a while. That hopefully means more energy that can be used productively on science, trips and dog-training :).

Starting up webpage again - this time from Svalbard

Here we go again. This time the page gonna be in english - due to the fact that we have family and friends in different countries and would like to share some of our experiences with all of them (mainly after constant questions about pictures from Eike's family ;)).

(From Eike:)


So it seems I gonna live on Svalbard again ... this time for at least 4 years. There are a lot of contradicting feelings about it. Of course it's great to be back on this amazingly beautiful island with it's open landscape, wonderful glaciers and differing light-situations and not to forget friendly people all around. Hopefully there will be many exiting experiences and trips coming and I'm looking forward to live in 1 place for a couple of years after moving back and forth between different places and many times during the last years. Living in one place means time for building up friendships, be part of a community, be able to work continuously on something and create a place one can call home.
And it is a good feeling coming back to UNIS and Svalbard with quite a few wonderful people I still know from 3 years ago.



On the other hand had we had just about started to build one place that felt like home in many ways in Trondheim. We had bought a piece of land with a cabin, wanted to start building up a dog-team, got 2 pups, had many wonderful and kind people around us and I was looking forward to finally could have some more time with friends and some that were just about to become friends. Now it feels hard to move away from all this, move away from Rasmus and the dogs. I miss my "pack" already - both 2 and 4 legged ones.



But well, that's how life is. And I'm looking forward to start with my PhD and work properly with science again. Now there is the challenge of finding a place to live where I can have the dogs right outside, but I'm sure there gonna be a solution - there always is.

(Pictures will follow as soon as I got a camera)

Måtte avbryte turen pga vond lår - men likevel var turen en suksess!

Tja, hva tenker man når man plutselig må akseptere at man ikke når et mål man har satt seg på langtur? Svaret vårt er: Turen i seg selv er målet!


Nei, vi kom ikke til Lindesnes, siden Rasmus fikk en skikkelig vond betennelse i låret sitt som ikke ville gi seg - selv ikke etter en del rolige dager og noen hviledager. Litt trist var det å måtte bryte nå: strålende vær mens vi gikk gjennom Reinheimen og en del nysnø - nok til at vi kunne ha begynt å gå på ski gjennom Jotunheimen. Hadde nettopp fått Loki med på tur og skiene var allerede på vei mot Lom hvor vi skulle hente dem.
Men: alt i alt hadde vi en fantastisk tur, lært mye, sett mye, opplevd mye, hadde mye tid sammen - hva kan man ønske seg mer? Så selv om vi foreløbig ikke nådde målet har turen vært en suksess! Og kanskje får vi mulighet til å fulføre turen en annen gang.

Stor takk til Alfa, Sportsbua og OffGridSystems for hjelp med utstyr!

Takk også til Bøckman-Thorvaldsen :) (Rasmus familie) for masse sponsoring i form av hjelp med alt mulig, finansiell støtte og ikke minst hundepass!! Uten dere kunne vi ikke være herute på tur!
Takk til Eikes familie i Tyskland som støttet med en god del utstyr!

Takk til alle som inviterte oss inn og deres gjestfrihet! Det betydde utrolig mye og var en stor del av gleden på denne turen!

Hilsen
Rasmus og Eike

Lesja og helg i Oppdal

3 Dager brukte vi for å krysse Dovre. Mesteparten av tida trasket vi gjennom snø og prøvde så godt som mulig å unngå de mest isete steinene. Heldigvis var vi uthvilt etter en hviledag på Dindalshytta. Allikevel klarte vi ikke dagsetappen som vi hadde planlagt og måtte nøye oss med en litt mindre bra teltplass. Trøtte var vi og dermed sov vi godt. Torsdag gikk vi videre til Åmotdalshytta. Skulle egentlig bare spise lunsj der, men det blåste alt for mye og vi var redd for at stormen som var meldt til helga hadde begynt allerede. Vi hadde ikke akkurat lyst til å teste stormdugeligheten til sommerteltet vårt og siden Eike i tillegg var dårlig, ble vi over ei natt. Det viste seg å være den rette avgjørelsen: den solide sagekrakken hadde blåst ca. 10m langs vegge i løpet av natta.


Fredag gikk vi ca. 30km gjennom fantastisk flott vinterlandskap. Vi så noen villrein og moskus spor. Vi valgte veien ned Skamsdalen. Flott dal. Etter at vi hadde gått et godt stykke langs veien ble vi plukka opp av ei hyggelig dame som kjørte oss til Dombås hvor vi møtte Kirsten og Annicken.


Vi hadde en koselig helg i Oppdal sammen med de to som kom med vinterutstyr (telt, litt andre klær, annen sekk) og Loki som nå endelig skal følge oss videre. Rasmus mor hadde bursdag på lørdag og dermed ble det en veldig god middag med bløtkake og god vin :). Det ble ikke mye hvile alt i alt med å pakke om, handle og testur med Loki og hans nye kløv.

Søndag ble vi sammen med Loki kjørt tilbake til Lesja, ditt hvor vi sluttet å gå på fredag. Det er utrolig fint å ha Loki med oss nå! Savnet ham en del. Og det ser ut som om han klarer seg fint med sin nye tillværelse som kløvhund. Skal inn til Reinheim i morra og det ser ut som om det venter en god del snø på oss også der. Spennt hvordan det går.

I Oppdal

Har kommet til Oppdal nå. Hadde noen virkelig flotte dager i det siste.
Mellom Støren og Iglbu ble det ei natt i telt rett ved veien etter en 13timers dag. Puhh...Dagen etter var det tungt å komme seg opp i tid, men vi skulle nå Iglbu mens det fortsatt var lyst. Det ble en flott tur over Litlfjellet og forbi Gynneldfjellet. Så masse store ryper og en god del elgspor.

Ved Iglbu ble det fyrt skikkelig i ovn og nå var det kos i 1 1/2 dager med masse god mat - inkludert den obligatoriske bløtkaka -, litt hogging og saging og rydding av mindre trær rundt koia inntil øksa knakk, mer mat, mer fyring, vasking (!!) og mange timers søvn. Rasmus dro på en liten fisketur mot kvelden, men kom desverre tilbake uten fisk. Kroppene våre var veldig takknemlige for hvilen.

Etter Iglbu ble det litt veitrasking langs Iglfjellet og ned mot Rennebu. Her begynnte føtter og knær å klage. Etter en veldig tilfredsstillende dagsetappe og 11 timers gåing slo vi leir - igjen ganske nærme en skogsvei. Allikevel ble det koselig bålfyring før vi la oss - lunt og varmt og godt.
Turen dagen etter førte oss via Telin til en liten innsjø nærme Ondusfjellet. Det var deilig å ta en lang lang lunsjpause på Telin - selv om det førte til at vi ikke kom like langt som vi hadde planlagt. Men vi ble glad for det til slutt siden det blåste litt opp neste morgen og vi ville nok hatt det mindre trivelig med leirplass oppe på fjellet. Nå lå vi fint nede i dalen.

Lørdagen ble det vinter! Et tynt snølag lå på teltet når vi våknet og snøbyger fulge oss hele dagen gjennom Trollheimen - en av de flotteste dagene vi har hatt så langt på denne turen. Selv om det snødde i blant var sola aldri fjern og utsikten var fantastisk når vi gikk over Skrikhøgda og videre langs T-stien.



Kom til Gjevilvasshytta akkurat når det ble mørkt. De 3 guttene som vi møtte der var på vei hjem, men hadde noen kjøttkaker til overs som vi gledelig tok imot til destruksjon. Vi hadde nemlig ikke noe kjøtt igjen selv denne kvelden. Det var også Eikes første besøk på en DNT-hytte og hun ble overbevist om at det kunne lønne seg å bruke dem videre :).

I dag trasket vi langs vei ned til Ålbu og tok bussen til Oppdal for å handle mat og ordne en del ting. Skal snart ta bussen tilbake og gå til Dindalshytta. Det blir nok en sen kveld men det er hviledag i morra. Masse god mat venter :).