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.