Håkan and his team of sled dogs traveled through northern Sweden between Sitajaure and Saltoloukta, where they saw their first reindeer of the expedition. They had a steep descent to Saltoloukta but were aided by newly fallen snow. Later they encountered good trails and weather traveling from Kaiutumjaure towards Singi. They made good time towards Allesjaure, and camped near Sälkamassivet. Their journey continued through Abisko and along the endless seeming Torne Träsk, though the wet trails made travel difficult. They eventually reached their finish at Treriksröset after overcoming snow storms along the way.

1. Expedition with samoyeds in Skanderna From Särna via Treriksröset to Kurravaara 5/3- 21/4-2011 Part 3

2. Håkan and the teams at Rapadalen

3. Between Sitajaure and Saltoloukta we saw the first reindeer. Luckily the dogs didn’t see them and the wind blew in the right direction.

4. The trail down to Saltoloukta was quite steep so we were very glad that there was some newly fallen snow in the trail.

5. Going up from Teusajaure, 300m in about 2km.

6. Going from Kaiutumjaure towards Singi, nice weather and good trails.

7. Sälka ahead of Sälkamassivet

8. Good speed towards Allesjaure

9. I wonder, has anyone gone sledging on sand from Shara? It might be hard to see, but the snow is striped brown by the Sahara sand which came falling down in the mountain brought by the storm wind during the night.

10. Going to Abisko on lake Abiskojaure – this was very wet.

11. In Abisko we missed the right way to STF-hostel and therefor we had to cross the railway and lots of roads which took us a while. Fortunately someone told us that we could go under the big road so at least we didn’t need to cross that.

12. It felt as Torne Träsk was never ending, and the trail beeing wet and heavy didn’t make it any better.

13. The dogs seemed to enjoy sleeping on the bare ground. They even found some berries (from last autumn) which they ate.

14. They seemed to feel secure as the tent was nearby

15. 16/4 second day on Torne Träsk. Since we got up early the trail was much better.

16. On the 17/4 we felt there was a snow storm coming up

17. The wind was blowing harder and harder and soon

18. I could hardly see the back of Håkan

19. Monday 18/4 Mixed feelings – the finish is reached at last! A bit sad that the great adventure soon will be over but happy that all went so well. (In the back ground to the right one can see a bit of the yellow Treriks-stone)

20. The dogs at Treriksröset

21. The dogs just went on towards Pältsa, unknowingly of what they had accomplished.

22. Leaving Pältsa

23. Last stop on the mountain

24. Tkanks to all our hard working dogs for the great adventure