Some might have been wondering before arriving here for a holiday, how our wilderness cabins look like, how they are equipped and how/what will be cooked there.
Well... our guides have a lot of phantasy and love to cook on gas and fire. The food is normally packed the evening before starting out to the cabins. A lot of fresh stuff is packed into isolated boxes and transported then in the sled-bag to the cabins. Food is really tasty in the cabins, guide and guests normally cook together, the menues are discussed with you normally before packing. Whether it is salmon from open fire, or a cracking potatoe-pan, or the classical Spaghetti Bolognese; we promise everybody will be full and happy after our cabin-dinner! A few impressions from last weeks cabin-dinners on the pictures beside. The cabin-dogs normally don't care about what we cook and serve... by this time their stomach is already full with salmon and other fish, bone-snacks, meat-soup and high-energy-dryfood.
After a short period of mild winter-days with temperatures very close to Zero degrees, we are back in the comfortable level between -8 and -15 degrees C. We have more snow than in an average winter and the trails are now soft and very nice to drive on. Only on the lakes there are a few icy parts, caused by the short mild period and following overflow. In the next days we will get again a few more centimeters of fresh snow, that will probably make those icy parts soft and snow-covered again. Perfect conditions for those guests arriving next weekend. We are getting prepared to 2 weeks of high-high-season with 18 resp. 17 guests, divided in 5 groups.
Yesterday evening we had to say - once again - bye to Frank, who could join our team only for 4 weeks this season, guiding our guests over the different trails. Of course Mandela was here as well, as usual as lead-dog next to Luca. By now, those 2 are back on the ferry, direction Germany and we miss them already. A huge Thank you on this way again to Frank for having been here again (4th winter). You were once more an enrichment to our team and you introduced our guests to the art of dog-sledding with the known big amount of lifeblood. We comfort ourselves, knowing that "the old man" (quote by Frank himself) will return and so we already look forward to his next arrival.