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May 2022
Widje Fjord in May
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Dogs & sleds on bord on "Billefjord"

 

 

Musher talk

 

 

relaxing on bord

 

 

The Crew

 

 

starting at the ice flow in Billefjord

 

 

Skottehytta camp

 

 

Marcos, Tina & Stein arriving Skottehytta

 

 

Mittag-Leffler Glacier

 

 

Two teams down Mittag-Leffler Glacier

 

 

Tina down Mittag-Leffler Glacier in nice style

 

 

Beer depot @ Overgangshytta

 

 

smoothing the sled runners after the morain

 

 

Heidi, the trapper at Austfjordnes

 

 

Austfjordnes with 34 dogs

 

 

Dinner at Austfjordnes

 

 

Seal hunting with Sean, the trapper from Austfjordnes

 

 

Sean got a seal

 

 

 

 

 

Sean

 

 

More seals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Polar Bear at Austfjordnes

 

 

 

Headding North on wet ice in Widje Fjord

 

 

Villa Møen paradise

 

 

Widje Fjord @ Villa Møen

 

 

17th May, National Day

 

 

View from Villa Møen North: pack ice to the North Pole from here

 

 

Villa Møen

 

 

National Day

 

 

Ingvild checking the ice

 

 

Villa Møen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skiing with loose dogs

 

 

 

Jutulhogget

 

 

The Ice and the Snow (North Pole in back ground)

 

 

 

Sniper close up

 

 

Marcos, Stein & Tina arriving at Villa Møen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stein

 

 

Marcos

 

 

Leaving Villa Møen

 

 

Stein, Tina & Marcos cossing Widje Fjord to Purpur Valley

 

 

Sledes on ice

 

 

sleding in fresh Polar Bear tracks

 

 

Krosspyten seen from North

 

 

Krosspyten

 

 

Leaving Krosspyten for Austfjordnes

 

 

Kapp Petermann

 

 

 

Austfjordnes and Einsteinfjellet

 

 

 

Last break before ascent the glacier

 

 

... it's steep

 

 

On top of the glacier

 

 

Down Ragnar Glacier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back on start: Skottehytta

 

 

Skottehytta

 

 

"MS Billeford" waiting for us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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