Map of the area around Longyearbyen with key dog localities.

Overnight trip! Our first tent trip of the season. On Saturday afternoon our, Jonas' and Mings humans came to the dog yard together with Harvey and Marzena (two of our 2-legged fans who some times takes us on trips and bring us food) and started packing the sledges, JUHU it was trip time! The boys and Jonas were in front of one sledge, the girls on another. Since Qimmiq is in heat we are not allowed to all run together. We were followed by Team Sava Vit but we out ran them! We had send Rico ahead on a snow scooter with our food, lines and the humans stuff (they do need a LOT). We arrived at the tent site, behind the Pingo on the other side of the valley after a short trip and the humans set up the Lavo and put us on lines ( we would rather have been out chasing reindeers) but we got seal for dinner so it was OK. The humans stayed all night in the tent with the oven on, eating what smelled like thai food and chocolate cake, while we were perfectly comfortable in the soft snow. We did get them out of the tent, and fast, when a unknown dog team raced by in the night and when Nuna managed to get loose by unscrewing and opening a safety carabiner! (nice work Mom! TQ). This afternoon we headed home (with a few stops on the way to discuss whether we should go reindeer hunting or not, the boring humans voted no every time). Bach home we had food and the humans went home to dry their tent and wash their gloves, they said they smelled like seal, like it was a bad thing......

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Back sledge with 2,3 dogs (from left, Oki, Silver and Jonas) In front Karoline with 3 dog powers. (picture: Yvonne)

The camp and the full moon over Operafjellet

Bababababababa like a moonlight shadow.......... It is full moon, time for howling and sledge driving. Karoline and Jonas´ human Yvonne took us on a scenic tour of the valley. Nuna, Silver and Qimmiq were pulling the big sledge with Karoline while the super energetic team Jonas-Talik were in front of the "huskey-buggey" WOW it was fast, the humans wanted us to stop to have some breaks but we were having non of that, there was miles and miles of untouched snow, glittering in the moonlight, just waiting for our paw prints! We were initially followed by Lupi and Odin, the bonsai team and their human Lene on skies, but we quickly outran them. Crossing the valley, turning north by the pingo towards Mälerdalen and finally heading home over the frozen delta, casting our own moonlight shadows on the fresh powder snow, what a trip!

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OK OK OK not my brithtest moment. Again today I managed to get on top of our house on the highest platform but again it was a bit too scarry to jump down so again my female human had to rescue me, again.......

DOH!!!

Qimmiq

Cultural education! The sun has now been down for 2 weeks and this weekend it was "kunstpause" (art pause) in Longyearbyen and after taking us for a nice trip in the morning the humans decided to further our cultural education and took the puppies for an art exhibition in town. We were a BIT disappointed that we were left outside (!!) the building while the humans went in but after we heard the first tone of the 12 man mandolin orchestra the humans unwittingly had been lured into enduring we were quite happy to be left outside to supervise the door! After 45 minutes the humans came back out and we send one of the humans home with the car while we took the other human and Aunt Lisa for a stroll through town. Back at the humans apartment we went in to say hello and were then driven back to the dog yard. Qimmiq has now moved in with uncle Silver for a few days while Talik is living with his mom again!

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Quad bike training in Adventdalen.

Seal day, seal day, seal day! Yesterday after a long trip to endalen and back with the humans on the bike we all had a big piece of seal when we came home! JUHU!! So today we are all a bit smelly. Sadley one of our favorite humans and bringer of seal, Thue, has now left the island for good. So long and thank for all the seal

Silver, Nunsen and the puppies!

Town trip. Yesterday we had a very exciting trip with the quad bike, our humans took us on a ride trough town to the gas station to get the tires of the bike filled up. We were very well behaved and stood still while the humans added air. Then we continued through town to the habour where we turned and headed home. Silver got a bit to interested in the smells on the roadside from other passing dogs so he was degrated to 2. in command and put in the middle of the team and Talik got the chance to show his worth as a lead dog together with Nuna for the last kilometer. That was great! Back home the humans had a "dugnad" repairing and cleaning the dogyard. We had dryfood today, a bit of a bummer as we usually get seal every second day but the humans must have messed up. We ate the food but only as a symbolic act symbolicing our disapointment in the mishap and we trust that the human will get their act together! All in all a good day to be a dog.

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