Well, I managed to hitch a ride on a sledge behind a snowmobile. It was the singularly least enjoyable mode of transport I've ever done. Sitting on a frozen reindeer carcass and empty fuel cans with a nervous dog in my lap, trying to also stay on the sled and not become frost-bitten from fierce cross winds in a blizzard. Somehow, I made it back to Hemmogiede, a small assortment of houses, stood on the side of the road for an hour in minus 25 C, finally hitchiked into Kautokeino, and caught a ride to the Jokkmokk Winter Market in Sweden, arriving at around 2 am I promptly fell asleep on a gym floor and woke up for 3 days of excellent Sami food, costumes, parties, etc. Now I'm in Oslo, on my way to Moscow, to meet the team for the research project CLUE (Circumpolar Land Use and Ethnicity). Sunday we'll fly north to Naryan Mar in Nenets Autonomous Okrug! Man I'm excited...
Here are a few photos from Finland, Norway, and Estonia...
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