very beautiful
beautiful
look at the big moose
today is september 18 1 8.
i'm 125 kilometers well probably less now
115 kilometers
from Taneli's house
from his village i'm not fully sure what his
and the village name is very complicated to remember akaslompolo or something like that
i'm still in sweden i had a great first night in the arctic i forgot to take a video but i asked a
house if i could camp in their garage you go through villages you don't
see anyone anyone but these people were unpacking their car because they went moose hunting
and i asked if i could camp in their garage and they said it's gonna be cold and i was
like yeah and if i camp in the forest it's gonna be even colder if i have a roof it's gonna be dry
so then i explained i was cycling five years around the world i cannot afford
campsites hotels this thing and eventually he said yes
and i was setting up my tent there and they invited me for dinner and for sauna which means also shower
they have this thing in sweden where they have friday's tacos
it's not tuesday tacos it's friday tacos in sweden and
the ground meat they used it was moose i had dinner i was well fed
did the sauna so i also cleaned myself and i went into my tent
i was really cozy for the first night in the arctic i switched liner
from silk to the thermareactor it was a bit too warm actually at
some point i had to spread out my my cumulus quilt because i was too warm
so i opened a foot box fully open and spread it out as a blanket and had a nice nice night and
i hit the road at about nine o'clock it was a bit later than then i wanted but..
nine o'clock i have 125 kilometers to do it's okay i should be there by
if i don't stop much i should be there by five six o'clock this evening relax a little bit
and have a very good night's sleep that's the plan for my saturday night i think today is saturday
saturday 18th september i will stay on this paved road for the most part
because it's fast i think the wind is like yesterday it's east southeast
and i'm heading north slightly northeast okay long talk time to pedal guys
this river is the border between sweden and finland
on the other side of the bridge finland country number 46
alaska to patagonia keeps on going this is the middle of the bridge
i'm crossing into a new country and it feels very different on the swedish side there is no
signs on the road on the Finnish side there are white lanes
i think they are reindeer no
the second day in the arctic it's coming to an end i'm only 25 kilometers from Äkäslompolo
where i'll spend the night go to the market stock up with some food
and yeah it's coldish but manageable
this was one of the best investment i did of the new kit
it's a one liter thermos
but it's very light it's just slightly heavier than a stainless steel water bottle
cold and hot drinks you can put there
i love it
i usually put in the morning one liter of hot tea with a bit of sugar and when i stop to eat
something i can drink something warm because when i'm pedaling it's okay i can manage
but when i stop i get cold very quickly so yeah that is very good
yeah nothing to report hopefully i can find Taneli's house easily
i can find the keys of the house easily that's hidden in the garden
good morning
september 19th sunday i left 20 minutes ago Taneli's house the village of Äkäslompolo
and i'm heading to the main road so that i can be a bit faster
i left much later than i thought my clock here says four minutes to eleven
but this is the swedish time i found out this morning that in finland they are one hour ahead so
it's almost 12 o'clock in finland
i will probably cycle six hours and find a place to spend the night
hopefully camping in a dry place but we will see
Taneli made some bikepacking routes
that are very nice all the way up almost to Nordkapp pretty much straight up but
they're a bit slower than this road and the paved road and i just wanna get there as fast
as possible so weather condition should be good up there we got the golf stream yes the temperature
is actually higher than here in lapland and in two days it will there will be snow here
look at these reindeers those are wild there's a pretty wild reindeer this one even here
eating small little trees
snow
i'm pretty much in the middle of nowhere tonight
but i found a cabin
it should be a a shelter for hikers
i'm about one kilometers away
and despite i left late and the days are getting shorter i was able to clock in
126 kilometers already
i'm about 435 kilometers
away from Nordkapp
the weather forecast has changed the next two days should be good but
then it's just start pissing rain and probably snow so let's see
that's a bummer the hut is there
but it's on the other side of the this peninsula so i'll need to backtrack four kilometers i think
the cabin was not available to me because it's it's on the other side of that peninsula
and i didn't see any clear trails on on maps that me and there wasn't any on google maps so
maybe it would have been difficult to get there but i saw that they are building this house
this cabin and i just pitched my tent it's gonna be higher up so it should be pretty dry
the wind is coming a little bit from the other side, that's why i put the flysheet on
but it should be it should be good now i'll make some pasta
and i'm sheltered from the wind where i eat it's good it's getting chilly
tonight is gonna be around the freezing temperature so i think this is the best out of
this situation, it's gonna be a bit humid because we're very close to the water but
i hope the fact that we are on on wood and we have a roof and two out of four walls
it would have been nice if the wall was on the other side because the wind is coming from there
but you can't have everything, all right let me have some food and i'll see you in the morning