From the dark side - the tale of the missing ones

But what happened to Uashee the dog? And Mila the Arctic Queen? And Kim the Super Arctic Hero? Are they still alive after going Into the Wild at Skoganvarre? The day they left, without satellite phone, the tracer and real maps...and only four pulks full of food. Plus a GPS and a great sense of direction (follow the reindeer track when Uashee runs away - only to come back by herself after a few hours and hiding behind the pulks so they could still look for her like idiots).

And actually: did they ever wake up in the morning... without Manka’s singing instead of alarm clock??.... was difficult, the harsh time came to them...but Uashee's solo adventures kept the mind alert though, and her colourful sock attire kept the spirit high!

Finally they managed to wake up sometimes... to ski through amazing, unforgettable, magnifique, inhospitable, fantastisch, white, windy, calm, sunny, veldig pen, stormy, silent, frosty, krasny ,noisy, beautiful, scorching and zajebisty Finnmark's landscape.....

sometimes with a little help .. or maybe just once with military assistance…

But what is the story anyway? Has anything exciting happened??? Yes! They saw reindeers once! And once, they didn't have porridge for breakfast, but pasta!!! And what's more, Mila once burned the porridge... Kim got mad, and threw a spoon at her, but Uashee was faster… she jumped with grace in her colourful socks to catch the spoon... and barked: “Common guys.... no war… peace.... peace and warm...” – she smiled.

After that small accident, all was fine… until they were having lunch one fine day, on a high-speed skidoo track and a policeman arrived... what will he tell them? will they be deported? what wrong did they do? should they hide the absinthe? no-one will ever know, since their smell deterred the policeman from anything more than a short polite wave from his speeding Arctic Cat at a respectable distance before disappearing to hunt the real criminals in the wild... the smell of Kim's socks (Mila likens that to dead animals, wonder why) saved the three … once again Kim- the Arctic Hero saved them all from troubles... uff... now Mila can start to appreciate the smell...

after countless days of sleeping, eating, skiing and storm shitting, after getting frostbites on their beautiful asses.... they have reached some Civilization... the Hut... the Hut near the lake of the Drowned Sea Turtle... they entered it... and what they saw was a… normal hut… with nothing special in it... they turned on the radio and heard some Sami voices... “Hm... the time has changed...”- said Kim, “And terrorism is still alive and kicking... “- added Mila. “Just like me!”- barked Uashee... They couldn't stay there longer than just for lunch... wanted to escape from this madness... and dirt... human smell (because by this time they preferred smell of dead animal= Kim's sock) ... they wanted to escape to their pure landscapes, pure arctic simple life… with eating, sleeping, skiing and shitting...

But all fun-tastic things have an end, and one fine day our Arctic Travelers reached a road... with cars, skidoos and human people... but what now? one pulk, two pulks, three pulks, four pulks...Uashee the Dog...two pairs of skis...tons of nut-bags, Kim's socks and other pieces of non-acceptable bio-weapons... well, this is Norway and within an hour several cars were fighting for the privilege to take the bunch to Alta... “Pick me! Pick me!”- they were begging. After another hour left beside the Alta Museum our Arctic Fools now had another challenge-challenge: car in Tromsø, enough gear to fill a complete bus shelter and a storm coming...big dark clouds coming now... did somebody stop?? did somebody stop to give a lift to these weirdoes?? well... yes.... even few people... to ask if they are serious.. or say: "The dog? four pulks? and you wanna go to tromso?? I stopped because I wanted to ask: what the fcuk??". Some stopped to have a chat... ask: “Well... people like you never seem to stop... what is your next expedition?”. “To have a beer in Tromsø”- they respond... and this guy... he appeared to be a magician... he suddenly from the back of his car took out two cold Arctic Beers... uuuu yea....

20 hours later... they were mobile again... distributed across bus and cars... they reached Tromsø later that day... took a shower, taste vegetables and fruits... reached the zen mind for that day... and continued on the short drive of 1700 km, through amazing, unforgetable, magnifique, inhospitable, fantastisch, white, windy, calm, sunny, veldig pen, stormy, silent, frosty, krasny, noisy, beautiful, scorching, and zajebiste Norwegian Coast to Drammen.....to live happily ever after...

Dr Smith & Mr Jones

Spring is here

We have some changes, we got quickly to the Kittdalen in the valley as it was downhill and after we got a ski-doo lift. The spring is coming now, snow is melting, we can see the grass and even we need to get used to that because it is very warm and the temperatures are in plus. Today morning it was raining.

Yesterday we skied to Hatteng and found out that there are no buses from here till Monday because of Easter, so today we go for a trip to the ... mountain with that ski-doo person ... and he'll take us to the bus to Tromso.

Jaro je tu

Do Kittdalen jsme se dostaly strašně rychle, protože to bylo s kopce a pak nás vzal místní Jan za ski-doo. Jaro je tu, sníh taje, někde už je vidět tráva a je nad nulou. Dnes ráno i pršelo.

Včera jsme se byly ve městě zeptat na autobusy, ale jelikož jsou velikonoce žádný do pondělka nejede. Takže teď tedy pojedeme na výlet zpátky do hor pod stan s těma místníma a v pondělí večer nás pak vezmou na autobus do Tromso.

Landmark

We met a herd of reindeer by ten heads, then relaxed in a cabin with great skiing and fishing people, got scared of the dizziness or stupidity of a skido driver in Kilpisjarvi, then walked on the triple boundary point between Finland, Sweden and Norway and are now entering into beautiful Monday.

Our plan is now to have our base camp here or just a bit around for few days and enjoy days skiing without pulks in this beautiful landscape. We plan to head out and take a bus from ocean on the 12th April to be back to Tromso.

Thank you for all the messages, we got most of them even if some arrived with few days of delay. We also don't have too much battery left on our satellite phone so we'll try to keep it for emergency only. Everything is fine and we are in any case only one day walk to civilization.

Best wishes from the Norwegian mountains!
Emily and Manka

Landmark - mezník

Potkaly jsme stádo sobů, pak jsme odpočívaly ve srubu společně se skvělými lyžaři a rybáři, v Kilpisjarvi nás vylekala pomatenost či blbost jednoho řidiče skútru, pak jsme došly na trojmezí mezi Finskem, Švédskem a Norskem a teď se probíráme do krásného pondělního rána.

Na pár dnů si teď založíme základní tábor tady nebo někde v okolí a budeme si užívat lyžování bez bobů v této kouzelné krajině. Pak vyrazíme dál a od oceánu pojedeme 12.4. autobusem? do Tromso.

Děkujeme za vaše zprávy, dostaly jsme snad všechny, i když některé s několikadenním zpožděním. Také nám docházejí baterie v satelitním telefonu, takže ho raději budeme nechávat pro případ nouze. Všechno je v pohodě, v každém případě jsme den chůze od civilizace.

Zdravíme z norských hor!
Emily a Manka

On the border

Hello,

we are on route for a while so here we are again, alive.
We have some amazing days behind, for example we had skiddo-ski, which means lift behind snow-scooter just holding some ropes, the rider was P... and then a Saomi guy, and then we were sleeping in a cabin for one night and listening about reindeer sleeping and things about Saomi ... it was all still in Norway.

After that we had also to jump with pulks over the fence on Finnish border and had a few days of Finnish poet? with beaks picking snow sinking up to the knees with .. ; we didn't met anyone since, just today one guy who didn't talk to us. Today we got finally on the plateau and are dreaming all day, it's so nice, it was sunny, a bit cloudy but calm. And how we moved the days got amazingly long, at night it's not Northern lights anymore, but still normal light, the Spring is in the air and the reindeer are starting to the move.

And here is a message for my dad if he wants to come for holiday and join me on the skiing trip after the 13th ... so it's me, Manka and greetings from all the Emily.

Manka's got birthday

Hello,

greetings to all again and after some past days there are some news, we had great beautiful bright sunny days with no wind at all and even up on the plateau it was so calm and we could take out our shirts and get red noses from the sun even like ?? is looking like raccoon.

And yesterday I got one number older again and it was very great way to be getting older and it was so wonderful bright day with sun and if I think back what I did when I was nine or nineteen it's great, it's getting better and better so thank you, mum and dad, that I can live and can be getting old.

And I got amazing presents, specials like in the morning like get to wake up at five and cooking breakfast but I could stay in bed like a princess and I got a hot boiling water in my sleeping bag in the bottle for my back and had a sauna and then I had also crossword which I still can't get through and plastic bottle for drying socks and juicy fresh real orange which was great.

For today was important that in the morning we finally get to our food depot in Skoganvarre then we again packed the food and have heavier pulks and some of you could maybe realize on the track that it moved a bit more and what was that? Team energicers are extending and with the big hugs and long goodbyes we today set on two different ways, one heading to Alta and other with big thanks to Marian from Slovakia who is now in Karasjok who took us to Kautokeino. So other group goes from Kautokeino towards Storfjord.

So logistically it means that Kim and Mila and Uashee are on their way to Alta and us unfortunatelly not able to join before 13th of April, we - Manka and Emilly - are now in Kautokeino with the sattelite phone and the ways we will watch our way now and we will still be happy to get some your wonderful messages.

And all that means that energicers are 5 lives, 10 eyes, 12 legs, 2 different routes but still one united heart ... and we love you guys and greetings to all.

Manka's got birthday - Mančiny narozeniny

Ahoj, zdravíme zase všechny, po několika dnech máme zase nějaké novinky. Prožili jsme pár krásných jasných slunečných dnů bez větru, dokonce i na plató bylo bezvětří, mohli jsme si vyndat trička a spálit si nosy, ?? dokonce vypadá jako mýval.
A včera mi přibyl další rok a bylo to krásné, takto stárnout, byl nádherný jasný slunečný den a když myslím na to, co jsem dělala, když mi bylo devět nebo devatenáct, je to krásné, je to lepší a lepší a tak díky, mámo a táto, že můžu žít a stárnout.
Dostala jsem úžasné dárky, zvláštnosti jako moci zůstat v posteli jako princezna, když normálně vstávám v pět a vařím snídani, dostala jsem flašku s horkou vodou do spacáku na ohřátí zad a pak jsem si dala saunu, a taky jsem dostala křížovku, kterou pořád nemohu vyluštit, a umělohmotnou flašku na sušení ponožek a šťavnatý čerstvý pomeranč, což bylo nádherné.
Dnes bylo důležité, že jsme se ráno konečně dostali k našemu jídelnímu skladu ve Skoganvarre, pak jsme zase přebalovali jídlo a máme těžší boby a někteří možná zjistili na mapě, že jsme se posunuli o větší kus dál a co to bylo? Tým Energicers po velkých obejmutích a dlouhém loučení vyrazil po dvou různých cestách, jedna směřující do Alty a druhá - díky Marianovi ze Slovenska, který je teď v Karasiok a vzal nás do Kautokeino - jde z Kautokeino směrem ke Storfjord.
To tedy znamená, že Kim, Mila a Uashee jsou na cestě do Alty, a my, Manka a Emily, jsme v Kautokeino se satelitním telefonem, plánujeme další cestu a budeme se těšit na vaše skvělé zprávy.
Celkově to znamená, že Energicers jsou pět bytostí, deset očí, dvanáct nohou, dvě různé cesty, ale stále jedno svorné srdce...a máme vás rádi a všechny zdravíme.

Ice covers the wind all day long. Snow rushes in Uashee's mouth and not get boring. ... gets boring too, bullshit yet. Fruit is running out of our cloaks??? ... but who cares, in the state team???.. then group makes crazy figures, confirming that Absinth is disgusting green.

Today ... we stopped by a huge group of reindeer. Manka is digging pigeons holes. Tomorrow ... west, maybe ... But we ... and are well, Hans, Bozena and ... Thanks to God and dog and warm for giving everything to catch the production. Teddy bear is welcome by us, but gummi bears missed us. Long like individual walk together to make a team... by ???text. This paragraph is result of our team work during the our long day in the tent. We are alive and picking energicers.


Note: I'm sorry for plenty uncaught bits in this message, it was hard to understand the original from the satellite phone and I could not make much sense of it. Jitka

Ice covers the wind all day long - Led pokrývá vítr celý den

Led pokrývá vítr celý den. Sníh se hrne do tlamy Uashee a není to nuda...se taky stává nudným, to jsou kecy...Ovoce v našich kapsách dochází...ale koho to zajímá,...pak skupina vytváří bláznivé obrazce, potvrzující, že Absinth je nechutně zelený.
Dnes...jsme se zastavili u velké skupiny sobů, Manka hloubí holubí díry. Zítra...západ, možná...ale my...a je nám dobře, Hans, Božena a ...díky Bohu a psu a teplu, že dávají vše pro zachycení díla.
Medvídek je nám vítán, ale gumoví medvídci nás minuli.
Dlouhá individuální společná procházka vytváří tým...textem???
Tento odstavec je výsledkem týmové práce v průběhu našeho dlouhého dne ve stanu. Jsme na živu a sbíráme zdroje energie.

Poznámka: Omlouvám se za spoustu nezachycených částí v této zprávě, bylo těžké rozumět originálu zachyceného ze satelitního telefonu a zpráva mi nedává moc smyslu. Jitka

Nature and Human

So this is my first blog and I'm not sure what was in previous but doesn't matter.

If I should say in one word its all unbelievable. And I do again live in a dream and now it's white and bright dream and day by day I am amazed by the landscape around and all that snow and fact that I am here. And I'm switching off quite often, I do, I switch off and it's that feeling when I am part of all of it, of the wind, of the snow, of the mountains and sun and just me with the skis and all that.

Today or actually yesterday we went out of the plateau, which was windy and huge and white, to the valley and today we went through valley which was kind of .. snow and well, no wind and through sunny bright swing through the day and I wanted to say that I do like it, I really love it even that I am the one who is losing things and forgetting books behind just because of the dreaming.

And another thing which I am amazed about is how my body is working, how human can get used to different conditions and how much heat can be produced. And it's really great to watch, like, your hands which are ... in the gloves by the ... by drying them and just everything like oven heat and what energy it is that makes my feet warm again after stacking them in woolen socks and in the hard rock boots in the morning. And it is amazing to feel it and watch it and live it.

This is all now from me, from Manka
And greetings to all!

Nature and Human ... Příroda a člověk

Tak, toto je můj první příspěvek a nejsem si jistá, co bylo v předchozích, ale to nevadí...

Kdybych to měla vyjádřit jedním slovem - je to neuvěřitelné ! A já zase žiju ve snu, a tentokrát je to bílý a jasný sen a den za dnem jsem okouzlena okolní krajinou a vším tím sněhem a skutečností, že jsem tady. A poměrně často vypínám, já to dělávám, vypnu a zůstane pocit, že jsem součástí toho všeho, větru, sněhu, hor a slunce, jenom já s lyžemi a tak...

Dnes, vlastně včera, jsme sešli z plató, které bylo větrné, veliké a bílé, do údolí a dnes jsme šli údolím, které bylo zasněžené a bez větru, slunečným jasným dnem. Chtěla bych říci, že se mi to líbí a opravdu jsem unešená, i přesto, že já jsem ten, kdo ztrácí věci a zapomíná knihy, ale to jen kvůli tomu mému snění.

A další věcí, která mě překvapuje, je, jak mé tělo pracuje, jak si lidské tělo může zvyknout na různé podmínky a kolik tepla může vyprodukovat. A je opravdu úžasné pozorovat, jak ruce samy vysušují rukavice a tělo vydává teplo jako kamna. A co to je za energii, která každé ráno oteplí mé nohy po oblečení vlněných ponožek a po obutí zmrzlých bot. A je úžasné to cítit, pozorovat a prožívat !

To je ode mne pro dnešek všechno, pozdravy všem
Manka