We made it through another fairly cold night which started with an overcast morning.
After getting up at eight and sorting out ourselves and the dogs we were ready to set off at around noon.
We were still sledding today along the top of the mountain range with more stunning scenery. We continued to span the border between Norway and Sweden and were hoping to see bears along the mountain range but we were not lucky today.
The sledding went relatively smoothly and we are now much more experienced mushers and can sort most problems ourselves.
One thing that I neglected to mention is that Jay crashed her sled into a tree right at the beginning of the day yesterday. It was only a small tree but it really did tangle her dogs up.
We set up camp tonight at a place called Fish Camp after travelling over frozen glacial lakes. The weather this afternoon improved and we arrived with clear skies and warm temperatures.
Kenny (a fellow musher from Liverpool) came up with the idea to build a table out of the snow and we sat around it having dinner with one of the best views watching the sun set.
It is a totally clear night tonight so the chances of seeing the Northern Lights are good. I will be getting up at midnight for the best chance.
It is fiercely cold tonight so much so that our drinks were freezing whilst we were drinking them. Our gloves are frozen stiff and just trying to melt snow for drinking water takes a lot of time.
This is definitely a difficult challenge but we are really enjoying the experience.
Love C and J
Ps. I hope that these emails are coming through. I am sending them to my sister who is kindly updating facebook and the blog. I seem to get a bit of coverage at some point in the day to send.
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