LITEN CAMPINGVOGN TIL FEMUNDLØPET

We are looking for a small camping wagon or even a camper to be used under World Cup Femundløpet from 2-9th of february! HandlerHenrik and myself need a place to rest on checkpoints. Any suggestions / contacts are apreciated.

Mobile: 95 80 40 95

=) Niklas

TOP GEAR

On saturday we had one of the most busy days in the history of the company. We kicked the day of with a halfdaytour for six girls and moved onto a big arrangement with aproximately 90 guests. They all got to try dogsledding over a track of a little more than 1km. The dogs got to run the track 14 rounds. After 10 laps, one suspects that the dogs will not be able to manage the whole day. I got the impression that they where tired. But I know better. What they really are is bored. Huskies have a built in search for adventure. To run around in the same pattern does not suit their personality. But strangely, after the 12th round the dogs got a boost of energy, and my feeling was that they could keep it going all night long. The impressive part is, that the dogs do not know if they will be doing 10 laps or there will be 20 more coming. They do this for us humans, and they enjoy it. Strange beeings indeed!

Now we have plenty of snow! We have many expedition bookings this winter and we look forward to get started on the real adventures of 5 days or more!!

This weekend the crew from the world famous english motor programme "TOP GEAR" will visit our premisis here at Enjoy Beito (http://www.enjoybeito.com/). They have no plans for a husky ride, but once they see the raw powers of my animals, CAN THEY REALLY RESIST IT??

Karolina alone with 2-team Beito Huskies

Karolina and Tuva running a 2-team !!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 !!

So, Christmas is over and the calender shows Jan. 11 - 2011.

Christmas is normally a very busy period for us and the dogs. This year though it wasn`t so busy and we where able to really enjoy having family visits from Denmark/Finland. Christmas, as all of november and december, was a COLD experience. The temperature where seldom rising above -20C and the normal was -25 to -30. The dogs easily handles theese temperatures. Naturally there bodies uses more energy, and we make sure that they are provided with plenty of dry warm straw in there doghouses. All through the year Our dogs are fed minimum two times a day. In wintertime it is not rare that we feed them 6-7 times a day. The food they get would give a normal house dog huge digestion problems. The huskies though has an amazing ability to cope with ultrahighenergy foods as pure fat, meat, fish, intestrins and so on. The dogs never siezes to amaze us!

November and December also will be remembered for the lack of snowdays. Northern winds brought the extreme cold but almost no snow. We had about 15 cm until last week. Just enough so we could arrange the trips without problems.

This last week brought us plenty of snow, and now we are back to normal. At this point I guess we have about 70 cm of snow and of course we love it. The dogs also seems to enjoy the harder workout it brings to break trail, awaiting the next comand from the Boss =)

Five groups has allready been out on 3-Day expeditions. Three groups with dogsleds and two with backcoyntry skiis. We have slept in cabins most nights. Only one night in tents.

In November and December the cold weather gave us problems in the dogyard. The small, almost nonexistent stream outside the yard, froze in the pipe under the road, and water/ice started flowing into the dogyard. In the beginning we worked hard to keep it open with all sorts of methods. Later the stream froze above the dogyard and water/ice started to flow into the premises from all around. At that point we descided to "evacuate" and build a seasonal dogyard by the lake on flat land. That was also a big prosess that took us some weeks, but now everythinh runs smoothly in the new place. Again a HUGE thanks to ØSIL for borrowing fences to us so we could manage the move without total financial disaster!

I, Niklas, will be entering two dog sledding races this season. I will be running the dogs of Gorm Engen and Erle Frantzen. Theese dogs are specialized long distance racing dogs. It is the excact same breed as my own dogs, however my dogs are specialized touring dogs and not as fast running as Gorm and Erles team.

The first race is the "Hallingenløpet" 21-22nd of January. 160 km.

After Hallingen we prepare for World Championsship race "Femundløpet" 2-5 of February. 400 km.

I look forward to theese races, but I also enter with a clear head, that it is not my own dogs, and I will probably not be able to race them to the max. So I expect a beatiful nature adventure with focus to come through the races with happy and healthy dogs. My farther will come to be my hadler through the race. I doubt that he has realized how tough that job is, but he is still young, tough and dangerous (66) so there should be no problems =)

As snow falls outside we look forward to next weekend wich will be one of the busiest of the winter!

... and of course BIG thank you also to ØSIL for the fences! :-)

Ready for the season!

The season is upon us and here on Beito we are more than ready to wellcome our guests! Things are happening now, and that FAST!:

The Yukon Cabin is been upgraded. Here, our guests will forget about the daily routines and experience a "back to basis" life! Thank you to Henrik Ulfstedt, our nr.1 supporter and sponsor!

Our new cabin, the "Chicken House" is ready!! Thank you to our super good camperter Valerij from Latvia!

Soon, we will have a new toilett and shower at our premises. Thank you to our partner Ove Andersen!

A new reception desk, kitchen, dinning table and equipment storage is also starting to take form.

We have had problems with the ice in the dogyard. Due to the extrem temperatures we have had in norway, and the lack of snow, the beck that normally provides us with water for the dogs, has frozen. This situation has created a flow of water into the heart of the kennel. The dogyard now looks more like an ice hockey field!

Thank you very much to ØSIL for the fences!

A big thank you to Piza, Jytte, Beito aktiv & skiskola and Ove Andersen for their help and assistance when evacuating the dogyard, saving the equipment and material and building up a new provisional kennel! We couldn't have done it without you!