The Finnmarkslopet heroes

Before I write something else I proudly present our heroes.


Didi, she leads from Alta to Skoganvarre, Levajok to Karasjok and then from Jergul to Alta. She is at home a bit bitchy sometimes and often in bad mood against the other dogs - especially the puppies she hates with passion ;) But she takes her job very serious and once in harness she knows what to do. If the trail is bad and deep, she finds the hard part of the trail and walk on that. And this with 2 ½ years! A 18 kg girl out of Öre-Cruella
Fränk, he leads from Skoganvarre to Levajok, Karasjok to Jergul and then to Alta. He is always in good mood, was not the best leaddog last season. This season he advanced to an outstanding leaddog who also takes his job serious. Sleddog with body and soul. The only problem he has are the commands left and right, but for that he had always one of the girls besides him. Also very good to find the best part of the trail. A 24 kg boy out of Öre-Cruella.
Jaja, my sunshine-girl. Always happy and around jumping girl. She has 10 month old very promising offsprings together with Tchmil. She likes it to lead the team, but only in good weather. Wind and storm is ok for her, but please no snow together with all of it ;) She leads from Skoganvarre to Levajok and Karasjok to Jergul. At the Hundevidda we came into heavy snowstorm, it was really blowing a lot, so exact that weather was Jaja is NOT liking. She asked me a few times if I´m really serious that she should go now through the storm, but she understand that I was serious. So she was shrugging her shoulders and move on. A 15 kg super light girl out of Luke-Bindi.
Sean, she leads from Alta to Skoganvarre and Levajok to Karasjok. I had her as a security for the last stretch if some of the other leaders quit. She is a small girl and also a sleddog with body and soul. If you see her in the dog yard you don´t mind that there is staying a genious leddog in front of you. A 16 kg light weight girl out of Öre-Cruella.
Tchmil, also a leaddog, but I didn´t use him as a leaddog this time. He was my heaviest dog in the team and had to pull the sled :) He did it very well. A 28 kg heavy boy out of Öre-Cruella.
Tony and Fredrico, I had never doubt that this two guys stay at the finish line. They were never hurt, they eat always and they do the job that has to be done. This are not the outstanding leaddogs who stay at page one of the newspapers, but without them, you and your leaddogs can never get at the first page! Tony is a 24 kg boy, Frederico a 20 kg boy. This two brothers are out of Luke-Bindi.
Vino, he is also a teamdog who do his job. In him I had a few doubts inbetween, he was a bit stiff in his left backleg in Levajok. But with a good massage I got it under control and in Karasjok everything was ok again. He is the only one who had some scratches at his paws, but with a few days creaming everything is fine again. A 24 kg boy out of Luke-Bindi.

This were my heroes at the race. The ate always, they rest when they should, they ran when they should and I felt from the beginning this "magic moment", when you have a team in front of you and you know that you can´t do something wrong. It was great from the first meter and I was sure at the starting line in Alta that all 8 dogs will reach the finishline, doesn´t matter what weather or trail we will find in the mountains.
We are really proud of them!