mandag 7. september 2009

Ifjordfjellet

Ecosystem Finnmark adventure holidays provided this time an indian summer the Finnmark way; +15 degrees and daily afternoon (or whole day...) rain. No use for summerdownjacket!! Also in the package belonged (in addition to regular activities, like cleaning rodentshit from the tundra) trying to relocate plots placed in the summer - sometimes the mess was caused by reindeer sometimes by myself-, ending up in the middle of a reindeerherding operation and carrying type-of-chickenwire-cages around. Men det er ikke verst å være på felt med kjæreste.

Ifjordfjellet is full of great examples of reindeer-caused changes in vegetation. The local opinion was "det er ikkenoe planter å telle der, rein har jo spist dem opp". And how many years of counting grass in the rain we need to say it with scientific jargon?



True friends welcome you even if you show with some dead foxes and ravens, with one days warning.

We did not get roadkill for dinner. They escaped in time.

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