If I wake up a 6:30 am I have time for a ski tour before I start work at 11 am. I have skied most of the close, smaller, peaks around Saltoluokta, but larger peaks are visible in all directions, some of them with ideal slopes for skiing. The biggest visible peak is Måskostjåhkå, which […]
I am often asked where I learned to cook. My response is, in addition to my mother and Swiss-born grandmother, a talented French woman named Caroline (Caro). Caro works as a psychiatric nurse in Geneva, Switzerland. When she is not working she usually throws herself into some task such as replanting all her roses, building […]
I arrived in Saltoluokta Fjällstation on a snowy day by snowmobile transport. By the end of the ten minute ride, I was covered in a light layer of snow. I was shown to my new living quarters for the next three months and set about unpacking my clothes, skis, and kitchen knives. I will be […]