Grumant 2

Back from Tempelfjorden, my father left and the first weekend was used for another trip to Grumant

First possibility to show the new students in my semester one of my favourite places around Longyearbyen. 

first challenge: crossing Longyearelva

On the top of Plateaubeget, awesome weather

Reindeers on an old snow field

and a compass plant

The way down to Björndalen was a bit more fun

Finally: Grumant

exploring the buildings

meeting the locals

and the way back

Kjersti tried different ways to cross rivers with short hiking shoes: jumping, climbing and finally Riley as a ferry

Tempelfjorden 2

Finally i have the opputunitiy to stay for longer than just a few week.

I got a place at the northernmorst University center in Svalbard for Arctic Technology.

But before the courses startetd we used the time for another trip.

Again a father, son, dog trip this time a bit further to tempelfjorden with Roman a new companion

Reindeers at Reveneset

planning the next hike

and we chosed a nice mountain top

everyone enjoyed the view

But the small things are as beautiful as the landscapes (here polar widow)

Tunabreen

through deep meltwater rivers on the way to von Post Breen

Von Post Breen

watching birds at Diabas

hiking trip to Sassendalen

After i came home from my first trip up here. My father got interested, so we came back this year for a father, son, dog trip on Svalbard.

Arrival on Svalbard

Back in Longyearbyen

Adventalen in nice autumn colors

Morpheus

the nice thing about not having a polar dog....a shepperd wants to protect rather than hunt reindeers

so a curious pub cam curiously closer to examine the strange fluffy animal (our dog)

End of Adventalen, even our dog enjoyed the landscape

A cold bath in Adventelva

some Polar bear tracks

Eskerflossen

And Sassendalen as a huge desert

awesome night sky colors of autumn Svalbard

First ice next to Sassenelva

A cosy evening at Sassenfjorden with a warm fire

Morpheus, completely fascinated by the sea. He watched the tides coming and going for hours

Back throug De geerdalen

father, son and dog

Overnight change on the last day, first ice on Adventalen

A new experience for our dog

Back in Longyearbyen: one night at Liv and one night on the Campingplace

Hiking trip to Grumant

After one day break we went on another last short trip to Grumant.

"Is it possible to go along the coast?...maybe in low tides" so we tried this way

in the beginning we found a nice path on the birdcliff

But after some km the path disappeared and we needed to climb a bit

thereby we found an old mine entry

and finally reached Grumant

The way back, we tried over Björndalen and Plateauberget

Thereby the beginning of Björndalenw as some climbing on the river again

And suddenly the weather changed on Plateauberget and the winter arrived

Hiking trip to Nordenskiöldbreen

First time on Svalbard and the first view just catched me up there...I can fly back to the south but there will always be a part of me on this icy island in the North

In Longyearbyen we met Eric and Liv... warm and firendly people who offered us a warm place to stay overnight, were we talked about Svalbard and our plans instead of sleeping.

Start of our trip in Adventalen

The first pictures got lost.

But the first days were an awesome trip throug adventalen to the waterfall in Eskerdalen, an interesting crossing of Sassenelva and some nice days on a fire at the shore.

Tunabreen from the top of a mountain at midnight

cracked ice on Tunabreen

on Tunabreen

jumping over meltwater channels

and crevasses, which finally forced us to climb over the next mountain to Gipsdalen

one night of white out and ice layers on everything forced us to use our tent. The first and only time

that was our usual way of staying overnight in two shifts of 2 x 4 hours sleeping and watching for polar bears

Brucebyen

one curious reindeer visited us on the last days, were we waitet at Nodenskiöldbreen.

A ship was supposed to pick us up, but we were a bit too early and ran out of food....now a hunting license would be useful

Nordenskiöldbreen

Back in Longyearbyen Liv and Eric gave us a nice and warm welcome..Thank you very much for this