{"id":107507,"date":"2015-08-15T09:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponyanddogtrip.com\/?p=107507"},"modified":"2022-02-08T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:38:39","slug":"saturday-august-15th-2015-kautokeino-11-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponyanddogtrip.nl\/en\/saturday-august-15th-2015-kautokeino-11-km\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday August 15th 2015. Kautokeino 11 km"},"content":{"rendered":"
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High school for Reindeer breeding for Sami.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Snowscooterwedstrijd<\/a> Snowscooter games on water.<\/p>\n

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With 4 quods they got the sunken snowscooter out.<\/p>\n

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Nice weather.<\/p>\n

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Ton and Eric the way they really are?<\/p>\n

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Last night, I was already in my cage, I got a message from Ton and Eric. Will<\/span> we still see you in Kautokeino? <\/span>We will stay here until monday. <\/span>Strange that I do receive a message, but I can not send it. Therefore<\/span> I have to go 100 m. away from the “house”.
\n <\/span>I actually had my schedule ready for the next 2 weeks and for tomorrow. <\/span>I would like to pass through Kautokeino today, do the necessary purchases and go straight on. Staying one night in Kautokeino<\/span> was not my intention, because I needed this day to keep up my average of 30 km. a <\/span>day. <\/span>But this morning, when I woke up, I decided to go to Kautokeino to stay there one night and then go to Masi tomorrow. <\/span>Thus, Eric, Ton and I could socialize some more.
\n <\/span>At Arctic Camping near Kautokeino, the manager, a friendly 70 plus lady, gave me a cabin next to Ton and Eric’s. <\/span>Tosca thinks I take what’s right for me and installs herself immediately on the sofa, so I just put a plate on the sofa. <\/span>Ton, Eric and I are inside their cabin (outside it is 11 degrees C.) drinking coffee. <\/span>We talked and socialized. <\/span>We are talking about all sorts of aspects of such a survival tour. <\/span>What it does to you, why doing it or why not. <\/span>Its relativizing effect. <\/span>Being basic. Living primarely s<\/span>ensory, with brains activity at zero. <\/span>Breaking with the daily standard pattern. <\/span>Dare to make choices without having to withhold because of all kinds of conventions and insecurities. <\/span>Make a choice and then work out the idea. About h<\/span>ow 2 people get along so close together for a long time. <\/span>About the German Andreas, whom I  met in the swamp last Sunday, August 8th, (him) in a not very good shape. <\/span>Eric and Ton met him in Nedrefoss. <\/span>Andreas seemed a little nuts there and crippled a little. <\/span>Probably the expression of his young head was not yet significant enough. For him the light was extinguishing, while <\/span>we, old soldiers, never die. <\/span>Etc. e<\/span>tc. While I need another two weeks to reach Cape North, Ton and Eric are going to the much southerner Hardangervida for another two weeks. <\/span>I think the southernmost place where musk oxes live. <\/span>We decided to go to a sauna tonight.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I go back to my cabin in Cuonovuoppi and eat Mikkel’s bread weighing at least a kilo. Mikkel baked it so compact that one can hit someone to death with it. I gather my stuff to move this afternoon to the cabin at Arctic Camping.<\/span> I walk to Kautokeino center, even though I’ve seen everything already. <\/span>I hoped to get much more contact with the Sami community. <\/span>Like elsewhere in Norway, unknown people are not greeted. Except for<\/span> the language and traditional clothing, I do not see much of Samen culture. <\/span>The reindeer are not here, at least not now. <\/span>I do not see much difference with the rest of Norwegian culture.
\n<\/span>On the river is a race with snowmobiles   <\/span>Whether I want to join. Right<\/span> not for now . <\/span>From the bridge, among the many other spectators, occasionally I see sink a snow mobile in the 1 m. deep water. <\/span>A quod drives into the water to pull out the snowmobile. <\/span>Does not the engine turn off in the water? <\/span>I’m watching with interest. <\/span>No. <\/span>But the quod slips on the river bottom. <\/span>A second quod enters the river to assist. <\/span>Same story. <\/span>With a third quod in the water, it’s finally possible to reach the shore, the four vehicles tied in a row. <\/span>Of course with deafening noise. <\/span>The fans love it. <\/span>Photo. <\/span>Then a quick visit to the church a little away from the village. I wasn’t impressed <\/span>except by the red colored wood.
\nSome more<\/span> blogging and then at 6.30 to the sauna in the local hotel a couple km from the camping site. <\/span>At 8 o’clock t<\/span>here is free coffee in a teepee centrally located on the campsite. <\/span>For all residents. <\/span>I see only a few residents. <\/span>With these few old vikings we can have a ball at the coffee. <\/span>Saturdaynight fever! <\/span>Wild evening, hilarious fun. We’ll see.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>It’s the most beautiful day that I’ve experienced this last year. <\/span>Cloudy, some 16-18 degrees C. Fresh<\/span> breeze, barely mosquitoes. <\/span>People sit in bra in front of the caravan to defy this heat. <\/span>The men oben ohne ( topless). <\/span>Picture of Ton and Eric.
\n <\/span>At 6.30 pm t<\/span>he sauna at the Thonhotel (luxury hotel) was reserved by T and E. I was included. <\/span>With a special magnet card we were able to enter the dressing room for the men. <\/span>We enter the sauna through a dark sun glass door. <\/span>What will be at the other side of the other solar glass door in the sauna? <\/span>Just try: the ladies’ dressing room. How<\/span> unlogical is this construction? <\/span>Separate dress rooms, but shared sauna. <\/span>We asked Dini at the reception afterwards. She<\/span> stammered something about naked, but the answer was not satisfying. <\/span>Cooling could be done outside. <\/span>Then you had to go undressed through the hallway with bedrooms. <\/span>Once outside we were right outside the big windows of the dining room. <\/span>When I came outside, there were no spectators behind the dining room windows. <\/span>According to Eric or Tom, I had chased them all away. <\/span>Afterwards Dini had to be paid at the front desk. <\/span>I asked if children were free. As a result <\/span>I did not have to pay. <\/span>Fortunately someone who loves youth.
\n <\/span>Back at the campsite the entrance of the coffee teepee was open with the manager in the opening. <\/span>According to us, his wife summed him to lit the fire there and do not dare you to get back the first few hours. <\/span>Let’s see if there’s something to do out here.
\n <\/span>There were some sofas with reindeer skins around the fire. May be<\/span> 10-15 people. <\/span>T and E expected me to give a salsaworkshop there. I<\/span>ndeed I saw an interesting looking person, but she was so intensely occupied with her cellphone that I had little confidence in a positive response. <\/span>That’s why we left very quickly. <\/span>E and T invited me out for their dinner. Je ne refuse rien<\/span>, I tought myself in France. <\/span>And that’s what I am waiting for in my cabin .
\n  While<\/span> I wait in my cabin to be called for diner, a group of motor cycles arrives at the cabin next to mine with all sorts of persons with a southern European appearance. <\/span>I look up and look straight into the eyes of a tanned beauty. <\/span>Finally someone who greets. <\/span>I’m not used to that in Scandinavia. <\/span>Where do you come from ?, I ask. <\/span>Italy. <\/span>Going to Cape North? <\/span>Yes. <\/span>Before this superficial contact could grow into something beautiful, I was called by my fellow countrymen for diner. <\/span>My contribution consisted of the remains of Mikkels bread, a bunch of cheese and afterwards coffee and milk powder.
\n <\/span>We discussed about everything, including mountaineer Reinold Messner, Eric’s wanderings in Asia, who is cooking home and how often and why not etc. etc.
\n <\/span>When I brushed my teeth, the orgy in the coffee peetee was over (tent closed) and the light at my Italian neighbors was off. <\/span>I followed their example.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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