Melting some snow on the Primus to heat water for my sachet of porridge for breakfast. We also filled up our thermos flasks with drinking water for the day.


And making sure the dogs get plenty of calories as well to fuel a hard day of mushing.


After packing up camp Tor gave a briefing for today.


Today's plan was to head initially east and then south-east for a total of 22 kilometres.


My six dogs with the two girls to the right and the four boys in the back. Note the gap between the two sexes to prevent any night time puppy-making!


We then put the harnesses back on the dogs and attached them back to the sled ganglines. I was beginning to get a knack of it now, knowing which harness went on which dog and how to correctly attach them to the main gangline via the tuglines (at the rear of the harness) and necklines (at the front of the harness).

All suited up and ready to go!