Hundköraren - Petter Karlsson

Kokos running in singel lead, crossing the finishline as champions!

Fantastic to see Kokos run in singel lead, for the third year in a row, over the finishline in Finnmarkslöpet.

This year she led the team to victory!

She new exactly were they were going. In the steep uphill  from
the Alta river, when Petter stopped running she jumped right up in the
air and barked to say, - come on lets go!

Petter is the winner of Finnmarkslöpet 2016!

Watch Petter reaching the finishline - NRK Petter Karlsson Winner of Finnmarkslöpet

Petter crosing the finishline in Alta

Kokos

Marit Beate Kasin, Petter Karlsson, Arnt-Ola Skjerve

Watch NRK tv reports

Petter surpriced the Norweigans by being the first to reach Kirkenes. Watch it here

The leading teams have reached Varangerbotn. Watch it here.

Petter run right through Sirbma and continued to Levajok. Whatch it here.

Watch the start of Finnmarkslöpet

See the start of Finnmarkslöpet 2016 live on  www.nrk.no at 11:00

Petter has bib #13 and will start out at 11:13

Follow the race on www.finnmarkslopet.no

and nrk.no/finnmarkslopet

You can also follow our team on Facebook:
 Team Petter Karlsson Sleddogs and on Instagram: @petterkarlssonsleddogs

Preparering before Finnmarkslöpet

Det har varit en lång dag med veterinärbesiktning, registrering och förberedande av depåsäckarna som ska skickas ut till checkpointerna. Petter har varit förkyld i över en vecka och har nu fått tillbaka febern. Han har försökt vila under dagen.

It has been a long day with vet check, registration and prepairing the depot bags. Petter has had a cold for over a week now, and today he got the fever back. He has been trying to rest a little today.

We are on the Way to Finnmarkslöpet!

Finally we are on the Way to Alta!

We had problems finding handlers that could follow, but finally Petters sister Anna said she would join Angela.

Follow the race on www.facebook.se/TeamPetterKarlssonSleddogs 

and
 instagram @petterkarlssonsleddogs

Handler for Finnmarkslöpet wanted!

We need a second handler to help at Finnmarkslöpet. Angela will follow to the race as a handler but we need one more person who has a drivinglicence and who would love the adventure and excitment to experience a race really close up.We know it's short notice but If you ore annyone you know would like to help please send us an e-mail to info@petterkarlsson.com We will leave Slussfors on the 1 of march. Another possibility would be to fly to Alta and arrive there no later than 3 of march. Of course we would pay for all the expences for the handler. We travel back home on the 13 of march.

And that's how it's done...

At the Finishline!

Petter passed the finishline with 8 dogs after 76h and 45 min. He came in as #11.

Under the circumstances that I had at the start I think I did very well, Petter says.

Now I know for sure that I have a good team.

Kokos is good! As usual she was the one taking us to the finish, many km in singel lead. She's super!

A great dog that has given me many good puppys.

Now it's time for some well deserved rest for both handlers, the dogs and Petter.

 

 

Femundlöpet running

Petter has left Tufsingdalen  after a mandatory 4 hour rest + the time difference from the starting order.

See the Current standing

You can also follow him on the gps tracking. He has bib # 20.

European Championshio in Longdistance - Femundlöpet 2016

Tomorrow at 11:00 you can watch the start of the European Championship in Longdistans, in Röros Norway. 

Petter will start out with bib # 20 at 11:20. See the start. Petter starts out at 0:24 in the clipp.

He will run Femundlöpet 600km with a 12 dog team.

Follow the race on femundlopet.no and on "Team Petter Karlsson Sleddogs" on Facebook.

Metsjöviddafjällrace

 

We would like to announce that the first edition of Metsjövidda Fjällrace is now history. In this unique long distance sled dog race the mushers and their huskies covered a distance of 265 km of beautiful mountain terrain. In the three checkpoints the teams were provided with straw and fresh water. A mandatory rest of 5 hours had to be taken in the halfway checkpoint where - after feeding and bedding down the 4-legged athletes - a hot elk-stew was served for the mushers.

Metsjövidda Fjällrace is an „inofficial“ sled dog race that is organized by Petter Karlsson and the participation is reserved for Bozita Robur Long Distance Team members and their supporters.

We would like to thank all involved people that made the event a huge success - we are already looking forward to the next edition!

Picture from left to right:

Nick - spectator, Malin Strid - manager team Cold-Nose-Huskies, Kokos - superstar in Petter Karlssons team, Bent - race marshall, checker, head of snowmobile crew, Petter Karlsson - musher, Rasmus Karlsson - spectator, Holly Baars - checkpoint manager, checker, vet assistant, Martin Gröger - musher, Dan Ditlefsen - musher, Lars Hoffmann - musher, Angela Karlsson - manager team Petter Karlsson Sleddogs, chef, checkpoint assistant, Jesper Karlsson - spectator, up and coming musher :)

An amazing feeling to see when Petter and his team crossed the finishline!

 Petter crossed the finishline in Alta as number 7!

  It took Petter and the dogs 6 days, 9 hours and 35 minuets to run 1100KM!!!!

 

Petter was the best forigen musher this year too.

Read articel about it

 

We all did our best and had a great time!

Neiden

Petter is now taking his 16 hour mandatory rest. He is enjoying à Good sleep in à cabin and the dogs are resting out on straw with blanketts over them.

Our tjeck friend Radek Havrda is running very we'll in FL-500, we are hoping for à medal.

Preparations for the race

Today we handed in our depobags with dogfood.

    Petter and Emil were out with the dogs for a 30km run.

We also attended the Musher meeting for 3h and the opening ceremony.

Finnmarkslöpet - World championship

We are now in Alta to participate in Finnmarkslöpet, the World Championship in Longdistance Sled dog racing.

The race is very challenging. They will start on on saturday with 14 dogs in the team. And the trail is more than 1000km!

Along the trail there are several checkpoints were the mushers can pick up dogfood from depos and rest their team on straw. There is also cold water provided, which they heat up in cookers to prepair the food for the dogs.

Follow us during the race on facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Petter-Karlsson-Sleddogs/

and on www.finnmarkslopet.no

Emil, Petter and Angela

Femundlöpet 2015 is now cancelled.

Due to the extreme weatherconditions the racecomitty has decided to stop the race.

There has been search paryts out looking for 4 junior musher and they have all been found in good condition. As well as the snowmobile driver that was stuck while he was trying to make a trail. He is also found and taken indoors.

All the mushers are told to return to Röros where they will have a meeting at 12:00.

They are on hold

All the mushers running F400 are put on hold 4 more hours on Tufsingdalen. Normally they have a mandatory rest of 4 hours there, plus the time equalization. Now they will all have a 10 hours rest plus the time equalization.

Petter has stopped together with several other mushers at Tynset, which is half way to Orkelbogen.
The mushers in lead Robert Sörlie and Ralph Johanessen are "camping" together in the storm about 6 km before Orkelbogen.

Johan has made it to Orkelbogen checkpoint with the truck, he had been driving around 30km/h at the most from Sövollen, but was so happy to reach the checkpoint and is now sleeping in the truck :)

Petter is half way to Orkelbogen

According to the GPS Petter is half way to Orkelbogen. The weather is extreme with snowstorm that makes it very hard to see the trail.

The race commity has decided to change the trail from Orkelbogen to Grimsbu becouse the trailmarkers have blown away and it's not possible to go there with the snowmobile.
http://www.femundlopet.no/nyheter/legger-om-lypa-ved-orkelbogen