Swedish Army Training (igloo building)

9/3/10: 1100 hours- We reported to Arvidsjaur Army Base; location of the Swedish Armed Forces: Unit for Cold Weather Operations. Major Tony Gustafsson greeted us with a message; follow his instructions or die.

9/3/10: 1300 hours- We received our equipment and headed North to our super secret igloo building location.

We got our guns later.

9/3/10: 1315 hours- We were given shovels and a simple instruction: Make big piles of snow (Sir yes sir). Two hours later we had quite a big pile.

Thats one big pile of snow.

10/3/10: 0800 hours- We assembled for the march back to our piles of snow (Quincys) and carved them out.

Digging the igloo out.

10/3/10: 1600 hours- We were finished and had a beautiful igloo.

Other groups did a dodgy job on their igloos so that they had time to dig a highly complex series of snow tunnels. 7 entrances; all interconnected.

10/3/10: 1630 hours- Dinner time: REINDEER KEBABS around the fire.

10/3/10: 2000 hours- Back to the igloo for a dance party and bed. It was a balmy 4 degrees in our igloo.

Built in speakers- Genius!

Team Aust!

Chillin' with our music

11/3/10: 0800 hours- Packed up and ready to head home. Mission accomplished.

As usual you can find more photos here:

http://gallery.me.com/perkinsgroup#100280