Winter in Lappland is starting very early. In the very up north everybody is fond of the most intensive and longest season in the year. The first snowflake touches the ground in end of October or begining of November. The sleddogs feel some days before that winter, their favorite season, is returning. Days become shorter and darker. On 21. Dezember, the shortes day, the crimson sun rises only for some houres. The temperatures are frosty: the thermometer falls sometimes below -35°C.