ABOUT US

The history

We met in 1983 when a group of polar dog owners in Troendelag (Mid-Norway) wished to establish a local chapter of Norsk Polarhundklubb. We were both central in the work establishing “Avdeling Troendelag” (Troendelag Chapter, which it was first called), and we were both elected as members of the first board. At the time Rita had 3 Greenland Dogs and Wiktor had one Samoyed Dog.

Wiktor’s eyes were opened to Greenland dogs, and when Rita’s Pingo had a litter in 1984, he choosed a bitch puppy (or more rightly – the puppy choosed him). When the puppy was old enough to be handed over he couldn’t afford to pay for it. He therefore had to mortgage himself and moved in with Rita who at the time rented an old farm (Lavollen) in Bymarka in Trondheim.

However both us dreamt about moving to Roros. And now living together and discovering this shared dream, the way to realisation was not long. The fact that Trondheim winters are nothing to boast about did not make the choice more difficult. Consequently we moved to Roros at autumn 1988 after first searching the whole area through for the best building site.

For Rita who was a nurse there was no problem getting work. For Wiktor on the other hand, it was worse. He worked as broker in a bank and at that time there were not many free jobs in the finance market in Norway, even not in a “metropolis” like Roros. So he had to commute between Trondheim and Roros for about six months before an opportunity opened itself in Roros in June 1989.

We immediately started to build a house, and on the 22^nd of October we could move into our new build house in Skjevdalen, 15 kilometres outside Roros. Here, at the gateway to Femundsmarka, we have a beautiful terrain for touring, both in the summers and the winters.

After a while (in addition to having a few litters of puppies) Geir was born in 1991, Trine in 1995 and Eirin in 1997.