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Trail info

						2135-II/O ULLU- GAISSA
1834-I ALTA	1934-IV GARGIA	1934-I COKKA- RASSA	2034-IV SKOGAN- VARRI	2034-I HALKA- VARRI	2134-IV RASTI- GAISSA	2134-I/O VIDDAS- OAIVI
	1934-II SUOLU- VUOBME	1934-I IESJAVRI	2034-II STIIPAN- AVZI		2134-III VAL- JOKKA
		1933-I/ L SUOSS- JAVRI	2033-IV IES- JOKKA	2044-I KARAS- JOK

EASTERN PART - ONLY OPEN CLASS

		2235-I SMAL- FJORD
2135-II ULLU- GAISSA	2235-III SIRBMA	2235-II POLMAK	2335-III VAR- ANGER- BOTN
2134-I/O VIDDAS- OAIVI			2334-IV GUORRU- NJUNIS	2334-I BUGØY- FJORD
				2334-II NEIDEN	2434-III HØY- BUKT- MOEN	2434-II KIRKE- NES
				2333-I VAGGA- TEM	2433-IV SKOG- FOSS

About the trail and the maps

The present descriptions are made from a musher's point of view. To make the most of it, the reader should have the M-711/ Statkart maps at hand. These are the only maps covering this area that will be of use for navigating (if necessary). Most of the trail follows the snowmobile tracks on the huge plains, which the local councils mark using birch branches one to two meters high. In these areas the Finnmarksløpet will be marking only the places where one could go wrong. The Finnmarksløpet will, however, also leave marks to reassure that the musher indeed is on the right track. The parts of the trail where the regular snowmobile tracks meet will be particularly well marked.

Ready-made maps with the race trail marked, will be available at the Info-kiosk from Tuesday. The mushers must go there and draw/ correct the trail on their maps. At the drivers meeting further information about marking, difficult part etc will be given.

For long stretches our trail will follow the signs for winter road only ( =====), marked in blue on your maps. The names on the maps and the checkpoints are given in CAPITAL LETTERS in this description.

Staff snowmobiles will be driving between checkpoints a couple of hours before the first team, to make sure the marks are in place. In spit of thousands of kroner being spent every year to mark the race trail, it is not always possible to reach our ideal goal: Being able to go the entire route without a map in fair weather.

- Thus being a skilled navigator in rough terrain, experienced in the use of a map and a compass is an absolutely necessary condition for taking part in the Finnmarksløpet. It might be a matter of life or death for every single musher as well as to be able to take care of him/ herself and the dogs for some 3-4 days in a genuine blizzard, with gales the force of a hurricane.

A few Sami words recurring on all the maps are:

   gurra     = narrow valley/ glen