Kennel Snykovet

02/06/2025

Early morning rise and shine with 9-year old Chloe and 5-year old Freia today 🥱 to do an examination of their eyes including with Ernst-Otto Ropstad (Diplomate in ophthalmology, PhD, Authorized eye examiner) 🤞

Chloe because we were worried about her eyesight - and Freia because we are considering using her i breeding ♥️

The examination showed that all is well with both of them 🎉🎉 Always a big relief 🥹🥹 Chloe has some age-related eye changes but not impaired vision 👍👍And Freia is good to go if we decide to mate her 🤗

Photo 1+2 are taken by Ida-Helene .sleddog.life 🫶🫶

20/04/2025

Rune at the start of To***co Trail MD150 🇳🇴🙏

20/04/2025

Team Tuva har utlyst sommerens beste sommerjobb!

19/04/2025

Et lite knippe bilder fra To***co Trail forrige helg 🇸🇪

Vi hadde nydelig vær på løpet - kaldt og sol på første etappe - nullføre og overskyet på andre etappe. Og vi ble kjent med mange trivelige folk! En kjempefin tur og løpsopplevelse for både Rune, meg og hundene.

I vår klasse (150 km, 8-spann) var det 24 påmeldte kjørere fra 7 ulike nasjonaliteter. Kvinner og menn i alderen 22 til 69 år. Stor stas med 9 virkelig flotte RNB1 spann pluss et Samoyed spann!

Beste Siberian spann ble kjørt av Isabelle Travadon (62 år) med en snittfart på 16,5 og 17,2 km/t på de to etappene 💪💪 Vinneren av klassen, Lewis Barnard (23 år), holdt en snittfart på 18,2 og 17,6 km/t med sine Alaska huskies!

Rune kom på 18. plass på sitt første mellomdistanse løp med 12,1 og 10,9 km/t i snittfart på de to etappene.

I led hele løpet gikk unge Yukon - og det meste av løpet Chloe (kun avløst av Hilma en kort stund på natten). I point; Nahanni - og Lala. I team: Myra og Hilma. Og i wheel: Nova og Balder 💪

Tusen takk til arrangør, veterinærer, dommere, crew og alle vi har truffet og blitt kjent med for en utrolig flott helg på To***co Trail ♥️

Og tusen takk til Ida-Helene, Rune sin kunnskapsrike og utrolig dyktige mentor og støttespiller i trening og forberedelser til løp. Og ikke minst eier av Yukon, Nahanni og Myra 🫶

15/03/2025

FINNMARKSLØPET 2025

The fourth and last «couple» presenting our FL600 team 🇳🇴🇳🇴 is:

✨HILMA from Nellim Husky and DENALI Av Chi-Ka’s Siberians ✨

Five year old Hilma is imported from Finland 🇫🇮 from Matti Salmi and Jane Helppi / Nellim Husky. She is a beautiful, sweet, intelligent female. We love her efficient running / movements, her focus and work ethics. She is fast and energetic, with high endurance, and she has also proven herself to be a good lead dog who loves to take commands chasing speed.

Four year old Denali is bred by Anne-Lene Halvorsen .hal and she is owned and loved by Jørgen Kristoffer Larsen og Andrea Helen Løvvoll Luneng ♥️🫶 We will miss her so much when she moves back home again after the race 🥹 She is such a sweet and utterly charming girl - and a true champion in harness 🤩💃🙏 Such a joy to see her in action 🎉🥳👏👏👏

15/03/2025

FINNMARKSLØPET 2025

The third couple out presenting our FL600 team 🇳🇴🇳🇴 is the youngest and the oldest members of the team:

✨MYRA (will be 2 year old March 20) from and 9 year old GRÅBEINTUNETS CHLOE from .hansen.sh ✨

Lovely Myra came home with us from the Winter Gathering of the Norwegian Siberian Husky Club at last winter where Ida-Helene did a sprint race 2x13 km with a team of 4. Myra is a very energetic, beatiful and hard working young female 💪💪

Chloe came to us together with her sister Lala from Trond and Siv Hansen / Kennel Gråbeintunet autumn 2021. Both sisters have a long list of merits together with Trond’s sleddog team from sprint, middle distance and longdistance races including a gold medal from the WSA World Championship in Haidmühle (middle distance) 2019, Vildmarksrecet 120 km 2019, Hamar dog mushing festival 2019, and more. She is an essential part of Team Snykovet and was also part of our Finnmarksløpet team in 2022 ♥️

14/03/2025

FINNMARKSLØPET 2025 - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE OF THE YEAR ❄️

Ida-Helene, Siv and Rune were super busy all day yesterday with paper work, mandatory pre race vet check, registration, an amazing opening concert in the cathedral of Alta and the official banquet for the race presenting all the mushers 🇳🇴💃 And of course taking care of the dogs 😁🙏

Team Snykovet and Ida-Helene completed FL600 in 2022 in close collaboration with with four of his Alaskan huskies (Luna, Idun, Rafael og Lakris) and four of our Siberian huskies (Nova, Skádja, Lala, Chloe) ♥️

We are super excited and really looking forward to this years race - and cannot wait to get started 😄👍🤞🙏🫶 This time our team includes six of our own dogs and two dogs that we are super lucky to borrow from (Kepler, Alaskan husky) and (Denali, Siberian husky) 🫶

The second couple out presenting our FL600 team for 2025 🇳🇴🇳🇴 are the siblings after our NTCH Nova of Viddashusky and :

✨ NTCH Snykovet’s Nahanni and
✨ NTCH Snykovet’s Yukon

born August 19 2022

Nahanni is one out of six females in the team. She got her Norwegian Working Sleddog Champion title (NTCH) only 19 months old after having won 3 x 1 prize merits at Siberian Husky Sleddog test trials / sleddog races + an Excellent ribbon at a dog show. Nahanni showed great focus in lead from an early age and has developed into a good lead dog learning all the tricks in the book from Lala and Skádja. She is a beatiful, hardworking, fun, loving, batsh*t crazy girl.

NTCH Snykovet’s Yukon is one of two males in the team. He also got his Norwegian Working Sleddog Champion title (NTCH) only 19 months old after having won 3 x 1 prize merits at Siberian Husky Sleddog test trials / sleddog races + an Excellent ribbon at a dog show on his first try after turning 15 months old. Yukon is a sweet tempered, beautiful, strong male. And an important member of our racing team with good lead dog skills.

12/03/2025

FINNMARKSLØPET 2025 Ida-Helene .sleddog.life and Siv have arrived safely at their cabin in Alta with the dogs 🚘🚍 And Rune is just about to board his plane heading north 🛫 It is time to present our FL600 team 🇳🇴🇳🇴

The first happy couple out is:

✨Kepler from and our supernova NTCH Nova of Viddashusky ✨

And we can report that Renate and Ben’s wonderful Kepler has captured all the hearts of Team Snykovet ♥️ Especially Nova’s heart as she has a big soft spot for dark, strong, hard working, mysterious boys 🐕‍🦺🐾💯 Kepler also turns out to love show training as a warming up before the big day starting out on the race this coming Saturday! We are so happy that Kepler could replace Lala in the FL-team now that she is no longer up for such long races 🥹 A huge thanks to .i.nord and for trusting us with him ♥️

Nova did an amazing job completing FL600 in 2022 and has two of her offsprings in the team 🫶🙏 Kepler has previously completed both FL600 and FL1200 💪💪

22/02/2025

Knitting 🐾 - A VERY Special Edition for next weekend 😘😘

This LOCAL AND VERY POPULAR race is organized by two dedicated, hardworking ladies: Line / and Rita / 👍🙏♥️

A total of 23 teams and 80 dogs are entered for the competition 👀😁👍👍👍👍👍 From Team Snykovet, Rune will participate with a team of four both days (2x22,4 km) and Ida-Helene .sleddog.life will participate with a team of four the first day (22,4 km) 🤞🎉

30/01/2025

Nytt blog-innlegg med Ida-Helene sin oppsummering fra Beaskádas 11. januar! I morgen er TEAM SNYKOVET med Ida-Helene og besteste Siv (superhandler og supermentor) superklar for årets 2. løp: Bergebyløpet i Varanger!! Det er 26 påmeldte i distansen 240 km, 8-spannsklassen, så dette blir virkelig kanonspennende!!!! Go girl!!!!

Ida-Helene oppdaterer fra Beaskádas 11. januar 2025, åpen klasse 2x50 km (ca 106 km totalt), 8-spann: I spannet gikk NTCH Snykovet’s Yukon (...

15/11/2024

Far sin lille venn! Team Tuvas DU Hauke etter NTCH Team Tuvas Daisy og Fenrisulven Ull den ärorike fra Hundekjører Håvard Okstad / Team Tuva - Den fine storsjarmøren fra Tufsingdal har funnet seg veldig godt til rette her hos oss på Håkøya - og vi gleder oss til fortsettelsen!! For han er en skikkelig tøffing!

05/11/2024

The sixt dog out, presenting our team, is Gråbeintunet’s Lala, born Feb 21 2016.

Lala moved to us together with her sister Chloe from Trond and Siv Hansen / Kennel Gråbeintunet August 30 2021. Lala is a truely amazing sled dog with a long list of merits together with Trond’s Siberian husky team from sprint, middle distance and longdistance races including a gold medal from the WSA World Championship in Haidmühle 2019, Vildmarksrecet 2019, Hamar dog mushing festival 2019, and more.

She became one of our two main leaders during Finnmarksløpet and have completed all races with Ida-Helene .sleddog.life / Team Snykovet during her three years with us including Beaskádas 300, Bergebyløpet, Finnmarksløpet FL600, TromsQuest, Herringen Trail, Huskyløpet/NSHK Vintersamling, Aurora Trail and Pasvik Trail.

Lala is always super excited to get started and lets us all know! The singing sisters are famous for their high pitch opera duets at start!

She is a beautiful, sweet, hard working, focused always happy girl - completely irreplaceable in our team. And also an amazing and patient «auntie» to our puppy Vinnu. My dream was to have off springs after Lala but sadly the results from the ECVO eye scan and gonioscopy put a stop to our breeding plans. Such is life! Not all dreams come true. But she is still a dream dog and we are so greatful to have her in our life and in our team!