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Counting Reindeer and bullying Hugo!

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Hey beloved readers,   Fra is back here to tell you more about our biology courses! Today I’m here to tell you everything about some good Arctic environmental management fieldwork counting reindeers, reindeer poop and digging snow pits. With the coming of the light season, me, Mascha and Hugo finally got to go on our first snow scooter fieldwork! Light season doesn’t always equal good weather though, and obviously, we got all the bad weather we could wish for! The day before the fieldwork there was a very strong snowstorm which meant that I almost got lost on the way home which I’ve been doing twice a day for the past 8 months and which also meant that the day after, avalanche risk was quite high.  This meant that we couldn’t go to Colesdalen, where we would have counted our beloved reindeers! The professors decided to take us to Adventdalen instead, where we dug snow pits and counted reindeer poop as it was too foggy to count reindeers.   Us three got   (Of course) the stee