In Arjeplog: Lappland: Sweden

Yesterday we scouted locations about 50 km northwest of Stockholm, and found a beautiful area with little snow and lots of trees and mud, perfect for the "off road" sequence w

e want to shoot there.

We then headed north to our current location in Arjeplog.  (to see a live webcam click here).

In total it took 8 hours for us to drive to the airport in Stockholm, check in, board, fly, land in Lycksele where a few people got off before we took off again flew for another 20 minutes

landed in Arvidsjaur, gathered our luggage, met 

our drivers and drove to our hotel.  We are in a rather remote area just about 10 miles south of the arctic circle.

Today at noon, the sun was just below the horizon.  It last set two weeks ago, and will 

not make it above the horizon for another two months.

Today we scouted

 our locations for tomorrow.  Nothing can go wrong, as we have less than four hours of dim daylight.  After our shoot, we will return to our

 hotel to change into dry clothes, re-pack our gear and make the trek back to the airport (over an hour away) to return to Stockholm. Our hope was to shoot snow here (of which we have plenty) and to not shoot snow in Stockholm, but the word is that it's been snowing since we left, so we may have to make a few adjustments to our plans once we see the conditions there. Still with all we have to do, given a very tight schedule - there are beautiful locations.

A few things we have learned over the past few days is that there are no Starbucks anywhere in Sweden, but there are many, many 7-11s.  It's an expensive country, especially in Stockholm.  Gas is about 1.50 per litre - which is just under $6.00/gallon.