The 1st Raid 4 Arctic Ducks is taking place on 3.-10. February 2018. Our start point is Helsinki and turn around point is Nordkapp, the northernmost part of Europe. Between these points we’ll have a nice adventure through snowy, windy, and icy roads for 8 days, from Helsinki to Nordkapp and back to Finland.

We don’t know yet how many  Citroën 2CV’s actually can join the Raid, but we’re planning on having about half participants from Finland and the other half from other European countries. The official organiser of this Raid is Finnish 2CV Guild. Staff team is almost totally new, only the route planner is a well-known Henkka Castrén.

According to the weather statistics, the beginning of February is the coldest time of the year in Finland. In practise, the temperature may vary from –50° C to +5° C. The lowest temperature during the previous winter raids has been –44.2° in 1998 in Naruska. Actually we are waiting very much to have temperatures close the the previous temperature record.

The solar activity, producing the northern lights aka Aurora Borealis, has been very high now (see www.virmalised.ee ). The northern lights are produced by electrically charged particles from the sun crashing into the Earth’s magnetic field about 100 km above the Earth. During the northern lights, the sky shows multicolour and multi-dimensional cascades and, especially in the polar region, a crown of northern lights may cover the whole sky. We are expecting to see multiple magnificient northern lights during the our adventure.

The Raid 4 Arctic Ducks is planned to reach Nordkapp (northern latitude 71°10`21″) on February 6, 2018, the sun rises at 8.53 and the sun sets at 14.10. At noon, the sun is 3°5 above the horizon.