Briefly summarized • 15-year-old Emma Walseth is one of the juniors participating in the Finnmarksløpet, and can meet storms on the meadow. Food to be prepared for the storm • Three snowmobiles follow the juniors during the race to ensure their safety • If the weather gets too bad, the race may be held back or interrupted. ———————————— The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publishing. – I get a little stressed, but I’ve been trained by Dad about what to do if there is a storm, says Emma Walseth. Today, Friday, Finnmarksløpet’s longest class started out. Tomorrow, Saturday, there is the 600 mileage class and the junior class. The 15-year-old from Alta runs the junior class, which will be the longest race she has participated in so far. From the sidelines, dad Kristian Walseth follows. – We have looked at the weather forecast, and have talked here at home. Storms are not dangerous. You just don’t have to panic, says Walseth. Kristian Walseth is an experienced mountain man and dog handler. He has given her daughter good advice before going out in the storm. Photo: Hanne Wilhelms / news He has run Finnmarksløpet several times before. This time he is left on the starting line when his daughter goes out and testing himself and the dogs in the face of the forces of nature. Photo: Knut-Sverre Horn / Knut-Sverre Horn for forces can turn. -From quiet to storm in minutes, danger warning has been sent out in Northern Norway until Sunday. Polar low pressure with heavy wind and heavy rainfall will thunder over the coast in the north. The heat levels from February have been replaced with cold and snow. Much of this can hit far in Finnmarksvidda, according to meteorologist Marek Ratajczak at the weather forecast in Tromsø. – You may escape, but you may also go from windy to storm in minutes, he says. Meteorologist Marek Ratajczak asks people not to blindly rely on Yr but be prepared for the weather to change quickly. Photo: Tove Jensen / news The meteorologist says that the weather is extremely unpredictable and that the warnings at Yr can change from hour to hour. – You simply have to be prepared, says Ratajczak. The weather he talks about is exactly what can meet the 15 junior participants who drive from Alta to Šuoššjávri and back again. A distance of 20 miles. Many of them run Finnmarksløpet for the first time. That’s how it is for Emma. Emma Walseth has gone on what to do if it goes up to storms. Photo: Kristian Walseth / Kristian Walseth Walseth says that her daughter is a tough guy, but that they have nevertheless gone through the routines if the storm strikes in earnest. – She brings with her windbags and clothes to withstand it. I myself have been in storms for hours in a windbag, says Walseth. Three consequences Rita Hallvig is a long -time runner for Finnmarksløpet. She says that the security around the juniors is at the forefront. – Three snowmobiles follow the juniors. One is in front of the field, one back and one in the middle, says Hallvig. Rita Hallvig assures that the safety is at the forefront when the juniors are over the meadow. Photo: news But when it blows and snows properly, you can still lose track of overview and lose out of the track. – If it gets bad weather then we have to keep them back. Either in the track or at the checkpoint. Then it will be the same for everyone. At worst, you have to interrupt, she says. – Safety comes first, and we are as responsible and adults who have to think about the possible consequences, she says. Although she is excited, Emma Walseth feels safe. – Yes. There are people who follow us all the time. So I’m not afraid I will be gone and disappear forever, says the 15-year-old. Rita Hallvig knows that the weather can change quickly. Both for the better and for the worse. – If we had a penny for every time we check Yr we would have been sight, she says. Published 14.03.2025, at. 20.01
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