Surviving BLIZZARD 4 Days STRANDED in Extreme Arctic Town. HEAVY SNOWSTORM Winter Van Life Camping

Into the abyss we go. area of Sennalande and Alta. And now I'm heading north again. I'm gonna go to Havøysund because winter is arriving out by the ocean and that is spectacular. Havøysund is a very remote fishing village. It's kind of similar to the North Cape but it's out on a different road basically. A little bit further to the west. So this should be a fun drive. There's a lot of snow in the road actually and it's coming down quite heavily. A lot of snow tracking here and we got long ways to go up this mountain and it's getting really dark. Okay, another climb here. This should be the last one if I can get up. It's quite steep. Into the abyss we go. Look at this. It's just a black hole in front of us here. The arctic ocean. Pretty heavy wind coming in from the north. Looks like I'm nearly in Havøysund and it definitely looks like the smart thing to do is to find a shelter place down in the village to camp. Looks like it's gonna be super harsh tonight and tomorrow with the blizzard as usual. But look at this. All right, we should have been able to see Havøysund in front of us here on the other side of a little fjord. But there's a whiteout so not seeing much. Maybe a few lights on the other side. It's visible now. Well, no point in looking for a view in this weather. This is Havøysund. I'm gonna go to the emptying station here and see if I can empty my toilet. Here goes the ferry into somewhere. Turned into a winter wonderland out here as well. Really awesome. Well, stopped snowing for a little while. Back and forth now. This would have been an awesome spot, but there's a storm coming in and this is way too exposed. So definitely not gonna stay up here by the cemetery in Havøysund. So I'm gonna turn around and head down into the center of town. Yeah, so the storm is gonna come straight from out there. That's gonna be extremely uncomfortable. And for now it looks like 24 meters a second winds, which is a storm. And it usually gets stronger than on the forecast. So down into the center of town we go. This is so steep. Don't want to slide into a private home here. So I'm right in the heart of the little village of Havøysund on the northern tip of Norway, Arctic Norway. And we're stuck out here because there's gonna be a snowstorm for three days or something like that. And the roads are closed. So here we are again stuck in the Arctic. Gonna just stay up here and ride it out. Found a comfortable parking right next to a store here. And there's a lot of vans stored here. I think from the locals they have RVs rather or motorhomes stored here in this parking lot. So we're staying here close to the ocean but kind of sheltered from the storm. I think it's gonna be very comfortable here and it's gonna be pretty spectacular. Would love to see the sights out here but that's not gonna happen. My new friends from Adventure Van Life parked right next to me. They're gonna be joining me out here for a couple of more days. And it's snowing like crazy. I think we're getting the main force of the snow for the winter coming down over the coming week now. It is February the 13th or 14th. I haven't checked the calendar yet. And there's a lot of snow. Second cup of coffee for today. It's around 10 or 9 30 ish. And I'm just doing some work. And for that I need plenty of coffee. pretty harsh here right now. So I'm just gonna head down into the harbor and do a little bit stuff I need out here. So it's a good place. It's fun to be this far north. Last summer I camped up here by the windmills. I think you can still drive up there. But it's not gonna be good with a heavy van. It's a steep steep hill to get up. And with these storms going on up there. I think we just stay away from that place now. Look at the beautiful color of the It's gonna be a complete whiteout up there pretty soon. I think it's coming in this way as well. Look up here. Oh this hurts in the face. Well Canadians. Circle K everywhere. So the story about that is all the stat oil gas stations that we had in Norway. That was kind of owned by our major like state-owned oil company. They were bought by Circle X. Back inside getting some breakfast. Somebody's having problems with their little bikes. It's really taking off now. Didn't expect that. This weather is picking up. Kind of back and forth a lot. Comes in gusts basically. But the roads are closed. And better just hunker down and enjoy it. It's a safe and beautiful place to be Like the latest season of True Detective. Just the weather here is more fierce. Well it's the third day here. And roads are still closed. So we're stuck. But it's not uncomfortable in any way. It's just started snowing a lot. So today I'm gonna move and find a better place that is a little less shelter. Because the wind has come down quite a lot. So I think I can go up on a mountain. Which is what I really want to. And camp there. Get some views through all this snow that's coming down. There's a lot of snow on the forecast. So it gets really thick. But I'm gonna see if I can find a way. And if the road opens I'm gonna try to leave here tomorrow. And get to some other cool places before the next round of weather comes. This is also considered weather. But it's just a lot of heavy snowfall. I think that can be managed from anywhere. As long as you're close to somewhere where you can get out on a plowed road. Let's see what we're doing. I need to change my propane bottle first I think. It's not quite empty. But tomorrow is Sunday and there's no way of changing road under the bridge. And see if there's a back road up into the cemetery. Just to have a couple of options basically. Pretty cool out here. The arctic ocean. I'm basically gonna check out if this back road is a better way to come down off the cemetery parking lot. So just gonna walk up and have a quick look. Yeah this is great. This road is completely safe to come down off. In an emergency you can steer into the ditch here. So that's what I'll do. I'll come up here and park. It's got much more wild feeling to it. And down in the center of town. So far so good. next 48 hours actually. So this is what we got on the sunroof. It's gonna fill up. It's a good amount of snow coming down. Which is cool. I have this idea for dinner. Something I haven't made in a long while. And for that I'm gonna need to make my chili mayo. Which is something I learned from my sister. First I need a new trash bag in my little trash bin here. So I don't have a lot of storage for trash. So this tiny bin here fills up quite fast. Which is okay. So I don't travel around with a lot of trash really. Let's go with the chili mayo. I use sriracha and basically any mayo. This is like light mayo. So less calories. So the weather forecast is changing a little bit. It's gonna get more windy again. But I think I'll be fine here. I'm parked into the wind now. It's kind of one of these things up in the arctic that you cannot really plan. Because the weather forecast will do weird stuff. But as you get closer it'll get more and more accurate. So on the day of the weather it's usually very accurate. With the app that I'm using. It's a Norwegian weather app called yr.no. Or the app is called yr. It's yr. You can use it anywhere in the world. I use it in the United States as well and it works perfectly. That gets very detailed and very accurate as you get close to the weather. So time for the chili sauce. The sriracha. So I'm gonna make this a little bit strong. I think. And then just mix it in there. That's a pretty good batch here. That's some good stuff. It's a good balance. Cheers my friends. We're gonna get straight to dinner. And I'm gonna make my kind of... I don't know what I'll call it. It's like my tortilla burger. My tortilla burger fantasy. Something like that. It includes a lot of different stuff. Like french fries, burgers, tortillas and stuff like this. Jalapeno, salads and chili mayo of course. So let's get to it. Let's get a little bit of french fries first. Don't need much of that. Just a little bit salt. I'm only gonna need one burger for this I think. Split it in half before cooking. All right. It's time to try this. One, two, three. And then it goes on here for a little bit. All right. Let's try out this beautiful stuff here. Absolutely perfect. Exactly how it needed to be. That chili mayo really has a bite to it. Look at the lovely landscape outside here. Cheers my friends. It's only four o'clock. Or nearly four o'clock. So it's getting dark now. And there's gonna be a lot of snow coming in. It is also Saturday night.