About us

Margareta is my name. I learned to love snow and skiing when I lived as a child in Boden in the north of Sweden and later in my life in Austria. My husband Wouter grew up in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He too loves the snow and the mountains. He can do some skiing, but is more familiar with speed skating on ice.

Before we went in for the breed we visited a dog show in Gothenburg. Here we met Jeppe!

He was in our eyes the most beautiful and the nicest dog in the whole show. It was love at first sight and we decided to take the next step.

Our first sammy was a girl, Nordvikens Galina. She came in July 1991.

We lived at that time in a big house on Kinnekulle in Västergötland. The nature was beautiful but we did not have much snow. So…, we decided to move to the north where we could expect real winters.

In summar 1996 we started a new life at Villaborg, which is an old house on the countryside in Jämtland.

I work as a doctor at the hospital in Östersund. Wouter takes care of the dogs and the house.

He is training the sams for the snow season and for some races. My job is more the breeding part and of course curing the dogs in case of illnesses.

Both Wouter and I have been active members of the Swedish Polar Dog Club. Wouter was the chairman under 5 years and I was a member of the board of the samoyed organization within the polar dog club. Since february 2006 I am a member of the breeding part of the samoyed organization.

Where do we live?

We live in an old house, called Villaborg, which was build 1884. We own some out houses and some land. We live quite near the river Indalsälven in a village called Kvitsle, appr.60 km. west of Östersund.

Thanks to a nice trail we can mush directly to the mountains and run as many miles as we like.

In autumn we use the smaller roads in the woods in our environment.

Villaborg in winter

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