What are you doing so far north?
I'm organising the weblog - it's published for a global audience, who want to know what's happening up here, and how Greenpeace activists live and work. I've mostly worked as a web editor on ocean campaigns, so this quite different for me.

Have you been out in the woods before? What happened?
Not in these woods, no. But I've hiked or mountainbiked through forests around the world, and grew up in a rural woodland area in Ireland, surrounded by wildlife. I even did some logging when I was a kid - we only ever took what we needed though - we left the integrity and nature of the place intact. The scale of the forests around Inari is amazing, I have to say - but it's easy to see which bits are right for reindeer, and which areas are not.

What animal do you most resemble?
I have to say Otter - I always do. Mudslides, multiple beach homes, seafood meals. What's not to like?

What's the most important survival item?
Leatherman, books, ipod, sense of humour! Ok, so that's four...

Arctic Finland: Too cold, a bit cold, warm, or too damned warm?
Last week, I found it a little chilly. Now I find it quite normal. In Ireland there's a different kind of cold - it might not be freezing, but if the air is damp it sort of 'gets into your bones'. Up here it's just sharp, clean coldness, which is fine by me!