My First Nordic Sauna Experience!

I had been wanting to check out Nordic Sauna Life for a while, and I finally had an opportunity. I understood the concept of it, but didn’t know all the details. I knew that you sit in a sauna until you really can’t stand it anymore, and then you go and get in the cold ass arctic water. It’s supposed to be refreshing. It’s supposed to be good for you. The IDEA of it sounded excellent to me. The execution was a whole nother matter. When you see its negative degrees weather outside, and you feel that water with your hand, you can’t imagine EVER being hot enough to get in it… But! I was like fuck it, YOLO! How cool would it be to have my very first experience be in the isfjord in the World’s Northernmost Town??

My homeboy Ilias invited me to join him, 4 guys, and 3 ladies. He told me to bring some shorts and a towel. We live on Svalbard so of course it’s cold. I bring my extra clothes in a drawstring bag I have and left to go meet them. Then I see the other people with bags too. We get to Svalbad Sauna, yes, B-A-D, and I begin to undress. There’s no changing room so it’s all of us together taking clothes off. I was a little slow I guess because as I was now putting on my swimming trunks I saw one of the ladies walk past me completely nude to head into the sauna. I thought to myself “What the hell?”. Then a guy walked past me nude as well. Is this what was happening? Well shit, you know I AM Robdoesitall, but I just wondered, if I was told to bring shorts… Why was everyone going in naked?!?

Did I get naked too? Check out the video below for the full story on my experience!