Most groups have their summer pastures further north and winter pastures further to the south. They move camp on sledges drawn by reindeer. Men usually ride one sledge drawn by five reindeer, directing the animals with a long wooden pole called a khorei. Women and children drive long trains of six or seven sledges called an argysh with several reindeer in front of every sledge in the argysh.
The southern Yamal Nenets, with whom visitors through this website will usually stay, have the biggest herds (up to 10,000) and longest migration routes (up to 2,000km) of all Nenets. In summer they are located in the far north of the Yamal Peninsula whereas in winter they are not even on the Peninsula itself but to the south east, across the Gulf of Ob in Nadym Region.