Aurora Borealis Husky Week

This eight day husky week takes you to Swedish Lapland, where cold, wind and changing trails set the pace. The focus is a five day dog sled tour with your own team of four to five dogs and plenty of responsibility for care, handling and safety. After an introduction, you travel for several days from camp to camp through forests, across bogs, lakes and open fields, with overnight stays in wilderness cabins without electricity or water, or in a tent. You travel in an exclusive small group with a maximum of three guests, the atmosphere is family run, yet active participation is required every day. With a bit of luck you may see sun halos, or at night the Aurora Borealis.

Aurora Borealis Husky Week, The Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival in Glommersträsk and Start of Included Services
The included services begin with dinner. You will be picked up in Arvidsjaur or Jörn and taken to the guesthouse in Glommersträsk. During the shared meal, you will get to know the group, discuss the schedule for the coming days, and arrive in the calm of Lapland.

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Day 2: Introduction, Equipment, and First Run
After breakfast, you will receive the loan clothing for the next days and get to know the dogs at the kennel. This is followed by an introduction to sledding and handling the team, before you work together to let the dogs out, harness and unharness them, and get your team ready to go. On the first tour you will travel around 20 kilometres, then you will take care of the dogs, take a short break, and prepare equipment and the packing system for the following days. Over dinner, impressions are put into context, questions are clarified, and technique and safety are further refined.

Days 3 to 6: Multi Day Tour Through Forests, Lakes, and Open Areas
After breakfast for dogs and people, the group packs the sleds with food and equipment and sets off for four intensive days outdoors. The route leads through forests, across swamps, lakes, and open fields, with overnight stays in wilderness cabins without electricity and water or in a tent. Depending on the temperatures, a large heated group tent is used, or you share a tent between two people. The stages, depending on weather and trail conditions, range between 25 and 60 kilometers, and the work is part of it: feeding and caring for the dogs, collecting or chopping firewood, fetching water or melting snow, preparing meals, and washing up. Along the way there is time for conversations about dogs, mushing, and life outdoors. On Day 6 you return home, a hot shower is possible after the dogs have been taken care of, in the evening there is a sauna and hot tub, as well as a shared meal in the grill kota.



Day 7, Free Day in the Winter Wonderland
The day is intentionally kept free so that the dogs can relax after the tour and you can set your own pace. A snowshoe hike to the kennel with time spent with the dogs is possible, or, depending on your interests, further winter activities in the area such as snowmobiling or drifting on ice in Arvidsjaur.

Day 8, Farewell and End of Tour Services
After breakfast, the tour services end. It is time to say goodbye to the dogs and the winter base before you begin the return transfer towards Arvidsjaur or Jörn.

Accommodation:
You stay a total of four nights in the guesthouse in Glommersträsk, a few minutes from the kennel. During the multi day tour you spend three nights outside, either in wilderness cabins without electricity and without running water, or in tents. Depending on temperatures, a large heated group tent is used, or you share a tent with one other person. Breakfast ingredients are provided in the guesthouse so guests can help themselves. Lunch depends on the programme: at the kennel, in the kota, on the way after arrival at the cabin or tent, or as a sandwich to take along. Dinner is served in the guesthouse when you are not out on tour, and in the kota on the sauna evening. After the return there is a hot shower available; a sauna and hot tub evening takes place right next to the dogs.

Special features:
This trip requires good physical fitness, initiative and a willingness to actively help out under simple conditions. Trail and weather may make it necessary to run alongside and push the sled. Standing on the sled for several hours is also demanding. All tasks are done as a team, from daily dog care to collecting or chopping firewood, fetching water or melting snow, cooking and washing up. Prior experience with sled dogs is not required, but consistent preparation of your personal kit for very cold temperatures is essential. The schedule may change due to weather and route conditions, in the small group adjustments to preferences are generally possible.
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