Guides note
Happy New Year Adventure is a tour full of adventure and dogmushing and on New Year’s Eve you can choose to celebrate your evening together with Party people in Hemavan or you can spend it together with your friends in a cosy Swedish house in our village Umnäs.
On this tour we make daytrips from our village Umnäs or we take the car up to Norra Fjällnäs and mush to Tärna Lake lodge where we have our base camp. You spend all the nights in a cosy and warm Swedish house or a cosy and warm mountain lodge at Tärna Lake, both we warm up with wood. It’s also electricity, water and shower in the house in Umnäs. In the mountain lodge it’s no electricity and the water we collect in a fresh mountain stream. In the evening you can take a sauna and bucket shower or a bath in the snow…
On the daytrips you will see beautiful areas in our home mountains Gardmountain or Tärna Mountains.
On all our tours we follow our tracks in the biggest Naturereserve in Europe – Vindelmountain Naturereserve.

December/January is a beautiful month with normally a lot of Northern Light and the special Arctic light on a cold winter day is something you have to experience, we don’t have words for that. The temperature is around -10 to -35 C. Daylight from around 10.00 to 15.00. It’s always something special when the sun go down and we turn on our head torches, it is a lot of fun and an amazing feeling to mush in the stream of light and see all the millions of snow crystals blinking in different colours to you. If the Northern Light is playing in the same time it doesn’t get much better.

Arrival day
When you arrive in Lapland, Hemavan airport, you will go by car the last 80 km to Umnäs. The first thing we will do in Umnäs is to go and say hello to the dogs. After that we will have dinner at host home or something lighter like sandwich/lunch depending on what time you arrive. We also take a look on what gear and clothes you need to borrow from us. We talk about your days with the dogs and how to mush the sled.

Day 2 - 4
Daytrips from Umnäs or Tärna Lake lodge. During these amazing days you will see beautiful mountains, fairytale forests, deep valleys and big frozen lakes. You and the dogs in your team will learn to know each other and be friends and the silence and spectacular nature will give you a fantastic good brake in your daily life.
You will be a part of everything, this means that we all work together with the dogs like feeding in the morning and two times after we come back from a tour on the mountain, we also clean after the dogs, carry in wood and bring water from a little lake if we are in the mountain lodge. The guide will cook all the food for you and serve it every day. If we go in the mountain the dogs lay on straw and we put a jacket on them for the night.

New Years Eve and day 5
This evening you can choose to celebrate in the ski resort Hemavan together with “party” people from Sweden and Norway or stay in your nice and cosy Swedish house in our village and eat a very nice dinner and enjoy your evening together. On New Year’s Day you have a rest day; if you like you can join us in the dog yard for the daily care. Served dinner in your house.

Day 6-7
Now you have two more wonderful days together with the dogs and our beautiful nature in Lapland. Your guide decide if we are going on a two-days mountain tour with an overnight in Överstjuktan lodge or stay in Umnäs for daytrips depending on what you have done the days before New year.
The last evening we eat a three course dinner in our home and talk about our days together with us up here in Lapland.

Departure day
Breakfast in your house. Pack your bags and say goodbye to the dogs. We will eat lunch, write the guest book and mark the maps over your days in the wilderness (if you like).