Guides note
This is one of the longest tours of the season; it is a small expedition tour that means that you will face all weather and condition that the nature will give. During the tour all of us have to help with everything, take care of our teams together, bring water, cleaning after the dogs, feed them and so on. The guide cooks all the meals during the tour.
We start in Umnäs and go to the North of Sweden and mush all the way through the Swedish mountain range to the north of Lapland. The tour is around 450 km. Exceptional it is that you will get to know your team and yourself more than on any other tour, which will leave you with a sense of wisdom and belonging you can cherish for life. We will discover incredible openness, mountains views and nature. On this tour we cross the Arctic Circle on our way through the mountain world. We also do 3 days in Padjelanta National park and 2 days in Vindelmountain Naturereserve.
This is for you who really would like to do something special for yourself together with a team of dogs!

In the end of March/beginning of April we have daylight the whole day and evening and the sun warm up during the day. The temperature is around 0 – 20 minus C in the day and a little colder during the night. But in April the weather is a little bit funny, it can change a lot from hour to hour during the day. The tracks are often very good and the snow is normal settled and hard.

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 the tour and how to mush the sled and dogs we also have a practice time with the sled and the pulling lines. The first night you will sleep in a nice Swedish home near your host and the dog yard.

Day 2
Your first day out with the dogs. We meet in the dog yard after breakfast and pack our sleds with the last stuff, like your bags. We let all the dogs loose in the dog yard and harness them up. We pull our anchors and leave Umnäs for a 50 km tour to Överstjuktan lodge. We go up and over a forest plateau, crossing three lakes and climb up over a mountain and down to our lodge for the night. The lodge in Överstjuktan is a cosy mountain lodge and have 10 beds. We even have electricity from a nearby church. We bring fresh water from the lake. We feed the dogs when we arrive and in the evening. Dinner and overnight at this lodge.

Day 3
The first morning out on tour. This day is not so long, 35 km to the Sami village Ammarnäs. So we can take it nice and easy this morning. We wake up and eat breakfast, pack our stuff and feed the dogs and do poppy work before we harness up and leave. Today we go out on the big lake Juktan and climb up and over the mountain down to Ammarnäs. Here we stay at a nice guest house with dinner and breakfast in the restaurant. You can take a sauna and shower before dinner.

Day 4
Today we have 52 km to our next destination Bäverholmen. After breakfast we start to harness up the dogs and clean after us. We go out from Ammarnäs on the Vindelriver and follow that on the side before we start a big climb up on the mountain, we stay on the mountain today going down to a big mountain plateau for 30 km before the long downhill to Bäverholmen. Here we can have a shower and sauna before or after dinner. We sleep in lodges. Here we also have electricity.

Day 5
Today we go to Laislodge, 45 km from Bäverholmen. We do most of the day on the beautiful Laisriver with amazing mountain views. We travel further in to the mountains and you will feel it. Here we bring the water from Laisriver, no electricity.

Day 6
45 km to the next stop at Guijaure lodge. After breakfast we have our routines settled now and we work more as a team. We start out from Laislodge along the river, after some kilometres we climb and climb... Today we get very close to the Norwegian border and after the climbing we stay in a mountain valley with mountains all around us. The lodge lies beside Guijaure Lake. This day we have to see if we get water from a river nearby or if we collect it from the lake. The lodge lies in an open area in a new mountain valley and maybe we have to make wind shelters for the dogs.

Day 7
Depoe day. Today we mush out on Guijaure lake all the way up to Pieskejaure lake, 65 km today. After 30 km through the mountain valley with views to Norway we come to the Silver road that goes in between Norway and Sweden. Here we will meet a car with food for us and the dogs for the rest of the tour. We keep on going with new loaded sleds for 35 km up to Pieskejaure lodge along the Norwegian border. This day we have to go up early if we like to have a sauna at the lodge.

Day 8
In to Padjelanta National park. This is an early morning so we have time to our next lodge, Staloluokta. It is 40 km today but a lot of climbing in to the park. We go up to a very narrow mountain pass before we see one of the big plateaus in Padjelanta. Padjelanta National park is a universal heritage and the big plateaus are one of the reasons for this. At Staloluokta lodge we have a beautiful Sami church in wood and sod. Here we also have the most amazing view over west Padjelanta. Here we stay for two nights so the dogs and we can have a rest day.

Day 9
Rest day. But of course we feed the dogs three times, clean after them, make lunch and dinner and collect water from the little river beside the lodge.

Day 10
This day we go 45 km through Padjelanta and along the border to Sarek National park. Today we will see more of the big open areas and plateaus of Padjelanta. The nature here is really special and beautiful. In the end of the day we leave the park and go down to Sommarluoppa lodge for our last night out on tour.

Day 11
Today we go out on the river Tarrajåkka to do the last 40 km down to Kvikkjokk. We follow the river along the mountain Tarrakaise.
In Kvikkjokk we have a nice shower before our final dinner together for celebrating the tour. Now you have the knowledge of a small expedition tour in our beautiful mountains, you will know your team very well and the dogs will know you. Overnight at Kvikkjokk mountain station.

Departure day
Today we eat breakfast in Kvikkjokk and say good bye to your team and the rest of the dogs. You go by car or bus to the nearest airport Arvidsjaur, Gällivare or Luleå.