"Crystal days & Northern Light II" Dogsledding Adventure

Musher's Note

"Crystal days & Northern Light II" is similar to “Crystal days & Northern Light I”. This is a tour for you that like to have the comfort of a base camp. On this tour we make daytrips from our village Umnäs and you spend all the nights in a cosy and warm Swedish house that we warm up with wood. Its also electricity, water and shower in the house. In the evening you can take a sauna and a bath in the snow…

• On the daytrips you will see beautiful areas in our home mountains Gardmountain. December is a beautiful month with a lot of Northern Light and the special light a cold December day is something you have experience, we don’t have words for that.

Arrival

• When you arrive in Lapland, Storuman or Hemavan airport, you will go by car the last 100 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. 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.

Mushing day 1-4

• We harness the dogs in the dog yard; pack the sledges with lunch and the things you like to bring. Now we will have a lecture time in “how to drive” a team of dogs. After that it is time to pull the anchor, stand on the brake and GO FOR IT!
• Out on this daytrips you will start to feel comfortable on the sled and learn all the basic about dogs and dogsledding. We mush around 40-50 km/day and you will go through fairy tale forest, deep valleys, frozen lakes and high mountain plateaus.

Departure day

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

The Silent Way is a family company, run by us: Catrine and Kenneth, for thirteen years now. The area we use for our dogsledding tours are Europe’s biggest nature reserve – Vindelfjällens nature reserve, Padjelanta / Sarek National parks, Kebnekaise and the beautiful mountain areas of northern Sweden. On our longer tours in March and April we always cross the Arctic Circle. Come and enjoy our beautiful arctic travel in Lapland, Sweden.

Experience the Northern light, Mountains, Forests, Alaska huskies and white snow. Come closer to nature, the great expanses of wilderness. Our tours are high quality ecotourism dogsledding adventures; we go out with small groups 5-6 guests, where all our guests drive and handle their own team of dogs. All tours are guided and our guests get around 5-8 dogs in their team.

Why choose The Silent Way?

On our tours you’ll mush a team of our friendly Alaskan Huskies along beautiful wilderness trails.

We travel from lodge to lodge which means you will enjoy new scenery every day. Each evening you’ll enjoy a new cozy wilderness lodges with great Lapland meals. You’ll be accompanied by our expert guides who provide complete dogsled training, share stories and tales about the winter mushing, fishing, wildlife, northern lights, and more. Our sledges are handmade at ”The Silent Way” by Kenneth, your lead musher, who knows what is the best to use on our mountain tours. Our experience is beneficial on all our tours. Dogs at The Silent Way are very sociable and kind. They love to be patted almost as much as they like you to put on their harnesses and pull you wherever you wish on your dogsledding holiday... may that be challenging stormy weather... through cold winter days... while northern light dance for you... warm and beautiful sunny days when the mountain is kind. Small and large groups or customized individual tour...

On our dogsled safari we work with small groups, which mean more dogs for your team and more personal service. We offer complete free clothing and boots. You can be sure you’ll stay warm on your dogsled holiday. We’re the experts on cold weather comfort. All the nature you can imagine... dense forests... proud mountain birch... wide stretched mires... bare white mountains with deep valleys... pure clean lakes with trout’s and char and beautiful social dogs...