Mushing Dividalen - 1 week

Dates

Dates

Sesong

2025 is fully booked (last week of April on request)

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For a full week of mushing program , see availability on "Musher's life at the husky farm"

LENGTH

Durée

Varighet

8 days, 7 nights (Sunday to Sunday, from Bardufoss airport)

Description

Description

Beskrivelse

Travel trough Øvre Dividal and Rohkunborri national parks and their surrounding wilderness areas

At the heart of the arctic, this is one of the biggest and last wilderness area in Europe, which extends over the Swedish and Finnish borders. We follow the rhythm of nature, adjusting our schedule to the weather, daylight and snow conditions, packing the camp in the morning and traveling between 20 to 100 km a day by dogsled.

Group size : 5 participants

Departure point : Bardufoss (or Tromsø, then by bus)

Accommodation : mountain huts, cabins and tents

Landscapes : pine and birch forests, barren mountains, valleys, frozen lakes and rivers, high plateaus of the nordic calotte, mountain pastures and toundra

Your own dogteam

Each of us have his own team of 4 to 6 dogs, and a sled loaded with what's needed for traveling autonomous trough the mountains. We spend the nights in remote mountain huts, tents or in reindeer herder cabins, and hopefully get to enjoy the northern lights.

Vast frozen lakes

The landscapes are varied : big frozen lakes, birch covered valleys, mountain passes and vast open plateaus. This is the home of reindeer, fox, ptarmigan, hare, lynx, wolverine, lemming, moose and brown bear - but usually we only see their tracks. It feels more like traveling trough a snow-covered desert!

Sami reindeer herders

The area is experienced as a untouched and raw wilderness, but it has been the seasonal home of Sami reindeer herders trough centuries. We will meet reindeers on our trail, and partly follow the old migration routes used between seasonal grassing areas.

Remoteness and flexibility

The mountains remoteness and potentially challenging weather conditions demand a flexible tour schedule, and good physical shape of the participants. The tour will be adjusted to weather conditions at a daily basis!

Dogs & humans

On this tour the close cooperation between human and dog is particularly important! You will have your own dog team for which you are responsible during the tour. This includes learning to harness, feed and handle the dogs.

Program

D 1 : arrival at Bardufoss airport, pick-up and 30min. drive to our husky-farm. Welcoming diner, meeting with the dogs, night at our log-house.

D 2 : training day. After breakfast we meet and feed the dogs together, before going for a training run on the trails around the farm. In the afternoon we go trough the trip and the equipment, plan and prepare for an early start next day.

D 3 : after breakfast we load the dogs and equipment on the car, and drive 1 hour to the starting point for our trip into Dividalen. Here we pack all the food and equipment needed for spending the next days in the mountains. It's about 35km travel trough the mountains to the first cabin/camp where we spend the night.

D 4 - 7 : exploring the area by dogsled. Depending on weather and snow conditions we stay at cabins visit like Rostadalen, Vouma and Gaskas. Each day we travel between 25 km and 60 km ( 4 – 6 hours) trough these beautiful landscapes. We have lunch on the trail and spend nights in mountain huts or eventually in a tent camp. In the afternoon of day 7 we return to civilization on the husky farm for a warm shower and sauna, and a farewell dinner.

D 8 : return home after breakfast.

Recommended

Inclus

Inkludert / Anbefalt

All our activities require a moderate level of fitness : it will be needed to kick and help the dogs in the uphills, and break with all your weight in the downhills.

In wilderness cabins, we sleep in mixed room with both gentlemen and women. The cabins have wood stoves and no electricity nor running water. If we sleep in tents, we use a gas stove and sleep in warm winter sleeping bags. Dry toilets are available at the cabins, but at the tent-camp we dig a toilet in the snow.

No former dogsledding experience is required, but you must appreciate animals, and feel compassion for them!

Included

  • Transport to & from Bardufoss airport / bus station
  • Accommodation & full board
  • Experienced guide and safety equipment
  • Your own sled and dog-team of 4-6 dogs

Recommended

  • Check "packing list" section
  • A duffel bag, please no suit-case
  • Minimum age: please contact us if you bring a child under 18 years. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Price

Tarif

Pris

2025 > 3000 € all included, booking confirmed after payment of 20% booking fee, the total 2 months prior departure.

For more informations : mail@offtrackexperience.com / +33 (0) 663 895 800 (WhatsApp)

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Mushing Dividalen - 1 week

Travel trough Øvre Dividal and Rohkunborri national parks and their surrounding wilderness areas

At the heart of the arctic, this is one of the biggest and last wilderness area in Europe, which extends over the Swedish and Finnish borders. We follow the rhythm of nature, adjusting our schedule to the weather, daylight and snow conditions, packing the camp in the morning and traveling between 20 to 100 km a day by dogsled.

Group size : 5 participants

Departure point : Bardufoss (or Tromsø, then by bus)

Accommodation : mountain huts, cabins and tents

Landscapes : pine and birch forests, barren mountains, valleys, frozen lakes and rivers, high plateaus of the nordic calotte, mountain pastures and toundra

Your own dogteam

Each of us have his own team of 4 to 6 dogs, and a sled loaded with what's needed for traveling autonomous trough the mountains. We spend the nights in remote mountain huts, tents or in reindeer herder cabins, and hopefully get to enjoy the northern lights.

Vast frozen lakes

The landscapes are varied : big frozen lakes, birch covered valleys, mountain passes and vast open plateaus. This is the home of reindeer, fox, ptarmigan, hare, lynx, wolverine, lemming, moose and brown bear - but usually we only see their tracks. It feels more like traveling trough a snow-covered desert!

Sami reindeer herders

The area is experienced as a untouched and raw wilderness, but it has been the seasonal home of Sami reindeer herders trough centuries. We will meet reindeers on our trail, and partly follow the old migration routes used between seasonal grassing areas.

Remoteness and flexibility

The mountains remoteness and potentially challenging weather conditions demand a flexible tour schedule, and good physical shape of the participants. The tour will be adjusted to weather conditions at a daily basis!

Dogs & humans

On this tour the close cooperation between human and dog is particularly important! You will have your own dog team for which you are responsible during the tour. This includes learning to harness, feed and handle the dogs.

Program

D 1 : arrival at Bardufoss airport, pick-up and 30min. drive to our husky-farm. Welcoming diner, meeting with the dogs, night at our log-house.

D 2 : training day. After breakfast we meet and feed the dogs together, before going for a training run on the trails around the farm. In the afternoon we go trough the trip and the equipment, plan and prepare for an early start next day.

D 3 : after breakfast we load the dogs and equipment on the car, and drive 1 hour to the starting point for our trip into Dividalen. Here we pack all the food and equipment needed for spending the next days in the mountains. It's about 35km travel trough the mountains to the first cabin/camp where we spend the night.

D 4 - 7 : exploring the area by dogsled. Depending on weather and snow conditions we stay at cabins visit like Rostadalen, Vouma and Gaskas. Each day we travel between 25 km and 60 km ( 4 – 6 hours) trough these beautiful landscapes. We have lunch on the trail and spend nights in mountain huts or eventually in a tent camp. In the afternoon of day 7 we return to civilization on the husky farm for a warm shower and sauna, and a farewell dinner.

D 8 : return home after breakfast.

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