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Your
guide will lead from wilderness lodge to wilderness lodge. All your
luggage are loaded onto a big dogsled so you can ski comfortably.
Daily distances are 22-33 km. Accommodation during the ski tour in
wilderness cabins, before and after the tour on Engholm's
Husky lodge. The various
and open Arctic tundra landscape is perfect for skiing. We will visit
a Sámi reindeer herder and his family at their winter quarters and
their herds.
Detail
program
Day
1:
Program start with dinner. The
guide will have the first briefing
regarding the tour.
We recommend
you to consider to stay some extra days for interesting activities as
lodge guest
before
the tour program.
Day
2: All equipment will be loaded on a big dogsled, which will be driven by
the guide. The sled is pulled by about 14 sled dogs. You will only be
carrying a light rucksack for thermos, lunch pack and extra pullover.
After a steep climb up we are passing over a hilly stretch, crossing
lakes, marshes to
Gardin
mountain cabin.
Day 3: We reach the tundra, a fascinating landscape where the view
is endless at all directions. Here the landscape is scanty and windswept.
In the evening we will arrive at Mollisjok
mountain cabin. It is a
"jewel" on the plateau.
Day 4: The tour
continues southwards on the river and we are passing two remote
settlements. The Sámi people that live here get their outcome mainly from
fishing. We finish the day by crossing a big lake and find Soussjavre
lmountain cabin at the other end of the lake.
Day 5: The area we are skiing through is a very important winter
pasture for reindeers. Sometimes it is possible to see large
reindeer-herds. After a long down hill to the Karasjok valley, we rich
Baeivasgiedde
smal wilderness cabin which is beautifully situated next to the
river.
Day
6: This day we will visit a Sámi reindeer herder and his family at
the winter pasture. We will join in a meal with him and the other
herders. Interesting day to get now how about the Sámi culture. A second
night will be spent at Baeivasgiedde.
Day 7: A long stretch along the river to Beskenjarg, the roads end. A
couch will bring you to the lodge. A
warm sauna is waiting for us at the lodge, and we end the tour gathered in
the warm atmosphere to have a farewell supper.
Day
8: The program end at breakfast.
We recommend you to consider to
stay some extra days for interesting activities as
lodge guest
before
the tour.
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