Tour

Today’s wilderness tour consisted of two young men from Switzerland and a young lady from England, they braved a mighty -24 to -30. It was well worth the walk as the views were breath taking. Taking a tour on a day like this is the best way to experience the real Arctic! Top Tips! When […]

Last Saturday I was lucky enough to have two wonderful clients from the United States for a 6hr tour. This tour is called the Aurora hunt, the idea of the tour is that we travel to many locations to try and find the Aurora. However, on this night the furthest we travelled was from the fire to […]

This was taken at 1330 today, its now actually quite rare to see the sun here, but we get a nice red glow from time to time. Now the snow mobiles also seem to be testing their luck on the river… which means Winter is nearly in full swing.

When surrounded by such vast amounts of forest you understand the elusiveness of the wildlife here in the Finnish Lapland. The forest and the winter combined create all kinds of mysteries here, yet all you need is some fresh snow and you start to understand that the wildlife surrounds you. Here are tracks from the Arctic […]

Finally the time has come to start testing the ice levels, after a cold week the river has completely frozen over. however don’t walk out on it until it is clear that its safe, a cold dip in -19 is never 100% inviting unless planned for.

Ice comes in many shapes and forms everywhere in Lapland but today I managed to peel it from a leaf. As winter comes in we start to see ice everywhere here. It can be beautiful and it can be quite brutal, the ice quite literally shapes the land in Lapland. If your ever lucky enough […]

A great day to walk through the forests to be met with this view. Its the perfect long stretch of sky to sit and wait for the night to bring the Revontulet to life. Revontulet is the Finnish word for Aurora and it literally means, ‘foxfire’.