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Arctic Wilderness Experience in Finland
- Finland
- 3 nights
Explore snow-blanketed forest and learn winter survival skills in magical Finnish Lapland
What's Included?
Small Like-minded Groups
Solo-friendly by design, join our small n’ sociable groups of up to 12 like-minded, active and outdoorsy people
From …
excluding flights
What's it like?
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Highlights
Clip on wilderness skis for a journey through icy taiga forest and learn how to survive during an Arctic winter
Keep lookout for the aurora borealis deep within the Arctic Circle and warm up in a traditional Finnish sauna
Bunk down in a cosy Lapland cabin in the woods and build your own snow shelter for a night out in the wilds
Itinerary
Day 1
The adventure begins
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Head into the Finnish wilderness and settle into a cabin in the woods where your guide will lay out the plan for the next few days. After a welcome dinner with your fellow adventurers, your guide will tell you about the skills and gear that have kept the native people, as well as modern-day explorers, alive in sub-zero temperatures. If the conditions are good you can wrap up warm and head outside the cabin to peer out at the aurora borealis.
Day 2
Ski hike to your overnight wilderness camp
Skiing5-6hrs · 6mi · 361ft up · 361ft downSnow ShelterTwin or triple shareAll meals includedShow Day 2 detailHide detail
This morning you'll clip into your skis as your guide shows you how to move through the soft snow. Journey through the fresh powder to Pyhä-Luosto National Park, taking turns to pull the pulka sledge with the essential provisions for a night in the frozen wilderness. Set about building your quinzee and learn how to make a fire in cold and snowy conditions before tucking into traditional Finnish wilderness supper. Relax around the fire and wait for the northern lights to appear before crawling into a warm sleeping bag inside your snowy den.
Day 3
Journey back to the cabin
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Wake up in the most surreal place imaginable, warm up over a campfire breakfast and set off on the journey back to the forest cabin. Tracing a different route today you'll push through the snow marvelling at the winter wonderland around you, learning about the ecology and history of the taiga forest's inhabitants. The ultimate prize awaits after your time in the Arctic wilds: a traditional Finnish sauna, with an optional dip into a hole cut into a frozen lake! Tuck into a Finnish home-cooked dinner before crawling into a well earned and cosy bed.
Day 4
Time to go home
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After a final breakfast in your cabin, catch the Skibus back to the airport in time for your flight home.
Getting There
- Nearest airport
- Rovaniemi Airport (RVN)
- Pick up
- Last Skibus stop in Pyhä
No later than 20:15 on Day 1 - Drop off
- Skibus stop in Pyhä
Any time on Day 4
What is and isn't Included?
What's included
Expert, English-speaking wilderness guides
2 nights in a Lapland cabin, 1 in a quinzee
Delicious and filling Finnish meals
To and from the airport and everything in-between
All the skiing and survival equipment you will need
What's not included
You know your own spending habits best, so please budget an appropriate amount for things like optional meals and drinks, shopping, optional activities, and laundry.
Where You'll Stay
Private room upgrades are not available on this trip due to the nature of the accommodation.
Pyhä
Quinzee
What You'll Eat
Finnish food is delicious, blending traditional and modern continental cuisine. Breakfasts are buffet style with a range of local and continental options. Lunch and dinner dishes commonly include fish, pork, beef or reindeer, but also involve lots of…
Optional Extras
Upgrades
For solo travellers looking for their own space, an optional private room in the Lapland cabin can be booked for an extra charge, see Optional Extras for the price. Please request this at the time of booking (this is subject to availability).
To request any extras, message your host via your Much Better Adventures account once you have booked your trip.
All extras must be paid before your trip starts.
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FAQs
What's the skiing like?
The skis you'll be clipping on to move through the powder snow are called Altai skis. They are a cross between a traditional long backcountry ski and a snowshoe, giving you the best of both worlds. A wide, short, agile ski makes it easy to travel across thick snowfields. No previous skiing experience is required for gliding across the puffy snowfields. Exploring the Arctic forest in this way is easy and completely manageable for all beginners. Expect the odd tumble in the snow - all part of the fun!
Can I leave my excess luggage somewhere?
Any excess luggage you bring with you can be safely left in your cabin while you are out adventuring.
What do I do about drinking water?
The tap water at the cabins and at your host's base during meal times is perfectly safe to drink. Be sure to bring along a reusable water bottle to take with you on the skiing adventures. Your host will ensure the group has enough water on the overnight wilderness section of the trip, and part of the survival skills will be how to melt snow safely to make drinking water.
Can I book on my own?
Sure can! Over 70% of our travellers travel solo, it’s a great way to meet like-minded people.
Who is running the trip?
Our team of Adventure Hunters co-create exclusive adventures which are run by highly vetted, specialist hosts. The trip is run by our trusted host partner in the destination. We only work with independent, local, in-destination experts who know the very best places to explore and how to stay safe. Read more information about the local teams we partner with. You’ll be introduced to the host straight after making a booking via the Much Better Adventures platform.
What is the official travel advice?
Much Better Adventures refer to the UK Government’s official travel advice when designing trips and monitoring trip operations. We recommend that all customers review the practical information available on the UK Government’s FCDO website, where you can find up-to-date advice by searching for your destination(s).
If you are based in the United States, you can also check the latest travel advisories from the U.S. Department of State.
For customers joining from other international locations, we recommend checking the official travel advice issued by your country of residence, as guidance may vary.
What vaccinations do I need?
We recommend checking out the country-specific information and also talking to a travel nurse.
How are the trips priced?
We automatically convert prices from the local currency that a host receives to your chosen currency. We update our exchange rates daily, so prices displayed on the site are subject to currency fluctuations, which is why you may see them change over time.
If you wish to change the currency you pay in, head to the bottom of the page.
Why are your adventures only for adults?
All of our group adventures are specially designed for adults to enjoy as we want these adventures to bring together outdoorsy people who are truly like-minded. You must be over 18 to join one of our trips.
Who else will be on my trip?
You're always in good company on one of our adventures.
Our trips typically consist of a mix of solo travelers and small groups of 2 or 3 friends, with most in their 30s-50s.
Our sociable adventures are solo-friendly by design and naturally attract outdoorsy people with a shared mindset; a love for adventure, a desire to push themselves, and meet awesome, like-minded people along the way.
It’s this camaraderie that has so often turned a great adventure into a life-changing one.
Don't just take our word for it:
- 95% of people rate the group dynamics on our trips 5/5
- 90% of people recommend joining a trip to make new friends
- 75% of people have met people on our trips that they would now consider friends
See here for more info about the Much Better Adventures tribe.
What's the carbon footprint for this trip?
We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre program, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity.
What's the number?
It works out on average at 52kg of CO2 emissions per person, including all local transport, accommodation, food, activities, guides, staff and office operations.
The only thing it doesn’t include right now is flights and travel to the destination. We do make an overall estimate across all our customers separately, but as we don’t book flights, have customers from all corners of the world, and no way of reliably knowing their travel plans, we simply can’t include an individual number in the figure on display here. We’ve got a goal to fix that, so that when you book, there is a way to measure and mitigate the carbon emitted by your flight too.
But what does the number mean?
Yep, hard to picture eh? To give you an idea:
- Driving 1000 miles/1609km would be approximately 281kg of CO2 in an average car (or 140.5kg per person, if there were two of you in it).
- A return economy class flight between London and New York would be approximately 1619kg (1.66 tonnes) per person.
- 10 trees in a temperate forest are estimated to remove approximately 250kg of CO2 from the air in a period of 5-10 years.
What are we doing about it?
Our trips are relatively low-carbon by design, and we're working with all our hosts to develop long term carbon reduction plans. We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity, ensuring the protection of the reserve and its wildlife.
Want to know more?
Amazingly, no international travel company has ever publicly published their carbon measurements before, as far as we know. We believe that must change, quickly. So we’re openly sharing the method we used in the hope that other companies will be able to more easily follow suit and build on what we've done so far. You'll find it all here.
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