You'll be sleeping in shared open-faced wooden shelters which sleep 4/5 people each. The shelters are rustic but comfortable with warm sleeping bags and inflatable matresses. If you prefer a little more privacy, you can request your own Hilleberg tent for solos or pairs, for no extra charge.

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Wooden Shelters or Tents

You'll be sleeping in shared open-faced wooden shelters which sleep 4/5 people each. The shelters are rustic but comfortable with warm sleeping bags and inflatable matresses. If you prefer a little more privacy, you can request your own Hilleberg tent for solos or pairs, for no extra charge. 

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This trip is all about learning the skills to help you thrive in the wilderness. 

The pine forest at this time of year offers up a wide variety of mushrooms, juniper berries, lichens, heather and other plants. You will also taste and learn about wild ingredients that can be foraged during other seasons and preserved to be used all year long.
A few of the dishes you'll make are:
<ul>
<li>Fire-roasted whole trout with potatoes, Jåamoe cream and pesto of garlic mustard, wild onion, sorrel &#x26; nettles.</li>
<li>Slow-cooked lamb stew with foraged mushrooms. Cast-iron baked bread and smoked lichen butter.</li>
<li>Juniper marinated venison with smashed root vegetables, spiced caramelised wild apples with spruce salt and pickled spruce tips &#x26; young cones.</li>
<li>Thin sautéed slices of reindeer with smoked mashed potatoes and juniper sweet pickled lingonberries.</li>
<li>A taste of spring! Pears poached with plum blossom sugar, flambeed in rhubarb snaps and drizzled with birch syrup.</li>
</ul>
All soft drinks are included and alcoholic drinks can be pre-ordered in advance from your host.
Given the culinary nature of this trip in such a remote location, it can challenging to accommodate alternative dietary requirements. Please get in touch with your local host before booking to discuss.

funnel chanterelles

forest lake

Crafting

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forest moss

You can be picked up either from your hotel/Airbnb, or directly from Västerås Train Station at around 10:00 on Day 1 - the major hub of the area. Alternatively you can also be picked up at Söderbärke Train Station at 11:00.
At the end, you'll be dropped back in Västerås at around 17:00 either for your onward journey, or at your accommodation for the night.

You'll have an expert guide to teach you Bushcraft skills

Bushcraft Guide

Sleep in open-sided woodland shelters or in tents

Accommodation

Delicious fresh food cooked on an open fire

Meals

All camping equipment, plus materials for craft projects to bring home

Equipment

Pick-up and drop-off in Söderbärke or Västerås

Transfers

You'll have an expert guide to teach you Bushcraft skills


Sleep in open-sided woodland shelters or in tents

Delicious fresh food cooked on an open fire

All camping equipment, plus materials for craft projects to bring home

Pick-up and drop-off in Söderbärke or Västerås

You'll be picked up at either 10.00 in Västerås or 11.00 in Söderbärke and head to a beautiful deep pine forest in central Sweden. It’s located in a vast wooded region full of lakes, hills and mires. A short hike takes you to rustic wooden shelters by a pristine forest lake. Your bushcraft guide will be waiting with a pot full of warming stew, stacks and stacks of firewood and all kinds of tools and natural materials for crafting projects.
Each day from your base in the forest you chose the projects which you enjoy the most, and it's very flexible to both your personal and the group’s preferences.

fire pot

Head into the wilderness

Day 1

Over the next few days you’ll cook, craft, build, forage and explore together. Learn how to build fires for cooking, use embers for baking and make setups for smoking foods. The group will build a nice solid prep table learning rope lashing techniques that you can use to build almost anything. When darkness falls you'll use different techniques with bigger logs to keep comfy all night long.
Each day there are options for hikes to see what you can find in the forest: October is an abundant time for mushroom and berries. Some wild ingredients are used in cooking delicious dishes, others you will be taught the uses and applications for.

farro rod

Cook, forage, craft

Day 2

If you chose, you can spend a lot of time around the fire working on craft projects to bring home. It’s completely up to you how long you wish to spend and the level of difficulty. Your bushcraft guide will assist every step of the way. Some of the options include:
<ul>
<li>Carving a handle for a knife out of birch wood, treating it with pine oil and attaching a great quality blade</li>
<li>Making a handle for your farro rod out of reindeer antlers and a lanyard</li>
<li>Producing pine tar from fatwood and use to make birch bark cups.</li>
</ul>
There also are a couple of canoes for excursions on the water or peaceful angling for perch. The forest and lake is also full of wildlife and you may spot moose, roe deer, foxes, hares, badgers and birds like herons and cranes.

Carving, canoes and more cooking

Day 3

There is time for one last hike, and to finish of your carving before getting packed up and ensuring you leave no trace. Fill your rucksack with crafts and head back out of the forest with a whole array of new bushcrafting skills you can take with you onto your next adventure.

bushcraft projects

Hone your craft

Day 4

You'll be picked up at either 10.00 in Västerås or 11.00 in Söderbärke and head to a beautiful deep pine forest in central Sweden. It’s located in a vast wooded region full of lakes, hills and mires. A short hike takes you to rustic wooden shelters by a pristine forest lake. Your bushcraft guide will be waiting with a pot full of warming stew, stacks and stacks of firewood and all kinds of tools and natural materials for crafting projects.

Each day from your base in the forest you chose the projects which you enjoy the most, and it's very flexible to both your personal and the group’s preferences.  

Over the next few days you’ll cook, craft, build, forage and explore together. Learn how to build fires for cooking, use embers for baking and make setups for smoking foods. The group will build a nice solid prep table learning rope lashing techniques that you can use to build almost anything. When darkness falls you'll use different techniques with bigger logs to keep comfy all night long.

Each day there are options for hikes to see what you can find in the forest: October is an abundant time for mushroom and berries. Some wild ingredients are used in cooking delicious dishes, others you will be taught the uses and applications for. 







If you chose, you can spend a lot of time around the fire working on craft projects to bring home. It’s completely up to you how long you wish to spend and the level of difficulty. Your bushcraft guide will assist every step of the way. Some of the options include:
- Carving a handle for a knife out of birch wood, treating it with pine oil and attaching a great quality blade
- Making a handle for your farro rod out of reindeer antlers and a lanyard
- Producing pine tar from fatwood and use to make birch bark cups.

There also are a couple of canoes for excursions on the water or peaceful angling for perch. The forest and lake is also full of wildlife and you may spot moose, roe deer, foxes, hares, badgers and birds like herons and cranes. 


There is time for one last hike, and to finish of your carving before getting packed up and ensuring you leave no trace. Fill your rucksack with crafts and head back out of the forest with a whole array of new bushcrafting skills you can take with you onto your next adventure. 

Hone your bushcraft skills as you learn how to thrive in the forest and forage for wild ingredients

Autumn Bushcraft and Fire Cooking in Sweden

Discover Nature's larder as you learn all about the flora, forage for mushrooms and berries, or fish for perch

Learn how to build a fire to keep you warm all night, cook gourmet meals on an open flame, or carve beautiful tools from wood

Get into a hunter gatherer state of mind as you relax in total isolation in a beautiful pine forest accessible only by foot or canoe

Discover Nature's larder as you learn all about the flora, forage for mushrooms and berries, or fish for perch



Learn how to build a fire to keep you warm all night, cook gourmet meals on an open flame, or carve beautiful tools from wood

Get into a hunter gatherer state of mind as you relax in total isolation in a beautiful pine forest accessible only by foot or canoe

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