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Autumn Bushcraft and Fire Cooking in Sweden
- Sweden
- 3 nights
Hone your bushcraft skills as you learn how to thrive in the forest and forage for wild ingredients
What's Included?
- Maximum group size: 8Join small n’ sociable groups of like-minded, active and outdoorsy people – designed to be solo-friendly
From…excluding flights
Highlights
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
Itinerary
Day 1
Head into the wilderness
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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.
Day 2
Cook, forage, craft
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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.
Day 3
Carving, canoes and more cooking
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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.
Day 4
Hone your craft
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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.
Practical Stuff
Getting There
- Nearest airport
- Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)
- Pick up
- Västerås: either the train station or your hotel
10.00 on Day 1 - Drop off
- Västerås : either the train station or your hotel
17:00 on Day 4
What is and isn't Included?
What's included
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
What's not included
Where You'll Stay
Private room upgrades are not available on this trip due to the nature of the accommodation.
Wooden Shelters or Tents
What You'll Eat
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…
Ratings & Reviews
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Before You Travel
What to Pack
Know before you go! Some stuff we'll provide, other things you'll need to bring.
FAQs
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?
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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 are familiar with the practical information provided on the Government’s FCDO website, where current travel advice can be found by searching for the applicable destination(s).
For customers joining this trip from other international destinations – please also read the official travel advice applicable to your country of residence/origin, as this may differ.
What vaccinations do I need?
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How are the trips priced?
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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 are typically made up of a mixture of solo travellers 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. Check out our Community Values – a shared code to make sure that everyone's experience is safe, inclusive and brilliantly unforgettable.
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 programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity.
What's the number?
It works out on average at 58kg 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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