We offer a new dog sledding expedition 2011.
Five participants, their guide and 45 huskies - pulling all the equipment and supplies – will be on a two weeks´ expedition to the northernmost point of Sweden travelling through the area North of Kiruna and the Dividal Nationalpark in Norway.
The sleds will be heavy, the tour will be challenging. Mainly we will be riding our sleds through an area of pure and unspoiled nature which is not developed for travellers. We are on our own!
More information about this long expedition you will find here.

The Norwegian Airline www.norwegian.no offers a direct flight from London to Tromsø for a rather fair price. The flights are going every Tuesday and Saturday.

If you book early you might get a flight for only Euro 130,--.

From Tromsø you reach Setermoen by bus, driving along the amazing coastline for about 3 hours.
We will pick you up at Setermoen bus station (30 minutes to the Huskyfarm).

… at the beginning of the summer was, as usual, a spectacular event. Both north and south of Lake Altevatn the Sámi gathered thousands of reindeer to mark the two month old calves with the earmark of the owner.

The Saarivuoma Sámi gather their herd closest to Innset and are very active around here this summer. The area North of Lake Altevatn was used by them as grazing ground for their reindeer in hundreds of years before a contract with the Norwegian government did not allow that any longer. They lost the area as grazing ground between Dividal National park and the rivers Barduelva and Målselva in 1972 because of that contract.
For the Sámi reindeer owners did that mean a lot of work for the next 30 years because they did not only loose ground but also natural borders like the two rivers. Because of the contract they only had artificial border lines which existed on the paper but were useless in connection with reindeer. The animals follow their instincts and that means that they are going west in the summer, no matter if there exists a contract or not. The Sámi had to drive and keep them back with great effort.
The contract ended in 2006 and since then the Saarivuoma Sámi are fighting to get their original grounds back. And they do have a good chance to succeed. They argue that with the end of the contract the old agreements from 1751 become effective again which means that the Saarivuoma will get this area back as grazing ground. It seems like the law is on their side.

Around all this there was a lot of activity and the Saarivuoma Sámi used the Huskyfarm as a kind of “base camp” while working in the mountains with their reindeer and, at the same time, organizing demonstrations to make their point of view understandable. In return they invited us and the people who at that time visited the Huskyfarm to participate in the marking of the reindeer.

A journey through Northern Norway means travelling through mystical and beautiful landscape. Half of the year, Nature hibernates under snow and fright air. Northern Lights flash rapidly across the dark sky and Nature rests in an interminable silence until the sun returns in spring, bringing everything back to live again.
For more than 25 years Bjørn Klauer has travelled throughout Northern Norway with his sleigh and dogs. With his camera he has captured the most inspiring moments and in this book shares those unique experiences with us.

More information and order…

…came a bit earlier than usual this year. On September 20th the temperatures dropped below zero and it snowed throughout the whole morning. It did not take long and the surrounding mountains became white under the snow cover.

We had to hurry to get things done before the frost took over: harvest the potatoes, take care of the garden and the garden furniture….

Well, the dogs were happy, knowing that the landscape changed in their favour and the long sled tours would be starting soon.