Program

Saturday or Sunday

Arrival at Kuopio Airport and guided evening-transfer to Eräkeskus. Here your dinner is served in the lodge and you get to know your guide. Overnight in our guesthouse in rooms with private shower/toilet.

Sunday - Friday or Monday - Saturday

Individual winter week at Eräkeskus Wilderness Lodge. Overnights in our guesthouse in rooms with own shower/toilet, daily sauna, breakfast-buffet, soup-lunch and 3-course-dinner is included. Skis, snowshoes and icefishing-equipment is for free daily use. Following activities are planned for the week with one of our guides:

  • Huskytour for beginners: We show you our kennels and the different types of sleddogs. After a detailed driving instruction and theory, we harness the dogs together, attach them to the sled and start out for our first trip. You drive your own team with 4 – 5 dogs
  • 2 additional trips with sleddogs: driven distance is adjusted to your/the groups physical condition and capabilities, as well of course depends on temperatures and trail-conditions
  • Snowshoe-Tour incl. lunch on open fire in the nature resort of the Änäkäinen Lakes
  • 2 days are for your own, individual plans, of which one is normally Saturday (for Sunday-arrivals) or Sunday (for Saturday-arrivals). The other day off is in the middle of the week.

Saturday or Sunday

Breakfastbuffet and transfer to Kuopio Airport according to your booked flight

As always in this time of the year, our main-task is at the moment the training of the dogs. We started with the first teams from the old kennels on…

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