Autumn in the Arctic

Autumn in the Arctic

A season of blazing trails, sensational sunsets and spectacular northern lights, with aurora weeks, guide experiences and dog-training camps.

Autumn is one of the most popular times for Finnish people to holiday in Lapland — and it is dog-training season. So alongside our standard day adventures and farm visits, we run aurora-chasing multi-activity weeks, husky-training camps and husky-guide training courses.

  • Spectacular ruska colours and active aurora season
  • Husky hiking, paddling, fat biking and hut-to-hut trips
  • Aurora multi-activity weeks (2-, 4- and 7-day options)
  • Behind-the-scenes 'day in the life of a husky guide'

Endless play potential

By September the summer mosquitoes have gone, the landscape is awash in colour and the play potential is endless: husky hiking, hut-to-hut backpacking, kayaking and canoeing, fat biking and northern-lights watching. Nights can already be sub-zero in September and mornings are crisp, sometimes with a layer of hoar frost.

Aurora chasing in autumn

Our week-long northern lights multi-activity packages run alongside our husky guide school, Lappish bushcraft courses and husky-training camps. We are flexible at this time of year: to maximise your chances of seeing the lights, we can run camps that start in the afternoons and end in the evenings, focusing on water, hiking, biking, huskies or a combination.

Husky-guide training

Autumn is our main dog-training season, when guides are with the dogs nearly every hour of the day, and would-be mushers are welcome to join our conditioning camps. We also run guide-training schemes from one day (a taster) to a year (gap-year placements).