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Come and spend a long dog-filled weekend with us in Autumn or Spring, when the pressure is off and it is time to simply train and play. Your motivation might be to work with the dogs in a more hands-on way than is possible on the multiday tours, or it could be personal skill acquisition and the chance to gain real insight into the 'behind the scenes' aspect of life with sled-dogs.
- A long dog-filled weekend, tailor-made to your interests
- Personal mentor plus access to a range of guides
- Quad training, sleigh training and one-on-one dog work
- A seasonal evening activity — hiking, canoeing or aurora-watching
Tailored to you
We tailor-make these weekends to suit you, sending the modular syllabi from our guide-training course ahead of time so you can tell us what interests you most. You'll be assigned a personal mentor to guide you step-by-step, plus access to a range of guides who'll share their particular skills and interests. Most clients choose to help with the daily seasonal chores around the dog-yard, but that's up to you. For most 3-day clients, the majority of the day is spent quad training, sleigh training or working one-on-one with favourite dogs.
Evenings and what you'll learn
One evening we will offer a seasonally-appropriate 'after work' activity — either hiking or canoeing or northern-lights-watching. There are a number of 'hidden trails' around Hetta which are fun to explore and a favourite option with the guides is a BBQ at the top of the Jyppärävärä hill. By the end of three days, you will have learned how to feed every area of our farm and will have a level of self-confidence completing the basic tasks, and you will definitely have developed some favourites amongst the dogs.
