Private Tour
Arctic Night – A Survival Workshop
Overview
Available languages
21 hours
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Once-in-a-lifetime experience. Adventurous though safe day and night in the Arctic wilderness, under the stars and possible Northern Lights. Building a quinzee and sleeping in snow, rather comfortably.
Additional Info
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Cancellation Policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
What To Expect
After meeting the clients, the guide will take them to suitable premises for a theory workshop about Arctic nature and Arctic survival skills and, introducing both the traditional and contemporary techniques. Survival instructor will introduce the relevant gear, such as sleeping bags and mats, clothing items, give insight information about various materials and their suitability for challenging environment. Also clothing items for the extreme cold and various stove systems will get discussed. Going out. Weather conditions allowing the survival instructor will present how to build a quinzee. It's a traditional snow shelter, made by hollowing out a pile of settled snow, a well-proven method of surviving the Arctic night. Clients are expected to participate to build their own quinzee. It will take a couple of hours for a group. Group gets prepared for the night-stay in the quinzee. The guide will monitor the night. In case of emergency or if the clients requests so, he/she can be relocated into a warm back up building closeby. At the wake up some warm drinks and a nutritious morning snack will be served. The adventure will end as the guide will walk the clients back to civilization.
What‘s Included
Guiding and storytelling
Meal, snacks and warm drinks
A quinzee building presentation and instructions
Information about the regional flora and fauna, focusing on winter
A theory lesson, introduction to Arctic nature and Arctic survival
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Arctic Night – A Survival Workshop
Reviews
2 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
We’ll worth giving up a days skiing for.
Smandox,,Jan 19, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We are just back from our overnight Wilderness Survival Adventure and I’m still buzzing. We were met inside the Hotel Pyhatunturi at the Bliss meeting point by our guide who started off by giving us a classroom session which covered the topics of clothing and keeping safe. Our highly experienced and knowledgeable guide Sampo has years of wilderness survival experience both military and civilian to draw upon to teach us about the subject. Next we got dressed up and kitted out with everything we would need for our adventure. This included skis, sleds, and backpacks (torch, thermos, berry juice, hot water, wool socks, warm mittens, toilet roll, hand gel) and for us the optional Arctic suit and boots. We skied out with our sleds to the national park passing through beautiful snow covered countryside, learning about how the different trees grow and develop and the best tree limbs to use for carving cups. The site has several huts (one is a toilet), lovely views and is very peaceful. This is where we covered the considerations and construction of a Quinzee, fire lighting and various carving skills. We had a traditional dinner cooked on the fire and plenty of juice and coffee. We chatted round the fire until we were ready for bed. We set up our sleeping arrangements in the Quinzee and settled down for a comfortable nights sleep. In the morning we woke up warm and toasty in our sleeping bags, got dressed and started a fire. Breakfast was lovely and hot and a local Jay bird paid us a visit, flitting from place to place showing off it’s peachy coloured feathers. Finally it was time to return. We passed back through the peaceful woods spotting hare tracks and absorbing the ambiance. For me at least, being in natural snowy terrain just feels so right. We dropped off all of our kit and bid Sampo farewell, but not before discussing the possibility of longer trips in the future. It was well worth giving up a days skiing for and my wife, who had been a little sceptical about doing the trip, like me thoroughly enjoyed the experience. We will leave Pyha, and Finland with some very special memories.
Adventurous and wonderful arctic activity.
887tines,,Dec 20, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00It was a wonderful experience! We walked into the forest with snow shoes while pulling a sled around the waist. Because of the low snowfall, we couldn't build a quinzee, but we made another outside sleeping place. After learning some more survival skills and tips from our lovely guide Sampo, we slept well (and warm) even though it was -20 °C! The food on the fire in the evening and morning was also lovely.
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