silent way

description:  All the nature you can imagine... dense forests... proud mountain birch... wide stretched mires... bare white mountains with deep valleys... pure clean lakes with trout’s and char and beautiful social dogs...

On our tours you’ll mush a team of our friendly Huskies along beautiful wilderness trails. We travel from lodge to lodge which means you will enjoy new scenery every day. Each evening you’ll enjoy a new cosy wilderness lodges with great Lapland meals. You’ll be accompanied by our expert guides who provide complete dogsled training, share stories and tales about the winter mushing, fishing, wildlife, northern lights, and more. Our sledges are hand made at ”The Silent Way” by Kenneth, your leadmusher, who knows what is the best to use on our mountain tours. Our experience is beneficial on any tours. Dogs at The Silent Way are very sociable and kind. They love to be patted almost as much as they like you to put on their harness and pull you wherever you wish... may that be challenging stormy weather... through cold winter days... while northern light dance for you... warm and beautiful sunny days when the mountain is kind.

Small and large groups or customised individual tour... If you like we tailor to suit your requirements. On our mountains tours we work with small groups, that means more dogs for your team and more personal service. We offer complete free clothing and boots. You can be sure you’ll stay warm. We’re the experts on cold weather comfort.

As a guest you will enjoy the expert help of our professional guides who will take care of you in every possible way. You will be in charge of your own team of 5-8 dogs.

The tour leader will manage a team of 8 to 12 dogs and carry most of the food and equipment. Your personal belongings, some dog food and equipment will be in your own sledge. We travel between 30 to 55 kilometers each day.

The day begins around 7.30 when we feed the dogs. After that we will have a nice breakfast. Around 10.00 are the sledges packed and it is time to embark the tracks. After about 15 - 30 kilometres we will find a suitable place to stop, where we and the dogs have a nice lunch and rest. After lunch we proceed again for another couple of hours until we reach the lodge where we will stay for the night. The dogs get their reward after our dinner and the evening is rounded off with a warm drink and a sandwich before snuggling into our sleeping bags.

During the day you can enjoy the vast expanses of this gorgeous landscape. We travel very quietly and if we are lucky we can spot mountain birds, eagles and animals such as reindeer and elk which are common and, of all Sweden's wild creatures, these are the ones you're most likely to spot. The shyer creatures such as lynx, wolverine, bears and wolves we often see tracks from in the region we travel. 

The terrain we travel through varies immensely. From dense forests and mountain birch covering the ground to open highlands with breathtaking views and deep valleys with lakes, full of white untouched snow. The light, the colours, the smell of nature and the silent are something you have to experience because this can not be explained by words alone.

lodging: The first and last day you stay in our village Umnäs and sleep in a nice small hotel or in a lodge. On our mountain tours we will be sleeping in warm and cozy lodges / cottages, some of which will have electricity and showers. All mountain lodges are comfortable, nice and warm with beds and wood stove. All the lodges have an outside lavatory. On tour we sleep in group rooms, 2-8 in each room.

The meals are home made Swedish food. You can expect all meals to taste exceptionally good. We can guarantee you will not be hungry on our tours.

Breakfast and dinner are prepared in lodges whilst lunch normally are held outdoors, and the fact that we are using dogsleds means that we can take a little extra with us to make our trip even more comfortable. We will collect water from nearby fresh mountain streams by chopping or drilling a hole in the ice.

• Breakfast
  On tour: Porridge, blueberry soup, bread, butter, jams, cheeses, sausages, muesli, juices, milk, coffee and tee
  Additional in village: herring, assorted cereals, ham, eggs, and others upon request.
  
  
• Lunch
  On tour: All lunches are warm such as souvas (smoked fried reindeer meat) with bread, soups with bread, assorted pasta and sauces, sausages
  Additional in village: omelets, game stews, hamburgers, etc.
  
  
• Dinner
  On Tour: Meat soup with bread, game stew with rice and vegetables, marinated elgmeat with rice and vegetables, pasta with vegetables and sauces, pasta with grind meat and sauces, chicken stew with rice, and other local game specialties.
  Additional in village: Game steaks, fish such as trout, char, salmon, etc.
  
  
• Drinks:
  On Tour: Fruit syrups, tea & coffee, juices, red and white wine, fresh mountain water.
  Additional in village: The hotel has a pub, and servers all kind of beverages in the restaurant.

As you will be outdoors every day it is important to have the right clothing and footwear with you. If you do not own anything suitable you are most welcome to borrow the right equipment from us. You are also welcome to borrow a warm and comfortable sleeping bag.

The Silent Way uses only the best equipment available and provides our clients with the warmest, most durable and technically adapted clothing for winter in the mountains. We provide our clients with most of the “outer layers” of clothing; you need to bring the “inner layers”. If you have your own equipment or outer clothing that you would like to use, please bring it along and we will evaluate together which items are more appropriate to use.

contact details: please contact for further details:

The Silent Way 
Catte Anderback & Kenneth Gjemmestad
Umnäs 48, 92397 Slussfors, Sweden
Tel +46 95152043 or +46 102580049
Email: info@silent-way.com

We have tried to include as much information as possible on our web site for your convenience. However, talking to us is always the best way.

We usually also keep a "chat" going on between me and the interested participants prior to a decision to participate and prior to the arrival of a tour. It is important for us that you get the most relevant information and I always enjoy to talk fellow adventures.

Look forward to hear from you.

Kind Regards,

Kenneth Gjemmestad
Musher & Tour Leader
kenneth@silent-way.com

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