Snowshoeing Week in Finland

Facts of the trip

Location : Syöte National Park, Riisitunturi National Park, Posio, Lapland

Availability : On request 1.12.–31.3.

Dates : 15.–22.2., 22.2.–01.3., 1.–8.3.2025

Number of participants : Min 4 persons, max 16 persons

Equipment: Participants have their own winter hiking boots, windproof winter clothing, warm underwear, socks, and thermal layer according to the cold weather. Winter clothes can be rented. Please ask for the whole list of equipment for the tour.

Equipment included in the price: Snowshoes, sticks.

By additional cost: Winter clothing set 90 €/person/week. Winter clothing set includes winter jacket and trousers, mittens, hat, boots.

Supplements : Return transport from Kuusamo Airport, 129 €/car, single room in the cabin 210 €/person/week.

Tour level: Moderate. Participants are required to have good basic fitness.

Language : English.

Insurance : We require participants to have their own insurance for outdoor activities in Finland.

DAY 1 | PARIS / OULU

Finnair flights to Oulu. Arrival to Oulu Airport or bus/railway station, where your guide is waiting for you. Approximately two hours transport to Syöte. Meeting with the group and accommodation. Welcoming dinner, short briefing, equipment check, introduction of Syöte National Park, maps and a week program after dinner.

DAY 2 |

Tour begins from our log cabin after a complete Finnish breakfast with many local delicacies. Wonderful trail goes through the old spruce forests. Terrain is varied; route goes up and down in few square kilometers area. Lovely picnic lunch at the wooden shelter on the shore of a frozen lake Kellarilampi. Tour continues and we climb up to Romevaara fell top with great views to Syöte National Park! After few ups and downs we continue to Riihitupa day hut and have a snack. Snowshoeing trip at the wonderful big bog leads us back to our accommodation. Relaxing, sauna and dinner. (Day’s distance approximately 11 km in 7 hours.)

DAY 3 |

After the breakfast transport and an exhibition at the Syöte National Park Visitor Centre. After a guided exhibition it is time to start our hiking tour! Trail goes on wooded terrain. Teerivaara hill in Syöte national park gives us open views to lakes and forests. Behind snow covered candle trees we find our lunch place and enjoy it by the open fire.

After lunch we continue walking down through the snow-covered old spruce forest to Annintupa wilderness hut. Setting up the fire, short relaxing and hiking back to the Visitor Centre. Transport to accommodation, dinner, sauna and relaxation. (Hiking distance approximately 8 km in 7 hours including breaks) At the cabin we will have a peaceful moment, a short mindfulness style exercise with thewhole group.

DAY 4 |

Soon after a tasty breakfast we have a transport to North- East part of Syöte National Park. We walk in the primeval forest in Maaselkä eskers and head to a small frozen ponds, large ice covered bogs until we come to the highest point of the area, called Tunturivaara area. Lunch at the wilderness shelter in Vattukuru gorge. After lunch we follow the variable terrain back to car. Transport, dinner, sauna and good night sleep. (Hiking distance approximately 10km in 8 hours including breaks)

DAY 5 |

After a tasty breakfast 1,5 hours transport cultural part of our snowshoeing tour. On our way we visit the Pentik house – the northernmost ceramics factory in the world. Souvenirs and a coffee break in cafe. We climb to the Riisitunturi fell and try to observe the Northern Lights! At the top of the hill you can see the most idyllic winter scenery, and hopefully the Auroras too! After a visit on the top transport, sauna, dinner and good night sleep in cabin. (Hiking distance approximately 9 km in 5 hours including breaks).

 DAY 6 |

We start our day with an early breakfast and continue hiking. Day includes a wonderful visit to the Rytivaara Crown Forest Farm, built in the 19th century. Route goes on varied terrain, climbs up to the hills and comes down to the frozen bogs and ponds. Hiking back to the car, transport to the accommodation. Sauna and dinner. (Hiking distance on circular route, approximately 10 km in 6 hours including breaks).

 DAY 7 |

After a tasty breakfast approximately one hour transfer by car to Kaunislampi. Kaunislampi means a Beautiful Pond in Finnish. We hike around the pond, descend to the surface of the ice to the shelter. On the south side of the pond is a wooden cabin where we take a lunch break at the end of the trip. Short hiking, transport to accommodation and a fairwell dinner. (Hiking distance on circular route, approximately 8 km in 4 hours including breaks).

DAY 8 | OULU/ PARIS

Departure day. After a tasty and nutritious breakfast transfer by car to Oulu Airport or bus/railway station. Transport to Oulu, hotel, Airport, or bus/railway station.

Finnair flights to Paris.

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We reserve all the rights to change the order of the activities or the content of the program if necessary due to the weather or other conditions.