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Swedish Winter Bushcraft Trip at a Glance
Who it’s for: Experienced UK campers and bushcraft enthusiasts ready to develop practical winter camping skills in a subarctic environment
Experience level: Previous year-round UK camping experience required; this is not suitable as a first wild camping trip
Location: Ängesträsk, near Niemisel and north of Luleå, Norrbotten, Swedish Lapland
Dates: 1–6 February 2027
Duration: Six days and five nights
Price: £1,225 per person
Maximum group size: Eight participants, supported by the Borealis instructor and guide team
Accommodation: Shared stove-heated canvas tents, with four participants and one guide in each tent
Food included: Yes; fully catered from lunch on the first day to breakfast on the final day
Main activities: Winter bushcraft, stove-heated tent living, snowshoe travel, firelighting, winter water collection, axe and saw use, camp cooking and cold-weather journeying
Equipment provided: Specialist group and winter equipment is provided; participants receive a full personal kit list after booking
Sleeping equipment: A sleeping bag with a comfort rating of at least −20°C is required; suitable sleeping bags and mothership jackets are available to hire
Fitness required: You do not need to be an athlete, but you must be comfortable walking on snowshoes and participating in camp tasks in sub-zero conditions
Travel: Flights and transport to the meeting point are not included; the team can help coordinate onward travel and shared taxis from Luleå
Expedition leaders: Jamie Dakota, Adam Logan, Hannah Kinnunen-Levy and Jeremias Kinnunen-Levy
Delivered by: Howl Expeditions Ltd in partnership with Northern Soul Journeys
Payment option: Secure your place with a 10% deposit using code DEPOSIT at checkout
Swedish Winter Bushcraft Expedition Overview:
Our syllabus for this excursion very much creates an adventure with a detailed and grounded experience for camping in the winter north woods .
Winter Bushcraft Training at Basecamp
Upon arrival at the Northern Soul Journeys homestead you’ll be guided to the expedition style camp where the trip will be based. Here our two stove-heated canvas tents form the basis of our accommodation and warm spaces.
During the training sessions, in order to empower you to take journeys of your own in this environment we’ve built a robust series of workshops to train you in managing the core needs of the human animal in the winter woods.
Sessions over the first three days will cover generating and maintaining Warmth, accessing and producing Water, Food supply during winter and the realities of defrosting supplies ahead of need, cooking on and under the stove etc, Stovesmanship has huge bearing on water, food and warmth modules inside a canvas tent, and ensuring you get adequate Sleep throughout your expedition. These sessions will include a host of sub-skills such as axe and frame saw use, fire lighting, clothing technologies and management and so much more, a fractal list of almost endless learning!
Snowshoe Travel and Winter Journeying
As your confidence grows, we will move into the journeying phase of this Swedish winter adventure. This is where the skills developed at basecamp are tested and refined in the real boreal forest. Our route and pace will be guided by the snow, weather and condition of the landscape, allowing us to travel responsibly rather than forcing a fixed itinerary onto a changing winter environment.
The journey may involve half a day of travel through demanding conditions or a full day crossing sunlit, crystalline snow. Along the way, you will develop practical winter trailcraft and learn to adapt when familiar equipment or basecamp systems are no longer available. This might include safely accessing water from a frozen lake without an auger, selecting a suitable winter campsite, or creating an emergency shelter without relying on a canvas tent. It is an immersive, cool-climate journey that transforms taught skills into genuine confidence and capability.
Skills You Will Learn
We’ll also consider means of conveyance during this phase, to use a Mors Kochanski-inspired skill set, we may need to craft snow shoes or pack frames to mobilise ourselves across the landscape. We’ll have the opportunity to try a few different models of modern snowshoes and how they behave in different terrain too.
Living in Stove-Heated Canvas Tents
Our winter basecamp consists of two five-person canvas tents, each shared by four participants and one guide. Both tents are heated by wood-burning stoves, creating a warm communal space for sleeping, learning and recovering after a day in the Swedish boreal forest. Although outside temperatures cannot be predicted, we aim to maintain an overnight temperature of around 0°C inside the tents. Participants should still prepare for significantly colder conditions and bring a sleeping bag with a comfort rating of at least -20°C. When conditions allow, there may also be an opportunity to experience supervised cold-weather camping outside the heated tents.
Evening meals will be cooked on the tent stoves and shared communally as darkness settles over the winter forest at around 4.30pm. Breakfasts and trail lunches will be simple, quick and hearty, while each evening meal becomes another practical lesson in stove use, fuel management and cooking in a sub-zero environment.
Everything on this cold-climate expedition is shaped by one goal: to help you return to the boreal forest for future winter adventures with the judgement, equipment knowledge and practical confidence to operate more independently. The skills and mindset developed here are intended to travel with you into the challenging and beautiful world of sub-zero camping and winter journeying.
Trip details:
Dates: 1–6 February 2027
Start time: 10am on Monday.
We meet you the Northern Soul Journeys homestead in Angestrask, north of Lulea.
Finish Time: 10am on Saturday.
Flights and in-country transport are not included with your booking, and we suggest you take out adequate travel insurance to cover your logistics.
In your welcome pack, as well as directly with the Borealis team during the build up to the trip we’ll be available to help resolve all your transport needs and can recommend several options for you in Sweden.
There is a maximum group size of 8 participants plus the instructor team.
We will be camping in the woods in two 5 berth heated canvas tents for the duration of the trip. If you’d like to discuss other options such as bringing your own sleeping system just drop us an email.
We’re all about accessibility when it comes to adventure and hope to inspire a culture of inclusivity in the outdoors. We’re so excited to have Hannah on the core Borealis Team as a highly experienced guide, and as an advocate for women in adventure. If you’d like to speak to Hannah about the trip prior to booking, and for any advice when it comes to camping outdoors you are very welcome and encouraged to contact her at northernsouljourneys@gmail.com
A full welcome pack will be provided on booking, all specialist equipment will be provided.
The kit list for the trip can be found HERE
Winter sleeping bags and mothership jackets are available to hire for your trip from the Borealis team
The course is fully catered, starting with lunch on the first day and ending with Breakfast on the last. We'd recommend bringing along some favourite snacks to boost your energy and morale, as well as some choice hot drinks. Most dietary requirements can be happily catered for; however, due to the nature of the environment, not necessarily all preferences! If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
FAQ
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Absolutely. We understand that joining an expedition is a significant investment, and we do not want it to remain one of those bucket-list ideas that never quite happens. You can secure your place with a 10% deposit and choose from several ways to spread the remaining cost.
Option one: Two-stage balance
Pay a 10% deposit when booking, followed by a further 15% within eight weeks. The remaining 75% is due ten weeks before the expedition begins.
Option two: Three equal instalments
Pay a 10% deposit to secure your place, then divide the remaining balance into three equal payments spread across the time between booking and the final payment deadline.
Option three: Smaller monthly payments
Pay a 10% deposit, then spread the remaining balance across manageable monthly payments. We will agree a simple schedule with you, with the full balance paid ten weeks before departure.
To reserve your place with the 10% deposit, add the expedition to your basket and enter the code DEPOSIT at checkout. We will then help you arrange the payment option that suits you.
We’re always flexible and happy to help
If none of these options quite works for you, contact Jamie at Howl Bushcraft for a friendly, relaxed and no-obligation conversation. We are fully committed to helping make your expedition possible and will be happy to discuss a realistic payment arrangement.
Unless otherwise agreed, all balances must be paid ten weeks before departure. Bookings made within ten weeks of an expedition may require payment in full and remain subject to our standard booking terms and cancellation policy.
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JD- Generally when we think about a mothership it’s most for its insulation value, so imagine stopping for lunch where we don’t want to take our outer layers off but we want to essentially wrap ourselves in a ‘duvet’ to keep warm while we sit still. We can then chuck this back in the pack and carry on with the activities
Jeremias- My personal Mothership jacket is a big puffy and warm jacket. And when I say big, I mean BIG, I'm about 170cm and the one I have is 3XL Function over Form and this guarantees me to not have to fuss around when stopping or when getting cold and it allows plenty of air to be trapped to keep me warm.
Adam- It is always tricky giving a one size fits all approach with clothing as everyones metabolism and cold-comfort-tolerance is so varied. However this environment could see very cold conditions and so the higher the down insulation value of a jacket the better, i appreciate that has an associated price tag! My preference and of those i work with in Canada is for a large down outer layer. Well worth searching for 2nd hand jackets on line and not buying new as these will become a work horse item prone to a degree of wear and tear if worn whilst processing fire wood or installing/lighting a wood stove for example.
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Adam- As for your sleeping bag i strongly suggest looking into securing a new or second hand -20 bag. Again if we get a week of -35 you will be pleased you did! The tent temperature should hover around zero degrees but even this being the case I’ve always found that extra buffer a good bench mark for customers' comfort in general. A liner is a good addition but best not to rely on this making up the deficit in your current bag. Ideally you will sleep very comfortably in only your base layers allowing the bag to be warmed by you and then retain this heat efficiently. For clarity we will only have the stove running at the absolute lowest smoulder overnight to help prevent inconvenient ice build up within the tent, hence the emphasis for our clients to ensure adequate sleeping comfort.
JD- If at all possible you want to invest in a good sleeping bag where the comfort rating, not the extreme rating, gets down to minus 20C. Carinthia make excellent bags. Down or synthetic work well, synthetic being more robust but bulkier. If you can’t justify to associated price tag, which I totally understand, then you could investigate bringing two sleeping bags which you could layer up. This would require the outer bag to be sized bigger so that it doesn’t crush the loft of your inner bag thereby reducing its insulation. If you have any questions on this topic, please do ask us as it makes a huge impact of your enjoyment of the trip.
We can now hire you a Snugpak Antarctica Sleeping bag during the trip for an additional £40. Just ask us upon booking.
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Clients travelling to Northern Soul Journey from the UK have taken several routes in the past. One of the most cost effective ways is to flight to Stockholm, and take the overnight train to Lulea arriving on the Monday morning for the trips. Others fly in over the weekend before the trip and spend day or so in Lulea to take in the sights and generally add to their holiday with a city aspect.
Once in Lulea you then need to travel to Northern Soul Journey’s Homestead. This can sometimes feel daunting for those new to travelling abroad, but we are here to help with that too; often the simplest way is to share a taxi with other guests on the trip. The Borealis team can liaise with all our guests and help organise taxi shares.
Previous guests have commented of how surprisingly great this element of the journey was, meeting up with others before the trip, the sense of adventure heading out together on the road, and the friends made along the way.
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In short, no.
A prerequisite of the trip is that participants are confident at camping in the UK at all times of year and have a good general understanding of what is needed to be comfortable outdoors. We want this trip to be accessible to as many people as possible, but a novice to normal wild camping would find the leap to Swedish winter camping very challenging. You might consider attending our Itinerant Bushcraft Course first if you haven’t done any bushcraft before.
The Borealis Team
Jamie Dakota - Howl Expeditions Leader
I’m delighted to have teamed up with some of my best friends to invite you to the north woods on these winter wonderful trips.
I’ve taught bushcraft in the UK for over 10 years now and I carry that knowledge base into the winter environment during these winter camping trips. It’s often been noted that the UK makes for an excellent training ground for outdoor skills as the weather and terrain are so varied; traveling in Sweden at this time are year does have it’s own specific skills required, but there’s also so much cross over we can draw upon.
I look forward to meeting you in the Swedish North Woods and sharing this adventure…
Born and raised in a small town of Sub-Arctic Sweden, the heart of the Boreal Forest, Jeremias has life long experience of the ins and outs of arctic living.
Since 2010 he has worked professionally, and trained, in the outdoor field as a guide with everything from dive guiding in Tenerife, Swedish Mountain leader qualification, Snowmobile guiding high above the arctic circle, skiing etc and since 2017 with sled dogs together with his wife and their own pack of Alaskan Huskies.
Still living on his homestead in the middle of the Boreal Forest he works with Nature and River restoration projects during the spring, summer and fall period, (as well as fishing and hunting) the forest is both his place of work and home.
Whether guiding dogmushing, snowshoeing or hiking he loves to show and teach folks from all over the world about the simple way of being out in, no matter the season.
Adam Logan
Adam is a UK based bushcraft instructor and expedition guide with a passion for the Boreal landscapes of the world. A desire to teach from a place of authenticity has led to spending hundreds of nights camping out in subzero forests relying on handcrafted clothing, tents, and equipment.
He has spent over nine months living off grid in the Canadian bush working as an assistant snowshoe guide, where he has covered more than 300 miles by snowshoe and moccasins in both familiar back country and more remote wilderness.
Collaborative work with other instructors, schools and organisations across Europe and Canada gives Adam a unique perspective to reflect on how bushcraft and wilderness journeys are conveyed and enables him to relate to a diverse audience of students in meeting their learning desires and needs.
Adam draws on a twenty-year career working in the UK bushcraft industry designing and delivering adult training courses and expeditions where his focus has been on the understanding of accessing, modifying, and relying on natural materials and traditional processes of manufacturing utility items.
Northern Soul Journeys is a small family-owned and operated dog sledding company in Norrbotten, Swedish Lapland.
It was founded by Hannah and Jeremias Kinnunen-Levy in 2018. They offer a wide variety of tours throughout the year with our main focus being winter dog sledding tours.
Hannah and Jeremias met in Northern Sweden, where Hannah was a dog mushing guide and Jeremias was a snowmobile guide.
Their first date was spent on a dog sled, and while they drove through the forest they realized they wanted the same things out of life.
At the end of the 2015-2016 winter season, they decided to test their relationship with a 1400 km hike through the Swedish mountains. They figured that if they could make it through that without killing each other, they would certainly make a good team.
At the end of the hike, they were a few kilos lighter and in love. After another winter season, they were ready to build their own dream of living a life with dogs close to nature.
Professional Standards | Human Approach | Howl Expeditions Ltd
Wild places deserve thoughtful preparation. Every Biome Expedition is supported by structured planning, risk assessment and emergency procedures, with clear responsibilities across our expedition leaders, specialist guides and local partners.
Where applicable, our expeditions operate in accordance with UK package travel legislation, including the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018. Our overseas expeditions are planned and managed in conformity with BS 8848:2014, the British Standard for visits, fieldwork, expeditions and adventurous activities outside the United Kingdom. Our conformity process is formally documented and reviewed as part of our expedition management system.
High professional standards do not need to feel distant or stuffy. We want our expeditions to be warm, inclusive and full of curiosity, with approachable leaders and participants who feel comfortable asking questions. Serious planning sits quietly behind each journey, giving the group the confidence and freedom to engage fully with the landscape, the people we meet and the experience itself.
We welcome all questions about how our expeditions are planned, who is responsible for their delivery and the systems supporting participants before and during each journey.