Arctic Wilderness Experience in Finland

You'll be staying in a cabin in the woods – the genuine Lapland way. After a day of Arctic adventures, step into the warm ambience of a cabin in the woods and enjoy a roaring fire and sauna. The cabins are equipped with clothes dryers, WCs, a shower and a shared kitchen with facilities such as a filter coffee maker, electric kettle, microwave oven. There is also a bar and relaxing lounge area for evenings. You will typically stay in a twin or triple room (with a shared bathroom). Double rooms are available on request.

Should you wish to book additional nights' accommodation in Pyhä before or after the trip, we recommend booking Hotel Pyhätunturi as this is located close to the ski bus stop and within walking distance of the slopes.

The second night of the trip is spent sleeping outdoors in the wilderness. Your guide will teach you how to build a quinzee: a type of snow shelter that is made from a large pile of loose snow that you'll shape and then hollow out. The quinzee will protect you from the wind and freezing temperatures outside, and actually makes for a cozy nights sleep, believe it or not! You will be kitted out with a winter expedition sleeping bag and pad and will team up with one or two others in the group to dig out and sleep in the quinzee together. A proper adventure! Of course, if you prefer to build and sleep in your own quinzee solo, this is fine.

For solo travellers looking for their own space, an optional private room in the Lapland cabin can be booked for an extra charge, see Optional Extras for the price. Please request this at the time of booking (this is subject to availability).

We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity.

What's the number?
It works out on average at 52kg of CO2 emissions per person, including all local transport, accommodation, food, activities, guides, staff and office operations.

The only thing it doesn’t include right now is flights and travel to the destination. We do make an overall estimate across all our customers separately, but as we don’t book flights, have customers from all corners of the world, and no way of reliably knowing their travel plans, we simply can’t include an individual number in the figure on display here. We’ve got a goal to fix that, so that when you book, there is a way to measure and mitigate the carbon emitted by your flight too.

But what does the number mean?
Yep, hard to picture eh? To give you an idea:

• Driving 1000miles/1609km would be approx. 281kg of CO2 in an average car (or 140.5kg per person if there was 2 of you in it).
• A return economy class flight London - New York would be approx. 1,619kg (1.66 tonnes) per person.
• 10 trees in a temperate forest are estimated to remove approx. 250kg of CO2 from the air in a period of 5-10 years.

What are we doing about it?
Our trips are relatively low-carbon by design, and we're working with all our hosts to develop long term carbon reduction plans. We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity, ensuring the protection of the reserve and its wildlife.

Want to know more?
Amazingly, no international travel company has ever publicly published their carbon measurements before, as far as we know. We believe that must change, quickly. So we’re openly sharing the method we used in the hope that other companies will be able to more easily follow suit and build on what we've done so far. You'll find it all here.