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Our story

My name is Mira. I live in beautiful Skibotn valley, next to majestic Lyngen alps and Lyngenfjord with my partner Torbjørn, our 2 year old son Ailo and our 15 Greenland dogs.

Our company is small family business, and we want to qive you the experience of a lifetime with our friendly dog pack. We do tours only for small groups to give you the best possible dogsledding experience.

Each of dog is our beloved family member, and their happiness, health and wellbeing is our top priority. Our dogs live in kennels and are free to roam year round. Each kennel has 2-3 dogs. In this way, they can socialize and play with each other. We have also big running area and all the dogs run there daily.

In summertime we take shorter and longer hikes in the surrounding Lyngenfjord views with the dogs, and sometimes we take them to swim too. And of course they get lot of cuddles too!

How everything started

My adventurous and restless soul took me on travels around the world. I worked as a peacekeeper in Africa, did volunteer work in Peru and studied in Mexico. I travelled around the world with my bike and backpack for long time, but I always missed the Arctic nature, and that took me back to land of snow and ice.

I ended up in the Arctic archipelago, Svalbard. Finally, I felt that I had found my home! I spent 3 years there, gained lot of experience in the outdoors and even met my partner there. Later on, we moved down to the mainland and lived different places in Northern Norway before ending up to beautiful Skibotn.

Before my travels, I was in wildernesss guide school and later I took Bachelor of Sport management, specializing myself in outdoor sports. But I gained most experience in the outdoors on my private expeditions.

When I was twenty years old I was warned that I never should take a one polar dog because in few years I would have ten of them. And that what happened exactly to me. I got my first Greenland dog/husky mix in Svalbard and I fell in love this tough and strong Arctic breed.

Now, our pack has expanded to 15 dogs. Half of my pack are pure Greenland dogs and half part are Greenland dog/husky mix. My dogs are not the fastest breed but they are very tough and strong and they tolerate really cold conditions. Now I could not imagine a life without my furry friends and all the adventures we are doing together.

I met my partner Torbjørn at Svalbard where he was doing Arctic nature guide studies (ANG). Now he works as a police officer. He also works for NVE (Norwegian Water Recources and energy Directorate) doing avalanche reports and he is also doing guiding alongside his work. Our son Ailo was born in 2022 and he is becoming already an eager outdoor man and his love
for dogs and nature is already very strong.

dogsledding skibotn sunset

Some of my expeditions:

Crossing Svalbard from North to South with skis and pulk: 27 days, 2017
Magdalenafjorden-Ymerbukta, Svalbard with ski and pulk: 32 days, 2018
Several long dogsledding tours in Svalbard 2008-2012
Ymerbukta-Ekmanfjorden, Svalbard with skis and pulk: 11 days, 2021
Kayaking Isfjorden, Svalbard :10 days, 2021
Crossing Troms and Finnmark communities with dog team: 32 days, 2021
Crossing Finnish Lapland with skis and pulk: 21 days, 2016
Skiing across Norway from South to North: 2 months, 2015
Crossing Iceland from North to South with backpack: 21 days, 2017
And many many other shorter expeditions with skis and pulk, dog team, kayaks, bicycle and
backpack.

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