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Dogsledding day-trip
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Kvaløya Husky AS
Prices from
1990 NOK
Per person
This tour is conducted by Kvaløya Husky. Experience traditional dogsledding in small group traveling trough rural landscape, being pulled by a team of professional race huskies.
General information
Welcome to Kvaløya Husky, a place where you get to experience the arctic lifestyle with our crew and 57 Alaskan Huskies. The kennel is located in Straumsbukta a 45-minute drive from Tromsø centre. During your visit you will get to see our dogyard, greet our excited dogs, hang out in our lavvo and join our huskies for a ride of dogsledding.
In the life of a musher, you will feel the strength of a powerful team, where huskies take you through beautiful landscape filled with trees, creeks and tall mountains. This is excactly the kind of quality time our dogs want to spend with us, sharing the adventure. While sledding you have to keep your eyes open for reindeer, moose, fox, snow grouse, eagles and more.
In our dogyard we have a combination of young, old, playful, retrieving and calm dogs. We want to introduce you to our dogs, tell you about how we care for them in the form of grooming, love, food and animal welfare.
Before the sledding we will set up the team and harness the dogs. If the snowconditions and trail is good you will get the possibility to try to be your own musher. In that case each sled holds two people, where you can alternate between being the musher and passenger. If the conditions make the trail to difficult to do selfdrive, all guests will be passengers in a sled controlled by one of our professional mushers. This is for the safety of the dogs and guests. It will have a calm and comfortable pace, making it exceptional for both adults and children. If there is a lack of snow we offer the trip using our wagons.
Arcitc proof boots and winter clothing is provided by us, but we recommend you wear a base layer of wool with a wool jumper or fleece. You must bring a warm hat, scarf and gloves.
It is not recommended to book our activity if you suffer from back pain, epilepsy, heart problems or if you are in the late stages of pregnancy.
Season: 1. november to 31. march
Duration: 5 hours (may vary based on the weather conditions)
Departure time and place: 08:45 AM (08:45) and 02:15 PM (14:15) at Radisson Blu Hotel Tromsø
Included: Guide that is an experienced musher, transfer (45 minutes each way), dogsled ride, warm clothes, winter boots, storytelling and hot drinks.
Please bring: Warm baselayer, gloves, hat and scarf
Level of difficulty: Easy
Group size: Max 8 people
Age restriction: 12 years old accompanied by an adult
If you have any questions or special requests get in touch at [email protected].
Prices from
1990 NOK Per person
Facilities
- Guide
- Winter
- Bonfire
- January
- February
- March
- November
- December
- Car or van (up to 8 persons)
- Warm clothing included
- Toilet facilities in cabin
- Easy
- Tea/coffee/biscuit included
About Kvaløya Husky
In 2019 Tommy established Kvaløya Husky AS, after gathering 20 years of dogsledding experience into one kennel.
Experience coming from living, training and competing with dogs. We have a small kennel with 57 Alaskan Huskies, that loves running, eating and relaxing. The dogs are our family, that we are spending most of our time taking care of and love. Our huskies range from being puppies to senior dogs. All of our mushers know every single one of our dogs, their personality and sound. Everyone from Brille our alpha to our young ones.
Over many years the kennel has trained a full team of racedogs, with the stamina to compete in some of the most challenging dogsledding races in the world, like Finnmarksløpet. Come join dogsledding with true athletes.
Kvaløya Husky is placed in Straumsbukta, just a 45-minute drive from Tromsø centrum. It is the place where Tommy grew up, where he knows every hill, every path and every single tree. Tommy has opened his arm to welcome guests from all over the world to our dogyard, where you can learn all about the care of real polar dogs. You can also join us for dogsledding in the sled of one of our experienced mushers. During the winter we use our self-built sleds that can fit 2 guests plus our musher in the back. When there is no snow we use Troll wagons with wheels, so you can also come visit us in summer and fall - as long as the weather allows us.
For a short while you can leave the city of Tromsø and explore the amazing arctic nature together with us. And we can guarantee that we have some interesting stories from our life here in the arctic center of Norway.
Our activities are perfect whether you want to explore the nature, learn about dog care or have a new experience with your friends and family.
We live out our dream, that is working alongside our best friends, the dogs.