Spring Course in Lappish Bushcraft

Spring Course in Lappish Bushcraft

A 5-day spring taster of winter survival skills with one of Finland's foremost instructors - fire-making, snowshoe navigation, ice-fishing and snow shelters.

5 day packageDuration
AprilSeason
€1200Price
2 farm, 1 nature, 1 hotelNights

Pasi is one of Finland's foremost survival instructors and an active member of 'Survival Guild Finland'. Only in recent years have we offered his courses in English. This small taster gives an insight into a range of key outdoor survival skills.

  • Taught by Pasi, a Survival Guild Finland instructor
  • Fire-making the Finnish way
  • Snowshoe orienteering & snow shelters
  • Ice fishing & snowmobile driving
01

Fire & navigation

Fire is the first winter survival skill, for warmth and for boiling water from snow, so we teach you to prepare firesticks and kindling and to lay fires the Finnish way.

Navigating a featureless white landscape, often in white-out conditions, is just as essential. A small snowshoe orienteering course around the farm takes in two pre-made forest and snow shelters, where we talk through the tools Finns carry into the wilderness.

02

Ice fishing & other modules

Ice fishing is one of the easiest ways to find natural food in the snow-covered arctic, so we practise it and, with luck, prepare and eat the catch. Other modules often include snowmobile driving, snow shelters, and wilderness and cold safety and first aid.

03

General Information

The 5-day package runs in April, with 2 nights on the farm in traditional accommodation, 1 night in nature and a final night in a local family-run hotel. Price €1200.

Ready when you are

Real wilderness, 200+ huskies, eighteen winters in.