St Olavsleden – A Nordic Pilgrims Dream
The thousand-year-old St Olavsleden is a pilgrim path for thru hikers from the Swedish to the Norwegian coast, through villages, forests and over mountains. Make a contemporary pilgrimage and find your own meditative calm in a stressed out existence.
An Epic hike in Vålådalen
You know when beauty is like a burning pain. Sometimes you feel that pain in your body and soul but realise there is nothing you can do about it. You just need to open your senses, immerse yourself in the beauty that surrounds us and enjoy it as long as it lasts. An autumn hike […]
A Hike to a Mountain Top in Sonfjället National Park
Seen from a distance the Sonfjället mountain has the silhouette of a volcano. Beautifully shaped and surrounded by lush greenery. Climb the mountain or hike around it and look for bears, since this area, The Sonfjället National Park of Sweden, has quite a few brown bears. Do not miss the summer grazing farm, shieling, by the […]
Swedish Sauna, Spa & Hot Tubs
Following a testing day on the slopes or doing any other strenuous winter activity, treat yourself to a luxurious spa treatment. Let your muscles relax in a swedish sauna, try swedish massage or find new energy in a steaming hot tub with the magic nature of Jämtland Härjedalen as backdrop.
Paddling Swedish lake Storsjön – with a mountain view
The brave autumn sun reflecting in the water of lake Storsjön makes us squint. Paddling around an island like Norderön can be treacherours since it is always so exciting to see what´s behind the next headland. We are paddling out on lake Storsjön towards the sun. The fog comes and goes while the silhouettes of […]
On Four Feet in the Wilderness – Dog Sledding Sweden
There is little that compares to the magical experience of dog sledding Sweden and its intertwined relationship to its different elements. The connection to the dogs and the surrounding nature carries with a magic that is hard to describe. Physically the adventure piques all the senses as you mush your way over the snow clad […]
Tour suggestion: Route E45 – Inlandsvägen – The Inland Road
The route E45 (European road no 45) actually starts in southern Europe, in Italy, and goes all the way up to Kautokeino on the northern border between Norway and Finland. On it´s way north the route leads through Adventure Sweden territory. Beginning in the commercial center Sveg, the southern gateway of Härjedalen, it leads up […]
Visiting the vicarage of Borgvattnet
It is so much more fun to believe in things that can not be described, than just saying no … Based on that defiant, I live my life when it comes to spirits, trolls or talking to animals. It is by no means the things I fill my days with, much less spend time worrying […]
Storsjöyran in Östersund – Sweden´s oldest city music festival
The festival Storsjöyran, or “Yran” for short, has a special place in the hearts of people in Jämtland Härjedalen. It even divides the year in two halves, “before and after Yran”.