Farm Backsjön would like to offer you a time out to enjoy nature. Hear the silence, smell fresh air and taste clean water direct out of the mountain. Experience our activities together with our nature guide or come back to yourself via a nature based coaching program. Don't hesitate to contact us for a 4U time!

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One week away from home, turn off your daily life stress and enjoy your time during winter with us on Farm Backsjön! You will stay in our Nordic house, that you book as add-on in our booking system for the whole group.

Enjoy 4 full days with activities during this week:

1. Tour on our farm and connect with our donkeys and dogs + a dogsledtour of about 1 hour + fika
2. Daytour with dogsledding, including lunch in the forest
3. Daytour on snowmobile including fika and lunch
4. Transport per snowmobile to lakes for icefishing together with our nature guide. During this day you will get some survival tips during winter. Lunch included.

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And of course we will keep you informed if Northern Lights can appear and inform you for the best spots to experience the magic of nature.

Winter week with activities, a memory for life!

Accomodation

Guest for 4 days Nature guidning

Experience some days in white forest with 3 days activities. Turn off your daily life stress and enjoy your time with us on Farm Backsjön! You live in our Nordic house, just about 100 meter from the farm. This you book as add-on for the whole group.

3 days activity in the nature::

1. Connect with our donkeys and dogs + a dogsledtour of about 1 hour + fika
2. Daytour on snowmobile including fika and lunch
3. Transport per snowmobile to lakes for icefishing together with our nature guide. During this day you will get some survival tips during winter. Lunch included.

And of course we will keep you informed if Northern Lights can appear and inform you for the best spots to experience the magic of nature.

Explore Nordic winter with 3 days activies

Guest for 3 days Nature guidning

Experience nature during winter time with 2 days activities. Turn off your daily life stress and enjoy your time with us on Farm Backsjön! You live in our Nordic house, just about 100 meter from the farm. This you book as add-on for the whole group.

2 days activity in the nature::

1. Connect with our donkeys and dogs + a dogsledtour of about 1 hour \
   Lunch in our grillkåta + ice fishing on the lake by the farm
2. Daytour on snowmobile including fika and lunch

And of course we will keep you informed if Northern Lights can appear and inform you for the best spots to experience the magic of nature.

Winter weekend with 2 days activies

Guest for 2 days Nature guidning

Enjoy the white nature together with our dogs... a memory for life!

- 3 hour experience, sledding ca 1 hour, 'fika' afterwards

**Dogsledding experience**

1.- Before departure:

- Instruction about how to drive a sled

- Information about Siberian huskies

- Connecting with our dogs

- Prepare dogs for dogsledding

- Place dogs in front of the sled

- Because the dogs are eager to go sledding is the focus on them and you, so no time for pictures. With groups where we go for more than one trip, the other ones can make pictures, but follow the signals/instruktion of our personal to avoid accidents/disturbance.

2.- Sledtour with guide. Some stops will be made with information about the nature here in the north and check if you and the dogs are okay. During the trip are no camera's allowed, during the breaks it's okay. The guide can make pictures/movie during the tour.

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3.- Return:

- Thanks to the dogs

- Time to make some nice pictures with your dogs

- Help to bring them back to their cage

**Highlights**

It's nice for you and the dogs to met each other before we start to action. In the kennel we will inform you more about our dogs and Siberian huskies. Come really in contact with the dogs of your team, so they look forward to drag you throught the great white nature. Together we decide which tour is the best for that day. After that you get a short instruction how to use the sled and you help to set a harness on the dogs and place them in front of the sled. Here you will experience how eager they are to drag you. You will start your trip over lakes and through the forest where a guide follows to support and for security. By coming back on the farm it's nice if you help to bring the dogs back in their area after thanking them for the nice trip.

**Fika**

After dogsledding experience we enjoy fika, Swedish coffee/tea time, where we sit together and stories will come up!

DOG SLEDDING (easy), 3hr

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Enjoy the white nature together with our dogs... a memory for life!

4 hour experience, ca 1 hour sledding + Nordic lunch in our grilkåta

**Dogsledding experience**

1.- Before departure:

- Instruction about how to drive a sled

- Information about Siberian huskies

- Connecting with our dogs

- Prepare dogs for dogsledding

- Place dogs in front of the sled

- Because the dogs are eager to go sledding is the focus on them and you, so no time for pictures. With groups where we go for more than one trip, the other ones can make pictures, but follow the signals/instruktion of our personal to avoid accidents/disturbance.

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2.- Sledtour with guide. Some stops will be made with information about the nature here in the north and check if you and the dogs are okay. During the trip are no camera's allowed, during the breaks it's okay. The guide can make pictures/movie during the tour.​

3.- Return:

- Thanks to the dogs

- Time to make some nice pictures with your dogs

- Help to bring them back to their cage

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**Highlights**

It's nice for you and the dogs to met each other before we start to action. In the kennel we will inform you more about our dogs and Siberian huskies. Come really in contact with the dogs of your team, so they look forward to drag you through the great white nature. Together we decide which tour is the best for you that day. \
After that you get a short instruction how to use the sled and you help to set a harness on the dogs and place them in front of the sled. Here you will experience how eager they are to drag you. You will start your trip over lakes and through the forest where a guide follows to support and for security. By coming back on the farm it's nice if you help to bring the dogs back in their area after thanking them for the nice trip.

**Nordic lunch in our grillkåta**

After de dogsledding experience we will warm up in our grillkåta and enjoy our Nordic lunch. Here you will experience the taste of the North with reindeer meat rolled in tunnbröd + cheese of the region and grilled salmon with potato gratäng and warm veggies. You will surely enjoy the meal around the fireplace. Please inform us if you prefer a special diet or allergies.

DOG SLEDDING + Nordic lunch in grillkåta, 4hr

Enjoy the white nature together with our dogs... a memory for life!

5 hour experience, 2-3 hours sledding + warm lunch in the forest

**Dogsledding experience**

1.- Before departure:

- Instruction about how to drive a sled

- Information about Siberian huskies

- Connecting with our dogs

- Prepare dogs for dogsledding

- Place dogs in front of the sled

- Because the dogs are eager to go sledding is the focus on them and you, so no time for pictures. With groups where we go for more than one trip, the other ones can make pictures, but follow the signals/instruktion of our personal to avoid accidents/disturbance.

2.- Sledtour with guide. Some stops will be made with information about the nature here in the north and check if you and the dogs are okay. During the trip are no camera's allowed, during the breaks it's okay. The guide can make pictures/movie during the tour.

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3.- Return:

- Thanks to the dogs

- Time to make some nice pictures with your dogs

- Help to bring them back to their cage

**Highlights**

It's nice for you and the dogs to met each other before we start to action. In the kennel we will inform you more about our dogs and Siberian huskies. Come really in contact with the dogs of your team, so they look forward to drag you throught the great white nature. Together we decide which tour is the best for that day. After that you get a short instruction how to use the sled and you help to set a harness on the dogs and place them in front of the sled. Here you will experience how eager they are to drag you. You will start your trip over lakes and through the forest where a guide follows to support and for security. By coming back on the farm it's nice if you help to bring the dogs back in their area after thanking them for the nice trip.

**Warm lunch in the forest**

Before a warm lunch will be prepared, all the dogs will be placed on a chain. Of course we will ask here some help from our guests and it's a nice moment to cuddle a little bit more with our dogs. They will love it! Our nature guide will prepare a warm lunch on a nice spot in the forest fitting to the weather conditions on the day. After enjoying the lunch all dogs will be placed back in front of the sleds and the trip will go on after a good meal! It's not allowed to feed our dogs except if our nature guide brings with a 'candy' for the dogs.

DOG SLEDDING (advanced) + warm lunch in the forest, 5hr

Enjoy the white nature together with our dogs and enjoy a snowmobile tour after a warm lunch, a memory for life!

- Introduction, dogsledding (1h), warm lunch on the farm, snowmobile tour (2h)

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**Dogsledding and Snowmobile experience :**

1.- Before departure:

- Instruction about how to drive a sled

- Information about Siberian huskies

- Connecting with our dogs

- Prepare dogs for dogsledding

- Place dogs in front of the sled

- Because the dogs are eager to go sledding is the focus on them and you, so no time for pictures. With groups where we go for more than one trip, the other ones can make pictures, but follow the signals/instruktion of our personal to avoid accidents/disturbance.

2.- Sledtour with guide. Some stops will be made with information about the nature here in the north and check if you and the dogs are okay. During the trip are no camera's allowed, during the breaks it's okay. The guide can make pictures/movie during the tour.

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3.- Return:

- Thanks to the dogs

- Time to make some nice pictures with your dogs

- Help to bring them back to their cage

4.- Warm lunch in our grillhouse on the farm.

5.- Snowmobile safari together to nice spots and views + fika.

**Siberian huskies**

Before we start sledding it's important for us that you learn to know more about Siberian huskies and come in contact with them. We will tell about our dogs, because each dog has his/her own character and speciality. Siberian huskies are very sensitive on atmosphere. Therefore a good contact with our dogs before the sledding experience, how more you enjoy the tour together. Dogsledding will be an experience for life if you become a team with the dogs, then they will love to show you around in the white forest.

After introduction with the dogs and instruction how to use the sled we decide together which tour is the best for that day. You help to set a harness on the dogs and place them in front of the sled. Here you will experience how eager they are to drag you. You will start your trip over lakes and through the forest where a guide follows to support and for security. By coming back on the farm it's nice if you help to bring the dogs back in their area after thanking them for the nice trip.

DOG SLEDDING + Snowmobile tour Combi Day, 5h

Enjoy during a tour through the white nature and get great views!

**In the nature on a snowmobile**

Nice tracks through the white forest brings you on places you only can dream of! But we can make this dream come through!

Follow our nature guide during the whole trip and he will show you roads through the forest and over lakes. Short stops will be made to enjoy the view or interesting information about the nature is to tell.

Our tours are focussed on to enjoy the nature from another angle, where you follow the guide. The pleasure of this experience is not depending on speed.

**Snowmobile tour**

​1.- Before departure:

- Instruction about how to drive a snowmobile

- Check of your clothing for the day, it can get cold during driving

- Instructions about the weather influences during day

- !!The driver is not allowed to use a camera during driving.

2.- The tour starts from the farm and depending of your skills the guide find the right tracks for you. A stop will be made with a place with wind protection to have fika/light lunch. 

3.- Return:

The guide will give you instructions by arriving back on the farm.

Note: Pictures can be made during a stop and by the passenger.

Snowmobile safari, 3hr tour

2 persons per snowmobile, incl. fika/light lunch

1 person per snowmobile, incl. fika/light lunch

Enjoy during a tour through the white nature and get great views!

**In the nature on a snowmobile**

Nice tracks through the whit forest brings you on places you only can dream of! But we can make this dream come through!

Follow our nature guide during the whole trip and he will show you roads through the forest and over lakes. Short stops will be made to enjoy the view or interesting information about the nature is to tell.

Our tours are focussed on to enjoy the nature from another angle, where you follow the guide. The pleasure of this experience is not depending on speed.

**Snowmobile tour**

​1.- Before departure:

- Instruction about how to drive a snowmobile

- Check of your clothing for the day, it can get cold during driving

- Instructions about the weather influences during day

- !!The driver is not allowed to use a camera during driving.

2.- The tour starts from the farm and depending of your skills the guide find the right tracks for you. A stop will be made with a place with wind protection to have fika/light lunch. If you book the day tour an extra stop will made for a warm lunch and you can warm up with a fire.

3.- Return:

The guide will give you instructions by arriving back on the farm.

Note: Pictures can be made during a stop and by the passenger.

**Highlights**

Our nature guide comes with during the whole trip and will show you roads through the forest and over lakes. Short stops will be made to enjoy the view or interesting information about the nature is to tell. Our tours are focussed on to enjoy the nature from another angle, where you follow the guide.

SNOWMOBILE safari, 5hr tour

2 persons per snowmobile, incl.fika +warm lunch

1 person persnowmobile, incl.fika +warm lunch

**Ice fishing on different lakes after driving to them on snowmobile.**

**How to catch fish under ice?**

Around Farm Backsjön are many lakes with fish to catch. It's always to catch a fish, but with fishing under ice you can't see the fish , only you feel when a fish is close. Therefore ice fishing is focus on feelings in a great silent winter scene. Some people see it also as a form of meditation, you go into yourself.

Hasse, our fnature guide, will show you different technics. He also know the best places… Be friend with Hasse and you surely will get a bite.\
A fire will be made close by to be able to warm you up and to prepare a warm warm lunch. But during day you will learn also some survival tricks! All together an exiting day you will not forget!

**Ice fishing experience**

- Hasse decides which lake and spot will fit to the weather of the day and the experience of you.

- Before you go on the ice you will get instructions about security.

- On the ice you will make holes through the ice

- Hasse will show you different technics how to get a fish.

- After catching a fish, Hasse can help you to release the fish from the hook.

- Warm coffee/tea will be on the spot and a fire to go to when you get cold.

- During the day a fika and a warm lunch will be served.

ICE FISHING, 1 day

It's possible to have a combi day: **Dogsledding (3h), warm lunch on the farm, ice fishing (2h)**

**How to catch fish under ice?**

Around Farm Backsjön are many lakes with fish to catch. It's always to catch a fish, but with fishing under ice you can't see the fish , only you feel when a fish is close. Therefore ice fishing is focus on feelings in a great silent winter scene. Some people see it also as a form of meditation, you go into yourself.

Hasse, our fishing guide, will show you different technics. He also know the best places… Be friend with Hasse and you surely will get a bite.

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A fire will be made close by to be able to warm you up and to prepare a warm fika (3h tour) and warm lunch (5h tour)

**Ice fishing experience**

- Hasse decides which lake and spot will fit to the weather of the day and the experience of you.

- Before you go on the ice you will get instructions about security.

- On the ice you will make holes through the ice

- Hasse will show you different technics how to get a fish.

- After catching a fish, Hasse can help you to release the fish from the hook.

- Warm coffee/tea will be on the spot and a fire to go to when you get cold.

- During the 3 hours ice fishing experience a fika or easy lunch will be served.

- During the 5 hours ice fishing experience a fika and a warm lunch will be served.

**Itinerary**

- Before going on the ice you will get instructions about security.
- On the ice you help with making holes through the ice and Hasse will show you different technics how to get a fish. After catching a fish, Hasse can help you to release the fish from the hook.
- Warm coffe/tea will be on the spot and a fire to go to when you get cold. During the 3 hours a fika or easy lunch will be served.

**Highlights**

Around Farm Backsjön are many lakes with fish to catch. Hasse, our fishing guide, will show you different technics. He also know the best places… Be friend with Hasse and you surely will get a bite.\
A fire will be made close by to be able to warm you up and a warm fika/light lunch will be included.

DOG SLEDDING + ICE FISHING, Combi Day, 5h

Enjoy the white nature together with our dogs and your family, colleagues or friends, a great time together in the white nature and furry friends!

- Depending on the size of the group we can make together a plan for the day.
- You wil spend time together with our Siberian huskies, drive your own sled with 4 till 6 dogs in front, where of course a guide comes with. During the day there will be a fireplace in or outside to warm up. Coffee and tea is included + fika. It's also possible to enjoy our Nordic meal at the end of the dogsled activity.

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**Dogsledding experience**

1.- Before departure:

- Instruction about how to drive a sled

- Information about Siberian huskies

- Connecting with our dogs

- Prepare dogs for dogsledding

- Place dogs in front of the sled

- Because the dogs are eager to go sledding is the focus on them and you, so no time for pictures. With groups where we go for more than one trip, the other ones can make pictures, but follow the signals/instruktion of our personal to avoid accidents/disturbance.

2.- Sledtour with guide. Some stops will be made with information about the nature here in the north and check if you and the dogs are okay. During the trip are no camera's allowed, during the breaks it's okay. The guide can make pictures/movie during the tour.

​

3.- Return:

- Thanks to the dogs

- Time to make some nice pictures with your dogs

- Help to bring them back to their cage

**Highlights**

It's nice for you and the dogs to met each other before we start to action. In the kennel we will inform you more about our dogs and Siberian huskies. Come really in contact with the dogs of your team, so they look forward to drag you throught the great white nature. Together we decide which tour is the best for that day. After that you get a short instruction how to use the sled and you help to set a harness on the dogs and place them in front of the sled. Here you will experience how eager they are to drag you. You will start your trip over lakes and through the forest where a guide follows to support and for security. By coming back on the farm it's nice if you help to bring the dogs back in their area after thanking them for the nice trip.

**Nordic lunch (option)**

It's great to close the day with the group in our grillkåta. After dogsledding experience you can warm up here and enjoy our Nordic lunch. Here you will experience the taste of the North with reindeer meat rolled in tunnbröd + cheese of the region and grilled salmon with potato gratäng and warm veggies. You will surely enjoy the meal around the fireplace. Please inform us if you prefer a special diet or allergies.