What it is like and where to take a Snowmobile excursion: our experience

When you consider a trip in winter to the natural region of Lapland, which extends across Finland, Norway: Sweden, surely you are thinking about the possibility of see the northern lights.

But surely you know that the excursion to try to see them is just one of the very diverse snow activities What you can do during this dream trip.

I can tell you that a common link between them may be moving around snowmobile through the endless snowy landscapes of this Nordic region, which is already an experience in itself.

Indeed, according to the experience in my last travel to norway o Finland in winter, several of the activities what are you going to do incorporate drive a snowmobile as another attraction.

So, for example, I have driven a snowmobile on a frozen lake to go fishing by making a hole in the ice, or I have also made a snowmobile tour to see northern authors.

But I have also had the opportunity to go on a long excursion whose objective is only enjoy snowmobile driving, both during the day through large snowy landscapes, or even at night.

What is an excursion driving a snowmobile like?

But as I mentioned, making a snowmobile excursion along trails or forests or through frozen lakes is a very attractive activity that you should not miss doing on your trip.

And if you don't dare or don't want to drive, you always have the option of going like “package” accompanying the driver, which will also allow you to enjoy the excursion.

I have confirmed this again in the most recent winter trip to northern Norway, where we fully enjoy a snowmobile tour of several hours in an area near the city of High.

Not far from there, further north in the area of Kirkenes border with Russia, on a previous trip we made a night snowmobile tour, whose purpose was the possibility of seeing the northern lights.

Tips for taking a snowmobile excursion

Based on these and other previous experiences, I am going to give you some tips for choosing and taking a snowmobile excursion. with the different options you have.

At the outset I will tell you that these excursions driving your own snowmobile can be more or less satisfactory depending on where you do them and the format in which you do them.

If you have not yet traveled to places where you can do this activity in winter, you should know that the snowmobile It is a basic means of transportation that residents in the region use to get around in winter.

And not only because of the proximity of their homes, but also to take long excursions or trips of several hours between towns or even cities.

There are established routes so that snowmobiles They can travel on snowy tracks, which run through wide plains or enter thick forests.

And, of course, in winter the Norwegians cross the frozen lakes on the back of their powerful snowmobiles.

Therefore, at the time of sign up for a snowmobile excursion, the ideal is to make sure that you are going to drive through areas where you can enjoy those idyllic snowy landscapes, far from big cities.

That was the case of our aforementioned excursion near Alta, in Norway, in which we were able to enjoy that type of landscape.

What are the groups like on snowmobile excursions?

It is also important that in the excursion to which you sign up group of participants don't be too numerous.

If not, you will surely end up riding in a long, slow queue of snowmobiles without the possibility of enjoying driving them, as happened to us during an excursion to see the northern lights in Finland.

If the group is small, for example less than 10 people, you will surely have the opportunity to some extent drive the snowmobile at your leisure.

Specifically, we did the aforementioned excursion in Alta with Norseman Trail, and in it we were able to drive the snowmobiles completely at our own pace.

On this type of excursion always a guide goes first with his motorcycle, who opens the tour, and at the end another guide who closes the group.

If the group is very massive, another guide may accompany you.

In the case of our excursion, the truth is that we were somewhat separated into small groups, and from time to time the first guide stopped so that the group of motorcycles could group together.

Landscapes on a snowmobile excursion

These excursions are intended to discover various landscapes, with the possibility of doing different types of driving, either along narrow paths in a forest, or on a large plain or on an extensive frozen lake.

The tour ends in a specific place where a camping to eat, well in a typical store Sami that the company has installed in some beautiful location, or outdoors, creating a space to sit down.

The food is type picnic around a fire.

Banana with chocolate heated over a fire, sausages, cheese and potato breads are a regular part of the diet on these excursions in Lapland, and coffee or tea is the drink that will comfort you from the possible cold that you are going to experience. feel if you do the excursion on a non-sunny day.

After collecting all the food supplies, it is time to return along the same route, which is normally done at higher speed, with hardly any stops and with greater freedom in driving.

In sum, a essential experience trust your winter trip to Lapland in Norway or Finland.

Where to go on a snowmobiling excursion

To live this experience, as I have mentioned, an ideal place is the Lapland region in the Nordic countries, but here is a list of the places to go on a snowmobile excursion.

Not only are excursions included in different places in Finland, Norway o Sweden, but also in other countries, such as Russia, Iceland, Canada, United States, Argentina, in even Andorra, several of them combined with other winter activities.

These excursions generally last between one and four hours, and on several of them you will have the company of a guide in spanish.