"Dogsledding in Kiruna" a Kiruna Travel Page by loisl

For 1 week we teamed, me and my 3 dogs...
wild...
independent...
but fun!
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For centuries, Northern people used their dogs to pull sledges. From this tradition came sled dog racing, believed to have started among native peoples of Northern Asia. Today, this worldwide sport includes teams of all sizes for both professional competition and family recreation.
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K I R U N A
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Kiruna is Sweden's most northerly municipality and its largest in area.

At 20,000 square kilometres, it is half as large as Switzerland. Once upon a time, Kiruna was listed in every geography book as the world's largest town in area. Now it has to be content with being the next largest, having been bested by an Australian counterpart. But still, if you collected all the people in the world inside Kiruna's borders, each would have four square metres to stand in. The whole municipality has 26,000 inhabitants, of whom 80% live in the town of Kiruna.

The city hill, Kebnekaise, is Sweden's highest mountain at 2,117 metres above sea level. From its peak, you can see nine percent of Sweden, including half a dozen other alpine tops of over 2,000 metres.
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Several tour operators (see details in "Must See Activity Tips") are offering dogsled tours, starting from 1 day upto 1 week or longer.
You do not need any previous expirience, but you should like animals and not been afraid of dogs.
Normaly you will get 3..4 dogs and your own sled, that's about the maximum number of husky's you can handle.
Forget for your one team the impressive picture you know from the Alaskan Iditarod race, where pro's are starting with 16 dogs, leave it to the pro's.
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