Happy tails on
arctic trails

an experience of a lifetime

Trips with dog summer & winter
Trips from 3 hours to 3 days
Tours in the arctic wilderness

Happy tails on
arctic trails

an experience of a lifetime

Our most popular trips

This dogsledgetrip goes through beautiful Bolterdalen, which offers unique arctic scenery and good chances of observing artic wildlife, such as reindeer and ptarmigan.
Travel with your own dogsled to a magnificent ice cave, accessible only by dogsled. Within the ice cave, the lights from our headlamps let us experience ice as few people have seen it.
NOK 18.900
Experience the best of the Arctic on this 3-day adventure with dog sledding and accommodation at Juva cabin.
When the snow starts melting at the middle of June, we start using dogcarts instead of sledges. On this trip you can drive your own cart!
Enjoy the beautiful coastal landscape with sled dogs along “Vestpynten”, in a wagon with a 12-team, driven by the guide.
NOK 1.490
Join us on a hike across the Breinosa mountain, with breath-taking views of over Adventdalen and Isfjorden!
DEAR MARTIN AND KARINA

Thank you so much for an unforgettable afternoon in your twinkling paradise. It was an overwhelming, beautiful experience to drive a dogsledge through the magnificent landscape; an intense and unforgettable nature experience for body, mind and soul. And it was just lovely to meet all your warm kindness in the cold North. I look forward till we meet again. Until then… many warm greetings and hugs from me.

Sofie Gråbøl
AWARD WINNING DANISH ACTOR
Sofie Gråbøl

Latest news from the blog

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My daughter Victoria and I traveled to Svalbard in the fall of 2019 with a few friends. It’s a place I have dreamed of going to for a long time and I don’t regret a second of it. It’s the place where your pulse immediately goes in resting mode, when the mighty mountains approaches the flights – the air so fresh that it freezes in the cheeks. I was overwhelmed.
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It all started with a call of the Arctic: it sent me to East Greenland as a 15-year-old teenager and at the same time, Martin started his dog sledding career on Svalbard, which then led him to become a member of the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol in Greenland.
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She is a fantastic, loving lady and I have yet not met anyone she couldn’t completely charm.
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With two good adoptions, I doubt I'll ever choose another way to get a dog again. We have skipped the puppy stage and can enjoy the Svalbard nature with the two best hiking companions one can get.

The Arctic Experience​

At Svalbard 78° North​

”Something hidden, go and find it.
Go and look behind the ranges.
Something lost behind the ranges.
Lost and waiting for you. Go!”

Rudyard Kipling »The Explorer« (1898)

Svalbard

Just imagine it … and suddenly you are there!

Welcome to the Arctic, welcome to the wilderness and welcome to the trip of a lifetime!

Whether your path leads our way in summer or winter, during the polar night or under the midnight sun, we will do our utmost to give you an extraordinary experience and share our arctic passion with you. For us it is not just a job, it is a lifestyle and pure passion to create experiences that will stay with our visitors for a lifetime. Imagine that you are pulled by mighty dogs through the stunning scenery of the high Arctic. The moon is guiding your path and the bright northern lights are flickering in the sky. It is just as if we are flying! Discover yourself on a dog-pulled sled, soundlessly sliding over the new fallen snow; the ringing from the dog collars, while the dogs’ paws are hitting the track. And all that is left is the sound of silence.

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… What is it about Svalbard and the raw nature that makes us almost obsessed and makes us want to return again and again? A longing. A mood. The light. The cold. The silence. The colors. When we are out in this nature, the wilderness, it is as if our senses come alive again. As if something clicks into place and we become whole individuals again. We use the senses in a completely different way here in the ice. We are present. Keeping up. We are alive.

Guro & Monings
Writers, photographers and friends of Green Dog

And the summers! When the valleys blossom with arctic flowers, the whistle of migrating birds fills the air and the midnight sun patrols the sky in almost identical circles. Imagine a dog pulled wagon along the stunning coast of Bjørndalen, seal heads curiously looking at you from the sea, while numerous numbers of little auks are filling up the bird cliff and the blue sky above it. We hike over glacier, down the mountainside and across the Adventvalley, always in the company of a happy four-legged companion. At the end of August, the sun goes below the horizon for the first time and after this, we move quickly into the polar night.

… We climb down into a small opening in the glacier. Down there, the ice glows blue in the light from the headlamp. A pure blue color. Some people have this color of eyes. Otherwise, it is rarely this ten-thousand-year-old color from the ice. We reach the end of the cave. Deep under the ice we stand, 30 meters below the ground. Shall we turn off the headlamps and see how dark it really is in here? Marcel asks. We do. Then we stand there with our eyes open and see nothing. We are just taking it all in. It’s as if the old ice is sharing all its wisdom with us there in the dark. We switch the headlamps back on and climb up and out into the daylight and the young snow. The dogs welcome us back.

Guro & Monings

This website is nothing else than an introduction to the adventure of your lifetime.

We know!

Green Dog Svalbard A/S

Karina & Martin

As a sleigh traveler, you encounter the truth of an era of life itself. You embark on a part of your life’s journey as the loner who has burned all bridges to society, and along the way feel both the coldness of life, its restless quest, its beauty and joys in a stronger/more powerful form. And like a dying person, you also dream on the sleigh journey about what will come when the trip is over. Constantly it is with you in the long track – this feeling of correspondence between the sleigh journey and life, and therefore the sleigh journey becomes something quite different from other journeys: a clarification, a calm by – perhaps for the first time – having full and direct contact with it the true function of living, and only that/nothing else. A joy at how beautiful and easy it is to travel on this exciting journey of life, where you are constantly drawn towards the unknown by your innate, powerful urge to discover, your desire to experience new things, find riddles and their solution.

Eigil Knuth, Danish polar explorer & anthropologist

Jobs at Green Dog

Guide
Hunder og hav NO
Green Dog Svalbard is continuously looking for guides with a minimum of 1 year’s experience in dog sledding.
Dog handler
Green Dog Svalbard is continuously looking for dog handlers, preferably with experience from agriculture and the like.
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Vanskelighetsgrader

SG1
Passer for alle
SG2
Passer for de fleste
SG3
Passer for de med normalt god form
SG4
Passer for de med over gjennomsnittet god form
SG5
Denne aktivitet krever veldig god fysisk form

Avbestilling

  • Ved avbestilling inntil 22 dager før aktivitet full refusjon.
  • Ved avbestilling 21-8 dager før aktivitet 50 % refusjon.
  • 7 – 0 dager før aktivitet regnes for en ”no show” og berettiger derfor ikke til refusjon.
  • Har man en reiseforsikring kan man søke forsikringsselskapet om refusjon mot legeerklæring.
  • Velger Green Dog å kansellere en tur, får du full refusjon!

Difficulty Levels

SG1

Suitable for everyone

SG2

Suitable for most people

SG3

Suitable for those in normal good shape

SG4

Suitable for those in good shape

SG5

This activity requires very good physical shape

Cancellation

  • If cancelled 22 days or more prior to departure 100 % refund.
  • If cancelled 22-7 days prior to departure 50 % refund.
  • Cancellation less than 7 days prior to departure is a ”no show” and does not qualify for any refund.
  • You may apply to your insurance company for a refund if you provide a medical certificate.
  • If Green Dog Svalbard decides to cancel a trip due to weather conditions or any other reasons, you will receive a full refund!

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