Wilderness and expedition styled packrafting! In the border area between Norway and Sweden within the Sylan Mountains we will be 7 days completely autonomous on a combined packrafting trip. This is an intensive training, skilling you for your own packrafting trips. We only go once a year.
An expedition style packrafting trip in Scandinavia
Expect an adventure! Follow us into the wilderness of the Sylan Mountains in Norway and Sweden and learn more about expedition styled packrafting: Loneliness, challenging situations and an amazing unspoiled landscape, everything on one unique packraft expedition.
- Expedition-styled packraft trip: You will carry all food and equipment for 7 days
- In equal parts on land and water. We will have a tour route of between 100 km and 120 km, depending on local weather and water level
- 6 camp nights in wilderness
- A challenging terrain: Off-track hiking, marshlands, lake crossings and wild rivers
- Our daily stages are between 10 km and 25 km
- Limited to one training date per year
- We will have a detailed daily briefing, and we will teach skills on planning and carrying out expedition styled packraft trips
- Upon request, we allow participants to plan and guide short parts of the tour on their own, of course under supervision
- We will provide you with detailed information, such as packing lists and weather information. We are happy to answer all your questions in advance and help you preparing
- Picture Service: During the course the guides will take high quality pictures on land and water which will be provided to all participants after the course in high resolution and free of charge (no need to carry a camera)
What makes this training so special?
This training will be held directly in wild nature. We are going with you to a few places, not even we have been before. It is a real expedition with changing paths, unknown areas and totally independent.
If you like, you can challenge yourself by taking the control and leading the group, of course under our expertise and guidance. In a team of two you can plan day stages of this expedition on your own and discuss them with your guides, for example during a meeting at the bonfire along the river, while rain drops falling on the group tarp or just while the northern sun sets. On the next day you can become the guide and lead the group save through marshlands, across the land, crossing lakes or on river sections.
Next tour-date
We are continuously collecting interested parties for the next tour (preferably in July 2026). If you are interested, please get in touch via the personal contact or the form below.
Requirements
This trip is for anyone interested. For participants without any experience we ask you, to complete at least a 2-day training course prior to this expedition. You can choose for example:
Multiday Packrafting trainings Hunsrück (2-4 days)
Whitewater packrafting trainings Tyrol (3 days)
Whitewater training Slovenia (3 or 5 days)
For those with some previous outdoor experience, participation may be possible without prior course participation. If you are interested please contact us personally and please provide your previous experience with packraft, kajac, kanu and outdoor trips or possible trips and trainings.
Feedback of participants
Another unforgettable tour […]! Best prepared by LWA, we were allowed to roam the beautiful landscape of the Sylan Mountains for one week. We had everything on this tour, rainy days, sunburn weather, mountains, rivers, suspension bridge, blueest sky, mosquitoes of the nasty kind, campfire, in short a perfect adventure and a blessing for all who were allowed to be there.
Joachim from Hesse, trip 2019
"A thank you, to you for this intense and perfect trip week! Everything worked out just perfectly: From the group setting, the route and stage planning to the weather. Of course you don’t have an affect on everything, but you made things right. I felt well cared and the mixture of challenge, nature feeling and the possibility to learn was just right for me.”
Tim from Munich, trip 2017
Pictures and impressions of the course 2019, as well as anecdotes about chocolate fondue for your birthday can be found in the blog post: "Expedition Training Sylan 2019" by Lead Guide and LWA founder Sebastian.
Impressions from the expedition trainings
More information
Videos
Tour facts and schedule
Arrival and departure: Flight to and from Trondheim, Norway
Arrival (Flight): Saturday before the tour start. We will have a detailed trip briefing on this day, followed by a get-together in the evening in Trondheim.
Tour (the tour is annually adapted to the local weather and terrain conditions and may be in unexplored areas):
- Sunday, day 1: Transfer, tour entry and first camp (route depends on the wind conditions)
- Day 2: Land, lake and river, camp at a lake
- Day 3: Lake crossing and climbing the Sylan Mountains, highest camp
- Day 4: Trekking down to the Handölan valley, river camp
- Day 5: River run Handölan and bypassing different waterfalls, river camp
- Day 6: River run and lake crossing, island camp
- Saturday, day 7: Lake crossing, tour final, transfers to Trondheim and a get-together in the evening
Departure (Flight): Sunday after the final trip day.
After booking, you will receive detailed information on arrival, departure and tour schedule with the trip documents.
For those booking their own flights: We ask you to arrive latest on Saturday afternoon to allow a tour briefing with the entire group. We will leave Trondheim early in the morning on Sunday to start the tour in Norway’s wilderness. The return flight should not be booked before Sunday after the final tour day.
For preparation and tuning in we will have a virtual meeting through a video-call in advance. The trip date will be planned as the group is completed.
Guides
The team of this expedition training consists of the training lead guide on site in Norway, a co-guide on site and a person responsible for the overall organisation and conception of the course. If you have any questions about this extraordinary course, our entire team is available for questions through phone or email.
Members of the expedition training team
Jochen
Sebastian
Prices
- Participation staggered according to group size:
- 1789€ per person for 10 participants
- 1959€ per person for 7-9 participants
- 2089€ per person for 5-6 participants
- Rental Packrafting equipment (optional):
- Packraft with accessories: 200€
- Packraft with internal storage system (CargoFly/ISS) and accessories: 250€
- Drysuit and safety: 100€
- plus 30€ equipment shipping (to Germany and most EU countries) to you before tour start and back after tour end.
- Reservation in team hotel is possible, on a limited basis when booking early enough (rooms are around 90€-120€ per room and night)
- The price does not include: own food and airport transfers (regular train service)
The minimum number of participants for this training is 6.