Experience the feeling of cruising through valleys, between high mountains and out to the cold coastal landscape by snowmobile. Our destination is the Tempelfjord.
Your guide will pick you up at the hotel and drive you to our expedition centre. Here you get equipped with a scooter dress, boots, balaclava, helmet and mittens, before we go to the scooters that are waiting for us outside. The guide will show you how the scooter works and how to drive it – then it’s time to head out into the wilderness!
The goal for the tour is Sassenfjorden (the ‘Sassen Fjord’) and Villa Fredheim, the hunting base of the legendary trapper Hilmar Nøis. Nøis was known as the ‘King of Sassen’, and spent 38 winters on Svalbard. Many of the trapper cabins on Svalbard are of the simplest sort, but Nøis’ is an exception. It is called “Villa” Fredheim for a reason. With its flag pole, potted plants and curtains, this two storey house was a palace in comparison to the other cabins. Despite this luxurious standard, it is hard not to feel enormous respect for Nøis and his family who lived in these harsh conditions, winter after winter.
We will be traveling in different groups, see below.
If your name is together with someone else name. Then you are sharing the snowmobile. If you both have a valid driver’s license you can take turns on who is driving.

Ensure that your driver’s license is valid in Svalbard
To drive a snowmobile on Svalbard, you must have a driver’s license for passenger car/class B. The driver’s license must have been issued in a country that is a party to the Geneva Convention of 1949 or the Vienna Convention of 1968 on road traffic. The driver’s license must be valid in the issuing country.

Included
- Transport to and from the accommodation
- Winter suit, boots, mittens, helmet, goggles and balaclava
- Guide with safety equipment
- Search and rescue insurance
- Warm lunch, hot drinks and biscuits
Essential
- We do not recommend this tour if you are pregnant or have back problems
- We recommend warm clothing to wear under the winter suit such as wool underwear, wool socks, thick sweater and extra mittens
- A small backpack for extra clothing and other items
- Please state any food allergies or other preferences
- For participants driving on this excursion, it is required that you speak and understand English or a Scandinavian language
- For safety reasons, the route may change due to weather, wind and snow conditions
- Non-Norwegian digital driver licenses are not valid for driving in Norway
Difficulty grading system
- 3 – Suitable for most without any snowmobile experience, through some rugged terrain
Schedule
Group 1 – 8.00
GERMANY
- Claudia Genilke
Raimund Bernet - Petra Meier
Susanne Becker - Daniela Röder
Jutta Prediger - Thorsten Ritsch
Vincent Rippert - Sabine Nitzschke
Peter Deller - Ralf Klemm
Ingrid Fütterer - Thomas Becker
Gerald Genilke - Daniela Sommer
Nicola Dubral - Anorte Linsmayer
- Franz Lachermeier
- Günther Fischer
- Manuela Betz-Schreiber
- Alexander Schreiber
- Birgit Loy
- Sebastian Sittl
- Imke Turner
- Bernd Schrader
- Simone Stöppler
- Hartmut Krause
- Rolf Dilger
Group 2 – 8.45
AUSTRIA, FRANCE, SWEDEN
- Marian Fernbach
Herbert Fernbach - Hubert Gogl
Kathi Puelacher - Lukas Mari
Eva Pejcl - Klause Töchterle
Gabriela Brunner - Bernhard Triendl
Harald Jelinek - Markus Feichter
Berhard Schebeck - Sylvie Bonnet
Yannick Aroussi - Arnaud Jeannin
Clémentine Fayolle - Catherine Malle
Michel Kirstetter - Fabien Rouge
Laurence Poncet - Paul Tesarek
- Paul Thibaut
- Lucile Guillotin
- Laurance Romet
- Monica Palmeborn
- Helena Bremberg
- Börje Spiik
- Lena Henriksson
- Maurice Mogard
- Andy Berggren
- Fredrik Jarl
- Elisabeth Andersson
- Zakarias Faust
- Kristina Uddholm
Group 3 – 9.30
SWITZERLAND, NORWAY
- Claire Taurisson
Alice Dumas - Angélique Neyroud
Laurent Neyroud - Laure Testuz
Ornella Lunghi Amblet - Catherine Mathez
Fabrice Araldi - Lydie Palamara
Yves Robin - Andreánne Quartier-la-tente
Jacques Ansermant - Jan Slettenhaar
Jean-Paul Cateau - Yoann Schranz
Marine Beauverger - Janique Sonderegger
Olivier Imesch - Anouck Matthey
Olivier Guignard - Richard Jabornigg
- Claude Baur
- Knut Reidar Andresen
- Sidsel Avlund
- Espen Stensrud
- Morten Skramstad
- Frode Stang
- Kristin Johannesen
- Charlotte Nicoline Clasen
- Jorild Eiksund
- Tulla Onstad
- Frode Bringa Berntsen
- Kari Anne Lang-Ree
- Maria Hasselgård
Group 4 – 10:15
DENMARK
- Henrik Hafjell
Nathalie Doménégo - Berit Carlsen Allio
Alain Allio - Malene Skaaning
Conny Engstrøm - Stine Dahl Børglum
Thomas Hougaard Christensen - Helle Jensen
Christina Keinicke - Lise Kongsgaard
Jane Graulund - Karin Rydegård Gullström
Ullacarin Tiderman - Nina Grann
Guri Skeie - Siv Kristin Sællmann
Ketil Flatøy - Viggo Olsen
- Sidsel Klostergaard Petersen
- Susanne Gewinner
- Allan Tuxen
- Peter Freltoft
- Torsten Elmquist
- Jesper Fonager
- Thoralf Strandli Pedersen
- Marcus Flach-Jensen
- Rasmus Johansen
Group 5 – 8.45
ORGANIZATION
- Kerstin Sundberg
- Birgitta Kadin
- Maggan Cruseman
- Anders Sundqvist
- Peter Sjölund
Andreas Johansson - Pia Molinder
- Are Nundal
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