Guided all-women’s hiking trips in Sweden, rooted in friluftsliv, shared experience, and a deeper connection to the land.
When we hear the word adventure, many of us picture something extreme. Big summits. Mandatory suffering. Hardcore outdoorsmen conquering nature, loaded with the latest survival gear.
That’s not what this is.
This is adventure in a broader sense of the word. Doing something exciting and slightly challenging. Stepping outside your usual role and comfort zone. Experiencing a different culture and getting to know a new landscape.
For some, the adventure is hiking in mountain terrain for the first time. For others, it’s traveling on their own and getting to know new people. For many mothers, it’s doing something just for themselves after years of putting everyone else first.
You don’t have to be fearless. You just need an open mind – and a desire to be one with nature.
Have you ever heard of the “fells”? Most foreigners haven’t, and that’s part of the charm. In Sweden, we call them fjäll: the wide, treeless highlands where birch forest thins out and the landscape opens into rock, heather, bog, and sky. Here, the air is purer, the water cleaner and the pace of life slower. The fells are where people come to live simply and leave happy.
Forget crowded trails, noisy campgrounds and busloads of tourists with selfie sticks. The fells are part of some of the largest continuous wild spaces in Europe, and here you can walk for hours without seeing a soul. It’s a working, lived-in landscape with deep roots, molded over millennia by glaciers, the Indigenous Sámi people and their grazing reindeer. In summer, the days run long and the valleys spill over with wildflowers and green. The mountains are gentle here, but they still make you feel small in the best way.
The fells aren’t a destination as much as a way of being. And you’re invited.
I’m a Swedish-American writer, speaker, and author of There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather and The Open-Air Life. I grew up in Sweden, spent 15 years living in the U.S., and eventually found my way back to a small house by the woods in Sweden.
I’ve dedicated the past decade of my life to writing and speaking about friluftsliv (“open-air life”) and helping people connect with nature. Not as an escape from real life, but as a way to live it more fully. Guiding hikes is a way to delve deeper into that work, by creating real-life experiences designed to restore, inspire and educate.
I was raised hiking, camping and skiing in the Nordic mountains and have guided people from all walks of life. I’m trained in wilderness first-aid and know this landscape like the back of my hand. Now, I want to share it with you.
You’re drawn to the idea of adventure, but not extremes
You enjoy both conversation and quiet
You’re curious about Nordic culture and friluftsliv
You long for an experience that goes beyond taking pretty selfies
You want to travel in a way that feels authentic and real
If this sounds like your kind of adventure, I’d love to hike with you.
You’re drawn to the idea of adventure, but not extremes
You enjoy both conversation and quiet
You’re curious about Nordic culture and friluftsliv
You long for an experience that goes beyond taking pretty selfies
You want to travel in a way that feels authentic and real
To be an experienced hiker
To own fancy gear
To come with a partner or group
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