Snowcamp 2027 · Swedish Lapland · January 31 – February 6
Seven days in Sweden, five of them above the Arctic Circle. Fire in the snow, a plunge through the ice, the sauna after, and the northern lights overhead.
We evolved to do this. Most of us never do.
Built for
the hard
things.
Snowshoes, twenty below, and a hole in a frozen lake.
No outside reception at camp. The world can wait.
Fire, layers, knife and rope. A winter skill set for life.
The sky does something you've only seen in photographs.
We evolved in small groups. Eight people, one crew.
Wood-fired saunas, long dinners, a warm villa every night.
You'll be in the cold.
You won't be cold.
Most of us spend the day in a climate-controlled cube, looking into a smaller cube of glass, and nothing ever really tests us. Snowcamp is a hack: a small, deliberate window where you disconnect from all of that and live like a human again. The ideas come from Rob's book, The Ancient Blueprint.
Uncomfortable on purpose.
This is hard.
We won't pretend otherwise.
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Seven days in Sweden. Five above the Arctic Circle.
The weather and the aurora
set the order.
Off the train in Kiruna. The Ice Hotel, the drive to Abisko, the villa, first dinner, first sky.
Snowshoe from camp. Layers, knife, fire without a match. A night climb for the aurora.
Ice fishing on Torneträsk. The sauna on the ice. The plunge. Then a long dinner.
Sami and reindeer. Rope from bark, carving. The research station for the lights.
Winter tea and the debrief. Your survival kit. Back to Kiruna for the train south.
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Everything above happens; the day it happens on may shuffle. And things we didn't plan have a way of popping up out here, which is half the fun. When they do, we follow them.
Two biologists teaching about nature.
Master's in behavioral ecology, MFA in science filmmaking, host of thirty television shows and the StoneAgeMan channel. Rob wrote The Ancient Blueprint. He ran the first Snowcamp in 2019 and has gone back every winter since.
Swedish biologist and an expert in Arctic environments, with a working life spent in the mountains and on the ice up here. Jonas coordinates the meals, leads the ice fishing and plunge days and knows this area like you know your own town.
"This was truly an incredible experience."Alex Dainis, PhD
Abisko.
The blue hole.
A clear sky.
AbiskoFive days under the blue hole.
Abisko sits in a gap in the weather. The mountains along the Norwegian border push the clouds aside and leave a "blue hole" of clear sky, which makes it one of the most reliable places on the planet to see the aurora.
We're near the top of the sun's eleven-year cycle, so the lights come often and they come big. Some nights we climb for them. Some nights they come to the villa. Nobody can honestly promise the aurora, but we put you in the right place, and we'll show you how to photograph it with your phone.
More than a vacation. It's a reset.
No payment now. Save a seat or just ask for more information. Rob and Jonas read every one of these and reply themselves, and seats go in the order the names come in.
Good people
Wild places
A clear head.
You're on the list
Rob will email you within a couple of days with the next step and the questions we ask everyone. Seats go in the order the names come in, so you did the right thing by not waiting.
Questions people ask
No. Most guests have never made a fire without a lighter or slept anywhere colder than a tent in October. The skills are taught from zero, and the online courses you get with your seat mean you arrive already knowing the vocabulary.
Early February in Abisko usually runs between -5 and -25°C (23 to -13°F). The first thing we teach is how to dress for it, and once you know that, cold stops being a threat and becomes a setting. You'll be warmer than you expect. The packing list has every layer.
If you can walk for three or four hours on flat-to-rolling ground with a daypack, with breaks, you're fine. Snowshoes are slow by nature. Nobody is racing.
Nothing is mandatory. But the sauna is right there, the hole is right there, and most people surprise themselves. We walk you through the breathing before you go anywhere near the water, and wilderness first aid is part of the course. If you have a heart condition, please skip the plunge; if you're not sure, ask your doctor before the trip.
Two nights on the overnight train, in the sleeper you choose, and four nights in heated Nordic villas with real beds and saunas. The camp in the forest is where we learn and eat lunch by the fire; we come home to the villa every night.
Get yourself to Stockholm on Sunday, January 31, and take the overnight train north. We meet you in Kiruna on Monday, February 1, and see you onto the train south on Friday, February 5, which gets you back to Stockholm on Saturday, February 6. We'll send links so you can book the train and choose your sleeper. You can also fly into Kiruna if you'd rather.
Everything from the moment you arrive in Kiruna: four nights in the villas, meals cooked and eaten together, all transport, the Ice Hotel, the lake sauna, ice fishing and the reindeer, the camp gear, two prep sessions from December 1, every online course we offer, and a winter survival kit to take home. Not included: getting to Stockholm, the night train (or a flight) to Kiruna and back, travel insurance and your own winter clothes.
Most people do. In a group this small, you won't be alone for long.
The first payment, due when you're accepted, is fully refundable until December 1. The second, due December 15, locks in your seat and isn't refundable: that's when we pay for the villas. The final payment is due a week before we go, so if you get sick or something comes up, you can pull out before paying it. Travel insurance is a good idea for exactly this.
Still wondering?
Ask on the form.
Rob replies himself.
The book is the map.
Snowcamp is the walk.
The book behind the trip
Everything we teach at Snowcamp comes from The Ancient Blueprint, the book I'm writing now. It lays out six things our bodies and minds were built around, and what happens when modern life takes them away. Snowcamp puts all six back for a week, so you feel the difference instead of just reading about it.
The Prologue is on its way. Or download it right now.