Our Story
A family, a valley in Breivikeidet, and ninety-some huskies who are convinced they run the place.
It starts with the dogs
Every dog sledding company will tell you they love their dogs. Here is our version: we love our dogs as much as we love our kids, and we built a company so we could spend our lives with both.
Aurora Husky began the way most good things in northern Norway begin, with a family, a long winter, and the realization that the thing we most wanted to share with visitors was not a product but a feeling: standing on the runners behind a team of Alaskan huskies as the noise of the world drops away and the only sound left is paws on snow.
Everything else, the camp, the cafe, the thermal suits in every size, exists to deliver that feeling safely to people who have never felt it before.
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Bjørn Tore Helgesen
Head Musher & Founder
The people behind the dogs
Bjørn Tore leads the pack, human and husky. He has spent his adult life around sled dogs, and still takes the morning feeding round himself whenever he can.
The Real Heroes
Our Alaskan Huskies are the heart and soul of Aurora Husky. Raised with love and trained with patience, they are elite athletes who live for the trail. Get to know a few of our star runners.
Balto
Lead Dog
Unshakable focus, navigates in whiteouts.
Luna
Swing Dog
Keeps the pace, endlessly energetic.
Storm
Team Dog
The powerhouse, pulls like a freight train.
Nanook
Wheel Dog
Calm and steady, anchors the sled.
Camp Aspemo sits in Breivikeidet, a broad valley an hour north-east of Tromsø, far enough from the city that the loudest thing on most days is the dog yard at feeding time. This is where all our tours happen and where the dogs live year-round: an inland pocket of Troms that holds its snow from early November to mid-April, ringed by mountains that turn pink in the polar noon and, on lucky nights, sit under a sky full of northern lights.
Guests are coached in from Tromsø, but the camp is no stage set. It is a working kennel, a family workplace, and the home our huskies charge back to at the end of every run.
A camp at the end of the road
The promise
Founder and head musher Bjørn Tore Helgesen keeps the rule simple: the dogs come first, and the experience follows. It is why we keep groups small and let you drive your own sled instead of watching from a trailer. It is why every tour begins with time in the yard, learning your team's names before you ask them to pull.
And it is why we would rather cancel a tour than run one on a day that is wrong for the dogs. We think that honesty is what guests remember: not a polished performance of the Arctic, but a real place, a real family, and 90+ very real huskies, Balto, Luna, Storm, Nanook and the rest, doing the thing they love most with you standing behind them.
The best introduction is a handshake. Or a paw.
Read about how our dogs live, or come drive a team yourself.