In the end of March in Hossa the weather is mostly stunning providing excellent setting for forest skiing and ice-fishing and just enjoying the silence and the sceneries of the wintery wilderness. Forest skiing means working your way through untouched snow with equipment suitable for moving in this kind of conditions. Skis have to be…
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The winter wonderland
The varying weather conditions continuously change the wintery landscape, that is one the basics from which the essence of the winter wonderland is created. At times of very cold temperatures forests are covered with frost and the environment is all white, like straight out of a fairytale. Then suddenly if the weather warms up and…
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Wild foods
I feel fortunate to be able to cook from ingredients I picked myself last summer and autumn, enjoying wild foods at times of midwinter is one of the privileges of living in the north! In addition, spending a nice mid-summer day wandering in the forest and harvesting the delicacies of the wild and remembering the…
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Rest in the forest
From time to time, everyone should be exposed to the natural environment and rest in the forest. When constant outer stimuli and man-made sounds are being turned off, your heart rate and stress hormone levels drop as your general mood improves. Nature has a mysterious ability to calm you down and make you become aware…
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Midwinter of the Taiga forest
Midwinter of the Taiga forest is showing us the harsh side of itself; the temperature has been below -30 degrees Celsius for eight days in a row, truly a freezing christmas time! The last time we had weather like this was in January 2012; then we had a full week when the temperature varied between…
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Winter walking trip
I had a really nice winter walking trip around the Julma-Ölkky canyonlake today. It´s the biggest of the three exceptional canyon lakes situated in Finland where the water stands in a crack on the ground. This formation of the earths surface has taken place around two billion years ago. At its highest, the rockwall is…
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