Last weekend I decided to head into the wilderness by bike instead of walking. I do prefer walking in these forests because of its calmer tempo and because that way it´s easier to observe nature and have animal contacts but variation creates refreshment! Cycling about 25 kilometers through varying terrain turned out to be very…
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Picking berries and cooking with mushrooms
In Finland, late July and August are very busy months if you are into picking berries and cooking with mushrooms for example. It´s simply great that one can just head out there and harvest and preserve all the tasty wild foods of the season! This is the time when first mushrooms can be found here…
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Hiking in the aapa mires of the old growth forests
Yesterday I went hiking in the aapa mires of the old growth forests near the Hossa recreation area. These forests and mires have gone through restoration and now they are being protected with a few hiking trails passing through. After my trip I ended up noticing that hiking in this area provides so variable sceneries…
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Catching northern pike and brown trout
It is the beginning of the summer fishing season, it was early during the spring when I started to wait for the moment when I can go and fish northern pike and brown trout by spin casting so last week me and a friend of mine decided to head to the rivers and lakes of…
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Early summer activities in Hossa
A quick report concerníng my movements taking place at the moment! Catching perch with fish traps is part of our living with the seasonal variation of nature, at this time of year they are spawning and thereby easily catched with passive methods.It´s local food at its best; delicious natural ingredients combined with the joy and…
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Forest skiing and ice-fishing
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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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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