The last week of the year 2013 I spent walking in the Hossa area with four snowshoeing enthusiasts from France. A daily snowshoe hike through the beautiful snowy landscapes combined with observing nature and enjoying the silence was the name of the game. Some nights spent in a basic wood-heated wilderness cabin with no electricity…
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The darkest day of the year
Today is the darkest day of the whole year, the sun rose 10.20 am and went down 13.40 pm. It´s quite dark the whole time and one is able to enjoy daylight for about six hours in total during the day. If you´re lucky and the sky is clear, moonlight makes it possible to be…
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Winter takes over
It´s really starting to look and feel like winter here in Hossa. Permanent snow has landed and autumn has slowly developed to early winter. Wool-socks, mittens, fur-caps and long johns have to be brought into use latest now! In November the natural surrounding is dominated by stillness, nature slows down and gathers strength for the…
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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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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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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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