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Late winter views in Hossa

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Late winter explorations in Hossa National Park

Here´s some glimpses from an overnight trip to Hossa national park in April, where we spent two days exploring and ice-fishing on this remote lake. This is the time when the snow starts getting wetter with the increasing sunlight and then freezing up during the night as the temperatures drop, making it easy to ski…
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Winter fun in Hossa – hiking, cabin life and winter activities

Third week of January was spent enjoying authentic cabin life and getting active outdoors by exploring the icy wilderness of Hossa national park with people from Germany, who decided to skip the tourist traps and challenge themselves in the Finnish wilds by joining one of our all-inclusive holiday experiences. Temperature stayed firmly around -20 degrees…
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Autumn adventures in Hossa

Autumn´s restful atmosphere, the cool and dark nights and the mostly empty trails and campsites make it a perfect time of year to head on hikes in the woods and canoe trips across lakes. Hossa National Park in general is very peaceful due to its remote location and you can´t really talk about the area…
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Winter activities in Hossa

Here´s a little update on how it has been to engage in all the fun winter activities in Hossa after a while. Living with the rhythm of the seasons and having a huge contrast between them is such a richness; always different things to do and changing things see out there. Last year ended and…
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Long summer days in the northern wilderness

The midsummer time is a unique time of year that passes by quickly, this is why many Finnish people spend their holidays in June and July and escape to a peaceful cottage somewhere, to enjoy the simple ”cabin and a sauna” -lifestyle and to be surrounded by nature at its most greenest. Fishing, cooking outdoors…
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Surrounded by Wilderness in and around the Hossa National Park

Winter season 2015-2016 has included many beautiful moments and days spent outdoors once again but here´s a bit more detail about one tailored, 8-day trip that took place two weeks back. Stephanie and Timo from Zurich contacted me, willing to travel to Hossa and experience a private adventure in the north and try out some…
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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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Authenticity back to travel

At the end of last winter season I had the privilege to host a nice young couple from Holland, Shelly and Bart. Purpose of the trip was Shelly´s graduation thesis, she was studying tourism in Haarlem in the Netherlands at that moment and wanted to do a community based tourism related product development research abroad….
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First time in Finland – visiting Hossa

Highest peak of the winter season is now over and one of the highlights was in the beginning of March when old friends from Asturias, northern Spain travelled to Hossa for a return visit. Nigel and Joann, who are originally from the UK, are running a special countryside hotel Posada del Valle, resting within its…
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