Picture Galleries & Stories from my Hiking Trips and Journeys
The peak of Pyhäkero is the most visible part of the Pallas-Yllästunturi national park when looking from Hetta toward South – toward the national park. Several trails are leading to – or over the Pyhäkero fell. For our weekend trip, we chose to make ski around the Pyhäkero fell, including one overnight stay at the Sioskuru open wilderness hut, instead of just taking the shortest way up. Continue reading “The ’46 km for 360° of Pyhäkero in 48 Hours’ Round Trip”
Now that it gets warmer again during the days, not only skiing and playing ice hockey are possible outdoor activities, but also ice fishing becomes way more attractive than during the colder season. It is still though some work to drill through the ice: after shoveling away about 30 cm of snow, there still has been a layer of approximately 60 cm of frozen Ounasjärvi water. However, after succeeding with the warm up operations, the relaxing ice fishing can begin! Continue reading “Ice Fishing on Ounasjärvi”
In the past few days, the sun was shining and blue sky was inviting for skiing trips. Unfortunately we were rather busy, but on Thursday we finally had some time for a short skiing trip. The skiing tracks were in very good condition, and partly looked almost as new. We decided to once again make a short round on the Pahtajärvenreitti, North of Hetta, Continue reading “Spring Time Skiing on Pahtajärvenreitti, and More Birches Coming Out of the Snow”
When I wrote in my last gallery post and mentioned, that it looks and feels like spring already, then I was right. Even though there have been a few more days below -30, in general it remained rather warm.
The trees have lost their snow cover, and the birch trees, that have been buried under the snow, slowly loose their winterly suite and start to stand up again. Continue reading “Spring Time, Equinox, Birch Rebirth and More Fragments”
Now it is exactly one and a half years, that this blog went online, and a lot of things were added in the mean time. Besides all the content that has been published, also many features were added. The reason for this post thus is, to highlight and discuss a few of them.
What will the future bring?
So much about the past & present, but what will the future bring? Of course I will try to continue to regularly post some impressions of my surroundings, which I have been able to catch with my camera. I will also try to further improve my English skills, to make the posts more clear. But I am also planning to open up another category with content, despite picture galleries and travel stories. So, if you got interested now in what this could be – then stay tuned! For now I’d like to say thanks a lot for following my blog and for commenting my posts.
After skiing towards the South the day before, we decided to also ski a bit towards the North and visit the Närpistö lean-to shelter (once more), along the Pahtajärvenreitti. Like the days before, it was again rather warm (especially for mid February), and I had the feeling it would be some time in the middle of spring. Why: Because it actually was pretty warm (just a few degrees below zero), the the snow felt wet and not winterly, but maybe even more because of the way the trees looked like. Continue reading “Taking the Pahtajärvenreitti to Närpistö Laavu And Wondering: Is It Already Spring?”
A nice skiing track in the Hetta region is the Sammalvaaran latu (Sammalvaara skiing trail), which is a bit West of the main tracks from Hetta to Pyhäkero and Sioskuru, and which has two lean-to shelters along the trail: the Rautujärvi laavu, and the Postitupajärvi laavu. The latter one was the target for this short skiing trip, which we choose for having our lunch that day. Continue reading “On the Sammalvaara Skiing Trail to the Postitupajärvi Lean-To Shelter”
