Picture Galleries & Stories from my Hiking Trips and Journeys
Picture Galleries from my numerous Skiing trips, either daytrips or longer skiing adventures. It involves cross country, back country and alpine skiing.
According to the forecast, the skiing season is pretty much over. However, as the snow cover still is hard, a last attempt to ski distance and to visit Käkkälöjoki with skating skis.
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Taking advantage of the currently hard snow, I went with my cross country skis off the tracks to the explore the fells on the Enontekiö side of the Pallas-Yllästunturi national park.
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With the skiing season getting closer to its end, I was eager to ski through the northern part of the Pallas-Yllästunturi national park.
Continue reading “XC Skiing from Hetta to Torassieppi in the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park”
This year we got early a good amount of snow for skiing. With a friend we decided to take advantage of this fact and go for a little polar night ski hike. We went to Karesuvanto, in order to explore the Tarvantovaara wilderness area also during the snow season.
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When I said, “Last X-Country Skiing for the Season”, I didn’t mean last skiing trip. Since the polar day started a few days ago I was eager to go for a short skiing trip under the midnight sun. Once again – and with a friend – we decided to ski up to Pyhäkero.
Continue reading “Skiing Under the Midnight Sun”The snow conditions during this winter have been great, with the thick snow cover still providing plenty of snow. Just a few days ago the snow cover was still between 60cm (south slopes) and 80cm (north slopes) in Hetta, and the ice cover of lake Ounasjärvi still is around 75cm. Yet, according to the weather forecast tonight is the last night with minus degrees and during daytime the thermometer is expected to rise above 10°C. Thus the snow might disappear fast now. Considering this forecast today I went for my (most likely) final x-country skiing trip this season. Like yesterday I skied up the summer hiking trail to the summit of Pyhäkero.
As the temperatures were forecast to get a bit warmer, with a friend we decided to go to the northern part of Enontekiö. Starting from Kilpisjärvi we wanted to ski through the northern part of the Käsivarsi wilderness area. Since there are only few tourists here at the moment, we thought we would try to ski up Halti, which usually is pretty crowded this time of the year ..
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