A rare experience: In the past years, there was already too much snow for ice skating, once the ice was thick enough to allow to safely move on the lake. This year there was little precipitation yet. Temperatures of below -20°C in the past days where, however, cold enough to provide an ice cover with the thickness that allows to skate over the lake.
Since the days are already short (ca. some 5 hours daylight), and the sun soon will disappear for several weeks, we had to take advantage of the circumstances and went for a short ice skating tour. Though, beside a lonesome ice fisher, we were the only ones enjoying the 12cm thick ice.
Hello Gerald,
are there any possibilities near Hetta to go Ice Skating?
Thank you very much in Advance!
On the lake there are no maintained ice skating tracks, but there is an ice rink in the centre, behind the school, that is well maintained.
Hello Gerald,
do you know any place around lake Ounasjärvi to rent ice skates?
Thank you very much in advance!
Unfortunately not.
Ice skating on the lake is not really a thing here, because the season for that is usually very short, and not even possible every year. Mostly, soon after the lake freezes, snow starts to cover the ice, and sometimes there is too much snow on the ice before it gets safe for skating.
But you can drop me an email with what you need and you when you need it, and I can see if i can be of any help :-)