Picture Galleries & Stories from my Hiking Trips and Journeys
Finally I found the time to go for a short skiing trip. Since I only had a few hours and wanted to ski up to the fells, I decided to take the Sammalvaara skiing trail, north-west of the Ounastunturi mountains. Continue reading “Taking the Sammalvaara Skiing Trail During a Spring Time Sunset”
Lately I haven’t done many updates of the blog, which is simply because I haven’t done any outdoor or other activates but working. Soon my final thesis (Diplomarbeit) will be finished, which I will make available online.
Some little pieces of the research I have carried out for my thesis have, however, already been published: Just last week the post delivered me a copy of the book “Arctic Marine Governance,” in which I have contributed to the chapter:
Kamrul Hossain, Timo Koivurova and Gerald Zojer (2014): Understanding Risks Associated with Offshore Hydrocarbon Development. In: E. Tedsen, S. Cavalieri, & R. A. Kraemer (Eds.): Arctic Marine Governance. Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 159-176.
The Article is also available online (unfortunately not free), under: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38595-7_7, where you can also find an abstract.
Last week, when I went for a short skiing trip, I got to see the sun for the first time in about six to eight weeks. Even though the sun is back, it still is really cold outside, and because of the sun remaining low, there is yet no warmth coming form the sun. However, the cold left some beautiful rime on the trees, making the landscape look magically. Continue reading “I Saw the Sun! Day and Night in Hetta, and Coldness Sustains.”
While this year’s polar night is coming to an end, the previously absent cold has returned. After the past few weeks have been cloudy and warm, the sky has now cleared up again, and brought back temperatures that would have been expected during the polar night. Yet, the sun does not shine in the village (although today I saw some trees in the sun light, up on a hill), but the periods of daylight are getting longer every day. Here are some images from a short walk, showing the special light conditions at the end of this year’s polar night, at around -30 degrees Celsius. Continue reading “The End of the Polar Night, the Return of the Cold!”
After a medium sun storm has been reported, its solar burst was predicted to hit the earth’s atmosphere yesterday evening, giving a good chance of seeing some nice northern lights. Thus I decided to take my camera with me, when I went for a short skiing trip up on Jyppyrävaara mountain, close to Hetta. But as so often, when above average solar activity has been observed, I once again did not see any exciting northern lights. Nevertheless, I have been able to enjoy one of the very rare clear nights in the past weeks ..
Continue reading “Predicted Northern Lights Do Not Happen! Night Skiing on Jyppyrävaara.”
The sun hasn’t been showing up in Hetta since about two weeks by now. With the absence of light, also the cold of a polar winter came by for a short visit over the past weekend. Here are some images from a walk in the village center of Hetta .. Continue reading “Hetta During the Polar Night – A Short Walk by -36 Degrees Celsius”
