{"id":1144,"date":"2013-01-27T20:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2013-02-01T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:57:11","slug":"skiing-in-the-sun-again-pahtajarven-polku-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/skiing-in-the-sun-again-pahtajarven-polku-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiing in the Sun Again! Pahtaj\u00e4rven Polku in late January"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skiing in the sun on Pahtaj\u00e4rven Polku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mathematically, the sun should be back in Enonteki\u00f6 since 5th of January, however, it took until the 19th, when I was finally walking again in direct sun light for the first time since Kaamos (= polar night) is over. Unfortunately, that day the walk to the bus station – which brought me into the natural brightness of the big yellow thing – took me just a few minutes, so I haven’t been able to spent a long time in the sun. Nevertheless, after I have been away for a week, I gratefully took out my regular cross country skiers, for a short run in the sun when it returned.<\/p>\n

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Skiing in the sun on Pahtaj\u00e4rven Polku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In theory, the sun should be absent for pretty exactly a month. However, because of the beautiful fells in the South it takes a bit longer until shafts of sunlight make it back into the village. Also, the recent snowfalls hindered the sun of shining right into the Ounasj\u00e4rvi valley. Just yesterday, when we went ice fishing to Rautuj\u00e4rvi, we were still skiing through heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n

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Skiing on Pahtaj\u00e4rven Polku after the sun set<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, when we saw the clear sky today in the morning, we decided to change our forest skiers from the day before to regular xc-skiers, and see where we feel like going to. The tracks where not maintained yet and we had the luck to make fresh traces into the snow. Though, we weren’t exactly the first ones to make some traces on the snow covered skiing tracks: Just about 100 m behind our house we discovered a small reindeer herd, that also took advantage of the hard packed snow, when looking for some forage just next to the village of Hetta. When coming closer to Jyppyr\u00e4vaara, we discovered the hills in direct sun light and decided to ski up Jyppyr\u00e4vaara, taking the Pahtaj\u00e4rven polku<\/em>. The purple\/reddish colored snow from the low standing sun was at least as amazing as the deep blue and highly saturated colors of the sky, while we found trees with heavy snow loads on the ground. But see for yourself ….<\/p>\n