{"id":2691,"date":"2016-11-10T20:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2018-10-03T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:03:47","slug":"ice-skating-lake-ounasjarvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/ice-skating-lake-ounasjarvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Skating on Lake Ounasj\u00e4rvi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00b0C in the past days where, however, cold enough to provide an ice cover with the thickness that allows to skate over the lake.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2691 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"ice skater on frozen lake\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ice-skating_lake-ounasj\u00e4rvi.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2692'>\n\t\t\t\tIce skater and ice fisher\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"sun set behond frozen lake\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sunset-frozen-ounasj\u00e4rvi.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2693'>\n\t\t\t\tSunset early in the afternoon\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00b0C in the past days where, however, cold enough to provide an ice cover with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/ice-skating-lake-ounasjarvi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ice Skating on Lake Ounasj\u00e4rvi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,131,18,34,50],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","tag-hetta","tag-fp2","tag-lapland","tag-enontekio","tag-ounasjarvi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}