My Northern Home

"Can you picture us living in a place, where it would be possible to climb when ever we want?" This is a game we play often in the evening, while waiting for a sleep to catch us. This has particularly come our routine now, when all the indoors activities are prohibited, and during the long and snowy Northern winter only possibility to continue climbing is indoors. Rock climbing or bouldering in -20 degrees would be little bit too much. And also dangerous for that matter. So we have intentionally turned our eyes to the future and to the summer to come. When the snow melts away and it will be plus degrees, what kind of routes we wanna climb? Sure we have a lot of unfinished projects waiting for us. But what we can do right now? We can hunt. Earlier it has been just something we have done, if there hasn't been anything else to do or we have just accidentally found an ok nice new boulder on our mushroom picking trip. But it has always been more like blind shooting and pocking...

Tuntsa - Naruska When I was invited to the big adventure like this, I didn't hesitate. I said yes, on the middle of the invitation. 6 days In the middle of the real wilderness Hiking and hunting The plan was to hike about 20 km per day. Sleep at the wilderness and rental huts. At the day time travel independently  and meet my adventure companion in the evening at the next hut. Perfect! The first day brought me back to the ground quite nicely. I read the map wrongly and got lost on the first kilometres. After finding to the correct meeting point, where my mentor had waited for me for one and half hours, he suggested, that rest of the day I could walk on the market hiking trail. I was so ashamed, but I felt I totally deserved it. So rest of the 13 km I walked to the trail, which turned out to be quite good choice. Walking 20 km, with a heavy back bag and heavy shotgun, wasn't easy. I realized that I had been on this kind of hike last time few years ago on my Camino. When I had st...