My Northern Home

Nuolikuru, Lapland The general powerlessness, which had been the theme for my autumn days, was again giving me "good" advices to just stay home and not see anybody. Or was it our government's voice? Sometimes I'm not sure anymore. Luckily for me I had promised to go for a day adventure to Nuolikuru canyon ( Arrow Canyon ) with my dear French Friend. We start to drive when it was still dark and arrived to the canyon just when the darkness start to give away for the daylight. The air was cold and I felt little bit chilly. The autumn weather had staid mild and there had not been proper frozen days yet. But the snow had finally come back after a month of absence. Hopefully for good this time. Everything looked so much more brighter and lighter with the snow. We both could feel our minds and bodies growing more lighter and relaxed the minute we entered to the forest. The pure joy of the fresh snow took us over. We climbed on the rocks, slide down the hill sides on our but...

I was going to write about my holiday adventures in central Finland. But then came The Big Snowfall and powdered everything. The snowfall still continues outside my window as I'm writing this. So, obviously, we headed for a snowy adventure instead. The destination for this time was Luostotunturi (or Luosto fell). I'm working in the ski resort located there, so I'm not quite easily driving there when it's my day off. The idea came from my friend and he also offered to drive. So why not. And the day was totally worth it. At first we walked by foot, as the snowshoe trail was so used, that you didn't actually need snowshoes on it. But after a while we decided to leave the trail and headed to the unknown. There was surprisingly a lot of snow in the forest. And also surprise rocks just couple centimeters under the snow surface, ready to scratch you knee. The forest itself was calm and quiet. Snow covering...