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Tag: Hiking

  • Holiday 2020 Day 4

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    We woke up in Ruka and cleaned the appartment. Started driving to Pyhätunturi (The Holy mountain). There was one stop on the way in the northside of Kemijärvi, there is a small village called Kostamo. Why is this village interesting?? It just happens to be the same name than my Family name…

    Kostamoroad & It was also chosen as the village of the year in 1997

    From Kemijärvi to Pyhätunturi it’s not too far anymore. The path to the Pyhäkasteen lampi & vesiputous (pond in the end of canyon and the waterfall) had been closed for the whole summer until this day. So we were about the first ones to see these amazing views!

    • FIrst there is about 1km walk in the forest
    • Then you have to go down
    • On the bottom of the canyon there is nice wooden path
    • Canyon is called Isokuru
    • At the end of the canyon you will find the pond & waterfall
    Click any of the pictures to see it bigger

    After this very nice hike we continued driving north. We were shopping first time in Sodankylä and then again in Inari. The second visit to shop was because we realized that we will be in Norway next day and there everything is much more expensive!
    We made a short stop in the top of Saariselkä and beside the Lake Inari.

    2 years ago when we were here it was very warm. Now it was +11 and little bit of raining
    The Top -restaurant
    Lake Inari

    We also found the place for sleep beside the Lake Inari.
    In the evening we were making food with our Trangia cooking system. The taste of food was terrible!

    Cooking the meal that came out with terrible taste!

    We realized that there was some taste of the fuel that we were using to make the fire in the cooking system. We put the question to Facebook to ask from other users did they have the same? Few days later we found out the reason.
    The route for the day 4 was like this:

  • Repovesi National Park

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    This National Park is pretty close to Helsinki -only about 180 kilometers to Lapinsalmi parking area. This National park is mostly about lakes, hills and cliffs -the “official webpage” says like this: “Repovesi’s rugged forests are dotted with blue lakes and ponds. The park offers accessible adventures for everyone. Its hills and cliffs challenge keen hikers and climbers.” (Link)
    Me and my wife visited here few days ago. We were lucky to have very nice and sunny weather and not too many people in the park!

    • Beautiful forest and path
    • Lakes with clear water
    • Almost blue sky
    • Not so easy path!
    • Katajavuori (juniper mountain) is about 40 meters above lake
    • Reflection
    • Finnish forest
    • Finnish lake
    • Lake with views
    • Almost all the time you’ll have a lake beside you
    • The fireplace with the dinnertable

    We enjoyed our walk in the beautiful and peaceful forest! And of course we had some food with us and we made fire.

    Corn and banana!
    Ahh, sorry! It wasn’t banana -it was Bratwurst sausage!
    And for the dessert we got some ice cream… Or actually hail! It wasn’t very warm weather.

    The information about the possibility to walk around “the main route” wasn’t very clear! We saw 1 or 2 info board about the ferry not being in use in the winter time. But I was thinking “It’s not winter any more!”

    Ketunlossi (Fox ferry)

    This is self service manual ferry, you have to pull yourself to the other side. But it was NOT in use yet. So we had to walk back the same route we did so far… But it wasn’t so terrible because we got to see this another time:

    • Lapinsalmi
    • New bridge
    • Hanging bridge
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    This bridge was opened in november 2019. There was old bridge but it was collapsed in the summer 2018. This new Lapinsalmi bridge is very beautiful!