Hot day is best spent on a beach! And the best beach is a deserted one, I think. 🙂
Deserted beaches
Category: Finnish way of hiking
Thoughts about the Finnish way of hiking. Everyman’s Rights, wilderness huts, unsupported hiking style, making a fire, freezing temperatures and deep snow in winter, aurora borealis, midnight sun, endless forests, thousands of lakes and so on.
New book / Uusi kirja
Uusi kirjani ilmestyi juuri ja se pitää sisällään lähes 400 sivua retki- ja vaellustarinoita! Tässä blogikirjoituksessa lisätietoa kirjasta. / This blog post is exceptionally both in Finnish and in English. It's about my new book (which is written in Finnish.)
Finland’s new national park
Finland is going to establish a new national park, and there are five main candidates. No one knows yet which one will be the next national park, but here are descriptions and pics of each of them.
Long distance hiking: solo, off trail
More text and pics about my five weeks hike. Especially pondering about on trail vs off trail, and about hiking solo, and what about my lightweight equipment...
Summer wrap-up
More pics of wild beauty, and pics from our family hikes, and more cloudberries than I've ever seen...
Reasons for wilderness huts 12/12: huts built for hikers by the state
In this twelve post series I've told about over one hundred wilderness huts, about their origins, and with map links. After this it's time to write about something else... But first welcome to see 15 more hut pics! 🙂
Reasons for wilderness huts 11/12: huts built for hikers by voluntary work
Many cozy and personal wilderness huts are built by hiking associations or such. See some examples.
Wild beauty!
Red Campion inspired me to select ten wild beauties from my photo archives!
The wonderful first summer days!
The weather conditions are just perfect right now. This is the best time to hike! Or...
Reasons for wilderness huts 10/12: other reasons
In this post you'll find some more extraordinary origins for wilderness huts.
