Finland Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/finland/ One more mountain line Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:16:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thesnowalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Snowalker-logo-mountain-bw-2-1-32x32.jpg Finland Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/finland/ 32 32 90835253 PUSU Skis – Bringing Finnish ski building tradition in to the 21st century https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/12/pusu-skis-bringing-finnish-ski-building-tradition-in-to-the-21st-century/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/12/pusu-skis-bringing-finnish-ski-building-tradition-in-to-the-21st-century/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:01:14 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2713 As news about an upcoming  ski brand manufacturing innovative, award-winning skis in a farm, somewhere amidst the forests of Central Finland started to circle, it was time to investigate.    I´m standing in the parking lot, in front of a traditional Finnish barn, in the heart of the country´s lake district. It´s […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/12/pusu-skis-bringing-finnish-ski-building-tradition-in-to-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 2713 Following the road less travelled into Russian Karelia https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/02/following-the-road-less-travelled-into-russian-karelia/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/02/following-the-road-less-travelled-into-russian-karelia/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:37:10 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1619  The border formalities on the Finnish side go smoothly, but on the Russian side the bureaucratic Soviet influence is still evident: I have to fill several small entry forms and then queue with them from one counter to the next. As I am crossing the border by car I have […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/02/following-the-road-less-travelled-into-russian-karelia/feed/ 0 1619 A campervan road trip to Lapland https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/03/21/a-grand-tour-of-lapland-part-1/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/03/21/a-grand-tour-of-lapland-part-1/#respond Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:54:20 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=648 As the summer was approaching my girlfriend Laura and I were busy sketching plans for our first road-trip with the newly purchased Volkswagen T3 Syncro. We had already roughly decided on the route, starting off from Helsinki, heading towards the western and north-western parts of Finnish Lapland, then crossing the […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/03/21/a-grand-tour-of-lapland-part-1/feed/ 0 648 Northern Exposure in Ylläs https://www.thesnowalker.com/2015/12/15/northern-exposure-in-yllas/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2015/12/15/northern-exposure-in-yllas/#respond Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:03:21 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=215 Words: Jaakko Järvensivu, Photos: Juha Laine The wind is moving the snow like a fast magic carpet on top of the rock-hard snowpack that is covering the surrounding fells under a layer of white wavy formations, with rocks protruding here and there like small islands. The whirling snow stings you […]

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