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Neatly packed food. |
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Teemu likes to play with panoramas. |
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Lihrin cliff above Kultala. |
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Kultala suspension bridge. |
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High above the river. |
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Teemu isn't really studying the map. |
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Always a river turn effect in panorama photos. |
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10 m safety distance required. |
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Rain skirt worked wonderfully in the bushes. |
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Primula stricta, a new plant to me. |
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The calm current. |
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Easy to spot the path here. |
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Having a break next to yet another rapid. |
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Caltha palustris. |
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Viola biflora. |
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Path is at those rocks not fully covered in lichen. |
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Teemu cooking in a fabulously surrounded kitchen. |
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Björklundinoja can be walked over. |
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Björklundinoja, yet another view. |
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Plenty of landscape. |
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After fording we poured water out of the shoes and squeezed the socks. |
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15 m lower: the Sotajoki river. |
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This time it's not the perspective: the sauna at Liljeqvist hut is truly tiny. |
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Small but practical. Liljeqvist hut. |
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Inside the Liljeqvist sauna, fire has been lit under a big stone. |
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Gyromitra esculenta, plenty were seen but none picked (requires three times cooking). |
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Maybe we should have forded Sotajoki here. |
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Teemu's first crawl under the reindeer fence. |
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I set the taro to dry, and it immediately started to rain. |
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Wind tunner under the tree. |
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Pretty little lakes upsteam Ritaoja. |
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Daily muscle maintenance. |
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Finnish saying: It's like deposing money in the bank when a young man sleeps. |
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There are many different ways of rolling away from the mosquito net. |
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Zigzag repair made back home, the rope attached in the wilderness. |
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Lakes and ridges. |
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Ridges and lakes. |
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And lakes. |
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Teemu tried the gaiters and they stopped his shoelaces from opening all the time. |
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I want to come here for an autumn hike. |
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. . . w i d e autumn hike. |
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Conveyor belt lifts the soil into the drum where the gold is washed. |
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Drive only with a special rover permit. |
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"If you want a ford photo, you could take it here." -Teemu. |
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Kalmia procumbens. |
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Siliäselkä ("Smooth back"). Barren yet not so high up. |
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Low bushes. Is it easier to walk on the barren land or in the middle of bushes? |
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Unnamed tree in an unnamed gorge. |
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Wear Everything You Have Day. |
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We scared a reindeer family away from here. |
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Quite a place for this pine to grow. |
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Kulmakuru, 90 degrees and perhaps as many metres. |
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Skiing trail passes here, and avalance warnings were in place. |
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View during a break. |
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The chick pea risotto was so good that I had to shoot a food blog photo. |
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Firestarters for the next visitors. |
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Tolosjoki, shallow but cold. |
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Fording sandals drying up. |
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I didn't want to drink the Tolosjoki water (it comes from gold mining sites). |
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Fresh and clear water from the unnamed creek. |
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Quartzite rock: white and slippery. |
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Dalmatian rock: black lichen on quartzite. |
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Rusty pipes would be ugly trash anywhere else, but here they are gold mining history. |
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Stretchy cheese, only one slice with a box of macaroni. |
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Rumakuru ("Ugly gorge") with a pretty pond. |
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Still snow in some gorges. |
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Luulampi with a jumpy message. |
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Snow on June 22, 2025. |
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Kiilopää. |