Neatly packed food.

Teemu likes to play with panoramas.

Lihrin cliff above Kultala.

Kultala suspension bridge.

High above the river.

Teemu isn't really studying the map.

Always a river turn effect in panorama photos.

10 m safety distance required.

Rain skirt worked wonderfully in the bushes.

Primula stricta, a new plant to me.

The calm current.

Easy to spot the path here.

Having a break next to yet another rapid.

Caltha palustris.

Viola biflora.

Path is at those rocks not fully covered in lichen.

Teemu cooking in a fabulously surrounded kitchen.

Björklundinoja can be walked over.

Björklundinoja, yet another view.

Plenty of landscape.

After fording we poured water out of the shoes and squeezed the socks.

15 m lower: the Sotajoki river.

This time it's not the perspective: the sauna at Liljeqvist hut is truly tiny.

Small but practical. Liljeqvist hut.

Inside the Liljeqvist sauna, fire has been lit under a big stone.

Gyromitra esculenta, plenty were seen but none picked (requires three times cooking).

Maybe we should have forded Sotajoki here.

Teemu's first crawl under the reindeer fence.

I set the taro to dry, and it immediately started to rain.

Wind tunner under the tree.

Pretty little lakes upsteam Ritaoja.

Daily muscle maintenance.

Finnish saying: It's like deposing money in the bank when a young man sleeps.

There are many different ways of rolling away from the mosquito net.

Zigzag repair made back home, the rope attached in the wilderness.

Lakes and ridges.

Ridges and lakes.

And lakes.

Teemu tried the gaiters and they stopped his shoelaces from opening all the time.

I want to come here for an autumn hike.

. . . w i d e autumn hike.

Conveyor belt lifts the soil into the drum where the gold is washed.

Drive only with a special rover permit.

"If you want a ford photo, you could take it here." -Teemu.

Kalmia procumbens.

Siliäselkä ("Smooth back"). Barren yet not so high up.

Low bushes. Is it easier to walk on the barren land or in the middle of bushes?

Unnamed tree in an unnamed gorge.

Wear Everything You Have Day.

We scared a reindeer family away from here.

Quite a place for this pine to grow.

Kulmakuru, 90 degrees and perhaps as many metres.

Skiing trail passes here, and avalance warnings were in place.

View during a break.

The chick pea risotto was so good that I had to shoot a food blog photo.

Firestarters for the next visitors.

Tolosjoki, shallow but cold.

Fording sandals drying up.

I didn't want to drink the Tolosjoki water (it comes from gold mining sites).

Fresh and clear water from the unnamed creek.

Quartzite rock: white and slippery.

Dalmatian rock: black lichen on quartzite.

Rusty pipes would be ugly trash anywhere else, but here they are gold mining history.

Stretchy cheese, only one slice with a box of macaroni.

Rumakuru ("Ugly gorge") with a pretty pond.

Still snow in some gorges.

Luulampi with a jumpy message.

Snow on June 22, 2025.

Kiilopää.