Post by torpedo on Feb 23, 2020 21:32:00 GMT
I’m not into sports, so my interests and joy of outdoor activities are in trekking and camping here in Finland, prioritising the camping part.
I love setting up a camp, planning the site, considering water, forest, fire wood, shelter from the wind etc. It’s a great pleasure to watch a well established camp site. When it’s ready you’re free to trek, search for mushrooms or fish - or just to sit in your camp watching the landscape drinking coffee.
Our fireplace was bit messy after the dinner. This seemed a good place, a small rocky island with a great spot for a tent on the top of it. We were wrong, that was an ultimate failure. There is a thunder rising and only an hour after this photo I got a strike of lightning on my feet. Luckily my hands were in a dry tent, only my feet were on the wet ground. I didn’t get hurt but it scared the shit out of me. We moved to another, safer island the next day and good we did: there was another thunder that day.
I was camping with my sons. It was raining quite hard for some time, that’s why my camera lens is wet and the picture is a bit blurry. They went fishing by my canoe and caught two pikes. It was a delicious soup!
This was a very nice camp. It was a bit hard to find places for two tents, but it was a great place because it was just a very narrow isthmus between two cliffs. We took the drinking water from the other side and did all washing on the other side. It also was a great place because you could watch the sunrise and the sunset over the lake, to different directions.
Meeting a lekking wood grouse on a spring trek.
And my autumn treasures: horns of plenty and funnel chanterelles.
So, I’m not looking for extreme survival activities. I find my joy when I try to adapt to the rythms of nature and learn from it.
I love setting up a camp, planning the site, considering water, forest, fire wood, shelter from the wind etc. It’s a great pleasure to watch a well established camp site. When it’s ready you’re free to trek, search for mushrooms or fish - or just to sit in your camp watching the landscape drinking coffee.
So, I’m not looking for extreme survival activities. I find my joy when I try to adapt to the rythms of nature and learn from it.
