Post by oldhippy on Apr 27, 2020 18:28:25 GMT
Outdoor fun
By Kari Autero, Native Finn camping in Finland
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.
By Kari Autero, Native Finn camping in Finland
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.
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.
