Wednesday 15 August 2007

a hike in Lapland

after this small cycling trip me and Memmu went to Finnish Lapland. together with Memmu's sister Kikka and her boyfriend Mikko we walked almost 80km in 4 days in the place called Utsjoki Kevo (hope i spelled it right:) very close to the Norwegian boarder.

all those funny trees are not taller than me(178sm not very tall)
yes, it was hard




this is where we saw the canyon Kevo for the first time. it is 40 km long and it is the biggest canyon in Finland (i didn't know thare are canyons in Finland)



i don't know why but the mosquitoes really fell in love with Mikko's hat. they would sit their without moving until you hit them:)
this is our path after it has been reining the whole night



the water in all the rivers was extremely cold. i didn't even take my shoes off but jumped over this one. unfortunately we had to cross rivers often and some of them was just impossible to jump over so i had to take off my boots and put my feet into cold but clean water.




reindeer were all over the place. never seen them before.


this dude came very close to our tends to pick some mushrooms this one was not in a hurry at all. we nearly stopped to let it pass.

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