Skiing the Planet

"Mongolia is kind of close, right?" Story about an attempt to ski everywhere in the world where there's snow. And in some places where there isn't. On and off-piste skiing on all continents, skiing into craters of live volcanoes, caving, climbing, photography, and travel.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Free sauna, but $$$ for shower

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Kinnerstugan , north of Visby in Gotland, Sweden, has a nice sauna. Plenty hot! And it is free... except that you need 5 crown coins for...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Packing for Lummelunda

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I'm on way to Lummelunda, Gotland for some caving. Uh... with some gear. Photos (c) 2018 by Jari Arkko and Jonas Högström. All ...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Den Haag Spa at the Crowne Plaza

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For a work meeting, I stayed at the Crowne Plaza in Hague . It turned out that they had a nice spa area, with four different saunas and g...

Leppävaara mining

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Today's abandoned mine exploration was in Leppävaara. Not a particularly big mine, though, barely noticeable. A quarry rather, in t...

Friisinkallio: More Espoo stones ... not so good this time

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On Sunday I went biking with Jarmo to look at some more advertised Espoo natural wonders. We found a nice (but spray painted) boulder....

Spreewald

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While driving around in Germany, I had an opportunity to visit the Spreewald area . There are nice kayaking opportunities. And a therma...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Mäntyvihta (pine bath whisk)

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Wow. This was something else, a vihta (bath whisk) made of pine branches. I've heard of juniper bath whisks, but not pine ones. Due...
Saturday, June 15, 2019

The Espoo Rapakivi Stones

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I needed some exercise, the weather was great, and there's a directory of Espoo's natural wonders in the Internet. So I went a b...
Friday, June 14, 2019

The new A220

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I had a chance to fly the new Airbus A220 plane the other day. Wonderful, efficient, hi-tech plane! And new airplane smell! However, th...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Welcome to KAINUU

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Quiet place, green grass, views, a rocking chair... at an airport. Hard to believe, but there is this lounge at HEL called KAINUU . I...
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