Today's car repair

Today's car repair: signal light wire loose. Fortunately 0€ (in a different shop than yesterday).

Photos and text (c) 2019 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. Follow my adventures from Blogspot.

Leppävaara fortifications

Jarmo and I visited the Leppävaara area fortifications, inspired by Tony Hagerlund's excellent blogs about them. There's plenty of trenches and also bunkers! These are World War I era fortifications built in a circle around Helsinki. We also found a small natural cave under a boulder!

This was also my first biking of the year, in +20 degree sunshine and wearing shorts. Felt good.

We visited bunkers in three areas:

Laturinkallio (between Vallikallio and Galleria, the old Leppävaara shopping mall):

• Bunker 1, perhaps a gun position? In coordinates N 60.22424 E 24.81525.

• Bunker 2, a storage room perhaps, next to bunker 1. In coordinates N 60.22420 E 24.81539.

• An almost dirt-filled bunker 3 under the hill in in coordinates N 60.22379 E 24.81704.

• A collapsed bunker 4 at the top of the hill, in coordinates N 60.22402 E 24.81712.

• Large concrete block covering surprisingly (at least visibly) only one small room in coordinates N 60.22414 E 24.81602.

We also found a small cave under a boulder here in in coordinates N 60.22382 E 24.816466. There's enough space for a man to be under the boulder, but we didn't have the equipment to draw a map of it.

Vallikallio:

• Tunnel-like bunker (door welded shut) in coordinates N 60.22544 E 24.81858.

• A second tunnel-like bunker, but with a slightly open door in coordinates N 60.22555 E 24.81839. There was an entrance room and a big storage room after it. Worth visiting, in rubber boots.

• A blown-up bunker, remains only in coordinates N 60.22604 E 24.81769.

Nupukivenkallio, the hill south of the Leppävaara Urheilupuisto, between the school and fire station:

• Gun station 1 in coordinates N 60.22261 E 24.80645. One photo at the top of this post and another here:

• Gun station 2 in coordinates N 60.22256 E 24.80650.

• Gun station 3 in coordinates N 60.22222 E 24.80667.

Warning: As always, be very careful visiting these places. There are 10 meter cliffs, dangerous objects in the floors, slippery rock, and the danger of collapses. On one of the bunkers in Vallikallio I stepped on a large boulder that started moving. It was scary.

Photos and text (c) 2019 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. All my caving and urban exploration articles can be found from planetcaver.net, theurbanexplorer.net and of course blogspot and TGR!

So close, yet so far

I saw snow today! Outside the Leppävaara skating rink... behind bars. What did that snow do, and why is it locked up, and we're not allowed to play?

Photos and text (c) 2019 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. My skiing stories can be found from Blogspot and Teton Gravity Research, as well as of course Planetskier.Net! This story has also appeared in TGR.

Lights on, car off

Car off lights on, because too old relay and no one makes it anymore. Fortunately, fuses work as a backup. #volvo

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El cheapo ski weekend

An el cheapo weekend activity: at Ylläs up North but since we're doing the 24 hour race, u don't need a hotel. 2 hours in, 22 to go. A lot of fun, old friends and, well, basically going fast & non-stop

Photos and text (c) 2019 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. My skiing stories can be found from Blogspot and Teton Gravity Research, as well as of course Planetskier.Net! This particular article has also appeared in TGR. Tämä artikkeli löytyy myös suomeksi Relaasta.

Stuck in the parking lot

Didn't start. Leaving it at the office parking lot and taking the train, will return to investigate after some travel. Maybe broken, maybe fuel.

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Refuel

Today's Volvo story is first two buses to get to buy a fuel canister. Then...

And a taxi ...

and ...



And it started!!! Can't say I expected that. Started... barely though and it could be just random. Let's see if it starts in the afternoon...

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It runs!

Volvo. It runs nicely. After refuelling I calculated how much fuel must have been left before the canister, and got to "-2 litres", so... And all this time I have been blaming the car.

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Back in the S.A.U.N.A.

After two weeks with stiches, finally got the OK to go back to the sauna again. Bliss!

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Levi Hotel Spa

After the Ylläs competition, I first had a quick shower and sauna at the Pöllö next to the slopes. But since I had a long wait for my flight, I wanted to visit a proper spa. I had not been in the Levi Hotel Spa near the airport in a long time, so time for that today!

It turned out that the Levi Hotel Spa had been extended greatly in the meantime. It was a truly great place now, with outdoor pool, 2 outdoor hot jacuzzis, two new saunas -- steam and kelo -- and plenty of new pools and even a waterslide inside. Much recommended!

The visit to the spa is free for hotel guests, but if you're not a guest -- like me, sleeping in my car on this trip :-) -- it costs 22€ per visit. But there was a Plussakortti-tarjous for 15€, which was quite reasonable for this kind of a spa.

Photo by Levi Hotel Spa. Text (c) 2019 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. And all my sauna and swimming stories can of course be found from planetswimmer.com and saunablogger.cool web sites!