- Covid-19 snow season Cross-country ski sales skyrocketing in Finland
- Ilanguaq Duneq - A Big-game Hunter, Artist, And Friend
- Nanoq: Pentti Kronqvist's Arctic museum
- Mountain hiking on Rukatunturi
- Stunning time-lapse video of Finland Nature
- A squirrel visiting the veterinary office!
- Beautiful winter landscape in Northern Norway
- Dog meets Bear!
Tales from the Northland
Tales from the Northland is a collection of outdoors-related stories pertaining to the Nordic countries, located in Northern Europe.
Covid-19 snow season Cross-country ski sales skyrocketing in Finland
This is a great insight into the Finnish cross-county skiing enthusiasm during an exceptionally great 2021 snow season, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When this article talks about skiing, it refers to cross-county skiing, which is very popular in Finland. There is also snowboarding and downhill skiing, but at lesser amount, since the ski resorts are mainly located further up in northern Finland, with its higher mountains, and more snow.
This article is loosely translated from an article in the Finnish Iltalehti website (the content in the link is in Finnish).
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Nanoq: Pentti Kronqvist's Arctic museum
The Nanoq Arctic Museum is located in the forests of Fäboda in the vicinity of Jakobstad, Finland. The museum was founded by the Finnish Arctic explorer Pentti Kronqvist.
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Ilanguaq Duneq - A Big-game Hunter, Artist, And Friend
This is a story about a rugged but simple life in one of the northernmost populated areas in the world; up in the frigid Northwestern Greenland.
Pentti Kronqvist is an Arctic explorer from Finland. He has made multiple exploration trips, starting in the 1970s, to the arctic areas, including Alaska, Northern Canada, and Greenland.
There has been a number of fascinating stories written about his adventures, mainly in Swedish and Finnish. Some of them have also been translated to English.
In the beginning of this story, Pentti and his two friends are on an expedition from the Thule base in Northern Greenland, travelling up north, across the Smith Sound, and down on the Canadian side to Grisefjord, a journey calculated to be 300-400 miles.
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Mountain hiking on Rukatunturi
On my visit to Finland in the late summer of 2015, I hiked to the top of Rukatunturi in Northeastern Finland. The fell (tunturi) is located by its namesake town Ruka, and is a all-season tourist attraction.
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