Adventure Travel Blogs

Hi there. We are travelling to Finland to Basecamp Oulanka in April and would like to hear from any other families going on this trip. We are very excited!  ...

The best Northern lights so far this year where on the 30.11 between 17.00 p.m. and 17.30 p.m. as we were standing on a frozen lake with all the dogs.  On the 03.12 our camp Väkkärä also witnessed some incredible activity around 18.00 p.m. for about 15 minutes and afterwards it started snowing! The last update comes from the 11.12 at about 12.00 p.m. at the Mushers Lodge (although these last ones were not very strong). ...

I’m not used to waking up in complete darkness – but neither am I used to brushing my teeth on a balcony looking deep into branches of a frozen forest, pine needles glinting in the reflected light from my twin cabin. Yet this was how I started every day at Basecamp Oulanka, wrapped in thermals with the arctic chill exfoliating my cheeks. Days are short here, but even in the blue-ish dawn, there is just enough light to appreciate the surrounding beauty through the thin gauze of cloud.

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Last night truly was one of the best ones this winter! Muonioriver is partly in ice, but the reflections are unbelievable. Northern lights started at 20:00 with only faint colours. But small auroras wont cover the stars and exposures are really balanced. Anyways I went inside for an hour. 21:30 Still faint auroras, but on more stripe straight on top! This can only mean increased activity. So back to the weak ice with cold summer rubber boots. Auroras came and they went away. Bigger, brighter ...

Coronal Mass Ejection hit Earth at 22:45 and the auroras were so bright! Field next to my house was all green! But the evening for me started at six a clock. Four hours in Särkitunturi mountain waiting for the auroras. Around midnight (Finnish time +2) I was cold and bored when nothing came. I dropped of the snowmobile and went home. After 15 min sodankylä magnetogramm started going crazy! Result of ...