Adventure Travel Blogs

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 goi...

Incredibly intense solar activity took place at Basecamp Oulanka on Wednesday.  It started from around 09:30 and didn't stop until midnight!

Our leader Eki Ollila was straight out with his camera equipment. Set against the mill on the Myllykoski rapids it was a truly amazing spectalce!

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.