My little Hubba. It seems to shed snow with ease.
Today we went over to Kisko and despite temperatures hovering around freezing, had a good session with the ice feeling plastic and comforting in comparison to the scary brittleness that has typified the ice of this very cold winter. I even stopped in at Kauhala on the way home and soloed another 4 lines in about twenty minutes, jogging back down to the bottom of the cliff between routes. The hero-ice was just that good."Let it be one cheerful rational voice amidst the din of mourners and polemics." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1840. A Brit-in-Helsinki's blog about global politics, climbing, cycling, things that annoy me and other bits of life. But not necessarily in that order.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
"This is my church": two Sundays in the forest
Two Sundays, two great days of climbing. Some pictures from this and last weekend. Last week on the Saturday evening, Dave and I went up to Valkeala, and camped over night. It was a beautiful starry night but cold - at least -15 oC. Drinking beer before camping when it's that cold is never a great idea as you always end up having to get up to go out a pee. I really must remember that, but then beer under a canopy of stars is great too.
"Drinking beer before camping when it's that cold is never a great idea as you always end up having to get up to go out a pee."
ReplyDeleteToby, I can recommend you invest in a pee bottle - a 2 litre Nalgene is the Antarctic veteran's bottle of choice.
Fat up for the Kukko cans, attaboy!
ReplyDeleteKukko pils, in fact all Laitila Brewery beers, have been a great addition to Finnish culture in the last couple of years!
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