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Location

In Nilsiä, Kuopio. The point lies in a field.

Participants

Pastori
The Wife

Expedition

Pastori in the action again! Note how little there is snow here this winter! It's unbelievable. Only couple of more degrees north there is normal snow cover.

Pastori awakened from his winter sleep, into which he had fallen after the long and wearying holiday/geohashing trip in Southern Europe. Pastori had slept well, but now it was again time to freshen up. The spring was already near, the daylight had increased and the temperature was already on the plus side. Pastori woke The Wife and encouraged her: Let's go to Kuopio to visit our granddaughter! And look at that, along the route, in the district of Nilsiä, there was a hashpoint right beside a road. So The Wife was also awakened from her four months of hibernal sleep and was ready to go.

Pastori at the hashpoint.

The trip went routinely, and after 108 km we were in the vicinity of the hashpoint. It seemed to be on a skiing track beside the road. The track had already melted quite a bit because of the ongoing heat wave.

Leather boots on and camera along. We walked on the skiing track for about 150 meters, and there the point was! In this year's first hashpoint we managed to get an excellent accuracy, 0,9 m. The weather was windy and the 4 °C felt very mild. Spring in the air and in the chests once more! The Wife took a few photographs from the surroundings. The nearby summer theater was, to our disappointment, not open despite the warm temperature.