2018-08-20 61 23

Location

Ylöjärvi, Haukikalliot. The point lies in a pine forest.

Participants

Pastori
The Wife

Plans

Pastori and Wife were up at the crack of dawn and ready to go by 8 am. Breakfast was done and lunched packed to go. The nearest hashpoint of the day was on the way to the Seitseminen national park so the plan was to conquer the point and keep going for the park and its hiking trails.

Expedition

Pastori on a morning swim.

On the way there Pastori took a dip in a nice forest lake with the temperature at +13 degrees Celsius and the water wasn't much warmer. At least it woke him up! The drive went well and when they 167 m away from the point the terrain seemed easy to traverse, too, with some rocks and such among pine trees. Pastori was soon exhausted by the geodance when the accuracy fluctuated between 10 and 20 meters. Finally he stopped and there was a miracle: as he stood there, the point got nearer and nearer to him and he was able to achieve an accuracy of 0.743 m. Apart from a little drizzling of rain everything was splendid until... the nastiest of all forest crawlies, the deer fly had taken to Pastori a little too well. They were all over his hair and neck and behind his ear. In the forest Wife captured three of them off Pastori and when they got back to the car, Pastori had to strip off his shirt and they found more on his shoulders and back. Pastori and Wife were suddenly reminded why it's sometimes prudent to stay away from the forest.

”A friend” on his shoulder.

As planned they did continue on to Seitseminen national park but ate their lunch at the reststop by the park and changed hiking through the forest to a visit to Kovero natural farm in the park. It was a nice visit because it reminded both Pastori and Wife of their childhood and how their grandparents and relatives had lived in farm environments. The farm is run true to old, natural customs and they have sheep, cows, a rooster and chickens. It was a nice day but their lodgings were calling them to take a nice afternoon nap.