2019-08-28 63 28

Location

Valtimo, Murtomäki, the point lies in a forest clearing.

Participants

Pastori
The Wife

Expedition

Congratulations Pastori!

Today falls under the category "nothing new under the sun". Except of course for the fact that it is Pastori's birthday and his 70th at that. Pastori even put up the Finnish flag to celebrate. Congratulations Pastori!

Everything below they have gone through and written about many a time before. Today was promised to be very hot at the end of this waning summer so they set off early. The point is near, only 5.2 km from their house. They drove for 14 km to get as near as they could with the car. They had to continue by foot for another 320 m through a messy mixture of different kinds of trees. One or two horse flies send Pastori and Wife off. Mixed forest and ditches and swamp and small pines and mushrooms, which Pastori just cannot abandon in the forest. Once the foraging is done it's time to dance. The satellites are twisting and turning and giving Pastori the beat when there's only 30 m to go. Finally he managed to reach the point at an acceptable distance of 3.791 m. Congratulations Pastori!

The way back to the car is easier and straighter and more joyful thanks to Pastori's naturally good sense of direction. He took one last round around the car in hopes of more mushrooms but unfortunately it's been too dry for mushrooms and his catch is slim. They took the opposite way back home since it was a circle all around. The point was nearly at the mid-point around since the full distance driven was 27 km. All their walking and dancing in the forest took 1 km. The time spent sweating in the summer's heat was one and half hours. Once they got home, Pastori fired up the sauna for himself. Congratulations Pastori!