Day 6, Kuoppajärvi - Neivalahdenjärvet

I slept pretty badly during the night as I guess I was a bit stressed about the early start. We had agreed to leave at 7:30 am in order to reach the car before the weather forecast had promised rain in the afternoon. So I set my alarm to 4:45 am to leave 2 hours and 45 minutes to eat breakfast, pack pulkka and be ready to start.

Nearly three hours to take camp down, eat and pack sounds a lot but for a ski tour it's not. It's just enough. Due to the early start we also didn't prepare lunch for ourselves as the plan was to be at cars so that we could eat lunch in Inari.

And skied fast we did. I manage to take one picture. One. The others skied just so fast never looking back or stopping and waiting to keep the group together that at one point I just said f*** it, gave up and adjusted my speed like I would be alone which I was. Well the guide stayed with me, but I ignored him as well as it really would have been his job to keep the group together but I sensed that even he was in a hurry to be somewhere.

You might say that perhaps it was my subjective feeling that everyone went fast? On Sunday when we skied this exact same route it took us 4,5 hours. Now the group skied the same route in 3 hours. I arrived 15 minutes later to the car where everyone was already packing their car and had congratulated each others for reaching the end. It's not subjective. It was just that fast.

I was really fed up to this group. I packed my car, said a few words and drove off

Oh, and it never rained...Read more