February 2005
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Located
100km from the This
is where we spent a week staying in a log cabin with skiing, snowboarding,
skidoos, ice go-karting and saunas on the agenda. After landing in a blizzard
with the hardest thud I’ve ever experienced in a plane, we were welcomed to Ruka with a temperature of about -10deg C. We came to learn that ‑2deg was quite
mild?! Six of us travelled together
where we had a log cabin to ourselves; Graeme & Claire (Katy’s bro &
sis-in-law), Charles & Sarah, and us two. It was an excellent week
with perfect snow conditions and absolutely beautiful scenery. Hope the photos do it justice. |
Our
log cabin and around…
Claire off to do the shopping.
Our log cabin came equipped with our own
sauna. Each evening after a hard day’s
skiing we soothed our aches and pains in the sauna, then to cool off we ran
outside and jumped into the snow. It was
so bloody cold your legs ached running on the snow. But you felt great afterwards?!?
Down
by the lake near our cabin
Skidooing through the forest and over frozen lakes
When ya gotta go… ya gotta
go!!
Husky sleds… not quite skidoos, but
another form of power nonetheless.
On
the slopes
The slopes at Ruka
were so quiet, we were sometimes the only people skiing down.
Having a hot chocolate at the WunderBar at the bottom of one of the pistes. Although it was -10°C, we were still able to
sit outside next to the open fire.
Sitting on reindeer skins of course.
The guy on the right triples as daytime german music guitar playing entertainer, karaoke king by
night, and drummer for the local band in his spare time. You gotta be
multi-talented to keep busy in this small town of Ruka. The guy on the left doesn’t really care!
Couldn’t resist the soup buffet each day
for lunch. One of the flavours to choose
from was – you guessed it – reindeer.
Saying
goodbye
And that was FIN FUN!! in RUKA.