And just like that – a 42 km stage in over 12 hours. The conditions weren’t ideal buy we needed to push to catch up with the plan. We set our GPS waypoint into a straight line to a distant point in the horizon and we set off.
Today was a very long and lonely day. When you are skiing you can’t do much talking with the others and the wind and cold make the stops very short to just eat something quick, drink from the thermos and off you go.
After a titanic push in straigh line we finally set camp, nearly 13 hours later in a place just 30km from our final waypoint destination: Kemi.
We were too tired to talk or laugh so after melting ice and making tea, we passed out in our sleeping bags. It is 01:15 am and tomorrow we are planning to depart by 8:00
The weather is getting worse and worse with wind and snow showers. We went to bed in the middle of the snow storm hoping it would be over tomorrow.
It is very cold and batteries are not loading properly. The average is -10C but there are peaks of -20C.
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Baltic Sea traverse | Finland | Winter 2017 