Waching daily Mar 15 2018

Hey guys,

greetings from Finnish Lapland

Today is 5th of March

we´ll be heading out on a winter hiking trip

Behind my back you can see the Saariselkä highland

so we´re at Urho Kekkonen National Park again

In my ahkio I have food for a week or so

but I don´t have a real plan for this hike

The coming days will determine our stay here

What I am sure of is that

a wintery mountain- and forest wilderness will show us great scenery

At Finnish Lapland in winter 2018 brutal cold weather, warm wilderness cabins

I arrived to the north via train and bus

A long, 12 hour drive up here isn´t compelling

I´ll rather hop on the night train in my home town

I´ll sleep nicely in a train cabin

I´ll wake up at Rovaniemi and change to a bus

The bus comes straight to Kiilopää mountain centre

a UKK wilderness access point

So traveling here with public transportation is super easy

I head out through the familiar gate, towards the wilderness

I happened to see a rescue mission

Someone was being rescued from the wilderness

First I saw a helicopter in the distance

Looking for a landing site

The two snowmobiles passed me full throttle

They came back after some time

They were going slowly, so I assume someone was being transported

Lets hope that nothing too bad had happened

and the person being rescued would make it just fine

Around there I noticed

that the snow on the mountain carried my weight very well

I turned away from the track

and continued over Niilanpää top

and headed towards Rautulampi lake

We´re here at Rautulampi day cabin

the time of sunset is just here

I´ll continue towards Lankojärvi lake nontheless

This is only a day cabin, not meant for staying overnight unless

there´s some sort of exigency, and that´s not the case

This is the highlands, only small birch grows here

making a tarp camp here is not convenient at all

the wind is quite strong here too

I´ll just continue on to Lankojärvi lake and cabin

It´s 8 kilometres (5 miles) from here

Some tracks seem to lead that way

that makes traveling in the snow a lot easier

The terrain becomes a lot easier here

I came over the mountains to Rautulampi

going up and down on the hills

from here on towards Suomujoki river and Lankojärvi

the whole distance is one long way down

There´s a snowmobile track here

hiking on the track is easy and relaxed

Siberian Jay, kuukkeli in Finnish

Lankojärvi open wilderness cabin

Our second day begins at Lankojärvi cabin on Suomujoki river

I arrived yesterday evening with the very last daylight

a group of four were already here

next door at the reserve cabin were four people too

the cabin was cosy warm

coming from the cold, a warm cabin was great!

The upper level was free so I laid out my sleeping gear there

after having some food I slept around the clock

from 8pm to 8am, that was a good night´s sleep

I got a flu just before this trip

so I´ve felt somewhat half-conditioned

now I feel great and the flu isn´t slowing me down

The other guys continued to Luirojärvi lake

we won´t be heading out today

we´ll stay at the cabin and look around

I want to spend some time in this nice scenery

tomorrow we´ll be heading onwards

Lankojärvi lake is actually a backwater in Suomujoki river

the river flow here gets weaker and

the river freezes very well here

Up there is the open cabin

this is a great place

Suomujoki river flow continues that way

The cabin has an open side and reserved side

that´s how the wilderness cabins usually are

Behind the cabin the forest

is not dense at all, and

a lot of room for shelters

one time I was here with like 20-30 highschool students

so a lot of hikers fit here if need be

Here´s the firewood shed and outhouse of course,

located behind the cabin itself

Speaking of shelters, last night´s lowest temp was at -28C (-18.4F)

I must admit, it´s pretty brutal for sleeping outside

I was happy to be in the cabin

You could spend the night out in -28C (-18.4F) too, but

but it requires a lot from the sleeping gear

in the morning there´s gonna be a frozen lump of ice

on the sleeping bag, from your breath

I don´t really enjoy sleeping in extreme cold but,

we´ll see if we´ll sleep outside on this hike, or

stay at the cabins for the nights

Earlier I said there´s not a plan for this hike,

but I thought to stay along Suomujoki river,

and not go further into the wilderness

I could not know that there is a lot of

snowmobile tracks in many directions here

traveling along the tracks is child´s play, and

we could easily go anywhere along the tracks

But I already had been thinking that

we´ll have some easy days here, and

go on day hikes at the cabin surroundings

I want to relax, not hike all day long

I´ve been in the UKK National Park several times

and I also plan to return many times,

so I don´t need to go on the lookouts for example every time I´m here,

because I know I will be returning here,

and I´ve visited the highest point Sokosti a couple of times already

That´s a nice view on Karunaslaavu hill

Behind it is Taimenlampi lake,

where we camped one night on my first Lapland video,

it´s called "Lapland hike in early summer 2016" I think

It´s awesome here

so peaceful too

the amount of space impresses me every time,

even though I´ve been here a few times,

it always strikes me that

the wild nature goes on as far as you can see

You can´t experience this anywhere else in Finland

I´d rather not be anywhere else right now!

Good morning!

our third day begins

It´s minus 30C outside (minus 22 Fahrenheit)

You could say the air is crisp indeed

My traditional hiking oatmeal breakfast

the small bag has apple-cinnamon powder

I´ll mix it into the boiling water first,

and after that, put some oats in

It´s a good habit to save gas while cooking

my oatmeal is boiling somewhat, and

I´ll turn off the stove, and let the oatmeal stew under the lid

Oatmeal is even better when stewed, compared to just cooking on the stove

You lose nothing

just wait a little longer before getting to eat

Sometimes I meet interesting people here

last night a Spanish adventurer stayed here along myself

not a young man by any means, almost white beard

past midlife I´m sure

he told me he´s doing a skiing challenge

it´s called "Lapland Extreme Challenge"

the challenge is 1000 kilometres (620 miles)

you have 30 days to complete it

you have to go through certain checkpoints

The route starts at Rovaniemi town, and

goes on to the north from there,

it goes unto Inarijärvi lake,

then turns towards south, goes to Ivalo town,

and through the UKK National Park here,

and eventually back to Rovaniemi town

he told me he has covered 600km (373 miles),

and will finish the remaining 400km in a week,

It was interesting to meet him, get a

look at his gear and hear the story

I used to have an interest in adventure like that too

I must say now that I got a glimpse of it,

I certainly didn´t feel like I wanna do that too

too much stress,

and athleticism involved

Quite far from my thing, just wandering around,

taking my time always and,

always changing plans by just how I feel

That is what my style has come into

Maybe it could be fun for a change sometime,

and do some kind of outdoor challenge,

but there´s no way it could be my preferred style of hiking

He had his food rations very strict of course,

4000cal per day, packed in separate bags per day

That was something.

He also told me he has paddled across the Atlantic

I asked him what´s next

he laughed at my question, but

he probably didn´t want to think of coming challenges yet

but after a while he did say, that

he´s going to paddle from

Costa Rica to Hawaii, on the Pacific Ocean

"yeah, okay!"

You never know who you´ll meet on these trips,

I sure would not thought when I saw an older man,

parking his ahkio (sled) in the front,

I never would´ve thought he´s a 1000km skier

and also, his pace is crazy

what´s most intriguing to me, is the motivation factor

you can train your physique to insane levels, but

but what´s the end motivation that drives you,

it must be something very personal,

even though he has sponsors,

a blog, a web site, he´s being interviewed on Spanish radio and,

he gets his food for free, sponsored,

but he must have a special inner motivation,

you just don´t spend nights in a tent at -30C (-22F) casually

you certainly need something to drive you

but very interesting still,

I also felt very comfortable about my own thing,

I like my own way best

and that´s most important of course,

to develop a way of life that works for you

Next we´ll pack up and head to Porttikoski,

it´s around 5-6km from here (3.1 to 3.7 miles)

There´s an open cabin too, and Porttikoski is

a rapid in Suomujoki river,

let´s go and see how it looks in winter time,

I would think it´s part frozen and part running water,

there´s quite a flow of water, and I want to see what´s it like in mid-winter

I packed my snowshoes and poles on the ahkio too,

because we´re continuing on a snowmobile track

I can just walk on the track, no problem

the temp is now at -17C (1.4 F)

quite crisp, but the sunshine is nice

It´s great to be out here, on the move

The scenery is awesome

My face is cold, yet my back is sweaty

That´s winter hiking!

I haven´t hiked in Lapland before in the winter,

but I´m of course very familiar with winter in Southern Finland

This is my first winter hike in very cold temps, and I want to play it safe

We could´ve gone further out to the wilderness, but

let´s do this trip a little safer, and

next time we´ll venture further into the big woods

There it is, behind the trees

Porttikoski open wilderness cabin

So we arrived at Porttikoski cabin site

It´s a great surrounding and

the woods are not dense here by any means

Very nice place

There´s the usual firewood shed and outhouse

a lot of great camping grounds here, but

I think I´m going into the cabin´s warmth

for the coming night too

here´s a fire ring but it´s covered in snow

The temperature is now at -15C (5F), but

the air is pinchy and it feels colder

Suomujoki river flows right by the cabin

there current is strong enough to keep it from freezing

The actual Porttikoski rapids is further up the river

we´ll go and see in a while, after having a bite to eat

Again, a snowmobile track seems to go that way

so it´ll be easy to reach the rapids

I´m taking my snowshoes and poles anyway

we´ll be going off the track for a view on the rapids

The Border Guard came to say hello (Russian border is close by)

Two guys came on snowmobiles riding fast

they stopped by me,

perhaps wondering why I have no gear with me out here

It also turned out I´ve come too far

the track is far from the river bank

I missed the rapids and passed them

I can´t hear any running water though,

I should hear the rapids from here

There it is Porttikoski bridge over the rapids

that´s a summer trail and bridge

this is often used to cross the river when coming from Lankojärvi

well, so much for the rapids, barely any current here

it´s frozen, and I sure wouldn´t think that

In the summer it´s a loud, roaring rapid here

I assumed it would be running now too

It´s completely covered in ice

The power of frost is crazy

This is so weird

as if the world somehow halted here

I expected a fierce, steaming current

but it´s halted completely

only a tiny sound of water running can be heard

The power of winter is great, it´ll quiet down even a place like this

So the Border Guard didn´t mention anything,

I told them I wanted to film the rapids

and I asked for a direction here

from where I met them

I guess they thought, that

another fool from the south here

I thought the rapids would be running loud

Maybe they let me discover

the facts myself

There´s nothing roaring over there!

only a tiny, funny bubbling water sound

I produced some good material for their christmas party or such

they can think back how that guy wanted to film rapids in the winter

the roaring rapids of Porttikoski!

Our trip to Porttikoski turned out a little tame, but

nice evening still

very good to be out with nothing to carry

Look at the awesome colors of the sunset

This trip provides a lot of good learning lessons

when it comes to hiking in harsh winter

One of the foremost being about snowshoes

about using them here

I´ve gotten snowshoes, because

they are small and light, easy to transport

on the bus, train, trunk of a car,

or a bike´s rack

with a piece of string, tie them unto a backpack

and easily have them where you want

you can´t transport long forest skis like that, no way

that´s why I don´t even own skis

it also comes down to

the fact that where I live,

winters can be mild and messed up

two years before this, you didn´t need skis or snowshoes at all

I´m reluctant to getting expensive gear for scarce use only

I have to think about it

what´s the smartest solution, if I want to do trips like these more

Snowshoes are just fine here, if

you mostly stay on the snowmobile tracks

but there´s a problem with the tracks

Three different type of people can use snowmobiles here -

the park rangers, the border guard and the reindeer herders

If I see a tracks that go out

I can´t possibly know where the tracks lead to

Not very smart to follow them and not know

I might find out by asking around, but

there´s just too many things to consider there

Anyways, the 75cm (30inches) of powder snow

is too much for snowshoes to handle

it doesn´t work with longer distance

My main concern now is, that

I won´t be able to get to the mountain tops,

because it´s too burdensome

to push through the snow

with the snowshoes

So this is what I´ve been thinking now

don´t know the best answer yet

Kiilopää ski center does rent skis

long forest skis too

so I might head out with rented skis next time

But there´s another con there

I´ve grown to think that I must know my gear very well

with rented gear I can´t really know them

not any first hand experience anyway

I´ve been quite strict about it,

that when I´m out there,

I´m carrying gear, that

I really know how they function

what pros and cons they have

Shelters are another thing I´ve been pondering

-30C (-22F) is pretty brutal for open shelters like hammock and a tarp

Of course I know that hammock are used in all weather,

even in colder temps than -30C,

but you need huge (down) insulation

a huge investment in gear

but I do want to be comfortable out here,

I wouldn´t want to suffer through the night

and just barely make it

I like being comfortable on hiking trips

these open cabins are great of course, but

these can be very crowded

I´m surprised how many people are here in winter too

Germans, French etc.

Small groups and individual hikers

Obviously, I can´t assume to have a cabin to myself,

but in the end I hope to get some peace and quiet here

A heated shelter could be awesome here,

a tipi or a hot tent perhaps

in a tipi I could make a small fire in a stove

that might be good over here

Here´s the sleeping gear that I have with me now

A Savotta tarp with reflectics (and a DD Tarp too)

This is a four season sleeping pad

I use this in a hammock or on the ground too

it´s a Thermarest Xtherm

it´s a very good ground pad

comfortable and warm

The sleeping bag is my trusty old Marmot 3-season bag

It´s meant for -9C only (15F)

not enough for these temps by any means

I also have my hammock and underquilt,

and I thought if I´ll sleep outside, I´ll

I´ll sleep on the pad, either in the hammock or on the ground,

and I thought I´ll use the down underquilt as a blanket on the sleeping bag

it would pretty much double the down loft

and hopefully be enough for the cold

I also have a merino wool liner bag

it´s good for protecting the sleeping bag from getting dirty

don´t have to wash or clean the sleeping bag itself

the wool is extra insulation too, of course

As a last resort, I´d have to wear more layers

it might get too tight inside the sleeping bag, but

this wool blend jacket is

what I have for an extra layer

the jacket and my wool trousers are a last resort

if the sleeping gear itself isn´t enough

Inside the cabins I haven´t had any problems

I´ve been sleeping very comfortably on the pad

and sleeping bag, even when the temp drops during the night

The day has gotten clearer, and it´s sunny now

a lot of light

I´m going to stay here for another night, and

start heading back tomorrow

Now that I have good time, I´ll get the axe and

open up the hole in the river ice, used for taking water

Someone has made the hole earlier, but it freezes again when not used frequently

On my fifth day here, I started to head back, and I was out for six days in total

It´s been a very different Lapland trip, compared to the previous ones

not least because it´s the first trip in winter time

and in quite harsh conditions too

For a solo hiker especially, it´s important to have respect

for the power of nature in the winter

With cold like this, it´s truly dangerous in case

something happened, that would leave you helpless outside

Usually I´m in my own shelter for the nights, but

this time I´ve been very grateful for the open cabins

It is really something, out there in the wilderness,

to have a cabin and a heating stove

with brutally cold weather outside

The open cabin tradition is a very Finnish thing,

it was started in late 16th century

open cabins can be found in other countries too, but

in Finland it´s on another level

in northern Finland alone, there are hundreds of open cabins

Going over the Raututunturi highland turned out a lot harder on the way back

Going in, it was very different situation

It was sunny and a clear blue sky

almost no wind at all

Now it´s snowing horizontally

Temperature is better now though, at around -12C (10F)

Quite harsh still

Ahead of me is probably the fifth climb

Now it´s good to have snowshoes,

almost perfect traction for going up

My face and hands are numb from the cold,

while my back and head are soaked from sweat

that´s just crazy

I´m getting cold so I should move on

My ahkio track gets covered in snow immediately

we´re coming somewhere from that white mess!

It´s been a very instructive trip overall

from here it´s good to start planning for future winter trips

Our journey ends here,

I want to thank all viewers,

we´ll see in the next one. Bye now!

For more infomation >> Lapissa talvella 2018 - kovia pakkasia ja autiotupien lämpöä - Duration: 34:42.

-------------------------------------------

Manky Funny video driving 2018 - Everyday Monkey Funny YouTube - Duration: 0:09.

Manky Funny video driving 2018

For more infomation >> Manky Funny video driving 2018 - Everyday Monkey Funny YouTube - Duration: 0:09.

-------------------------------------------

Bad Habit Book Tag - Duration: 9:13.

Get the positive vibes going

[Music]

They tell me I look good. They tell me I look good.

Hi, My name is

A-U-D-R-E-I

Audrei and Welcome back to my channel CharisseAudrei.

Today I'm going to do another book tag.

Bad Habit. Bad Habits Book Tag. I know what you thinking

[Singing]

[Music]

Alright this tag has 10 questions

And I'm starting with the first one right now

Number one is binge drinking

[Music]

Okay

An alcoholic book character. I do not know a

Character that's alcoholic

but I know I an author I would binge read. If

I had time in the world to do and that would be

Colleen Hoover all her books. Question number two: biting nails, I

Do not bite my nails, but the question for this a book that got you nervous

Hope this is a memoir of the survival two of the three

Cleveland kidnapping and they

been abducted and

kidnapped

they've been missing for a

decade in

2013 of may they escaped so this made me really nervous because just hearing the story with what happened

All three of the girls are very brave, and it inspires me to push harder every day.

Question number

Three: Unhealthy Eating, a book that mentions or for which the theme is

Eating disorder. I don't own anything that has eating this order Bridget Jones Diary

This is her diary, right. You're reading a diary. Like, almost every entry she writes down how many calories she ate

That was a big problem in this book. Question number four: Staying up late,

I stay up late all the time

Almost sometimes hour past three which is bad. A book that she read into the night The Husband Secret.

Question number five:

Procrastination,

If you say you don't procrastinate you're lying

everybody in some

Part of your life you're procrastinating something. A book makes you want to read but keep putting off

This is this hunka chunka

Under the Dome by Stephen King I had this for a couple years now. I wanted to get into this this year, so hopefully

Um this year, maybe next month. I'll read this. For six:

Swearing, I

Swear, I have a potty mouth, so I tried to keep a PG on YouTube, but if you're out with me

you know I am like frickin rated R. A book in which an author or a character uses colorful a

Language I could it was hard for me to pick a book Orphan Black like all the characters an Orphan Black. This is upside down.

Yeah, I think Sarah

Possibly if anybody knows me. I love Cosima, but she doesn't really cuss in this it would be like

Felix, Sarah

Sarah

And that's all I can think of, because you know I love Orphan Black. Question number seven:

Smoking, I don't smoke cigarettes, but you can't get enough of

Because nicotine get it. That's what the things it says

Or a book that is literally cancer you can answer both if you're an overachiever.

You know what! Replica by Lauren Oliver I but that an e-reader I

Can't wait to read the second book. I haven't got my hands on to it if it's on

Sale for e-reader. I will definitely get it but I

Will get that book eventually. Question number eight:

Overspending,

Expensive book that you bought ?if you're new to the booktube world or books in general

You know that books are expensive, and they add up just like clothes and groceries.

But I love to get a book that's in a bargain like a Barnes & Noble bargain section I always

Go there.

I shopped at Book Depository once. Maybe this year you probably might see a Book Outlet haul from me eventually.

This book it was

($28.95)The Brothers Grimms was ($20) at Barnes & Noble.

This is the Barnes & Noble Edition, this Alice in Wonderland and Barnes & Noble edition was ($20) - and this was the

expensive one and it was worth the money to read it it was just worth it. Question number nine: a

book... Oh wait. Lying,

Which I did plenty of that

Teenage years. A book you lied about reading? and that is majority of high school

English

Majority of all those books I lied about reading it to a teacher. I'm pretty sure the teacher knew all this bullshitting. The only book

I've really read and I invested my time and read a couple of time Catcher in the Rye.

Yeah, I even had a boyfriend once and I was reading this book, but we were going out

And yeah, well not going out, but while we were dating I was at the house

reading this and

Somehow my phone blocked his number so he thought I was just ignoring him

I wasn't I was just reading this book. The last question

Number 10: Speeding, I don't speed in cars

Not really, I do I do a lot of speed walking.

A book you read really fast?

Poetry. Me, Earl and the Dying Girl

like almost all

Tag videos that I do that has this question is mostly Me, Earl and Dying Girl.

I'm gonna add some poetry into the mix (and

graphic novels)

That is it for the books tag

And I will Tag people down below and see if you're Tag or if you just want to do it say

Audrei tagged you and I'll be more and welcome to like watch your video because I mean

This was a cool tag.

Please like and subscribe and follow me on all my social

Medias because I'm active on there, and I'm doing it better at Twitter.

I just want to do a little word of wisdom if I may or if you if you're still here.

So I've been stepping on my Twitter game, been tweeting,

Interacting but I tweeted "sometimes you have to lose yourself to know what potential you have" I believe

that quote I wrote there is so true if you have faith or a

Hobby and you just it seems like you loss interested in it because you either are

Socializing with other people or you

Met another hobby or just

Doing something totally different.

I feel that it's okay and sometimes when you do different things like socialize or do another hobby or be

Focus on other things or have distractions. (see another perspective)

Get lost in those things and come back to what you love and generally be grounded in what you love because it makes you

Think of the potential you do have with whatever

You want to do and what other goals you want to go for and reset it.

Makes you feel so much powerful and see know your worth is

greater than anything.

so, that's

The only words of wisdom I have oh

Hopefully it's great because I really generally want to help people out in the world and share positivity.

Yeah

[Music]

Hope you guys have a nice day, and I can't wait to see you guys later.

[Music]