17 March

our task was to go help Tuula, who has a reindeer farm a few kilometers from here, at the shore of this lake here

she accepts tourist

but she got a little sick and no tourists came

but we still went to visit her, of course by skis

it was incredibly windy again, we had to go against it

it was like an arctic expedition: nothing, but the bright white endless ice, wind, suffering

wind that literally kills

then we found Tuula's place with gps

she is like someone from fairy tales

living in a beautiful wooden house, surrounded by reindeers

we spent a few pleasant hours at her place drinking tee and talking

to go back we took an other route, we were going through the land

the top of the snow was quite hard, it was possible to ski on it, but with bad luck it was easy to fall into the knee-deep snow

it took at least 5 minutes to stand up again 

after falling 3 times i decided to go on the lake instead, so I went alone to the lake:

sunset, alone in a vast white field, skiing on virgin snow, no snowmobile track, nothing, following my instincts

unforgottable

later sauna of course

there is an electronic music festival in inari these days

last night we went to "snow theater" event

they were projecting colorful psychedelic shapes, they played some ambient-ish music

well, I am not a fan of than style, but that was amazing

there were fires, lanterns, cool decoration

and of course, weak northern lights from time to time

the party continued later in a bar, where i didnt want to go, so hitchhiked back to Vasatokka alone (in NL)

a guy picked me up, he turned off the headlights to see easier the NL

he was a guest here in Vasatokka, staying right next to my apartment

it was -10