Starting the Summer

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Been little quiet lately on dA front. I'll try to submit some new stuff here on Monday.
Outside dA it's been busy. Not only the work, but there was a LDU training excercise in the Pori Brigade area little over week back. I might have lost at least a kilo off, just by sweating. I was eventually added into antitank patrol and got to reminisce what it's like to make short rushes and crawl into battle position with APILAS added to my personal battle gear.
Anyway, it was a good exercise, and we got some positive feedback (if you found it reading between the lines ;)). I'm happy, as I most likely would had spent my weekend just drinking beer at the bar terrace.

This weekend, me and friend decided to open up the summer season, as I had signed us up (while being drunk) for a Raate Road March event in Suomussalmi. There are few guys who voluntarily drive some 1100 kilometres to walk a 18 km road. Oh, and we almost hit a reindeer on the way in.
Well we left on Friday and visited the Raatteenportti Winter War memorial, which was really something. Central memorial contains 105 brass bells (that symbol the days of the Winter War 1939-40) that ring shoftly in the gentle wind blowing from the near by lake. The area has a field of stones, each representing a Soviet or Finnish soldier who died here. The sheer scale of the memorial (and the number of stones) makes one silent. We were here now.
Some of you know what happened there in the area, so I'm not getting into it. If you don't, go look up yourselves.   
We set up a tent by the actual Raate Road. Night was rather exciting as the area is known for its bear, wolf and wolverine population. In fact there was a carnivore observation center just few hundred metres away. At one point, I was certain I heard something moving near-by, but it could have been anything; elk or some local. I'm not sure which is more dangerous, a bear or a local on a Friday night. However we were tired and knew the animals would try to avoid us anyway. In the morning we returned to Raatteenportti for the actual event.
The march itself is an annual event and most participants were local or from near-by. The road is narrow, surrounded by fields, forests and swamps. Nothing more. There were Finnish trenches at one (Purasjoki) river crossing, but most signs of the war were gone. It was odd to walk that same road you had seen in the photos; snowy road filled with abandoned tanks, trucks, equipment, dead men and horses. Yet it was just a little road.
After the march we visited the local museum and left. Returned to Tampere around midnight.




Regards,
Tuomas


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xero-spectre's avatar
Awesome! I really have to visit Finland one day. I have a feeling I would click there.