FINLAND, Rajalta Rajalle Hiihto
Border to Border Skiing Across Finland
"От границы до границы на лыжах" (лыжный пробег по Финляндии от российской до шведской границы)
March 8-14, 2015, 4-th shift (RR4)
433 km in 7 days (62 + 60 + 58 + 87 + 50 + 61 + 55)
Paljakka (Russian border) - Petajalampi (Kuusamo) - (bus) - Oijusluoma - Jokijarventi - (bus) - Taivalkoski - Pikku-Syote - Ranua - Hosio - Honkamaa - (bus) - Jokikeskus - (bus) - Kallinkangas - Karunki (Swedish border)
Official web-site, Rajalta Rajalle Hiihto on Facebook, info in Russian (M. Afanasenkov)
Photos by Maria Gromova and Elena Tartynskaya
Reports in LiveJournal (in Russian): mine and Elena's
Skiing route scheme (buses excluded):
 Day 0 (March 7), Kuusamo airport through the bus window. |
 March 7, International Camp Oivanki. Rajalta Rajalle info. |
 Oivanki, RR info. |
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 Oivanki, waxing room. |
 Oivanki. |
 Day 1 (March 8), Paljakka, start. |
 Антон Сорокин, вид сзади. |
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 Дмитрий Антипов. |
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 Дмитрий Антипов. |
 Day 1 (March 8), service 1, Suorajarvi. |
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 Day 1 (March 8), service 2, Virkkula. |
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 Day 1 (March 8), service 3, Uuttusuo (Ruka-Kuusamo skiing region). |
 Алексей Скрипко. |
 March 8. Kuusamo, Hotel Tropiikki. |
 Hotel Tropiikki, waxing room. |
 March 9. Kuusamo, Hotel Tropiikki. |
 Day 2 (March 9), service 3, Sarkela. |
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 Maria Gromova & Felix Klasi. |
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 March 9. Taivalkoski, Hotel Herkko. |
 March 9. Taivalkoski. |
 March 9. Taivalkoski, river Iijoki. |
 River Iijoki. |
 Day 3 (March 10). |
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 Day 3 (March 10). |
 March 10. Pikku-Syote. |
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 March 10. Pikku-Syote Hotel, view from the window. |
 March 11. Pikku-Syote Hotel, view from the window. |
 Day 4 (March 11). |
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 Day 4 (March 11), service 5, Kuha. |
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 Day 5 (March 12), service 1, Kivijoki. |
 Day 5 (March 12), service 1, Kivijoki. |
 Day 5 (March 12), service 1, Kivijoki. |
 Day 5 (March 12), service 2, Ruona. |
 Day 5 (March 12), service 2, Ruona. |
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 Day 5 (March 12). |
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 Day 5 (March 12). |
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 March 12. Former school in Hosio. |
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 Hosio school. |
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 March 12, Hosio. Игорь Корнетов, Татьяна Воробьева, Дмитрий Антипов. |
 Дмитрий Антипов, Антон Сорокин. |
 March 12, Hosio. |
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 March 12, Hosio. |
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 Day 6 (March 13). Tatiana Vorobieva. |
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 Dmitry Antipov. |
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 Day 6 (March 13), service 2, Arppeentie. |
 Apartment Hotel Jokikeskus, ski service building. |
 March 14, Jokikeskus. |
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 Day 7 (March 14), Karunki. Finish! |
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 March 14, Tornio. |
 March 14, Tornio. |
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 Sweden! 340 m to the Finnish-Swedish border. |
 Swedish municipality of Haparanda. |
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 March 14, Hotel Tornio. |
 Антон Сорокин, Игорь Корнетов. |
 Алексей Скрипко, Елена Тартынская. |
 Мария Громова, Дмитрий Антипов, Павел Шмидт. |
 March 14, Hotel Tornio. |
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 March 15. |
 Highway No. 20 to Kuusamo. |
 March 15, Kuusamo. |
 March 15, Kuusamo. |
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 WC. |
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 March 15, Kuusamo, Hotel Tropiikki. |