{"id":998,"date":"2020-03-02T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elamystampere.fi\/wonderful-ice-conditions-on-lakes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T16:43:37","slug":"wonderful-ice-conditions-on-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajanmies.fi\/en\/wonderful-ice-conditions-on-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Ice Conditions on Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter with little no or little snow has been quite awful for cross-country skiing in the Southern Finland. However, the conditions for Nordic Skating have been quite good here at Tampere. The last week offered almost once-in-a-lifetime conditions as the big lakes (e.g. N\u00e4sij\u00e4rvi) got ice cover that was durable enough for Nordic Skating. I had already lost hope for that to happen this year, but a week of &#8220;normal&#8221; winter frosts did the trick.<\/p>\n<p>First we had a 63km trip on lake Aure, a little over one hour drive from Tampere. Aure is also close to the national park of Seitseminen and the nature there is wonderful. You can watch a video from that trip below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aureja\u0308rven huippuj\u00e4\u00e4t \/ Smooth Ice on Lake Aure\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fh-Dg4_jak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even though Aurej\u00e4rvi was nice, the real highlight of the week was skating from Tampere to Kuru (83km) on Saturday. We had already made an &#8220;ice scouting trip&#8221; from Kuru to Tampere on Friday\u2014to see that the ice conditions were good enough for a bigger group to skate all the way. The ice proved itself one of the best I&#8217;ve ever skated on. And I got the chance to enjoy it twice, first on the scouting trip and then with the bigger group. As always with Nordic Skating, the window of opportunity was short: already on Sunday the ice was covered with snow and the same kind of trip was not possible anymore. However, there are three well-maintained skating lanes on lakes in the Tampere region. On these it is possible to skate even when the other parts of lakes are covered with snow.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the video below catches some of the mood of our skating trip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skating from Tampere to Kuru\u2014and Back by Bus\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LTextIZjtaY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter with little no or little snow has been quite awful for cross-country skiing in the Southern Finland. However, the conditions for Nordic Skating have been quite good here at Tampere. The last week offered almost once-in-a-lifetime conditions as the big lakes (e.g. N\u00e4sij\u00e4rvi) got ice cover that was durable enough for Nordic Skating. 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