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Episode 3 of the "Year of the Hare":

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Sold for 67 000 €.

Episode 2 of the "Year of the Hare":

Not very far away from Helsinki. I recommend coming during the weekdays. This way I can try to arrange a visit to the Finnish Defence Forces surplus store and/or other interesting places in the vicinity of Helsinki.

Come over here for a day or two and I will provide the local transportation.

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The Market will be held again this year between 4 and 22 December.

Tar-Burning in Lapland (1918). One of the oldest ethnographic films produced in Finland.

Here's the first episode of a new Finnish web series "The Year of the Hare" (fi: Jäniksen vuosi). The series is about gold panning in Lapland. Remember to click on the English subtitles!

This is the haft that came with the axe.

Ex-Finnish Defence Forces axe of typical Russian pattern that I bought some time ago.

Saw some Lynxes covered in the morning frost... I left before they were auctioned, but I am sure they fetched good prices, being Finnish products after all.

Yes it is.

From a recent auction: 1. Border Guard amphibian. 2. Land Rover Defenders. 3. Fur hats.

The lowest temperature ever measured in Kiutaköngäs in Kuusamo is -48.0˚C (in 1985). However, out of the 7-14 days, most likely that half of these are in range of 15-20 degrees below and only a couple are in the region of 25-30 degrees below. Temperature diagram from one of the coldest...

Here are the top five Finnish weather stations with the lowest average temperature in January between 1981-2010. Do notice that the coldest station is actually south of the Arctic circle! Kuusamo also has more snow in average in January than the other stations (46 cm on the 15th of January). 1...

In the latest edition of the "Erä" magazine (see the link for photographs of the test conditions), Sievi Light Boots scored 3.87 points out of maximum of 5.00 (Safari Angler scored 4.24 and Viking Elk Hunter 4.04 points). According to the magazine, the main upsides were their lightness and the...

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There are some m/36 field caps still available in sizes c. 54-60, most of which are made in the 1980s from wool-polyester fabric. However, previously I have managed to find a few of the 1960s style m/36 caps made from thicker wool fabric in sizes c. 56-58. The 1980s style caps cost around 5-10 €...