School’s out!
The skiing holiday is a welcome break from the daily grind of work or school.
THIS week has seen the start of winter ski holiday, or hiihtoloma, in southern Finland. Winter break sees Finns in their tens of thousands travel to the ski slopes, in places as far apart as Himos and Levi, for a week away from work or study.
There are about one million active downhill skiers in Finland who spend, on average, six to nine days each year on the slopes of the 79 ski resorts around the country. However, this doesn’t include the many thousands who travel to ski resorts to use the cross-country facilities, go snowmobiling, take a husky or reindeer safari, or even just kick back and relax for a few days.
As a way to cater for the huge numbers who use the resorts, the holidays are broken up by region; week eight being for Uusimaa, Southwest-Finland and Satakunta, week nine for Häme, Tampere region, Ostrbothnia, Central Finland, Kymenlaakso, South Savo and South Karelia, and in week ten North Savo, North Karelia and Lapland.
Päivi Kuokkanen, from Himos Hiihtokeskus near Jämsä, explains, “Winter break is super busy for us. We normally have between 2,700-3,200 skiers a day during weeks eight and nine. Week ten for us is not so big, as it’s winter break in northern Finland and they have plenty of slopes in Lapland.”
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DAVID DUNNE
HELSINKI TIMES
LEHTIKUVA - JUSSI NUKARI - PEKKA SAKKI
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